Top 10 Cult Movies 
created by intheair on August 3, 2006 10:06 AM
Here's a list of the top 10 cult movies. Add your favorites to the list and the community can vote their pics.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) (first released in the United Kingdom on 14 August 1975) is a comedy-horror musical film directed by Jim Sharman from a screenplay by Sharman and Richard O'Brien, who also composed the songs. The film was based on O'Brien's long-running stage production The Rocky Horror Show. After an unexceptional first run, the movie went on to become a cult hit which continues to play weekly in many theaters (usually at midnight). Fans often attend viewings dressed as characters from the film and respond ritualistically to certain events by throwing food, using props, yelling jokes, dancing, and cheering.
The film stars Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Curry. "Little" Nell Campbell, Patricia Quinn, Peter Hinwood, Jonathan Adams, Charles Gray, and O'Brien are featured in supporting roles, while British character actor Christopher Biggins appears in the chorus. Rock singer Meat Loaf makes a brief appearance for one song. Curry, O'Brien, Quinn, Campbell and Adams were in the original cast of the play, and Meat Loaf joined them when the show originally went to the United States at The Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles. It is the highest grossing movie never to be played in more than 1000 theaters.
In 2005, The United States National Film Preservation Board added The Rocky Horror Picture Show to the National Film Registry.
The film stars Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Curry. "Little" Nell Campbell, Patricia Quinn, Peter Hinwood, Jonathan Adams, Charles Gray, and O'Brien are featured in supporting roles, while British character actor Christopher Biggins appears in the chorus. Rock singer Meat Loaf makes a brief appearance for one song. Curry, O'Brien, Quinn, Campbell and Adams were in the original cast of the play, and Meat Loaf joined them when the show originally went to the United States at The Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles. It is the highest grossing movie never to be played in more than 1000 theaters.
In 2005, The United States National Film Preservation Board added The Rocky Horror Picture Show to the National Film Registry.
by intheair on August 3, 2006 10:07 AM
Scarface
Scarface is a 1983 motion picture directed by Brian de Palma, written by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana, a fictional Cuban refugee who comes to Florida in 1980 as a result of the Mariel Boatlift. Kicked out of Cuba for being an assassin, Tony becomes a gangster against the backdrop of the 1980s cocaine boom; the movie chronicles his rise to the top of Miami's criminal underworld and subsequent downfall. The film is loosely based on the 1932 fictionalized Al Capone biopic, Scarface.
by intheair on August 3, 2006 10:08 AM
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) is an Academy Award nominated musical film based on the 1964 children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by British author Roald Dahl. It was directed by Mel Stuart and starred Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka and Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket.
While the film was not a commercial success at the time of its release, it has since grown into a cult classic with both children and adults. Some find the film's dated look and special effects to be unintentionally campy or psychedelic, though Wilder's acting is usually singled out for praise. A second film adaptation of the children's book, titled Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was released in 2005. It was directed by Tim Burton and stars Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket.
While the film was not a commercial success at the time of its release, it has since grown into a cult classic with both children and adults. Some find the film's dated look and special effects to be unintentionally campy or psychedelic, though Wilder's acting is usually singled out for praise. A second film adaptation of the children's book, titled Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was released in 2005. It was directed by Tim Burton and stars Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket.
by intheair on August 3, 2006 10:08 AM
Slap Shot
Slap Shot is a 1977 Hollywood film starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean and directed by George Roy Hill. The film is based on a book written by Nancy Dowd, based in part on her brother Ned Dowd's experiences playing minor league hockey in the United States in the Seventies, during which time violence -- especially in the low minors -- was the selling point of the game.
It is considered a classic sports movie and many consider it the best hockey movie, and one of the best sports movies, ever made.
It is considered a classic sports movie and many consider it the best hockey movie, and one of the best sports movies, ever made.
by intheair on August 3, 2006 10:09 AM
