Posted on 06/13/2018 2:37:56 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Good (and bad) movies come and go, but some films garner such a fierce, loyal following that they reach cult status. People watch them over and over and over again. They host parties to watch them some more. Midnight showings at movie theaters draw incredible crowds, and oftentimes, fans "act out" the scenes in front of the screen.
Actors who happened to have been in cult movies enjoy lifetimes of stardom (to one extent or another) and can probably make a living signing autographs at events and Comic-Con ad nauseam.
Are you a huge fan of any cult classic? Here are some favorites below. Weigh in with the ones you can't get enough of!
I finally got around to showing Soylent Green to my family, that includes a couple teenagers. We semi-regularly watch oldies, so they thought nothing strange of the movie, and thought it was just a normal dystopian cop movie. Until the last scene. Looking over at them, all three had their mouths open, lower jaw dropped to the floor. They did not see that coming. I was just LOL.
Isaac Hayes greatest movie.
It was a comedy!
I watched Soylent Green in the theater when I was 13. As a result I have never eaten a pop tart.
Hahahahaha, when Wild Wilderness Drive-Thru safari goes horribly wrong... :P
“D.O.A.”
“It was a comedy!”
The ideal format for propaganda, better even than music.
Let’s try this one more time.
Santa Clause conquers the Martians
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
This move was and advertised as a COMEDY and a SATIRE!
There were also plenty of "dramatic" political movies, churned out the same year...FAIL SAFE, SEVEN DAYS IN MAY, with two earlier ones...THE RIGHT MAN ( 1960 ) and ADVISE AND CONSENT (1962 ), that should and actually DID freak out many people who read the books/saw the play or movies, about politics as it was.
I don't know how old you are, but the COMMIE BAN THE BOMB crowd had been around and VERY loud, since we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki!
Also, the crazy John Birch Society FLOURIDE CONSPIRACY ( they claimed that it was a "COMMIE PLOT" ! ) had been around since the early 1950s and really reached full steam in the mid 1950s-early 1960s and THAT was part of the movie as well.
Apparently, yes, I did hang out with a far better, more well informed, better educated bunch of kids and grown ups than you did...since we all understood that DOCTOR STRANGELOVE was just a funny satirical look at the time.
And anyone, especially in the 1980s and today, who still harbored the patently ridiculous opinion, you proffered, was/is not only a political naif, but a benighted fool, bereft of factual knowledge of ANY kind !
And before you jump to the conclusion that the people I knew, back then, were all the same/lived in a bubble, please allow me to disabuse you of that assumption! These kids were from a variety of different backgrounds, ethnicities, socio-ecnomic strata, and yes, even political affiliation. What bound us together was the fact that we were all in college, though not all of us went to the same one, and friends.
You have a heck of a list. I want to add one. Bullet (greatest car chase EVER).
There were consequences to that. In a typical film, it would have just been a throwaway sequence.
The sequel give a really sad, shocking look at how quickly Europe fell. In twenty years, there are more foreigners than Scots. The first movie was kind of an indictment of the welfare state. I like it when liberals unwittingly make a conservative film. Boyle does it a lot, with the Island being an indictment of socialist utopia.
“Last House On The Left. (The original.)
A trashy movie with no redeeming values whatsoever.
Definitely a Cult Classic.”
Agreed. You really want to take a shower after watching it. Still, a successful spin on an Ingmar Bergman (!) film.
12 Monkeys is one of my favorites.
Motel Hell
Blade Runner
Brazil
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
A Boy and His Dog
Death Race 2000
Eraserhead
Repo Man
Flesh for Frankenstein
Blood for Dracula
Black Devil Doll
Deathrow Gameshow
Naked Lunch
Poultrygeist
Reanimator
Team America
Zombie Strippers
Slither
Zzyzx
that’s enough to get you started.
Nobody f**** with tha Jesus mange.
Quintana, that creep can roll...
That’s one of my favorites.
Has anyone mentioned Porky’s?
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