I’ve been thinking for some time now about movies I want to introduce my teenage and twenty-something daughters to — and we’ve already been through a bunch of great ones like Terminator, Blade Runner, Breakfast Club and Groundhog Day. But then I thought about some of the great lesser-known cult movies, the weird or bizarre or campy ones that I remember from my youth.
So I asked my Twitter followers about their favorite cult films, and got some great responses (I also triggered a kind of Twitter war over whether quoting people’s tweets using the new embed feature is rude and/or noisy, but I will leave that for another day). Here’s a list of the top 50 suggestions — I didn’t include every one, but they all appear in the tweets I’ve embedded below. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
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Buckaroo Banzai Napoleon Dynamite The Hunger The Ninth Configuration Eraserhead The Wicker Man The Man Who Fell to Earth Time Bandits Tremors Evil Dead 2 Zardoz Mad Max Phantom of the Paradise The Dark Crystal Fifth Element Dreamscape Twelve Monkeys The Warriors Big Trouble in Little China Johnny Dangerously Harvey Withnail and I The Lost Boys Tank Girl Highlander |
Local Hero Shallow Grave Howard the Duck Weird Science Brazil Donnie Darko Paris Texas THX 1138 Doc Hollywood Pulp Fiction The Big Lebowski A Boy and His Dog Seven Samurai Plan 9 From Outer Space Brother From Another Planet Escape From New York Logan’s Run True Romance Ghost World Heathers Harold and Maude Hackers Run Lola Run Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure Snowpiercer |
Cult Movies
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