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In this thread I want you to share your favourite cult movie - by cult movie I simply mean some kinda obscure movie you just love, not because it's good or bad or well made or poorly made, but just because you love it and can't seem to get enough of it! I can give a reason or not, it's up to you.

I have a lot of less known movies I love but my absolute favourite is:

Big Trouble in Little China

Although I must add that one of the reasons I love this movie is because of its title translation in Portugal (where I'm from - and its just the title, we watch non-portuguese films only with the subtitles) - but anyway, the portuguese title is "As Aventuras de Jack Burton nas Garras do Mandarim", which in english tranlates kinda like "The Adventures of Jack Burton in the Claws of the Mandarin" - sweet!

But anyway, that's MY cult movie - what's yours?

"Raising Arizona"

The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2)

The Toxic Avenger and Manos:The Hands of Fate

The Footrot Flats movie.

It went to various places over seas, but I don't think it made it to the US. They couldn't understand the New Zealand accent and wanted to dub over it.

The Lair of the White Worm (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095488/)

kung pow enter the fist

Dawn of the Dead (The Original)

Trainspotting

http://kino.ural.ru/movies/jay_and_silent_bob_strike_back/poster.jpg

that. love it :)


kung pow enter the fist
awesome :D :D

kung pow enter the fist

"I'm a ventriloquist!"

Man, that movie is truly great!

The movies I have watched the most (because I just can't get enough of'em) are:

1) Pulp Fiction (35+ times English, 5+ times German) (among other QT-movies)

2) Plat00n (20+ times English, 10+ times German - works wonders when I'm in a bad mood. Catharsis?)

3) Clint Eastwood Westerns (Dollars & Once upon, Pale Rider etc.)

4) Jui kuen (Drunken Master) (and the 2nd part) (among other Easterns)

5) The Holy Trilogy (StarWars!)

6) Any "good" "movie" starring "actress" Alicia Rio :fluffle: ( :D )

But there is so much more...

Yeah, like all those with Jay & Silent Bob in'em (Thanks Pure Metal!)

"I'm a ventriloquist!"

Man, that movie is truly great!
"weew weeeeweeewweewewwwwwww weeeweweweewewww" :p :p

Clerks. An awesome film.

The movies I have watched the most (because I just can't get enough of'em) are:

1) Pulp Fiction (35+ times English, 5+ times German) (among other QT-movies)

2) Plat00n (20+ times English, 10+ times German - works wonders when I'm in a bad mood. Catharsis?)

3) Clint Eastwood Westerns (Dollars & Once upon, Pale Rider etc.)

4) Jui kuen (Drunken Master) (and the 2nd part) (among other Easterns)

5) The Holy Trilogy (StarWars!)

6) Any "good" "movie" starring "actress" Alicia Rio :fluffle: ( :D )

But there is so much more...

Yeah, like all those with Jay & Silent Bob in'em (Thanks Pure Metal!)


Somehow I have trouble classifying any blockbusters or big name films (as on your list) as cult films. They are too mainstream. Especially Star Wars.


Try something like:
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Repo Man
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (the cult film everyone knows, but few have actually seen, at least in my experience)
The Warriors

(The later is my fave cult film. It's a re-do of Xenophon's Anabasis as a rumble-street-gang peice set in NYC.

Labyrinth.

Ace film, and I don't care what you say.

Labyrinth.

Ace film, and I don't care what you say.
Labyrinth rules.

For cult films, I'd go with:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Plan Nine From Outer Space
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Return of the Killer Tomatoes
and arguably
Godzilla

Highlander (There should have been only one!)

I have a lot of less known movies I love but my absolute favourite is:

Big Trouble in Little China

But anyway, that's MY cult movie - what's yours?

BTiLC is a good one.

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye and asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."

They Live is up there as well.
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum. :D

Tron and Strange Brew are a couple more good ones.

Time Bandits r00lz

Time Bandits r00lz

Short people are funny.

TOMMY

Metropolis (1927)

Blade Runner

Conan the Barbarian

Labyrinth rules.

For cult films, I'd go with:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Plan Nine From Outer Space
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Return of the Killer Tomatoes
and arguably
Godzilla

That reminds me. I have to stop threatening people with The Ohio Express' "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy". "Puberty Love" is so much more of a threat. :eek:

And a few more good'uns;

Heavy Metal
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Tommy
Harold and Maude

Cheech & Chong!! :D

all of them

Cheech & Chong!! :D

all of them


Earache my eye! (And I only know three chords!)

Somehow I have trouble classifying any blockbusters or big name films (as on your list) as cult films. They are too mainstream. Especially Star Wars.


Try something like:
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Repo Man
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (the cult film everyone knows, but few have actually seen, at least in my experience)
The Warriors

(The later is my fave cult film. It's a re-do of Xenophon's Anabasis as a rumble-street-gang peice set in NYC.
Uhm, hello? According to "In this thread I want you to share your favourite cult movie - by cult movie I simply mean some kinda obscure movie you just love, not because it's good or bad or well made or poorly made, but just because you love it and can't seem to get enough of it! I can give a reason or not, it's up to you." I could post whatever movie I wanted. Besides, I don't care what other people think of my favorite movies.
Star Wars not being cult?!? Are you out of your mind?!?!?!?!? Just because GL brought them back and all those new SW-fans are popping up it doesn't mean it changed a bit of its cult status amongst veteran fans! Next time you meet StarWars geeknerds you tell'em they're way too mainstream... :p

And I absolutely scorn that terrible TRHPS. Bah. Ooh. Just thinking about it makes me wanna smash s.th.! (Bad enough all those freaks play the time warp at parties where I wanna listen to screaming guitars!) The Tomatoes are funny, but not cult with me.

