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. 497 -57

    Teaserama

    1955, in 1 top list Check
  2. 417 -13

    Shakes the Clown

    1991, in 1 top list Check
  3. 58 +258

    Mudhoney

    1965 — a.k.a. Mud Honey, in 1 top list Check
  4. 74 +382

    Tracks

    1976, in 1 top list Check
  5. 482 -243

    Inserts

    1975, in 1 top list Check
  6. 391 -228

    The End

    1978, in 2 top lists Check
  7. 113 +103

    Hells Angels on Wheels

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  8. 256 -38

    High School Confidential!

    1958, in 1 top list Check
  9. 94 -90

    84C MoPic

    1989, in 1 top list Check
  10. 255 -48

    The Grissom Gang

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  11. 23 +61

    Carny

    1980, in 1 top list Check
  12. 24 +69

    Cisco Pike

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  13. 97 -72

    Apartment Zero

    1988, in 1 top list Check
  14. 132 +352

    What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  15. 19 +48

    Breakin'

    1984, in 2 top lists Check
  16. 36 +160

    Ghosts... of the Civil Dead

    1988, in 1 top list Check
  17. 428 +36

    The Twelve Chairs

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  18. 38 +160

    The Girl on a Motorcycle

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  19. 327 -99

    I lunghi capelli della morte

    1964 — a.k.a. The Long Hair of Death, in 1 top list Check
  20. 411 -77

    Nothing Lasts Forever

    1984, in 1 top list Check
  21. 371 -366

    200 Motels

    1971, in 2 top lists Check
  22. 450 -69

    Requiescant

    1967, in 2 top lists Check
  23. 399 -199

    Goin' South

    1978, in 1 top list Check
  24. 478 -287

    Funny Ha Ha

    2002, in 1 top list Check
  25. 235 +56

    The Mack

    1973, in 2 top lists Check
  26. 429 +41

    Up!

    1976, in 1 top list Check
  27. 16 +28

    The Best of Everything

    1959, in 1 top list Check
  28. 145 -93

    Black Sunday

    1977, in 1 top list Check
  29. 329 -91

    The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped...

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  30. 243 -184

    Bloody Mama

    1970, in 2 top lists Check
  31. 155 +100

    Knightriders

    1981, in 1 top list Check
  32. 452 -35

    Soldier Blue

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  33. 487 -199

    The Loveless

    1981 — a.k.a. Breakdown, in 1 top list Check
  34. 223 +223

    The Thing with Two Heads

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  35. 386 -280

    Crimewave

    1985, in 1 top list Check
  36. 182 -93

    Chôjin densetsu Urotsukidôji

    1989 — a.k.a. Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend, in 2 top lists Check
  37. 128 +316

    They Might Be Giants

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  38. 80 +399

    Walk on the Wild Side

    1962, in 1 top list Check
  39. 357 +116

    Vamp

    1986, in 2 top lists Check
  40. 501 -15

    What's Up, Tiger Lily?

    1966, in 3 top lists Check
  41. 27 +92

    The Dawn Patrol

    1938, in 1 top list Check
  42. 309 -205

    Countess Dracula

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  43. 317 -149

    Faces of Death

    1978, in 2 top lists Check
  44. 402 -159

    Jamón Jamón

    1992 — a.k.a. Jamón, Jamón, in 1 top list Check
  45. 472 -329

    Dogtown and Z-Boys

    2001, in 3 top lists Check
  46. 240 -223

    Alone in the Dark

    1982, in 1 top list Check
  47. 416 -46

    Quick Change

    1990, in 2 top lists Check
  48. 154 +39

    The Gauntlet

    1977, in 2 top lists Check
  49. 326 -99

    I Bury the Living

    1958, in 2 top lists Check
  50. 163 +275

    Taxi

    1998, in 1 top list Check
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