Cult Classic
Many cult movies have gone on to transcend their original cult status and have become recognized as classics, others are of the "so bad it's good" variety, and are destined to remain in obscurity. Here you will also discover some of the most astonishing, tastless and sometimes the worst movie ever made. The term cult film implies a certain level of obscurity, and widely popular, mainstream movies are not considered to be cult films and will not be found in this company.
The Giant Behemoth (1959)
5.8/10
Director: Eugene Lourie
Starring: Gene Evans, Andre Morell
A Cornish fisherman is found covered with what looks like radiation burns. Before he dies, the fisherman utters the word 'behemoth', citing a monster... Read more
The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
3.3/10
Director: Ray Kellogg
Starring: Don Sullivan
About a group of hot-rod enthusiasts, headed by nice-guy Chace Winstead (Don Sullivan), who sometimes breaks into song. Before long, the titular gila... Read more
The Gore Gore Girls (1972)
5.4/10
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Starring: Frank Kress, Amy Farrell, Hedda Lubin, Henny Youngman
Herschell Gordon Lewis, the self-described 'Guru of Gore', has acquired a cult following with his exploitative, tasteless and decidedly graphic films,... Read more
The Hunt (2020)
6.4/10
Director: Craig Zobel
Starring: Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Ethan Suplee, Emma Roberts
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specif... Read more
The Hunt (Blu-ray) (2020)
8.3/10
Director: Craig Zobel
Starring: Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Ethan Suplee, Emma Roberts
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specif... Read more
The Intruder (1961)
7.8/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverley Lunsford
(a.k.a. Shame and I Hate Your Guts) is a bold film about racism in the American south. At a time when the major studios only cautiously made films on... Read more
The Killer Shrews (1959)
3.9/10
Director: Ray Kellogg
Starring: James Best
No, it's not Shakespeare's long-missing sequel! It's the hilariously bad monster movie about a horde of outsized man-eating rodents that run amok on a... Read more
The Last Woman on Earth (1960)
6.1/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland
On a boat in the Caribbean following WWIII, a gangster and lawyer fight to decide who'll get to repopulate the planet with the titular female, the mob... Read more
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
6.3/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Jonathan Haze, Jack Nicholson, Dick Miller
Jack Nicholson is the masochist who thrives on dental pain in this very funny cult classic from Roger Corman. The preposterous plot revolves around a... Read more
The Monster (1975)
5.4/10
Director: Peter Sasdy
Starring: Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bates, Caroline Munro
Joan Collins stars in this outrageous horror, as a stripper who spurns the advances of a lecherous dwarf and is subsequently cursed by a monstrous bab... Read more