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Little Shop of Horrors. I love both versions of the film and I've seen it performed live a handful of times.
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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).Little Shop of Horrors. I love both versions of the film and I've seen it performed live a handful of times.
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.Dark Horse (2011):
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.You can say anything with a dedicated following is a cult movie
"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.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.
I think the Coen brothers make cult films, yeah.The mainstream critics consider Big Lewbowski to be a cult movie for example.
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.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.
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.Velocipastor also qualifies, I feel.
This is the place to post all of the weird junk that's actually secret gold/hilariously bad.
Right? It's surprisingly good!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.