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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  1. 19 new

    Evil Dead II

    1987, in 9 top lists Check
  2. 14 new

    Eraserhead

    1977, in 20 top lists Check
  3. 27 new

    Dawn of the Dead

    1978, in 15 top lists Check
  4. 6 new

    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    1974, in 15 top lists Check
  5. 3 new

    Freaks

    1932, in 19 top lists Check
  6. 38 new

    They Live

    1988, in 7 top lists Check
  7. 59 new

    Braindead

    1992 — a.k.a. Dead Alive, in 8 top lists Check
  8. 32 new

    Re-Animator

    1985, in 7 top lists Check
  9. 5 new

    Pink Flamingos

    1972, in 13 top lists Check
  10. 24 new

    The Toxic Avenger

    1984, in 4 top lists Check
  11. 12 new

    Plan 9 from Outer Space

    1957, in 6 top lists Check
  12. 37 new

    A Bucket of Blood

    1959, in 2 top lists Check
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Last updated on Mar 7, 2012; source