POSTED BY Wookie Johnson | WEDNESDAY JULY 22 AT 10:42 PDT
Out of the 30,000 movies produced each year only 700 see theatrical distribution. If you do the math correctly, that means that there are exactly one gazillion movies that very few people see -- movies that have their own charms whether those charms be a skewed sense of humor or a dude jacking off onto a chicken. For every watered down family-friendly blowstravaganza like Wild Hogs, there's a truly brilliant gem that has only found itself a small but loyal group of fans. We've turned over a few rocks and come up with trailers for ten crazy little cult flicks.
Rubin and Ed looks like an amazingly surreal movie. You've got the always eccentric Crispin Glover dressed like an uncool lesbian and Howard Hesseman wearing Stan Lee's hair. Together the two form an unlikely bond and go on an adventure to bury Rubin's dead cat. The journey is frought with peril, hallucinations, really high-heeled shoes, waterskiing cats, and pyramid schemes. It's like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid through the lens of Hunter S. Thompson.
Definitely the most bizarre of the bunch, Bad Boy Bubby is an Australian cult film about a 35 year old shut-in who ventures into the world for the first tme. The trailer makes it seem tame but trust me the movie is completely shocking due to scenes of incest, blasphemy, violence, menacing, and animal cruelty. The initial release was banned in the UK which is already a pretty seedy place. Need I remind you that's where George Michael lives?
"There is a passageway to the most evil place you can imagine... a gate. Behind which the demons wait to take back what was once theirs." (In other words, the pilgrims dicked over the demons.)
The trailer begins with young Stephen Dorff cracking open a rock that unleashes an army of demons into his suburban home. This seems like a bizarre move considering that all the children around him are extremely demon-savvy. I especially enjoy around the 1:00 mark when the girl exclaims, "Demons? What kind?!!" The perfectly natural response to which would be a sarcastic, "Oh well, let me just grab my copy of Demonology for Dummies and... THEY'RE F***ING DEMONS, THAT'S WHAT KIND!!"
Since its 1987 release, The Gate has amassed a good number of fans including Alex Winter, who has begun work on his own remake of the film. And speaking of Alex Winter...
Alex Winter's opus, Freaked tells the tale of a spoiled Hollywood super-douche who is kidnapped by a sinister mad bio-engineer and mutated into a side-show freak. He bands together with the other experimentations (including Mr. T as a bearded lady) to fight for their freedom from the oppressive Colonel Sanders wannabe that holds them captive. With inventive freaks and machine gun-toting Rasta Eyeballs, it's safe to say that Freaked isn't for every movie-goer but definitely held dear by its fans.
I'm a jerk for not having seen Happiness yet. My friends rave about it and demand that I check it out. I've watched Todd Solondz's other films and really dug them so I don't know why I've held out on this one. This trailer is really entertaining and Dylan Baker as a bored psychiatrist cracks my sh*t up. I guess the reason I haven't seen it is because I'm easily distrac-- OOO LOOK! BRIDE OF CHUCKY IS ON AGAIN. I'MA WATCH THIS!
NIGHT OF THE DAY OF THE DAWN OF THE SON OF THE BRIDE OF THE RETURN OF THE REVENGE OF THE TERROR OF THE ATTACK OF THE EVIL, MUTANT, HELLBOUND, FLESH-EATING SUBHUMANOID ZOMBIFIED LIVING DEAD, PART 3
"Listen up baby. I got a bunch of cracker ass, white zombie honkey muthaf***as jackin' up my fresh ride. If I don't waste their white asses they're gonna come in here and house us."
This awesomely-titled Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 3 (or NotDotDotSotBotRotRotTotAotEMHFESZLD III as I like to call it) is a comedic redub of the George Romero classic Night of the Living Dead. Why? Because the original really didn't capture the nuances of Black Culture properly. It re-envisions the ill-fated cast as a jive-talkin' slickster, a blissed out surfer and a racist. Plus everyone's favorite, wise-cracking zombies!!
