best CULT MOVIE of all time (list from Entertainment Weekly and 5 minutes to list combined)

5 minutes to live of course...

SHOWGIRLS

curious that Cassavetes is on the Weekly list and Love Streams in particular.

putney swope was fukkin unwatchable imo when i tried a few months ago

a fistful of dollars poops on django imo.

the best movie is pro. Eraserhead, but my favourite is Spinal tap.or Evil dead 2. or El Topo.

Blade Runner
Warriors
Brazil

man so much awesome stuff on this list

voted for Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, which is one of the rare movies I will be down with sitting and watching anytime, in any situation.

the only list in the world where those 2 movies can follow one another:
16. TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)
18. DEEP THROAT (1971)

Deep Throat is a pile of shit.

"so much awesome stuff on this list"
awesome! - 46- AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (1972)
awesome? - 6. EMMANUELLE (1974)

7. GATES OF HEAVEN (1978)
DAZED AND CONFUSED
50. TWO LANE BLACKTOP (1971)

SO HARD TO CHOOSE

Brazil is my fav. movie ever, so...

If they had the Testament of Dr. Mabuse instead of Mabuse the Gambler I'd vote for that.

If EMANUELLE and SCARFACE were a single movie, I would vote for it.

Repo Man!

repo man
brazil
heathers

If REPO MAN, BRAZIL, and HEATHERS were all one movie, I would own it on DVD.

repo man imo

i didnt see Repo man (now i want to), but this is from it:

Lagarto Rodriguez: ...yeah, well that's not the only thing, Marlene. This car is hot.
Marlene: What do you mean? Stolen?
Lagarto Rodriguez: No, I mean it's hot. Really hot.
Marlene: Hot?
Lagarto Rodriguez: Yeah! We're sweating like pigs, man.

This is all making me want to watch Repo Man again. Which I should, it's been a while.

Miller: A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
Otto: You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?

If they had the Testament of Dr. Mabuse instead of Mabuse the Gambler I'd vote for that.

-- Dan I., Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:14 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

testament of doc mabuse is really good i agree

Touch of Evil, Brazil, Eraserhead and Dawn of the Dead are all tops in my book. Akira and The Toxic Avenger are good fun when I'm in the mood. I kind of love The Wiz because it feels like it was made by aliens.

Head and Pee Wee's Big Adventure, though, are kind of timelessly wonderful, and really hard to choose between. Probably Pee Wee by a bowtie.

I am kind of boggled I'm the only person repping for warriors or blade runner so far

didn't blade runner win one of those sci-fi polls? my vote goes for space is the place, runner up: el topo. but there is a LOT of great stuff on the lists, agreed.

Tombot, I take both those films as givens. Beyond polls. (A bit like Repo Man.)

Blade Runner has just been taken for granted to be The Movie among everyone I've ever befriended, so it doesn't feel like a cult film at all.

haha xp

this should really be in a playoff tree format

5MTL's list >>>>>> EW's, though I love a bunch of movies on both

Can't OPO, here's a POX.

9. BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970)
10. CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962)
27. MONDO CANE (1962)
28. WICKER MAN (1973)
32. HEAD (1968)
37. CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1979)
5- PINK FLAMINGOS (1972)
6- TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
33- GREY GARDENS 1976)
36- SHOWGIRLS (1995)

the whole list is great

no buckaroo banzai, though?

sunrise

BBC Radio 4 had a programme on 'Withnail and I' last week which made me dig out my copy and watch it again. So that gets my vote, though several others could've done it on another day.

I bought the Withnail dvd for i think $4.

THEY LIVE is the only choice here because everyone is going to vote for Brazil (which isn't a bad thing, mind you). Sure, you have Michael Palin there but he's no Rowdy Roddy Piper, y'know.

why is "sunrise" (1922) on the list?

i like some of these films but singling them out and calling them "cult movies" makes them seem like they came straight off some flaky drama major's facebook profile.

this is impossible

1 EL TOPO (1970)
1- THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984)
7- REPO MAN (1984)
13- BRAZIL (1985)
14- ERASERHEAD (1977)
21- PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (1985)
30- THE HARDER THEY COME (1973)
43- THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BONZAI (1984)
46- AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (1972)
48- THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART II: THE METAL YEARS (1988)

Could someone explain the presence of Shawshank Redemption on this list to me please?

cause it wasn't a big box office success, and only caught on later through word-of-mouth after TNT or TBS played it ad nauseum.

(tenuous categorization as cult film, i agree)

Second JD's comment.

Touch of Evil? Sunrise?

And just because you are likely to see a movie in a film lit class, does that make it cult? And when the cult = most of the people you know hold this movie in high esteem (especially your peers)?

That said, at 50 movies, I've got to check some of this stuff out.

Dawn of the Dead is so fucking great too.

The Human Tornado is so clearly superior to Dolemite.

Petey Wheatstraw beats them both.

repo man

A bored insurance salesman quits his job to go into politics. He first starts preaching about how man is greater than he thinks and that man can live forever. He ends up forming his own political party, "The Eternal Man" party. He begins to be referred to as "God". Then he starts having doubts about the eternalness of man.

