Top 5 Cult Classics Every Movie Fan Should Watch
A b-movie is a low budget commercial motion picture.
Laughably bad acting, overacting and cheesy dialogue are a necessity.
If a b-movie manages to achieve the perfect balance between actors, plot and dialogue it could become a cult classic.
Crafting a movie to win over an audience is not an easy thing to do.
Even big budget productions rarely get the formula right.
There is such a fine line between the magic that can inspire a cult following and just plain bad filmmaking.
The films I have listed here managed to get all of it right.
Frankenhooker (1990) A medical school drop-out turned mad scientist loses his girlfriend in a freak accident with a remote control operated lawn mower that he created.
The only thing from the accident that he could save was her head, which he keeps preserved in the freezer.
The missing body parts he collects by causing prostitutes to explode and gathering up the limbs.
In a hilarious lift from The Bride of Frankenstein, he reassembles and revives his girlfriend.
Psycho Beach Party (2000) This campy fusion of 1960's beach party flicks and 1970's slasher films was based on the Off-Broadway play of the same name.
Perky Florence, who suffers from dissociative identity disorder, fears that her alter ego may be responsible for a series of grisly murders.
The Toxic Avenger (1984) Troma Entertainment, known for low budget films with campy concepts, produced this twisted take on the superhero genre.
Melvin the mop boy was an unpopular 98 pound nerd until he fell into a drum of toxic waste, transforming him into a deformed creature of superhuman size and strength.
Ignored upon initial release, the film caught on after a long and successful midnight movie engagement at the Bleeker Street Cinemas in New York City.
The Evil Dead (1981) This feature film debut from Sam Raimi was shot on 16mm for around $350,000.
Raimi would later go on to direct the trilogy of Spiderman films but his star, actor and friend Bruce Campbell never really broke free of low budget films and many see him as the undisputed b-movie master.
Campbell plays the role of Ash, one of five vacationing college kids making an unplanned stop in an old abandoned cabin in the woods.
Evil spirits from the depths of the forest arrive to make this a vacation b-movie fans have never forgotten.
Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy (1968) Jane Fonda portrays Barbarella, an interstellar representative of the United Earth government.
In the 41st century, the President of Earth sends Barbarella on a mission to rescue the inventor of the Positronic Ray in order to save the Earth from destruction.
The plot doesn't have to make sense, it is a cult classic.
Laughably bad acting, overacting and cheesy dialogue are a necessity.
If a b-movie manages to achieve the perfect balance between actors, plot and dialogue it could become a cult classic.
Crafting a movie to win over an audience is not an easy thing to do.
Even big budget productions rarely get the formula right.
There is such a fine line between the magic that can inspire a cult following and just plain bad filmmaking.
The films I have listed here managed to get all of it right.
Frankenhooker (1990) A medical school drop-out turned mad scientist loses his girlfriend in a freak accident with a remote control operated lawn mower that he created.
The only thing from the accident that he could save was her head, which he keeps preserved in the freezer.
The missing body parts he collects by causing prostitutes to explode and gathering up the limbs.
In a hilarious lift from The Bride of Frankenstein, he reassembles and revives his girlfriend.
Psycho Beach Party (2000) This campy fusion of 1960's beach party flicks and 1970's slasher films was based on the Off-Broadway play of the same name.
Perky Florence, who suffers from dissociative identity disorder, fears that her alter ego may be responsible for a series of grisly murders.
The Toxic Avenger (1984) Troma Entertainment, known for low budget films with campy concepts, produced this twisted take on the superhero genre.
Melvin the mop boy was an unpopular 98 pound nerd until he fell into a drum of toxic waste, transforming him into a deformed creature of superhuman size and strength.
Ignored upon initial release, the film caught on after a long and successful midnight movie engagement at the Bleeker Street Cinemas in New York City.
The Evil Dead (1981) This feature film debut from Sam Raimi was shot on 16mm for around $350,000.
Raimi would later go on to direct the trilogy of Spiderman films but his star, actor and friend Bruce Campbell never really broke free of low budget films and many see him as the undisputed b-movie master.
Campbell plays the role of Ash, one of five vacationing college kids making an unplanned stop in an old abandoned cabin in the woods.
Evil spirits from the depths of the forest arrive to make this a vacation b-movie fans have never forgotten.
Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy (1968) Jane Fonda portrays Barbarella, an interstellar representative of the United Earth government.
In the 41st century, the President of Earth sends Barbarella on a mission to rescue the inventor of the Positronic Ray in order to save the Earth from destruction.
The plot doesn't have to make sense, it is a cult classic.
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