# Cult Movies You Love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378 "2010-03-30T20:00:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/61 "2010-04-01T13:32:12Z")
**salinqmind** , have you seen _Picnic at Hanging Rock_? I have an old book of Roger Ebert’s and he gives it five stars, I believe. It always sounded very intriguing. How about Ed Wood films? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/62 "2010-04-01T13:35:35Z")
_ **Basket Case** _ ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/63 "2010-04-01T14:33:25Z")
[Deathlin](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068458/)e (1972). Fantastic little movie starring Donald Pleasence, giving one of the best performances of his career as a police inspector investigating mysterious disappearances of people near Russell Square tube station. The audience knows this is because cannibals who live in the tunnels near an abandoned station are eating them.:eek: Said to be the movie that inspired Guillermo Del Toro to take up directing. I can sort of see why. If nothing else, there’s an amazing eerie yet strangely beautiful tracking shot of the cannibal’s grisly lair, scored only by heartbeats and the drip, drip of a leaking pipe that seems kind of reminiscent of his style. The film was heavily edited down and retitled Raw Meat for the US release. Best watched in the uncut version. If nothing else, the aforementioned shot is apparently not there, having been deemed ‘boring’. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/64 "2010-04-01T14:42:45Z")
The Prophecy The Seventh Sign Don’t know if they qualify as cult - don’t they have to have an actual following other than me? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/65 "2010-04-01T14:45:41Z")
A lot of great suggestions so far. _Eraserhead_ _Pootie Tang_ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/66 "2010-04-01T15:13:19Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#): > > The Prophecy The 1979 eco-horror _Prophecy_ with the stupid mutant bear; or _The Prophecy_ (1995) with Chrisopher Walken? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/67 "2010-04-01T16:12:18Z")
Big Trouble in Little China ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/68 "2010-04-01T16:23:29Z")
Most of the ones I’d pick are already mentioned; here’s a few I didn’t see. Death To Smoochy The Ninth Configuration Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/69 "2010-04-01T16:32:38Z")
Huh. I don’t consider about half of these to be cult movies. :shrug: Anyway, I’m amazed that Rocky Horror Picture Show has not been mentioned yet. THAT is a cult movie. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/70 "2010-04-01T16:37:45Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Anyway, I’m amazed that Rocky Horror Picture Show has not been mentioned yet. APRIL FOOLS! 😛 Posts 1, 12, 24, and 42. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/71 "2010-04-01T16:47:06Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > APRIL FOOLS! 😛 > > Posts 1, 12, 24, and 42. Damn. I was just reading the lists people made. And not very well it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/72 "2010-04-01T17:18:01Z")
Not sure if all these count, but: **The Phantom of the Paradise** **Knightriders** (not _that_ one, the ‘King Arthur on motorbikes’ one) **The Wicker Man** **Restless Natives** **Peeping Tom** **Ned Kelly** (the one with Mick Jagger) **Night of the Demon** ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/73 "2010-04-01T17:20:50Z")
It has become apparent that I have a lot to watch! ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/74 "2010-04-01T17:28:03Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > A lot of great suggestions so far. > > _Eraserhead_ > > _Pootie Tang_ I love POOTIE! and E-head! Of course, A Clockword Orange, most David Lynch stuff, both versions of Nosferatu. Also, Nothing But Trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/75 "2010-04-01T17:30:25Z")
Limitinng my answer to the ones I own that I think qualify as cult films: The Wicker Man (original) Six-String Samurai (if it does not have cult status, it ought to) Conan the Barbarian (did not do so well in original release but seems to have a loyal ongoing following) The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Strictly Ballroom Time Bandits Monty Python & the Holy Grail ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/76 "2010-04-01T18:10:39Z")
> [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](#): > > **Knightriders** (not _that_ one, the ‘King Arthur on motorbikes’ one) I’ve got that one, too. Love it. Sometimes the theme music pops into my head when I’m riding my motorcycle. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/77 "2010-04-01T18:31:39Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Damn. I was just reading the lists people made. And not very well it seems. It’s the lighting. ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/78 "2010-04-01T18:37:41Z")
I forgot one… Don’t Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/79 "2010-04-01T18:53:12Z")
How about “Night of the Living Dead?” ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/80 "2010-04-01T19:45:57Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The 1979 eco-horror _Prophecy_ with the stupid mutant bear; or _The Prophecy_ (1995) with Chrisopher Walken? > > 😃 _The_ Prophecy. Although I’m all about anything with stupid mutant bears in it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378.md?page=5)