Im in to underground classics. Anyone know any excellent cult films ?

Answer 1

If you are a sci-fi fan or pulp fiction fan, you can't go wrong with "Dark City," --one of my all time favorites. It ranks along side the best Rod Sterling and Richard Matheson "Twilight Zone" episodes.

For Bruce Campbell's greatest performance, check out "Bubba Ho-tep." How's this for a premise: Elvis Presley is still alive in a Texas nursing home in the middle of nowhere. He has to team up with a black, still alive JFK (the late great Ossie Davis) to defeat a mummy who is sucking the souls of the nursing home's residents.

Rent "Batman Begins" director Christopher Nolan's first movie, "Memento." It's the greatest mind f-ck since I saw "The Matrix for the first time. The movie is told backwards, yet still builds to an "Oh my god!" climax.

If you want one of the best ghost stories few have ever seen, see "Below," set aboard a cramped US submarine during WWII. You won't be able to look in a mirror for days.

If you're into horror, but still want comedy, get "Shaun of the Dead." If "The Office" did a zombie movie, this would be the result.

Finally, there's the greatest animated movie that no one saw: "The Iron Giant." It proves that cell animation never died. It only faded away because companies like Warner Bros didn't know how to market them anymore. "The Iron Giant" is a heartfelt, thrilling, hilarious masterpiece.

Answer 2

Tetsuo: The Iron Man
How To Get Ahead In Advertising
The Saddest Music In The World
The Butcher Boy
Happiness
Pumpkin
The Last Dragon
Nekromantik
El Topo
Female Trouble
Pink Flamingos (almost all John Waters older films)
5 Deadly Venoms
American Psycho
Return Of The Living Dead
PIN
The Stepfather
Nekromantik
The Piano Teacher(unrated directors cut)
The Stoned Age
The Day After
True Stories
Keep The River On Your Right(documentary)
Dark Days(documentary)
really there are too many to name just depends on what you are in to also check out Richard Kern's work hope this helps

Answer 3

Velvet Goldmine. The Animal Factory. The Dreamers. Total Eclipse. Angels in America. Lola. Torch Song Trilogy. Ghost World.

Answer 4

Blue Velvet
Fellini's Eight and a Half
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
The Hunger
Belly of an Architect
One from the Heart
Myra Brekenridge

Answer 5

Rocky Horror Picture Show is on the Top of any list. But it should be "Experienced" not just seen.

Also
The Blob
The day the Earth stood still
The Wizard of Oz if watched with Pink Floyd playing in the background

Answer 6

If you want underground classics, try the library under special interest films, there's plenty of films about trains there.

The film Pi is set on a tube train I believe.

Answer 7

Depending on what genre you like theres:

Dark City (thriller)

House of Sand and Fog (drama) - w/ Jennifer Connolly

Mean Creek (drama)

High Tension (French horror)

Ichi the Killer (Japanese horror)

Pure (British drama) w/ - Keira Knightley

Bubba Ho-Tep (horror/comedy) - LOVE THIS MOVIE!!

Sex y Lucia (Spanish drama)

all the Zatoichis (Japanese samurai movies, 27 total, AWESOME!!)

Amores Perros (Spanish drama) - plays kinda like Pulp Fiction structure wise

and if you wanna go a bit older:

Cinema Paradiso (Italian dramedy)

The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three (crime drama with Walter Mattheu) - Tarantino borrowed a lot from this movie to make Reservoir Dogs.

Lady Snowblood (Japanese revenge pic) - Tarantino also borrowed a lot from this for Kill Bill.

Man there's many more, but hopefully that'll get you started.

Answer 8

Blue Velvet
Romper Stomper

Answer 9

Ginger Snaps, Run Lola Run, Donnie Darko

Answer 10

The Loved One. Finally released on DVD