Cult Movies
Lifted from the Llama Butchers, a list of the 'top cult movies.' The ones I've seen are bolded, random comments are in italics.
1 This Is Spinal Tap - The most quotable movie ever.
2 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
3 Freaks
4 Harold And Maude
5 Pink Flamingos
6 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
7 Repo Man - Was this the last good film Emilio Estevez acted in? "There's room to move as a fry cook."
8 Scarface - I'm beginning to hold this movie responsible for Al Pacino's transformation from an actor to a scenery chewer.
9 Blade Runner Vastly under estimated during it's initial release; it's also the best film treatment of a Philip K. Dick book to date.
10 The Shawshank Redemption - One night, long ago, a young lady of my acquaintance sent me out to fetch a 'romantic comedy.' I returned with this film. You can see why my romantic history is a minefield.
11 Five Deadly Venoms
12 Plan 9 From Outer Space
13 Brazil
14 Eraserhead
15 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
16 The Warriors - Hard to believe this film was 'controversial' when it first arrived in theaters. The depiction of gangs and gang violence seems rather quaint today.
17 Dazed And Confused
18 Hard-Boiled - Not my favorite John Woo - Chow Yun Fat collaboration, but a close second.
19 Evil Dead II
20 The Mack
21 Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
22 Un Chien Andalou
23 Akira
24 The Toxic Avenger
25 Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory - I shudder at the thought. Stick to the book.
26 Stranger Than Paradise
27 Dawn Of The Dead
28 The Wiz
29 Clerks - Mostly boring.
30 The Harder They Come
31 Slap Shot
32 Re-Animator
33 Grey Gardens
34 The Big Lebowski
35 Withnail and I
36 Showgirls
37 A Bucket Of Bood
38 They Live - This fine film - the apex of Rowdy Roddy Piper's career - deserves to be in the top ten. At least.
39 The Best Of Everything
40 Barbarella
41 Heathers - Lots of Replacement references. Dig it.
42 Rushmore
43 The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension
44 Love Streams
45 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
46 Aguirre, The Wrath of God
47 Walking And Talking Nicole Holofcener
48 The Decline Of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years
49 Friday
50 Faces of Death, Vol. 1
51 Monty Python and the Holy Grail - The Bible of socially anxious young men everywhere.
52 A Clockwork Orange
53 Mommie Dearest
54 The Princess Bride - Another film that should be in the top ten.
55 Swingers - Living this kind of life was much more fun than watching a movie about it. Too bad I wasn't smart enough to write a screenplay.
56 UHF
57 Valley of the Dolls
58 Fight Club - Grossly overrated. Banal.
59 Dead Alive (aka Braindead)
60 Better Off Dead - In absolutely no way does this movie deserve to be 57 spots behind The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
61 Donnie Darko
In the name of all that is good and holy, how did Roadhouse fail to make this list?
1 This Is Spinal Tap - The most quotable movie ever.
2 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
3 Freaks
4 Harold And Maude
5 Pink Flamingos
6 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
7 Repo Man - Was this the last good film Emilio Estevez acted in? "There's room to move as a fry cook."
8 Scarface - I'm beginning to hold this movie responsible for Al Pacino's transformation from an actor to a scenery chewer.
9 Blade Runner Vastly under estimated during it's initial release; it's also the best film treatment of a Philip K. Dick book to date.
10 The Shawshank Redemption - One night, long ago, a young lady of my acquaintance sent me out to fetch a 'romantic comedy.' I returned with this film. You can see why my romantic history is a minefield.
11 Five Deadly Venoms
12 Plan 9 From Outer Space
13 Brazil
14 Eraserhead
15 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
16 The Warriors - Hard to believe this film was 'controversial' when it first arrived in theaters. The depiction of gangs and gang violence seems rather quaint today.
17 Dazed And Confused
18 Hard-Boiled - Not my favorite John Woo - Chow Yun Fat collaboration, but a close second.
19 Evil Dead II
20 The Mack
21 Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
22 Un Chien Andalou
23 Akira
24 The Toxic Avenger
25 Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory - I shudder at the thought. Stick to the book.
26 Stranger Than Paradise
27 Dawn Of The Dead
28 The Wiz
29 Clerks - Mostly boring.
30 The Harder They Come
31 Slap Shot
32 Re-Animator
33 Grey Gardens
34 The Big Lebowski
35 Withnail and I
36 Showgirls
37 A Bucket Of Bood
38 They Live - This fine film - the apex of Rowdy Roddy Piper's career - deserves to be in the top ten. At least.
39 The Best Of Everything
40 Barbarella
41 Heathers - Lots of Replacement references. Dig it.
42 Rushmore
43 The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension
44 Love Streams
45 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
46 Aguirre, The Wrath of God
47 Walking And Talking Nicole Holofcener
48 The Decline Of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years
49 Friday
50 Faces of Death, Vol. 1
51 Monty Python and the Holy Grail - The Bible of socially anxious young men everywhere.
52 A Clockwork Orange
53 Mommie Dearest
54 The Princess Bride - Another film that should be in the top ten.
55 Swingers - Living this kind of life was much more fun than watching a movie about it. Too bad I wasn't smart enough to write a screenplay.
56 UHF
57 Valley of the Dolls
58 Fight Club - Grossly overrated. Banal.
59 Dead Alive (aka Braindead)
60 Better Off Dead - In absolutely no way does this movie deserve to be 57 spots behind The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
61 Donnie Darko
In the name of all that is good and holy, how did Roadhouse fail to make this list?
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