Some of these are eyebrow raising for sure.
Mark Kermode covered this subject in last night’s Secrets of Cinema series but you’d be very hard pushed to find a lot that’s mainstream cult in there. Shout out to @anon61221983 - he includes John Waters!
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FSogol
January 26, 2021, 8:30pm
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Jarmusch’s Stranger than Paradise is one of my favorite movies.
The list is missing everything else by Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Eating Raoul, Terrorvision, and Heart of Midnight.
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How do you not have Raising Arizona on that list? Or Beetlejuice? Or Dumb and Dumber? I’ve seen those so many times I can recite every line.
Maybe they were too mainstream, but still…
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Also MIA: Napoleon Dynamite, Inframan, Harder They Come, Zoolander, The Hunger, Lost in Translation
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marll
January 26, 2021, 9:03pm
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Ex Drummer should be high up on this list.
Like others have mentioned, the majority of the movies listed are not what I would consider cult movies at all
FGD135
January 26, 2021, 9:18pm
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We obviously need a list that ranks movie lists.
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Also, not a single Troma film is on there… No Hammer. No Italian Mondo films…
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That website has one of the most awkward tracking opt-out pages I’ve ever seen. Not reading the article and never visiting it again. Fuck 'em.
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Of the 50, 47 are English-language films, and almost exclusively populated by predominantly white casts.
I’m not saying these movies are bad or in any way unworthy of inclusion, but someone should consider broadening their horizons.
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Compare it to the Top Ten Critics list for good measure.
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The French turn out some great cult films. I recommend Delicatessen , La Jette , and Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday , among others.
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fergsboy:
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday
That movie is hilarious!
French cinema is massively under represented on that list for sure
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IQslump
January 26, 2021, 10:02pm
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Yeah, where’s Battlefield Earth ?!?
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FGD135
January 26, 2021, 10:04pm
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Can you recommend a list that ranks lists of movie critics?
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They all have this man at #1 .
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In the trash, where it belongs?
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IQslump
January 26, 2021, 10:17pm
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Watch the first 2+ minutes of Darktown Strutters on Amazon and tell me you didn’t watch more.
Yes, the lists completely leaves out the vast and bewildering library of Japanese cult (except for Akira). It is a good attempt but omits such masterpieces as “Batoru rowaiaru”
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku. With Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Takeshi Kitano. In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale"...
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Death Race 2000 - Eating Raoul - Phantom of the Paradise
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Or where is Tetsuo the Iron Man?
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男, Tetsuo) is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk body horror film. It was written, produced, edited, and directed by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto, and produced by Japan Home Video. It is shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films. Tetsuo established Tsukamoto internationally and created his worldwide cult following. It was followed by Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) and Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009).
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No Godzilla…
OH! Just in general… No Ed Wood films on this list… no Elvira Mistress of the Dark… nothing about films related to Killer Tomatoes…
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