And your winner, and “official” Weirdest Movie of All Time is…

We must say, readers showed tremendous taste and knowledge in voting throughout the entire tournament. We feared there might be significant recency bias towards films released in the late 2010s, but you guys really went for the deep cuts. There were some surprises—we didn’t expect to see Suspiria (1977) in the Freaky 4—but the final Eraserhead (1977) vs. The Holy Mountain (1973) matchup was exactly what we would have hoped for.

You can see the entire progress of the tournament (play-in rounds excepted) here.

We’re not going to count up the total number of votes cast during the tournament, but with 292 votes in the finals and 388 in the semifinals, we’d conservatively guess we tallied over 10,000 mouse clicks and mobile taps during the entire tournament (well over 1,000 votes were cast in the play-in rounds alone). That’s a pretty significant amount of data.

We can use that data to create a very unofficial ranking of the popularity of all 366 movies in our Canon. Of course, we realize this enterprise is silly and ultimately somewhat arbitrary—but people love to list things, organize and rank them, and then argue about the results. That human tendency is sort of the basis for this site’s very existence.

So, after awarding the winner and runner up, we placed each movie in the tier it was eliminated in, and then rank them by number of votes cast in their favor, breaking any ties by the movies’ initial seeding (which was itself determined by a combination of number of page visits to our site and  IMDB rankings). And here’s the way they turned out, ranked from #1 to #366 in reader preference (remembering that the “least popular” movie here is still more interesting than 90% of what’s currently playing at the cineplexes):

