Top 100 Cult films of all time (1 Viewer)

[Todd Terwilliger]

Don't forget They Call Me Bruce!
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[Kevin Webb]

Got to add these:
Bettter Off Dead (Great John Cusack comedy)
Akira (I know it was huge in Japan, but until the DVD most people I know had never seen it)

 

[Jim_F]

A Boy and His Dog
Harold and Maude
Liquid Sky
After Hours
[Edited last by Jim_F on October 25, 2001 at 04:08 AM]

 

[Ryan Donovan]

Some stuff that hasn't been mentioned yet...
Freaked
Justice League of America tv movie/pilot (although not generally liked, it's only available as a bootleg at cons...that's gotta be worth something)
Child's Play, and all of it's sequels
Groundhog Day
The Toxic Avenger
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
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[TheoGB]

Pedantic maybe but The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has (a) never been a film and (b) was a success from day one...
I guess it does get cult status but I think that's more due to it's age. In its day I believe it was a lot bigger, hence the reason to make the TV Series.
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[Brad_W]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has (a) never been a film

There is a movie called, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy based on the book.
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[Brook K]

Martin
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Bad Taste
Don't Torture A Duckling
Blood For Dracula
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[Sean Conklin]

I can't believe no one has mentioned the 3 most famous and inarguably BEST cult films EVER made:
Vanishing Point
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Easy Rider
There are more but these 3 are my favorite's and are most certainly "Cult Classics"
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[Todd_Brown]

No one has mentioned "Repo man" with Emillio Estevez.
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[RicP]

There is a movie called, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy based on the book

No there's not. There is, however, a TV series that aired some years ago on BBC. But I am virtually 100% positive that there is no separate theatrical film of HHGTTG.
As for cult films...For the love of pete people...
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
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[TheoGB]

There is no Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy movie.
It has been something on the horizon for a great many years and supposedly they are just about to get down to it but I believe the original studio (Disney?) was going to do such a hatchet job that Adams bought the rights back at considerable expense.
(Have a check on IMDB). There is a TV series which I guess someone may have reedited into one movie but that's it. We're going off-topic here so I will let it lie now.
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[Michael Allred]

You gotta have;
Return of the Living Dead
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[Todd Terwilliger]

More Estevez madness: Men At Work!
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[Ted_Cogswell]

I wanted to come up with a list of 100 that hadn't been nominated yet, so first I had to make a list of what's been mentioned so far. I count 134 titles. Let me know if I missed anything. My list will be coming soon.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
After Hours
Akira
Amazon Women on the Moon
Army of Darkness
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery
Bad Taste
Basket Case
The Beastmaster
Being John Malkovich
Better Off Dead
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
The Big Lebowski
Big Trouble in Little China
Blade Runner
Blood for Dracula
The Blues Brothers
The Bounty
A Boy and His Dog
Branded to Kill
Caddyshack
Carnival of Souls
Casino Royale
Chasing Amy
Child’s Play
A Christmas Carol
C.H.U.D.
Clerks
Cinema Paradiso
A Clockwork Orange
Crumb
Dawn of the Dead
Destroy All Monsters
Dick Tracy
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
Don’t Torture a Duckling
The Doors
Dragonslayer
Easy Rider
Ed Wood
Educating Rita
El Topo
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Enter the Dragon
Eraserhead
Escape from New York
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend
The Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Excalibur
The Fall of the House of Usher
Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Fitzxarraldo
Freaked
Freaks
Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster
Gone in 60 Seconds
Groundhog Day
Halloween
The Harder They Come
Hairspray
Harold and Maude
Hellraiser
Highlander
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Hudson Hawk
The Iron Giant
Jacob’s Ladder
Justice League of America
Kelly’s Heroes
Kentucky Fried Movie
The Killer
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Liquid Sky
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Little Shop of Horrors
Mad Max
The Magic Christian
Mallrats
Martin
Meatballs
Meet the Feebles
Men at Work
Mighty Peking Man
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Murderer’s Row
My Dinner With Andre
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Natural Born Killers
Night of the Living Dead
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Ninth Configuration
Our Man Flint
Phantom of the Paradise
Pink Flamingos
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Quadrophenia
The Quick and the Dead
Re-Animator
The Reflecting Skin
Return of the Living Dead
Repo Man
Robocop
Rocketeer
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Roger and Me
Santa Sangre
Shock Treatment
The Song Remains the Same
The Story of Ricky
Strange Brew
The Street Fighter
Superbus
Tales from the Gimli Hospital
The Terminator
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
They Call Me Bruce
They Live
They Might Be Giants
The Thing
This is Spinal Tap
Toxic Avenger
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Two Lane Blacktop
The Untold Story
Vanishing Point
Vixen
The Wicker Man
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
[Edited last by Ted_Cogswell on October 28, 2001 at 03:52 PM]

 

[Reginald Trent]

Superfly
The Mack
Rocky Horror

 

[Ted_Cogswell]

