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".
Rio Bravo (1959)
8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson
Howard Hawks' western classic stars John Wayne as a sheriff whose town is under siege by the army of gunmen brought in by crooked cattle baron John Ru... Read more
Rio Bravo ( Blu-ray ) (1959)
8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bon...
Howard Hawks' western classic stars John Wayne as a sheriff whose town is under siege by the army of gunmen brought in by crooked cattle baron John Ru... Read more
River's Edge (1986)
7.1/10
Director: Tim Hunter
Starring: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Ione Skye, Roxana Zal, Daniel Roebu...
A powerful drama that uses a real incident to convey the hopelessness and hostility barely hidden under the surface of today's teenager. A big kid mur... Read more
Roadie (1980)
5.1/10
Director: Alan Rudolph
Starring: Art Carney, Alice Cooper, Kaki Hunter, Meat Loaf, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, Jr...
Down-home Texas boy Travis Redfish (Meat Loaf) falls hard for Lola, a glitter-spangled groupie determined to lose her virginity to Alice Cooper. Hopin... Read more
Robot Monster (1953)
2.9/10
Director: Phil Tucker
Starring: George Nader, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle, John Mylong, Gregory Moffett, Pamel...
Ro-Man, a sex starved robot monster (dressed in a gorilla suit and diving helmet), has destroyed all of humanity with the exception of a small band of... Read more
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
6.8/10
Director: Allan Arkush
Starring: P J Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard, Dey Young, Mary Woronov, Paul Barte...
"Hey, ho, let's go" with free-spirited Vince Lombardi High student P.J. Soles, as she literally blows the roof off the school and overthrows tyrannica... Read more
Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever (1991)
4.8/10
Starring: Corey Feldman, Evan Richards, Mary Woronov, Larry Linville
A new principal is imported to Rock 'n' Roll High to put the clamps on the rock-inspired rebelliousness that has the local school board quite concerne... Read more
Rock All Night (1957)
5.7/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Abby Dalton, Dick Miller, Russell Johnson
A tense hostage melodrama set in Cloud Nine a rockin' bar where a new tone-deaf singer is auditioning. Dick Miller stars as Shorty, is an ill-tempered... Read more
Rockabilly Vampire (2001)
4.7/10
Director: Lee Bennett Sobel
Starring: Stephen Blackeheart, Margaret Lancaster, Paul Stevenson, Valentine Miele, Wendy...
A low-rent horror spoof from the Troma team about Iris, a woman whose life is going downhill - she hates her job, her landlord is on her case and the... Read more
Rockers (1977)
7.7/10
Director: Theodoros Bafaloukos
Starring: Leroy Wallace, Richard Hall, Monica Craig
A funky drama/comedy about a Rastafarian drummer's efforts to earn money and crack the music establishment in 1970s Kingston. Superior reggae score fe... Read more