I haven't seen this film but it looks like a really slick trailer. The movie is about three handicapped low-lifes who draft a celebrity author into their band. His handicap is that he can't play the drums. The visuals look great and I'm definitely adding this to my Netflix queue. It seems to be filled with violence, brutality, and nihilism. Not to mention, the song from the trailer sounds like something Ween would record. Whatever happened to handi-capable bands that visit school auditoriums and encourage hugs over drugs? These dudes definitely don't look like any hug addicts I've ever met.
"Aw dude. I'm sorry I tried to put your head through that."
The only documentary in the bunch, American Movie tags along as independant filmmaker Mark Borchardt struggles to make his own cult-quality film. It's a sincerely one-of-a-kind, hilarious. and heartfelt film and was a darling at Sundance about a decade ago. That's why I'm surprised when people tell me that they've never heard of this. You kids today with your Clarence Clemonses and your jazz-tap dancing. Back in my day we knew how to document!
Another fantastic trailer for a crazy movie. Though the plot details are only communicated to us visually we still get a perfect sense of the film's themes of love and cannibalism. Which is good seeing as all dialogue is in the French language and I studied the more practical language of wood shop. I can't order a crepe but I can build a birdhouse that will just blow your doors off.
TV cad William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones co-star in this tale about war heroes who return to find their world has changed. Throw in a dead son and a lost hand and you've got a recipe for a bloodbath. The pacing of the film itself is quite strange as well. At one point, Tommy Lee Jones's character is asked, "What are you doing?" He replies stone-faced, "We're gonna kill a bunch of people." I don't want to give away any spoilers but, excluding Two-Face, have you ever known Tommy Lee Jones to lie?
Honorable mentions go to Troll 2 and The Room only because we wrote about them in our Totally Awfulsome Movies post from a few months back.
What are your favorite cult flicks that we have yet to discover? Sound off in the 'Comment' section below.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 03:02 pm
Oops.. sorry for the double post. Who'd of thought two random people on the internet would have the exact same thought at nearly the exact same time.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 03:38 pm
Ex drummer is Flemish/Dutch, not German.
It's a movie version of a famous Belgian writer Herman Brusselmans.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 03:40 pm
delicatessen has not been translated!!??
Someone get on the job, as a french-speaking person I can attest this one of the greatest movie you will see, the art, the story and the actors are phenomenal.
If it exist, rent it, now.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 03:42 pm
Not sure if anyone caught it, but the Ex drummer trailer plays a cover of Mongoloid by Devo.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 04:14 pm
Hey I'll make a list of like fifteen movies I haven't actually seen, and can only recommend based on hearsay, but YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEM IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR CULT FILM CRED.
Christ.
(Lot of good movies on that list, though.)
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July 22nd, 2009 at 04:49 pm
The song for the Ex Drummer trailer is a cover of the band Mongoloid singing the song Devo. i think.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 04:51 pm
Hey guys, just thought I'd chime in here since no one has seem to caught this: the song playing in the Ex-drummer trailer is a cover of Forever Your Girl, originally performed by Paula Abdul.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 05:15 pm
In the Ex Drummer trailer, you can hear the very excellent song, Mongoloid, by the Jonas Brothers.
By the way, Freaked is f^$*(&)ingly hilarious. Randy Quaid is a mad scientist who mutates people (and things) so he can force them to be in his low-rent freak show. He hopes to get backers to fund his vision of a theme park, which would look exactly the same but gargantuan in size; everwhere are misspelled sign for such attractions as "Feal Up A Corpse."
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July 22nd, 2009 at 05:16 pm
my gawd people, read the comments, we all knew it was DEVO!
Don't be jealous that i have a 16mm print of REPORT which also has MONGOLOID on it.
some other films to consider.. ROCK n ROLL nightmare
EL Topo, The Holy Mountain, and Santa Sangre.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 06:35 pm
Delicatessen saw a theatrical distribution. And it was well known enough to have the directors (Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro) design and direct Alien 4.
In all fairness I've seen each movie on this list save for TWO. I just wanted to mention the two I didn't see because they look amazing and I felt they deserved a nod. And I even made fun of myself for posting about movies I haven't seen. Now please spend your time doing something constructive like helping me figure who wrote the song in the trailer. It was Il Divo wasn't it?
