Cult Movies
This has been going around the blogosphere. Saw it here from a link at APCB. Since I like movies, a lot, I’ll bore you with my experiences with these cult movies. Bold items are the ones I have seen.
1 This Is Spinal Tap: Funny, funny movie. As many great quotes as any. “This goes to 11.”
2 The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Saw it when I was a young’un. Three times. Participated in the fun. But now it is just ridiculous.
3 Freaks: Alex Winters. ‘Nuff said.
4 Harold And Maude
5 Pink Flamingos: John Waters is a local legend in Baltimore. Grossest scene ever. I could take it or leave it.
6 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Scares me too much.
7 Repo Man: The movie soundtrack was all the rave when I was a youn punk. “You find one in every car.”
8 Scarface: Going to the U at the tail end of the 80s. This was a classic to watch.
9 Blade Runner: This is the movie which all sci-fi movies derive from. Classic.
10 The Shawshank Redemption
11 Five Deadly Venoms: Kung fu theatre rulez! They should bring it back for lazy saturdays.
12 Plan 9 From Outer Space
13 Brazil: Prescient. We are all going to die via paperwork.
14 Eraserhead
15 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
16 The Warriors: Why aren’t the gangs of today like this. Baseball furies.
17 Dazed And Confused: “I love high school girls. The older I get. They stay the same age.”
18 Hard-Boiled
19 Evil Dead II
20 The Mack
21 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure: The Alamo’s basement!
22 Un Chien Andalou
23 Akira: I still don’t get it.
24 The Toxic Avenger
25 Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory: Oompa-Loompas! Ahh HBO in the summer at OC.
26 Stranger Than Paradise
27 Dawn Of The Dead: The original is still the best of the zombie flicks.
28 The Wiz
29 Clerks
30 The Harder They Come
31 Slap Shot
32 Re-Animator: The head that gives head.
33 Grey Gardens
34 The Big Lebowski: I’m the dude.
35 Withnail and I
36 Showgirls
37 A Bucket Of Bood
38 They Live: Rowdy Roddy Piper taking out alien invaders. What else do you need. “I came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubblegum.”
39 The Best Of Everything
40 Barbarella
41 Heathers: The young Jack Nickelson.
42 Rushmore: Bittersweet. Loved it.
43 The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension: Saw this when I was younger, I don’t remember much, but it must have been fun. As was all movies when I was a kid.
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 : Funnier than the number 1 movie on this list. It gets funnier everytime.
52 A Clockwork Orange: Ultraviolence and a little of the old in-n-out, too.
53 Mommie Dearest
54 The Princess Bride: Good but not great IMHO.
55 Swingers: My movie. Defines the nineties for me. I saw a weekday matinee. Several business men, some college kids, and I. I think I was the only one laughing throughout the movie. Classic.
56 UHF
57 Valley of the Dolls
58 Fight Club: I shall follow the first rule of the fight club.
59 Dead Alive (aka Braindead)
60 Better Off Dead
61 Donnie Darko