I'm a bit of a cult movie fan , so i thought i would starte a thread devoted to the genre . So if you can recommed a film or would like to discuss it please feel free to do so .
My first film i would like to recommend is  " Demon Seed " from 1977 it stars Julie Christe and Fritz Weaver and is based on the novel of the same name by Dean .R koontz . It's directed by Donald Cammel who also co-directed Performance ( 1970) with Nicolas Roeg which stared Mick Jagger.
Demon Seed is a futuristic thriller and center's around a roeg computer called Proteas who traps Christe in her house and forces her to have a computer baby .
It's a cracking film full of suspense and brilliant special effects for the time , Christe gives a stunning performance . Proteas the PC as one of the weirdest vocies and illustrates what can happen if computers take control , it's a new breed of PC half organic and half machine . The film points to the future and is totally believable . This film came out at the same time as Star Wars and diappeard without a trace , ive only seen it on the TV once , but you can get it on DVD , i bought it just before Christmas and have watched it a good half a dozen times since it's a real favourite .
So if you want something to fill you with suspense and make you think and quite fancy watching Julie Christe in her prime , check this  film out   i give it 8 out of 10

Dazed and Confused and Detroit Rock City are two awesome cult movies.

I love cult movies , mostley asian extreme , Old Boy , Lady Vengence , The Eye etc, [ not the under counter ones]

Demon Seed , i know this film well , its Sci fi and you know ...
Its a very unnerving climax [ sorry] when the leading lady gets in a uncompromising postion with a computer  

I was supprised that Demon Seed is only a fifteen Mr Kite , some of it is quite near the knuckle ?
I've not seen much Asian stuff just the odd film on film four .

Nothing beats a classic 'b' movie, for me. In fact, pretty much anything that contains random acts of violence, exposed internal organs, and gratuitous foul language. All at the same time.

There have been some movies that are so awful, that in there supreme awfulness they somehow become brilliant cinema. Here is a selection of my favourites:

The Green Slime: A space station crawling with the stuff. Absolutely terrible sci-fi.
From Hell It Came: Nuclear fallout brings a dead islander to life as a walking tree!
The Creeping Terror: Killer karpets from outer space!
The Swarm: Killer bees attack residents in a small town preparing for a flower festival.

And of course, the classic 'b' movie of all time: Plan 9 From Outer Space.

When it comes to cult films, I tend to go for the more campy fare. I too am a fan of Plan 9- it's so bad, yet so sweetly enthusiastic about itself. I also like The Killer Shrews (actually dogs dressed up in rugs) and Monster A-Go-Go. Aside from science fiction, there's Rocky Horror, Phantom of the Paradise, and Mommie Dearest.

I enjoyed the Boris Karloff film 'The Sorcerers' and also 'Witchfinder General.' At a science fiction convention recently I bought a DVD of a film called 'Five.' But I suppose my all time favourites are both TV series and films of the first three Quatermass tales 'The Quatermass Experiment', 'Quatermass 11' and 'Quatermass And The Pit', although they were known by different names in America. Also interesting is 'The Stone Tapes' with Jane Asher. She also made a weird but intriguing movie called 'The Deep End.'
I've started buying up all the original Fifties sci-fi movies: 'The Thing From Another World', 'It Came From Outer Space', 'When Worlds Collide', 'The Day The Earth Stood Still', 'War Of The Worlds', 'The Invasion of the Body Snatchers', 'Forbidden Planet' etc

How about some of the songs from cult movies. such as the one in 'Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes': 'I Know I'm Gonna Miss Her, A Tomato Ate My Sister.' Or some cult movie titles: Once Upon a Girl; Pinocchio in Outer Space; Revenge of the Teenage Vixens from Outer Space; Attack of the Giant Horny Gorilla; Chopping Mall; For A Few Lousy Dollars; For Your Height Only; I Wonder Who’s Killing Her Now;

I love  " Quatermass And The Pit " Bill Harry , i recently got that on DVD it's a great film .
Did'nt Jane Asher do a horror with Vincent Price ? think it might have been called " Mask Of The Red Death " or something like that ?

Mairi two campy  " Hammer Horror " ones ive just got are  " The Anniversary " with Bette Davis playing a psycho mother complete with eye patch she's really wicked in this an absolute horror and  "Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde " both these are directed by Roy Ward Baker who also directed  "Quatermass And The Pitt " , im trying to get all his films he's a brillant director  

Quoted from DaveRam

I love  " Quatermass And The Pit " Bill Harry , i recently got that on DVD it's a great film .
Did'nt Jane Asher do a horror with Vincent Price ? think it might have been called " Mask Of The Red Death " or something like that ?

