Jennifer Eiss's 500 Essential Cult Movies
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From the book by Jennifer Eiss. The list is arranged by chapter. Each chapter starts with a top 10 (in alphabetical order), followed by the "best of the rest" (in alphabetical order).
#1-83: Dramatic Situatons
#84-133: Gripping Tales
#134-165: Lights, Camera…!
#166-228: Visionary Universes
#229-280: Criminal Underworlds
#281-360: Tales of Terror
#361-432: Cult Humor
#433-453: The Wild Wild West
#454-502: Film Lab
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304 -228
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check -
338 -5
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check -
319 -134
Freaks
1932, in 19 top lists Check -
358 +130
White Zombie
1932, in 2 top lists Check -
328 -99
I Walked with a Zombie
1943, in 10 top lists Check -
313 -187
Dead of Night
1945, in 9 top lists Check -
194 +7
Gojira
1954 — a.k.a. Godzilla, in 12 top lists Check -
264 +7
Les diaboliques
1955 — a.k.a. Diabolique, in 21 top lists Check -
345 +24
The Quatermass Xperiment
1955 — a.k.a. The Creeping Unknown, in 2 top lists Check -
198 +43
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956, in 19 top lists Check -
284 +42
Night of the Demon
1957 — a.k.a. Curse of the Demon, in 7 top lists Check -
214 +143
Plan 9 from Outer Space
1957, in 6 top lists Check -
375 -345
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
1958, in 1 top list Check -
300 -244
The Blob
1958, in 5 top lists Check -
318 -141
Fiend Without a Face
1958, in 5 top lists Check -
192 -10
The Fly
1958, in 4 top lists Check -
326 -99
I Bury the Living
1958, in 2 top lists Check -
303 -228
A Bucket of Blood
1959, in 2 top lists Check -
405 -129
The Little Shop of Horrors
1960, in 2 top lists Check -
340 +10
Peeping Tom
1960, in 20 top lists Check -
306 -223
Carnival of Souls
1962, in 5 top lists Check -
289 +196
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962, in 15 top lists Check -
301 -244
Blood Feast
1963, in 4 top lists Check -
283 -71
The Haunting
1963, in 6 top lists Check -
204 +295
X
1963 — a.k.a. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, in 5 top lists Check -
327 -99
I lunghi capelli della morte
1964 — a.k.a. The Long Hair of Death, in 1 top list Check -
329 -91
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped...
1964, in 1 top list Check -
123 +256
Repulsion
1965, in 17 top lists Check -
339 +1
Operazione paura
1966 — a.k.a. Kill Baby, Kill, in 3 top lists Check -
393 -219
Dance of the Vampires
1967 — a.k.a. The Fearless Vampire Killers, in 4 top lists Check -
285 +43
Night of the Living Dead
1968, in 20 top lists Check -
348 +40
Rosemary's Baby
1968, in 21 top lists Check -
359 +135
Witchfinder General
1968, in 8 top lists Check -
132 +352
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
1969, in 1 top list Check -
309 -205
Countess Dracula
1971, in 1 top list Check -
334 -71
The Last House on the Left
1972, in 4 top lists Check -
413 -58
Pink Flamingos
1972, in 13 top lists Check -
223 +223
The Thing with Two Heads
1972, in 1 top list Check -
294 -263
The Baby
1973, in 1 top list Check -
30 +115
Don't Look Now
1973, in 17 top lists Check -
343 +24
Psychomania
1973 — a.k.a. The Death Wheelers, in 2 top lists Check -
290 +199
The Wicker Man
1973, in 13 top lists Check -
356 +86
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974, in 15 top lists Check -
140 +231
Race with the Devil
1975, in 2 top lists Check -
352 +56
Shivers
1975, in 3 top lists Check -
186 -53
Demon Seed
1977, in 2 top lists Check -
458 -294
Eraserhead
1977, in 20 top lists Check -
55 +246
Martin
1977, in 4 top lists Check -
353 +57
Shock Waves
1977 — a.k.a. Almost Human, in 2 top lists Check -
312 -194
Dawn of the Dead
1978, in 15 top lists Check
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