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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno, CA
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Urban Cowboy?! Is that like a personal favorite? I don't perceive that being anywhere near cultish...
Billy Jack! Nice, Mojede!
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survival
Big Wall climber
arlington, va
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*Little Shop of Horrors (the original 1959?)
*Last Man on Earth (Vincent Price) similar to I Am Legend
*The Wasp Woman (Roger Corman)
*Night of the Living Dead
*Invasion of the Body Snatchers
*The Brain That Wouldn't Die
*Dementia 13 (Coppola's first)
*The Terror (Karloff and young Jack Nicholson)
*The Raven (Price, Karloff, Lorrie, Nicholson)
*The Fall of the House of Usher (Price)
Sorry, I couldn't get out of the first Genre!
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Tack 'Time Bandits' on that list.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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When someone produces a stage musical version of one of your camp favoirtes, it has a cult following.
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marky
climber
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the only two worth mentioning:
Blade Runner
Harold and Maude
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cintune
climber
Penn's Woods
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A Clockwork Orange.
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Yed
Trad climber
Wa
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One of the greats "Dersu Uzala" 1975
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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There's a Dersu Uzala cult?
I remember it as powerful and captivating.
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Yed
Trad climber
Wa
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It was for a few of us up here in Wa.
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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Are there any reliable criteria for determining whether a film
has become a cult classic?
Theater play well after first release?
Possible party theme?
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Karen
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes
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The Seventh Seal
Persona
Through a Glass Darkly
Winter's Light
The Silence
Shame
The Serpant's Egg
Fanny and Alexander
Wild Strawberries
Cries and Whispers
I am crazy over Bergman movies!!!!
other notables:
Pink Flamingos
Blue Velvet
Maholland Drive
Clockwork Orange
2001, A Space Odessey
There are so many great films out there, oh, and I really like Werner Herzog's films, especially ones with Klaus Kinski!!!!
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Knott in any order
1 Witches of Eastwick( JAcks character is the 'MAN')
2 MISSOURI BREAKS ( M. Brando is scary)
3 That Train movie with E Bogneine(SP) and lee Marvin ( Brutal)
4 Forrest Gump ( What a story, weaving thru Americas tapestry)
5 Better off dead( the comic scene with the hamburgers and EVH in the background) $5...., and that awesome French auto mechanic, exchange student
6 Beerfest ( when the guy wakes up the next morning with the dead deer carcuss, I want to party with you dude)
7 Blues Bros. ( almost every scene is brilliant even 30years later)
8 Clerks ( nuff said, That was the best I've ever had with the dead guy in the dark restroom)
9 Pulp Fiction ... saw it last week on TV and it still holds it's muster
10 On any Sunday( classic Motorcycle film)
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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jaybro, glad to see Liquid Sky on your list. It's an all-time classic.
No list, however, would be complete without the über-classic, "The Hunger", starring David Byrne, Catherine Denueve and Susan Sarandon.
Mal
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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I dunno, Scuff, I was leading toward movies people have parties for, but I guess my own criteria is less defined. That's why I didn't list (as Karen did) which I consider the best movie of all time but not a cult movie. though I can imagine a Seventh Seal party.
Further cogitation on this topic may or may not be productive.
Nat and I have seen Sweeney Todd and I am legend, this week. Either
could eventually be a cult flick, though I'd be surprised if Sweeney didn't.
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cintune
climber
Penn's Woods
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Forgot about Liquid Sky, I remember that one gave me the serious creeps.
Once had an after-hours party in the printmaking room where we watched 8 mm copies of the 7th Seal, Joan of Arc, Le Chien Andalou, Clockwork Orange, Svengali, capped off with Easy Rider. Pretty glazzy-eyed by dawn.
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spot
climber
Atascadero,Ca
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I don't know if you would call it a "cult" classic, but for a classic kinda disturbing movie how about - Deliverance
I'm also a big fan of Blazing Saddles!
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Used to be a cult film had to have a small release, or at least be poorly received by the general public, and then build a grass roots fanatical following.
Rocky Horror has to be the biggest cult film I ever heard of. I knew people who made it their whole lives to attend on a regular basis, in costume, with props, and recite all the key lines and sing the songs. I even dated a girl who dressed up as Columbia for a while.
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nick d
Trad climber
nm
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What...No "Shaft" fans?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Now dirt, you're quite sure that your friend Columbia really was a girl, are you? It was Rocky Horror, after all. :-)
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