Ever wonder if your favorite cult films have any celebrity fans?

I, for one, wonder about Steven Spielberg. Seeing how as he's now working with Peter Jackson, I have no doubt in my mind that he has seen Braindead and Bad Taste. I've also read somewhere that he will go on film watching binges when he has free time. I'm sure he has also seen the Evil Dead trilogy at some point in time.

I wonder what he thinks of them.

On a related note, I remember seeing an article somewhere about an A-list actor talking about how he and his family watch Braindead every year.

I believe most of Spielberg's familiarity of Peter Jackson's work would come from The Frighteners, which Spielberg's good friend Robert Zemekis produced.

Quentin Tarantino on damn near everything (Robert Rodriguez as well sometimes, he was one of the reasons why Wolf Creek got an American release).

Kristen Bell has been known to host a screening of The Room once a month.

Bill Murray is a huge fan of Frank Hennelotter's Frankenhooker.

Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg really like Point Break and used it as an inspiration for Hot Fuzz.

edited 25th Mar '11 12:23:50 PM by Buscemi

Eli Roth is a massive fan of Ax Em. Not that I'm a fan of Ax Em, but I'm sure someone here is.

Doc Hammer and Jackson Pubrick are fans of many cult movies, such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Roger Ebert loves Withnail and I. He even put it in his great movies collection. I guess that counts.

That may be how Jackson first came to Spielberg's attention, but I'm pretty sure that Spielberg would have eventually put aside some time to watch all of his films. Including his splatstick ones.

It would also be awesome if he knows who Bruce Campbell is.

On a related note, if you consider him to be a celebrity, Roger Ebert gave Evil Dead II a positive review.

Ditto a few references to Evil Dead in Shaun of the Dead. As you can probably tell, my entire interest in cult film begins and ends with Evil Dead and early Peter Jackson.

Steven Spielberg has mentioned liking Godzilla a few times. I read somewhere that he skipped the 1998 film because he didn't want his childhood getting raped. So says the man who let George Lucas put aliens and CGI gophers in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

edited 25th Mar '11 9:28:13 PM by RL_Nice

Spielberg's producing partner Frank Marshall directed Bruce in Congo so I imagine he's heard of him.

That's awesome, he should be working on the next American film.

Peter Jackson has made a few references to Army of Darkness in The Two Towers. Of course, this is the director of Braindead we're talking about...

And Bruce claims he was the original choice to play the exterminator in Men in Black, of which Spielberg served as executive producer.

edited 27th Mar '11 12:23:58 PM by RL_Nice

At 0:58 in this video I could have sworn I saw Spielberg nod approvingly when Jackson mentioned Bad Taste. Maybe it's just my wishful mind seeing things.

Just found a new one: one of Steve Martin's favorite films is the original Black Christmas. When he was casting for the film Roxanne, his first choice for the female lead was Olivia Hussey based on her work in the film. At the time, Martin had seen the film at least 20 times.

Karen Gillan referenced Highlander once in an episode of Doctor Who Confidential, which was nice.

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Eli Roth is also a fan of Pieces

When Saruman shows Wormtongue the bomb that the Uruks later use to blow up the wall of Helm's Deep, Wormtongue holds the candle a little too close to it. Saruman grabs Wormtongue's hand and holds it back. Similar to a scene in Army of Darkness where Ash is making gunpower, and the Wise Man holds a bag of it over a candle, and Ash grabs it and holds it back.

There is also an identical shot present in the Big Badass Battle Sequence of both films. A shot from behind of a soldier getting slashed in the face, then turning around to face the camera and reveal his injury.

edited 15th Jan '12 12:44:15 PM by RLNice

Matt and Trey from South Park are always throwing movie references into the show, aren't they? I know the Aqua Teen guys do the same too.

Didn't Bruce Campbell get a cameo in the Aqua Teen movie?

He played Chicken Biddle.

Not just that but Trey and Matt wrote a sequel to Megaforce but couldn't get the rights to make it. They reworked it into Team America World Police.

edited 15th Jan '12 2:40:02 PM by Buscemi

Source.

I know Lauren Faust and Seth Mc Farlane like Little Shop of Horrors, though I'm not sure which incarnations.

In an interview some years back, Trey and Matt had mentioned plans of doing a sequel to Megaforce and had a script written. However, Golden Harvest wouldn't sell them the rights and instead chose to rework much of the concept into Team America. Elements such as the flying motorcycles come from this script.

I remember reading somewhere that Magical Mystery Tour was an inspiring movie for both Spielberg and George Lucas.

I'm curious if anyone's ever said the same thing about the Sgt. Pepper movie.

Apparently, the drummer from Avenged Sevenfold's favorite movie was Jacobs Ladder. The video for Nightmare is inspired by the hospital scene.

Ok, this one's a little fucked up, but i'll post it here anyway:

Jeffrey Dahmer's favorite movie was Exorcist III.

Dahmer must have been a fan of George C. Scott and Patrick Chewing (no really, Patrick Ewing has a cameo and so does Samuel L. Jackson as well as Larry King).