173 thoughts on “Announcing The Cult Movie Bracket”

1. I have seen an embarrassingly large number of these and (this is the really embarrassing part) really like most of them. I didn’t see Escape From New York, though, which is one of my favorites. I’m pretty sure it qualifies as a cult movie.

2. Okay, I’ll endorse Rock & Rule. I saw it at a Baycon once when I was 12 or 13, remembered some bits of it many years later, and had to go look it up a description of it online to see if I was imagining it or not. What a strange movie.

   Say, if “weirdass animated musical kept in circulation primarily at conventions for part of its life” is the definition of a cult movie, what about Yellow Submarine?

3. Hausu
   Akira
   Harold and Maude
   Troll 2
   Scott Pilgrim vs The World

4. “The Saragossa Manuscript”

5. My god, can’t believe I forgot about this one!

   Bugsy Malone (1976)

6. In no particular order.

   Life of Brian
   Brazil
   Donnie Darko
   Dark Star
   Brick
   Tremors
   Office Space
   Silent Running
   Escape from New York
   Cypher
   Dog Soldiers
   Forbidden Zone
   Pandorum
   Primer
   Big Trouble in Little China
   Cube
   The Warriors
   In Bruges
   Time Bandits

   ETA:
   Strange Days

7. A couple quick additions:

   Freebie and the Bean (1974)
   The In-Laws (1979)
   The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966)
   The Mouse That Roared (1959)
   Wing Chun (1994)

8. I don’t think anyone’s mentioned PASS THE AMMO. (1988. Tim Curry as a sleazy televangelist taken hostage on-air by a gang of rednecks — Bill Paxton and Linda Koslowski among them — trying to recover an inheritance Curry conned out of a relative.)

   Second the rec for Zardoz. (It is a proud and lonely thing to be a Zardoz fan….)

   Not a movie, but I just found out that the legendary tv series COP ROCK is finally available on DVD. (It’s even prouder and lonelier to be a Cop Rock fan….)

9. Seconding ‘Better off Dead’, and ‘Eating Raoul’ and adding..

   The Castle
   Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
   The Lathe of Heaven
   Allegro Non Troppo
   Lars and the Real Girl
   Pitch Black

10. A couple more that definitely should qualify as cult:

    Reefer Madness
    Incubus

    And a couple that may be more obscure than cult:

    Touch of Evil
    Circle of Iron

11. From this list, my vote would be La Grande Bouffe (saw it in a Boston theater, 1973-74, as a college freshman).

    I was expecting to see 7 Faces of Dr. Lao listed.

    Pulp Fiction is very quotable but was way too popular to be on this list.

12. What was the one with the evil piano teacher? The Thousand Fingers of… somebody? <googling) Ah. “The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T.”

13. Defining “Cult Movie” is one of those tasks so difficult that even TV Tropes gave up, and cut their Cult Movie page because they couldn’t come up with useful criteria for inclusion. I’m a little dubious about calling Dr. Strangelove or anything from Monty Python cult, because of their huge audiences, but I suppose I can see it. I’m going to use a broad definition for my suggestions below. (I can’t quite bring myself to call Thelma & Louise a cult film though…)

    I haven’t had time to look at other people’s suggestions yet, so I may post more once I have time for that. I promise not to post any duplicates.

    From the list:

    – The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
    – Evil Dead 2 (1987)
    – Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
    – Bad Taste (1987)
    – Barbarella (1968)
    – Being John Malkovich (1999)
    – Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
    – Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
    – The Blues Brothers (1980)
    – Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
    – Cannibal! The Musical (1993)
    – Death Race 2000 (1975)
    – Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
    – Drunken Master (1978)
    – The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
    – Flesh Gordon (1974)
    – Fritz The Cat (1972)
    – The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
    – Heathers (1988)
    – Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
    – Highway to Hell (1992)
    – Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) (special side nom. for best music)
    – The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) (the good one, not the remake!) 🙂
    – Meet the Feebles (1989)
    – Memento (2000)
    – Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
    – The Princess Bride (1987)
    – Pulp Fiction (1994)
    – Re-Animator (1985)
    – Repo Man (1984)
    – Shaun of the Dead (2004)
    – They Live (1998)
    – This is Spinal Tap (1984)
    – Withnail and I (1987)

    Not on the list:

