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 1 Clockwork Orange  -  Stanley Kubrick
Best Ultraviolence
     Ultraviolent, dark, rad, extreme, beethoven
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 2 Eraserhead  -  David Lynch
Best Baby
     Most bizarre bleak wacko movie we've ever seen, a baby you'll never forget
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 3 Liquid Sky  -  Slava Tsukerman
Best Avant Garde 80's
     Surreal, new romantic, avant garde, arthouse, vivid color and imagery
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 4 Brazil (1985)  -  Terry Gilliam
Best Neo Futuristic 1800's
     Best ever somewhere else, rad, set in the furture with old bits
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 5 Barbarella  -  Roger Vadim
Best Space Chic
     Rad vivid exciting adventurous space chic type stuff
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 6 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas  -  Terry Gilliam
Best Acid
     Wack acid drug trip words hallucinations hotels desert rad extreme serverly drug induced
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 7 Bagdad Café  -  Percy Adlon
Best Bleak Cafe
     Rad, bleak, dusty, desert and somehow very arthouse
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 8 Johnny Suede  -  Tom Dicillo
Best Quiff
     Great styling simple plot best sweetheart movie
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 9 Ed Wood  -  Tim Burton
Best Rubber Monster
     Bela lugosi, vampira, girls clothing, and making movies any way he can
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 10 Exit Through The Gift Shop  -  Banksy
Best Graffiti
     Arthouse, doco/film graffiti, extreme, rad, color, stencils, show, vibrant ott
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 11 Withnail and I  -  Bruce Robinson
Best Short Holiday
     Uni holiday in the country, the candyman, makeup, rad, memorable
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 12 Johnny Mnemonic  -  Robert Longo
Best Cyberpunk
     Adaptions from book and neuromancer by william gibson - rad, dark, underground
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 13 Velvet Goldmine  -  Todd Haynes
Best Glam Rock
     Great fashion - incl the best 30 seconds ov film ever - rad, vivid, wild and free
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 14 Blue Velvet  -  David Lynch
Best Gas
     Frankly it's very blue and velvety
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 15 Brüno  -  Larry Charles
Best Velcro Suit
     Babys familiar with antiquated heavy machinery, fashion, tv, outrageous - rad and rad
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 16 Animal Farm (1954)  -  John Halas & Joy Batchelor
Best Farm
     Said by many to be the 'most avant garde' movie ever made - still unseen by rad maximus
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 17 Appleseed Ex Machina  -  Shinji Aramaki
Best Cyber Chic
     Manga animation flat out rad bike rad everything
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 18 Rocky Horror Picture Show  -  Jim Sharman
Best Perverted Movie
     For anyone who has'nt seen it - it really is early rad extreme everything
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 19 12 Monkeys  -  Terry Gilliam
Best Wall Graffiti
     Like brazil with a twist and more dope - not at all like it's poster
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 20 24 Hour Party People  -  Michael Winterbottom
Best Madchester
     Great a warehouse recording studio club aka the haçienda rave hq
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 21 Death Proof  -  Quentin Tarentino
Best Daring
     Ott rad extreme fast dark evil scary car, have a lift to somewhere - just where
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 22 This Must Be The Place  -  Paolo Sorrentino
Best Retired Goth Rock Star
     Great character to every detail superb, just so good, best this year
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 23 CaptainSpaceman  -  CaptainSpaceman
Best Neo Culture Film Making
     BabylonScreen's first break-away movie - 30 youtube videos strung together - the razor
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 24 Red State  -  Kevin Smith
Best Wack Church
     Religion gone so terribly terribly wrong - and so ultraviolent for a country church
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 25 The Hunger Games  -  Gary Ross
Best Dystopian Life
     Reminds ov rollerball so wacko dystopian future with a yearly battle to keep entropy happy
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 26 Revolver (2005)  -  Guy Ritchie
Best Con Man
     Independent review - one ov the best seen - confidance trickster with a secret formula
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 27 1984  -  Michael Radford
Best Hysteria
     On the verge ov hysteria leading up to 1984, rad, out there and the 'thought police'
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 28 Buffalo '66  -  Vincent Gallo
Best Ballet Heist
     Needs a girlfriend standin, get's a full on road trip