Well, I was going to do 100 but I couldn't stop, so I went all the way up to 200. I purposely didn't include anything already mentioned (I hope, correct me if I missed something). I had The Mack on the list, but since Reginald just added that, I replaced it with The Candy Tangerine Man.
Since "cult movies" isn't really a genre, it's open to wildly different interpretations, and each list is going to be idiosyncratic. I doubt we'll ever come to a consensus on a top 100, but what the hell, here's 200 more nominees:
Across 110th Street
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The Amazing Colossal Man
The Ambushers
American Gothic
American Hot Wax
Angel (84)
Angel Heart
The Angry Red Planet
A*P*E
The Ape Man
The Bad Seed
Barbarella
Barfly
Batman (66)
The Beast With Five Fingers
Bedazzled (67)
Bedlam
Bedtime for Bonzo
Big Bad Mama
The Big Doll House
The Black Cat (34)
Black Shampoo
Blood Feast
Blood Freak
Bloody Mama
Blow Up
Blue Sunshine
Bonnie’s Kids
Book of Life
The Brain from Planet Arous
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
Brazil
Breathless
Bride of the Monster
Buffalo 66
Cabin Boy
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Caged Heat
The Candy Snatchers
The Candy Tangerine Man
The Centerfold Girls
Cleopatra Jones
Coffy
Color Me Blood Red
The Conqueror
The Corpse Vanishes
Crazy Joe
The Cross and the Switchblade
Curse of the Werewolf
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Dazed and Confused
Deadly Weapons
Death Race 2000
Dementia 13
Desperate Living
Detour
The Devil Bat
The Devils
Dirty Work
D.O.A.
Dolemite
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
Duel
Eating Raoul
Eegah!
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Fellini Satyricon
Female Trouble
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
Forbidden Zone
Freeway
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Gamera
Gator Bait
Get Carter (71)
Glen or Glenda?
God Told Me To!
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Groove Tube
Gun Crazy
Hardcore
Head
Heathers
Heavenly Creatures
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Hercules in New York
The Heroic Trio
The Hideous Sun Demon
High School Confidential
High School Hellcats
Hit Man
The Hitch-Hiker
Hollywood Boulevard
The Honeymoon Killers
Horror Express
Horrors of the Black Museum
The Howling
Humanoids from the Deep
In Cold Blood (67)
Infra Man
The Invisible Ray
Isle of the Dead
It’s Alive
Jackie Brown
The Killers (64)
King Kong (33)
Kiss Me, Deadly
Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park
Kitten With a Whip
The Last Detail
Mad Love (34)
The Mad Magician
Maniac (34)
Mantis in Lace
Masque of the Red Death
Massacre at Central High
Matinee
Miami Blues
Mr. Arkadin
Mommie Dearest
Mondo Cane
Ms. 45
Mudhoney
Multiple Maniacs
My Best Fiend- Klaus Kinski
Myra Beckinridge
The Naked Kiss
Night of the Hunter
Nightmare Alley
Nosferatu
Nosferatu, the Vampire
The Old Dark House
The Omega Man
Over the Edge
Parents
Peeping Tom
Performance
Pi
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Porky’s
The President’s Analyst
Pretty Baby
Psych Out
Putney Swope
Race With the Devil
Reefer Madness
Repulsion
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
Robot Monster
Rubin & Ed
The Sadist
Santa Claus
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Satan’s Sadists
Scared to Death
Seconds
Shakes the Clown
Shampoo
She Freak
Shock Corridor
The Shooting
Showgirls
Sid & Nancy
The Sinister Urge
Sisters
Soul Vengeance
Spider Baby
Stripped to Kill
Striptease
Suburban Roulette
Switchblade Sisters
Targets
Teenage Strangler
Terminal Island
The Terror of Tiny Town
Them!
Three the Hard Way
The Thing With Two Heads
Trader Hornee
The Trial
The Trip
Truck Turner
True Romance
2000 Maniacs
Unholy Rollers
Up in Smoke
Vampire’s Kiss
War of the Gargantuas
What’s Up Tiger Lilly
Where the Buffalo Roam
The Wild Angels
The Wild Bunch
Wild in the Streets
Willie Dynamite
X- The Man With the X-Ray Eyes
Zabriske Point
... and I don't think I'm done, there's so many more,... I just remembered "Can't Stop the Music", and "Disorderlies", and "Point Blank", and,...
[Edited last by Ted_Cogswell on October 28, 2001 at 03:02 PM]

 

[Dustin D]

Glad to see a mention of Barbarella. I love that movie. And Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. What about Buffy, the Vampire Slayer? Not sure if that's cult or not.

 

[Ted_Cogswell]

nm
[Edited last by Ted_Cogswell on October 28, 2001 at 06:17 PM]

 

[Ted_Cogswell]

Dustin D asks:
"What about Buffy, the Vampire Slayer? Not sure if that's cult or not."
I don't see why not. I'm not sure I've actually ever seen the movie, but the cult status of the TV show insures that people will be going back to the original movie for years to come.

 

[Barry S]

A few more:
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
Start The Revolution Without Me
Phantasm
Local Hero
The Producers
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Spaceballs
Pirahna (Joe Dante)
Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman)
A Bucket of Blood
The Toxic Avenger
Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD
Bloodsucking Freaks
An American Werewolf in London
Willow
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Wayne's World
Coming To America
Schlock!
Weird Science
The Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
Last House on the Left
The Hills Have Eyes
Swamp Thing
White Zombie
Cheech and Chong - Up In Smoke
Withnail and I
Soylent Green
Planet of the Apes
The Crow
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Gremlins
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Sid and Nancy
Straw Dogs
Suspiria
I Spit On Your Grave
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Heathers
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
Lifeforce
Cult classics in the making:
Office Space
The Big Lebowski
Showgirls
Bottle Rocket
Rushmore
Election
Mallrats
Pi
Requiem For A Dream
[Edited last by Barry S on October 29, 2001 at 01:21 AM]
[Edited last by Barry S on October 29, 2001 at 01:23 AM]