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".
Green Room (2015)
7/10
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin, Mark Webber, Alia Shawkat, Imogen Poots, Macon B...
Down on their luck punk rockers The Ain't Rights are finishing up a long and unsuccessful tour, and are about to call it quits when they get an unexpe... Read more
Green Room ( Blu-ray ) (2015)
7/10
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin, Mark Webber, Alia Shawkat, Imogen Poots, Macon B...
Down on their luck punk rockers The Ain't Rights are finishing up a long and unsuccessful tour, and are about to call it quits when they get an unexpe... Read more
Grey Gardens (1976)
7.7/10
Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
A unique film portrait of Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale, a mother/daughter duo of former socialites, relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who lived a r... Read more
Groundhog Day (1993)
8/10
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
Pittsburgh weatherman Bill Murray finds that his worst nightmare has become a reality when he joins producer Andie McDowell and cameraman Chris Elliot... Read more
Gruesome Twosome (1967)
5.1/10
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Starring: Elizabeth Davis, Gretchen Wells, Chris Martell
From Herschell Gordon Lewis, the maker of 'Blood Feast', another gore extravaganza. Rodney Bedell plays a young imbecile who delights in scalping unwe... Read more
Gummo (1997)
6.7/10
Director: Harmony Korine
Starring: Linda Manz, Max Perlich, Chloe Sevigny
Harmony Korine, the creator of 'Kids', offers a startling glimpse of the suburb of Xenia, Ohio; a world existing in the aftermath of a tornado that ra... Read more
Gun Crazy (1950)
7.7/10
Director: Joseph Lewis
Starring: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Anabel Shaw
When gun fancier Bart Tare sees Annie Laurie Starr's sideshow sharpshooting act, he's a dead-bang goner. He and she go together, as Bart ultimately sa... Read more
Hairspray (1988)
7/10
Director: John Waters
Starring: Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine, Deborah Harry, Ricki Lake, Jerry Stiller
John Waters' breakthrough (to a mainstream commercial audience) film featuring the last performance of Divine. Set in Baltimore circa 1962, Tracy Tur... Read more
Halloween (2018)
7/10
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Nick Castle, Andi Matichak, Haluk Bilginer, Will P...
It's been 40 years since Laurie Strode survived a vicious attack from crazed killer Michael Myers on Halloween night. Locked up in an institution, Mye... Read more
Halloween (1978)
7.8/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: P J Soles, Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence
One of the most successful independent films ever, it spawned a host of imitators - but this is the real thing. The then-young director John Carpenter... Read more