Cult Movie: The Musical: The Trend

[@StudioGhostUtah]

I'm surprised you didn't mention Little Shop of Horrors in any capacity, since it could argued that it was a forerunner to the whole "cult film turned into a musical" trend.

[@thisexists]

Little Shop rules, but it started as a off-Broadway musical.

[@StudioGhostUtah]

This Exists Actually, the original Little Shop of Horrors was a 1960 black and white film directed by Roger Corman. It was shot over the course of 2 days after production wrapped for the film A Bucket of Blood and used the built sets. It gained a following by word of mouth and THEN was adapted into an Off-Broadway Musical in 1982. So it's pretty clear that it's a forerunner.

[@thisexists]

Studio Ghost (Romney's Reviews) I stand corrected! Thanks.

[@StudioGhostUtah]

This Exists Keep up the good work!

[@sebas8062]

Can anyone have the BALLS to make: "The Room-the musical"

[@MrRenegadeshinobi]

Dear God No!

[@DarkSlimeGod]

IIIIIIIII did not hit her I did not, Oh hiiiiiiiiiii Maaaarrrrrrk~

[@JohnEveryfan]

No one has?! I'm a music major. The time has come.

[@Dreadpirate46]

Sebas!!!! You're tearing me apart!!!!!

[@seancrawford4786]

You are tearing me apaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart!

[@adrienpiette6746]

My brother went to see the Evil Dead the musical. He said the first 5 rows got soaked in blood. So, it like seeing GWAR.

[@thisexists]

Splatter zone!

[@pluff401]

Heathers: the Musical is by far one of the best off broadway musicals in the last few years - I would definitely recommend the soundtrack

[@IgnatiusJohnson]

Oh my god! you did Giant killer Shark?! I loved that musical! Great job!

[@stillvisionsmusic]

I'll have you know "Copyright protected island" still gets in my head from seeing that show back in the day. Neat to hear you were part of that!

[@PupCake1025]

Two things: 1: I didn't even read the title when I saw the Playbill logo I clicked this video 2. In all honesty, almost every musical you can think of is an adaption of something. In fact, all five of the longest running Broadway shows of all time are adaptions (Phantom and Les Mis are based on books, Cats is based on a collection of poetry, Chicago is based on a play, and The Lion King is based on the Disney Movie). Books (like Wicked), movies (any Disney musical), plays (My Fair Lady, where even the original play was based off of a story from Greek Mythology), and even history (Newsies, based on the 1899 New York newsboy strikes, or Hamilton which doubles as a historical adaption and adaption of Ron Chernow's biography) are adapted into musicals all the time. It's hardly surprising that people have continued this trend of adapting preexisting work into a musical.

[@LadyRaye176]

I love "The Musical" adaptations! One of my favorite unrealized ones was the fan-made "Persona 4:The Musical" based on the video game and anime of the same name. Sadly, Atlus requested a Cease and Desist. Maybe they should have taken the "Great White Shark: The Musical" Approach

[@thirdeyelandslide_]

Inception: The Musical: The Musical: The Musical

[@ThatOneGuy0006]

There's also a Death Note musical in the works. I'm not kidding. It actually looks pretty good!

[@baronvonpenguin6112]

The cult musical I always thought would be fun to see was American Psycho: The Musical.

[@XxsleepyxratxX]

i literally only came here for heathers the musical & i wasnt disappointed

[@kaylasworldtm472]

Saaaaaaame

[@aspwater]

munchie heyyy i didnt think anyone would be commenting about heathers here niceo

[@gwynethh9524]

I need to watch Giant Killer Shark the Musical IMMEDIATELY

[@pekrujasfumr4148]

So... "This Exists the musical" subscribers special coming soon?

[@thisexists]

One million subscriber special.

[@basser]

This Exists You jest but with a show this well put together and entertaining you're on track to hit that mark eventually. And if there isn't a fabulous chorus line waiting we shall all be disappointed.

[@thisexists]

You have my solemn promise that if this channel ever gets that many subscribers, I will do a musical episode that puts Buffy to shame.

[@LordEgilYGO]

This Exists If you get more content out, you'll be well on pace for that

[@s.presso7978]

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[@scrumblesbumbles7692]

Where can I find Giant Killer Shark?

[@joshuab5272]

kevin willems so will you?!?

