Top five cult movies of all time?

[knking]

My Top five cult movies of all time are:

Valley of the Dolls
The Little Shop of Horrors
Monty Python
The Goonies
Harold and Maude

Im interested in other peoples top five.

[Tosh]

The Evil Dead!
Clerks
Faster PussyCat, Kill! Kill!
Easyrider
Original Endless summer (surf doc. turned cult)

[Nguss]

1. International Guerillas
2. Mystics in Bali
3. Death Warrior
4. Freaked
5. Turkish Star Wars

though they are liable to change every 5 minutes.

[limubai2000]

Good ?....

Megaforce
Hunted (Christopher Lambert version)
any Japanese Godzilla film
Army of Darkness

[rob g rob]

Evil Dead
Warriors
Hellraiser
Pulp fiction
Sleepaway Camp 1:evil

[vengeanceofhumanlanterns]

Blood Sucking Freaks gotta be up there somewhere.

[Blood Sword]

Blood Sucking Freaks gotta be up there somewhere.
if list of worst and most disgusting movies ever made I think Freaks would show up

[kungpowmaster]

Hmmmm....

Shogun Assassin
Ilsa She Wolf of the SS
Dawn of the Dead
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Forbidden Zone


There are so many, so I tried to pick faves of mine from different genres. But I like many obscure films, I don't know if anyone knows Forbidden Zone. Replace that with The Toxic Avenger, if you don't. If you don't know Ilsa, replace that with Reform School Girls.

[The Dragon]

The Evil Dead
Little Shop of Horrors
Night of The Living Dead
Rocky
Halloween

Didn't intend on so many being horror, however, that genre screams cult!

[kungpowmaster]

A good list would be top 5(or 3) cult classics of each genre:

Kung Fu
Karate
Yakuza
Pinky
Samurai
Comedy
Western(subcat Euro)
Horror(subcat Euro)
Giallo
American Martial Arts
Exploitation(cannibal, nazisploitation, nuns)
Police Crime Action(subcat Euro)

maybe more.

[BlackLamaFaction]

Switchblade Sisters

Pink Flamingos

The Cook, The Thief, his Wife and her Lover

Videodrome

Man Bites Dog

Aren't really popular blockbusters the exact opposite of a cult film? Maybe I have the definition of Cult movie wrong.

[Blood Sword]

I cannot pick 5,there is so many good stuff I like.

But I can safely say Last On The Left would be in top-5.

Remake is great also,bwt:nerd:

[robgrob]

Evil dead
Night of the demons
warriors
way of the dragon aka return of the dragon
sleepaway camp

[Blood Sword]

warriors

That is excellent movie:bigsmile:
Of war films one which does it for me is not full metal jacket or platoon.Both are good films but I like most Cross Of Iron

[CrazyFrog]

Hmmm....
Suspiria for sure made an impression.
Peter Jackson's Brain Dead- the best horror-comedy of all time!
Slackers- a personal favorite although it has definite flaws.
Animalympics- not really a cult movie at the time but now might as well be.
Primer recently blew my mind.

Yeah, five doesn't really cut it but it does prevent long dissertations.

[robgrob]

Hmmm....
Suspiria for sure made an impression.
Peter Jackson's Brain Dead- the best horror-comedy of all time!
Slackers- a personal favorite although it has definite flaws.
Animalympics- not really a cult movie at the time but now might as well be.
Primer recently blew my mind.

Yeah, five doesn't really cut it but it does prevent long dissertations.

suspiria, sci fi showed it one time and I was hooked its on my top ten horror list.

[Iron Boat]

Legend, Hellraiser, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Hoop Dreams, Beat Street,

[AlbertV]

My top 5 cult films

1) The Toxic Avenger
2) Class of Nuke 'Em High
3) Massacre at Central High
4) The Last House on the Left (the original)
5) Slaughter High

[TibetanWhiteCrane]

Aren't really popular blockbusters the exact opposite of a cult film? Maybe I have the definition of Cult movie wrong.

You have it right! Which is why half of the choices in this thread are wrong!

[LeRolls]

Hard to pick just five:

Army of Darkness
The Thing (JC)
Big Trouble in Little China
Drive
Dark Angel (I Come in Peace)

[Juon 408]

oh this is a easy one for me.

Battle Royale
The Evil Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Gojira (1954)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[shukocarl]

In no particular order:
Zombie Flesheaters (Zombi 2)
Quadrophenia
2001 a space odyssey
The Italian Job (original!)
Way of the Dragon

[Morgoth Bauglir]

I don’t think The Stepfather has been mentioned. I’m so glad they remade this movie. I haven’t seen the remake, but when they announced there was going to be a remake, a remastered special edition DVD of the original Stepfather came out! :smile::smile::smile:

Other cult favorites (A couple of these I don’t know if they were big hits when they were released, I’m just assuming they weren’t…) -

Cujo
Following
Better Off Dead
Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Movie
Corndog Man
Go
Three O'clock High
Hoop Dreams

[sifu iron perm]

good shout on three o'clock high, very underrated movie!

top 5 is pretty difficult for me, ill give it a go;

Pi
el topo
The baby
enter the dragon
an american werewolf in london

revenge of the nerds & three o clock high would fit in the top also..

