Top Ten Movie Mullets
Bush on top, trim sides and the tail... It's the best of the mullet
 | Kiefer Sutherland – The Lost Boys |
 | The Lost Boys is cinematic caviar for mullet lovers. Everyone in this flick owned a Camaro crash helmet. Yet none illustrated business in the front and a party in the back as much as Kiefer Sutherland's coif. This thing looked hazardous, like a buzz saw attached to a chain. Perfect for a villain because nothing gives off a sense of danger like a mean mullet – especially if it's on top of Jack Bauer's head. |
 | Sylvester Stallone – Rambo |
 | Yes, my worst nightmare does wear a mullet. Doesn't yours? The world has changed a lot in the last 25 years, but one thing remains the same: John Rambo's ape-drape. Like Samson, it's the source of his badass powers. To cut it, would be to kill Rambo. The commies and Burmese wasted time, bullets, and tens of thousands of soldiers on Rambo when they should have been training an elite squad of stealth hair stylists to take the man out. That is a Rambo V story I want to see. |
 | Chuck Norris – Sidekicks |
Oh how easy it would be to only pump this full of those ubiquitous Chuck Norris mantra jokes. But I'll refrain. Chuck's filmography reads like a hall of fame of mullets. Yet, of all the neck-warmers Chuck brought to cinemas around the world, I must declare Sidekicks as his forgotten magnus mullet opus. It's like discovering a long lost Leonardo da Vinci painting of Jesus rocking a poodle mullet while ascending to the heavens as his apostles below baptize the masses by styling their hair into Kentucky Waterfalls. That is Sidekicks for me, a film about idol adulation. Jonathan Brandis worships both the ass-kicking skills and hairstyle choices of one Chuck Norris (Chuck as himself, but really as Jesus in this allegory). Oh yes, they overcome all odds. And Chuck delivers his greatest on-screen mullet of all-time.
No pic on this one… let's go to the videotape…
 | David Bowie – Labyrinth |
 | Without a doubt, David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" days propelled the mullet into your local barber shop. And when mullets became common, the father of the mullet showed the world who owns the real rocket-sauce when it comes to hair fashion. In Labyrinth, Bowie took the mullet to new dimensions previously thought impossibly by quantum-physics professor. That wasn't just hair on Bowie; that was a living, breathing, possibly dangerous creature resting on the top of his skull. It's rumored the hairspray usage to create such an animal punched an unfixable hole in the ozone layer. |
C'mon the best movie mullet is David Spade in just about anything but best of all in Joe Dirt.
The only thing I would say against Spade's mullet in Joe Dirt is that it was meant for comedic effect, all of the mullets David lists are actually a product of the time and meant for something of a cool/stylish factor.
As a man who has worn many a mullet in my younger days and living in an area of Indiana still populated by morons still wearing this abortion of a hairstyle, I must say that some of these are NOT MULLETS!! The definition of a mullet is at least shoulder length hair in the back and a decided decrease in length on top. Hence the phrase "All business up top, party in the back".The guy from the kong movie does not appear to be wearing a mullet, at least in this shot, I have not seen the movie. Christiensen, while possibly the worst actor ever, is not sporting the do. That's just medium length long hair. Bowie's hair, while definitely the most interesting, is not mullet potential. Finally, we get to the Swayze. The photo to the far right is a mullet, but come on, his hair from point break is not a mullet. That's just the coolest hair ever.
Now that thing that Keifer Southerland is wearing, THAT'S a mullet.
Yeah, agree there, though it doesnt necessarily shoulder length. Some of those are just dudes with long hair and shorter bangs…
STLB, Short Top, Long Back, not short front…. Mel's hair is pushing the mullet boundary, but Hayden is safe, for instance…
Bowies though Id call a mullet…theres a pretty big difference in length from top to back/sides…
What an odd thing to debate… :)
I admit Hayden Christensen and Swayze in Point Break push the definition of a mullet somewhat (although Darth's helmet is definitely a plastic-molded mullet). However, I believe what separates long hair from a mullet is whether or not the front bangs can be pulled back along with rest of the hair into one collective pony tail. Hayden's hair seems too short on top to do so. And while that picture of The Swayze from Point Break looks like he has longer hair on top, there are several scenes in the movie (usually when his hair is wet) in which the top of his hair looks much shorter.
However, I think if you search the web, there's a general agreement that Gibson definitely has a mullet in Lethal Weapon.
And anyone who doesn't think Bowie is sporting a mullet as The Goblin King is just kidding themselves.
Gibson had a better mullet in Mad Max than in the lethal weapon movies.
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