[@ConvincingPeople]

Strictly speaking, the whole Mad-Libs musical concept predates musicals and goes straight back to opera and arguably further back to the very origins of theatre. A good chunk of operas are just adaptations of preexisting plays or works that, in a manner of speaking, were in the public domain before there was such a concept. If you want a "high art" equivalent to the cult movie musical, Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Lulu were both based on psychological horror plays that gained cult notoriety in turn-of-the-century Vienna.

[@ConvincingPeople]

(And as for ancient theatre, keep in mind how many Greek tragedies and comedies were basically fractured fairy tale takes on popular stories and myths, and how they were probably accompanied by music and outright sung in places.)

[@ConvincingPeople]

Yup. Not only that, but Hamlet is literally only half of the story. In the original story, he marries the Ophelia equivalent... and things only get really dark and ironic, like, twenty years later, when he has basically become his uncle. It's cool stuff, but I get why he changed it.

[@theactingbug426]

+ConvincingPeople Wait are you referencing the video or the actual Mad-Libs musical thats off broadway right now?

[@ConvincingPeople]

theactingbug426 The video.

[@dmaster5556]

Donnie Darko: The Musical

[@brookelever4534]

That's what I'm working on now 😘

[@brookelever4534]

@kevin willems well I wrote a script and got about 20 or so percent of the music done but it's definitely a project that's been put on the backburner for a few months now; definitely something id like to pick up again in the future

[@MegaOrwell1984]

I can't believe you mentioned Anne of Green Gables: the musical; and you're actually right, it is EVERYWHERE, especially in the summer (I live in PEI.) While I haven't seen it, friend of mine that I went to school with; was actually in that musical for a while. It's honestly really awesome that you mentioned it, especially since it was something I was familiar with. That being said, I don't think the musical adaptation is a flash in the pan thing; since some of the best musical are adaptation musicals. Two of them being my two most favorite, Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables (AKA two musical I would LOVE to see more than anything in the world.)

[@stillvisionsmusic]

Years after seeing it and "Copyright protected island" still occasionally gets stuck in my head, so I guess that's a sign of a good musical, kudos for being part of it. Your show and Calculus: The Musical were both memorable micro-shows from back then.

[@stevenapplebaum4531]

Great video! I've long been fascinated with cult film and the recent trend towards stage renditions, so I appreciate hearing you so thoughtfully and semi-definitively discussing the topic. I actually co-run a website devoted to the 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros.: The Movie. The film's 25th anniversary is next year, so we have been working towards not only theatrical screening events but also a musical stage rendition in the same vein as either The Little Shop of Horrors and Evil Dead: The Musical.

[@Titleknown]

I'm still waiting for musicals of Legend Of The Overfiend, Akira, The Last Dragon, Infra-Man and Videodrome. MAKE IT HAPPEN PEOPLE!

[@Dreadpirate46]

Long live the new flesh!

[@dr.frank-n-furter8777]

You just had to wait till the end to mention Rocky Horror. No matter, a mention is a mention.

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

The trend I hate in musicals right now is that most of the new ones, instead of spending the time and effort of writing original music for their musical, what they're going is purchasing existing pop songs and shoehorning them into their musical. Often the script is written totally separate from when the songs are being purchased so what happens is that when the songs are worked in, they have nothing to do with the actual story and the writer has to jump through crazy hoops to make them fit and it's often REALLY glaring that the song doesn't fit most of the time. Musical movies are doing this too.

[@theactingbug426]

+BlackburnBigdragon Can you give a few examples please? I can't think of any musicals like that off the top of my head.

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

Mama Mia, Walking on Sunshine, are just two in a long list but you don't have to even go there to see this lazy practice. Look at most of the kids films like Shrek and several others where they wanted to shove a song in and instead of writing their own song, shoved an already existing pop song in there. This got REALLY blatant in kids animated movies in the mid 2000's. They would be like, "We need a song here. Toss this one in whether it fits or not." and usually it was some pop song about love from the 70's or 80's. I think Shrek was where I first noticed the beginning of the trend. I remember throwing a Monkeys song in there out of nowhere was just so jarring that it took me right out of the moment with that movie. The song just didn't fit. Nothing about it fit. The style of music didn't fit the world. The song didn't fit. Nothing about it even being there fit. Some executive obviously had paid for it and said, "This has to be on the soundtrack so it has to be in the movie somewhere so put it in there." so it was added as an afterthought because the song makes no sense. And this is just the case with Shrek and not all the other movies that do this with far more songs. I'm picking on it because it's the first movie I really noticed that did it.

