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".
Colossal (2016)
6.2/10
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Starring: Tim Blake Nelson, Anne Hathaway, Dan Stevens, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell
Gloria (Anne Hathaway) drinks too hard and parties too much. Her boyfriend has enough of it and throws her out. Gloria returns to her hometown, dreami... Read more
Comic Strip Presents: Volume 2 (1988)
8/10
Director: Peter Richardson
Starring: Adrian Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Rik Mayall, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French,...
The ground-shaking impact of The Comic Strip's anarchic humour rattled the televisions of 1980s Britain and when the smoke cleared they left a gaping... Read more
Convoy (1978)
6.3/10
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Burt Young, Ernest Borgnine
Sam Peckinpah's classic road-movie based around the hit song by C.W. McCall. Long-distance trucker Rubber Duck (Kris Kristofferson) is on the run from... Read more
Cool and the Crazy (1958)
5.4/10
Director: William Witney
Starring: Gigi Perreau, Scott Marlow
Seven savage punks on a weekend binge of violence!!! A cult fifties b-movie of a rebellious youth, fresh from reform school, who hooks up with the ba... Read more
Countess Dracula (1970)
6/10
Starring: Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green, Maurice Denham, Lesley-Anne Down
When a voracious vampire vixen (Ingrid Pitt) discovers that virgins' blood holds the secret to eternal youth, it's not time at all before she's squeez... Read more
Countryman (1982)
7/10
Director: Dickie Jobson
Starring: Hiram Keller, Carl Bradshaw, Basil Keane
An entertaining mixture of reggae music, political intrigue, Rastafarian philosophy and raw action. A Jamaican fisherman rescues two Americans from a... Read more
Crash (1996)
6.4/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Rosanna Arquette, Deborah Kara Unger
James Spader, Holly Hunter and Rosanna Arquette are a motley assortment of car crash survivors seeking more and more perverse thrills to communicate,... Read more
Crimewave (1985)
5.8/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Louise Lasser, Paul Smith, Brion James, Reed Birney
After his successful debut with 'The Evil Dead', director Sam Raimi pays tribute to slapstick comedy with this weird crime story set in Detroit. Co-wr... Read more
Cry-Baby (1990)
6.5/10
Director: John Waters
Starring: Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords, Polly...
Eisenhower is President. Rock 'n' Roll is king. And Wade 'Cry-Baby' Walker is the baddest hood in his high school. Johnny Depp heads up a supercool ca... Read more
Crying Freeman (1995)
6.5/10
Director: Christophe Gans
Starring: Mark Dacascos, Julie Condra, Rae Dawn Chong
A lethal samurai assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears to regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing t... Read more