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July 22nd, 2009 at 08:22 pm
please quit being a lazy douche bag and making a list of cult films "we should know" if you dont know them yourself.
hey lets make a list of 10 great songs you should hear:
dio-holy diver ....never actually heard it but these dudes with iron maiden shirts said it was a definite jam. you sir, are lame.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 08:40 pm
"No mention of The Dark Backward?"
I'll mention it and I'll mention the fact that it's the best cult movie of all time.
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July 23rd, 2009 at 01:17 pm
Ex drummer is not German, but BELGIAN. It's a completely other language and country!
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July 23rd, 2009 at 01:57 pm
At our local drive-in, over the radio before the show starts, they play cheesy old music, and the odd promo for their canteen. The canteen blurb includes a classic old timey old man movie voice saying the phrase "I haven't tried them myself, but I hear they're delicious: try our nachos!" That cracks me up every time. Dude, try the nachos. Which brings me to this point:
Dude, watch the movies.
Good list, but I gotta say (and agree with other posters) that it's really bad form to include those that you haven't seen.
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July 23rd, 2009 at 05:25 pm
Hey, stop and think about it. Just because someone has seen it, doesn't mean their opinion of it is any better of a guide to whether YOU will like it.
Is it a good list because you've seen them all or because you agree with the other posters? I only like lists that list movies I've seen or how else could I know it's a good list? I haven't seen any movies on this list so it is a very poor list. The best chance for a good list is one that has movies that lots of people have seen. Then, having seen most of them myself I can say, what an excellent list, it reflects my own good taste. Lists that include movies from other lists I have seen can be very good lists also.
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August 2nd, 2009 at 11:06 pm
More big ups for Delicatessen, I've watched it without subtitles and it's still funny as hell. (I think hell is REAL funny).
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August 5th, 2009 at 04:47 am
awful list, think up an obvious idea, have no capacity to execute it
to not be able to think of ten movies youd seen should be the end, but to not even understand what "cult movie" even means is weak
icecream? a chair? star wars?
not only is that night of the living dead thing far too long as a trailer, half the other CULT movies are well established and highly regarded like Happiness/delicatessen/american movie
yes dross like rolling thunders works perfectly as does the gate but you probably dont know why
unlucky for some
1 El Topo 2 breakin (breakdance) 3 rumblefish 4 my bloody valentine (orig) 5 Ichi The Killer 6 Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia 7 repo man 8 i spit on your grave 9 angel heart 10 casualtiesof war 11 heathers 12 salo (120 days of sodom) 13 seconds
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August 5th, 2009 at 04:49 am
sorry that mild tirade and list was julian, it doesnt ask your name, very cult
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August 11th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
i am a huge cult movie fan recently got a fifth copy of death race 2000,oh yeah i finally got around to buying so of my older vhs upgrading them to dvd like my rudy ray moore collection,the marx brothers,sweetbackbadasssssong,watermelon man,cripple masters,john waters dvd collection,beggotten,every david lynch movie ever made ,wizards,fritz the cat,welcome to the doll house,cannibal the musical,suburbia,thrashin,repo man,fubar,the thing with two heads,pump up the volume,street trash,the it's alive trillogy,django,war of the gargantus,phillip mallowe,permanent midnight,jesus son,eltopo,brokken vessels,straight to hell,buddy boy,crippled masters,grunt,nothing,cube 1,2,3 ,water ship down,motel,man bites dog,danger diabolika,dirty harry, thunder birds are go
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July 22nd, 2009 at 02:57 pm The song on the Ex Drummer trailer is a cover of the Devo song Mongoloid.
July 22nd, 2009 at 03:01 pm That song from the ex-drummer trailer is Devo - Mongoloid. Great jam.
July 22nd, 2009 at 03:02 pm Oops.. sorry for the double post. Who'd of thought two random people on the internet would have the exact same thought at nearly the exact same time.
July 22nd, 2009 at 03:03 pm What about "Pitch People"?
July 22nd, 2009 at 03:10 pm A Devo cover (Mongoloid) plays during the Ex Drummer trailer
July 22nd, 2009 at 03:10 pm The song at the start of 'Ex Drummer' is 'Mongoloid' By Devo. WHUP!
