What's On Your Cult Film List?

[Tyler E. Martin]

Just now, I ran across , compiled by the authors of the upcoming book 100 Cult Films. Readers and listeners are invited to pitch a favorite of theirs that weren't featured, which may be read on air. A lot of great movies made the list, and I'm a big fan of quite a few of them, as I'm sure a lot of fellow MZers are (Ishirô Honda's Godzilla is rightfully included). I thought I might as well pass this along if any of you feel you should make a case for an overlooked 101st film.

[king_ghidorah]

I dunno about my own list, but skimming through that one I want to say that some of their choices are too mainstream to be "Cult"....Star Wars!? Seriously?? Edward Sissorhands??

[Tyler E. Martin]

Yeah, Casablanca and The Wizard of Oz felt really out of place to me. Great movies, but not really "cult."

[jellydonut25]

I just perused the list VERY briefly, and it seems like what they are deeming "cult" is something that I would deem "genre defying"

Star Wars, Edward Scissorhands, Casablanca, Wizard of Oz...these aren't CULT movies...these are movies that break through the paradigms of their typical "target" audience and appeal to a broad range of people and defy all logic via their mainstream success.

Cult films, to me, are films that are well-loved by a small group, but never broke into the mainstream and in many ways, that should be considered unfair...Monster Squad might be my all-time cult film.

[Tyler E. Martin]

It appears the comments are now closed, so I can't make the suggestion now, but I'm surprised it didn't occur to me before: Where the heck is Billy Jack? That should count as a cult film, right? And it's marvelous. One of my all-time favorite movies.

[EricDent]

[Dagarah72]

[Kingboy D]

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