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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 People Under the Stairs (Blu-Ray) (1991)

6.3/10
Director: Wes Craven
Starring: Bill Cobbs, Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Ving Rhames, Wendy Robie, Kelly Jo Mi...

When young Fool (Brandon Adams) breaks into the home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he discovers a disturbing scenario where incestuou... Read more

The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues / Attack of the Giant Leeches (1956)

Director: Dan Miller, Bernard L Kowalski
Starring: Cathy Downs, Kent Taylor, Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers

A sci-fi schlock double feature. "The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues" (1956) - An atomic powered part alligator/part turtle mutant gobbles up fishermen a... Read more

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005)

6.4/10
Director: The Brothers Quay
Starring: Amira Casar, Gottfried John, Assumpta Serna

A characteristically surreal and stunning blend of live action, animation and puppetry from the Brothers Quay. On the eve of her wedding, opera singe... Read more

The Producers (1968)

7.7/10
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn

Mel Brook's hilarious hit about a producer who comes up with a surefire scheme for making money... on a musical production that he is absolutely cert... Read more

The Proposition (2005)

7.4/10
Director: John Hillcoat
Starring: John Hurt, Danny Huston, Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, David Wenham, Ray Winstone

Co-written with Nick Cave and with a searing soundtrack from him, this revisionist outback Western stars Guy Pearce as Charlie Burns a man who must ch... Read more

The Quiet Earth (Blu-Ray) (1985)

6.8/10
Director: Geoff Murphy
Starring: Alison Routledge, Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Pete Smith

When everyone around him vanishes overnight, scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) finds himself seemingly the only person on the planet. The isolatio... Read more

The Quiet Man (1952)

7.8/10
Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald

Galway in the 1920's. After a long and profitable career as a boxer, Irish-born American Sean Thornton returns to his home village to settle down and... Read more

The Raid (2011)

7.6/10
Director: Gareth Evans
Starring: Donny Alamsyah, Tegar Satrya, Pierre Gruno, Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Ray Sahetap...

A.k.a. "The Raid: Redemption". Innovative martial arts action marks this Indonesian thriller about a young SWAT recruit (Iko Uwais) fighting to stay a... Read more

The Raid 2 (2014)

8/10
Director: Gareth Evans
Starring: Kazuki Kitamura, Kenichi Endo, Iko Uwais, Arifin Putra, Oka Antara, Tio Pakusade...

A.k.a. "The Raid 2: Berandal". Kicking off straight after the end of The Raid 1.0, part two sees battered-and-bruised cop Rama (Iko Uwais) made keen... Read more

The Raven (1963)

6.7/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Jack Nicholson

The wheels of horror churn amid touches of humour in this twisted tale of sorcery most fowl! Inspired by the gothic poem by Edgar Allan Poe and starri... Read more