What Are Your Favourite "Cult Classic" Film & TV Shows?🤩🎬️

Mary_Scope
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My local cinema have been showing David Lynch films over the weekend and one of my friends is a big fan of his and so we went along to watch Mulholland Drive.

I had never watched this film before, despite my friend saying "but it's a classic!!". It did take me a while to get into it and get my head around the plot but I thoroughly enjoyed it😊

So it got me thinking…what makes something a "cult classic?"

Do you like any "cult classic" films or TV?

This image is a stylized movie poster with a dark, moody feel. Most of the poster is dominated by a close-up of a woman’s face, shown from about the nose up to the forehead. Her skin is pale, her lips are painted a deep red, and she is looking sharply to her left, as if something off-screen has caught her attention. Her expression feels tense and uneasy—alert, maybe even frightened. Her blonde hair frames part of her face, but much of it is lost in shadow. The colors are gritty and grainy, with heavy contrast. Shadows swallow large parts of the image, especially the left side, giving it a mysterious, unsettling tone. Across the middle of the poster, in large white block letters, is the title: “MULHOLLAND DR.” Above it, in smaller text, it reads “David Lynch’s.” In the upper left background, barely visible through the darkness, is the faint outline of a palm tree and the word “Hollywood,” suggesting Los Angeles and the film industry, but in a distorted, dreamlike way. At the bottom is a dense **** of small white text listing film credits, logos, and ratings, typical of movie posters.
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  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,538 Championing

    Loved the Alfred hitchcock movies

    Still. Do

    Classics

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 3,722 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    I don't think I've seen any of his films @Amberpearl! Do you have any recommendations of where to begin? What is your favourite?

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,538 Championing

    There are good but watch

    Pyscho

    Marnie

    The birds

    Rear window

    North by northwest

    The rope

    Start with those

    Tell me what you think

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 2,888 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Mulholland Drive has been on my list for a long time! I'd love to see it in the cinema. I really want to watch Twin Peaks as well but I'm not sure if any streaming service has it. Has anyone seen it?

    My favourite cult classic TV show is Spaced. It's the 2 guys from Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead and it's so very 2000s in its references and style. There are loads of film and TV references that are fun to spot. There's only 2 seasons so it's a good one to binge watch.

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 2,888 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    That's a great list @Amberpearl! I've seen Psycho and loved it. The Birds is a bit much for me as I'm scared of birds but I'll definitely put the other ones on my list. Is Rear Window the one about the man who had a broken leg and went insane when he started watching his neighbour? The Simpsons did a spoof of it.

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 3,722 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    I have heard of Psycho @Amberpearl! I watched Bates Motel years ago which was based on Psycho and enjoyed that so I think i'll put the original on my list then! Have you seen Bates Motel?

    LOVE Hot Fuzz @Rachel_Scope, it was "just the one swan actually"🤣🤣🤣

    I'm really intrigued by Twin Peaks because Yellowjackets (which is one of my favourite shows ever!!!) is heavily inspired by that show so if you find a streaming service, please let me know!

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 2,888 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Oh I haven't watched Yellowjackets! Where can I watch it?

    I have another TV show I love - The Twilight Zone, the original one from the 1950/60s. If you've never seen it, it's an anthology series of unusual stories and they all start with a monologue from Rod Serling who has such an amazing voice. The stories have been referenced multiple times over the years in TV and film. They usually have a moral to the story such as the negative impact of being too vain, being cautious if something seems too good to be true, and the ugliness of greed. I could go on all day about it! I'm hoping others have seen it too so we can compare favourite episodes!

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 3,722 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    Paramount Plus via Amazon Prime have it and usually they normally have some good deals so you can save a bit of money as well @Rachel_Scope 😄

    Oooh no I've not seen that but it sounds good!!


    Has anybody else seen The Twilight Zone?

  • SaraC_Scope
    SaraC_Scope CP Network, Scope Posts: 389 Empowering

    I love all the "Brat Pack" movies from the 80's. The Breakfast Club is my favourite.

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 3,722 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    The Breakfast Club has been on my list to watch for years @SaraC_Scope!! What are some of your other recommendations?

  • SaraC_Scope
    SaraC_Scope CP Network, Scope Posts: 389 Empowering

    @Mary_Scope St Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles and Can't Buy me Love.

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,538 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1097218#Comment_1097218

    Yes that's the one

    Watch Marnie

    It's really good

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,538 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1097220#Comment_1097220

    Yes I've seen every episode of bates motel

    Loved it

    Have you seen salems lot?

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 9,008 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1097216#Comment_1097216

    I used to watch Twin Peaks and True Blood all time favourite is Salems lot David soul and James Mason great actor smooth voice and Tales of The Unexpected Hammer house of Horror wish could go back to those days I cant sit through films anymore

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 2,888 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    edited January 27

    Just looked up Tales of the Unexpected @Catherine21 and it says it's by Roald Dahl which I didn't expect! I'm not great at watching films either, could you do it in bits over a couple of days?

  • Ironside1990
    Ironside1990 Online Community Member Posts: 388 Pioneering

    Get Carter (1971)

    Goldfinger

    The Breakfast Club

    On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

    East Is

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,538 Championing

    Lost

    Armchair thriller

    Hammer house of horror

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 2,888 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Do you mean East is East @Ironside1990? If you do, I agree it's a great film! I haven't thought about it for ages, maybe it's time for a rewatch.

    Just looked up Armchair Thriller @Amberpearl and the first episode is called 'Rachel in Danger' 😮 I love horror so I might really like it. Maybe I can watch it on YouTube.

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,538 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1097500#Comment_1097500

    I loved armchair thriller s

    Were on many years ago

    Well worth watching

    Another thing

    I recommend the Waltons and little house on the prairie and highway to heaven

    Nostalgic

  • Nightcity
    Nightcity Online Community Member Posts: 631 Empowering

    Prisoner cell block H

    sons and daughters

    tales from the crypt

    the x files

    Thriller

    Hammer house of horrors

    The Outer limits

    Murder in mind (BBC 2001-2003)

    sea of souls

    Films

    dead of night (1945)

    The children (1980, aka the children of Ravensback)

    Misery

    Demons (1985)

    Madhouse (1974)

    The Fly (both versions)

    Rabid (1976)

    pieces

    Witchfinder general

    Frightmare

    Vault of horror

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