[@theactingbug426]

Of course, Mamma Mia! I love that musical and hate it too. As for Shrek, I thought only one of the songs was from the movie and the rest were original? That's what I remember at least.

[@KaijaSchmauss]

I know this is a year old, but I think that trend is more or less dead as far as stage musicals go. We've still got musicals based on indie and/or cult films (look at Waitress), but there hasn't been a new jukebox musical on Broadway in a while and the only upcoming one is a Jimmy Buffet musical that will almost definitely be overshadowed by other, better, more original musicals like Dear Evan Hansen or Hamilton.

[@kriskych]

As a person who lives in Bulgaria( The name's Christian Chipchev, for people who don't understand Cyrillic, and I don't blame you, not everyone knows the Cyrillic script) and in my lifetime as a whole I've seen quite a lot of musicals, including Shrek and Finding Nemo: The Musical. In my opinion they're something that's sort of different than the movie adaptations they're based on and give a different view on the whole ordeal. What I'd personally like to see from you Sam, is an idea about a video about the so-called "Think Tank" Cicada 3301 - an organization that made a set of puzzles starting from 2012 to 2014 on January the 5th. They're mainly based on cryptography, stenography and data security. I personally think it would make a good vid, but that's just my point of view. Greetings from Bulgaria.

[@SAUC3YJACK]

This is just me theorizing here, with no formal background in musical theatre or cultural studies, but I think what was another factor in the birth of modern cult film musical adaptations was the Jerry Springer Opera. With it's debut and (somewhat brief) popularity, it showed that there was a significant audience for "low-brow" entertainment transferred to a medium that is traditionally considered to be more high brow. In this case, it was opera but it can also easily apply to musical/Broadway theatre. The opera's success also showed that there was much humour (and profit) that could be made in the ironic juxtaposition of "low-brow" B-films or "trash TV" with "high-brow" musical theatre/opera.

[@TheDiplomancer]

Heathers: The Musical even got on Broadway. I think this is part nostalgic value and part the fact that the "X: The Musical"s often take a bit of a jab at both the tropes of musicals and their source materials, and that's why they're so enjoyable. It's why The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show is so beloved.

[@forfluf]

It's only a matter of time until someone invents Musical the Musical

[@dr.frank-n-furter8777]

My god, you're on to something!

[@davidesallese3864]

+forfluf It actually was already a thing: "Musical of Musicals: The Musical"

[@theactingbug426]

+forfluf it's called [Title of Show]

[@annie27261]

Speaking as somebody who does theater and has been her entire life, I can tell you that 'insert thing here: the musical' can and will ALWAYS bring in a younger audience. Think of them as the quickest way to get the next generation into musicals because not only are they familiar but often the music is made to cater to a younger generation. That's obvious from their marketing, hell, Legally Blonde the Musical was filled/aired and got a REALITY SHOW on MTV because they knew this was a musical that catered to their demographic and it would bring MTV viewership and it would put youth attention back on theater. Basically every couple years they just have to churn out an 'Insert Blank Here: The Musical' and you'll get kids into theater until they find theater of higher caliber to adore once they've sunk in far enough. I have a lot of friends who adored Legally Blonde the musical but it's something we sort of shudder at now that we're older and know better because we've since experienced more theater. So that's just my two cents. TLDR: It keeps theater alive and relevant, which isn't necessarily bad.

[@thisexists]

Makes a lot of sense!

[@annie27261]

And I don't really intend to discredit them. To be honest, those are some of the hardest parts to sing. Singing and jump roping for a full number is not easy and I can totally recognize that. However, as the 'average' theater kid gets older they do hold a fondness for those old shows but it's sort of how Wicked is generally dismissed amongst theater fans because it was 'so ten years ago' and have moved on to other shows. Not that Wicked is bad, it's just something that the older kids associate with the younger, less experienced kids and gets a bad rap by association as a 'kids' show that isn't that big of a deal. I probably should have clarified that.

[@jockohomosexual]

it's why literally everybody at school knows heathers

[@maxwell8524]

I'm really sad A Very Potter Musical wasn't mentioned..

[@emmittmorgans8076]

+Kylie Jeffries (Sherlock) Yes, the other one I wish had been mentioned was 'Reefer Madness'.

[@KaijaSchmauss]

I mean, technically that was originally intended as a joke to fulfill a bunch of theater major's requirements to continue in their program (I think? I know for sure the plot came from an inside joke and that none of them ever intended it to go as viral as it did), but Starkid should have gotten a special mention for sure.

