Cult Films - The Movie Equivalents of Lolcows

[TomServo]

Little Shop of Horrors. I love both versions of the film and I've seen it performed live a handful of times.

 

[Pabst Blue Robot]

Little Shop of Horrors. I love both versions of the film and I've seen it performed live a handful of times.

It's so camp and I love that about it. I feel like there's this sense of shame that talented people have when making movies now that doesn't let them really have fun with stupidity in the same way. Closest modern example I can think of (not in any way similar mind you) is "What We Do in the Shadows" (2014).

 

[Your Starter for 10]

The Stuff and Q the Winged Serpent, both featuring Michael Moriarty are great ones that I recently re-watched. Both have pretty good premises that would just be fine B-movie fare, but the decisions made in directing and acting in them just make them spectacular. I mean Moriarty in Q puts on a clinic - a clinic for what, I have no idea, but whatever he is doing is amazing. I mean it doesn't seem like he's supposed to be completely insane, by the way other characters react to him and treat him, but by god listening to him and watching him, he just has to be. I can't pretend to understand it, but I do enjoy it.

And then in The Stuff, he's supposed to be a tough guy (ex-CIA or something) and it just doesn't mesh with what's going on...it's just another layer of weirdness over an already so-insane-it's-great plot. It's basically what I picture would've happened if Andy Kaufman starred in and directed Verhoeven's Starship Troopers script.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I like Santa Sangre, El Topo and Holy Mountain

City of Lost Children and Delicatessen but fuck Amelie.

The devils by Kent Russel. Awesome if you find it.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Phantom of the Paradise
Gummo
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Amityville 2: The Possession
The House By The Cemetary
Pink Flamingos
The Ugly

 

[Pitbull Victim]

The thread title inspired me to come up with what I would consider the three cult movies that best cover lolcow-related topics specifically:

Dark Horse (2011): A fat, obnoxious manchild romances a severely depressed woman with a lot of the movie taking place in his weird fantasies. It's a Todd Solondz movie so you'll either find it very funny or incredibly miserable to sit through.

Feed (2005): Horror movie about an Aussie cyberpolice cop who tries to track down a feeder who is livestreaming himself making a woman really fat. Was infamous for some truly gross special effects that still hold up, the cyberpolice stuff is really funny today though. Almost a legit good horror movie that is held back by being low-budget and Australian.

Auto Focus (2002): Bob Crane, a happily married Christian family man descends into life-ruining coomerism after gaining fame and a friendship with a weird pervert. Basically the story of Nick Rekieta. One of Paul Schrader's best.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Dark Horse (2011):

i like to recommend this one, i am still not sure if i like it but it does something. On a similar note, The misterious skin and Happiness. Not enjoyable but memorable, is like misery porn.

Lets see. Glengary Glenn Ross, Boogie Nights, 12 monkeys, Leon the Professional, Natural born killers, Trainspotting and who wants to be John Malkovich are great films, i guess its on the popular side of cult classics.

Weird horror, maybe Tetsuo the iron man, Naked Lunch and Existenz , American Werewolf in London, The Beyond and Return of the living dead

 

[BrunoMattei]

How are "cult movies" like lolcows again? Aside from that I try not to use the term "cult movie" because it's become so vague. You can say anything with a dedicated following is a cult movie. You can say The Snyder Cut of Justice League is a cult movie because of the Snyderverse people. Is The Rocky Horror Picture Show truly a cult movie if it's practically mainstream?

So my barometer for an appropriate cult movie would be something that isn't mainstream (it could be directed by or star actors before they hit it big) and could be described as insane or just plain weird.

My picks:

Last House on Dead End Street
The filmography of David Lynch excluding The Elephant Man and Dune
The filmographies of Fulci, Dario Argento and Mario Bava
Every Jorg Buttgereit film and god almighty do I hope this man can make another feature
Death Bed: The Bed that Eats
Subconscious Cruelty
Freaks
Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (maybe the first true cult movie?)
The World's Greatest Sinner
Society
Blind Beast
Beautiful Girl Hunter AKA Star of David: Beauty Hunting
Irreversible
Vampyros Lesbos
Xtro
The Reflecting Skin
Poor Pretty Eddy
Begotten

The list can just keep going.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

You can say anything with a dedicated following is a cult movie

For me it would be something thats not quite mainstream but its still well known for its artistic merits or some other novelty that keeps it relevant.

Angel's Egg is a great example of what cult movie is for me, its very well known by people who like anime today, its not at all a obscure movie even though it originally did badly in the box office in Japan, nearly ruined Oshii's career but gained a cult status due to its artistic vision. Still isn't for everyone and most people would rather watch a My Hero academia OVA than something as slow paced introspective and criptic. So it floats in that middle ground of having lifeline only by its reputation.

Something like Guinea Pigs, vomitgore are less cult classics and more like simply underground cinema. B movies i think is its own niche as a whole, its almost its own genre. Cult movies are mostly unrelated to each other.

 

[BrunoMattei]

For me it would be something thats not quite mainstream but its still well known for its artistic merits or some other novelty that keeps it relevant.

