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".
8/10
A landmark film of the late '60s that's still just as pungent and funny. Dustin Hoffman, in his first major film role, plays an ultra-naive college gr... Read more
8/10
A landmark film of the late '60s that's still just as pungent and funny. Dustin Hoffman, in his first major film role, plays an ultra-naive college gr... Read more
5.6/10
Ronnie (Michael St. Michaels) runs a disco walking tour along with his browbeaten son, Brayden (Sky Elobar). When a sexy, alluring woman named Janet (... Read more
6.5/10
An outrageously cynical free-form documentary about the infamous, ground-breaking punk-rock band 'The Sex Pistols'. The original ad campaign pictured... Read more
7/10
Jimmy Cliff is Ivan, a country boy who comes to the city to make a record and get his share of that pie up in the sky. But it isn't until he shoots a... Read more
7.8/10
Six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (... Read more
7.8/10
Six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (... Read more
6.3/10
Aka 'Grip of the Strangler'. Set against the backdrop of Victorian society in London, this atmospheric horror features Boris Karloff as a novelist inv... Read more
6.4/10
A vacationing family makes a very wrong turn in the desert and finds themselves up against a group of psychotic cannibals in this tense, gory and now... Read more
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the desert, film fright master Wes Craven brings you the chilling sequel to his horror classic. A grou... Read more