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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".

JCVD (Blu-ray) (2008)

7.1/10
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Francois Damiens, Zinedine Soualem

Jean-Claude Van Damme plays himself in this unique, existential heist thriller with a dark comic streak. Down and out, with only straight-to-DVD title... Read more

Joe (1970)

6.9/10
Director: John G Avildsen
Starring: Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Susan Sarandon, Patrick McDermott

One of the milestone films of its era, this satirical drama stars Peter Boyle as a bigoted, beer-swilling hardhat who helps a strait-laced advertising... Read more

Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)

5.7/10
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack

Tom Hanks plays Joe, a grim factory worker who learns he is terminally ill after being diagnosed with a 'brain cloud'. When a tycoon learns of his con... Read more

Joe's Apartment (1996)

5.4/10
Director: John Payson
Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Megan Ward, Robert Vaughn

Based on an MTV short film about a young man forced to share his New York apartment with some real party animals - 50,000 singing, dancing cockroaches... Read more

John Dies at the End (2012)

6.4/10
Director: Don Coscarelli
Starring: Clancy Brown, Paul Giamatti, Daniel Roebuck, Doug Jones, Chase Williamson, Rob M...

It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. B... Read more

Johnny Firecloud / Bummer! (1973)

Director: William Allen Castleman
Starring: Victor Mohica, Ralph Meeker, David Canary, Kipp Whitman, Dennis Burkley

"Johnny Firecloud" - Named for the atomic bomb, Native American Johnny Firecloud returns from Vietnam to a desert town controlled by a white-trash big... Read more

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

7.9/10
Director: Dalton Trumbo
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Jason Robards, Marsha Hunt, Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Di...

Screenwriter/novelist Dalton Trumbo wrote his pacifist novel "Johnny Got His Gun" in 1939, and after being blacklisted in the 1950s (he was one of the... Read more

Johnny Suede (1991)

5.8/10
Director: Tom DiCillo
Starring: Brad Pitt, Catherine Keener, Calvin Levels

Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch's one time cameraman, 'Johnny Suede' is a funny, off-beat romance about an aspiring musician with a glorious pomp... Read more

Just For the Hell of It / Blast-Off Girls (1968)

Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Starring: Rodney Bedell, Agi Gyenes, Nancy Lee Noble, Ray Sager, Steve White, Dan Conway,...

Teens run amok in this action-packed Double Bill. In "Just For The Hell Of It" a gang of nihilistic delinquints raise hell in a suburban community by... Read more

Kids (1995)

7/10
Director: Larry Clark
Starring: Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloe Sevigny

Famed photographer Larry Clark makes his directorial debut with this sensational story of teenage life in Manhattan. Ignoring the challenge posed by A... Read more