1. 1. Eraserhead
   2. Holy Mountain, The
   3. Suspiria
   4. Chien Andalou, Un
   5. Naked Lunch
   6. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
   7. 2001: A Space Odyssey
   8. Mulholland Drive
   9. House [Hausu]
   10. El Topo
   11. Under the Skin
   12. Possession
   13. Spirited Away
   14. Donnie Darko
   15. Repo Man
   16. Häxan [Witchcraft Through the Ages]
   17. Wild at Heart
   18. Repulsion
   19. City of Lost Children, The [La cité des enfants perdus]
   20. Akira
   21. Barton Fink
   22. INLAND EMPIRE
   23. Pink Flamingos
   24. Blue Velvet
   25. Dogtooth [Kynodontas]
   26. Dark City
   27. Santa Sangre
   28. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
   29. Saragossa Manuscript, The
   30. Lobster, The
   31. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The
   32. Hourglass Sanatorium, The
   33. Videodrome
   34. Twelve Monkeys
   35. Paprika
   36. Stalker
   37. Being John Malkovich
   38. Night of the Hunter, The
   39. Persona
   40. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
   41. Brazil
   42. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
   43. Dead Alive
   44. Perfect Blue
   45. Belladonna of Sadness
   46. Freaks
   47. mother!
   48. Spider Baby
   49. Daisies [Sedmikrásky]
   50. Barbarella
   51. Meshes of the Afternoon
   52. Rubber
   53. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
   54. Don’t Look Now
   55. Bubba Ho-Tep
   56. Come and See
   57. The Woman in the Dunes
   58. Company of Wolves, The
   59. Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell
   60. Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, The
   61. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
   62. Enter the Void
   63. Howl’s Moving Castle
   64. Exterminating Angel, The [El àngel exterminador]
   65. Pan’s Labyrinth
   66. 8 1/2
   67. The Wicker Man
   68. Fantastic Planet [La Planète Sauvage]
   69. Last Year at Marienbad [L’Année Dernière à Marienbad]
   70. Color of Pomegranates, The [Sayat Nova]
   71. Beauty and the Beast [La Belle et la Bete]
   72. Delicatessen
   73. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
   74. Alice [Neco Z Alenky]
   75. Liquid Sky
   76. Street of Crocodiles
   77. Escape from Tomorrow
   78. Pi
   79. Solaris [Solyaris]
   80. Run Lola Run
   81. Man Who Fell to Earth, The
   82. Belle de Jour
   83. Jacob’s Ladder
   84. Metropolis
   85. It’s Such a Beautiful Day
   86. Lair of the White Worm, The
   87. Enemy
   88. Lost Highway
   89. Dogville
   90. Devils, The
   91. Bronson
   92. Kung Fu Hustle
   93. Fight Club
   94. Antichrist
   95. Dead Man
   96. Dr. Caligari
   97. Love Witch, the
   98. Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, The
   99. Performance
   100. Black Swan
   101. After Hours
   102. Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
   103. Love Exposure
   104. Meet the Feebles
   105. WR: Mysteries of the Organism
   106. 3 Women
   107. Tekkonkinkreet
   108. Swiss Army Man
   109. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The
   110. Vertigo
   111. Eyes Without a Face [Les Yeux sans Visage]
   112. Batman Returns
   113. Pink Floyd the Wall
   114. Teorema
   115. Synecdoche, New York
   116. Sans Soleil
   117. Rocky Horror Picture Show, The
   118. Adaptation.
   119. Trial, The
   120. Clockwork Orange, A
   121. Nosferatu
   122. Audition [Ôdishon]
   123. Weekend
   124. Orpheus
   125. Underground
   126. Scanner Darkly, A
   127. Glen or Glenda
   128. Funeral Parade of Roses [Bara no sôretsu]
   129. Altered States
   130. Fantasia
   131. Millennium Actress
   132. Yellow Submarine
   133. Vampyr
   134. Field in England, A
   135. Manos: The Hands of Fate
   136. That Obscure Object of Desire
   137. Tin Drum, The
   138. Schizopolis
   139. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
   140. Lisztomania
   141. Boy and His Dog, A
   142. Funky Forest: The First Contact
   143. Little Otik [Otesánek]
   144. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
   145. Mandy
   146. Tree of Life, The
   147. Female Trouble
   148. Tideland
   149. 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, The
   150. Taxidermia
   151. Phantasm
   152. Sin City
   153. Dance of Reality, The
   154. Gozu
   155. Amarcord
   156. Black Moon
   157. I’m A Cyborg, But That’s OK [Saibogujiman Kwenchana]
   158. Gummo
   159. Visitor Q
   160. Holy Motors
   161. Inherent Vice
   162. Kwaidan
   163. Forbidden Zone
   164. Begotten
   165. Zardoz
   166. Upstream Color
   167. The Swimmer
   168. Butcher Boy, The
   169. Beyond the Black Rainbow
   170. Head
   171. Mr. Nobody
   172. Carnival of Souls
   173. Natural Born Killers
   174. Desperate Living
   175. My Winnipeg
   176. Shock Corridor
   177. Mind Game
   178. Time Bandits
   179. Tenant, The
   180. O Lucky Man!
   181. Science of Sleep, The
   182. Blood of a Poet, The [Le sang d’un poète]
   183. Lure, The [Córki Dancingu]
   184. Vampire’s Kiss
   185. Cube
   186. L’Age d’Or
   187. Death Bed: The Bed That Eats
   188. 3-Iron
   189. Beasts of the Southern Wild
   190. Kontroll
   191. Dead Ringers
   192. Why Don’t You Play in Hell?
   193. How to Get Ahead in Advertising
   194. Blood Tea and Red String
