Underappreciated cult classic movies

[Pburch]

What's your favourites? Mine are Dog Soldiers (great acting, poor costumes!) closely followed by Idiocracy.
A couple of great films but maybe slightly under the radar.

 

[Hollowpoint]

What's your favourites? Mine are Dog Soldiers (great acting, poor costumes!) closely followed by Idiocracy.
A couple of great films but maybe slightly under the radar.

Love dog soldiers. Never seen Idiocracy. Will give that a try.

 

[landymick]

Good film
Badlands was a favourite but I don’t think it was unappreciated.Also liked True Romance .

 

[Manley JP]

American Graffiti, Two Lane Blacktop, Gone in 60 seconds, Vanishing Point, all 60s/70s road movies.. To live and Die In LA. (80s LA cop drama - awesome film). More mainstream but classic- Pat Garett and Billy the Kid 1973, Jeremiah Johnson, (Mountain Man). The Bounty Hunters (Yul Brynner). Westworld (original). ...

 

[Quentyn]

What's your favourites? Mine are Dog Soldiers (great acting, poor costumes!) closely followed by Idiocracy.
A couple of great films but maybe slightly under the radar.

Two amazing movies

Can I suggest dark city?

And evil dead 3 - The army of darkness - a movie where they decided to dispense with the horror aspect and just go for a comedy

 

[Manley JP]

Arh.. my brothers all time favourite. And one of mine too,because of the Greek Myths aspect, Hercules in New York.. full of bad editing and doggy plot, great fun but pretty dappy. Stars the voice artist Arnold Stang, top cat and officer dibble, plus
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger pre Conan and Terminator days.

 

[briane]

The Thing From Another World......1951

 

[JAA7]

"Big Trouble in Little China"

Sends up everything from beginning to end, especially Kurt Russel mocking macho 80's action heros for all he's worth.

 

[Wing Commander]

"Rocky Horror Picture Show."

 

[fineogs]

Ronin is a great cult film.

 

[mjr1983]

The Langoliers. A science fiction movie about an aeroplane where most of Its passengers suddenly disappear during the flight, and the few that are left wake up to deserted surroundings everywhere

 

[briane]

The Langoliers. A science fiction movie about an aeroplane where most of Its passengers suddenly disappear during the flight, and the few that are left wake up to deserted surroundings

Thats Easyjet for you

 

[Dodododger]

Withnail & I and Little shop of horrors

 

[Ssubman]

The Outsiders (1983) starring Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez
think its just one of those beautiful films to watch that probably not many people have seen.

 

[Pburch]

Some great suggestions so far to look out for

 

[HW42]

The day the earth stood still (1951)
The Night of the Demon, and the all time classic The Wicker Man.

 

[Mattsutton]

I second for dog soldiers. Also Brazil was a great film.

 

[Flashheart]

Return of the Living Dead - a near forgotten campy 80’s zombie film with brilliant practical effects

Critters - as above but with little red-eyed monsters, spawned some terrible sequels.

Death Wish 3 - Over the top, a bit crap but very fun. Fun gun fact: every time it was aired on TV in the states demand for the Wildey .475 magnum spiralled.

Dredd - hugely violent (slow motion bullet-penetration through a face type of violence) but with a surprisingly well executed story.

 

[Brooksy]

Not a cult classic I suppose, Saving Mr Banks, excellent and definitely under rated.

 

[Byronic]

Withnail & I and Little shop of horrors

Excellent suggestions,

Don't forget

"An American Werewolf in London" - the sequel "in Paris" is markedly inferior, I reckon.

"The Blues Brothers" original, again the sequel is poor.

"Crossroads" - nothing to do with the cardboard Motel TV series!
Superb electric guitar "duel" at the end, even my 80 year old mother enjoyed it! (Steve Vai and Ry Cooder's hands)

"The Terminator" plus T2 - and arguably T3?

"Star Wars" 1977 and "Return of the Jedi" - although the intermediate "Empire Strikes Back" is my least favourite of the original trilogy. Widely very under-rated - often by those who have never watched them.

"Jaws"
"The Alien"