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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".

Things Are Tough All Over (1982)

6/10
Director: Tom Avildsen
Starring: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong

Cheech and Chong are in trouble in downtown Las Vegas as they play womanizers who run afoul of the Mob and Arab Sheiks (also played by C & C) who don'... Read more

This Is England (2006)

7.7/10
Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Jo Hartley, Vicky McClure, Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham

Shane Meadow's latest is his finest yet. Building on the themes explored in his previous work, this is an intelligent and emotive look at a boys life... Read more

This is Spinal Tap (1983)

8/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, Tony Hendra, June...

This hilarious, pseudo-rockumentary follows the U.S. comeback tour of Spinal Tap, a raucous British heavy metal band that has seen better days. The fi... Read more

This is Spinal Tap (Blu-ray) (1983)

7.9/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, Tony Hendra, June...

This hilarious, pseudo-rockumentary follows the U.S. comeback tour of Spinal Tap, a raucous British heavy metal band that has seen better days. The fi... Read more

This Island Earth (1955)

5.9/10
Director: Joseph M Newman
Starring: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason

Prepare to blast off from planet Earth in one of the most popular classic sci-fi films of all time! When atomic scientist Dr. Meacham (Rex Reason) is... Read more

Three Musketeers: The Serial 1-6 (1933)

6.7/10
Director: Armand Schaefer
Starring: John Wayne, Francis X Bushman, Ruth Hall, Lon Chaney Jr

'One for all and all for one!' Daredevil thrills and spills abound, as John Wayne and the men of the Foreign Legion battle villainous El Shaitan and h... Read more

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)

5.4/10
Director: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Ray Wise, Robert Loggia, William Atherton, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wa...

Provided with a billion dollars for film production, Tim and Eric squander every dime and elicit the wrath of the sinister Schlaaang Corporation. With... Read more

Tokyo Gore Police (2008)

6/10
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura
Starring: Eihi Shiina, Itsuji Itao, Yukihide Benny, Jiji Bu, Keisuke Horibe, Ikuko Sawada,...

"Possibly the goriest, craziest, most eye-blowing, chunk-spewing, head-exploding sci-fi movie of all time". So said the New York Post after watching t... Read more

Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)

6.2/10
Director: Amando De Ossorio
Starring: Cesar Burner, Lone Fleming, Helen Harp, Maria Silva

13th-century Templars are executed and blinded (by crows) for killing women during blood rituals. They return from their graves as mummified, bloodthi... Read more

Tommy (1975)

6.6/10
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Ann-Margret , Oliver Reed, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Eric Clapton, John Entwist...

Ken Russell's garish and psychedelic handling of The Who's visionary rock opera about a young man named Tommy (Roger Daltrey), who retreats into a mot... Read more