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".
Double Agent 73 (1974)
3.9/10
Director: Doris Wishman
Starring: Chesty Morgan, Frank Silvano, Saul Meth, Jill Harris
Chesty Morgan is the special agent, assigned to stop members of a dope-smuggling ring, who has a camera implanted in her gigantic "secret weapons". In... Read more
Dr No (1962)
7.3/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Ursula Andress, Sean Connery, Bernard Lee, Jack Lord, Joseph Wiseman, Lois Maxwe...
The first of the phenomenally successful Bond movies. 007's mission takes him to the steamy island of Jamaica, where another agent has been murdered,... Read more
Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972)
6.5/10
Director: Robert Fuest
Starring: Vincent Price, Robert Quine, Peter Cushing, Beryl Reid, Terry-Thomas
Bizarre evil scientist Anton Phibes (Vincent Price) returns, searching for an ancient Egyptian 'elixir of life' to revive his late wife and he's more... Read more
Dr Seuss' The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr T (1953)
Director: Roy Rowland
Starring: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Tommy Rettig
An unusual, rarely seen fantasy, co-scripted by Dr. Seuss following a young boy's nightmares about his tyrannical piano teacher. Hans Conried is the f... Read more
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: George C Scott, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Peter Sellers, Slim P...
A commie-hating, paranoid American general launches a flight of B-52 bombers at the Soviet Union with nuclear annihilation in mind. Since he is the on... Read more
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( Blu-ray ) (1963)
8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: George C Scott, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Peter Sellers, Slim P...
A commie-hating, paranoid American general launches a flight of B-52 bombers at the Soviet Union with nuclear annihilation in mind. Since he is the on... Read more
Dragon Versus Needles of Death (1976)
Director: Kuo-Heng Chung
So Dragon Yu is a "good lad," but gets bullied a lot. Poor man. Thank goodness, he's just discovered an ability he never knew he had: being able to th... Read more
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Dragstrip Girl (1957)
5.9/10
Director: Edward L Cahn
Starring: Fay Spain, Steve Terrell, John Ashley
Car Crazy Speed Crazy Boy Crazy! Louise is eighteen, blonde and loves fast men and even faster cars. She likes two boys and her well-to-do parents dis... Read more
Dressed to Kill (1980)
7.1/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen
A visit to the art museum leads to a fateful and fatal sexual encounter for bored housewife Angie Dickinson in this stylish, erotic suspenser from Bri... Read more
Dressed to Kill (Blu-ray) (1980)
7.1/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen
A visit to the art museum leads to a fateful and fatal sexual encounter for bored housewife Angie Dickinson in this stylish, erotic suspenser from Bri... Read more