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".
5/10
Given a big budget for the first time, Dutch director Paul Verhoeven weaves a colourful, erotic and gritty story of a rag-tag group of mercenary soldi... Read more
5.9/10
A.k.a. 'Andy Warhol's Frankenstein'. One of the goriest cult comedies ever with Udo Kier as the mad baron with a perverse longing for perfect (if unde... Read more
5.9/10
Baron Frankenstein (Udo Kier) dreams of restoring Serbia to glory, so he builds male and female monsters whose children will become the new master rac... Read more
4.7/10
In this outrageous soft-core parody of Flash Gordon, Earth is thrown into carnal chaos by a mysterious sex ray emanating from outer space. Flesh Gordo... Read more
6.5/10
A funny spoof of 'Airport'-type disaster movies with non-stop hilarity that holds up to the end. Starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, R... Read more
7.6/10
'The best of the science fiction interstellar productions of the fifties', according to Pauline Kael. The action takes place in the year 2257 on the p... Read more
7.4/10
Film Noir featuring John Garfield as an attorney who works for a mobster and finds himself caught in a numbers racket scheme that could bankrupt New Y... Read more
7.9/10
Inspired by childhood recollections of running away with the circus and befriending the sideshow freaks, Tod Browniing's vision of sideshow life is bo... Read more
4.5/10
Tom Green picks up where his irreverent MTV show leaves off, directing, co-scripting and starring in this outrageous comedy as a mentally unbalanced a... Read more
6.9/10
This 'bent, punk retelling of Little Red Riding Hood' stars Reese Witherspoon as a disenchanted teen who flees her trailer trash mum (Brooke Shields)... Read more