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".
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'The Red Shoes', the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the m... Read more
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'The Red Shoes', the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the m... Read more
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Everyone's favourite muck-encrusted plant-man is back and once again fighting the evil Dr Arcane, in this tongue-in-cheek action-adventure. But this t... Read more
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On his first day on the job at an army surplus store, poor Freddy unwittingly releases nerve gas from a secret U.S. military canister, unleashing an u... Read more
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This camp musical sci-fi horror movie spoof has become - thanks to elaborate audience participation on the midnight movie circuit - the definitive cul... Read more
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This camp musical sci-fi horror movie spoof has become - thanks to elaborate audience participation on the midnight movie circuit - the definitive cul... Read more
The quintessential cult movie "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975) follows Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) as a flat tire leads the... Read more
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Meet Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek), a womanizing drug dealer whose quest for a connection brings him face to face with Lauren (Shannyn Sossamon),... Read more
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Meet Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek), a womanizing drug dealer whose quest for a connection brings him face to face with Lauren (Shannyn Sossamon),... Read more
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Outrageously funny satire features an Oscar-nominated performance by Peter O'Toole as a British earl who thinks he's Jesus Christ. Wicked barbs are th... Read more