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".
5.9/10
Tasteless, but extremely funny depiction of a college fraternity in 1962, thanks to John Belushi's rowdy depiction of Bluto Blutarsky, chief animal of... Read more
7.5/10
Tasteless, but extremely funny depiction of a college fraternity in 1962, thanks to John Belushi's rowdy depiction of Bluto Blutarsky, chief animal of... Read more
7.3/10
Dubbed 'A Clockwork Orange' of the 90s, this all-out audio-visual experience is something that comes along all too rarely. Oliver Stone has, with the... Read more
7.3/10
Dubbed 'A Clockwork Orange' of the 90s, this all-out audio-visual experience is something that comes along all too rarely. Oliver Stone has, with the... Read more
7/10
A young man, after being bitten, becomes a travelling companion with a nomadic group of vampires, and all the while his father and sister search relen... Read more
This anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead a... Read more
5.4/10
This oddity was produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs own company and was the first Tarzan film shot on location (in Guatemala). Their goal: the "Green God... Read more
5.4/10
This oddity was produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs' own company and was the first Tarzan film shot on location (in Guatemala). The adventurers seek the... Read more
6.7/10
An extravagant and unusual musical drama set in the Big Band Era, starring Robert DeNiro as a jazz musician who falls for Liza Minnelli during a V-J d... Read more
3.6/10
Here is Ed Wood's last horror movie and sort of sequel to 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'. Dr. Acula is raising the dead near Willow Lake, meanwhile strange... Read more