Some movies you only need to watch once.
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True… I’m probably okay never seeing Cannibal Holocaust again. I saw that at an academic conference, if you can believe that.
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How about Shopping, a movie centered on the concept of ramming one’s car through store windows so as to then go rob them? (Early Jude Law!)
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I can’t, but I also can.
I saw Brain Dead on a coach to Paris one morning 
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Understood. I went through a period when I would watch really extreme underground horror and Cannibal Holocaust was an endurance test. From what I’ve seen, nothing topped the films of Marian Dora for repulsive and shocking imagery. With Melancholie Der Engel (The Angel’s Melancholy) being the nastiest of the bunch. Yikes. There’s stuff in that one I never need to see again.
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I’ve not seen it, but I’ve heard a Serbian Film is pretty fucked up. Of course, it’s about the war.
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I’ve seen A Serbian Film and I almost mentioned that one as well. It’s way off the f*cked up meter. I won’t go into detail here but it’s borderline obscene to even mention it. And it’s not about the war. All I will say plot wise is its about an adult film star who wants to live a family life but takes one more offer to do a very questionable film.
I have never seen Serbian Film, but I almost vomited just from reading a synopsis on Wikipedia. Yikes.
These are some that come to mind as having cult followings:
My Dinner with Andre
Shock Corridor
Bob Le Flambeur
Dr. Strangelove
Let It Ride
Matador
Bound
The Killing
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I missed that the first time. Thanks for pointing it out.
Funny how that works.
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Speaking of cultish movies currently on Prime, I noticed they currently have Lord Love a Duck. Great director (George Axelrod), great cast, but not a very good movie. I remember thinking, when I first saw this 1966 movie, that it hadn’t aged well. That was in 1969.
Another great-director-and-cast-terrible-movie not yet mentioned here is Skidoo. This movie was so bad that the director – Otto Preminger – is said to have been involved in attempts to suppress it. Amazing cast (including Groucho Marx as God), music by Harry Nilsson, Rob Reiner was one of the writers (along with Doran William Cannon of Brewster McCloud fame), and apparently Preminger was on acid when he came up with the idea. (Groucho also dropped acid to prepare for the role, with Paul Krassner’s assistance.) Maybe the most 60s movie ever. But bad.
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Bah, I love Lord Love a Duck. One of my favorite bits, although it barely features axiom of cinema Roddy McDowall, Dad (Max Showalter) helps his daughter (Tuesday Weld) select some sweaters:
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‘Highway 61’ is a great followup to Roadkill.
and ‘Last Night’ by Don McKeller (who was the ‘killer’ in Roadkill)
I saw Roadkill more than once - put it on the other night just for one scene and ended up watching through the whole thing.
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Yeah, that’s not disturbing at all.
LLAD was an attempt to grab a piece of the market segment that AIP pretty much owned with their ‘beach’ movies. There were worse attempts,
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I loved that movie, despite hating horror movies. Sam Neill going crazy is mesmerizing.
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I have often wondered if David Lynch homaged Spencer in Eraserhead on Eisenstein
The “marching cossacks” and shot in the eye scene from Potemkin are referenced in Brazil (and, arguably, Star Wars).
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I watched “you don’t Nomi” last night so I’ll s cond Showgirls and add Mommie Dearest and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
And some Almadovar. Probably an early one like what have I done to deserve this. Or something with junkie nuns and heroin dealing abuelas.
And having watched Romantic Comedy last year https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/romantic-comedy-review-profoundly-pointless-documentary-on-rom-coms-q27nbp7l8 I think that’s a genre sorely lacking in cult lists. And that’s a mistake. I included the above review from a Murdoch rag as I think that will explain why.
Also someone mentioned Bunuel and while you could say an Andalusian Dog is super culty I think one of his late, more popular French ones would be it, discrete charm or phantom of liberty (though I guess most might go for Belle du jour).
Also someone mentioned Alphaville by Goddard and I think that’s a good call as it’s a sci fi genre film (and a Lemmy Caution detective story) shot without the special effects. And we were the only people in the cinema laughing like drains. It is a comedy right?
Musicals ate under represented so maybe something we need more Asian cinema which retains the great tonal shifts European cinema has lost (grim, clowning, musical numbers, everyone dies and there is no hope) so Tears of the Black Tiger (a Thai western romantic drama) fits the bill.
In recent US films Under the Silver lake might get a mention and also Southland tales. Not least because Buffy says this:
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Good choice, all one remembers of Un Chien Andalou is the eye slicing.
Talking of popular French movies I recommend Diva. And The Spirit of the Beehive for Spanish/Francoist.
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Maybe the executives wanted to grab some of that market. Axelrod seemed to be assaulting it.
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