    – Akira (1988)
    – Bedazzled (1967)
    – Cherry 2000 (1987)
    – Dark Star (1974)
    – Donnie Darko (2001)
    – Drop Dead Fred (1991)
    – Earth Girls are Easy (1988)
    – Eating Raoul (1982)
    – Five Million Years to Earth (aka Quatermass & the Pit) (1967)
    – Girlfriend from Hell (1989)
    – Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
    – Groundhog Day (1993)
    – Hard Candy (2005)
    – Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
    – The Host (2006) (The Korean one, not the Meyer one!)
    – Let the Right One In (2008)
    – Night of the Comet (1984)
    – Project A (1983)
    – Project A-ko (1986)
    – A Scanner Darkly (2006)
    – The Toxic Avenger (1984)
    – Twelve Monkeys (1995)
    – Valley Girl (1983)
    – Zombieland (2009)

    (eta: wow, I was sure I’d be the first to mention Eating Raoul, but I see I was beaten to the punch! Goodonya!) 🙂

14. Withnail & I
    Withnail & I
    Withnail & I

15. Oh, definitely
    Escape from New York
    Ladyhawke

16. If the criteria is quotability:

    Conan the Barbarian
    Conan the Destroyer
    Terminator and Terminator 2
    Predator
    Aliens
    Superman 2

    And I’ll second

    Army of Darkness
    Fifth Element
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    Labyrinth
    Big Trouble in Little China

17. “It is hard to kill a horse with a flute.”

    I’m not remotely sure where to start, but Hausu definitely belongs. I ran across my first review of that movie courtesy of the musician Momus. I will have to think about this, get vapor lock, and come up with a dozen great ideas after the Brackets are Finalized.

18. Harold and Maude
    Buckaroo Banzai
    Ladyhawke
    Monty Python’s Life of Brian
    The Wizard of Speed and Time (1979)
    The Princess Bride
    Wizards (1977)
    Amélie
    The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T.

19. Reefer Madness
    Flash Gordon
    Princess Bride
    5000 Fingers of Dr T
    The Princess Bride
    Phantom of the Paradise
    Godzilla
    Destroy All Monsters
    Death Race 2000
    The Lost Boys
    Them
    This is Spinal Tap
    Some Like it Hot
    Shaun of the Dead
    The Wicker Man (bee free version)
    Shaolin Soccer
    In Bruges
    Withnail and I

    AAAH SO MANY FILMS TO NOMINATE, ONLY TEN FINGERS!

    The Return of Captain Invincible
    Ator the Invincible
    Mazes and Monsters
    Hawk the Slayer
    Battle Beyond the Stars
    The Room
    Rocky Horror Picture Show
    Doc Savage: the Man of Bronze
    Girlstown
    The Usual Suspects

20. THE SECOND FIFTH ELEMENT

    (Hey, it worked once.)

21. Brother from another Planet

22. Repo Man titles

    The more you Hive, the less pixelated you are

    Only an asshole dies for a scroll.

    F*cking pixels, never pay their scrolls

    They’re Hivers, just like us.

23. Stuff no one seems to have mentioned yet:

    Speed Racer (2008) – Criminally underrated at it’s release, has aged *really* well
    Equilibrium (2002) – Fahrenheit 451 with insane choreography
    Patlabor II (1993) – Possibly one of the best mecha anime movies I’ve had the pleasure to watch
    Kung Fu Hustle (2004)- Shaolin Soccer was great, but this is still the best of Chow Sing Chi’s movies
    Hard Boiled (1992) – John Woo. Chow Yuen Fat. Doves. Dual wielding guns. ‘Nuff said.

    +1 for

    Shaolin Soccer (2001)
    Buckaroo Banzai
    Blazing Saddles (1974)
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    Life of Brian
    Legend
    The Fifth Element
    Dog Soldiers
    Pitch Black
    Groundhog Day (1993)
    Ladyhawke
    Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
    Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
    The Killer Condom (1996)
    The Princess Bride (1987)

24. Prince of Space (1959)

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25. My SO, reading over my shoulder, suggests Megaforce: “The guy who made Smokey and the Bandit makes a war movie. How hard can it be?”

    I wasn’t going to mention Allegro Non Troppo because I figured no one else here would have seen it, but since someone has, +1!

26. Doc Savage! Double extra endorsement!

27. Hey, someone beat me to Allegro Non Troppo. Two someones, even!

    Avalon (2001, Mamoru Oshii) – the best computer gaming movie ever, with a wonderfully portrayed cyberpunk-ish city and a complex multi-player game, with a director who actually knows the field.

