# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/101 "2019-12-06T10:33:49Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > Interesting. Michelle’s name has been removed from the IMDB page for this film. I see her name there just fine: right after Ali Madani, just before Michael Zand. ---
**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 6, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/102 "2019-12-06T12:43:43Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > 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 - Mark F. Berry - Google Books](https://books.google.com/books?id=NouACgAAQBAJ&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=Wah+Chang+Dinosaurus!&source=bl&ots=drUJKmfXg6&sig=ACfU3U0009FJ08LVhZrVA1gosTG5au3l-w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjf1Ljvp5_mAhWFsZ4KHRWwA0YQ6AEwE3oECAkQAg#v=onepage&q=Wah%20Chang%20Dinosaurus!&f=false) Very cool. I haven’t read that book, but now I’m going to have to. I had no idea that King Kong veterans O’Brien and Delgado were involved in making the film. Animation is both costly and expensive (Ishiro Honda reportedly wanted to animate Godzilla for the original movie, but had neither the time nor the money). so animation gets re-used. I recall seeing animation footage from Dinosaurus years later on TV shows like _It’s About Time_. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/103 "2019-12-06T21:00:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Hmm – we share a wavelength. > > **Wizards** BIG SNIP > > **Calltiki – The Immortal Monster** BIG SNIP > > I’d love to own a copy, but the DVDs of it sell for a premium price, and I’m not willing to pay that. > **Dinosaurus!** – BIG SNIP > > I had the comic book adaptation. I’m convinced that the climactic showdown between the hero, using a steamshovel to fight the T. Rex, inspired James Cameron’s _Aliens_, with Sigourney Weaver fighting the Alien Queen with her exoskeleton loader suit. I have thinned things down somewhat but at one point I had aver 1500 movies along this line on DVD; I probably have about 300 currently. All three of these are among my “must keep” along with others from this thread. Someone mentioned “Manos” above and its reputation for being terrible? They never managed to last all the way through “Idaho Transfer” or “King Kong Fu”. Your appraisals are good but I would add Wizards – in the end magic falls back on to technology in the form of a well placed Luger. Caltiki – another Luger in a supporting role (I actually did a theme month at a local Bad Movie Mondays where schlock horror with Lugers was the theme) Dinosaurus – I think memories we had as kids of this one influenced a lot of future efforts from the various greats; and bads as well. In the one horror contest I keep trying to get it named as the one most needing full restoration (along with Witchfinder General which has good sound but heavily edited or full scenes with crappy sound). I have seen full-screen print survivors and ------ the usual version released for TV and DVD must have been made from a poor copy. ---
**Author:** ![ruh-roh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ruh-roh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruh-roh)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/104 "2019-12-06T22:04:52Z")
The Hot Rock. 1972 light hearted flick with Robert Redford as an ex-con and his buddies trying to retrieve a valuable gem for an African nation. The origin of the phrase “Afghanistan banana stand”. ( not to be confused with the unrelated “There is always money in the banana stand” ). And what can I say, I liked - Howard The Duck. Also if you want a bit of time travel (but may be in your to deep category) try Slaughterhouse Five. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/105 "2019-12-06T22:22:00Z")
Somewhere In Time with Christopher Reeve and Time After Time with Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen are fun pseudo time-travel films. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/106 "2019-12-06T23:02:51Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **Calltiki – The Immortal Monster** was an Italian monster movie…I’d love to own a copy, but the DVDs of it sell for a premium price, and I’m not willing to pay that. **Caltiki** freaked this 50’s kid out like no other movie. Always remembered it fondly, eventually coughed up the biggish bucks for a DVD. Video quality 2 out of 10. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/107 "2019-12-07T05:36:17Z")
They Call Me Trinity One the Bud Spencer/Terence Hill series of Italian movies. A western, it opens up with Hill riding a litter being dragged by his horse. Dragging him through the dust, through streams, etc. Guy’s wearing filthy rags. Looks like he’s been through hell. Finally, he reaches a small town. “Great,” you think. “Now he can get food and water, get a bath and clothes, get his shit together and we can find out what hell he’s just been through.” No, it doesn’t work like that. He goes to eat, but he doesn’t clean up or change his clothes. He hasn’t been through hell, that’s just how he always looks. Our hero, ladies and gentlemen. He doesn’t clean up or change until halfway through the movie, and by that time, he’s been deputized, and wears the star on his rags. [It’s a spaghetti-western comedy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbBQ1mPCG7Q) ---
**Author:** ![bionic\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/49beb7/32.png) [@bionic\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bionic_man)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/108 "2019-12-07T05:59:10Z")
Cool ones Roddy mcdowall The shooting Jack nicolson ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/109 "2019-12-07T18:01:23Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Soldiers of Fortune vs Third World Dictators: > _The Wild Geese_ > _The Dogs of War_ I think I love you. And where is _ **Miracle Mile** _? ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/110 "2019-12-08T00:34:32Z")
[Brightburn](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightburn) only came out earlier this year, so it’s not a cult classic yet, but I think it will be. Basically it asks the question of what if Superman was sent to Earth to conquer it. I don’t think the movie fully lives up to it’s premise, but the premise is so good that it’s still enjoyable viewing. ---