[@woolsey_pictures]

Fun fact; PEI has a really really cool hardcore scene, among other things. It's grown significantly over the past 5 years, and stretches from powerviolence and harsh noise to post-punk and emo shouts out from charlottetown, luv u sam

[@magnta555]

Well there's musicals based on animes too in japan Like The Prince of Tennis, it has musicals since 2003 and they'll still doing them! A musical based on anime based on tennis tournaments.... (you can watch some of them on youtube if you're interested ) there's musicals for Bleach, Blue Exorcist, Rose of Versailles (which is the only one that I accept), Sailor Moon, Saint Seiya and more...w-why?

[@MasterSwordRemix]

The Death Note musical isn't that bad actually.

[@MasterSwordRemix]

Bilbo baggins *Facepalm*

[@magnta555]

Bilbo baggins no, but I think we're open for general knowledge of weird stuff...and musical based to japanese cartoons is quite a strange thing to do...

[@magnta555]

*sigh* not the right place to fight...

[@Magnymbus]

I'd watch Final Fantasy musicals. Those would be hilarious.

[@nathanforester5993]

Disney has done this with their animated movies being made into stage musicals or shows that they have in their theme parks, and then Dreamworks has 'Shrek: The Musical'. Don't forget Fearless Vampire Killers which was made into Tanz Der Vampire.

[@FrogsOfTheNewWorld]

I like to imagine what industries would be like if run by metal heads and I'm all for metal

[@thisexists]

Bullet belts for everyone.

[@gaymanlover]

Iron Maiden: The Musical much?

[@maddhatter6551]

Love ur videos. I had no clues there was an evil dead the musical or all those other musical. I always learn stuff I had no clue about every week just about. Awesome video.

[@fireyblaze42]

The thing is, song is not only a way to entertain, but it creates memorable "scenes". For example, there are a number of "Disney Classics" I would consider musicals. While they obviously do not have to same ascetics of an actual musical, they combine animation and story progressing songs to be extremely memorable and cherished. These movies could also be another reason why people are so willing to watch musical versions of other movies because they have seen how songs can really affect them. Even if you look at pure musical plays, you can see how much the actual music affects how we remember it. If Rocky Horror Picture Show didn't feature a song with it, most people wouldn't know the combination of words "Sweet Transvestite from Tran sexual Transylvania."

[@WeirdDarknessOfficial]

Next week... THIS EXISTS: THE MUSICAL!

[@bee_sylvester]

My local high-school's drama department did a musical of Little Shop Of Horrors, which was pretty great.

[@Magichroma]

If you look up a theatre in Az called the gaslight theatre has also been doing this exact thing for many years

[@BoomTssClapTss]

Giant Killer Shark was so good that I saw it twice. I hope an anniversary run will happen one day!

[@Fragolux]

"We're living on a copyright-protected iiiiiiiiisland! And it totally kiiiiiiicks ass! Because there are nooooo sharks!" Perfection XD

[@woodrow_7324]

I'm very suprised you didn't mention Turn Off The Dark, the spiderman musocal

[@BeenieBomb]

I've been hearing "...: The Musical" and satyric references to how everything has a musical ever since I can remember!

[@XDoggStrafe]

While I assume that you're standing in front of a green screen affect, I gotta say.. I love that backdrop, specifically the Misfits logo (Along with the myriad of punk band logos in general really) :3 you just gained a subscriber for that alone sir.

[@thisexists]

Not a green screen - actual awesome background made with real posters by Jim and Bobbie, who edit do graphics for the show!

[@XDoggStrafe]

This Exists that makes that backdrop all the more epic then, so many cook posters =D

[@glknight1813]

You forgot to mention Hairspray and Reefer Madness. Especially Hairspray for the Movie to Musical to Musical Movie aspect.

[@peterbelliveau5895]

I live in P.E.I and I've lived here my hole life and I'm just saying we got a lot more than just Anne of green gables BOOM! Fresh seafood BOOM!,Confederation bridge BOOM!,Redsand BOOM!, The birth place of Canada! See we got lots of stuff but Anne of green gables is all you will probably see because tourists offices are like let's just set that everywhere

[@TheNetymags]

it's true about pei. though I was quite disappointed in the restaurants when I was there. I did find it funny when he said that pei was like an island cult. But I'm a huge fan of Anne. loved her and wanted to be her when I was little.

