Top Ten Tuesdays

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I notice we are still awaiting lists from the usual suspects - Nos and b_e.

Justin as well.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I notice we are still awaiting lists from the usual suspects - Nos and b_e.

Justin as well.

Have you gone from Top Ten Tuesday organiser to Top Ten Tuesday bouncer?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I notice we are still awaiting lists from the usual suspects - Nos and b_e.

Justin as well.

I'm still working on mine but hope to finish it tomorrow.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Have you gone from Top Ten Tuesday organiser to Top Ten Tuesday bouncer?

Damn right!

You don't seem to realize it's part of the job.

You don't flounce on here sometime on Tuesday, flash a brightly coloured topic in our direction then f**k off for a week.

It's your new baby. Love it, look after it, help it to grow, keep it away from the inspector's van. That sort of thing.

[Inspector Abberline]

Combat Shock.
Basket Case.
Session 9.
Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer.
Spider Baby.
Re-Animator.
Eraserhead.
Blood Feast.
Mad Max.
Bad Taste.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I couldn't make one list – it's too hard and I don't have the time to whittle it down to only 10 films – so I have made several.

Horror – 1-10
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Eraserhead (1977)
The Evil Dead (1981)
Halloween (1978)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terror (1922)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Horror – 11-20
Bad Taste (1987)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
High Tension (2003)
It Follows (2014)
Martyrs (2008)
Near Dark (1987)
Re-Animator (1985)
Scream (1996)
The Terminator (1984)
Wolf Creek (2005)

Comedy
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Clerks (1994)
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Withnail and I (1987)

Drama/War/Gangster etc.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Blood Simple (1984)
City of God (2002)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Mean Streets (1973)
Memento (2000)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Trainspotting (1996)

[J Harker]

I didn't realise half of those were independent Nos.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

I didn't realise half of those were independent Nos.

There were probably 20 I left off which would easily have made the lists, but a lot of took them beyond the round numbers! It's a really interesting subject and you only have to look at the films which are on other people's lists but not on mine to see how many brilliant or groundbreaking (or both) movies were made outside the studio system.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Top 10 Independent Films:

1. Eraserhead (1977)
2. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
3. Trainspotting (1996)
4. Nosferatu (1922)
5. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
6. The Evil Dead (1981)
7. Halloween (1978)
8. Clerks (1994)
9. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
10. Monty Python's Life of Brian (1978)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]