My Top 13 Favorite Cult Classics
by Mvpkinger | created - 13 Jun 2014 | updated - 20 Jun 2014 | Public"Gone With The Wind" and "The Godfather" are great movies. In this list, I want to celebrate my favorite cult classics. Enjoy!
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1. The Astro-Zombies (1968)
92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The Plan - to build a super human. How? By murdering innocent, convenient victims, and using various bits of them. The result? Creatures on the rampage.
Director: Ted V. Mikels | Stars: Wendell Corey, John Carradine, Tom Pace, Joan Patrick
Votes: 2,788
This movie was co-written, directed, and produced by Ted V. Mikels. In this film, Dr. DeMarco (John Carradine) creates an Astro-Zombie from a criminal's dead body. He loses control of his creation, which goes on a killing spree. The CIA and a group of international spies, including the sexy Tura Satana, are after the Astro-Zombie.
2. Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfolds (1995)
R | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A magazine centerfold overdoses on a beauty-enhancement drug and grows 60 feet tall.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: J.J. North, Ted Monte, Raelyn Saalman, Tammy Parks
Votes: 1,097
This movie was directed by Fred Olen Ray. One of the finalists for Centerfold of the Year is Angel Grace (J.J. North). Angel is involved in a secret beauty enhancement program. She overdoses on the secret beauty formula, and grows to be 60-feet tall! Angel's rival Betty (Tammy Parks) discovers Angel's secret, and takes the formula herself, causing her to grow to 60-feet tall.
3. Barb Wire (1996)
R | 98 min | Action, Sci-Fi
During the Second American Civil War in 2017, Barb Wire owns a nightclub called the Hammerhead. Things become complicated when her ex-lover Axel Hood, who is married to the fugitive Corrina Devonshire, re-enters her life.
Director: David Hogan | Stars: Pamela Anderson, Amir AboulEla, Adriana Alexander, David Andriole
Votes: 31,270 | Gross: $3.79M
Pamela Anderson stars as the movie's main character, named Barb Wire. The action takes place in the year 2017, when the Second Civil War is in full force. She runs a nightclub in the last free city in America. The rest of country is controlled by the Congressional Directorate. They suspect Barb of trafficking in black-market contraband, which gets her into plenty of trouble.
4. The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
Unrated | 54 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A defecting Soviet scientist is hit by a nuclear explosion near Yucca Flats and roams around as a beast.
Director: Coleman Francis | Stars: Douglas Mellor, Barbara Francis, Bing Stafford, Larry Aten
Votes: 10,432
Coleman Francis wrote, produced and directed this movie. Joseph Javorsky (Tor Johnson) is a defecting Russian nuclear physicist fleeing Soviet agents. He accidentally stumbles into the test site for an A-bomb explosion, and is turned into a mutated, murdering monster!
5. Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979)
X | 93 min | Comedy
Believe it or not, even Smalltown USA still has people who are unfulfilled and unrelieved in the midst of plenty. Levonna and Lamar could have the perfect relationship, were it not for Lamar's obsession with rear entry.
Director: Russ Meyer | Stars: Kitten Natividad, Ann Marie, Ken Kerr, June Mack
Votes: 3,349
This movie was co-written, directed, and produced by Russ Meyer. Lamar Shedd (Ken Kerr) can't sexually satisfy his wife Lavonia (Kitten Natividad). Lavonia, with the aid of a wig and a Mexican accent, becomes a stripper named Lola Langusta. Lola proceeds to bed down many men. Lamar is put through a series of cures, culminating with the laying on of hands by a radio faith-healer named Sister Eufaula Roop, played by the super-stacked Anne Marie (67-25-36).
6. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
X | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs, and sleaze.
