Slashers, giallo, hardboiled/noir, horror, spaghetti, and cult classics
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I just found Death Rides A Horse on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/n1DgmyB8MIA
Soundtrack is pure, classic Morricone.
Prime Cut (1972: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman) is next on my to-watch list. I was holding out for Hulu, Amazon, or Netflix (fat chance) to offer it on streaming, but I'll settle for this upload with Sissy Spacek's titties unceremoniously airbrushed out:
https://youtu.be/_tpcqqMLPQ4
The essential Dario Argente slasher Deep Red, one of my favorites of all time:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26wjjo
If someone knows where to stream The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, let me know. That, or the Tom Selleck classic Runaway.
Seems like streaming services (especially Netflix) are moving away from keeping B-movie, cult classics, essential horror viewing, and international flicks available for subscribers, in favor of in-house production. I know that anyone who's been paying attention has been aware of this for awhile (Ken's thread about visiting the local tape rental made reminded me of this really well-done youtube), but I've been thinking of it a lot more lately.
Not dissimilarly to the parallel ubiquitousness of music streaming and the revival of the vinyl LP, I think that as streaming services become less and less diverse in their offerings, we'll see a growth in the minority subset of viewers who opt for physical collections of their obscure and not-so-obscure favorites.
Anyway, what are some of your favorite cult classics, and who's streaming them?
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The Bird With the Crystal
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970)
https://youtu.be/IJyD3Bnwvxc
Ennio Morricone's soundtrack (partial)
https://youtu.be/zSH9PJ64A2w
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you want to subscribe to
you want to subscribe to fandor: https://www.fandor.com/movie-genres/cult-films-46
Death Race 2000
Spider Baby
Miami Connection
Bird With The Crystal Plumage
Klown
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Gotta check it out, thanks.
Gotta check it out, thanks. This all came back to consciousness for me when I heard they were striking down Filmstruck. After Hulu lost the license on Criterion, that was the only place streaming Tarkovsky in high-def.
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Thanks. Guess I'm a nerd, I
Thanks. Guess I'm a nerd, I think this is great.
Going to watch the Lee Marvin movie
Will check that out liquid
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Basket Case
Basket Case
Pieces
Motel Hell
Suburbia
Liquid Sky
Parents
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Blood Sucking Freaks
Blood Sucking Freaks
The Lair of the White Worm
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Good list, Briank.
Good list, Briank.
>> Pieces (1982)
>> Young co-eds are being dismembered by a mysterious murderer on a college campus. The killer is attempting to put together a human jigsaw puzzle made from body parts.
Fuck yeah.
I always cite Flaming Creatures as one of the proto-classics of cult classics.
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Reminder to self to check out
Reminder to self to check out Memories of Murder.
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Blood Sucking Freaks is the
Blood Sucking Freaks is the quintessential exploitation movie. It exploits everyone, equally: gay, straight, black, white, little people, etc. It does it with humor, imagination and absolutely no class.
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Detour D.O.A.
Detour
D.O.A.
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There was a show on
There was a show on Nickelodeon when I was growing up called Are You Afraid of the Dark?, it was pretty great, and also had a somewhat Shakin' Nagan-looking dude named Sardo who was a recurring character. Maybe in homage to Blood Sucking Freaks?
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D.O.A. is an all-time great.
D.O.A. is an all-time great. Gotta check out Detour.
Hardly a cult favorite but I gotta mention The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, like a crossover western / noir.
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Troma had some good ones. The
Troma had some good ones. The Toxic Avenger is a classic.
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Turbo kid
Turbo kid
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=edytyptE9SU
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https://genius.com/Bloodrock
https://genius.com/Bloodrock-doa-lyrics
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^^^What BK said^^^
^^^What BK said^^^
Troma Rules!
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Lloyd Kauffman is a pretty
Lloyd Kauffman is a pretty amazing guy. I recently listened to an interview with him on Chris Jericho's podcast.
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My cousin is part owner of
My cousin is part owner of this film distribution company. It’s a trove of all sorts of B movies, exploitation flicks, and whatever else. It’s a trip to check out the titles: https://synapse-films.com/
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Your Vice is a Locked Room
Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x39bphk
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I wish that was in black and
I wish that was in black and white ^
I will check out all of her stuff & may still use that one
Good call T Rx
Back to work.
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Good call.
Good call.
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Speaking of B "cult" films, I
Speaking of B "cult" films, I dig those 60's and 70's occult films. One of the cheesier ones is "Race with the Devil" which is pretty much a mash-up of "Rosemary's Baby" and "Smokey and the Bandit":
We often go to the Hollywood Theater, which is an old classic movie house from the 1920's that shows quality first run pictures (we are seeing "Roma" there tonight) along with a host of all sorts of cult classics, blaxploitation, grindhouse, kung fu, etc. all in 35+ mm big screen glory. We have been going to their monthly sold out Ku Fu Theater shows for years. We also go to their special showings of old silent films like "Phantom of the Opera" and "Nosferatu" with live pipe organ accompaniment. They just started a new monthly series of the late 1920s and early 1930s "pre-code" movies which feature lots of sex, drugs, and debauchery, and scandalous behavior that wouldn't be seen again on the big screen for many decades. Halloween time brings out all the splatter, slasher, and B horror. With a membership, tickets are only $6.
The Hollywood Theater recently bought up a movie rental place called "Movie Madness" which has 80,000 titles in stock of every kind of cult and exploitation genre you can think off.