Cult Movies: We Want Lips! (list updated 9/7/09 1:52pm)

In my formative teen youth, I had just started working for a movie theatre. I already had a large appreciation for movies due to my parents ranging from the horror movie influence from my father and MG musicals from my mother. My first horror film I watched was the 1931 Lugosi movie DRACULA with my dad when I was 5. I am probably the only straight guy the will go "There goes the trolly!" if somebody yelled "Clang clang clang!". Thanks Mom! Working at the theatre just cemented my love movies even more. I love movies so much that I had given up programming as a career and now run a movie theatre. I do not watch as many movies on the big screen as I like or used to due to the responsibility of running a theatre, but I still see more movies in a year than most people see in a lifetime. With that said, a few months after I started working at the movie theatre in 1986, I was told I should see THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW because of my already forming eclectic tastes in movies. I did. I was never the same after that.

My mom's influence of the musicals and my dad's influence of horror films, I was doomed to get sucked in. I became consumed with it and ended up joining the cast shortly after that. I was truly accepted for being the oddball I was (and still am). When that cast was disbanded in 1990, I joined another (rival) cast. The 1st 4 years of shows were twice a weekend every weekend. I have seen that movie close to 1000 times, if not more. I performed for overall 11 years until I became the big boss man of a theatre and had to move away. However, I still keep in contact most of those friends I made in both casts. Yay Facebook and Twitter! They are like family to me. During the 11 period of performing, I consumed an incredible amount movies at home and at the theatre. At times, a week did not go by where I saw at least 10 -12 movies in that week at home and at the theatre. It did not matter if it was good or bad. I truly had an education in film. I am no Roger Ebert or Scorese with a super wealth of movie history or knowledge, but I know movies.

Now to the point. I have an overall love of movies but I have a penchant for sci fi, action, horror and comedy. Those genres fit quite nicely into cult movies. I have a very soft spot in my heart (not in my head silly) for these cult films. Now that I have been running a theatre as the GM for over 12 years, I just realized that I have some influence in setting up special run movies and festivals. Why it took me this long is beyond me. My plan is to run Friday midnights of cult movies. I have so far come up with a list of about 115 (and adding) titles with some help from the Twitterverse and Facebook. I will be posting below this list and updating this blog to reflect additions to the list. I am now asking you, the reader, if you are into such things as well and what would you like to see (listed or not)? I am looking for CULT MOVIES, not classics. If it is more popular than ROCKY HORROR, it is probably main stream. What would you pay for to see on the big screen? What does and does not belong on this list and why? Once I finalize this list, I will setup a presentation for my booker and superiors. They will check to see what movie are still in print and available for circulation. Hopefully all will go well and I will have these on screen every Friday at midnight on my giant screen by February of 2010.

One last thing, I am looking for ideas for a title of what to call this series. It can be straight laced and informative of what it is, like MIDNIGHT CULT MOVIE MADNESS, or something off the wall like THE TOMATOES OF WRATH CULT MOVIE SERIES. Whatever the best title ends up being, I will have you credited in the art work. I will put up a poll on Twitter for the series title once I have enough ideas and allow the Twitterverse vote on it...yay mob rule.

And now on to the main event. Here is the list so far...

A Bucket of Blood

Akira

Altered States

American Pop

Attack Of the Killer Tomatoes

Baraka

Barbarella

Blue Velvet

Boogie Nights

Boondock Saints

Brazil

Cannibal: The Musical

CB4

Cecil B Demented

City Of Lost Children

Clerks

Clockwork Orange

Dark City

Dazed & Confused

Dead Alive

Delicatessen

Demons

Donnie Darko

Doom Generation

Eraserhead

Escape From New York

Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn

Faces of Death, Vol. 1

Faster, Pussy-Cat! Kill! Kill!

Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas

Fight Club

Flash Gordon

Flesh for Frankenstein

Flesh Gordon

Freaks

Fritz The Cat

From Dusk Till Dawn

Hairspray

Half Baked

Hard Boiled

Harold & Maude

Heathers

Heavy Metal

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

House of a 1000 Corpses

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

I Spit On Your Grave

Ichi The Killer

Kentucky Fried Movie

Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

Killer Klowns From Outer Space

Koyaanisqatsi

Leon

Lunatics: A Love Story

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python's Life Of Brian

Monty Python's Meaning Of Life

Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie

Naked Lunch

Natural Born Killers

Near Dark

Night Of The Living Dead

Old Boy

Orgazmo

Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Phantom of The Paradise

Pink Flamingos (anything from John Waters)

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Plan 9 From Outer Space

Polyester

Pootie Tang

Powaqatsi

Raising Arizona

Re-Animator

Reefer Madness (original)

Repo : The Genetic Opera

Repo Man

Requiem For A Dream

Resevoir Dogs

Return Of The Living Dead

Rock & Rule

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Santa Claus Conquers The Martions

Shaun of the Dead

Shock Treatment

Slither

Snatch

Spanking The Monkey

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert

The Big Lebowski

The Dead Next Door

The Devil's Rejects

The Gods Must Be Crazy

The Hunger

The Man Who Fell to Earth

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Raven

The Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)

The Toxic Avenger

The Warriors

They Live

This Is Spinal Tap

THX 1138

Time Bandits

Tommy

UHF

Vanishing Point

Videodrome

Watership Down

Wet Hot American Summer

Wizards

Yellow Submarine

Zardoz