[masterofoneinchpunch]

Good call on three o'clock high, I've seen that so many times in my youth. I also love the Criterion release of Hoop Dreams :). It's one of my favorite docs of all time. Also: "that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that."

Quick note above: a cult film can be mainstream if it acquires hardcore followers (like the original Star Wars). I think the Wiki definition is pretty dead-on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_film

My five would be:
Evil Dead II: I'm a Bruce Campbell fan and I liked this more than the first entry though I've seen Army of Darkness more times.
Three O'clock High: "Pain is temporary, film is forever."
Braindead: Never looked at lawnmowers the same.
Crumb: Makes you feel better about your family. Along with Hoop Dreams one of my favorite docs.
Murder by Death: Had to pick at least one film with Peter Sellers (would The Party be considered more cultish?; The Pink Panther Strikes Again is one of my favorite films of all time as well).

[Morgoth Bauglir]

I agree that Criterion DVD is great. I always wanted them make a part 2 of Hoop Dreams, and that’s what you get with the commentary from Arthur Agee and William Gates.

[mirrorman]

Darkcity
Versus
Warriors
Them
Cutie Honey -the movie

but I could really add:

Starship Troopers
Big Trouble in Little China
Long Kiss Goodnight
The Legend of The Seven Golden Vampires
Empire Records

[robgrob]

good shout on three o'clock high, very underrated movie!

top 5 is pretty difficult for me, ill give it a go;

Pi
el topo
The baby
enter the dragon
an american werewolf in london

revenge of the nerds & three o clock high would fit in the top also..

if I can find three o clock high on DVD MY LIFE Will be complete

[nectarsis]

Evil Dead 2
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Wizard of Speed and Time
Mystery Science Theater 300 The Movie
Revenge of the Nerds

Honorable mentions:
Starship Troopers
Fifth Element
Spaceballs
Transformers (1986)
Godzilla (all)
Battle Beyond the Stars
The Boondock Saints

[bestmann]

let's see, a couple of movies that I thought should be on the list were:

army of darkness
a clockwork orange
reservoir dogs
and monty python and the holy grail

and maybe:

The Maltese Falcon or Trainspotting

[bearpower]

Army of darkness
Dog Soldier
Night of the living dead 1968
Them
Repo Man

[emeraldforest]

Jabberwocky
Eat the Rich
Leningrad Cowboys go Amerika
Roadie
Time Bandits

[Tigerstyle]

CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST
SUBURBIA (The punk film)
FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL
LOST HIGHWAY
MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY.......///ERASERHEAD/JACOBS LADDER/FEAR AND
LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS and many many more

[ShaOW!linDude]

Night of the Living Dead ----- George Romero's classic b&w version.
Half Baked ------- to me this is funnier than anything Cheech and Chong ever did.
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly ----- the definitive spaghetti western.
Dirty Harry ---- the definitive rogue cop movie.
Any Bruce Lee film ----- each a cult classic in their own right.

Honorable Mention: Monty Python's Life of Brian ----- I'm a Christian but this movie's depiction on Roman history and the way people respond to religion and government in general owns me.

[66 Mantis]

My Top 5 movies ever; cult or no cult:

1) Seven Samurai
2) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
3) King Kong (1933)
4) King Boxer (5 Fingers of Death)
5) Duck Soup

[iron flag]

Interesting topic. and hard to pick with different genres! The obvious choice for #1 would have to be Rocky Horror Picture Show..My personal top 5: (not necessarily best, just "cult" imo)
1. Suspiria
2. Spider Baby
3. Shogun Assassin
4. Dawn of the Dead (original)
5. Django

[shootgringoshoot]

this is a tricky question.........

probably its more or less based on my favourite directers

oke in random order:
- The Good the Bad the Ugly
- M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
- Golden Queens Commando (kick ass movie!)
- Banditi a Milano
- Pusher trilogy

when you ask em enxt month I will give you a complete other list ;-)

[ReverendYah]

Anything with Godzilla in it (bar the remake of course)
Attack Of the Killer Tomato's
The Day The Earth Caught Fire
Carnival Of Souls (again,not the remake)
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

[AlbertV]

My top 5 cult films

1) The Toxic Avenger
2) Class of Nuke 'Em High
3) Massacre at Central High
4) The Last House on the Left (the original)
5) Slaughter High

Updated list:

1) Class of 1984
2) Class of 1999
3) The Toxic Avenger I-IV
4) Class of Nuke 'Em High
5) Slaughter High

[massa_yoda]

1) SERENITY (Best film ever made)
2) ARMY OF DARKNESS
3) The Boondock Saints 1 & 2
4) The Blues Brothers
5) MST3K

Honorable Mention: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Obviously there are many I haven't seen yet, but these are the ones I love and introduce a lot of people to.