July 22nd, 2009 at 03:12 pm On the Ex Drummer trailer they play a cover of Mongoloid by Devo
July 22nd, 2009 at 03:16 pm No mention of The Dark Backward? Pfffft.
July 22nd, 2009 at 03:17 pm Pretty sure that on the Ex Drummer trailer, they play a cover of Mongoloid by Devo. Little known fact, eh guys?
July 22nd, 2009 at 03:22 pm ween could only hope to be as brilliant as devo
July 22nd, 2009 at 03:38 pm Ex drummer is Flemish/Dutch, not German. It's a movie version of a famous Belgian writer Herman Brusselmans.
July 22nd, 2009 at 03:40 pm delicatessen has not been translated!!?? Someone get on the job, as a french-speaking person I can attest this one of the greatest movie you will see, the art, the story and the actors are phenomenal. If it exist, rent it, now.
July 22nd, 2009 at 03:42 pm Not sure if anyone caught it, but the Ex drummer trailer plays a cover of Mongoloid by Devo.
July 22nd, 2009 at 03:54 pm Wow you really did pick some good ones dude! RT www.anonymize.us.tc
July 22nd, 2009 at 03:58 pm my god, what a shitlist
July 22nd, 2009 at 04:14 pm Hey I'll make a list of like fifteen movies I haven't actually seen, and can only recommend based on hearsay, but YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEM IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR CULT FILM CRED. Christ. (Lot of good movies on that list, though.)
July 22nd, 2009 at 04:20 pm some of these movies are totally well known Delicatessen and Happiness
July 22nd, 2009 at 04:21 pm Maybe you should watch the movies before you list them... I don't know.. just an idea
July 22nd, 2009 at 04:42 pm What's the song in the Ex Drummer video
July 22nd, 2009 at 04:49 pm The song for the Ex Drummer trailer is a cover of the band Mongoloid singing the song Devo. i think.
July 22nd, 2009 at 04:51 pm Hey guys, just thought I'd chime in here since no one has seem to caught this: the song playing in the Ex-drummer trailer is a cover of Forever Your Girl, originally performed by Paula Abdul.
July 22nd, 2009 at 05:15 pm In the Ex Drummer trailer, you can hear the very excellent song, Mongoloid, by the Jonas Brothers. By the way, Freaked is f^$*(&)ingly hilarious. Randy Quaid is a mad scientist who mutates people (and things) so he can force them to be in his low-rent freak show. He hopes to get backers to fund his vision of a theme park, which would look exactly the same but gargantuan in size; everwhere are misspelled sign for such attractions as "Feal Up A Corpse."
July 22nd, 2009 at 05:16 pm my gawd people, read the comments, we all knew it was DEVO! Don't be jealous that i have a 16mm print of REPORT which also has MONGOLOID on it. some other films to consider.. ROCK n ROLL nightmare EL Topo, The Holy Mountain, and Santa Sangre.
July 22nd, 2009 at 06:35 pm Delicatessen saw a theatrical distribution. And it was well known enough to have the directors (Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro) design and direct Alien 4.
July 22nd, 2009 at 07:16 pm
In all fairness I've seen each movie on this list save for TWO. I just wanted to mention the two I didn't see because they look amazing and I felt they deserved a nod. And I even made fun of myself for posting about movies I haven't seen. Now please spend your time doing something constructive like helping me figure who wrote the song in the trailer. It was Il Divo wasn't it?
July 22nd, 2009 at 08:22 pm please quit being a lazy douche bag and making a list of cult films "we should know" if you dont know them yourself. hey lets make a list of 10 great songs you should hear: dio-holy diver ....never actually heard it but these dudes with iron maiden shirts said it was a definite jam. you sir, are lame.
July 22nd, 2009 at 08:40 pm "No mention of The Dark Backward?" I'll mention it and I'll mention the fact that it's the best cult movie of all time.
July 22nd, 2009 at 09:34 pm Jesus. Christ. Vampire. Hunter.
July 23rd, 2009 at 04:38 am jesus christ vampire hunter totally beats jesus chrsit superstar
July 23rd, 2009 at 06:02 am
Thanks Anonymous!!
