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Cult Films with Fanatic FollowingsJan 29, 2006 Write an essay on this topic.
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The Bottom Line These films all have cult followings for a reason. Watch and find out!
To me, a cult film is any one of those films that has a rabid fan base. You know the type, they collect the memorabilia, they show up at midnight showings, they know all the minutia about the film, or they at least know the film line by line. I have excluded here the Star Wars Movies and the Lord of the Rings movies. They both certainly have cult followings, however they are so well known in the main stream, that they needn't be included in this list. Although I don't consider myself a "fanboy" myself here are 10 of my favorite films that most definitely have cult followings: 1. The Evil Dead Trilogy Sam Raimi's low budget horror/comedy films made a cult hero out of his childhood friend Bruce Campbell. To be honest, none of them have grounbreaking special effects, scripts or acting, but yet... Raimi's combination of horror and Three Stooges style comedy, and many many memorable lines uttered by Bruce "Don't Call Me Ash" Campbell assure the Evil Dead movies a place in cult movie history. Hail to the King Baby Shop Smart Shop S-Mart! Good, bad, I'm the one with the gun 2. Repo Man One of the stranger films that I have seen, this starred Emilio Estevez as a slacker youth who finds himself employed as a repo man with Harry Dean Stanton as his role model. Throw in a car with the radioactive remains of space aliens in the trunk, and you have a cult classic worth watching again and again. Repo mans got to have a code 3. Ichi the Killer One of the most violent brutal button pushing films of Takashi Miike, a prolific Japanese director, this film, along with Audition put Miike on the American map, and expanded his own cult like following to the United States. 4. Blue Velvet Before there was Mulholland Drive, or even Twin Peaks, (but after the much less accessible Eraser Head) there was David Lynch's film noir Blue Velvet starring Isabella Rossini, Dennis Hopper and Kyle McLaughlin. Underneath the pristine exterior of suburbia lurks a very seamy underbelly of crime and decadence. 5. Clerks Director Kevin Smith's first New Jersey comedy introduced the world to Jay and Silent Bob (played by Smith himself) and started a cult following all his own. Essentially a film about nothing but the day in the life of a convenience store clerk, this film brought dialogue in a whole new direction. but I wasn't even supposed to work today 6. Reservoir Dogs Picture a skinny geek working in a video store day in and day out watching every grind house film he could see. One day he decides HE wants to be a screenwriter, and maybe even a director. He wrote a script, got financing and the result was the gritty Reservoir Dogs. That geeky video store clerk's name? Quentin Tarantino. What if I don't want to be Mr. Pink? 7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail Yes, comedy films have cult followings too, but none quite so rabid as Monty Python fans. When I was in college, myself and many of my friends could quote entire scenes from this movie. I bet you remember a few lines yourself! She turned me into a newt. I got better 8. Plan Nine from Outer Space Some movies have cult followings because they are so good, others because they are so so bad. Ed Wood is reputed to have been the worst director of all time, and Plan Nine from Outer Space is considered to be one of the Worst movies of all time. When I say bad, I do mean bad, bad script, bad special effects, bad acting, laughably ridiculously bad. 9. Dawn of the Dead Although the Night of the Living Dead was George Romero's first Zombie movie, I believe that it was the much more successful sequel that put zombies and Romero on the horror genre map. It is the Zombie film which all other zombie films are judged. 10. Clockwork Orange Every decade new generations of fans seem to find this 1971 film by the talented director Stanley Kubrick. Featuring a young Malcolm McDowell in perhaps his finest role of his career as the young malchick Alex. Aex and his band of droogs inflict a bit of the old ultra violence until the claret begins to flow, all to the tunes of Beethoven and Rossini. Where these in any particular order? No, I like different ones the best on different days, but they are pretty much the same ten cult films that come to mind when I think of cult films, no offense to Tim Curry and the campy Rocky Horror Picture Show (which I shall give honorable mention)  |
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