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".
A 'Cronenberg-style' shocker about people losing control 10 years after taking an experimental strain of LSD. Now they're balding homicidal maniacs. Z... Read more
Lively techno-thriller about an LA Police pilot who brings down the empire of a crime lord with a high-tech helicopter. Terrific aerial photography. Read more
The most talked about film of the '80s, David Lynch's controversial, surreal mystery is set amid the manicured lawns of small town America where a wor... Read more
Director David Lynch crafted this hallucinogenic mystery-thriller that probes beneath the cheerful surface of suburban America to discover sadomasochi... Read more
The wheel spinning adventures of three teenagers get complicated when they discover a box of stolen walkie-talkies left behind by a gang of bank robbe... Read more
Attorney Ned Racine's life coasts along in neutral - until he meets a siren in white (with a well-to-do husband) named Matty Walker. Ned knows Matty i... Read more
Attorney Ned Racine's life coasts along in neutral - until he meets a siren in white (with a well-to-do husband) named Matty Walker. Ned knows Matty i... Read more
A gore-filled Aussie B-movie, directed by Philip Brophy and based on his own short stories, in which a small Melbourne community is being used as guin... Read more
This acclaimed, disco-filled chronicle of the adult film industry's rise and decline in the late 70s and 80s stars Mark Wahlberg as the well-endowed s... Read more
This acclaimed, disco-filled chronicle of the adult film industry's rise and decline in the late 70s and 80s stars Mark Wahlberg as the well-endowed s... Read more