What Is The Best Cult Movie?

[tskisser]

I'm gonna go with Hegwig and The Angry Inch

[robertlouis]

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

And of course, Ms Welch does play a transsexual in the film as well.

Cult double whammy!

[twowaybro]

Five Deadly Venoms

[theone1982]

I have never understood what it is that makes people enjoy being nauseated or terrified when they go the cinema. What is the appeal of splatter films? What IS the reason for the popularity of things like the Saw movies. is it the same thing that made the romans enjoy seeing christians thrown to the lions or people kill each other?

C'mon TheOne1982 - you enjoy this stuff. Please explain to a naive Englishman.

I compare it to post-modern art, which, to really simplify it, is weird for the sake of weird. Well, splatter films are violent for the sake of violence. Though, as I pointed out in an earlier post, I think the best cult horror films are the ones that rely on subtly making you think that you have seen a lot of gore, when, in reality, you really haven't. However, I also think there are a lot of really good horror films that have a lot of over the top gore, like the films mentioned by Miike. I wouldn't really compare it to the Romans, after all, people were really dying in the Colosseum. But, as an interesting aside, much like I mentioned about the subtle convincing of the audience that they had seen gore when they really hadn't, a lot of the Christians being thrown to lions events was overly hyped throughout the centuries to the point where, today, many people think that that sort of thing happened all the time on a massive scale, when, in reality, it was a relatively rare event.

[Stavros]

Myra Breckinridge was cited I think 10 days or so ago; the film is rubbish, there is nothing else one can say about it.

The question on slasher movies would be -are they satirical? Defenders of Tarantino -Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction in particular,- use the Satire argument.

[tvkim]

bladerunner!