    Restless Natives – screwball comedy about two down-and-out Scottish guys who try robbing tourist buses and become a tourist attraction themselves. Ned Beatty is completely hilarious as a CIA agent on vacation, and the music is by Big Country; the odds are really good that anyone enthusing about it now is a Big Country.

    The Stunt Man – a really lumpy movie with moments of genius as a director struggling to make an anti-war movie that won’t end up making war looks cool takes in a Vietnam vet on the run from the cops. Peter O’Toole plays the director and has some of his most O’Toole moments in it.

    Tampopo – the struggles of a single mother trying to run a noodle shop, rendered as a Western. A spaghetti Western, so to speak. That story intercuts with the story of some very, very rich jaded dilettantes, and includes absolutely the funniest sex-with-food-props scene ever.

    Trouble in Mind – sf film noir set in a nameless near-future city (filmed in Seattle) with background politics that seem really, really uncomfortably prescient. A bunch of film noir cliches go through the blender; Divine plays the crime boss in a rare non-drag role, and is awesomely intense. The soundtrack is a glorious blending of torch song and synth, done by Mark Isham with Marianne Faithfull providing the vocals. In a just world, many more sf fans would know this movie.

    Wavelength (1983, Mike Gray) – a thoroughly decent riff on “the government has aliens in secret bases”, with one of Tangerine Dream’s very best soundtracks.

    I’m debating about whether I want to nominate, on the one hand, some Tarkovsky films, and, on the other, some Uwe Boll films. The Nostalgia Critic’s review of Bloodrayne says all I’d want to say about it, only much better.

28. +1 Brother from another Planet

    Oh and a shout out for

    Dougal And The Blue Cat

29. Here to second Restless Natives. Pleased it’s not just a private family cult, as that would be disturbing.

    Also, Forbidden Planet; a discussion on James Nicoll’s LJ a while back would suggest it’s fallen far enough into obscurity to qualify by now, even if it felt more mainstream when I was younger.

30. Bruce Baugh: Wavelength (1983, Mike Gray) – a thoroughly decent riff on “the government has aliens in secret bases”, with one of Tangerine Dream’s very best soundtracks.

    Well, thank you for making me one of Today’s Lucky 10,000.

    I just got done listening to that soundtrack — followed by a chaser of a live version of John Carpenter’s theme from Escape From New York, to which it bears a striking resemblance.

    Damn, now I’m going to have to watch that kickass, campy, so-bad-it’s-good film again. It’s been at least a couple of decades.

31. Dark City (1998)

    Which I’d add to a personal list of:

    Time Bandits (1981)
    The Dark Crystal (1982)
    Rock & Rule (1983)
    Dune (1984)
    Ladyhawke (1985)
    Labyrinth (1986)
    The Fifth Element (1997)
    Six-String Samurai (1998)
    They Live (1998)
    Mystery Men (1999)

    And for the record:

    Super Fuzz (1980)

32. @JJ: I love to share. 🙂

33. To me, a crucial part of “cult movie” is “didn’t make much money in first release”. “Phantom of the Paradise” definitely counts (and is one of my faves), “Monty Python & the Holy Grail” does *not*, nor does “Dr Stangelove”.

34. Arg so rushed today … Hope this is still open for voting by the time I get a chance to weigh in …

35. A few random suggestions, plusses, minusses… disjointed memory not so good at bringing to mind though.

    New suggestion?
    Ran [Kurosawa Akira]
    Minbo no Onna [Itami Juzo]
    Onmyouji (2001)
    Diva or Subway (with Christopher Lambert)
    …maybe all too mainstream?

    Plus (in order of merit?)
    Bedazzled
    Phantom of the Paradise
    Labyrinth
    The Dark Crystal

    Just random thoughts about other suggestions from here…

    Don’t know
    Destroy All Monsters (impressed when it first came out, but when I saw it more recently I thought it more ravaged by time than the other Gojira et al movies).
    Mothra (I like, but not just an ordinary skiffy movie?)

    zero
    Liquid Sky (close but not quite together enough, not quite silly enough, and the one I saw had very bad visual quality)

    Minus?
    Harold and Maude (spoilt by the ending)
    Blue Velvet (just an ordinary good art film, nothing cultish, deshou?)
    Silent Running? Mainstream janaika
    The Bride with White Hair? Mainstream janaika

    Hmm… perhaps I don’t really understand what “cult” means here. A film is often mainstream in one country (e.g. Sweden), and not in other countries (e.g. UK). So I will defer to everyone else.

