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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".

Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

6.7/10
Director: Rose Glass
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, Ed Harris, Dave Franco, Jena Malone

Lou is a reclusive gym manager who falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder who's heading to Las Vegas to pursue her dream. Their love soon lea... Read more

Love, Honour and Obey (1999)

Director: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Starring: Sadie Frost, Ray Winstone, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee, Kathy Burke...

Jonny (Jonny Lee Miller) dreams of leaving his dead-end job as a courier. Through his best friend (Jude Law), a nephew of the notorious crime lord Ray... Read more

Lunatics: A Love Story (1991)

6.3/10
Director: Josh Becker
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Deborah Foreman, Ted Raimi

In the seedy part of Los Angeles, a man who writes poetry has spent six months without leaving his apartment because of his paranoid delusions involvi... Read more

Lust in the Dust (1985)

6.3/10
Director: Paul Bartel
Starring: Divine, Tab Hunter, Lainie Kazan, Henry Silva

Gold fever has struck the wild western town of Chile Verde, where hard-living cowboys and hot-blooded wenches all lust for wealth and each other. But... Read more

M (Fritz Lang) (1931)

8.4/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Peter Lorre, Inge Landgut, Ellen Widmann

Uncut for the first time. Harrowing images, shadows and symbolism permeate Fritz Lang's first sound film, an internationally heralded German cinematic... Read more

Machete (2010)

6.6/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Ethan Maniquis
Starring: Cheech Marin, Don Johnson, Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Lohan, Robert De Niro, Steven Sea...

A bad-ass, star-studded action-thriller from Robert Rodriguez (Desperado), Machete is an over-the-top homage to 1970s exploitation movies, starring D... Read more

Machete Kills (2013)

5.6/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Charlie Sheen, Cuba Gooding Jr, Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Wi...

Danny Trejo returns as legendary ex-Federale Machete Cortez in this action-packed thrill ride from innovative director Robert Rodriguez. In his latest... Read more

Macon County Line (1974)

6.7/10
Director: Richard Compton
Starring: Alan Vint, Geoffrey Lewis, Jesse Vint, Joan Blackman, Max Baer

Terrific actioner about two brothers travelling through the South in the '50s. Suspected of murdering the wife of sheriff Max Baer, Jr., the siblings... Read more

Mad Max (1979)

7/10
Director: George Miller
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne

The cult classic that made Mel Gibson a star as the futuristic avenger, a former police officer whose family was murdered by marauders. A bleak desert... Read more

Mad Max 2 ( aka The Road Warrior ) (1981)

Director: George Miller
Starring: Vernon Wells, Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence

Called by Andrew Sarris a 'post-apocalyptic adventure yarn of such breathtaking velocity that it would have spun hopelessly out of control without the... Read more