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