Thanks to Jen Speaks via Mysterium Tremendum comes the latest how-many-of-these-great-thingies-have-you-seen-heard-or-read lists: Entertainment Weekly's top 50 cult films (50 being defined as 61 for some reason). How many have you seen? Mine are bolded:
- This Is Spinal Tap
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Freaks
- Harold And Maude
- Pink Flamingos
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Repo Man
- Scarface
- Blade Runner
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Five Deadly Venoms
- Plan 9 From Outer Space
- Brazil
- Eraserhead
- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
- The Warriors
- Dazed And Confused
- Hard-Boiled
- Evil Dead II
- The Mack
- Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
- Un Chien Andalou
- Akira
- The Toxic Avenger
- Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
- Stranger Than Paradise
- Dawn Of The Dead
- The Wiz
- Clerks
- The Harder They Come
- Slap Shot
- Re-Animator
- Grey Gardens
- The Big Lebowski
- Withnail and I
- Showgirls
- A Bucket Of Bood
- They Live
- The Best Of Everything
- Barbarella
- Heathers
- Rushmore
- The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension
- Love Streams
- Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
- Aguirre, The Wrath of God
- Walking And Talking Nicole Holofcener
- The Decline Of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years
- Friday
- Faces of Death, Vol. 1
- Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail
- A Clockwork Orange
- Mommie Dearest
- The Princess Bride
- Swingers
- UHF
- Valley of the Dolls
- Fight Club
- Dead Alive (aka Braindead)
- Better Off Dead
- Donnie Darko
My score: 18/61, pretty respectable when you consider that cult film is one of those areas I haven't really delved too deeply into.
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