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Cult Films / After Dark

Cult Films generally have limited but very special appeal. They are usually strange, quirky, offbeat, eccentric, oddball, or surreal. They may have outrageous, weird, cartoony characters or plots, and garish sets. They are often considered controversial because they step outside standard narrative and technical conventions. Cult films cut across many film genres (science fiction, horror, melodrama, etc.), and though they can be very stylized, they are often flawed or unusual in some striking way. To make a little sense of this unique genre, scroll the motherlode below, or take a side road by clicking a blue sub-heading to yer left... Visiting "Television Shows" and the "Cult Television" sub-feature may be worth checking out, also the "Animation" feature and the "Cult Animation" or "JapAnime" sub-feature will help with the bigger picture.. Right: Henry (Jack Nance) is "Eraserhead".

The Lair Of The White Worm (1988)

5.9/10
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg

Ken Russell unearths a tale written by Bram Stoker ('Dracula') about an ancient pagan snake cult flourishing in the modern English countryside, and ad... Read more

The Land That Time Forgot (1975)

5.7/10
Director: Kevin Connor
Starring: Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon

When a German U-Boat torpedoes a British ship during World War I, its survivors (Doug McClure and Susan Penhaligon) are taken onboard. But after getti... Read more

The Last House on Dead End Street (1977)

5.4/10
Director: Roger Michael Watkins
Starring: Roger Michael Watkins, Ken Fisher, Bill Schlageter, Kathy Curtin, Paul M Jensen

After serving a year in prison a drug dealer is released and decides to go back to making porn movies; but the money men want something new. Affronte... Read more

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)

6.2/10
Director: Steve Bendelack
Starring: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, David Warner, Michael Sheen

The freakish and bizarre inhabitants of Royston Vasey are unleashed on an unsuspecting world in this movie spawned from the cult TV series. All the f... Read more

The Leather Boys (1966)

7.3/10
Director: Sidney J Furie
Starring: Rita Tushingham, Dudley Sutton, Colin Campbell

A bold and engaging drama set against the decadent motorcycle clubs of 1960s England. Rita Tushingham ('A Taste of Honey') and Colin Campbell star as... Read more

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

7.1/10
Director: Nicholas Gessner
Starring: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith

Thirteen-year-old Rynn (Jodie Foster) is a gifted prodigy who lives in a big old house with her reclusive father... all alone. Or does she? When Rynn'... 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 Long Goodbye (1973)

7.7/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden

A quirky, semi-satiric, updating of Raymond Chandler stars Elliott Gould as laid-back gumshoe Philip Marlowe, investigating the murder of his friend's... Read more

The Long Goodbye (Blu-ray) (1973)

7.6/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden

A quirky, semi-satiric, updating of Raymond Chandler stars Elliott Gould as laid-back gumshoe Philip Marlowe, investigating the murder of his friend's... Read more

The Lost (2005)

6.7/10
Director: Chris Sivertson
Starring: Marc Senter, Shay Astar, Alex Frost, Megan Henning, Robin Sydney, Dee Wallace, E...

Based on the novel by Jack Ketchum, this horror/thriller is set in the late '60s when the youth of America were either getting their heads down at sch... Read more