BFI's 100 Cult Films
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"Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences.
Yet these films, from the shocking Cannibal Holocaust to the apocalyptic Donnie Darko, from the destructive Tetsuo to the awfully bad The Room, from the hilarious This Is Spı¨nal Tap to the campy Showgirls, from the asylum of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the circus of Freaks, from the gangs of The Warriors to the gangsters of In Bruges and from the flamboyant Rocky Horror Picture Show to the ultimate cool of The Big Lebowski, have all garnered passionate fan followings.
Cult cinema has made tragic misfits, monsters and cyborgs, such as Edward Scissorhands or Blade Runner's replicants, heroes of our times. 100 Cult Films explains why these figures continue to inspire fans around the globe. Cult film experts Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik round up the most cultish of giallo, blaxploitation, anime, sexploitation, zombie, vampire and werewolf films, exploring both the cults that live hidden inside the underground (Nekromantik, Café Flesh) and the cult side of the mainstream (Dirty Dancing, The Lord of the Rings, and even The Sound of Music).
100 Cult Films is a true trip around the world, providing a lively and illuminating guide to films from more than a dozen countries, across nine decades, representing a wide range of genres and key cult directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch."
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Witchfinder General
1968, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Room
2003, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Masque of the Red Death
1964, in 3 top lists Check -
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Tell Your Children
1936 — a.k.a. Reefer Madness, in 2 top lists Check -
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Manos: The Hands of Fate
1966, in 3 top lists Check -
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Begotten
1989, in 3 top lists Check -
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Freaks
1932, in 19 top lists Check -
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The Toxic Avenger
1984, in 4 top lists Check -
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Bride of Frankenstein
1935, in 19 top lists Check -
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956, in 19 top lists Check -
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Nekromantik
1988, in 4 top lists Check -
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Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
1975 — a.k.a. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, in 14 top lists Check -
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Eraserhead
1977, in 20 top lists Check -
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Repo Man
1984, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Brood
1979, in 5 top lists Check -
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C'est arrivé près de chez vous
1992 — a.k.a. Man Bites Dog, in 12 top lists Check -
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Suspiria
1977, in 17 top lists Check -
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Tetsuo
1989 — a.k.a. Tetsuo, the Iron Man, in 10 top lists Check -
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Ringu
1998, in 12 top lists Check -
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Tank Girl
1995, in 2 top lists Check -
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Near Dark
1987, in 9 top lists Check -
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Emmanuelle
1974, in 2 top lists Check -
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Behind the Green Door
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Cannibal Holocaust
1980, in 6 top lists Check -
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Hellraiser
1987, in 3 top lists Check -
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Mad Max 2
1981 — a.k.a. The Road Warrior, in 14 top lists Check -
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002, in 4 top lists Check -
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005, in 6 top lists Check -
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Sound of Music
1965, in 25 top lists Check -
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Enter the Dragon
1973, in 14 top lists Check -
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Videodrome
1983, in 18 top lists Check -
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The Warriors
1979, in 8 top lists Check -
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This Is Spinal Tap
1984, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974, in 15 top lists Check -
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Showgirls
1995, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975, in 13 top lists Check -
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Re-Animator
1985, in 7 top lists Check -
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Piranha
1978, in 4 top lists Check -
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Plan 9 from Outer Space
1957, in 6 top lists Check -
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Night of the Living Dead
1968, in 20 top lists Check -
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In Bruges
2008, in 6 top lists Check -
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Gojira
1954 — a.k.a. Godzilla, in 12 top lists Check -
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check -
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The Wizard of Oz
1939, in 38 top lists Check -
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975, in 23 top lists Check -
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
1983, in 18 top lists Check -
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946, in 33 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002, in 26 top lists Check
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