Sorry, the 2 I mentioned are considered Cult Classics and forgot to added the classic part at the last part due to habbit. But my point is if they would do that with cult classic films then they would do it with any old cult film if it would make money.

Okay, first, Magus, Evil Dead 1 is easily the best. I love the other two, but Sam Raimi remains the greatest horror director ever. Second, b_real, Troll isn't a cult film. Troll 2 is. And third, Magus, cult classics need to be old? Donnie Darko's not even seven years old!

/rant

Chainsaw arm + Groovy >>>>>>> Any scary thing ever
 

Sam Raimi directed all three. Unless you're saying that the first is just better because it's scarier or something.

Well, someone was telling me a book had to be 100 years old and still relevant to officially count as a classic. Movies have it easy.

I am exactly saying that it's better cause it's scarier.

And I don't buy the whole "it has to be old to be a classic" thing. It's critical elitism.

Something is a classic by standing the test of time, and still being able to be considered relevant/good. It's not critical elitism so much as you can only know that something will still be considered great/amazing/whatever in so much time after it has done just that.

Really to be a classic you have to transcend tastes across a whole variety of periods. So you really can't judge soemthing classic when it's just come out because you and it are produced in the same time frame and the same style of ideas. A classic needs to be timeless and you can't judge that when it is new.

my bad, forgot to add a part to this.

Yeah I hate snobby elitist hate-everything culture critics as much as the next guy but if classic doesn't mean old then it's pretty pointless as a word. It's not like we need another synonym for "this movie is super-good".

Again I can't be down with any premise that requires me to call Army of Darkness anything less than totally fantastic.

If you're coming up with a single definition of what classic means, something is wrong!

A Cult Classic isn't a classic that uses cults as its subject matter!

Augh!



And that's a terrible title.

Wasn't the whole evil dead trilogy supposed to be watched as one long movie?