>Sometimes I feel as if my tastes are caught between
>King_Friday and Orbit_Established--the snob who proclaims a
>love for Iranian films while getting beat up by the guy
>rehearsing lines from Evil Dead 2.

I don't feel like I'm a snob.

>Is there a movie that the "elitists" and the "bottom-dwellers"
>can enjoy equally?
>

Yeah.

Night Of The Living Dead, Dawn Of The Dead, and Day Of The Dead.

Art film buffs like them because of the social political themes and the low budget independent feel, non-film buff moviegoers like them because of the well-executed genre content (blood, action, zombies).