Cult classic films.

A Little Night Music.

Saw it one afternoon in NYC on a double bill with Smiles of a Summer Night. Gay heaven.

Carnival of Souls

Nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels.

I think it's the future of CITY LIVING.

I just rewatched Drop Dead Gorgeous a few weeks ago and It's as fresh and hilarious as it was when it first came out. It's criminal how that movie was shitted on!

The Heiress, with Olivia de Havilland.

All of these posts are full of amazing films. Got my weekend playlist started!

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the classic midnight movie.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

A Little Night Music is ghastly and I've never heard of it being considered a cult film.

My choices: Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and Lady In A Cage.

Lady In A Cage trailer...

You join your cult, R11. I'll join mine.

A Little Night Music is not "ghastly." It's inept. Woefully inept. It's a huge missed opportunity. It's frustrating. But nothing about it is even bad enough to be ghastly. All the pieces are there. Everything but... a director.

Women in prison films: Caged, Women's Prison, House of Women.

Constance Ford and Jeanne Cooper dyking and duking it out in the last one is camp heaven for classic soap lovers.

Harold and Maude. I remember seeing it in the theater when it came out. I saw it 3 times that week.

Two Crawford classics: BERSERK! and JOHNNY GUITAR. They both stink on ice!

Repo Man

Smile is much better than Drop Dead Gorgeous.

Girls Will Be Girls: “ASTRO-FIZZ-ISS-SIST!”

Theatre Of Blood

The Craft: “REACH IN SIDE YOUR SELF”

The silly remake of Bedazzled. Elizabeth Hurley rocks every scene.

Ultimate camp adventure.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐠𝐠𝐲 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤 (1972):

Color of Night deserves to be seen by more camp/cult-appreciating gays. It was primed to become one & came out that same year as Showgirls. It was critically derided but had some camp value (Lesley Ann Warren is a hoot). And of course there's the infamous Bruce Willis weenie scene, which was gossiped about in the press before its release.

The Heiress is not a "cult classic" film.

Does Harold and Maude count as one?

I also like basically every single Film Noir film I have ever watched-which are a lot. My parents would watch them as I was growing up and I would watch them as well as we only had one TV then.

Pink Flamingos, Female trouble, and I enjoyed Jesus' son at the time when it came out, my friend and I were two of four people in the theater.

Too many I haven't seen, but of the ones I have, I'll throw in my votes for Carnival of Souls and Harold and Maude.

A coworker has been pestering me to watch Donnie Darko. The whole plot's been spoiled for me, though, so I'm not that motivated to see it.

Todd Solonz is a great modern-ish cult director. His work isn't for everyone but I love it. Welcome to the Dollhouse, Weiner Dog, Storytelling, Palindromes and my favorite, Happiness.

I'd go for the Bridget Fonda double feature Kiss of the Dragon and Point of no Return.

My favorite with legend Jennifer Jones.

Psycho Beach Party should be a cult classic.

Can’t Stop the Music Lipstick Looker Vamp Xanadu

I'll add Serial Mom and Hairspray to round out John Waters' best movies. I tried watching Cry-Baby the other night and it was much worse than I remembered, I shut it off twenty minutes in.

RHPS.

Fargo donchaknow! (And the first two seasons of the tv show)

The very funny What We Do in the Shadows, as well as the excellent tv show.

My fave is COFFY. It’s so kick-ass!

Laura

All About Eve

The Women

Race With The Devil

The Room.

R37 DO YOU EVEN know what a cult film is? None of those are.

“Grey Gardens”

"For 14, you don't look so good"

2 by director Sam Fuller

The Naked Kiss (1964) A prostitute moves to a small town tries to go legit and discovers a shocking secret.

Shock Corridor (1963) A reporter pretends to be insane and is committed to an asylum so he can uncover a story.

Die, Mommie, Die!

Showgirls, bitches!

Agree with R17. I re-watch Repo Man every few years.

Cobra Woman with Maria Montez. That Cobra Dance!

The Queen of Outer Space with Zsa Zsa Gabor. Zsa Zsa isn't the Queen; the Queen is evil and Zsa Zsa is the heroine, leading to her immortal line "I hate dat Kveen!" Reuses some props and costumes from Forbidden Planet but this ain't that, not at all.

Brewster McCloud (1970). Robert Altman directed. Bud Cort and Sally Kellerman. It's a very strange film.

