# Worthy cult classics. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324 "2019-12-03T20:11:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake_Plissken_1)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/81 "2019-12-05T20:02:26Z")
John Waters’ “Pink Flamingos” and “Female Trouble”. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/82 "2019-12-05T20:17:03Z")
> [@AllShookDown](#): > > [Into the Night (1985)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089346/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) Starring everybody in Hollywood who wasn’t busy that weekend and your only chance to see Michelle Pfeiffer stuff emeralds up her rabbit hole. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/83 "2019-12-05T20:20:29Z")
> [@Limmin](#): > > I loved Flash Gordon as a kid for the fun action. Nobody took this movie seriously, except maybe Queen, who wrote some awesome music just for the movie. . . . . Flash Gordon is a romp! I think even Queen got into the camp. The camp was embraced. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/84 "2019-12-05T20:40:29Z")
**Amazon Women on the Moon** – send-up of movies, especially 1940s-1950s films. It’s a hit-or-miss film that looked as if it wanted to be a new **Kentucky Fried Movie** , but didn’t quite make it. The funniest bit, by far, is _The Son of the Invisible Man_ starring Ed Begley Jr. Speaking of which … **Kentucky Fried Movie** – the first film by the team of Zucker, Zucker, and Abrahams, _before_ they made **Airplane!** , and apparently based on their stage show. If you don’t like one skit, you’ll probably like the next. The best is the sendup of Bruce Lee, _A Fistful of Yen_. **It Came from Hollywood** – a collection of clips from LOTS of bad movies, with forgettable “bumper” segment starring John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and Cheech and Chong. **Zacherley’s Horrible Horror** – direct-to-video collection of Bad Film Clips hosted by 1950s and 1960s horror film host Zacherly, whose segments are worth catching. Watching these two films is as good as watching a good episode of MST3K. **Atomic Café** – legendary documentary about the politics and response to the atomic bomb and the H bomb. It consists entirely of clips from TV, US government films, news shows, and the like, with no narration. The film makes its points with its editing and juxtaposition of images. well worth watching – funny and scary at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/85 "2019-12-05T20:46:20Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Flash Gordon is a romp! I think even Queen got into the camp. The camp was embraced. Flesh Gordon is even funnier. Its basically a soft porn comedy and very funny. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/86 "2019-12-05T20:56:33Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Big Trouble in Little China > The Thing (1982) Let me add the following cult classics to your John Carpenter film festival: They Live Assault on Precinct 13 (the original, not the remake) Escape from New York > [@Personal](#): > > Maximum Overdrive Worthy for the AC/DC soundtrack, if nothing else. Some older films: Logan’s Run A Boy and His Dog Miracle Mile Willow ---
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/87 "2019-12-05T21:18:29Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > So as the winter has ended all enjoyment from doing my walking outside, and I prepare for the dreadmill for the next few months, I was trying to think of movies worth getting a hold of to make the time pass. The big name movies I have generallly either seen, or chosen never to see. But I was wanting suggestions of smaller movies worth finding, Ones that I haven’t seen, or haven’t seen in a while,not that anyone would know those details. > > For example I finally saw Repo Man all the way through in a couple sessions. I saw it was on a couple weeks ago, and DVRed it, but if I hadn’t noticed it, I never would have thought of it to look for it. > > Nothing too deep, please, it’s hard enough to get the exercise done without an existential crisis. 😉 Death Race 2000 (the original) Napoleon Dynamite The Station Agent Rock & Roll High School The Dark Backward Spirit of '76 ---
**Author:** ![DannyBeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dannybeans/32/38_2.png) [@DannyBeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DannyBeans)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/88 "2019-12-05T21:19:54Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > “5 o’clock Christmas morning, I run downstairs and look under the tree and what do I find? Uncle Alfresco, dead on the floor, shot through the back of the head. Plus no bicycle. It was a disappointing Christmas on many levels.” “I’m sorry, Mrs. Stubbs. I miss my dog.” “They wouldn’t let you take your dog?” “He only answered to his name.” “What was his name?” “_Fongool_.” Man, I haven’t thought about that one in _years_. I’ll have to dig it up and show it to my wife - she loves Joan Cusack. My recommendation . . . well, it might be a bit divisive, and is definitely not for the easily-offended. One of my all-time favorite movies is _Forbidden Zone_. It’s notable for being the first movie Danny Elfman worked on (his brother directed it), and for being a huge influence on Paul Reubens and Tim Burton. It’s _also_ notable for being _incredibly_ offensive and weird, but it deliberately takes to so far over the top that, at least for me, it loops back to being funny again (it also helps that _everything’s_ a target, including the filmmakers themselves). Think John Waters meets the Fleischer Brothers with a soundtrack by Cab Calloway and Oingo Boingo, and you won’t be too far off. Short version: if [the first minute](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB7B_yC21iI) turns you off, don’t keep watching, 'cause it’s all downhill from there. