Entertainment Weekly's "The Top 50 Cult Movies"

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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 watercoolers, 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 complete with signature lines and a near Talmudic trove of trivia.

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Created by Robot Co-op on Nov 30, 2005.
 

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Untitled — 4 years ago

This list needs Monty Python for sure. And Scarface? Would anyone really consider that a cult film? Or Buckaroo Bonzai? Might as well throw on Big Trouble in Little China and Goonies. The trouble with lists are they’re so subjective.


Pink Flamingos — 5 years ago

I don’t know if anyone else has seen this but everyone should have to see it at least once. It’s definately different.


Cult Movies — 5 years ago

I debated about saying if Plan 9 was worth it or not. It is well known as one of the worst movies of all time, so if that is your barometer, it is so bad it is good.


Extra Entry — 5 years ago

The list has 51 entries instead of the 50 that are listed on the original source website. It seems somebody added Donnie Darko to this list.


RUSHMORE! — 5 years ago

YAY!


New List — 5 years ago

For all of you that have been complaining about this list, I have found a much better list.

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/36537/


this list is SUCK — 6 years ago

ok the point is not GOODMOVIES the point is CULTCLASSICS!! and to be fair RHPS should be above spinal tap…but COME ON!!!SHOWGIRLS? showgirls is fucking on here..and that movie is NOT of cult status and yet breakfast club nowhere to be found!! monte pythoncult fans everywhere are rolling in disgust!! where is say anything?? what the HELL is wrong with EW?? they are OBVIOUSLY not avid watchers of cult classics. This list is suck, nothing can be done for it.. It is completely WRONG. WHERE IS THEGODFATHER


Missing! — 6 years ago

Y’are forgetting Orgasmo, Donnie darko, Moulin rouge, Trainspotting, a Clockwork organge, Pulp fiction and Romeo and Juliet!


Donnie Darko?? — 6 years ago

Where is it?


Untitled — 6 years ago

The lack of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, above any other film missing, disqualifies this list as being comprehensive. Honestly, this has been one of the benchmark cult classics and is astoundingly absent.

Especially since Shawshank Redemption is on it. When it’s shown on TNT every few weeks it no longer qualifies as cult.



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