My favorite, Southland Tales,
I am watching Legion right now, another flick trying to be cult status. The actors in both are known A list and A list support actors.
Legion does not compare to the quality of Southland but, are cult flicks supposed to be anything other than fun?
*Primer
The Crow
Dark City
*Donnie Darko (a Richard Kelly film, like Southland)
Waking Life (not sure if cult status)
*Mr. Nobody
The three I starred made the biggest impression on me when I first saw them.
Never heard of Primer or Mr. Nobody. I will look them up.
What about Sin City? That was a good one also. It has a sequel coming out. I have only seen one advertisement for it late at night/early morning. Cult time I suppose…
This hardly registers a cult film, as it is virtually unknown it seems, but I have to ut “Trop de Bonheur” on this list. I saw it when I was 16 on a movie channel we had, and I recorded it the next morning. I watched that tape so often that it broke.
I wonder what happened to the actress Estelle Perron.
Evil Dead 1 & 2
Army of Darkness
Big Lewbowski
The Thing
Night of the Living Dead
Deer Hunter
They Live
10 off the top of my head:
Myra Breckinridge
Showgirls
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Vice Squad
Snake Dancer
The Girl on a Motorcycle
Bluebeard (1972)
Possession
Salon Kitty
Vampyres
Well I am getting a good list to check out. I think these movies that are off the main stream are art. Most movies are about entertainment and money, not art. I do enjoy finding A list actors in an obscure cult flick that they never talk about. It gives them at least some respect as an artist.
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and don’t forget the acting I mean The Room
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYRydundnt8[/youtube]
Hitler didn’t like it but it was a great production and worth every cent of the $6 million budget.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w59fZNDTMAg[/youtube]
Not sure about the cult status of these movies, but they should have a cult following if they do not already:
The Return of Martin Guerre
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084589/
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096764/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Hour of the Pig (also called The Advocate)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107146/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Tenant
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074811/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Fantastic Planet
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070544/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Dude, Mr. Nobody was awesome.
Silent Running
Harold and Maude
Escape from New York
My dinner with Andre
Journey to the center of the earth: with James Mason and a very young Pat Boone.
Crack in the world: scientifically outdated about 5 minutes after it was made.
Petrified forest: young Humphrey Bogart.
We’re no Angels: once again Humphrey Bogart and very, very funny.
1776
Kropotkin
Valley Of The Dolls
Anything by Russ Meyer
Starship Troopers
The Lost Boys
Anything by Tim Burton
The Breakfast Club
The Usual Suspects
Most 70s films/Kitsch movies… especially the twisted ones
B Movies… especially Hell Boy and the like
Dog Soldiers etc.
Gummo.
Pollack
Le Havre
Nil By Mouth
Buffalo 66
The House of Mirth
The Hill
Les Enfants Du Paradise
The Master
Pans Labyrinth
Grey Gardens
I haven’t really watched movies recently, other than a trailer of 500 MPH Storm. I guess all of the movies made by Don Hertzfeldt are real good, especially Rejected.
Across the Universe.
Anything by the Marx Brothers… famous for their one-liners and instrumental talents (classically-trained to orchestral performance level), as well as their slapstick comedic tomfoolery.