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| Cult Movies - Greatest Cult Movies 100 - 91 |
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100) Vampyros Lesbos (1970, Dir. Jess Franco)
Synopsis: Loosely based on Dracula, features a female vampire that stripteases,
gets it on with sexy Swedish girls and frolics in the sun.
Why top 100?: Vampyros Lesbos is a showcase for the beautiful Soledad Moment you won't soon forget: Soledad Miranda's various far out costumes and her completely ludicrous yet enthralling lesbian
nightclub act. 99) The Killing (1956, Dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Synopsis: A group of assorted felons and losers plan an intricate heist on a racetrack.
Why top 100?: Kubrick's caper is lean and mean with great colorful characters
Moment you won't soon forget: The look on actor Tim Carey's face as his racist character prepares to blow away a racehorse and the terrific fight
the bald Swedish wrestler puts up to create a diversion. 98) The Night of the Hunter (1955, Dir. Charles Laughton)
Synopsis: An evil preacher murders his wife and pursues his stepchildren whom he believes found some hidden money.
Why top 100?: Laughton's financial flop is a deliciously nasty
fairy tale Moment you won't soon forget: The surreal, brilliantly shot sequence
where the children first escape a delirious Mitchum and Robert Mitchum
in general. One day this man is going to be viewed as one of the finest
American actors to ever grace the silver screen.
97) The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976, Dir. Nicholas Roeg)
Synopsis: An alien arrives on earth looking to transport water back to his dying planet.
Why top 100?: Roeg's incredible looking film is filled to the brim with bizarre
Moment you won't soon forget: The nipple surgery scene, the sight of Bowie's sexless naked body which causes Candy Clark
to pee herself in close up, assassins in glittering motorcycle helmets who toss people out of high rise windows and a hilariously effeminate Roger Moore.
96) The Toxic Avenger (1984, Dir. Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman)
Synopsis: A geek is pushed into a vat of toxic waste and emerges New Jersey's first super hero.
Why top 100?: The first Troma film to introduce the studios winning
mix of
Moment you won't soon forget: The absolute show stopping scene of a nerdy kid getting his head run over in brutal close up.
95) Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971, Dir. Amando De Ossorio)
Synopsis: Vacationing Europeans awaken an evil sect of Templar Knights whose rotting corpses hunt by sound and scent.
Why top 100?: De Ossorio introduces a whole new breed of movie monster and
Moment you won't soon forget: A terrific scene where the rotting corpses can hear a hiding girls panicked heartbeat and the brutal, legendary, often censored
ending where the Templers board a train and slaughter woman and children.
94) The Wild Bunch (1969, Dir. Sam Peckinpah)
Synopsis: A band of over the hill cowboy thieves try to pull off a final heist in a rapidly changing American/Mexican landscape.
Why top 100?: Peckinpah stages scenes of incredibly beautiful mayhem
Moment you won't soon forget: The yet to be topped finale featuring the wild bunch's suicide mission wherein they slaughter hundreds of Mexican rebels before being
cut to shit in agonizing slow motion.
93) Johnny Guitar (1954, Dir. Nicholas Ray)
Synopsis: A former gunslinger turned musician returns to his former lover, a tough saloon owner who is at odds with a conniving female whose bent
on destroying her.
Why top 100?: Ray's striking color western contains enough symbolism to keep
Moment you won't soon forget: The near hanging of Crawford and the final showdown between Crawford and an extremely demented McCambridge.
92) Inserts (1976, Dir. John Byrum)
Synopsis: A former "Boy Wonder" in Hollywood has become an impotent stag film director.
Why top 100?: Richard Dreyfess and cult favorites Jessica Harper and
Moment you won't soon forget: A really pale Jessica Harper seducing an impotent Dreyfuss. She squirms around in various
stages of undress before he is finally able to bed her. An obvious must for fans of this strange actress.
91) Bloodsucking Freaks (1975, Dir. Joel M. Reed)
Synopsis: A Grand Guignol show is run by a sadist and his midget right hand man. In their leisure time they enjoy torturing and maiming woman
in every possible way imaginable.
Why top 100?: This infamous film was picketed by NOW and is reviled
by
Moment you won't soon forget: Probably the whole film but we give a special nod to the "doctor" who barters with Sardu the sadist. After
performing some duties he is allowed to shave a girls head then brutally drill into the skull and suck her brains out through a straw. Oh yeah, he
also pulls her teeth out with pliers so she won't "bite." Don't stop now, check out the next ten greatest cult movies ever made! |