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".
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
6.6/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Brad Dourif, Fairuza Balk, Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, Eva Mendes, Alvin 'Xzibit'...
Neither a strict remake of nor a sequel to Abel Ferrara's lurid 1992 crime drama, Werner Herzog's outrageous, blackly comic procedural is its own odd... Read more
Bad Santa (2003)
7.1/10
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham, Tony Cox, John Ritter, Brett Kell...
Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton like you've never seen him before) is the department store Santa who doesn't give a f*** if you've been naughty o... Read more
Bad Santa ( Blu-ray ) (2003)
7.1/10
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, John Ritter, Bernie Mac, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham, Brett Kell...
Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton like you've never seen him before) is the department store Santa who doesn't give a f*** if you've been naughty o... Read more
Bad Taste (1987)
6.7/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Mike Minett, Pete O'Herne, Peter Jackson, Craig Smith, Terry Potter
This notorious debut feature film from Peter Jackson is packed with all the outrageous action, senseless violence and sick humour that has made it one... Read more
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
7.3/10
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pull...
The El Royale is a run-down hotel that sits on the border between California and Nevada. It soon becomes a seedy battleground when seven strangers --... Read more
Bad Times at the El Royale (Blu-Ray) (2018)
7.3/10
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pull...
The El Royale is a run-down hotel that sits on the border between California and Nevada. It soon becomes a seedy battleground when seven strangers --... Read more
Badlands (1973)
7.9/10
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Alan Vint
Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek star in this tale of two outcasts on a murder-spree in a film that is one of the most stunning directorial debuts in the... Read more
Baffled! (1972)
5.9/10
Director: Philip Leacock
Starring: Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, Vera Miles
Years ahead of its time before series about strange phenomenon became a cult, this feature-length pilot to a series that never was mixes ESP with myst... Read more
Bagdad Cafe (1987)
7.5/10
Director: Percy Adlon
Starring: Marianne Sagebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance
This enchanting and affectionate fable unveils, in a series of wonderful vignettes, the developing friendship between several oddball characters. Mari... Read more
Barbarella (1968)
5.9/10
Director: Roger Vadim
Starring: Marcel Marceau, Ugo Tognazzi, Milo O'Shea, John Phillip Law, Jane Fonda, David H...
Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality, fantasy, humor, beauty and horror, cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favor... Read more