Kevin's Top 10 Cult Films

Hello, My name is Kevin Siter, I’m a writer/actor working on getting all my ideas in movies and tv shows. You can check out what I’m currently working on, A show called Fighter’s High which is a martial arts comedy at http://www.youtube.com/FightersHigh.

I’ll get to what Fighter’s High is about in a article somewhere down the road but for now let’s get down to business.I’m a movie geek of the highest order. I live for good cinema and here is a fun list of some of my favorite cult films.I tried to stay away from the usual stuff and went with some stuff you may not have heard of, which is good because if you’re like me you always want to learn about new films!

10. Django - This a classic spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Frank Nero as Django.Django is a mysterious gunslinger dragging a coffin which conceals a Gatling gun into a town with two warring factions, The KKK and a gang of Mexican bandits each trying to persuade him to work for there side in finding gold.

Known for it’s over the top violence and brooding anti hero main character, it’s been said that this film influenced Clint Eastwood before he did his Man with No Name series with Sergio Leone.My favorite director, Takashi Miike just remade this movie last year as Sukiyaki Western Django which is another great cult film as well.

This film influenced anime like Cowboy Bebop and Gungrave. Quentin Tarantino drew influence from this film for Reservoir Dogsin Micheal Madsen’s classic scene in that movie.

9. A L’Interieur - This one of the best, if not the best, horror movie I’ve seen in a long time.A pregnant woman is involved is a very grizzly accident which changes her life and sets the tone for this very intense movie. I love horror movies from Europe because their grasp of atmosphere is always incredible.

The gore is some of the best I’ve ever seen and the cat and mousegame played between the main character and the villain is so tense andjust off the chart crazy. I give the top recommendation I can give: This is a groundbreaking horror film that I know a lot of people won’t able to handle for its “I don’t give a damn” attitude.But that’s why I loved it.

Instant Classic!

8. 13 Game of Death - Combine elements of Saw, Falling Down, and Fight Club and you have this amazing Thai film called 13 Game of Death.

A down on his luck office worker named Chit gets the chance to be in this wild game for 100 million dollars doing 13 tasks.Each one more intense and wild then the last. This movie is a great conversation piece. What would you do in Chit’s place? Would you go through everything he does for the money?

Excellent Film. The Thai movie industry continues to make awesome cinema!!!!

7. Ichi The Killer- This film changed how I look at modern film. This is Takashi Miike’s masterpiece and opened my eyes to him as a director. Tadanobu Asano steals the show as Kakihara.

The thing I worship about Miike as a director is that he makes each film like it is his last chance at making a film…So he goes all out and makes a multi-layered event in each film he makes.
This movie has so many elements: Yakuza power struggles, complicated relationships between every character involved, and fetish upon fetish upon fetish.

This movie screams cult cinema at it’s finest!

6. Wild Zero - ACE! Lock n ROLL! Oh man, This is why the Japanese are the best at making cool movies.
Guns, Zombies, UFOs, Trannys, Katana Guitars, And of course the mighty band Guitar Wolf rocking out!This movie teaches us two important life lessons: Killing zombies is a fine art and Love has no borders, nationalities or genders! This movie also has the greatest drinking games known to man!

Every time any member of Guitar Wolf combs there hair you do a shot! And Let me tell you, These guys stay combing there hair!!!!

5. The Beyond- This a excellent Italian horror movie from the master, Lucio Fulci. The Seven Doors Hotel is the scene of a murder as a mob kills a man who they believe is a warlock.

This sets in motion one of the seven gates of hell opening which lets the dead enter the world of the living. Fast forward to modern times as a young women inherits the hotel and plans to reopen it. But this brings the gates of hell open once again.

This film has a very surreal and dream like quality to it, and the iconic imagery and violence is like nothing ever put to film.

4. The Human Tornado - This is one of the funniest films of all time in my opinion; brought to us by the late great Rudy Ray Moore.

This serves as a sequel to Dolemite, but if you haven’t seen Dolemite it doesn’tmatter because this movie stands on it’s own with it’s wild characters and crazy sense of humor.

3. Lady Snowblood- This revenge story stars Meiko Kaji as an assassin seeking vengeance against some bandits who raped and murdered her family. This is based off a manga by Kazuo Koike who also made Lone Wolf and Cub!

Quentin Tarantino said in a interview that this movie is what inspired him to make Kill Bill. Watching this movie, that is very easy to see.

2. The Machine Girl - This is my kind of movie. The Machine Girl is about Ami, a Japanese schoolgirl whose life is changed forever when her brother is killed by the insane sonof a power hungry Yakuza clan.

Ami tries to take things into her own hands and seek revenge on them but gets her arm sliced off in her first attempt at getting vengeance for her brother.

So in a move that would only come out of Japanese cinema, she replaces her missing arm with a Gatling gun! Great action scenes, over the top acting, and enough blood is spilled to fill a river!!

1. Old Boy- Director Park Chan-wook brings us the story of Oh Dae-su , a man locked inside a room for 15 years without knowing the reason why. When he does get out, his life doesn’t get any easier He is trapped in a web of secrets and deceit. He seeks revenge on the people who have done this to him and along the way falls in love with a woman he meets a a sushi bar upon his release.

The scene in the sushi bar is famous because Choi Min Sik whoplays Oh Dae-su eats a live squid! This film has a very original fighting scene, done in one continuous take!

It is really something you’ll never forget after seeing it. The twists and turns of the plot are some of the bravest ever in film history and it will be a movie I’m sure you’ll never forget.

That’s it for now, I had fun writing this list and I’ll check back every once in awhile with whatever is grabbing my interest in movies, music and video games.

Thanks for reading!

--Kevin Siter (Honorary Super Dude!!)