Description: Cult classics from the video store era + newer that have achieved cult status. The good, the bad, the hilarious good-bad, the weird, the ones everyone quotes, the Hollywood cult icons. Get your popcorn!
updated oct 2025
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
( 1993 )
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.
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Mars Attacks!
( 1996 )
Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.
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The Goonies
( 1985 )
A group of young misfits called The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on an adventure to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure.
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Network
( 1976 )
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about mass media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.
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The Thing
( 1982 )
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
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Apocalypse Now
( 1979 )
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
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Psycho
( 1960 )
A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
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Spaceballs
( 1987 )
A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.
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Bride of Frankenstein
( 1935 )
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
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Surf Nazis Must Die
( 1987 )
When the son of a gun-wielding woman is murdered by neo-Nazi surf punks in the post-apocalyptic future, his Mama hunts them down for some bloodthirsty revenge.
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Crumb
( 1995 )
An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.
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The Deer Hunter
( 1979 )
The lives of a group of friends are forever changed by the Vietnam War.
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Starship Troopers
( 1997 )
Humans, in a fascist militaristic future, wage war with giant alien bugs.
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Gremlins
( 1984 )
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
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Glen or Glenda
( 1953 )
A psychiatrist tells the stories of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda) and a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne).
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Empire
( 1964 )
A single shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.
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Chelsea Girls
( 1966 )
Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.
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The Trip
( 1967 )
A disillusioned TV-commercial director is guided by his friend through an LSD trip, during which he evaluates his identity and his relationships with women.
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The Bed Sitting Room
( 1970 )
Post-apocalyptic England. Survivors navigate surreal wasteland, mutating into inanimate objects. Girl living on train meets commuter and doctor. Follows their interactions amidst chaos, focusing on girl's pregnancy.
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Midnight Cowboy
( 1969 )
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
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Johnny Got His Gun
( 1971 )
During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.
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Jubilee
( 1978 )
Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.
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The Road Warrior
( 1982 )
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community get rid of a horde of bandits.
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Dirty Dancing
( 1987 )
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
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Dead Ringers
( 1988 )
Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
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Slacker
( 1991 )
A day in the life of Austin, Texas as the camera roams from place to place and provides a brief look at the overeducated, the social misfits, the outcasts and the oddballs.
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
( 1992 )
Laura Palmer's harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of Twin Peaks' neighboring town.
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Crash
( 1997 )
A car crash victim suddenly finds himself turned on by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground sub-culture of like-minded souls.
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Buffalo '66
( 1998 )
After being released from prison, Billy is set to visit his parents with his wife, whom he does not actually have. This provokes Billy to act out, as he kidnaps a girl and forces her to act as his wife for the visit.
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The Blair Witch Project
( 1999 )
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
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Compliance
( 2012 )
A normal Friday service at a fast food restaurant becomes interrupted by a police officer who claims an employee stole from a customer, but something more sinister is going on.
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Pootie Tang
( 2001 )
"The Man" is baffled by a chill hero's invincible weapon: gibberish.
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Willard
( 2003 )
A young man with an unusual connection to rats uses them at his own sociopathic will.
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Man on Wire
( 2008 )
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century".
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Road House
( 2024 )
Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.
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Cocaine Crabs from Outer Space
( 2022 )
When a couple of intergalactic space crabs land on Earth, they encounter the one thing they didn't expect - A duo of dumb frat boys force-feeding them cocaine. As it turns out, cocaine gives space crabs an overbearing impulse to kill.
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The Predator
( 2018 )
When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.
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Curve (Short 2016)
( 2016 )
Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a girl tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death.
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Go
( 1999 )
The aftermath of a drug deal as told from three different points of view.
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UHF
( 1989 )
An unemployed visionary becomes the manager of a local television station. The station becomes a success, with all sorts of hilarious sight gags and wacky humor.
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Mickey 17
( 2025 )
Mickey 17, known as an "expendable," goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet.
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Slither
( 2006 )
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
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Afterburn
( 2025 )
After a massive solar flare destroys the Earth's eastern hemisphere, an emboldened treasure hunter for hire adventures to Europe to uncover the coveted Mona Lisa, only to learn the world needs a hero more than it needs a painting.
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Bugonia
( 2025 )
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
( 2025 )
The Bride must kill her ex-boss and lover Bill who betrayed her at her wedding rehearsal, shot her in the head and took away her unborn daughter. But first, she must make the other four members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad suffer.
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