36. Still feeling strongest for some of my original ones, mostly because they also happen to be among my top ten favorites list anyway. FORBIDDEN ZONE, which I first saw as some clips in USA Network’s “Night Flight” hours—such willfull weirdness! Cavorting around on the black and white paper sets (I learned later that the filmmakers intended to colorize it, and in recent years, they did) to tunes from Fleischer cartoons and such Dr. Demento standbys as ‘Felix Figueroa.’ Between the Kipper Kids hitting themselves and the Pugsley lookalike synchrolVox’d with the mouth of another actor (lasciviously synching Miguelito Valdés’s “Bim Bam Boom”), I was entranced. A couple of my friends, over the many years, have enjoyed this. Ned Brooks wanted to see it, Steve Stiles (who everyone should totally vote for this year) and Gordon Garb (vote for him too—just write him in here and there) both liked it. The list of people who looked at me strangely is longer.

    Here is the exact scene I first saw on TV, including brief nudity and simulated poop. It really sums up the movie. This is the colorized version, though in my opinion the colors seem to somehow lessen the impact of the tall silhouetted figures of Frenchy and the giant frog. (“Frenchy”‘s over-the-top-sounding accent is her regular voice. She’s from France.)

37. “Night Flight” also gave me my first, second, and third looks at J-MEN FOREVER, another consciously contrived cult movie that delights me. I remember trying to record the audio (before having a VCR) and having my boombox die on me. I tried to order it at my video place, which claimed they couldn’t get it, and then mysteriously got a copy to rent out. Proctor & Bergman of the Firesign Theater edited themselves into a lot of serial footage (that is, they recut and redubbed the serial footage and shot some new scenes of themselves) and told the story of how clandestine government operatives wearing hats saved us from losing the secret world war, waged by the nefarious Lightning Bug (master of disguise) using drugs, sex, and rock & roll. It’s on YouTube, in pieces. Should I add that buying the original benefits Phil Proctor and the estate of Peter Bergman? Part 1 (just skip the credits):

38. I’ll stop there. I don’t want to lobby every movie I like. If I come back to it, I would speak for MOVIE MOVIE and LEMONADE JOE and then stop. These are the four that continue to rock my world, baby.

39. These may all be excessively obscure, but I cannot forget them, and here’s why.

    New nominations:
    The Avenging Disco Godfather (1979)
    The best known (most infamous?) of actor/comedian Rudy Ray Moore’s classic blaxploitation films. The Godfather of the Disco (Put your weight on it!) must battle the influx of angel dust into his territory. The beginning is pretty bog-standard urban martial arts, but it gets seriously trippy.

    Basket Case (1982)
    Errr… a low-budget horror classic about brotherly devotion? Most disturbing use of plasticine in a motion picture until the sequel came out, and even I won’t recommend that? Conjoined twins don’t work that way, the movie?

    Birdemic (2010)
    Barely squeaking in under the time limit, this attempt at a motivational environmental fable is a horrifying trianwreck of cinematic technique on every level, from the straight-out-of-the-demo CGI birds to polemic-filled script delivered by wooden, poorly-miked actors.

    El Topo (1970)
    I literally do not have the words to do this art-house western justice. If you have those words, the Geneva Conventions, common decency, and the very survival of the human race may require keeping them to yourself. Think carefully before reviewing.

    The Guns of El Chupacabra (1997)
    In my opinion, the peak of the Zen filmmaking movement. Nearly any subset of scenes from this movie–which includes several government agencies, news crews, warring alien factions, monsters, naked women in the desert, luchadores, the mafia, and many, many guns–would cohere better than the entirety manages to do.

    Incubus (1965)
    Two factors make this movie stand out. First, it stars William Shatner in all his scenery-chewing glory. Second, it was filmed in Esperanto, the constructed language, and may be the only film of such distinction. It’s also very weird in a sixties psycho-sexual drama kind of way.

    Leprechaun 4: In Space (1996)
    This is just sheer, insane, over-the-top fun. Space marines, space princesses, and Warwick Davis mugging it up.

    Roller Blade (1985)
    OK, so it’s the apocalypse, and there are weird mutant tribes of bad guys, including sort of a neonatal Salacious Crumb, and they’re opposed by the Sisterhood of the Smiley face, who wear KKK headgear, and have a hot tub, and skate around saving the world with switchblades of love. Skate or die.

