Cult Films

owlwink

Trevor Coulahan wrote: »

Assault on Precinct 13
Escape from New York
Big Trouble in Little China

Anything by John Carpenter gets my vote.

Dark Star mentioned by Amalgam earlier on in the thread is apparently John Carpenters first film. That might be worth a look if you havent already seen it.

Magic Eight Ball

owlwink wrote: »

Dark Star mentioned by Amalgam earlier on in the thread is apparently John Carpenters first film. That might be worth a look if you havent already seen it.

How insulting, of course I've seen it. haha

owlwink

Trevor Coulahan wrote: »

How insulting, of course I've seen it. haha

Well looks like I have some serious catch up to play.

call d

This one was banned for years, the people involved tried to get their names taken from the credits etc etc, there are about 6 different versions of it and it still shocks no matter which one you watch....CALIGUA.
You'll never look at Peter O'Toole in the same light again.

Silverfish

Repo man.

Sortof a small cult following.

Nevyn

Dune ( movie ) , Dunne ( scifi channel series ), Enemy mine, the last star fighter.

Amalgam

call d wrote: »

This one was banned for years, the people involved tried to get their names taken from the credits etc etc, there are about 6 different versions of it and it still shocks no matter which one you watch....CALIGUA.
You'll never look at Peter O'Toole in the same light again.

Caligula? Tinto Brass.. it was packaged alongside smut films for years, fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula_%28film%29

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080491/

Amalgam

Cult.. not sure if it is gold plated cult. An odd beast, probably dated now, made by Ken Russell of all people.

Altered States http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080360/

candy-gal1

pretty in pink
footloose
donnie darko
monty phython collection

to name just a few!

owlwink

Thanks everyone for all of the great responses. I now have a good viewing list to look forward to for the next while. Keep up the good work.

Owlwink...

shenanigans1982

Battle Royale is a good pick. Also Boondock Saints.

L31mr0d

hmm... I'd recommend "Naked Lunch" from 91. Screamers is good also.

Also check out Lifepod from 93, Village of the damned from 95 and The Arrival from 96.

Also watch "the forgotten" from 2004. I watched it knowing nothing about it and thought it was excellent. Although it you read any reviews of it or watch any trailers for it it will be ruined.

owlwink

L31mr0d wrote: »

hmm... I'd recommend "Naked Lunch" from 91. Screamers is good also.

Also check out Lifepod from 93, Village of the damned from 95 and The Arrival from 96.

Also watch "the forgotten" from 2004. I watched it knowing nothing about it and thought it was excellent. Although it you read any reviews of it or watch any trailers for it it will be ruined.

I suppose Crash could go alongside Naked Lunch.

sunzz

Ondskan
Unsure of it's cult status but my god what a movie, brutal, stunning, tearful and violent.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338309/

A tale of two sisters
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430659/
Please god don't subject yourself to the american version 'the uninvited'

Chopper
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221073/
One word, FANTASTIC!

Amalgam

The DVD extra audio track is great for Chopper. Dialogue by the producers of the film. There's also a little documentary\footage of the man the film is based on.

Amalgam

Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1043378-stalker/

Quite a slow set visual film, much in feel to Let The Right One In. Unsettling and slow. It reaches for some pretty high brow ideas without alienating or patronising the viewer.

The guy

Midnight express.

Nevyn

Videodrome

owlwink

Thaedydal wrote: »

Videodrome

A few people have mentioned videodrome now. It must be worth the look.

ziedth

for me anyway:

Equilibrium
The boondock saints
Serenity

owlwink

ziedth wrote: »

for me anyway:

Equilibrium
The boondock saints
Serenity

Never heard of the boondock saints. Any good?

L31mr0d

owlwink wrote: »

I suppose Crash could go alongside Naked Lunch.

lol, for a moment I thought you where referring to the 2004 movie of the same name, I was really scratching my brain trying to see the similarities. Yeah, I guess it does appear on the surface to be similar to Crash (96) but Naked Lunch is a completely different animal. It really is worth watching.

The problem with cult films is that the bracket is just too large and more often than not you have to wade through a lot of marmite movies before you find one that meets your tastes. Like, Showgirls for example, this is considered a cult classic because it has a devout following of people who love it, I couldn't stick 20 minutes of it.

I could also go on to list a series of low budget sci-fi flicks which I think are fantastic, but you might find them absolutely atrocious (The Brain... just awesome.)

owlwink

L31mr0d wrote: »

lol, for a moment I thought you where referring to the 2004 movie of the same name, I was really scratching my brain trying to see the similarities. Yeah, I guess it does appear on the surface to be similar to Crash (96) but Naked Lunch is a completely different animal. It really is worth watching.

The problem with cult films is that the bracket is just too large and more often than not you have to wade through a lot of marmite movies before you find one that meets your tastes. Like, Showgirls for example, this is considered a cult classic because it has a devout following of people who love it, I couldn't stick 20 minutes of it.

I could also go on to list a series of low budget sci-fi flicks which I think are fantastic, but you might find them absolutely atrocious (The Brain... just awesome.)

I have seen both Naked Lunch and Crash and I feel they both hold their own charms. The main reason why I was equating them together is due to the fact that they are both related to beat writers Ballard and Burroughs and at certain points the films share a similiar style which probably stems from the fact that they have the same director (don't they?)

I agree on the difficulty of individual taste with cult films, but such a thread definitely helps in narrowing down the search for personal favourites.

JP Liz

Serenity

trustno1

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/

Freaks
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022913/

Ed Wood
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109707/

Wild at Heart
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100935/

Eraserhead
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/

Karl Hungus

JP Liz wrote: »

Serenity

Do people not even give a cursory glance to the threads they're responding to any more? Serenity was suggested in the very first reply to this thread, and in a reply just a few posts up from this one.

petes

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Trilogy of the Dead
Planet Terror
House of 1000 Corpses and The Devils Rejects
Pan's Labyrinth
The Thing

James T Kirk

Phone posting here, so can only be brief. Eraserhead, by David Lynch (and everything else directed by him actually), and Twelve Monkeys, by Terry Gilliam (ditto for him).

owlwink

trustno1 wrote: »

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/

Freaks
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022913/

Ed Wood
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109707/

Wild at Heart
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100935/

Eraserhead
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/

Good choice there. I suppose any David Lynch film would count. Except the straight story. I thought that film was terrible.

James T Kirk

I see Eraserhead was already mentioned - sorry there. May as well mention another one while I'm here though: THX1138, by George Lucas.