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".
8.3/10
Critics have hailed 'Vertigo' as Alfred Hitchcock's ultimate masterpiece. This haunting tale of obsession, fear and murder stars Hitchcock's favourite... Read more
7.3/10
A TV executive discovers an underground show where people are killed on camera, and is slowly drawn into a hallucinogenic world of living TV sets and... Read more
7.3/10
A TV executive discovers an underground show where people are killed on camera, and is slowly drawn into a hallucinogenic world of living TV sets and... Read more
First, Roger Corman's "Viking Women and the Sea Serpent" has a group of heroic gals venturing out on a dangerous journey to find their missing men. Bu... Read more
3.3/10
Eleven year-old Genius (future successful director 'Ronny' Howard) mixes up some super-goo with his chemistry set, turning cats and ducks into giants.... Read more
6.1/10
In this satirical comedy, our hero George Washington Winsterhammerman (Zach Galifianakis) works as a level-three 'tunt' at the Jeffers Corporation, th... Read more
This is an extremely violent, gory and surreal meditation on the life of a young lad during the time of the Spanish Civil War, as he attempts to find... Read more
5.8/10
Russ Meyer is Producer, Scriptwriter, Cameraman and Director of this bizarre number concerning a voluptuous young woman called Vixen (Erica Gavin) who... Read more
4/10
Science meets sorcery in this A.I.P. shocker that features Tom Conway as a mad doctor who uses a voodoo spell to turn beautiful Maria English into a h... Read more
6.3/10
To Wai-cheung (Chapman To), a long-time film producer, has yet to produce anything resembling a hit. Beset by financial troubles, he agrees to recreat... Read more