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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY's - Top 50 Cult Movies

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People who added this item 428  Average listal rating (283 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 7.9 
1. This is Spinal Tap (1984)
"It's such a fine line between stupid...and clever."
"He died in a tragic gardening accident... Authorities said... it's best to leave it... unsolved."

People who added this item 713  Average listal rating (429 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating
2. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
"Hi, my name is Brad Majors..." (Asshole!) "...this is my fiancee, Janet Weiss." (Slut!)
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People who added this item 197  Average listal rating (124 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 7.9 
3. Freaks (1932)
"Gobble gobble, gobble gobble... We accept her... One of us, one of us..."
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People who added this item 245  Average listal rating (146 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.1 
4. Harold and Maude (1971)
Harold: "You sure have a way with people."
Maude: "Well, they're my species!"

People who added this item 107  Average listal rating (46 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating 5.8 
5. Pink Flamingos (1972)
"Filth are my politics! Filth is my life."

People who added this item 380  Average listal rating (256 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating 7.5 
6. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
"Hey, Grampa, we're gonna let you have this one!"

People who added this item 123  Average listal rating (75 ratings) 6.7  IMDB Rating 6.8 
7. Repo Man (1984)
"Let's go get sushi and not pay!"

People who added this item 1106  Average listal rating (682 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.2 
8. Scarface (1983)
"Shay 'jello to my wittle vrend!"
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People who added this item 1277  Average listal rating (843 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.3 
9. Blade Runner (1982)
"Wake up. Time to die."
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People who added this item 1759  Average listal rating (1233 ratings) 8.5  IMDB Rating 9.2 
10. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
"Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'."
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People who added this item 18  Average listal rating (8 ratings) 7.1  IMDB Rating
11. The 5 Deadly Venoms (The Five Deadly Venoms) (1978)
"Hwayiii!"

People who added this item 148  Average listal rating (92 ratings) 4.9  IMDB Rating 3.6 
12. Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
"All you of Earth are IDIOTS!"
"Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future."

People who added this item 651  Average listal rating (393 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating
13. Brazil (1985)
"That is your receipt for your husband...and this is my receipt for your receipt."

People who added this item 375  Average listal rating (199 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating 7.4 
14. Eraserhead (1977)
(A pervasive hiss of unsettling white noise.)

People who added this item 96  Average listal rating (49 ratings) 7.1  IMDB Rating 6.7 
15. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
"Honey, we don't like nothing soft. Everything we touch is hard."

People who added this item 164  Average listal rating (103 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 7.6 
16. The Warriors (1979)
"Warriors come out to plaaay." or
"Can...you...dig it?"


People who added this item 429  Average listal rating (241 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating 7.6 
17. Dazed and Confused (1993)
"That's what I love about these high school girls, man: I get older, they stay the same age."
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People who added this item 174  Average listal rating (97 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 7.9 
18. Hard Boiled (1992)
"There's no room for failure now. The innocent must die!"
"Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God."

People who added this item 443  Average listal rating (299 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.9 
19. Evil Dead II (1987)
"Groovy" or
"I'll swallow your soul!"
"Let's head on down into that cellar and carve ourselves a witch."

People who added this item 6  Average listal rating (1 ratings) 5  IMDB Rating 6.6 
20. The Mack (1973)
"We can settle this like you got some class, or we can get into some gangster s---."

People who added this item 416  Average listal rating (249 ratings) 5.7  IMDB Rating 6.9 
21. Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
"I know you are, but what am I? Infinity!"
"There's a lot of things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie, things you wouldn't understand, things you couldn't understand."
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People who added this item 238  Average listal rating (149 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.1 
22.

An Andalusian Dog (1929)

(It's a silent movie, but shrieks and gasps can often be heard in the audience."

People who added this item 465  Average listal rating (307 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 7.9 
23. Akira (1988)
"Tetsuoooooo!"

People who added this item 75  Average listal rating (47 ratings) 5.7  IMDB Rating 5.8 
24. The Toxic Avenger (1984)

"They're going to nuke the monster!"

People who added this item 1089  Average listal rating (716 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 7.8 
25. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
"What is this, Wonka, some kind of fun house?"
"Why? Having fun?"
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People who added this item 142  Average listal rating (71 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 7.5 
26. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
"It's Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and he's a wild man, so bug off!"

