I Was a Teenage INXS Fangirl! I was not only in the fan club, but I remember scouring the shelves at Tower Video to find their sole copy of Dogs in Space. I also had the soundtrack on cassette.
Saturday the 14th (1981) was something I enjoyed, but I don’t think I’ve seen it since.
A friend of mine in grad school had a copy of the original, unedited New Wave Hookers, and it’s really worth a viewing. Chicks just dig that new wave music!
They already are back in style. At least I see a lot of the gay hipster kids on the L train from Williamsburg wearing skinny ties, white belts, vests and other ‘Buckaroo Banzai’ approved urban wear.
Anyway, other flicks I remembered that I haven’t seen mentioned:the Hunger, Heathers and Wings of Desire.
and, my son’s favorite 80’s movie Ghostbusters
Maybe not all strictly defined as cult movies, but some of my favorites nonetheless.
Awesome! I have the soundtrack on vinyl (useless to me, because we no longer have a record player, but I’ll go to my grave with it I’m sure) and it is one of my greatest regrets that my VHS copy got lost at some point when it was circulating around in college.
Some faves not yet mentioned
Angel Heart which I remember as being one of the scarier films of the day
Prick Up Your Ears a fascinating examination of mid '60s London gay life
I have no idea why these films - especially Angel Heart - did not go mainstream
Not sure if these are all '80’s, but I thought I’d contribute:
Frankenhooker
Flesh Eating Mothers (so ludicrous even the actors kept cracking up during their lines)
Lair of the White Worm (love this movie! It was on recently but was so edited down for TV I gave up and stopped recording it)
Can I get approval on Roadhouse, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, and They Live?
First thing I thought of was Night of the Comet. Hmm, maybe that’s where my zombiphilia started.
Re: Brainstorm - I’ve been in the house they used for the pool scenes; it belonged to one of my law professors! Also, having seen the movie, it’s a little weird to drive by the Glaxo building in RTP. It’s funny, it was obviously used because it looked “futuristic,” but now it looks like “what they thought of as futuristic in the 70s.”
The Lair of the White Worm
AMEN!
As a matter of fact, we also watch *Die Hard * every Christmas. Lethal Weapon, *Die Hard * (always #1, but sometimes #2, also) and It’s a Wonderful Life always get a viewing each December in our home.
Lethal Weapon was a big hit in the guesthouse circuit in Bangkok back then. Played forever.
:dubious: Not Roadhouse. Fuckin’ Hee-Haw with guns, or Dukes of Hazzard with sex. Too lame, too mainstream, too much like something you might have caught in the Cineplex in the last 10 years. Coulda been made in the '90s, coulda been made in the '70s (remember Walking Tall?), and Bruce Willis or Govnah Ahnold would have served in the starring role just as well as Patrick Swayze. [sniff]
But They Live, definitely! 
The pluperfect ultimate classic '80s updating of Invasion of the Body Snatchers! Not Commies from Mars, but Capitalists from Mars! They’re not trying to take over our beautiful idyllic Way of Life! They’re already owning and running our Way of Life! Nothing else can explain how fucked up it is!
Highlander
Conan
The Last Starfighter
All those Sho Kusugi Ninja flicks…
Cool World (early brad pitt flick)
The Thing
I thought of another one, an understated classic.
“Creator” staring Peter O’Toole, Vincent Spano, Mariel Hemingway, Virginia Madsen and David Ogden Stiers in a great supporting role.
Let’s not forget The Terminator!
Cult movies, please! Not blockbusters!
I just remembered one, Over the Edge, but I’m not sure whether I’d place it in the 70s or 80s as it was made in 79.
Oooh, young hot Matt Dillon! 
The Terminator is not a cult movie? 
I guess I’ll have to dismantle my Arnold Schwarzenegger shrine. 
Strange Brew
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
The whole of Chuck Norris oeuvre.