Angel's Egg is a great example of what cult movie is for me, its very well known by people who like anime today, its not at all a obscure movie even though it originally did badly in the box office in Japan, nearly ruined Oshii's career but gained a cult status due to its artistic vision. Still isn't for everyone and most people would rather watch a My Hero academia OVA than something as slow paced introspective and criptic. So it floats in that middle ground of having lifeline only by its reputation.

Something like Guinea Pigs, vomitgore are less cult classics and more like simply underground cinema. B movies i think is its own niche as a whole, its almost its own genre. Cult movies are mostly unrelated to each other.

"Cult movie" is still a very wide umbrella that pretty much anything can fit under. The mainstream critics consider Big Lewbowski to be a cult movie for example.

It's like calling something "arthouse" when that has an equally wide umbrella. Shit, I can call Nekromantik 1 and 2 plus Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood and Mermaid in a Manhole arthouse as well.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

The mainstream critics consider Big Lewbowski to be a cult movie for example.

I think the Coen brothers make cult films, yeah.

Its not about being niche, imo its actually a requisite that the movie is well known, and its a wide net because any genre or tipe of movie can fit the bill.

I think cult as a label became more blurred online because i online i mention the Coen brother for exampleand everyone can go "pff those guys? everyone knows those guys, they are shilled by everyone!". Ok, fair enough, in the internet thats taken for granted, but i mention that to the guys down the street who only watch Fast and the Furious, Marvel and whatever else is top of the billboard and all i'll get is deadpan stares. Thats the cult label for me , its pretty well known, it has an artistic reputation but its just outside the mainstream sphere of influence.

I'd still put Nekromantic and Guinea Pig firmly on the underground category, those movies are made with a very specific purpose. I hate "arthouse" because that more of a cope for people who make unlikable movies, when i hear "cult movie" i kinda know what someone means, arthouse lacks meaning to me or its just redundant.

 

[BrunoMattei]

How can I forget some call "The ultimate cult move" Possession (1981):

It's definitely up there as far as being the ultimate. I played it once for movie night and it melted the minds of everyone.

But my pick for "ultimate cult movie" would be Eraserhead.

 

[yasscat]

Velocipastor also qualifies, I feel.

 

[Power Ranger Monster]

Tales From The Quadead Zone
Warlock and sequel
Video Violence and sequel
Christmas Evil
Funland
UHF
Slaughter High
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Sleepaway Camp series
Slapshot
Dead Alive
Meet The Feebles
Slacker

 

[Pabst Blue Robot]

How are "cult movies" like lolcows again? Aside from that I try not to use the term "cult movie" because it's become so vague. You can say anything with a dedicated following is a cult movie. You can say The Snyder Cut of Justice League is a cult movie because of the Snyderverse people. Is The Rocky Horror Picture Show truly a cult movie if it's practically mainstream?

So my barometer for an appropriate cult movie would be something that isn't mainstream (it could be directed by or star actors before they hit it big) and could be described as insane or just plain weird.

My picks:

Last House on Dead End Street
The filmography of David Lynch excluding The Elephant Man and Dune
The filmographies of Fulci, Dario Argento and Mario Bava
Every Jorg Buttgereit film and god almighty do I hope this man can make another feature
Death Bed: The Bed that Eats
Subconscious Cruelty
Freaks
Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (maybe the first true cult movie?)
The World's Greatest Sinner
Society
Blind Beast
Beautiful Girl Hunter AKA Star of David: Beauty Hunting
Irreversible
Vampyros Lesbos
Xtro
The Reflecting Skin
Poor Pretty Eddy
Begotten

The list can just keep going.

It's just a tagline. Plus a lot of them are shite and fun to laugh at/overanalyze, like lolcows tend to be. As for the "mainstream" thing I'm not discrediting cult movies people know about, I just thought it'd be fun to talk about stuff that's more obscure. They're still cult movies, it just might be a bit redundant to talk about them since they get time to shine in other threads. This is the place to post all of the weird junk that's actually secret gold/hilariously bad.

 

[Pabst Blue Robot]

Velocipastor also qualifies, I feel.

Velocipastor is the shit. Underneath the ridiculous premise is the best B-Movie ever made, with astonishingly good editing and storyline, but all of those awful special effects you love laughing at. The characters are dynamic, the villain is (somewhat) understandable, and I can't get enough of the Pastor and the Satanic Priest being buddies because they were in the same platoon in 'Nam. The whole thing reminded me of Metal Gear Solid, in a way, with the expanding and winding storyline, and also the twist at the end.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

This is the place to post all of the weird junk that's actually secret gold/hilariously bad.

 

[yasscat]

Velocipastor is the shit. Underneath the ridiculous premise is the best B-Movie ever made, with astonishingly good editing and storyline, but all of those awful special effects you love laughing at. The characters are dynamic, the villain is (somewhat) understandable, and I can't get enough of the Pastor and the Satanic Priest being buddies because they were in the same platoon in 'Nam. The whole thing reminded me of Metal Gear Solid, in a way, with the expanding and winding storyline, and also the twist at the end.

Right? It's surprisingly good!

 

[Nihil Jung]

Some of my recent favorites:
Wrong Cops, Goblin, Kings of Summer, Me You Madness, Buddies, Goobey, The Legend of Simon Conjurer, David.

 

[Jon of the Dead]

Freaked has been a personal favorite of mine since I saw it as a kid. Nice cast and excellent physical fx and makeup.