   195. Taste of Tea, The
   196. Branded to Kill
   197. Waking Life
   198. Phantom of the Paradise
   199. Werckmeister Harmonies
   200. John Dies at the End
   201. Save the Green Planet!
   202. Triplets of Belleville, The
   203. Johnny Got His Gun
   204. Even Dwarfs Started Small
   205. Tingler, The
   206. Zed and Two Noughts, A
   207. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
   208. Phantom of Liberty, The
   209. Heavenly Creatures
   210. Waltz with Bashir
   211. If….
   212. Kin-Dza-Dza
   213. Falls, The
   214. Cremator, The [Spalovac Mrtvol]
   215. Survive Style 5+
   216. Nostalghia
   217. Cat Soup
   218. Evil Dead II
   219. Playtime
   220. Titus
   221. Greasy Strangler, The
   222. Crime Wave
   223. Maniac
   224. Pillow Book, The
   225. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
   226. Serious Man, A
   227. Brand Upon the Brain!
   228. American Astronaut, The
   229. Sorry to Bother You
   230. Cemetery Man [Dellamorte Dellamore]
   231. Sweet Movie
   232. Arizona Dream
   233. Forbidden Room, The
   234. Bad Boy Bubby
   235. Pierrot le Fou
   236. Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen]
   237. Reflecting Skin, The
   238. Songs from the Second Floor
   239. Destino
   240. Grande Bouffe, La
   241. Zéro de conduite
   242. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
   243. Society
   244. Tromeo & Juliet
   245. Blancanieves
   246. Abominable Dr. Phibes, The
   247. Léolo
   248. Ninth Configuration, The
   249. You, the Living [Du Levande]
   250. Lucifer Rising
   251. Blood Freak
   252. Dementia [Daughter of Horror]
   253. Dillinger is Dead
   254. Dog Star Man
   255. No Smoking
   256. Rubin & Ed
   257. Saddest Music in the World, The
   258. Robot Monster
   259. Zazie dans le Metro
   260. Beast, The [La Bête]
   261. Blood Diner
   262. Fellini Satyricon
   263. Night Train to Terror
   264. Double, The
   265. After Last Season
   266. Careful
   267. Alice in Wonderland (1966)
   268. True Stories
   269. Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny
   270. Prospero’s Books
   271. Tokyo Gore Police
   272. Ruling Class, The
   273. Apple, The
   274. Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot!
   275. Doggiewogiez! Poochiewoochiez!
   276. November
   277. Catch-22
   278. Dead Leaves
   279. Page of Madness, A [Kurutta ippêji]
   280. Archangel
   281. Bed Sitting Room, The
   282. Reflections of Evil
   283. Death Laid an Egg [La morte ha fatto l’uovo]
   284. Horrors of Spider Island, the [Ein Toter hing im Netz]
   285. Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
   286. Innocence
   287. Face of Another, The
   288. Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer
   289. Hellzapoppin’
   290. Goodbye Uncle Tom
   291. Beast of Yucca Flats, The
   292. Cowards Bend the Knee, or, the Blue Hands
   293. Roma [AKA Fellini’s Roma]
   294. Boxer’s Omen, The [Mo]
   295. Death by Hanging
   296. Sita Sings the Blues
   297. Gothic
   298. I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse [J’irai Comme un Cheval Fou]
   299. Der Samurai
   300. Black Cat, The
   301. Malpertuis
   302. Milky Way, The [La Voie Lactee]
   303. Conspirators of Pleasure
   304. L’Immortelle
   305. Testament of Orpheus, The
   306. Final Flesh
   307. Allegro non Troppo
   308. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
   309. Silent Hill
   310. Lemonade Joe [Limonádový Joe aneb Konská Opera]
   311. Eden and After
   312. Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb, The
   313. Clean, Shaven
   314. Arise! The SubGenius Movie
   315. Viva la Muerte [Long Live Death]
   316. Marquis
   317. 200 Motels
   318. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
   319. Lunacy [Sileni]
   320. Legend of Suram Fortress, The [Ambavi Suramis Tsikhitsa]
   321. Nuit Noire [Black Night]
   322. Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees
   323. Trash Humpers
   324. Godmonster of Indian Flats, The
   325. Mood Indigo
   326. Report on the Party and Guests, A
   327. Tales from the Quadead Zone
   328. Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
   329. Ink
   330. City of Women
   331. Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting, The
   332. Keyhole
   333. Greaser’s Palace
   334. Santa Claus
   335. Skins [Pieles]
   336. Toto the Hero [Toto le Heros]
   337. Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
   338. Dark Backward, The
   339. Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
   340. Maelstrom
   341. Thundercrack!
   342. Reality
   343. Nothing but Trouble
   344. Pornographers, The
   345. Singing Ringing Tree, The
   346. Fantasy Mission Force
   347. Christmas on Mars
   348. Telephone Book, The
   349. Help! Help! The Globolinks [Hilfe! Hilfe! Die Globolinks]
   350. Idiots and Angels
   351. Red Squirrel, The [La Ardilla Roja]
   352. Wool 100%
   353. Eisenstein in Guanajuato
   354. Skidoo
   355. Steppenwolf
   356. Tuvalu
   357. L’Inhumaine
   358. I Can See You
   359. Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, The
   360. Shanks
   361. Ninja Champion
   362. Hugo the Hippo
   363. Seven Servants
   364. Elevator Movie
   365. Strange Frame: Love & Sax
   366. Indecent Desires