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".
7.2/10
South Parkers should relish this gross-out about the sole survivor of an ill-fated mining expedition whos taste for gold is replaced by that of human... Read more
3.3/10
When a commercial artist is almost murdered by spies looking for his late father's secrets, he is saved in surgery when the FLAG formula is injected i... Read more
7.2/10
This extremely eerie, little known gem with nightmarish black and white photography, concerns a girl who, after a near-fatal car crash, is haunted by... Read more
8.5/10
As time goes by, no film equals the popularity of this indisputable classic. In quintessential roles, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman are former lo... Read more
6.1/10
In this sensual and violent horror tale, Irena Gallier (Nastassia Kinski) has a dark family secret, one that resurfaces dramatically when she reconnec... Read more
6/10
A college student who works at a movie theatre goes on an awkward date with an older man who may be a murderer. Read more
6.2/10
Maverick filmmaker John Waters sets his sights on... well, maverick filmmakers with this subversive cinematic satire. Stephen Dorff is Cecil, a gun-to... Read more
First, the 'truth' about lesbians is revealed in this wicked expose on femmes and dykes in New York City. The film takes a 'factual' slant on the gay... Read more
6.7/10
During a chance encounter at a neighbourhood dive, a pair of old pals (Pat Healy, Ethan Embry) are commiserating over their money problems when their... Read more
Cheech Marin (Mexican-American) and Thomas Chong (himself of mixed Chinese-European heritage), rose to fame in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s.... Read more