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 29 Betty Blue  -  Jean-jacques Beineix
Best Summer
     Very sweaty very french
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 30 Zoolander  -  Ben Stiller
Best Showstopping Stare
     Rad, great scenes and clubs, model shows, indecision, looks, stares, the whole damn show
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 31 My Own Private Idaho  -  Gus Van Sant
Best Plastic House
     Rad, arty, extreme yet subtle, out there yet normal, wack yet sane great
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 32 Guest House Paradiso  -  Adrian Edmondson
Best Fire Hazard
     Ott coast-side guest house mad mad & rad and the nightwear - superb
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 33 Less Than Zero  -  Marek Kanievska
Best Maelström
     Down down way way down to oblivion - with style - rad over the edge great
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 34 Sid And Nancy  -  Alex Cox
Best Sid
     Great story albeit not quite true featuring sid in his last days
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 35 Animal Kingdom (2010)  -  David Mitchôd
Best Animal Bank Robbers
     Out there ultraviolent modern day suburban bank robbers that dislike each other
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 36 Kalifornia  -  Dominic Sena
Best Ride
     Brad over the top killer bad bad bad and juliet rad extreme dark bleak
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 37 Two-Lane Blacktop  -  Monte Hellman
Best Street Rod
     A strret rod needs somewhere to drag other rods - bleak 70's rad cult
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 38 Dogs In Space  -  Richard Lowenstein
Best Bohemian Layabout Musos
     Students to rock stars drugs music haywire collapse and ov course the performance
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 39 Go (1999)  -  Doug Liman
Best Party Venture
     To the rave and all it's fantasy (with katie) mmm.. great and wack - on drugs
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 40 54  -  Mark Christopher
Best 70's Club
     All the traits ov a great ny club - studio 54 - glamorous, pretty, rad, doorpeople, had it all
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 41 Metropolis (1927)  -  Fritz Lang
Best Silent Movie
     Futuristic extreme overdone macabre way ahead prophecy (off reality - right octive)
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 42 The Lost Thing  -  Andrew Ruhemann & Shaun Tan
Best Thing That Was Lost
     Animation rad bleak lost out ov place just doe'nt fit - sweetheart short film
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 43 Team America: World Police  -  Trey Parker
Best Password
     On ov the best one liners in cinema - ott all the way - and the secret password - really is rad
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 44 Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy  -  Rob Heydon
Best Raver Dealer
     So many many times had great partys pills people paradise oblivion maelström
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 45 The Fifth Element  -  Luc Besson
Best Cyber Taxis
     Future ultramodern rad extreme city milla being rad as ever
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 46 Dorian Gray (2009)  -  Oliver Parker
Best Portrait
     An art deal with the mephisto and decent into the maelström begins
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 47 Eyes Wide Shut  -  Stanley Kubrick
Best Society
     Dark side ov enlightened society - with all the bells and whisles
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 48 Æon Flux  -  Karyn Kasuma
Best Cyberdome
     Hot future fashion - everything ott, people disappear, escape to what
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 49 Hackers  -  Iain Softley
Best Phone Calls
     Young vibrant got all the call codes tech and fast
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 50 The Wicker Man (1973)  -  Robin Hardy
Best Liars
     Well they just need their crops don't they - horrifying - and they we're so friendly
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 51 La Belle Verte aka The Green Beautiful  -  Coline Serreau
Best Green
     Independent - said 'the best film ever seen' by the reviewer
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 52 Wild Wild West  -  Barry Sonnenfeld
Best Spider
     Way wacko steam punk gone crazy with the penultimate giant desert spider
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 53 The Limits of Control  -  Jim Jarmusch
Best Wack Coffees
     Surreal, vivid, great costumes - not a lot said - very out there
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 54 Cruising  -  William Friedkin
Best Cruise
     Dark rad underground club culture new york - out there
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 55 The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus  -  Terry Giliam
Best Mirror
     Climb to the top and jump to your death or the devil get's your soul - one way or the other
