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".
Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
6.1/10
Director: Gordon Parks
Starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn
Richard Roundtree reunites with director Gordon Parks to bring the charismatic, leather jacketed private investigator, Shaft, to you in his most explo... Read more
Shake, Rattle and Rock! (1956)
5.1/10
Director: Edward L Cahn
Starring: Fats Domino, Sterling Holloway, Touch Connors, Margaret Dumont
The endearingly awful "Shake, Rattle and Rock!" serves as a showcase for four top rock-and-roll talents of the 1950s. Fats Domino heads the cast as "h... Read more
Sharknado (2013)
3.3/10
Director: Anthony C Ferrante
Starring: John Heard, Tara Reid, Jaason Simmons, Cassie Scerbo, Ian Ziering
When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace, and nature's deadliest killer rules sea, land, and... Read more
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
7.9/10
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, Penelope Wilton,...
There comes a day in every man's life when he has to get off the couch... and kill some zombies. When flesh-eating zombies are on the hunt for a bite... Read more
Shaun of the Dead ( Blu-ray ) (2004)
7.9/10
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Penelope Wilton, Bill Nighy, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Ka...
There comes a day in every man's life when he has to get off the couch... and kill some zombies. When flesh-eating zombies are on the hunt for a bite... Read more
Shin Godzilla (2016)
6.7/10
Director: Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi
From Hideaki Anno, the mind behind EVANGELION. The King of Monsters receives a terrifying resurgence. It's a peaceful day in Japan when a strange f... Read more
Shivers (1975)
6.6/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Barbara Steele, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Paul Hampton
Aka 'They Came from Within', 'The Parasite Murders'. Initially reviled in its native land (some critics took exception to the fact the film was largel... Read more
Shock Corridor (1963)
7.5/10
Director: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans
Journalist Peter Breck gets admitted to a mental institution to unmask a murderer and we watch as he goes crazy himself. This complex masterpiece was... Read more
Shock Waves (1976)
5.7/10
Director: Ken Wiederhorn
Starring: Brooke Adams, Peter Cushing, Luke Halpin, John Carradine
In this low-budget atmospheric shocker from director Ken Wiederhorn, the survivors of a shipwreck find themselves trapped on an island with mutated Na... Read more
Short Night of Glass Dolls (Blu-ray) (1971)
6.7/10
Director: Aldo Lado
Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bach
An American journalist temporarily stationed in Central Europe searches for his new girlfriend, who has suddenly disappeared. Read more