The Masque Of The Red Death. It's an Edgar Allen Poe story.

LOOK INTO THIS FACE - SHUDDER... at the blood-stained dance of the Red Death! TREMBLE... to the hideous tortures of the catacombs of Kali! GASP... at the sacrifice of the innocent virgin to the vengeance of Baal!

Stare into this face and count if you can the orgies of evil....

You can't beat a good orgy in a 'b' horror flick! And a red headed virgin as well!

LOL thanks BlueMeanie ive seen this film many years ago i thought Jane Asher was in it , did'nt know it was from an Edgar Allen Poe storey though, i will look out for that one .

Quoted from DaveRam

LOL thanks BlueMeanie ive seen this film many years ago i thought Jane Asher was in it , did'nt know it was from an Edgar Allen Poe storey though, i will look out for that one .

Anything with Vincent Price in is worth watching. You can't beat that camp menace!

I have some good pics of Jane Asher in 'The Masque of the Red Death'. When I learn how to put images here I'll post them. This was the first of the Roger Corman/Vincent Price Edgar Allen Poe series to be filmed in England and was actually based on two different Poe stories. Nicolas Roag was the cinematographer. Incidentally, Price made several horror movies in England.
How about: Chopper Chicks In Zombie Town. A group of lesbian bikers called the Cycle Sluts decide to tour America. They come across a town inhabited by zombies and with the aid of a group of blind children and a dwarf they destroy the zombies with machine guns, whips, chains and dynamite.
Or: Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. Set in contemporary times, when Jesus Christ, accompanied by El Santos, a Mexican wrestler, attempts to save the lesbians of Vancouver from vampires. The Hammerheads provide a number of songs on the soundtrack, including ‘Everybody Gets Laid Tonight.’

Did you know that the little girl who comes across the alien in 'The Quatermass Xperiment' was Jane Asher?

The first film i saw Jane Asher in was a film called Green Gage Summer , think she was about 14 year old in that , think it's from 1962 ? Susannah York was also in it  

At the age of five Jane Asher made her film debut in ‘Mandy’ (1953). Her interest in acting began when her parents took their three children to a theatrical agency, thinking it would be fun for them to learn to act.
      Her other screen appearances over the years have included Third Party Risk (1953); Dance Little Lady, Adventure In The Hopfields (1954); The Quatermass Xperiment (1955); Charley Moon, The Greengage Summer (1956); The Prince And The Pauper (1962) Girl In The Headlines (1963); The Masque Of The Red Death (1964); Alfie (1966); The Winter’s Tale (1967); The Buttercup Chain, Deep End (1970); Henry V111 And His Six Wives (1972); Runners (1983) and Success Is The Best Revenge (1984).

Although they're not cult movies, I've got various DVD's such as Lady Vengeance, Old Boy, Casshern, Audition, Ong-Bak, Battle Royale, Azumi, Azumi 2, Crying Freeman, Shogun Assassin, Ringo-O, Ringo 2, the Grudge, the Infernal Affairs trilogy and a pile of Studio Chibli anime - Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle - but the best is Spirited Away,

Would A Clockwork Orange be considered a cult movie? If so, it's definitely the greatest of all cult movies!

I'd have to say that Rocky Horror is the best of all cult movies. I mean, Tim Curry in women's lingerie singing rock-showtunes. How can you not like that?

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I'd have to say that Rocky Horror is the best of all cult movies. I mean, Tim Curry in women's lingerie singing rock-showtunes. How can you not like that?

I actually saw the original West End stage version with Tim Curry!

I would have thought to be regarded as a cult movie (not that definations mean anything) a film would have to flop on it's commercial release and then subsequently be adopted by a small group of followers. Wouldn't that discount Rocky Horror, and mean that while being legandary Animal House or 2001 could never be seen as  cult movies? Being groovy or a genre-standard ain't enough?
I'm not into them as much as you guys, but if I had to pick one it would  to be The Wicker Man. As far as endings go.....

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I'd have to say that Rocky Horror is the best of all cult movies. I mean, Tim Curry in women's lingerie singing rock-showtunes. How can you not like that?

Damn, how could I forget Rocky Horror. Yeah, definitely the king of all cult movies.

Quoted from Kevin

I would have thought to be regarded as a cult movie (not that definations mean anything) a film would have to flop on it's commercial release and then subsequently be adopted by a small group of followers. Wouldn't that discount Rocky Horror?

Rocky Horror DID flop on its initial release. It only became popular through midnight showings, and even then the fan group was pretty small. Now, of course it has a huge fan following. It's still a cult movie, in my opinion though, because it's such a part of deviant culture. You have to be a bit "out there" to enjoy it.

