Talk:List of cult films

Cleanup

The list of books below are what have been fully referenced in the article body.

• De Chirico, Millie; Murry, Quatoyiah (2022). TCM Underground: 50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema. Turner Classic Movies. Running Press. ISBN 978-0-7624-8000-5. Y
• Eiss, Jennifer (2010). 500 Essential Cult Movies: The Ultimate Guide. Sterling Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4027-7486-7. Y
• Everman, Welch D. (1995). Cult Horror Films: From Attack of the 50 Foot Woman to Zombies of Mora Tau. Citadel Film Series. Citadel Press. ISBN 978-0-8065-1425-3. Y
• Everman, Welch D. (1995). Cult Science Fiction Films: From The Amazing Colossal Man to Yog: The Monster from Space. Citadel Film Series. Citadel Press. ISBN 978-0-8065-1602-8. Y
• French, Karl; French, Philip (2000). Cult Movies. Billboard Books. Watson-Guptill Publications. ISBN 978-0-8230-7916-2. Y
• Mathijs, Ernest; Mendik, Xavier (2011). 100 Cult Films. BFI Screen Guides. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-84457-408-7. Y
• Mathijs, Ernest; Sexton, Jamie (2011). "Filmography". Cult Cinema: An Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 243–252. ISBN 978-1-4051-7374-2. Y
• Olson, Christopher J. (2018). 100 Greatest Cult Films. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-0822-3. Y
• Havis, Allan (2008). Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-3967-5. Y
• Paszylk, Bartłomiej (2009). The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films: An Historical Survey. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3695-8. Y
• Peary, Danny (1981). Cult Movies: The Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful. Dell Publishing. ISBN 978-0-440-51647-7. Y (100 films)
• Peary, Danny (1983). Cult Movies 2: 50 More of the Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful. Dell Publishing. ISBN 978-0-440-51632-3. Y (50 films)
• Peary, Danny (1989). Cult Movies 3: 50 More of the Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful. Dell Publishing. ISBN 978-0-283-99806-5. Y (50 films)
• Rotten Tomatoes (2019). "Cult Leaders: Hard to love for many, loved very hard by some". Rotten Movies We Love: Cult Classics, Underrated Gems, and Films So Bad They're Good. Running Press. pp. 81–114. ISBN 978-0-7624-9605-1. Y
• Roychoudhury, Amborish (2018). In a Cult of Their Own: Bollywood Beyond Box Office. Rupa Publications. ISBN 978-8129151353. Y
• Schneider, Steven Jay, ed. (2010). 101 Cult Movies You Must See Before You Die. Barrons Educational Series, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7641-6349-4. Y
• Simpson, Paul (2010). The Rough Guide to Cult Movies: The Good, the Bad and the Very Weird (3rd ed.). Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-84836-213-0. Y
• Staff. "Cult Movies". criterion.com. The Criterion Collection. Retrieved April 13, 2024. Y
• Smith, Justin (2010). Withnail and Us: Cult Films and Film Cults in British Cinema. Cinema and Society. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-092-7. Y

I want to start a separate thread for cleaning up to run parallel to finalizing the list criteria. I'm doing cleanup only using books since I am assuming that this is better than most other types of sources. I've gone ahead and improved inline citations for cult films from these two books, and in some cases I added new listings. I have the book below above to incorporate and will see if I can find others. I noticed while I improved/added the above that there are three books by Danny Peary cited throughout (Cult Movies 1-3), but I can't tell if someone was able to mine the entire books or just added citations to preexisting listings. It would be good to go through these books to make sure we cover everything. I will look for other books since I think this list should have book references at its core. Since some books can't be previewed, I will check my local book stores to see if they have books about cult films that I can screenshot to mine and add here. EDIT: I put all the books at the top and updated the statuses. Thanks, Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 20:08, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

I would probably not use Schneider's book as the sole source for any entry. I am familiar with a related book by Schneider—1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die—and it does not have a great reputation when it comes to editorial standards (in particular what gets included). TompaDompa (talk) 21:02, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

• Books: title:(cult AND (film OR movie)) at archive.org = 23 results. Not all appropriate but surely some. -- GreenC 23:27, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

I finished incorporating the Simpson reference. I had done about half earlier this year and removed the non-book references and linked to the last stable version above. I did the same with the second half this past week. I feel like this list (or group of lists) is now deletion-proof. There are other books I listed above that can be incorporated, but they may be a little harder to access. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 22:44, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

I decided to move references not yet used to the thread below. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 23:31, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

I incorporated another book today. All list articles as of this date (December 9, 2024) should be in prime shape. Future versions can be compared to the versions on this date to see what changes have happened. One possible edit to look out for is when someone simply copies an existing and sourced listing and changes the title, which makes it look like that newly-added title is referenced in the copied source. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 21:58, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

References to use

• Carter, Oliver (2018). Making European Cult Cinema: Fan Enterprise in an Alternative Economy. Transmedia. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9789089649935.  Pending
• Brode, Douglas (2021). Midnight Matinees: Cult Cinema Classics (1896 to the present day). BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1-62933-786-9.  Pending
• Broughton, Lee, ed. (2024). Reappraising Cult Horror Films: From Carnival of Souls to Last Night in Soho. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5013-8758-6.  Pending
• Harkin, David (2022). British Cult Cinema: Amicus to Zardoz. Troubadour Publishing. ISBN 978-1-80313-536-6.  Pending
• Macias, Patrick (2001). Tokyoscope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion. Viz Media. ISBN 978-1-56931-681-8.  Pending
• Martin, Daniel (2015). Extreme Asia: The Rise of Cult Cinema from the Far East. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-0360-3.  Pending
• Mathijs, Ernest; Sexton, Jamie, eds. (2021). The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-03-208420-6.  Pending
• Upton, Jennifer (2023). Japanese Cult Cinema: Films From the Second Golden Age Selected Essays & Reviews. 978-1-399-95227-9.  Pending

Thanks, Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 23:31, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

See also

I decided to link to list of cult films from articles of all cult films that have at least three cult-film references. Since the references are all books, films with at least three seem to me to be the cream of the crop. So at each such film's article, I added a link to the list in a "See also" section. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 20:19, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

In the last seven days, the article has averaged over a thousand pageviews, compared to an average of 232 pageviews earlier in the year. Distributing links in "See also" sections makes a difference! Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 12:43, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

10 Things I Hate About You

@Jolielover: I reverted the addition of 10 Things I Hate About You as seen here because The Baylor Lariat is a student publication and not a reliable source. Furthermore, this film has never been listed in over 16 cult-film books. Beyond books, it is too easy for anyone to label a film as a cult film because it has a fan base. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 15:03, 4 January 2025 (UTC)