Even though there are a lot of movies I like better on here, I voted for The King of Comedy because I think it's the first time I've seen it on any cult movie list/poll.

Good to see Bronx Warriors on there - it loomed large in my early-days-of-video childhood.

Sunrise might be my favourite movie of all time.

I voted for "Sunrise" although I'm also kind of WTF-ing at it being on that list. Second choice would have been either "Aguirre" or "Heathers". Lots of good films! Though, there doesn't seem to be much connecting a lot of them other than this v v tenuous "cult" sticker.

okay where is Forbidden Zone? If a film that features Herve Villechaize as a king, a psychotic dancing frog, Oingo Boingo musical numbers and a dimension reached by sliding out of an oversized asshole can't find a major cult audience then these are serious dire fucking times.

also, disappointed that Stroszek, The Baby, the Ninth Configuration, and especially Suspiria aren't repped. I don't even like Suspiria that much but c'mon.

prolly Eraserhead or Showgirls

Stroszek should always be repped. Best ending to a movie ever.

would have been better to just have separate lists for e.g. campy cult, sci-fi cult, badmovie cult, panned-on-release cult & too-big-to-be-on-this-list cult. as it is it's kind of ridiculous to choose between Superstar: the karen Carpenter Story and Blade Runner (although i would definitely choose the former).

When I saw the thread I title I immediately thought "Death Race 2000" and it is in there, so I guess that can have my vote. Although I like some of these films more - e.g. Dawn Of The Dead.

Braindead should be in there somewhere.

It's tough choosing between Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story and Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (it's up there twice).

yeah, i deleted all the movies that appear twice, but i forgot this one

You should've included the honorable mentions too.

And taken Shawshank Redemption out.

Went with Slap Shot.

most meaningless catchall "cult" list evah! Might as well have thrown in The Godfather and Star Wars.

I understand and even kind of agree, Morbs. But I think Star Wars has some real cult qualities, what with dudes proclaiming their religion as 'Jedi' and cetera.

eraserhead, brazil, blade runner all seem so prescient and influential now it's kind of weird to thin of them as cult films

That's true. I admit I probably mistakenly take "cult" to be an appraisal, rather than a definition.

Though whatever "cult" there is at work in favor of Shawshank is beyond my acceptable definitions.

shawshank and friday are both great but don't really fit.

Brazil
Blade Runner
Akira

write in: Delicatessen

Andrew Sarris nailed Shawshank upon its release: "a fairytale for yuppies."

the definition of cult is variable and sometime subjective, so of course a lot of those movies could be deleted, and there are some who shouldve been added (some horror flicks for example)- no list on this subject will ever be perfect for everybody, but the most agreed upon/popular ones are there: rocky horror, evil dead etc.. so overall it's a fair list imo

The definition of cult as far as movies go has been stretched to the point where it's meaningless, so any list would be fair.

^^^
that.

I guess I'm still stuck in the '70s and think "cult" means, at least in part, underground (i.e. not a movie that was rescued by the middlebrow majority renting copies from Blockbuster in record number i.e. Shawshank)

Lotta great movies on this list, though, did I mention? I'd take this collection any day over AFI's list.

We should collect write-ins for a 'Best Cult Movie That EW and 5 Minutes To Live Forgot' poll. To wit:

God Told Me To
Rock N' Roll High School
Pieces
The Tingler
Brain Damage

O Lucky Man!
Being There

(I don't know if any of these technically count, but I feel like a lot of the ones EW included definitely don't count. So there you go.)

I've (painfully) gotten it down to:

Touch of Evil
Blade Runner
Aguirre The Wrath of God

I simply can't think of Blade Runner as a cult film. I saw it in the theater as did a load of people I knew in school.

'Brazil' is one of my favorite movies, ever, so I think I'd have to go with that, but I do like bnw's suggestion for 'Delicatessen'.

Offlist?

As far as horror goes, I would say Suspiria, Cemetary Man, and Posession (1981) are contenders.

In the teen-sploitation genre, Class of 1984, and Last American Virgin could be on there.

Also, a number of Godard films are better than Breathless.

and more cult!

Wow, where is Dark Star?

THE WORLD'S GREATEST SINNER is the kind of thing I think most ppl mean by "cult" -- you can't believe your eyes, but it's also undeniably shit.

(ditto Valley of the Dolls, Ed Wood's oeuvre, etc)

Yahbut cult and camp aren't necessarily the same thing, either.

No Fabulous Stains, no credibility.

so, the vast majority of cult films are just ordinary/quirky films, but badly made, is what i'm hearing.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

sweet! i only back winners

KING OF COMEDY (1983) 2

Gee, I wonder who the other voter was.

GREY GARDENS 1976) 0

Scandalous!

I guess I think I must've voted for Pink Flamingos.

the end of buckaroo banzai was just like the end of life aquatic with a bunch of guys walking in unison while the group slowly gets bigger as otehr join them.