Before Die Mommy, Die! there was Picture Mommy Dead.

Harold and Maude

[quote]Before Die Mommy, Die! there was Picture Mommy Dead.

Before either was Dead Ringer

Plan 9 From Outer Space

There are plenty of flaws to choose from but it has so much heart you can't help but love it anyway and it is entertaining. Maila Nurmi (AKA Vampira) is sensational in it. I love her facial expressions, her movements...everything she does in this film. She steals the show without speaking a single word. And it's interesting to see how they incorporated the late, legendary Bela Lugosi.

How about a James Brolin double feature?

"The Car" and "The Amityville Horror"

Phantom of the Paradise

The Honeymoon Killers

Basket Case

Spanking the Monkey

R37=R7=moron

I love The Honeymoon Killers.

"It's so cu-u-u-u-u-u-u-ute!"

I'll add Eating Raoul.

A Serbian Film

But you are Blanche, you are in that chair!

Black Widow. She mates and she kills!

The Lair of The White Worm, a Ken Russell horror campfest.

William Castle's "Homicidal"

Val Lewton's "The Seventh Victim"

Liquid Sky-

I'm from Connecticut, Mayflower stock. I was taught that my prince would come, and he would be a lawyer, and I would have his children. And on the weekends we would barbecue. And all the other princes and their princesses would come, and they would say, "Delicious, delicious."

Spiderbaby

Forever and always

Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension

Great double bill from 1972

DePalma's Sisters and Paul Bartel's Private Parts

Walk on the wild Side. Strange but fun film.

I've never lost my soft spot for Brazil (1985). I can find a reason to quote it every workday.

A new cult classic because it is so bad.

Ken Russell's Crimes of Passion with Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins and Annie Potts.

"-a refreshing breath of foul air." The Washington Post

R69, I never got over Robert Deniro as a plumber. That was brilliant casting.

Gummo

Blue Velvet & Wild At Heart

Witchfinder General (The Conqueror Worm) from 1968 is fantastic.

Querelle - "Each man kills the things he loves"

The Hunger with Catherine Deneuve and Get Carter with Michael Caine.

Michael Powell's Peeping Tom

R75 from the director of The Witchfinder General, Michael Reeves, The Sorcerers (1967) about an elderly couple who come into the possession of a device that allows one to control the minds of others.

R79 - yes! I'd forgotten that one - really freaked me out as a kid.

Vegas in Space

Eating Raoul

Valley of the Dolls

The Ten Commandments

War of the Gargantuans

10,000 Maniacs

A Boy and His Dog

Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke

PeeWee's Big Adventure

Baby Doll

Midnight Express

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Agree with:

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!

"Strangler vs. Strangler", a delightfully demented Serbian horror-comedy (starring the fabulous Miss Sonja Savic, before she became a junkie).

R81, Marry me! Vegas in Space?? War of the Gargantuas?!?! Woof!

Black Christmas

Cruising

Altered States

R81, good job.

OK, this is just an excuse to plug my favorite Michelle Pfeiffer’s “WE ENDURE”, but “Dark Shadows” is cult worthy for every reason - even the wrong one.

SHAME on you all for failing to mention Ted Post's bizarre "The Baby" (1972) with Anjanette Comer and the incomparable Ruth Roman.

Well then, R87, shame on you for not mentioning “The Girl Most Likely To”, Goober.

The Girl Most Likely To. The source of my eating disorder and sense of irony.

Girl Most Likely To. The revenge is delicious.

The Loved One (1965)

Lord Love a Duck (1966)

The Anniversary (1968)

Pretty Poison (1968)

Something for Everyone (1970)

The Landlord (1970)

The Love Machine (1971)

Doctors' Wives (1971)

Taking Off (1971)

Dead of Night (1972) aka Deathdream

The Last House on the Left (1972)

The Messiah of Evil (1973) aka Dead People

Delphine Seyrig, "Daughters of Darkness"

I still can’t sit through ten minutes of “Something For Everyone” and it has a wonderful cast. I have too many relatives who are pretty wrapped in crazy.

Valley Of The Dolls

R94. I love this film in visceral ways. The Lyon v. Anne Welles dynamic was groundbreaking. The trollop ingénue rejecting her position. She's not a joke. No woman in this position ever was.

Take this as the death of the courtesan. That's what we are seeing.

