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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".

Used Cars (1980)

6.8/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham

Outrageous comedy about used car dealer rivalry. 'A classic screwball fantasy - a neglected modern comedy that's like a more restless and visually hig... Read more

Valhalla Rising (2009)

6/10
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen

Mads Mikkelsen stars in this brutal Viking adventure as One-Eye, a mute warrior with supernatural strength who has been held prisoner for years by the... Read more

Valley of the Dolls (1967)

5.9/10
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, Lee Grant

Based on the phenomenal best-seller by Jacqueline Susann, this melodrama dares to tell the truth about the seamy underside of Hollywood and the status... Read more

Vampire's Kiss (1988)

5.9/10
Director: Robert Bierman
Starring: Maria Conchita Alonso, Nicolas Cage, Kasi Lemmons, Jennifer Beals

A bizarre black comedy (from the writer of 'After Hours'), with a suitably demented Nicolas Cage ('Raising Arizona') playing an arrogant, pretentious... Read more

Vampyros Lesbos (1970)

5.5/10
Director: Jesus Franco
Starring: Ewa Stromberg, Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Paul Muller

From the prolific Jess Franco comes this savage sexual shocker that mixes horror and lesbian thrills. Ewa Stromberg is the woman haunted by weird drea... Read more

Vanishing Point (1971)

7.3/10
Director: Richard C Sarafian
Starring: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger

This now classic cult number stars Barry Newman as a Vietnam vet and ex-cop who bets a friend he can drive a car from Denver to San Francisco in fifte... Read more

Vanishing Point (Blu-Ray) (1971)

7.3/10
Director: Richard C Sarafian
Starring: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger

Vietnam War hero Kowalski (Barry Newman) has become a pill-addicted driver for hire. Transporting a car from Colorado to California, he enlivens the j... Read more

Varietease (1954)

5.7/10
Director: Irving Klaw
Starring: Bettie Page, Lili St Cyr

Legendary pin-up girl Bettie Page struts her stuff along with fellow 'teaser' Lili St Cyr in this classic '50s sexploitation flick. Interspersed thro... Read more

Venus in Furs (1969)

5.9/10
Director: Jesus Franco
Starring: James Darren, Klaus Kinski, Barbara McNair, Dennis Price, Maria Rohm, Margaret L...

Of all the twisted hits from cult director Jess Franco ("Vampyros Lesbos"), fans and critics alike call this his masterpiece! James Darren is a trauma... Read more

Vertigo (1958)

8.3/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Barbara Bel Geddes, Kim Novak, James Stewart, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones

Critics have hailed 'Vertigo' as Alfred Hitchcock's ultimate masterpiece. This haunting tale of obsession, fear and murder stars Hitchcock's favourite... Read more