Scott Tobias's The New Cult Canon

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The idea behind The New Cult Canon is to take a fresh look at the new generation of cult movies that have sprung up in the last two decades, although some older movies are also included into the list. The list is authored by Scott Tobias.

[From 2008 to 2013, starting with Donnie Darko and ending with The Rapture, I wrote a column for The A.V. Club called The New Cult Canon, my homage to Danny Peary’s three Cult Movies books, which were a huge influence on my moviegoing habits as a young cinephile. My idea was to pick up where Peary’s last book left off, in 1987, and explore “The Classics, The Sleepers, The Weird and the Wonderful”—films that have inspired mad obsession since. With The Reveal, I finally have the opportunity to bring it back.]

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    Fight Club

    1999, in 19 top lists Check
  2. 155 -

    Memento

    2000, in 27 top lists Check
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    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
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    Reservoir Dogs

    1992, in 26 top lists Check
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    The Big Lebowski

    1998, in 26 top lists Check
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    American History X

    1998, in 12 top lists Check
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    Requiem for a Dream

    2000, in 21 top lists Check
  8. 135 -

    Shaun of the Dead

    2004, in 13 top lists Check
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    Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

    2001 — a.k.a. Spirited Away, in 39 top lists Check
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    Twelve Monkeys

    1995 — a.k.a. 12 Monkeys, in 14 top lists Check
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    American Psycho

    2000, in 12 top lists Check
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    Drive

    2011, in 8 top lists Check
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    The Blair Witch Project

    1999, in 14 top lists Check
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    The Iron Giant

    1999, in 14 top lists Check
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    Beetlejuice

    1988, in 5 top lists Check
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    Zodiac

    2007, in 14 top lists Check
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    Oldeuboi

    2003 — a.k.a. Oldboy, in 34 top lists Check
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    Office Space

    1999, in 7 top lists Check
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    Zoolander

    2001, in 5 top lists Check
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    Napoleon Dynamite

    2004, in 4 top lists Check
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    Clerks

    1994, in 9 top lists Check
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    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    1998, in 6 top lists Check
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    Låt den rätte komma in

    2008 — a.k.a. Let the Right One In, in 14 top lists Check
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    Eyes Wide Shut

    1999, in 11 top lists Check
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    Starship Troopers

    1997, in 9 top lists Check
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    Serenity

    2005, in 3 top lists Check
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    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

    2005, in 4 top lists Check
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    The Boondock Saints

    1999, in 2 top lists Check
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    Team America: World Police

    2004, in 5 top lists Check
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    Dazed and Confused

    1993, in 7 top lists Check
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    Batoru rowaiaru

    2000 — a.k.a. Battle Royale, in 9 top lists Check
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    Punch-Drunk Love

    2002, in 12 top lists Check
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    Pi

    1998, in 6 top lists Check
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    The Devil's Advocate

    1997, in 3 top lists Check
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    Army of Darkness

    1992, in 6 top lists Check
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    [Rec]

    2007 — a.k.a. REC, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Descent

    2005, in 4 top lists Check
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    Brick

    2005, in 8 top lists Check
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    Bad Santa

    2003, in 3 top lists Check
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    Gremlins 2: The New Batch

    1990, in 2 top lists Check
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    Primer

    2004, in 6 top lists Check
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    Babe: Pig in the City

    1998, in 1 top list Check
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    Heathers

    1988, in 7 top lists Check
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    Point Break

    1991, in 9 top lists Check
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    Delicatessen

    1991, in 15 top lists Check
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    Synecdoche, New York

    2008, in 9 top lists Check
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    Irréversible

    2002 — a.k.a. Irreversible, in 10 top lists Check
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    Lost Highway

    1997, in 10 top lists Check
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    The Fall

    2006, in 6 top lists Check
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    Glengarry Glen Ross

    1992, in 8 top lists Check
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