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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  1. 27 +92

    The Dawn Patrol

    1938, in 1 top list Check
  2. 94 -90

    84C MoPic

    1989, in 1 top list Check
  3. 16 +28

    The Best of Everything

    1959, in 1 top list Check
  4. 24 +69

    Cisco Pike

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  5. 18 +47

    The Boys in the Band

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  6. 249 -112

    Dillinger

    1973, in 2 top lists Check
  7. 255 -48

    The Grissom Gang

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  8. 482 -243

    Inserts

    1975, in 1 top list Check
  9. 452 -35

    Soldier Blue

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  10. 74 +382

    Tracks

    1976, in 1 top list Check
  11. 132 +352

    What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  12. 256 -38

    High School Confidential!

    1958, in 1 top list Check
  13. 45 +206

    The Killing of Sister George

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
  14. 411 -77

    Nothing Lasts Forever

    1984, in 1 top list Check
  15. 450 -69

    Requiescant

    1967, in 2 top lists Check
  16. 80 +399

    Walk on the Wild Side

    1962, in 1 top list Check
  17. 23 +61

    Carny

    1980, in 1 top list Check
  18. 327 -99

    I lunghi capelli della morte

    1964 — a.k.a. The Long Hair of Death, in 1 top list Check
  19. 25 +72

    Cockfighter

    1974, in 2 top lists Check
  20. 487 -199

    The Loveless

    1981 — a.k.a. Breakdown, in 1 top list Check
  21. 125 +295

    Southern Comfort

    1981, in 2 top lists Check
  22. 128 +316

    They Might Be Giants

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  23. 502 -15

    When We Were Kings

    1996, in 7 top lists Check
  24. 145 -93

    Black Sunday

    1977, in 1 top list Check
  25. 108 +13

    The Day of the Locust

    1975, in 1 top list Check
  26. 474 -313

    Electra Glide in Blue

    1973, in 2 top lists Check
  27. 58 +258

    Mudhoney

    1965 — a.k.a. Mud Honey, in 1 top list Check
  28. 120 +225

    Panic in the Streets

    1950, in 5 top lists Check
  29. 274 +92

    The Prowler

    1951, in 4 top lists Check
  30. 345 +24

    The Quatermass Xperiment

    1955 — a.k.a. The Creeping Unknown, in 2 top lists Check
  31. 443 -284

    Quién sabe?

    1967 — a.k.a. A Bullet for the General, in 3 top lists Check
  32. 75 +375

    To Sleep with Anger

    1990, in 8 top lists Check
  33. 204 +295

    X

    1963 — a.k.a. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, in 5 top lists Check
  34. 114 +105

    The Hill

    1965, in 1 top list Check
  35. 326 -99

    I Bury the Living

    1958, in 2 top lists Check
  36. 208 +114

    The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

    1988, in 3 top lists Check
  37. 97 -72

    Apartment Zero

    1988, in 1 top list Check
  38. 99 -70

    At Close Range

    1986, in 2 top lists Check
  39. 15 +28

    The Beguiled

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
  40. 3 +50

    Blackboard Jungle

    1955, in 4 top lists Check
  41. 243 -184

    Bloody Mama

    1970, in 2 top lists Check
  42. 456 -327

    The Decline of Western Civilization

    1981, in 3 top lists Check
  43. 414 -53

    Polyester

    1981, in 3 top lists Check
  44. 140 +231

    Race with the Devil

    1975, in 2 top lists Check
  45. 127 +301

    Strategia del ragno

    1970 — a.k.a. The Spider's Stratagem, in 8 top lists Check
  46. 428 +36

    The Twelve Chairs

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  47. 453 +15

    Ulzana's Raid

    1972, in 6 top lists Check
  48. 242 -196

    The Big Combo

    1955, in 7 top lists Check
  49. 17 +32

    Big Wednesday

    1978 — a.k.a. Summer of Innocence, in 4 top lists Check
  50. 472 -329

    Dogtown and Z-Boys

    2001, in 3 top lists Check
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