Entertainment Weekly’s Top 50 Cult Movies
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Published in 2003, Entertainment Weekly Magazine described their Top 50 Cult Movies thusly: "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 water coolers, 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…"
Note: Reader response to the original list was so great, that EW subsequently annexed their list with 11 “readers’ choice” picks. Why 11? Well, it's one longer, isn't it …?
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Fight Club
1999, in 19 top lists Check -
10 new
The Shawshank Redemption
1994, in 24 top lists Check -
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A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
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Donnie Darko
2001, in 21 top lists Check -
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Scarface
1983, in 19 top lists Check -
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Rushmore
1998, in 11 top lists Check -
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Dazed and Confused
1993, in 7 top lists Check -
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Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
1972 — a.k.a. Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in 18 top lists Check -
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Heathers
1988, in 7 top lists Check -
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Freaks
1932, in 19 top lists Check -
35 new
Withnail & I
1987, in 14 top lists Check -
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Stranger Than Paradise
1984, in 14 top lists Check -
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Lat sau san taam
1992 — a.k.a. Hard Boiled, in 12 top lists Check -
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Friday
1995, in 2 top lists Check -
55 new
Swingers
1996, in 1 top list Check -
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Showgirls
1995, in 6 top lists Check -
31 new
Slap Shot
1977, in 1 top list Check -
44 new
Love Streams
1984, in 8 top lists Check -
53 new
Mommie Dearest
1981, in 2 top lists Check -
30 new
The Harder They Come
1972, in 7 top lists Check -
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Valley of the Dolls
1967, in 1 top list Check -
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Walking and Talking
1996, in 1 top list Check -
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The Mack
1973, in 2 top lists Check -
39 new
The Best of Everything
1959, in 1 top list Check
Last updated on Mar 7, 2012; source