**Author:** ![wahsahzii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@wahsahzii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wahsahzii)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/111 "2019-12-08T15:13:49Z")
Lots of great choices here; may I add Hammersmith is Out? Stars Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Beau Bridges with several character actors you will recognize but not know the names of with some well known ones in cameos. Written and directed by Peter Ustinov; and he’s in it too. Best line for me, Liz to Beau as he sits in the wheelchair he is now confined in, “Monkey dick!” ---
**Author:** ![Brayne\_Ded](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Brayne\_Ded](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brayne_Ded)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/112 "2019-12-08T20:15:00Z")
_Waking Ned Devine_ Set in Ireland, filmed in the Isle of Man. Ireland did not look Irish enough. Yes, really. ---
**Author:** ![2Bits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e95f7d/32.png) [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/113 "2019-12-08T20:37:49Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Anything by Christopher Guest. Not so much after “A Mighty Wind.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/114 "2019-12-08T21:55:33Z")
> [@Brayne\_Ded](#): > > _Waking Ned Devine_ > > Set in Ireland, filmed in the Isle of Man. Ireland did not look Irish enough. Yes, really. _The Snapper_. Irish TV movie, released to art-house theaters in the US. Colm Meaney plays a father trying to cope with his daughter’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy. _Cold Comfort Farm_. English TV movie, released to art-house theaters in the US. Kate Beckinsale plays an urbane young woman who finds herself lodging with eccentric rural relatives. ---
**Author:** ![tuesdayweld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@tuesdayweld](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tuesdayweld)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/115 "2019-12-08T22:32:07Z")
Great thread - I’m taking my own notes! I’ve got three titles to add: 1)\*\* Four Friends\*\* (1981, a sweet drama that never got the recognition I believed it deserved), 2) **Rubin and Ed** (1991, your sense of humor should be naturally warped to enjoy this comedy featuring Crispin Glover and Howard Hesseman), and 3) **Great World of Sound** (2007, ethical and moral subject matter delivered in a light package. I love love love this movie & Ebert gave it 3 stars). ---
**Author:** ![cieskokid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cieskokid/32/5374_2.png) [@cieskokid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cieskokid)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/116 "2019-12-09T03:52:26Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _“Daddy would have gotten us Uzis.”_ > > [Tapeheads](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096223/) > > [Eating Raoul](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083869/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) A total “I 2nd that!” for "Tapeheads’'…John Cusack & Tim Robbins, a wickedly adventurous & FUNNY as hell film produced by Mike Nesmith of The Monkees. Kind of overshadowed b/c it’s the film Cusack did b4 “Say Anything” & the one Robbins did by “Bull Durham”. And yet the full movie is on YouTube [see 2nd link below!] > **[Tapeheads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapeheads)** > > Tapeheads is a 1988 comedy film directed by Bill Fishman and starring John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Sam Moore and Junior Walker. The film was produced by Michael Nesmith, who briefly appears as a bottled water delivery man. > After losing their jobs as security guards, best friends Ivan (John Cusack) and Josh (Tim Robbins) start a music video production company called "Video Aces". When they meet their childhood heroes, 1970s soul duo Swanky Modes (Sam Moore and Junior Walker), Ivan and Josh concoct a... [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4kdKdibTMQ) ---
**Author:** ![Jeffm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@Jeffm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffm)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/117 "2019-12-09T04:28:49Z")
Check out Freeway with Reese Witherspoon and Keifer Sutherland. It has incest, serial Murder, pornography, prostitution, drug abuse, lesbian prison sex and much more. Reese Witherspoon’s best performance. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/118 "2019-12-09T04:44:46Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > _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_. Worth seeing just because of a decent turn by knuckleballer turned tell-all-writer Jim Bouton, playing a major character. ---
**Author:** ![dbtoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@dbtoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbtoo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/119 "2019-12-09T08:21:07Z")
I read the board constantly and post very seldom but I had to reply to this thread to recommend **Kiss Kiss Bang Bang** with Robert Downey, Jr. and Val Kilmer. Its a very witty neo-noire detective story with great performances by all the leads. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324/120 "2019-12-09T19:28:00Z")
[quote=“cieskokid, post:116, topic:844324”] A total “I 2nd that!” for "Tapeheads’'…John Cusack & Tim Robbins, a wickedly adventurous & FUNNY as hell film produced by Mike Nesmith of The Monkees. Kind of overshadowed b/c it’s the film Cusack did b4 “Say Anything” & the one Robbins did by “Bull Durham”. And yet the full movie is on YouTube [see 2nd link below!] > **[Tapeheads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapeheads)** > > Tapeheads is a 1988 comedy film directed by Bill Fishman and starring John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Sam Moore and Junior Walker. The film was produced by Michael Nesmith, who briefly appears as a bottled water delivery man. > After losing their jobs as security guards, best friends Ivan (John Cusack) and Josh (Tim Robbins) start a music video production company called "Video Aces". When they meet their childhood heroes, 1970s soul duo Swanky Modes (Sam Moore and Junior Walker), Ivan and Josh concoct a... [/QUOTE] “We love the Swanky Modes” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthy-cult-classics/844324.md?page=7)