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"What makes a cult film?"

Let me tell you what i think makes a cult film. Not all of these apply to every cult film, but some may apply to certain cult films, that do not apply to others(if you get me)

1. Bad rep during release, meaning that the film is first sneered upon.

2. SEX, lots and lots of sex.

3. extreme use Foul language or violance.

4. Strange lingos and expressions.

5. Unusual characters.

6. If the film has a sequal(s) then there are usually links even if the films are completely different (Kevin Smith films for example)

7. Sad endings.

8. Enough plot twists to get you caught up.

9. Exploitation.

10. making the censors pull their hair out, trying to make the film less 'offending'.

11. A director that is a few sandwhichs short of a picnic, or so caught up in their art filled mind that the film becomes very surreal.

Did i miss anything? please feel free to correct me (unless you are obsessed with gimps and only desire to turn me into one)

I thing that deserves a lol. So a LOL, to you Tarrantman.

Oh..err...right. Um, it's all wrong, I argue every point, Tarrantman, and you smell of chickens.

Things you need for an Indie film

1) Harrison Ford

2) Dusty/ dirty settings

3) A generic bad guy, preferably specific to one nation. Stereotypes welcomed.

4) That strange English bloke who seems to know very little.

5) A random chick for Indie to get it on with


Or have I missed something?

:o)

Cult film = the most misused term in film, it's a film with a small but fanatical following. Nothing more, nothing less.

The short lists of pointers on what's in a "cult film" that everyone has posted so far are more akin to indi film, but really that's not correct either as they are just lists of things that could be in almost any film in any genre (not that I'm syaing "cult" is a genre).

Stryke wrote:
> Am I too late to call BradW a gimp? Damn.




My sources tell me its never too late.

does it have to have a gimp in it to make it a cult film? they need to have quotable lines, and scenes which us weirdoes can act out over and over...

Am I too late to call BradW a gimp? Damn.

It's sort of like admitting you watched the saturday night live film; Ladie's Man.

They are the same people that made Wayne's World. It is a stroy about a radio show host who.....oh my, i am sort of admitting it arn't i?

don't worry, I was just commenting on the actor. I loved Magnolia, it's probably one of my top 10 films. I liked Mystery Men too, but I shouldn't really tell anyone that.

i never said i liked the films. I said he led me through them.

Hence LED, as if the films where quite.... you know.

I did kinda like Magnolia

BradW wrote:
> A man who has led me through such films a Magnolia,
> Mystery Men and Jurrassic Park 3.

Magnolia was a brilliant William H. Macy film, Mystery Men was cool in a geeky kinda way.. and jurassic parc 3... he was the film's solitary redeeming feature. They actually started shooting that film without a script, you'd never have been able to tell, would you? :-)