The 2. 5 Best Cult Movies of the 1. Taste of Cinema. 8. Mad Max 1. 97. 9One of the most rebellious of road movies, George Millers 1. Mad Max, would come to epitomize Ozploitation Australian genre cult films from the 7. Polarizing critics with its violence and anarchic underpinnings, Mad Max made an international star out of Mel Gibson, and the raging, and realistic action scenes resonated with certain action oriented audiences right away. Miller would go on to a very successful directing career and revisit Mad Max for three more sequels a fourth one seems inevitable, and the societal breakdown motif, in the later sequels to take a more post apocalyptic slant, would prove roaringly popular as well as outright iconic. For the Tibetan Mastiffs living on Snow Mountain, a dogs life has a simple riff Guard a peaceful village of woolmaking sheep from the thuggish wolf Linnux Lewis. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 BritishAmerican musical screwball comedy horror film by 20th Century Fox produced by Lou Adler and Michael White and directed. Cult Horror Movies Rock Dog ' title='Cult Horror Movies Rock Dog ' />Cult movie is a hard thing to pin down. For the purposes of this list celebrating the tenth anniversary of Donnie Darko weve put a premium on the. Films in the horror genre always seem to contain sex or nudity of some kind, but we compiled a list of 15 horror flicks that actually are sexy. Well, this is a weird turn. We had heard a couple months back that Lena Dunham would have a role in the upcoming clownsandTrump smorgasbord of American Horror Story. Horror films are supposed to scare us, creep us out, and make us feel uncomfortable. But sometimes, there is a film that go so far outside of the norm and our. Richard OBrien, Actor The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 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In many ways the quintessential Lee film, this Hong Kong American martial arts movie, with its many muscular fight scenes choreographed by Leeas well he directed the dynamic monastery set opening sequencewent on to become a hugely influential actioner as well as a box office hit. Lee plays a Shaolin martial arts expert out to nab the drug dealers responsible for his sisters death. Entering a kung fu competition with the aim of battling it out to the dealers HQ with the help of his new found allies including John Saxon and Jim Kelly. The kung fu style Lee displayed in the film, not to mention his acrobatic and athletic feats sometimes with nunchakus and his penchant for Zen Buddhist philosophizing, set about a worldwide enthusiasm. Enter the Dragon is astonishing entertainment as well as a pop standard. El Topo 1. 97. 1Alejandro Jodorowskys sophomore film, El Topo is a violent spectacle, and a mind altering adventure through an alternate dimension, as indebted to Nietzsche as it is to LSD. Jodorowsky draws from a deep well of influence that contains silt from Spaghetti Westerns, religious augur, surrealism, eroticism, and enough purple haze that it became soused with a new label, that of Acid Western. It was Pauline Kael that coined the term Acid Western in her original review of the film in 7. Theres a nonlinear, psychedelic fashion to El Topo, established right away as a gunfighter, clad in sable, with his son, Hijo, skyclad, appear in the desert. As a preamble to much bloodshed, the pair appear like mythic heroes, and in due process a revenge scenario loosens around them. Later, surfacing like Zarathustra, El Topo emerges from a subterranean grotto, enacting strange symmetry, making for the ultimate midnight movie experience, spasmodically outlandish, OTT odd, and impossible to shake. Eraserhead 1. 97. Theres probably no director alive today that epitomizes the essence of cult filmmaker quite like David Lynch. But before Missoula, Montanas favorite son gave the world the Twin Peaks phenomenon, or the neo noir nightmare of Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, amongst others, Lynch gave us an abrasive, surrealist fantasia called Eraserhead. Shot over an exhaustive six year period, its a crazy quilt charcoal comedy, obsessed with body horror and starring Lynchs greatest muse, Jack Nance. Miserable factory worker Henry Spencer Nance toils in an industrial wasteland when one day his girlfriend, Mary X Charlotte Stewart, informs him hes the father of a repulsive mutant child. In terrifically textured black and white and the most unsettling of soundscapes, the term Lynchian entered the lexicon. Eraserhead, due to its disturbing imagery, and inherent eccentricity, is an acquired taste, but its also an enduring chef doeuvre, a great midnight movie, and an arresting directorial debut. