Guilty Pleasure Cult Classic Movies
 

Hello and good evening, everyone.

Here's another Zeta Phi 708 movie thread....

Name 1 or 2 movies that are cult classic movies that are guilty pleasures for fun viewing. Provide a link to a classic trailer from the 2 films, if possible.

"Heavy Metal" ( 1981 )= sorry, I won't post the one trailer I found. This is a PG website.

"The Monster Squad " ( 1987 )= http://youtu.be/TeZs0B0mjXY

Empire Records is a favorite of mine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it6hEeq73Xc

I love The Monster Squad! Did you know it's on one of the movie channels this month? Probably due to Halloween.

And keeping with my Halloween theme I'll add House II The Second Story (1987) to the above. I just love grandpa.

SHOWGIRLS!!!!!!!!!!

It's Versayce!!!

Harold and Maude

Trainspotting

Boondock Saints

Office Space

Monty Python and the Holy Grail !!!

The Monster Squad is a part of my vast DVD collection. It was held up from DVD release for years due to copyright issues; the same with Heavy Metal ( mostly music copyright issues on that one though ).

Bamboozled (Spike Lee)

* David Lynch: Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Wild at Heart

* Dune

* Anything by John Waters, especially his pre-Hairspray stuff

* Valley of the Dolls and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

* Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

* Eating Raoul

All the old Vincent Price movies they play this time of year. I love them all but my favorite is The Abominable Dr Phibes.

Hardware Wars

Clerks II - No one would expect me to find that film funny including me. It's completely vulgar and not my taste but ZOOOOMG that movie is hilarious!

Delta Delta Die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-7omZHMZc8

I bought all the copies of this movie in my city a few years back lol Remarkably stupid and less than a B-movie, but I cannot help but love it!

ETA: Just watched this trailer. There are a few NSFW cuts in it. Just FYI.

Polyester (Pretty much anything by John Waters but this is my favorite)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Black Christmas (The Original)
Evil Dead trilogy

My friends almost disowned me when I fell asleep during this one. :( In my defense, I was exhausted from school/work, it was a midnight showing, and sitting still in a dark theater was just asking for trouble.

While I spent a LOT of my misspent youth enjoying The Rocky Horror Picture Show, here's a partial list:

Marie Antoinette
The Women
Cool Runnings
Blazing Saddles
The Full Monty
Remember The Titans

and of course

Slap Shot.

This one is on your friends, not you. If you were sitting still at RHPS, you were at a lame showing with lame people.

One time they were going to show RHPS in our student center and a bunch of people showed up with props (toast, squirtguns, etc). The film "mysteriously" went off its reels or something and they couldn't show it. I don't think they expected people coming in who knew what they were doing.

Also, I don't think many of these are "guilty pleasures." A guilty pleasure is something critically panned and a lot of these are critically acclaimed, to say the least.

Well, okay, on 33Girl's criteria, we need "Insurance Salesmen from Saturn" and "It Came From Marlowe Heights".

"Overboard" with Goldie Hawn & Kurt Russell.

I am compelled to stop & watch that movie -- no matter if it's 10 minutes into the film or 10 minutes from the end.

I don't care how many Razzie's it won or how campy it is.

Mommie Dearest will forever and always be one of my favorite movies!!!

Faye Dunaway did an amazing job, but always gets crap for that film!

Oooh, which version of Marie Antoinette? The 2006 version with Kirsten Dunst? I love that one.

YES! DH refers to it as "Rock and Roll Marie Antoinette" and lets me enjoy it by myself.

Brother, I had the chance to meet Paul Bartel ("Eating Raoul") at an Atlanta Film Festival screening of his rarely seen "Shelf Life". He was a really cool guy. What to you think of Lynch's later work, such as Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks, etc.?

I loved DUNE in both the theatrical version and the DVD "director" cut.

Keep an eye on Turner Classic Movies. They are showing 45 of his films on Thursdays and Fridays this month. Good stuff.

I've always loved the movie Hocus Pocus even though it's nobody's idea of great cinema.

And I also loved Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. Such gorgeous sets and costumes. Almost makes me with that pannier skirts were still in style!

I've got a list longer than my arm but off the top of my head:

Trilogy of Terror--Effen tiki doll! I l-a-u-g-h myself silly every time I see it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLFqtrm2R1s

Sleepaway Camp -- The original campy camp killer slasher. Angela was a beeyotch. Only the original, the rest kicked rocks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pjjuFT6QF4

Pan's Labyrinth -- Just freakin awesome, amazing, sad, beautiful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqYiSlkvRuw
(with English subtitles)

Barbarella (1968) - Could you burn out the Excessive Machine like Jane Fonda?

LOL I'll second this.

My husband used to be a Rocky Horror Picture Show freak. There was a theater around Chicago where if you saw it there 69 times you got in for free in the future. He dressed like one of the characters, knew all the lines, and also the standardized come-back lines. I guess it was a whole subculture. Thank God that this was way before I knew him.

I have three favorite movies: Gone With the Wind, The Fabulous Baker Boys, and The Big Easy. Let me watch any of these again and I'm a real happy camper.

Fast times at ridgemont high I graduated high school in 1983 and I swear to god it was just like my high school .Slap shot great movie.

Looooove that one. I might even watch it tonight. :)

Have you read the Antonia Fraser book upon which Sofia Coppola based the book? One of my favorites...

My niece called me today, pissed cause she's missing the midnight Rocky showing tonight. LOL

My boyfriend loves this movie! He told me I HAD to watch it, so we caught it when it was on tv about a month ago. It's not exactly "great cinema," but as he said, "It's just something you HAVE to watch at least once."

...And it's on this Sunday night on ABC Family!

...And buzzfeed.com has been Hocus Pocus obsessed for the last month or two. Here ya go!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/search?q=hocus+pocus

I do agree that HOCUS POCUS has become a new cult classic; would love for them to draft a sequel.

The ultimate 80's musical trifecta:

"Xanadu" (with Olivia Newton John and Gene Kelly)
"Grease 2" (with Michelle Pfiffer and Maxwell Caufield)
"The Pirate Movie" (with Kristy McNichol and Christopher Atkins)

Nothing like watching these movies on a rainy Sunday and wishing roller disco, cool riders and singing, dancing pirates would come back into vogue.

Because this is a new thread, I'm not freaked out that the newer cult classics aren't listed:

Clueless
Donnie Darko
Requiem for a Dream
Orgasmo

Does "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" count?

Yes, those do count, and Darko and Requiem are high on my list of cult classics.

I've got a creepy story of DTMTBD, back in it's release in 91, I was projection supervisor at a movie theater; after the end of the first show one day, we had a male customer sitting in the front row; he had a bottle of sleeping pills in his hand and yes, this was a suicide attempt. We called an ambulance and he did survive but we did have to cancel the 2nd showing that day while the authorities completed their investigation.

Sometimes when my boss is driving me up the wall, I have to restrain myself from blurting out, "I'm right on top of that, Rose!"