An American Werewolf in London

I’m not a fan of horror films, but I recently saw this and had to rate it 5 stars. On top of being hilarious, the violence is handled humorously enough to not be overly offensive. Plus, I have such a crush on 1980s Griffin Dunne...

We live in Godless times.

Enjoy it while it lasts, r98.

LOVE An American Werewolf in London.

Frankenhooker

"Flash Gordon"

Giant.

Star Wars is a clut classic.

Paris, Texas

The Terror of Tiny Town.

It's one of those singing cowboy movies like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers used to make, with lots of songs and shoot outs. Except the entire cast is little people, midgets and dwarves. They rode ponies instead of horses.

The star was Billy Curtis, who, like much of the rest of the cast, ended up playing Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz the next year.

I hadn't seen it since the 1970s, when i was in college, but I caught it on one of those over the air digital subchannels last week. It was just as bizarre as I had remembered it.

Freaks

R16 3 other Crawford films:

The Caretakers1963

I Saw What You Did! 1964

Trog 1970

[quote]A Little Night Music is not "ghastly." It's inept. Woefully inept. It's a huge missed opportunity. It's frustrating. But nothing about it is even bad enough to be ghastly. All the pieces are there. Everything but... a director.

Even though the director was Hal Prince who actually did it on Broadway.

Something Wild.

Something Wild 1961 and 1986

Curtis Harrington: Night Tide 1961 Games 1967 What's the Matter with Helen? 1971

The Night of the Hunter 1955

Kiss Me, Deadly 1956

Sordid Lives. I live in Texas and know people like those characters.

Angel (1984)

The movie's tagline: High School Honor Student by Day. Hollywood Hooker by Night.

Hey, if people are going to name more than one, I'm mentioning a few more, too.

I tend to gravitate toward sci-fi/horror, so:

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (fun with or without the MST3K commentary)

Eating Raoul

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (3D!)

Alice, Sweet Alice

The Living End

Ghidrah, the 3-Headed Monster (the Ito sisters!)

Die! Die! My Darling!

Flesh Gordon (even more than Flash Gordon)

Lost Highway

Johnny Guitar (Truffaut called it "the Beauty and the Beast of the western")

Videodrome

The Mad Room (Shelley Winters and Stella Stevens)

Eraserhead

and last but not least Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Previously, I'd named The Heiress, which several people approved of, and several did not. If a "cult" movie is low-budget or obscure, then The Heiress wouldn't qualify. I included it because of its phallic and castration symbolism in a number of scenes. Here's one that is more acceptably within the cult category, The Incredible Shrinking Man, from 1957. Also, The Leech Woman, from 1960. Both of these movies starred Grant Williams, a closeted, screwed-up actor who once tried to get me into bed with him. Since he was about 30 years older than me, it didn't happen.

R114 Argento counts. Surprisingly. I don't think anyone mentioned Suspiria 1977

My Breast starring Meredith Baxter-Birney

Big Trouble in Little China is one freaky and funny movie. Bonus: Kurt Russell with a mullet and Kim Cattrall when she’s young.

Eraserhead

The Draughtsman's Contract. Aristocracy speaking with convoluted precision, having sex in enormous clothing, and so much more.

I love the story of how Eraserhead came to be. But the film itself scarred me.

Thank God It's Friday (1978)

Donna Summer's song "Last Dance" won the Oscar for Best Original Song.

Happy Birthday to Me starring Mellissa Sue Anderson.

It demonstrated that the Little House on the Prairie star wasn't just another pretty face.

Gun Crazy

Eraserhead and Freaks --- this was a double feature at a theatre I ran into to avoid a rainstorm! I knew nothing about either one but I became a David Lynch and Tod Browning fan after that day.

GOD DAMN you, TAFFY!!!

Donnie Darko:

THE DEVILS by Ken Russell. It's been strangely unavailable for years, and was notorious when it was new (I'm certain the Catholick church banned it). I don't think it was ever released in a rentable format, or if so not until very late in the game. It's very imaginative, putting it mildly. Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave as 2 sex-crazed religious, during an outbreak of the plague in 17th Century France. It's mind-blowing. A must, if you've never seen it. There is very little about it on youtube, even. It's findable here and there, if you look around.

Can't leave out dear POLYESTER.

R94- It may not have been an important scene in Valley Of The Dolls but it was the GAYEST

When Anne Wells does the Gilmore products commercials- I LOVE that part of the movie.