    Star Crash (1979)
    This Italian attempt to cash in on Star Wars is a thing of beauty. It stars a very young David Hasslehoff, features a very stoned Christopher Plummer, and has a robot with a texan accent. There’s a fist-shaped star-ship that can be closed and opened, spaceships with glass windows, and space battle editing that invites you to play “Count the number of enemy ships left!”

    Seconding Hausu, Reptilicus, Troll 2, and Zardoz. They need the love.

40. Megaforce. That was a movie. I’m not sure what else to say about it, except that it was a lot of work to scrape up a copy — but scrape up one I did.

    I *do* want to lobby for every movie that I like.

    I like the weird musicals (Human Highway, Rockula, The Return of Captain Invincible, Hard Rock Zombies), although I know they’re not for everyone.

    I think Basket Case 2 is very like Basket Case, except with more. More entertaining. More violent. More plasticine sex. Proof that more is not necessarily better. But I will still put it forward.

    Has anyone brought up Elves (1989) and I missed it? Dan Haggerty investigates (what turns out to be) a Nazi plot to genetically-engineer a race of supermen.

    +1 to Forbidden Zone, Dark City, Mysterymen, Megaforce, Equilibrium (gun kata, anyone?), Avenging Disco Godfather, Birdemic, El Topo (which I believe is the first Midnight Movie), The Guns of El Chupacabra, Leprechaun 4, Roller Blade, Star Crash.

41. Would A Clockwork Orange be considered a cult movie?

42. Beth in MA
    More of a droog movie, surely.

43. Beth – I think it does!

44. Has anyone mentioned that weird animated movie “Wizards”? Or, speaking of weird animated movies, “Heavy Metal”?

45. Flesh (1968 Paul Morrissey writer, director, camerman, editor, Joe Dallesandro superstar)

    Trash (1969 Paul Morrissey writer, director, cameraman, editor, Joe Dallesandro superstar)

    Heat (1971 Paul Morrissey writer, director, cameraman, editor, Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles superstars)

    Pumpkinhead (1988. Cool redneck horror movie)

    Wrong Turn (2003. Another cool redneck, hillbilly horror movie)

    Bring me the head of Alfred Garcia (1974. Has to be seen. Venganza
    )

    Angel Heart (1986. Good horror flick, starring Mickey Rourke and Robert DeNiro. Don’t make promises you don’t intend to keep)

    Going Places (1974 Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Dwaere. Two layabouts bumming around France who just wish to be left alone to pursue their aimless, layabout ways. Good movie. I love road movies)

    Who’s that knocking at my door (1967, Scorcese’s first. Starring Harvey Keitel. Very good effort)

    Pink Flamingoes (1973 John Waters)

    Go tell the spartans (Burt Lancaster. Interesting look at early Vietnam war. Best Vietnam war movie)

    Who’ll stop the Rain 1978 (Nick Nolte, Michael Moriarty. Crime drama involving two Vietnam vet desperados)

    Billy Liar (1963, stars Tom Courtney. Whimsical romantic comedy about a immature fantasist. Bonus: co-stars the young Julie Christy.)

    McAbe and Mrs. Miller (1971. Great western, when the west was already closed. Stars Warren Beatty, Julie Christy)

    Cross of Iron (1977 James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, best ww2 movie i have seen)

    The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978, directed by Ermanno Olmi, my all-time favorite move. Not much happens in the move, except life. Brilliant, beautiful)

    The Score (1973 Radley Metzger. Straddles the divide between soft and hard core porn, but is very well done. The only porn movie that I have seen that actually had a legitimate, interesting story)

    Dark Odyssey (1961, Radley Metzger’s first film. Tale of revenge by Greek migrant on behalf of his dishonored sister. Watch this movie and deny that Francis Ford Coppola did not steal the most iconic scene in all cinema from this movie. Won’t tell you what it is, but you will recognize it immediately.)

    The Witches (1967, stars Clint Eastwood. Cool late 1960s tales of Italian fabulousness)

    Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995, directed by Todd Solondz. Hilarious comedy. The travails of an ugly duckling junior high school girl for whom suicide is a legitimate option every single day (I’m joking on this. Suicide is never an option). All young women and teenage girls should watch this. It will give them hope and solidarity, and yes, it does get better.)

