What Is The Best Cult Movie?

[Stavros]

Does anyone here rate Heaven's Gate? I used to work with someone who was in the opening scene which was filmed in Mansfield College, Oxford where he was a student at the time...I thought it over-ambitious but some of the scenes were brilliantly choreographed, mostly the crowd scenes. I just dont like David Lynch and use the opportunity to knock his work whenever it arises, same with Peter Greenaway and a few others I can't resist -which doesn't mean I am right. Although I also don't like slasher movies, there is a fair bit of slashing in Miike's Ichi the Killer, but it makes sense there, and that's the point.

Irreversible could be a cult film -I was challenged by it the first time I saw it, on second viewing I was offended at the way my emotions/moral were being manipulated and instead of being a brave and challenging film, I now think of it as a mistake. Or at least, it suggests that explicit violence has to be treated with care, it seems to work in some films, and not in others.

[Prospero]

I do rate Heavens gate actually. i saw the full length (six hour? ) version on its brief release and thought it a very fine piece of Marxist film making. After that it got truncated and doesn't make sense in the shorter cut.

Yep - well i have a visceral dislike of Greenaway too - his films that is. i saw an art installation he did in a Venetian palace once and it was a very atmospheric piece.

[Stavros]

Six hours?? Now that's a film I would like to see; I do recall thinking that the version I saw was incoherent. I went to Paris to see it in the days when nobody in the UK would screen it, I think it was about 3 hours when I saw it. I recall the wonderful opening sequence in particular, but I definitely think it needs further viewing. Thats also because I loathed The Deer Hunter when it was released, but have seen it a couple of times since and think its much better than I thought at the time. Cimino hasnt made that many films, I don't know how his film about Salvatore Giuliano [The Sicilian] compares to Rosi, I think Cimino might be an underated auteur..

Last Year in Marienbad is a classic film about memory and loss, I probably watch it these days once a year, but I also note the nouveau roman of Robbe-Grillet has gone out of fashion.

[Yvonne183]

How bout any Russ Meyer film, like Super Vixens or Up.

Is,, "I spit on your grave" a cult movie?

Killer Clowns or Killer Tomatoes????

[needsum]

Cult movie can't be a blockbuster or have a huge production budget.

Cult movie = loyal, devoted cult like following among a small(ish) group of movie fans.

Too bad the era of hole-in-the-wall VHS rental stores are extinct, they were the petri dish for cult film classics.

Netflix etc. are going to promote their top rentals, not the movies most people don't know exist therefore hardly ever watch.

bingo.

[Deimos]

"Sometimes the cult is drawn to the film because it is obscure - a sort of hipper than thou position - sometimes because they feel it should be given acclaim but isn't and sometimes because they just love it - warts and all. "

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[Jericho]

Damn, but some of you people over-think things!

[eaglesrule36]

Maybe I missed something, but I'm surprised there hasn't been any love for "Myra Breckinridge"

[Prospero]

Do YOU love that film then eaglesrule36?

[eaglesrule36]

You have to love a movie with Raquel Welch and an over sexed, geriatric Mae West!