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.
Go, Johnny Go (1959)
5.9/10
Director: Paul Landres
Starring: Alan Freed, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, Ritchie Vallens, Jackie Wilson
Jimmy Clanton gets the top billing as Johnny Melody, a young singer trying for Alan Freed's talent show, but the star of this blast from the past is t... Read more
Teenage Zombies (1959)
2.7/10
Director: Jerry Warren
Starring: Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor
Cinematic punishment from grade-Z auteur Jerry Warren. On a secluded island, a mad scientist concocts a horrific plot for world domination. When a gro... Read more
Daddy-O (1959)
2.2/10
Director: Lou Place
Starring: Bruno Ve Sota
Dick Contino stars as Phil Sandifer, a part-time truck driver and singer who is almost run off road by a feisty buxom platinum blonde. They meet up ag... Read more
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
4/10
Director: Edward D Wood Jr
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Duke Moore, Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene
A.k.a. 'Grave Robbers From Outer Space'. Hailed as the worst film of all time and so mesmerizingly awful it actually improves (so to speak) with each... Read more
The Fly (1958) / Return of the Fly (1959)
Director: Edward Bernds, Kurt Neumann
Starring: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton
'The Fly' - Vincent Price is a brilliant scientist who becomes obsessed with perfecting a device that can transmit matter from one location to another... Read more
A Bucket of Blood (1959)
6.8/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone
Roger Corman's prelude to 'Little Shop of Horrors' has Dick Miller getting that life-like quality to his clay sculptures by building them around life-... Read more
Hercules (1959)
4.4/10
Director: Pietro Francisci
Starring: Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Fabrizio Mioni
The original "swords, sandals and sweat" number stars the former Mr Universe Steve Reeves as Herc. On his quest for the Golden Fleece, Hercules just f... Read more
She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)
2.5/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Don Durant, Bill Cord, Lisa Montell
This low-budget schlocker from Roger Corman is set in the South Pacific where two brothers on the run from the law are shipwrecked on an island popula... Read more
The Wild Women of Wongo (1958)
2.1/10
Director: James L Wolcott
Starring: Jean Hawkshaw, Mary Ann Webb, Cande Gerrard, Johnny Walsh
A prehistoric beach blanket classic with leopard skin-clad women and brutish men engaged in the battle of the sexes on the idyllic island of Wongo. A... Read more
Queen of Outer Space (1958)
4.6/10
Director: Edward Bernds
Starring: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Lisa Davis
A camp masterpiece about a group of astronauts who land on Venus and discover a civilization populated by voluptuous women, including gossamer-gowned... Read more