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/89 "2019-12-05T21:21:01Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **Dinosaurus!** --…I didn’t notice until I got a VHS tape of this movie that many of the scenes of the T. rex arren’t really animated – they used a puppet to save time and money. Animation was by Wah Cheng and a lot of the Projects Unloimited team that did work on _The Outer Limits_. Mr. Chang did not work as a stop-motion animator on this film. You don’t have to take my word for it, or even IMDB, which lists him as “special photographic effects” and four other dudes as “stop motion animator (uncredited).” We have Mr. Chang’s own words as to where the stop-motion credit belongs: > **[The Dinosaur Filmography](https://books.google.com/books?id=NouACgAAQBAJ&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=Wah%2BChang%2BDinosaurus%21&source=bl&ots=drUJKmfXg6&sig=ACfU3U0009FJ08LVhZrVA1gosTG5au3l-w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjf1Ljvp5_mAhWFsZ4KHRWwA0YQ6AEwE3oECAkQAg#v=onepage&q=Wah%20Chang%20Dinosaurus!&f=false)** > > From classics like King Kong, to beloved B-movies like The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, to blockbusters like Jurassic Park, it's easy to see that filmmakers and audiences alike love to see dinosaurs on the screen. This comprehensive filmography,... ---
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/90 "2019-12-05T21:27:27Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > Can’t believe I’m the first to mention _Eraserhead_. I had to watch it three times before I understood what was happening. You understood what was happening?? I found it fascinating to watch, but I can’t pretend to understand it as anything other than peaking in on someone else’s nightmare. I can’t believe it wasn’t mentioned sooner myself. ---
**Author:** ![Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake_Plissken_1)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/91 "2019-12-05T22:01:08Z")
Prof. Konrad: “We don’t know how fast we were traveling. Nor, how long we were unconscious. But, of one thing I’m sure of. This is Venus!” “Queen of Outer Space”, 1958, starring Zsa Zsa Gabor ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/92 "2019-12-05T22:23:52Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > My last for this post isn’t a movie but it is worthy and should be considered a cult classic, IMO. This is a short video series (6 parts, 32:43 long) called [Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ux2ZxSXePs). Best short description I can give is that it’s a surreal comedy horror concept dressed up in children’s TV show trappings. Super bizarre. Totally unforgettable. Absolutely, unreservedly second this one. ---
**Author:** ![DannyBeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dannybeans/32/38_2.png) [@DannyBeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DannyBeans)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/93 "2019-12-05T22:27:20Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Going Postal (2010) The Discworld adaptation? 'Cause I have to admit I was a bit disappointed by it, especially after they got _Hogfather_ so gloriously right. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/94 "2019-12-05T22:53:36Z")
[Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094834/) Bill Maher pretends he can act! The only really redeeming value of the movie is that it was filmed in my back yard (almost.) The “jungle” is really the Botanical Garden at UC Riverside. In several scenes I’m in a classroom about 150 feet off camera. Was interesting to observe, and the TA of the discussion group just gave up and joined us at the window to watch. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/95 "2019-12-05T23:01:40Z")
If you’re willing to consider anime films: [Perfect Blue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Blue) [Paprika](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_(2006_film)) ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/96 "2019-12-05T23:08:03Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Starring everybody in Hollywood who wasn’t busy that weekend and your only chance to see Michelle Pfeiffer stuff emeralds up her rabbit hole. 😃 Interesting. Michelle’s name has been removed from the IMDB page for this film. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/97 "2019-12-05T23:09:50Z")
Only the “Primary Billing” page. You can still find her listed if you click “Complete Cast.” I can understand why she would like this film to be forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/98 "2019-12-05T23:46:22Z")
I love that movie; it’s great fun. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/99 "2019-12-06T03:55:05Z")
_Big Bad Mama_, a Roger Corman-produced, “Bonnie and Clyde”-influenced exploiter that features a jaw-droppingly explicit sex scene with William Shatner and Angie Dickinson _Sugarland Express_, Steven Spielberg’s theatrical debut, with a great performance by Goldie Hawn and inexplicably among the most obscure of his many films _The Long Goodbye_, with Elliot Gould as a modern-day Philip Marlowe; one could pretty much do an all-Robert Altman suite of cult films but this is one of my favorites, along with _California Split_. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/100 "2019-12-06T08:57:18Z")
I recommend watching Jim Jarmush movies in chronological order, starting with _Stranger than Paradise_ (_Permanent Vacation_ might be difficult to find) and up to at least _Dead Man_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324.md?page=6)