    The Last House on the left (1972 directed by Wes craven. Creepy, creepy, scary, scary)

    Wattstax (1972. Documentary on black themed music festival, a black American answer to Woodstock. Excellent performances of 60s and 70s black stars. Appearances by Jesse Jackson, Richard Pryor, Ossie Davis
    )
    Save me (2007) Interesting, honest portrayal of gays and the struggle to adapt to heterosexual norms through ultimately futile conversion therapies)

    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960. Stars Albert Finney. British kitchen sink drama. Finney is a crude and rude layabout, who cares for nothing except for scoring chicks and getting drunk. Has an epiphany with nice girl at the end. Cool scene of pre-beatles rock and roll performance).

    Darling (1965. Julie Christy actually won and academy award for best actress, but it is so little know and aired that it deserves a mention. Beautiful Christy is an amoral slut who sleeps her way to the top frustrating and breaking the hearts of men who do care about her.)

    The Last Detail(1973. Stars Jack Nicholson and the young Randy Quaid. Cool early 1970s vibe throughout. Worth watching)

    Scarecrow (1973 Starring Al Pacino and Gene Hackman. Interesting that Pacino took such a role after the monumental success of The Godfather. Road move. Two drifters (one a con just released from Jail, Hackman) for a bond of friendship and trust as they drift across America to get to their destinations. Cool, downscale early 1970s vibe and atmosphere)

    Bye Bye Brazil (1980. Brazilian comedy of the enormous changes affecting rural life in 1970s Brazil. Protagonists lead s simple traveling theater/circus who are constantly being overwhelmed by that barbaric medium recently introduced to backwards Brazil: Television. Good movie)

    Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973. Others have mentioned it. I second there endorsement)

    Mad Max (The first of the Mel Gibson, Road Warrior movies. Well done. Gives the backstory)

    On the Beach (Chilling adaptation of Nevil Shute’s novel). As scary today as ever. The nuclear threat of total human annihilation is as near today as it was 60 years ago. It will be especially so of Hillary gets the white house)

    Petulia (1968. Starring George C Scott and Julie Christy. Melodrama about abused wife who finds comfort and support with surgeon George C. Scott. Cameo appearance by Grateful Dead.)

    Hearts and Minds (1974, one-sided documentary on the Vietnam War and its awful consequences for the Vietnamese and American Soldiers. That is tis one-sided doesn’t make it any less powerful and moving)

    Lorna (1964. Russ Meyer’s. Sexual frustration, titillation, and moralizing. The 60s were breaking)

    The naked Kiss (1964, Samuel Fuller directs. 60s were breaking. More sexual perversion, crime and hypocrisy, but a happy ending. The villain gets caught and goes to jail. Good period piece. Undermined by the fact that it was shot entirely on Hollywood back lots.

46. I feel very strange putting a legitimately fantastic movie like Dr Strangelove in the same poll as an accidentally funny movie like Plan Nine from Outer Space, but… If I must.

    *Being There
    Brazil
    Dr Strangelove
    Memento
    Metropolis
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    Life of Brian
    *O Brother Where Art Thou
    Office Space
    Plan 9 From Outer Space
    *Sunset Boulevard
    The Princess Bride
    This Is Spinal Tap
    Time Bandits
    *Truly Madly Deeply
    Young Frankenstein

    *Not on other people’s lists as far as I know.

    I also don’t know what counts as a cult movie if popular, mainstream things like Some Like It Hot are on the list. The Apartment? Trouble in Paradise? Hang My Gallows High (AKA Out of the Past)? Ace in the Hole (AKA The Big Carnival)? I can be for all of those if they really are cult movies. Also I tend to watch Topsy Turvy again and again so I might lobby for that, but again, I don’t know if it counts.

47. As people said, it is extremely hard to define what a cult movie is. That is why I will not act as a gatekeeper. If people here think something is a cult movie, I will accept it (even if I have my own opinions). Cult is as much about the following as about the movie.

    So if you think something is a cult movie and worth seeing, nominate it

48. I forgot to

    +1 the original Wicker Man

    How big is this bracket going to be, Hampus?

49. It depends! I will first make a consolidated list of all nominees ranked on how many nominations they got. Then give everyone a chance to add to these nominations.

    Then I will make a final list. How large that list will be will be based on how many movies that seem to be viable for the bracket, i.e have people who have seen them and found them interesting enough.

50. @JJ thank you so much for that live Escape from New York theme 🙂

    Snake Plissken! I heard you was dead!!

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