Entertainment Weekly’s Top 50 Cult Movies
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Published in 2003, Entertainment Weekly Magazine described their Top 50 Cult Movies thusly: "most died at the box office, some of them horribly. Mangled and despised, they were re-animated on video. And now they compose our cultural Esperanto, a subliminal vocabulary of vaguely subversive images, ideas, and phrases that we continue to obsess over and dissect at parties, around water coolers, in bars, over the blaring banalities of the mainstream media din. They are Cult Movies...So if you take your dead evil and your buckaroos banzai-ed, pour yourself a tall glass of Kool-Aid and peruse this list…"
Note: Reader response to the original list was so great, that EW subsequently annexed their list with 11 “readers’ choice” picks. Why 11? Well, it's one longer, isn't it …?
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This Is Spinal Tap
1984, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975, in 13 top lists Check -
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Freaks
1932, in 19 top lists Check -
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Harold and Maude
1971, in 22 top lists Check -
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Pink Flamingos
1972, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974, in 15 top lists Check -
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Repo Man
1984, in 9 top lists Check -
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Scarface
1983, in 19 top lists Check -
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Blade Runner
1982, in 36 top lists Check -
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994, in 24 top lists Check -
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Wu du
1978 — a.k.a. Five Deadly Venoms, in 3 top lists Check -
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Plan 9 from Outer Space
1957, in 6 top lists Check -
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Brazil
1985, in 23 top lists Check -
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Eraserhead
1977, in 20 top lists Check -
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
1965 — a.k.a. The Leather Girls, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Warriors
1979, in 8 top lists Check -
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Dazed and Confused
1993, in 7 top lists Check -
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Lat sau san taam
1992 — a.k.a. Hard Boiled, in 12 top lists Check -
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Evil Dead II
1987, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Mack
1973, in 2 top lists Check -
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure
1985, in 4 top lists Check -
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Un chien andalou
1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check -
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Akira
1988, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Toxic Avenger
1984, in 4 top lists Check -
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971, in 8 top lists Check -
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Stranger Than Paradise
1984, in 14 top lists Check -
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Dawn of the Dead
1978, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Wiz
1978, in 0 top lists Check -
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Clerks
1994, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Harder They Come
1972, in 7 top lists Check -
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Slap Shot
1977, in 1 top list Check -
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Re-Animator
1985, in 7 top lists Check -
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Grey Gardens
1975, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Big Lebowski
1998, in 26 top lists Check -
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Withnail & I
1987, in 14 top lists Check -
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Showgirls
1995, in 6 top lists Check -
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A Bucket of Blood
1959, in 2 top lists Check -
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They Live
1988, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Best of Everything
1959, in 1 top list Check -
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Barbarella
1968, in 7 top lists Check -
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Heathers
1988, in 7 top lists Check -
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Rushmore
1998, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the...
1984, in 4 top lists Check -
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Love Streams
1984, in 8 top lists Check -
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Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
1987, in 4 top lists Check -
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Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
1972 — a.k.a. Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in 18 top lists Check -
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Walking and Talking
1996, in 1 top list Check -
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The Decline of Western Civilization Part II:...
1988, in 1 top list Check -
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Friday
1995, in 2 top lists Check -
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Faces of Death
1978, in 2 top lists Check
Last updated on Mar 7, 2012; source