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1. Is there a more quotable comedy than the side splitting, pants pissing, so funny it hurts tour de force, Monty Python and the Holy Grail Considered to be the British troupes first film propertheir portmanteau picture four years before, And Now for Something Completely Different, was comprised of sketches previously seen on their Flying Circus television showthe Holy Grail soared to cult status celebrity almost as soon as it opened in theaters in 1. Meta comedies existed beforelike Woody Allens Sleeper 1. Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles 1. Pythons gleefully rushed the gate with their absurdist brand of intertextual parody. Its an intelligent celluloid animal theres social commentary in the mode of the Marx Brothers, even Hieronymus Bosch bring out your dead, and its so densely packed with gags that a single viewing cant reveal them all. Hence the ritualised repeat viewing audience, ready to sing and shout along in ultra clever faux English accent or preposterous French iteration when doing the taunters. A classic comedy, as absurd as it is uproarious. Suspiria 1. 97. 7Fear, Dario Argento has famously said, is a 3. With Suspiria I wanted 4. An immersive experience in sensory cinema like no other, Italian auteur Argentos Suspiria is a spine tingling and dizzying masterpiece in the form of a nightmare fairytale. Suzy Bannion Jessica Harper is a new American student at the Tanz Dance Academy, a European ballet institute that doubles as a classic Gothic setting, that secretly houses a coven of ferocious witches. Administered by the mysterious Mother Suspiriorum Lela Svasta and vice directress, Madame Blanc Joan Bennett Suzy is slowly drawn along a terrible mystery. Primitive colors, violent deaths delivered with the baroque virtue of a music video using giallo subterfuge, supernatural elements, and Hitchcockian affection. As solid proof of auteur theoryArgento is the Sergio Leone of horror cinemaSuspiria is a hypnotic and self reflexive powerplay of terror. Phantom of the Paradise 1. Brian De Palma has an original comic temperament hes drawn to rabid visual exaggeration and to sophisticated slapstick comedy, wrote Pauline Kael, adding Phantom of the Paradise is a one of a kind entertainment, with a kinetic, breakneck wit. In 1. Brian De Palma made the ultimate midnight movie, a campy, way over the top horror musical Phantom beat the Rocky Horror Picture Show to the punch by a solid year and a half, and as a playful piss take on popular music, Phantom of the Paradise nails a lot of the tropes of the era. Sending up the Beach Boys, Glam Rock, diva singing, and a Phil Spector like impresario named Swan, amongst them. Paul Williams is wonderful in the role of Swan, and his superb soundtrack is still gobsmackingly brilliant some forty years on. William Finley in the titular role as the cursed Phantom is also a terrible treat, and the fervent cult that has embraced the film have elevated both Finley and Williams to the stature of adored icons. The much ballyhooed New Hollywood of the 1. Phantom of the Paradise. For all its crackbrained exuberance and frequently hallucinatory tenor, this musical version of Faust is a feast for the senses silly, exaggerated, and overblown, this is a film that, by midnight movie standards and beyond, is some kind of masterpiece. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1. Its astounding Time is fleeting. Madness takes its toll. Jim Sharmans gleeful direction, Richard OBriens crucial songs, the willing and winning cast Tim Curry may steal the show as Doctor Frank N. Furter, but was Susan Sarandon ever more stunning make for a monumental picture. The emblazoned satire in Rocky Horror doesnt limit itself to the sci fi genre alone, its wide orbit includes celebrity culture, Hollywood, sexual politics, the glam scene, rock operas, the counterculture, and more. The story, which takes the backseat to the overall experience, involves two naive young lovers, Brad Majors Barry Bostwick and Janet Weiss Sarandon, who, on a cold, rainy night, get a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, but near enough to a creepy old mansion. AuthorWebmaster. Scott David Foutz. N. Eastlake Ter 3. AChicago, IL 6. 06.