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Rocky Horror DID flop on its initial release. It only became popular through midnight showings, and even then the fan group was pretty small. Now, of course it has a huge fan following. It's still a cult movie, in my opinion though, because it's such a part of deviant culture. You have to be a bit "out there" to enjoy it.

I did not know that. Cult movie it is.

I love the iconic images that come out of these movies. Great film making going on when images are just ingrained into your psyche!

I watched The Day The Earth Stood Still the other day. Apart from being a sci fi classic (1951) it gave us Klaatu and Gort - the robot Ringo parodies on the cover of Goodnight Vienna. I didn't realise how good this movie was - stupendous soundtrack and all.
The message was fun - that alien races had formed an organisation that acted on their behalf to stamp out tyranny and violence around the universe (not that they would ever dream of interfering in a planets day to day life of course.) Interesting, seeing as the US was at the time leading the UN in a war against China/North  Korea.

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I watched The Day The Earth Stood Still the other day. Apart from being a sci fi classic (1951) it gave us Klaatu and Gort - the robot Ringo parodies on the cover of Goodnight Vienna. I didn't realise how good this movie was - stupendous soundtrack and all.
The message was fun - that alien races had formed an organisation that acted on their behalf to stamp out tyranny and violence around the universe (not that they would ever dream of interfering in a planets day to day life of course.) Interesting, seeing as the US was at the time leading the UN in a war against China/North  Korea.

Interesting. Great movie. It's very typical human behavior. They come in peace and we shoot them. Talk about a faux pas. By the way, they're making a remake with Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, John Cleese, and Kathy Bates.  I'm SURE it will be fantastic.   Not a bad cast though. Outside of Keanu, who, while gorgeous, isn't the greatest thespian ever to grace a movie screen.

I'm very surprised that no-one has yet mentioned the great 'Withnail And I'. Possibly the greatest cult movie of all time. And, made by Handmade Films.

They are re-making the Rocky Horror Show, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, the Incredible Shrinking Man, when Worlds Collide and almost all of the 50s horror movies. Keanu Reeves is Klaatu in the Earth Stood Still remake.
Apart from Rocky Horror, there were a number of British cult movies - The Wicker Man, Get Carter, Withnail And I, the Witchfinder General, the Sorcerers, the Italian Job the Stranglers of Bombay, the Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass & the Pit, The Masque Of The Red Death etc

Quoted from Bill Harry

Keanu Reeves is Klaatu in the Earth Stood Still remake.

I would have thought he would have been better suited to playing Gort the robot.

I bought The Hammer Box set collection last week 21 films for forty quid there are some great films in it  " She " inparticular i had'nt seen in years is a brilliant film ?  that Ursula Andress is a magnificent looking women  
Also there's  " Straight On Till Morning " with Rita Tushingham which is  a very disturbing film had'nt seen that one for years either , thats directed by Peter Collinson who did  " The Italian Job " a very spooky film ,anyone remember it ?

I hate re-makes of movies!!!  
the re-makes of Alfie & the Italian Job were just awful!!!

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I hate re-makes of movies!!!  
the re-makes of Alfie & the Italian Job were just awful!!!

Not a cult movie, but I thought Cape Fear was an excellent re-make.

They're remaking Rocky Horror???????? NOOOO!!! What a disaster that's gonna be. Give me a break. Tim Curry gave the definitive performance of that character. HOW can anyone top him????? Eeeshh. Hollywood.   I'm afraid to think who'll play  it.

Eddie Izzard could maybe do the role well ?

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Not a cult movie, but I thought Cape Fear was an excellent re-make.

I liked it (mostly) and De Niro was excellent (but when isn't he?).
What ruined it for me was the end. The boat scene looked so fake - you could almost see the stagehands rocking the set while the others threw buckets of water over them. Things like that which break the illusion really bug me. (if I'm watching a war movie and the german tank turns out to be an US M48 or something I switch off, regardless of how good the rest of the movie is. God is in the details)

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They're remaking Rocky Horror???????? NOOOO!!! What a disaster that's gonna be. Give me a break. Tim Curry gave the definitive performance of that character. HOW can anyone top him????? Eeeshh. Hollywood.   I'm afraid to think who'll play  it.

my point exactly on re-makes!
do we just have to put up with bad re-makes from now on?  

Watched  " The Legend Of The Seven Golden Vampires " one of Hammer Horror's last films , it's billed as the first Kung - Fu horror spectacular and is a riot not laughed so much in a longtime It's a great bad film