People who added this item 414  Average listal rating (271 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating
27. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
"They kill for one reason: They kill for food!"
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People who added this item 56  Average listal rating (29 ratings) 5.3  IMDB Rating 4.5 
28. The Wiz (1978)
"Ease on down the road."

People who added this item 838  Average listal rating (552 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating
29. Clerks (1994)
"I'm not even supposed to be here today."
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People who added this item 19  Average listal rating (6 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 7.1 
30. The Harder They Come (1972)
"Don'... f--- ... wit' ... me."

People who added this item 67  Average listal rating (44 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 7.2 
31. Slap Shot (1977)
"Old-time hockey!"

People who added this item 110  Average listal rating (65 ratings) 6.7  IMDB Rating 7.3 
32. Re-Animator (1985)
"You steal the secret of life and death, and here you are trysting with a bubbleheaded coed!"

People who added this item 42  Average listal rating (25 ratings) 7.1  IMDB Rating 7.8 
33. Grey Gardens (1975)
"In dealing with me, the relatives didn't know that they were dealing with a staunch character...S-T-A-U-N-C-H."

People who added this item 1229  Average listal rating (810 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.2 
34. The Big Lebowski (1998)
"The Dude abides."
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People who added this item 128  Average listal rating (64 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 7.8 
35. Withnail & I (1987)
"I demand to have some booze!"

People who added this item 191  Average listal rating (129 ratings) 3.9  IMDB Rating
36. Showgirls (1995)
"I'm not a whore, I'm a dancer!"
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People who added this item 14  Average listal rating (5 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating 6.8 
37. A Bucket of Blood (1959)
"I've never seen anything like it before...and I hope I never see anything like it again."

People who added this item 165  Average listal rating (113 ratings) 6.7  IMDB Rating 6.9 
38. They Live (1988)
"I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass...I'm all out of bubble gum."

People who added this item 5  Average listal rating (0 ratings) 0  IMDB Rating 6.6 
39. The Best of Everything (1959)
"Here's to men! Bless their clean-cut faces and dirty little minds!"

People who added this item 146  Average listal rating (96 ratings) 6.2  IMDB Rating 5.6 
40. Barbarella (1968)
"I'd better adjust my tongue box."

People who added this item 277  Average listal rating (174 ratings) 7.1  IMDB Rating 7.3 
41. Heathers (1988)
"Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast or something?"
"Hey Ram, doesn't this cafeteria have a no-fags-allowed rule?"
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People who added this item 467  Average listal rating (290 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.8 
42. Rushmore (1998)
"She's my Rushmore, Max."

People who added this item 60  Average listal rating (31 ratings) 6.3  IMDB Rating
43. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the... (1984)
"...No matter where you go, there you are."
"Laugh-a while you can Monkey-Boy!!"

People who added this item 11  Average listal rating (5 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating
44. Love Streams (1984)
"Life is a series of suicides, divorces, promises broken, children smashed, whatever."

People who added this item 14  Average listal rating (7 ratings) 8.7  IMDB Rating
45. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)
"I will not wear that hip-hugger thing. Mother. It makes me look really fat."
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People who added this item 194  Average listal rating (118 ratings) 8.3  IMDB Rating
46. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
"I am the Wrath of God!"

People who added this item 7  Average listal rating (4 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 6.5 
47. Walking and Talking (1996)
"Do we really have to listen to this vagina music all the way there?"

People who added this item 15  Average listal rating (8 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 7.2 
48. The Decline of Western Civilization Part II:... (1988)

"I'm the happiest son-ofabitch, motherf---er there ever was."

People who added this item 187  Average listal rating (118 ratings) 6.1  IMDB Rating
49. Friday (1995)
"It's Friday... You ain't got s--- to do."
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People who added this item 21  Average listal rating (15 ratings) 5.1  IMDB Rating 3.3 
50. Faces of Death (1978)
"Banned in 46 countries!" (Tagline)



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Entertainment Weekly Magazine published their list of the Top 50 Cult Movies in their May 23, 2003 issue. This site, Greatest Films, has always had its own descriptions and recommendations for well-known and beloved cult films, at Cult Films. Seven of their choices below were pre-1970, and only two pre-1950.

The magazine's introduction to the article on the Top 50 Cult Movies stated that "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.

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