[@jphi1000]

I went to PEI first time did the tourist crap. Then every other time did fun stuff. Living on the NS NB border

[@hotrodhey]

Neta McKinney your disappointed in restaurants most likely due to the low wages, most people work minimum wage 10.35$/hr no tips(except waiter/waitress) some places offer 11 but its rare to see much higher unless they are the head cook, or been there for way too long. I work in a PEI restaurant.

[@TheNetymags]

the wait staff were excellent and people in general were very hospitable. I live in NB and I had been to pei as a young teenager but since being married I wanted to go back with my hubby. He is from Kentucky. I was more disappointed in the actual food. it was boiled seafood or deep fried food. nothing to get me to excited about. When we go back we want to spend more time in Charlottetown, maybe then we would get something a bit different.

[@thisexists]

Peter Belliveau That bridge is hella sweet.

[@BarrySeroff]

On a more serious note, there's an opera based on the Lynch movie Lost Highway by Olga Neuwirth. Worth checking out.

[@bentodaro6707]

bring back giant killer shark man i want to see that.

[@Bealzabub]

I'm surprised that you didn't mention Little Shop of Horrors or the German musical, Tanz der Vampire, which is based off of Roman Polanski's Fearless Vampire Killers (who's Broadway 'translation' is considered in the top five Broadway flops.)

[@Velata]

Roman Polanski's "The Fearless Vampire Killers, or, 'Excuse me but your fang is in my neck'" was first released in 1967. And it was made into a musical called "Dance of the Vampires" in 1997. It's not quite as famous as the others, since most productions were in Europe. But this has to be one of the earlier entries in the genre of "cult movie: the musical", right? On a similar note, Sam, would you consider doing an episode for musicals that got turned into movies and became cult classics? "Repo! The Genetic Opera" comes to mind.

[@AspelShuyin]

I'm a bit late to this, but I wonder if this is connected to stuff like REPO: The Genetic Opera and Rocky Horror, which went from being musicals to cult movies.

[@TheGeoshark]

Re-Animator the musical is a masterpiece and I will hear no ill words in its direction.

[@Porcelainparasite]

I got to sit front row at the Re-Animator Musical at the fringe in Scotland, it was hilarious and awesome, we left covered in fake blood, such a great night.I certainly hope that the-muscal adaptations stay, i dont see why they wouldnt.

[@DustinBKerensky97]

I think they come from the fact that there are some many High School Thespians who never made it on Broadway or Hollywood so now they do Cult Movie musicals in po-dunk middle america on Thursdays and Fridays (and that's cool, we all have hobbies).

[@StLennyBruce]

Re-Animator is one of the best things that ever happened anywhere.

[@TheAyeAye12]

I believe that the most weird yet fitting occurrence of this is of 'American Pyscho: The Musical" starring Matt Smith as Patrick Bateman.

[@ramunegay5747]

Heathers: The Musical was the second musical I listened to, after Hamilton. I'm on to Dear Evan Hansen and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 now. gotta give props to Hamilton for bringing so many people into musical culture when we wouldn't've without it c:

[@PanterAmetal100]

In the Netherlands they have Soldiers of Orange: the Musical, based off the badass Paul Verhoeven movie with Rutger Hauer.

[@supersonic673]

No mention of Reefer Madness? That's like my favorite movie.

[@stanleyguzman694]

You should do more musicals!

[@spookyrosev6467]

I do admit I want to see at least half of these, especially the Re-Animator one

[@pistolsatnoon]

Man, I really love this Chanel. You sir are an interesting person, and know how to make interesting videos!

[@thisexists]

Thank you, sir!

[@lizhasasthma]

I'm surprised the japanese trend of making popular anime into musicals wasn't mentioned. Sailor Moon alone has about a million already, and even though it's not a new trend, it seems to be picking up momentum.

[@thisexists]

Honestly wasn't aware of this trend. Thanks for pointing it out!

[@drewsaur8233]

Evil dead the musical is such a good show. Any musical with a 'splatter zone' can't fail.