July 23rd, 2009 at 01:17 pm Ex drummer is not German, but BELGIAN. It's a completely other language and country!
July 23rd, 2009 at 01:57 pm At our local drive-in, over the radio before the show starts, they play cheesy old music, and the odd promo for their canteen. The canteen blurb includes a classic old timey old man movie voice saying the phrase "I haven't tried them myself, but I hear they're delicious: try our nachos!" That cracks me up every time. Dude, try the nachos. Which brings me to this point: Dude, watch the movies. Good list, but I gotta say (and agree with other posters) that it's really bad form to include those that you haven't seen.
July 23rd, 2009 at 05:10 pm What about Donnie Darko...
July 23rd, 2009 at 05:25 pm Hey, stop and think about it. Just because someone has seen it, doesn't mean their opinion of it is any better of a guide to whether YOU will like it. Is it a good list because you've seen them all or because you agree with the other posters? I only like lists that list movies I've seen or how else could I know it's a good list? I haven't seen any movies on this list so it is a very poor list. The best chance for a good list is one that has movies that lots of people have seen. Then, having seen most of them myself I can say, what an excellent list, it reflects my own good taste. Lists that include movies from other lists I have seen can be very good lists also.
July 23rd, 2009 at 05:56 pm FUCK A DEAD DUCK THERES ALOT OF LOSERS ON HERE, GO FUCK SOME WOMEN
July 24th, 2009 at 06:12 am Sleepaway Camp!
July 24th, 2009 at 07:40 am wait so some of the 10 cult films we "should know" are ones the writer doesn't even know?
July 24th, 2009 at 05:11 pm whats a movie?
July 24th, 2009 at 05:39 pm worst movies ever. you guys suck. so bad, in fact, its like a reverse troll...
July 24th, 2009 at 05:50 pm gummo
July 24th, 2009 at 06:21 pm Ex-Drummer is Belgian, fuckwad.
July 26th, 2009 at 07:52 am shoosh!
July 27th, 2009 at 12:42 am bubby like big tits ...best line from Bad Boy Bubby !!!!!
July 30th, 2009 at 01:21 pm I love Delicatessen, it's really really funny!
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:06 pm More big ups for Delicatessen, I've watched it without subtitles and it's still funny as hell. (I think hell is REAL funny).
August 5th, 2009 at 01:22 am No Rocky Horror??? I'm disappointed =(
August 5th, 2009 at 04:47 am awful list, think up an obvious idea, have no capacity to execute it to not be able to think of ten movies youd seen should be the end, but to not even understand what "cult movie" even means is weak icecream? a chair? star wars? not only is that night of the living dead thing far too long as a trailer, half the other CULT movies are well established and highly regarded like Happiness/delicatessen/american movie yes dross like rolling thunders works perfectly as does the gate but you probably dont know why unlucky for some 1 El Topo 2 breakin (breakdance) 3 rumblefish 4 my bloody valentine (orig) 5 Ichi The Killer 6 Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia 7 repo man 8 i spit on your grave 9 angel heart 10 casualtiesof war 11 heathers 12 salo (120 days of sodom) 13 seconds
August 5th, 2009 at 04:49 am sorry that mild tirade and list was julian, it doesnt ask your name, very cult
August 7th, 2009 at 04:01 pm What about The Rocky Horror Picture Show
August 11th, 2009 at 12:12 pm i am a huge cult movie fan recently got a fifth copy of death race 2000,oh yeah i finally got around to buying so of my older vhs upgrading them to dvd like my rudy ray moore collection,the marx brothers,sweetbackbadasssssong,watermelon man,cripple masters,john waters dvd collection,beggotten,every david lynch movie ever made ,wizards,fritz the cat,welcome to the doll house,cannibal the musical,suburbia,thrashin,repo man,fubar,the thing with two heads,pump up the volume,street trash,the it's alive trillogy,django,war of the gargantus,phillip mallowe,permanent midnight,jesus son,eltopo,brokken vessels,straight to hell,buddy boy,crippled masters,grunt,nothing,cube 1,2,3 ,water ship down,motel,man bites dog,danger diabolika,dirty harry, thunder birds are go