Director: Russ Meyer | Stars: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John Lazar
Votes: 12,024 | Gross: $2.66M
This movie was co-written, produced, and directed by Russ Meyer. Kelly McNamara (Dolly Read), Casey Anderson (Cynthia Myers), and Petronella Danforth (Marcia McBroom), are members of the all-girl rock band called the Carrie Nations. The Carrie Nations achieve great success, with hit records, and sold-out concerts. However, the constant touring, alcohol and drug use, and indiscriminate sexual encounters, take their toll.
7. Deadly Weapons (1974)
R | 75 min | Crime, Thriller
After the mob hits a guy with a list, one of the hoods keeps it for himself. When the mobsters find out he's a double-crosser, they off him, which angers his busty girlfriend. She goes after them using the only two weapons she has.
Director: Doris Wishman | Stars: Chesty Morgan, Harry Reems, Richard Towers, Saul Meth
Votes: 1,365
This movie was directed by Doris Wishman. Crystal (Chesty Morgan) is very upset that some gangsters killed her boyfriend. She tracks down the murderers and smothers them to death, by shoving their faces into her copious cleavage. What a way to go!
8. Night of the Lepus (1972)
PG | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west.
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 5,453
In this movie, college president Elgin Clark (DeForest Kelley) calls in zoologist Roy Bennett (Stuart Whitman) and his wife Gerry (Janet Leigh), to help control the exploding rabbit population. Roy injects them with hormones and genetically mutated blood, in order to disrupt rabbit reproduction. Instead, he creates gigantic, bloodthirsty bunnies!
9. Red Zone Cuba (1966)
89 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Escaped convict Griffin and his friends ran all the way to Hell...with a penny, and a broken cigarette.
Director: Coleman Francis | Stars: Coleman Francis, Anthony Cardoza, Harold Saunders, John Carradine
Votes: 6,527
Coleman Francis wrote, directed, and produced this movie, which is also known as "Red Zone Cuba." Griffin (Coleman Francis) escapes from jail, and runs into Cook (Harold Saunders) and Landis (Anthony Cardoza). The three make their way to an airstrip run by Cherokee Jack (George Prince), who flies them to a military training facility, where they will be paid to take part in the Bay of Pigs invasion.
10. Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
When eccentric man-child Pee-wee Herman gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger
Votes: 59,066 | Gross: $40.90M
This movie was directed by Tim Burton. Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) goes forth in search of his stolen bicycle, and finds himself along the way, as well as his bicycle.
11. Pink Flamingos (1972)
NC-17 | 93 min | Comedy, Crime
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
Director: John Waters | Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole
Votes: 27,883 | Gross: $0.18M
This controversial movie was written and directed by John Waters. Divine stars as Lady Divine, a homicidal dominatrix who robs and kills people that are lured into Lady Divine's Cavalcade of Perversions.
12. Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
Not Rated | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Evil aliens attack Earth and set their terrible "Plan 9" into action. As the aliens resurrect the dead of the Earth, the lives of the living are in danger.
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. | Stars: Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore
Votes: 40,389
This masterpiece was produced, written, and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. Aliens resurrect dead humans as zombies and vampires, to stop earthlings from creating the Solaranite bomb. Bela Lugosi appears in footage shot just before his death on August 16, 1956. Ed wrote the script to accommodate all of the footage he shot in a cemetery, and outside Tor Johnson's house, that was used in the finished film.
13. Rat Pfink and Boo Boo (1966)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Action, Thriller
After stopping three crooks from robbing an innocent woman, two dimwits become crime fighters.
Director: Ray Dennis Steckler | Stars: Carolyn Brandt, Ron Haydock, Titus Moede, George Caldwell
Votes: 968
Ray Dennis Steckler co-wrote and directed this film. Cee Bee Beaumont (Carolyn Brandt), the girlfriend of rockabilly superstar Lonnie Lord (Ron Haydock), is kidnapped by the Chain Gang. Lonnie Lord and Titus Twimbly (Titus Moede) go to her rescue as superheroes Rat Pfink and Boo Boo! Rat Pfink: "This looks like a job for You-Know and Who!"
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