[@sheriff-scraps6003]

There is no such thing as too many musicals

[@GeoExpansionify]

I wonder if they will have a broadway show of Cannibal: The musical

[@mksabourinable]

what about cult musical turned mainstream action drama with no credit to the original? (I'm talking about Repo: The Genetic Opera being ripped off by Jude Law's movie Repoman)

[@djiinraidinnae]

I don't really think this trend is going to go away... it might decrease in popularity, but I highly doubt that it'll get close to disappearing. We live in an odd age of entertainment where the niche market is hugely tappable and certainly profitable if you go about it in the right way. With more access to highly specific things, in no small part due to the internet, we've all got the opportunity to take a look at what we individually want from entertainment and can become knowledgeable enough to actually say "I want this." This particular trend seems to be inherently rooted in niche audiences and the thing about niche entertainment is that it tends to stay relatively strong in its own circles. You may not always see it in your local theater, but it'll always be around.

[@Kilroy4540]

YAAAAY PEI lived here my entire life we have nothing but potatoes and Anne of green gables the musical is actually called "Anne and gilbert" for the last few years. The book is very popular in japan so we get a lot of japanese tourists who fly in our come in on cruise ships.

[@baileymcmillan4822]

i once played Matthew in the Anne musical, good times...

[@timnagle9874]

Space balls the musical anyone? "I laughed, I cried, it was better than cats!"

[@acialist]

what about what opera was? that was most often adapted from popular culture writings and stage works

[@tzatzeekee]

I kind of want the script to Giant Killer Shark the Musical just to preform it in Florida.

[@kbtechmaster]

Is there a place I can find the "Giant Killer Shark the Musical" in script form? I need it... For... Reasons...

[@kelseylikesicecreamandbatm6098]

I've seen the Evil Dead musical...the blood parts were fun (when they squirted everyone with it )

[@jstrct]

"Oh, Marilla, I'm just overcome with woe!"

[@RyanJamesArthur]

OMG! I saw The Toxic Avenger Musical when I went to New York for a class trip several years back. I still can't figure out if I liked it ironically or not xD.

[@JKPancake]

can i suggest an idea? I'm going to even though you could say no what about an episode on the group of people who steal bridges

[@thisexists]

Is there... such a group?

[@JKPancake]

This Exists there are groups of people who steal bridges in one night time and some are still unknown. One group stole a church brick by brick

[@thisexists]

Holy crap.

[@khasaki1]

There was also somebody who stole a whole beach. Like.. All the sand in a night

[@JKPancake]

Hannah Ware where? and how?

[@phurry6773]

5:03 so says the speaker

[@BeckyDenise11]

I would definitely love to see one of these musicals

[@castrocafe8049]

I think you're the most amazing person by default by making jaws the musical. No question about it. Doesn't matter if you solve world hunger, you will be remembered by that musical.

[@alienkreeper]

Everything: The musical, nothing's sacred.

[@TheAZOsChannel]

I saw Evil Dead The Musical last september!

[@juliovnobre]

You have to upload that giant killer shark video man.

[@dubbingsync]

And wouldn't The Ten Commandments: the musical be The Prince of Egypt?

[@CandiKane1984]

oh, man I so wanna see Evil Dead: The Musical....i loved that movie

[@RaccoonRevolution]

What about Little Shop of Horrors? Yeah, it didn't have "the Musical" in the title, but it fits pretty much all the other qualifications.

[@RobinCould]

This guy in my school is a zombie on the Evil Dead Musical

[@khoryos1]

I feel like Spamalot has a fairly important role in the resurgence of the musical adaptation?

[@MrTermanati]

Our college is doing Shrek the Musical. I'm super exited.

[@Dreadpirate46]

I think the more accurate question is - when a cult movie spawns a Broadway musical, has it ceased to truly be a cult movie?

[@thisexists]

Oooooo now we're getting into the real shit.

[@katsuro76e]

I would think its got a long way to go before it bottoms out! Btw coming this summer Robo Cop the musical!!! With such songs as "you burned the fucking money" and "I don't like cops and cops don't like me" (Clarence's song)

[@ProphetOfTheNudniks]

Evil Dead: The Musical is freakin' amazing! I love it to pieces!

[@just.Athena]

AVPM is pretty great. :D

[@AVANNIMUSIC]

I'd love to see Birdemic: Shock and Terror - The Musical lol

[@meghaffer]

How did I not know about Evil Dead as a musical???

[@maddybutyoutube]

and Heathers is a popular musical apparently now

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

Not gonna lie, that copyright protected island song is pretty catchy.

[@puddingtrucks4050]

How did you not mention Carrie: the musical? It's really good and literally just Carrie.

[@TheRatSquid]

Wasn't the first musical The Black Crook?

[@connorgriffin3609]

I want "Hitch: The Musical" and I want it yesterday.