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Video Store Cult Movie Section
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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 nov 2024


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Movie: 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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Movie: Mars Attacks! ( 1996 )
Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.
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Movie: The Goonies ( 1985 )
A group of young misfits who call themselves The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on a quest to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure.
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Movie: Network ( 1976 )
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.
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Movie: 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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Movie: 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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Movie: Psycho ( 1960 )
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
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Movie: 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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Movie: The Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 )
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
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Movie: 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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Movie: Crumb ( 1995 )
An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.
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Movie: The Deer Hunter ( 1979 )
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
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Movie: Starship Troopers ( 1997 )
Humans, in a fascist militaristic future, wage war with giant alien bugs.
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Movie: Gremlins ( 1984 )
A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
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Movie: 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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Movie: Empire ( 1965 )
A single shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.
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Movie: 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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Movie: The Trip ( 1967 )
Paul Groves (Peter Fonda), a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John (Bruce Dern), a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his first "trip". John takes Paul to a "freak-out" at his friend Max's (Dennis Hopper) pad. Splitting the scene, they score some acid from Max and return to John's split-level pad with an indoor/outdoor pool. Paul experiences visions of sex, death, strobe lights, flowers, dancing girls, witches, hooded riders, a torture chamber, and a dwarf. He panics but John tells him to "go with it, man." Would you trust John?
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Movie: The Bed Sitting Room ( 1970 )
Set in post-nuclear-holocaust England, where a handful of bizarre characters struggle on with their lives in the ruins, amongst endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, muddy plains, and heaps of dentures and old boots. Patriotically singing "God Save Mrs. Ethel Shroake, Long Live Mrs. Ethel Shroake", they wander through this surrealistic landscape, forever being warned by the police to "keep moving", and prone to the occasional mutation into a parrot, cupboard, or even, yes, a bed sitting room with "No Wogs" scrawled in the grime on its windows. In particular, this story revolves around the odd "love story" of a girl who lives with her parents in one compartment of a London Underground train, the commuter in the next compartment, and the doctor they meet after returning above ground in search of a nurse for the heavily pregnant girl.
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Movie: 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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Movie: Johnny Got His Gun ( 1972 )
In this tragic, dark, anti-war satire, a patriotic young American in WW1 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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Movie: Jubilee ( 1978 )
Queen Elisabeth 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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Movie: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior ( 1981 )
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich community escape a horde of bandits.
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Movie: 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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Movie: 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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Movie: 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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Movie: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 )
A young FBI agent disappears while investigating a murder miles from Twin Peaks that may be related to the future murder of Laura Palmer; the last week of the life of Laura Palmer is chronicled.
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Movie: Crash ( 1997 )
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
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Movie: 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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Movie: 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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Movie: 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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Movie: Pootie Tang ( 2001 )
"The Man" is baffled by a chill hero's invincible weapon: gibberish.
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Movie: Willard ( 2003 )
A young man with an unusual connection to rats uses them at his own sociopathic will.
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Movie: Man on Wire ( 2008 )
On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit, a French wire walker, juggler, and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday, spent 45 minutes walking, dancing, kneeling, and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Uses contemporary interviews, archival footage, and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, his passions and friendships, and the details of the night before the walk: getting cable into the towers, hiding from guards, and mounting the wire. It ends with observations of the profound changes the walk's success brought to Philippe and those closest to him.
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Movie: 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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Movie: 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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Movie: 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.