Cheech & Chong!! :D

all of them

Until the beginning of last year when I visited my sister in California I hadn't had a chance to watch any of those. Then I found a huge stack of'em in the video-place, rented them all and watched them one after another...

(I didn't wanna watch'em dubbed in German - you just don't do that to classics!)

Now, I'd even smoke a fucking cockroach, if you know what I mean :):):)

Gattaca
Twelve Monkeys
Bad Taste (Peter Jackson's films really have gone downhill in the last few years)

Uhm, hello? According to "In this thread I want you to share your favourite cult movie - by cult movie I simply mean some kinda obscure movie you just love, not because it's good or bad or well made or poorly made, but just because you love it and can't seem to get enough of it! I can give a reason or not, it's up to you." I could post whatever movie I wanted. Besides, I don't care what other people think of my favorite movies.
Star Wars not being cult?!? Are you out of your mind?!?!?!?!? Just because GL brought them back and all those new SW-fans are popping up it doesn't mean it changed a bit of its cult status amongst veteran fans! Next time you meet StarWars geeknerds you tell'em they're way too mainstream... :p

And I absolutely scorn that terrible TRHPS. Bah. Ooh. Just thinking about it makes me wanna smash s.th.! (Bad enough all those freaks play the time warp at parties where I wanna listen to screaming guitars!) The Tomatoes are funny, but not cult with me.

The problem I had with that list wasn't quality, but obscurity. As I said above, I have a hard time classifying blockbusters as cult. Pulp Fiction, Platoon, and Star Wars are hardly obscure. They were major studio works. Plus, the fan base is simply too big. And yes, SW does have a uber-geek following almost as bad as ST. But it simply can't qualify as cult because of it's fame. (RHPS and a few others might be considered to have gone beyond cult into mainstream, being victems of their own fame.)

Does the big lebowski count as a cult film?

Earache my eye! (And I only know three chords!)
especially for you and German Nightmare.... my most favourite bit of C&C :) :) (clicky (http://www.hlj.me.uk/ns/cheech%20&%20chong%202%20wmv%202.wmv))

Does the big lebowski count as a cult film?
Not according to Daistallia 2104... Sorry ;)

Darkstar.

Equilibrium - A seriously underrated film
&
They Live

Patlabor 2: The Movie

City of God (its reasonably popular I suppose but not that many have seen it...well people I know)

Lola Rent

A Night at the Roxberry (i know i know, but I like it)

Bladerunner (Directors Cut as its soooooooooo much better)

Attack on Precinct 13 (1976 version....way cool :D not the god awful remake.... :( )

My favorite would have to be without a doubt, Evil Dead: Army of Darkness!

"This is my BOOMSTICK!!!"

Did anyone mention the movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

And does Stargate the Movie count?

Only one for Evil Dead?
I hate you all. Except Bolol.

Cube. What a film.

Equilibrium - A seriously underrated film

indeed. great movie that.

also love Bill & Ted,
Wayne's World
Ghostbusters (but everyone loves that ;))

Thanks, Pure Metal! That is funny :p:p:p

Pink Flamingos
Female Trouble
Pecker
Cecil B. Demented
Crybaby
Hairspray
Serial Mom
A Dirty Shame...

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Tremors + sequals
and all the other hilariously funny low-budget sci-fi channel movies!
YES

all the other hilariously funny low-budget sci-fi channel movies!
YES

Hahahaha, Mansquito!

Tremors + sequals
and all the other hilariously funny low-budget sci-fi channel movies!
YES
YES! I LOVE THOSE MOVIES!

In this thread I want you to share your favourite cult movie - by cult movie I simply mean some kinda obscure movie you just love, not because it's good or bad or well made or poorly made, but just because you love it and can't seem to get enough of it! I can give a reason or not, it's up to you.

I have a lot of less known movies I love but my absolute favourite is:

Big Trouble in Little China

Although I must add that one of the reasons I love this movie is because of its title translation in Portugal (where I'm from - and its just the title, we watch non-portuguese films only with the subtitles) - but anyway, the portuguese title is "As Aventuras de Jack Burton nas Garras do Mandarim", which in english tranlates kinda like "The Adventures of Jack Burton in the Claws of the Mandarin" - sweet!

But anyway, that's MY cult movie - what's yours?

Princess Bride: It was so coll with two storylines. the Grandpa and his kid. And the the swashbuckling main story. It wasn't a usual tale either.

Army of Darknes. Bruce Campbell is such a great actor I guess. I loved him in Spider Man, and a few other movies. I loved the quotes, " Good, bad, I'm the guy wit the gun". And his coughing to get book.

The Life of Brian, Dawn of the Dead, or possibly Army of Darkness.

State and Main.

All the Monty Python movies! Trainspotting too.

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.