Planet Of The Apes (1968)

Soylent Green (1973)

I guess it qualifies as a cult film, it is certainly overlooked-Apartment Zero

One hundred and thirty three responses and NO one mentioned - The Poseidon Adventure (1973)

^ sorry 1972 NOT 1973

MODESTY BLAISE, starring Monica Vitti and Dirk Bogarde, dir. Joseph Losey. 1966.

R128, several years ago there was a YouTube clip from a 2002 Channel 4 documentary about The Devils, which included the infamous "rape of Christ" scene that was cut from the film before it was released in the UK.

The clip was only available for a short period before getting pulled, but I did see it and that scene is truly jaw-dropping and, frankly, quite hilarious.

But no release version of the film ever had that scene in it, though there was a screening of it a year or 2 ago at the BFI which I believe was uncut. But that was a one-time showing.

The film is available on DVD in the UK, but it's the 1970 British commercial release version.

The US release that year had a few other cuts (in the torture scenes, I think), and that version was released on VHS here in the 80's, but the film has not, to my knowledge, ever been released here on DVD. Nor does it show up on and of the movie channels, and it's not available for streaming AFAIK.

I think Warners just doesn't want to deal with the howls of protest coming from Catholic and Protestant conservatives for a film that probably doesn't have much demand. I don't even know if it was a boxoffice success in the US.

^Thinking about it, it IS shocking to consider that this movie could have been shown commercially in movie theaters in the US in the mid-70s. Even the released versions were rated "X", according to Wikipedia, and most movie theaters wouldn't show X-rated films. I saw it in a movie theater in a Southern university town in 1974, I think it was. I tried for years to find a version for rent in a video store, no go. I did manage to finally download a version of it off the internet, but it is apparently not the uncensored version you mention.

Here’s the scene from THE DEVILS. It’s...yeah, um, not subtle

Russell must have gotten a bunch of porn actors to do that scene. It is pretty hysterical, in every sense of the word.

It's interesting that the actors in that scene have normal looking bodies, not porn beauties or freaks.

Puzzle of a Downfall Child

Basket Case

Alice, Sweet Alice

Slaughter High

Parents

Dolls

The House on Sorority Row

The Boogens

The Burning

Visiting Hours

Eating Raoul

Phenomena

The Beyond

My Bloody Valentine

Hell Night

Angel

The Brood

Vice Academy

Teen Witch

Messiah of Evil

Scream Bloody Murder

The Seduction

Silent Night, Deadly Night

Tourist Trap

Night of the Comet

Chopping Mall

How the hell did Prince go wrong with A Little Night Music, R13? It should've been much better than that dull thud on screen.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. One of my guilty pleasures.

Flash Gordon (1980) with Sam Jones

R144, Harold Prince was a fine stage director but clueless at filmmaking. He's not the only stage director who couldn't make the transition. The opposite can be true too - Martin Scorsese was originally the director for The Act with Liza Minnelli, but made such a mess of things the producers brought in Gower Champion to put it into presentable shape.

Prince's first film, Something For Everyone, isn't quite as leaden as Night Music but it's still clunky. After the disaster of Night Music, Prince got a clue and never directed another movie.

No one is interest in your fucking list R143. You add no value to the discussion.

*interested

R66 - YASSSSS! Buckaroo Banzai is my all-time favorite sci-fi film.

I remember renting a VHS copy of "The Devils" in the late 90s. It was a heavily edited R-rated version, and it definitely did not include the scene at r139.

[quote] YASSSSS! Buckaroo Banzai is my all-time favorite sci-fi film.

Laugh all you want-a, monkey boy. Tomorrow, I’m-a going home.

R81 here! I forgot to list these classics:

Freeway

Citizen Ruth

R83 & R85~~~Hey hey! I actually have Vegas in Space on VHS tape. Now I am wondering how I can get it transferred to dvd so I can watch it again. I love the cityscape of Vegas made of cheap cosmetics, lipstick sky scrapers and futuristic space age apartment buildings made of Cutex nail polish bottles. So creative!

I loved Citizen Ruth. I was happy when I saw it on Paramount Plus a couple of days ago.

R148 and what are you bringing to the discussion besides bitterness for no reason?

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎 (1975):

Manos: The Hands of Fate

👍, R143, especially for Night of the Comet. “Attention zombie shoppers!”

