So cult movies, cult classics really gain traction over time. But now, thanks to social media there are so many movies that can kind of get put back on us and a lot of people, it kind of clicks something for them. I'm all for movies being rediscovered because there are a few movies where I've watched before and I'm like, and then I kind of come back to them. All right
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 2:31
For me, the movie that defines cult classic is Repo Man from 1984, the low budget indie punk rock movie from Alex Cox starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. I saw it when it came out, and I didn't understand. I was 17 years old. Perfect age to see it, didn't understand it. Went back the next week to watch it again and in the theaters? In the theaters. And I think it was still a low budget
Theo Seibold
@Thatoneweirdo · 4:41
And my first exposure to it, I remember that it was kind of highly populous, was highly publicized by way of video and that's where it got, like a lot of exposure, like you were saying. And the funny thing is, I remember my parents renting it on a cassette, of course, and my dad tried watching it and he was big in war movies and stuff like that. A lot of the stuff had to be super straightforward