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 56 Blow  -  Ted Demme
Best Sunnies
     Cocain and more cocain - don't cross them - on the run - from who
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 57 The Spirit  -  Frank Miller
Best Comic Book Style
     Very arty done as comics look, bleak rad chics very different
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 58 Pans Labyrinth (2006)  -  Guillermo Del Toro
Best Drop Ov Blood
     Mytholigcal - beware the table ov abundance - they just need a drop ov blood
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 59 Tron (1982)  -  Steven Lisberger
Best Data Enrty
     Full on rad life within the computer/software the lightbike race exquisite
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 60 Blade Runner (1982)  -  Ridley Scott
Best Robot Catcher
     Dystopian LA 2019 rad extreme ott cyber future
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 61 Midnight Express (1978)  -  Oliver Stone
Best Jail Visit
     Drug shipment gone wrong, bleak destitute jail in a strange foreign land
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 62 Wild Things  -  John Mcnaughton
Best Carwash
     Bad chics bad guys just bad bad bad and just so great
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 63 Scarface (1983)  -  Oliver Stone
Best Cocaine
     Drugs, oblivion, rad, extreme, unforgettable
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 64 Micmacs  -  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Best Night Visit
     Full on wacko arthouse with one rad scene completely away from the movie
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 65 Dirty Harry  -  Don Siegel
Best Dirt
     Extreme un-western from clint eastwood - mad bad and rad
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 66 Lawnmower Man  -  Brett Leonard
Best Cyber Grass
     That's what he was - now he's part ov the machine - in the computer reality - wack
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 67 Tron: Legacy (2010)  -  Joseph Kosinsky
Best Re-Entry
     Ott graphics and scenes all the way though & rad cyber chics, daft punk played
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 68 Once Upon A Time In Mexico  -  Robert Rodriguez
Best Mod Western
     One ov the best posters ever - violent and rad
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 69 Dog With Electric Collar  -  Steve Baker
Best Bark
     Great short film really really funny specially through the looking glass
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 70 The Killer Inside Me  -  Michael Winterbottom
Best Wack Psycho Smalltown
     Way wack psycho stuff with a smalltown mid-west exterior veneer
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 71 Angel Heart  -  Alan Parker
Best Devil
     The devil goes to georgia, dark, moody, sensual, rad
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 72 King of Thorn  -  Kazuyoshi Katayama
Best New World Order
     Animation new age medusa hits people turn to stone, attempt to decipher and live prophecy
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 73 Plan 9 From Outer Space  -  Ed Wood
Best Wacko Space Crew
     Exceedingly bad - so bad it's a true cult classic - wacko everything as ed wood does
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 74 The Loved Ones  -  Sean Byrne
Best Labotomy
     Just way too much like dark unexpected surreal while being homely horror date
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 75 Last Days (2005)  -  Gus Van Sant
Best Kurt
     Last days ov kurt cobain in the countryside bleak and bare extremely good
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 76 Apocalypse Now  -  Francis Ford Coppola
Best Mornings
     The other poster (one ov the best) with the helicopters in the morning sun says most -
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 77 Rubber (2010)  -  Quentin Dupieux
Best Tyre
     Out there - chases people around and they explode spontaniously when it gets excited
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 78 Sucker Punch  -  Zack Snyder
Best Baby Doll
     Way out there psychiatric institution dance dream battle rad
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 79 Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles  -  Neil Jordan
Best Interview
     Very well dressed, vampire life and the extremes they go to
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 80 Delicatessen  -  Marc Caro Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Best Vivid
     Dark arthouse black macabre
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 81 The Crow  -  Alex Proyas
Best Dark Star
     Gothic rad extreme dark minimal great
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 82 Down By Law  -  Jim Jarmusch
Best Jail Escape
     Dark murky bleak lonely desperate rad and bad
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 83 Wes Craven's New Nightmare  -  Wes Craven
Best No-Mans Land
     Caught between script and reality film and fear manifest and the almost manifest dark
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