R158, you just reminded me of 𝐃𝐚𝐰𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝 (1978):

“𝐴𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑡ℎ, 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒, 𝑤𝑒'𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑔 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒!"

I paid money to see Drop Dead Gorgeous in a theater, I never laughed at the jokes and considered it a waste of money and time.

"They Live", is a cult classic film. Very homoerotic.

I saw a preview of Death Race 2000 in a movie theater. Pretty sure it was just as "good" as watching the whole movie, and it was over much, much quicker.

"Die, Mommie, Die has been mentioned, but this is the best scene. A young Stark Sands in the buff.

Myra Breckinridge is a strange, strange movie. Best to watch it stoned...

The Song Remains the Same

Manos: The Hands of Fate had an extremely limited initial release in 1966, one Texas theater and a few drive-ins in Texas and New Mexico. It was basically a forgotten film when someone at Mystery Science Theater 3000 got hold of a print in the early 1990s and gave it the MST3K treatment.

The film existed for years only in a handful of surviving release prints which were all in deplorable condition. Shot in 16mm, someone found the original work print in 2011. It was restored with funds from a Kickstarter account and released on Blu Ray in 2015 in a version that was vastly superior visually to anything seen in decades.

The film's copyright status is in limbo. The screenplay was copyrighted with the LOC but someone forgot to include a copyright notice on the film itself, which was required at the time the film was released.

The film's inane concept and ultra cheap physical production, coupled with its bizarrely inept performances, transcends from merely being bad into the arena of disorienting and deeply disturbing.

Lady Snowblood (which was ripped off inch by inch for Kill Bill)

Rockers

Babylon

Beyond The Black Rainbow

The Quiet Earth

Stardust

Walkabout

Rock and Roll High School

Massacre at Central High

The Last Wave

Johnny Got His Gun

Andy Warhol's Bad. Features Carole Baker is amazing as on of the nastiest characters I've ever scene on screen and a very pretty young Perry King. It's an ugly, mean-spirited film but great if you get the dark humor of it all.

Chopping Mall in which a group of horny teenagers fights for survival in a mall filled with killer security robots created by Mary Waranov and Paul Bartel.

Night Of The Living Dead

Fantastic Planet. I saw this on late late night cable in the 80s. It stayed with me, but I'd forgotten the name. Thanks to the internet, I found it again and was pleased to see how much it's appreciated by others.

Cult classics are supposed to be at least somewhat well known (although panned by critics at the time of release) rather than so obscure that none of us have heard of them.

Most of the movies in this thread are just esoteric/obscure and so old as to be unheard of in younger generations. I don’t think that quite fits the bill of cult classics.

Night Of The Living Dead still holds up but someone needed to slap that dumb blonde!

R173 A film can be obscure AND have a cult audience. By your definition, we should only list movies like Office Space or Idiocracy:

[quote]Cult classics are supposed to be at least somewhat well known (although panned by critics at the time of release) rather than so obscure that none of us have heard of them.

[quote] The Song Remains the Same

I saw this in college one night with friends, stoned out of my gourd. I was confused and freaked out for some reason. All I remember are some sort of little people/aliens/cloaked elves dancing around.

Seeing a lot of replies like that lately r155, I think it's trolls "following around" posters they disagreed with from other threads.

I contributed to the Manos: The Hands of Fate restoration and was glad to do so, the movie unriffed and restored is a classic of no-budget local filmmaking.

The Legend of Boggy Creek is as well, and I like the sequel, even if it's dumb as hell.

You thought wrong R177.

The Big Lebowski

[quote]I saw a preview of Death Race 2000 in a movie theater. Pretty sure it was just as "good" as watching the whole movie, and it was over much, much quicker.

Are you sure you're not thinking of its pointless remake, 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐞 (2008), a Jason Statham vehicle, or its sequels - or the sequel to the original film, 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟓𝟎 (2017)? Because the only trailer you could have seen of the original would have to have been the one I posted, from back in 1975, and it doesn't encapsulate the film at all.

I don't think you saw the trailer or the film.

What was that that R177 said about 'trolls "following around" posters they disagreed with from other threads'?

^^ Addressed to R161.

Trouble Every Day, The Doom Generation, Gummo

Love Repo Man (“It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes”) and Spirit of ‘76.

Dazed and Confused

r173, you're pulling that definition out of your ass.

Of [italic]course[/italic] cult movies are frequently obscure. That's one of the whole points.

Addams Family Values