Cult Classic
Many cult movies have gone on to transcend their original cult status and have become recognized as classics, others are of the "so bad it's good" variety, and are destined to remain in obscurity. Here you will also discover some of the most astonishing, tastless and sometimes the worst movie ever made. The term cult film implies a certain level of obscurity, and widely popular, mainstream movies are not considered to be cult films and will not be found in this company.
The Last Woman on Earth (1960)
6.1/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland
On a boat in the Caribbean following WWIII, a gangster and lawyer fight to decide who'll get to repopulate the planet with the titular female, the mob... Read more
Black Sunday ( aka The Mask of Satan ) (1960)
7.3/10
Director: Mario Bava
Starring: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Ivo Garrani
One of the most stylishly filmed black and white horrors of all time, this was Italian horror maestro Mario Bava's official cinematic debut. Loosley... Read more
The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
3.8/10
Director: Edgar G Ulmer
Starring: Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith
This sci-fi schlocko concerns a crazed scientist who, hoping to create the perfect henchman, renders a crook invisible. Unfotunately, the unseen under... Read more
Night of the Ghouls (1960)
3.6/10
Director: Edward D Wood Jr
Starring: Duke Moore, Tor Johnson, Criswell, Paul Marco
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
Hercules Unchained (1960)
4.4/10
Director: Pietro Francisci
Starring: Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Sylvia Lopez
Steve Reeves returns as the mighty Hercules in this saga of muscles, maidens and monsters. Robbed of his memory, Herc is a prisoner of the lovely Quee... Read more
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
6.3/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Jonathan Haze, Jack Nicholson, Dick Miller
Jack Nicholson is the masochist who thrives on dental pain in this very funny cult classic from Roger Corman. The preposterous plot revolves around a... Read more
The Killer Shrews (1959)
3.9/10
Director: Ray Kellogg
Starring: James Best
No, it's not Shakespeare's long-missing sequel! It's the hilariously bad monster movie about a horde of outsized man-eating rodents that run amok on a... Read more
The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
3.3/10
Director: Ray Kellogg
Starring: Don Sullivan
About a group of hot-rod enthusiasts, headed by nice-guy Chace Winstead (Don Sullivan), who sometimes breaks into song. Before long, the titular gila... Read more
The Giant Behemoth (1959)
5.8/10
Director: Eugene Lourie
Starring: Gene Evans, Andre Morell
A Cornish fisherman is found covered with what looks like radiation burns. Before he dies, the fisherman utters the word 'behemoth', citing a monster... Read more
Killer Creature Collection: Blood Creature (1959) / Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (1962) / A Bucket of Blood (1959) / The Giant Gila Monster (1959) / The Wasp Woman (1960) / Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)/ Beast From Haunted Cave etc (1959)
Director: Bert I Gordon, Joseph Green, Monte Hellman, Ray Kellogg, Roger Corman, Bernard L Kowalski, Gerry De Leon, Paolo Heusch, Mel Welles, Ernst R von Theumer
Starring: Richard Derr, Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Carl Schell, Barbara Lass, Dick Mi...
A collection of ten classic cult horrors from the heyday of Roger Corman and his peers. These fabulously over-the-top gore-fests and chilling delights... Read more