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. 304 -228

    Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

    1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check
  2. 338 -5

    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
  3. 319 -134

    Freaks

    1932, in 19 top lists Check
  4. 358 +130

    White Zombie

    1932, in 2 top lists Check
  5. 328 -99

    I Walked with a Zombie

    1943, in 10 top lists Check
  6. 313 -187

    Dead of Night

    1945, in 9 top lists Check
  7. 194 +7

    Gojira

    1954 — a.k.a. Godzilla, in 12 top lists Check
  8. 264 +7

    Les diaboliques

    1955 — a.k.a. Diabolique, in 21 top lists Check
  9. 345 +24

    The Quatermass Xperiment

    1955 — a.k.a. The Creeping Unknown, in 2 top lists Check
  10. 198 +43

    Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    1956, in 19 top lists Check
  11. 284 +42

    Night of the Demon

    1957 — a.k.a. Curse of the Demon, in 7 top lists Check
  12. 214 +143

    Plan 9 from Outer Space

    1957, in 6 top lists Check
  13. 375 -345

    Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

    1958, in 1 top list Check
  14. 300 -244

    The Blob

    1958, in 5 top lists Check
  15. 318 -141

    Fiend Without a Face

    1958, in 5 top lists Check
  16. 192 -10

    The Fly

    1958, in 4 top lists Check
  17. 326 -99

    I Bury the Living

    1958, in 2 top lists Check
  18. 303 -228

    A Bucket of Blood

    1959, in 2 top lists Check
  19. 405 -129

    The Little Shop of Horrors

    1960, in 2 top lists Check
  20. 340 +10

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 top lists Check
  21. 306 -223

    Carnival of Souls

    1962, in 5 top lists Check
  22. 289 +196

    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    1962, in 15 top lists Check
  23. 301 -244

    Blood Feast

    1963, in 4 top lists Check
  24. 283 -71

    The Haunting

    1963, in 6 top lists Check
  25. 204 +295

    X

    1963 — a.k.a. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, in 5 top lists Check
  26. 327 -99

    I lunghi capelli della morte

    1964 — a.k.a. The Long Hair of Death, in 1 top list Check
  27. 329 -91

    The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped...

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  28. 123 +256

    Repulsion

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  29. 339 +1

    Operazione paura

    1966 — a.k.a. Kill Baby, Kill, in 3 top lists Check
  30. 393 -219

    Dance of the Vampires

    1967 — a.k.a. The Fearless Vampire Killers, in 4 top lists Check
  31. 285 +43

    Night of the Living Dead

    1968, in 20 top lists Check
  32. 348 +40

    Rosemary's Baby

    1968, in 21 top lists Check
  33. 359 +135

    Witchfinder General

    1968, in 8 top lists Check
  34. 132 +352

    What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  35. 309 -205

    Countess Dracula

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  36. 334 -71

    The Last House on the Left

    1972, in 4 top lists Check
  37. 413 -58

    Pink Flamingos

    1972, in 13 top lists Check
  38. 223 +223

    The Thing with Two Heads

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  39. 294 -263

    The Baby

    1973, in 1 top list Check
  40. 30 +115

    Don't Look Now

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  41. 343 +24

    Psychomania

    1973 — a.k.a. The Death Wheelers, in 2 top lists Check
  42. 290 +199

    The Wicker Man

    1973, in 13 top lists Check
  43. 356 +86

    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    1974, in 15 top lists Check
  44. 140 +231

    Race with the Devil

    1975, in 2 top lists Check
  45. 352 +56

    Shivers

    1975, in 3 top lists Check
  46. 186 -53

    Demon Seed

    1977, in 2 top lists Check
  47. 458 -294

    Eraserhead

    1977, in 20 top lists Check
  48. 55 +246

    Martin

    1977, in 4 top lists Check
  49. 353 +57

    Shock Waves

    1977 — a.k.a. Almost Human, in 2 top lists Check
  50. 312 -194

    Dawn of the Dead

    1978, in 15 top lists Check
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