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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".

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II (1993)

6.6/10
Director: Takao Okawara
Starring: Masahiro Takashima, Megumi Odaka, Ryoko Sano

AKA 'Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II'. In response to Japan's request for a countermeasure against Godzilla, UN engineers construct Mechagodzilla, a gia... Read more

Godzilla vs Megalon (1973)

4.5/10
Director: Jun Fukuda
Starring: Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi, Robert Dunham, Kotaro Tomita

The undersea world of Seatopia is upset with the surface-dwellers because of nuclear tests being carried out in the Pacific. They send up the giant b... Read more

Godzilla vs Mothra (1964)

Director: Ishiro Honda
Starring: Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi

'Mosura tai Gojira', probably the finest and best-loved by fans of the Godzilla series. Once again the tiny citizens of Tokyo tremble before the migh... Read more

Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla (1994)

5.9/10
Director: Kensho Yamashita
Starring: Megumi Odaka, Jun Hashizume, Zenkichi Yoneyama, Akira Emoto

Godzilla faces a new foe. And this one is a clone of himself, somehow accidentally formed in the outer reaches of the galaxy and returned to Earth in... Read more

Godzilla: All Monsters Attack (1969)

6.4/10
Director: Ishiro Honda
Starring: Tomonori Yazaki, Eisei Amamoto, Sachio Sakai, Kazuo Suzuki, Kenji Sahara

A bullied schoolboy dreams of befriending Godzilla's son, Manilla, on Monster Island. Through this ethereal relationship Ichiro sees Godzilla and Man... Read more

Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)

6.5/10
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Starring: Masahiro Matsuoka, Rei Kikukawa, Kazuki Kitamura, Don Frye, Akira Takarada

Godzilla's 50th birthday sees him travelling the globe as evil aliens have landed with evil alien thoughts. Only Godzilla and the Earth Defence Force... Read more

Godzilla: Son Of Godzilla (1967)

5.2/10
Director: Jun Fukuda
Starring: Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, Bibari Maeda

A group of scientists conducting weather experiments in the Pacific accidentally cause a massive radioactive storm - as a result the local praying man... Read more

Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S (2003)

6.4/10
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Starring: Noboru Kaneko, Miho Yoshioka

Mechagodzilla, the superior-armed, state-of-the-art, all-robot version of Godzilla, is undergoing repairs after his devastating battle against the wor... Read more

Gothic (1986)

5.8/10
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson

Ken Russell recreates a bizarre night at a chateau in Switzerland where Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, and a few friends told scary stories that would late... Read more

Graffiti Bridge (1990)

4.3/10
Director: Prince
Starring: Prince, Morris Day, Jerome Benton, Jill Jones

Music is the power, Love is the message, Truth is the answer... that's the motto of Prince in this semi-sequel to "Purple Rain". Read more