Cult Films

Everyone loves a good film, and we all like to find something a little different that's great, and yet no-one else seems to know about!

Surprisingly enough this lens won't be a full complete list of cult films for two reasons - 1. it would be as long as the whole of Squidoo and 2. everyone's choices are different and should be different.

At the bottom I've highlighted a couple of books where you can find even more cult films to track down and watch!

Top 10 Cult Films

- from a brit perspective!

These are 10 must see cult films...

Trainspotting
An amazing film tracking the lives of a group of Edinburgh drug addicts. Every bit as good as the book by Irvine Welsh (if you want to see what happens to the characters later... read his more recent book "Porno").
Launching the Hollywood careers of several actors (Ewan MacGregor - Moulin Rouge, Star Wars, Robert Carlyle - James Bond), and a great film producing trio - (see The Beach, A Life Less Ordinary, and 28 Days Later).
Withnail and I
The 1960s equivalent to Trainspotting?
Could be! Based on the real life experiences of director Bruce Robinson Withnail and I is a classic in cult film circuits.
To get the real experience you should match the characters drink for drink - make sure you've plenty of ice for the cider, and you'll probably want to substitue something else for the lighter fluid near the start!
Soundtrack to die for too.
Quadrophenia
Another trip back to the 1960s. Based on The Who album of the same name Quadrophenia is a trip back to the days when the British mods and rockers fought out their differences on the beaches in Brighton.
Starshaped
A fly on teh wall documentry into the British band Blur's experiences on tour before their Park Life album made them permanent fixtures in teh UK music scene.
SHould be watched by any aspiring musician.
A Clockwork Orange
Simple. Watch it.
Then read the book.
American Psycho
Just as good as Brett Easton Ellis's book - but with an even weirder ending!
This is Spinal Tap
A fictional rockumentry - Starshaped but faked.
"Turn it up to 11"
A Knights Tale
Could be considered a srange choice - but it seems to be one of those guilty pleasures of many 20-somethings, and therefore rightly claims a place in the top 10.
True Blue
Really only one for the rowing fraternity - if you row, you'll love it as much as you love Top Gun. If you don't row - enjoy the cheesyness of it!
It's the tale of the mutiny in Oxford in the run up to the annual boat race against Cambridge.
Hackers
No cult movies list is complete without a dodgy computer-based film. And I think Hackers has to be it - if only for the virtual fight scene at the end.