Watched The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) again recently & introduced my teenage daughter to it. A film so delightfully 'off-kilter' and everything, each scene and exchange of quotable dialogue is ...unusual, and served-up in a way to make it more interesting than needs be.

Now that, for me, is pretty much a definitive cult film - some viewers adored it first time round, most just didn't get it and it was considered a flop so the planned sequel never got made.

Yet those who loved it kept on watching it and showing it to their mates. I suppose a cult film engenders some feeling of community, a 'fan family' - and now, nearly 40 years later, I hear there's a two season television series in the offing?

BTW: I have written retro reviews of two of your listed cult films, which would also make it onto my list:

Event Horizon (1997)

https://medium.com/framerated/event-horizon-1997-20-years-later-19cb572f75bb

Dark City (1998)

https://medium.com/framerated/dark-city-1998-20-years-later-b1d3956b11b

Cheers & thanks for another thoughtful article.