Cult Movies - Greatest Cult Movies 100 - 91
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 Miranda who unfortunately died shortly after its premiere. This psychedelic gem makes little sense but mesmerizes the viewer with beautiful woman, bizarre dancing, exotic locals and possibly the most insane soundtrack ever created.

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 (including a really cool and dependable bald Swedish wrestler, a racist scoundrel and a really nasty dame) and a whiplash pace. You know it's all going to go to hell and its a blast to see how it happens. The first Kubrick film to really showcase his talent.

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 featuring a super creepy Robert Mitchum, a deviant with "love" and "hate" tattooed on his hands, who hums hymns while hot on the trail of scared shitless children.

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 imagery and ideas. A sexless David Bowie makes a terrific alien, his decent into alcoholism and television dependency is both funny and tragic.

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 gore, nudity, slapstick and socially conscious storylines. A film that is a shitload of cheap fun from beginning to end with vicious black humor and surprisingly effective scenes of grisly violence.

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 shoots the spectacle like a dreamy art film. Sure there's cheap sex and violence but there are also unforgettable eerie shots of the Templars giving chase and an absolute jaw dropping finale.

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 filming violent chaos at a level unseen at the time and inspiring a score of future filmmakers (with a mammoth influence on John Woo and the whole Heroic Bloodshed cinema). The pairing of the great William Holden, Warren Oates and Ernest Borgnine somehow draw the viewer into caring for these scoundrels plight.

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 Freud busy for a year (the gun as a phallic symbol has never been given more thought) while also managing to comment on McCarthyism, HUAC and the basic fear and stupidity of the American public. It also features a terrific Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge who are as tough and ruthless as any man whose ever carried a piece in a Western, and the always reliable Sterling Hayden as the cool Mr. Guitar.

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 Veronica Cartwright shine in this one time incredibly hard to find X rated film. If released today it would certainly earn an "R" rating. Inserts is quite funny and the sight of Cartwright and our favorite Harper writhing naked on beds is certainly enough to garner a top 100 cult slot.

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 many fans of extreme cinema. There is simply nothing else like this grainy, extremely nasty little film that finds humor in using woman's asses as dartboards, having midgets fuck severed heads and having naked woman eating penis sandwiches. The bizarre and off putting attempts at black humor lend this film an even more sickening sheer. A hundred years from now people will be watching this film wondering who on earth were the sick fucks that made this.

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."

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