# Horrible, Horrible movies with cult followings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306 "2001-09-18T01:48:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BingoBurringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@BingoBurringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BingoBurringo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/1 "2001-09-18T01:48:55Z")
Highlander Blade Runner Name of the Rose Legend Straight to Hell Sonny Boy Am I missing any? ---
**Author:** ![TexasSpur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@TexasSpur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexasSpur)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/2 "2001-09-18T02:14:04Z")
Rocky Horror Picture Show ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/3 "2001-09-18T02:14:40Z")
Plan 9 from Outer Space ---
**Author:** ![DPWhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/4 "2001-09-18T02:19:43Z")
Bladerunner is a great movie. It may not be to your taste, but it is a brilliant adaptation of a brilliant novella. Name of the Rose is hardly a cult movie, and while not “great” it is kinda fun if you don’t take it too seriously. My nomination: Blues Brothers. What an awful movie. But than again, it can be fun if you are in the mood. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/5 "2001-09-18T02:19:47Z")
Titanic? ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/6 "2001-09-18T02:47:14Z")
I like Blade Runner, but I understand why a lot of folks don’t. I have to say I liked it less after Ridley Scott opened his idiotic mouth and “proved” that Deckard is a replicant. What a stupid move. I’ll second Highlander. I never understood the appeal there. Event Horizon, one of the most awful movies I’ve ever seen, seems to have a cult following. I’ll catch flak for this, but I don’t think Fight Club is the brilliant piece of modern satire it gets credit for being. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/7 "2001-09-18T03:04:59Z")
Any of the early John Waters stuff: _Pink Flamingos_, _Female Trouble_, _Desperate Living_. I mean, it’s funny, funny stuff, but those movies really are terrible! The acting is atrocious, the locations are gross and depressing, and the stories are, uh… well, actually, they’re very, very Baltimore. Horrible indeed, but John Waters rules! ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/8 "2001-09-18T03:05:20Z")
The only one I can think of off the top of my head is _Earth Girls Are Easy_. I just did not like that movie, but I know plenty of people who think it’s hilarious campy fun. ---
**Author:** ![xanadu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c4cdca/32.png) [@xanadu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanadu)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/9 "2001-09-18T03:07:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TexasSpur \* > \*\*Rocky Horror Picture Show \*\* NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I LOVE that movie!!! And as for John Waters, I’d have to agree that some of his earlier stuff was pretty bad, but “Serial Mom” was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/10 "2001-09-18T03:09:05Z")
Let me also add “Batman”. I’m forever being told how much I simply have to agree that the first Batman movie was good. I don’t. It wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/11 "2001-09-18T03:11:05Z")
I’m probably going to get flack for this from the Lynch-o-philes, but I thought “Blue Velvet” was a mess. It used to have a rabid cult following, and might still, for all I know. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/12 "2001-09-18T03:13:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xanadu \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by TexasSpur \* > > \*\*Rocky Horror Picture Show \*\* > > NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I LOVE that movie!!! \*\* Do you love the movie or do you love yelling lines at the screen and throwing toast, etc? I love going to see Rocky Horror Picture Show myself, but on its own with no audience partici… pation 😉 I have to agree that it isn’t a good film. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/13 "2001-09-18T03:40:23Z")
I got into Highlander purely beacuse of the series, which I think was better than any of the movies. **ducking showers of rotten tomatoes** I mean, what other show out there guaranteed a good sword fight every episode? ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/14 "2001-09-18T06:00:06Z")
Eraserhead. Man, I **hated** that movie… Eric ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/15 "2001-09-18T07:00:16Z")
What about Superman? Believe me, there are a LOT of fruitcakes out there that dig that one, and they’re out there clamoring for a new one! \ Does Pulp Fiction count as a horrible movie with a cult following? In my book it does. I hated it. Apparently I am going to hell for that one, according to my husband, who thinks it was the work of a genius. Bleh and Patooey! And I don’t know about Earth Girls are Easy having a cult following, but I sure liked it. I watch it whenever it’s on. It’s just a darn funny flick. And Jeff Goldblum was hot in that movie. Lorie ---
**Author:** ![BingoBurringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@BingoBurringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BingoBurringo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/16 "2001-09-18T07:19:59Z")
LIQUID SKY and BRAZIL suddenly popped into my head. I swear to God, BRAZIL seems to last longer than BERLIN ALEXANDERPLITZ. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/17 "2001-09-18T07:34:30Z")
Six String Samurai ---
**Author:** ![woolly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ebca7d/32.png) [@woolly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woolly)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/18 "2001-09-18T12:52:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Santos L Halper \* > \*\*Eraserhead. \*\* and I’ll second that ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/19 "2001-09-18T13:04:58Z")
_Eraserhead_ is one of a very few movies I’ve walked out on. _Rocky Horror_, whatever its other merits or lack of same, has terrific musical numbers. I don’t see how anyone can deny that. I know many people who think _Joe Vs. the Volcano_ is the bee’s knees. I don’t understand this at all: not only is it bad, but unlike other bad movies with cult followings, there’s not even anything interesting about the story, acting, production design or luggage. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306/20 "2001-09-18T13:51:15Z")
Another vote for _EraserHead_ I watche the whole thing on video and that thing just stank. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-horrible-movies-with-cult-followings/82306.md?page=2)