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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".

The Stepford Wives (1974)

5.3/10
Director: Bryan Forbes
Starring: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Ca...

Two women who move with their families to the quiet Connecticut town of Stepford wonder why all the local wives are in a state of perpetual bliss, but... Read more

The Story of O (1975)

5.4/10
Director: Just Jaeckin
Starring: Udo Kier, Anthony Steel, Christiane Minazzoli, Corinne Clery

Banned in New Zealand for 25 years! O (Corinne Clery) is taken by her boyfriend Rene (Udo Kier) to a mysterious club where a group of submissive women... Read more

The Story of Ricky (1993)

7.1/10
Director: Nam Nai Choi
Starring: Fan Siu-Wong, Fan Hoi Sang, Ho Kar Kui, Yukari Oshima, Tetsuro Tanpa, Gloria Yip

Aka 'Riki-Oh'. This over-the-top number has won a cult following for its deliberately outlandish martial arts violence, in which Riki displays the rem... Read more

The Stud (1978)

3.4/10
Director: Quentin Masters
Starring: Joan Collins, Oliver Tobias, Sue Lloyd, Mark Burns

The sexual cavortings of the super-rich and the highly unpleasant are looked at in this successful soap opera, telling of a waiter who works his way u... Read more

The Stunt Man (1979)

7.2/10
Director: Richard Rush
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey

A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set where he accidentally causes death of their ace stunt man. The director offers to hide him from the police - if h... Read more

The Tall Man (2012)

5.9/10
Director: Pascal Laugier
Starring: Jessica Biel, William B Davis, Jodelle Ferland, Samantha Ferris

In an isolated, slowly dying mining town, children are vanishing without a trace, abducted, the townsfolk whisper, by a mysterious entity known locall... Read more

The Tenant (1976)

7.7/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters

Polanski's most autobiographical film is, like "Repulsion", a journey through the distorted realm of the human mind. Polanski himself plays Trelkovsky... Read more

The Terminator (1984)

8/10
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Paul Winfield, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger

A cyborg is sent from the future to present-day Los Angeles on a deadly mission. He's got to kill a young woman whose life will have great significanc... Read more

The Terminator (Blu-ray) (1984)

8/10
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Paul Winfield, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger

A cyborg is sent from the future to present-day Los Angeles on a deadly mission. He's got to kill a young woman whose life will have great significanc... Read more

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

6.2/10
Director: Marcus Nispel
Starring: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour, R Lee E...

This rip-snorting, gore-drenched reworking of Tobe Hooper's 1974 original is set in the early 1970s and follows the horrific adventures of five teens... Read more