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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".

Flesh and Blood (1985)

5/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Jack Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rutger Hauer, Susan Tyrrell, Tom Burlinson,...

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

Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

5.9/10
Director: Paul Morrissey
Starring: Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren, Udo Kier

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

Flesh For Frankenstein (Blu-ray) (1973)

5.9/10
Director: Paul Morrissey
Starring: Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren, Udo Kier

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

Flesh Gordon (1974)

4.7/10
Director: Howard Ziehm, Michael Benveniste
Starring: Jason Williams, Suzanne Fields, Joseph Hudgins, William Hunt, John Hoyt

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

Flying High! ( aka Airplane! ) (1980)

6.5/10
Director: David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Starring: Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges

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

Forbidden Planet (1956)

7.6/10
Director: Fred M Wilcox
Starring: Robby the Robot, Warren Stevens, Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis

'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

Force Of Evil (1948)

7.4/10
Director: Abraham Polonsky
Starring: John Garfield, Beatrice Pearson, Thomas Gomez

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

Freaks (1932)

7.9/10
Director: Tod Browning
Starring: Wallace Ford, Olga Baclanova, Leila Hyams

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

Freddy Got Fingered (2001)

4.5/10
Director: Tom Green
Starring: Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Julie Hagerty

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

Freeway (1996)

6.9/10
Director: Matthew Bright
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Dan Hedaya, Amanda Plummer, Brooke Shields

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