BFI's 100 Cult Films
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"Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences.
Yet these films, from the shocking Cannibal Holocaust to the apocalyptic Donnie Darko, from the destructive Tetsuo to the awfully bad The Room, from the hilarious This Is Spı¨nal Tap to the campy Showgirls, from the asylum of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the circus of Freaks, from the gangs of The Warriors to the gangsters of In Bruges and from the flamboyant Rocky Horror Picture Show to the ultimate cool of The Big Lebowski, have all garnered passionate fan followings.
Cult cinema has made tragic misfits, monsters and cyborgs, such as Edward Scissorhands or Blade Runner's replicants, heroes of our times. 100 Cult Films explains why these figures continue to inspire fans around the globe. Cult film experts Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik round up the most cultish of giallo, blaxploitation, anime, sexploitation, zombie, vampire and werewolf films, exploring both the cults that live hidden inside the underground (Nekromantik, Café Flesh) and the cult side of the mainstream (Dirty Dancing, The Lord of the Rings, and even The Sound of Music).
100 Cult Films is a true trip around the world, providing a lively and illuminating guide to films from more than a dozen countries, across nine decades, representing a wide range of genres and key cult directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch."
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Re-Animator
1985, in 7 top lists Check -
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Emmanuelle
1974, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Warriors
1979, in 8 top lists Check -
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check -
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La belle et la bête
1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check -
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974, in 15 top lists Check -
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Debbie Does Dallas
1978, in 1 top list Check -
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Behind the Green Door
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Café Flesh
1982, in 1 top list Check -
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Piranha
1978, in 4 top lists Check -
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Django
1966, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Harder They Come
1972, in 7 top lists Check -
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Showgirls
1995, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Evil Dead
1981, in 8 top lists Check -
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1970, in 6 top lists Check -
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Suspiria
1977, in 17 top lists Check -
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Dawn of the Dead
1978, in 15 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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Hellraiser
1987, in 3 top lists Check -
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Flaming Creatures
1963, in 9 top lists Check -
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Tank Girl
1995, in 2 top lists Check -
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Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
1987, in 4 top lists Check -
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In Bruges
2008, in 6 top lists Check -
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Spoorloos
1988 — a.k.a. The Vanishing, in 14 top lists Check -
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Near Dark
1987, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Brood
1979, in 5 top lists Check -
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Coffy
1973, in 3 top lists Check -
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Fight Club
1999, in 19 top lists Check -
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Manos: The Hands of Fate
1966, in 3 top lists Check -
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Enter the Dragon
1973, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Masque of the Red Death
1964, in 3 top lists Check -
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Witchfinder General
1968, in 8 top lists Check -
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Eraserhead
1977, in 20 top lists Check -
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Night of the Living Dead
1968, in 20 top lists Check -
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Häxan
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
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Dip huet seung hung
1989 — a.k.a. The Killer, in 16 top lists Check -
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Un chien andalou
1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check -
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Invocation of My Demon Brother
1969, in 3 top lists Check -
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Freaks
1932, in 19 top lists Check -
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I Walked with a Zombie
1943, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Big Lebowski
1998, in 26 top lists Check -
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Donnie Darko
2001, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001, in 31 top lists Check -
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003, in 29 top lists Check -
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002, in 26 top lists Check -
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999, in 5 top lists Check -
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002, in 4 top lists Check -
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005, in 6 top lists Check -
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Dirty Dancing
1987, in 10 top lists Check -
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Edward Scissorhands
1990, in 10 top lists Check
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