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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".

300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

6.2/10
Director: Noam Murro
Starring: Hans Matheson, Lena Headey, Rodrigo Santoro, Eva Green, Sullivan Stapleton

This new chapter of the epic saga "300", told in the breathtaking visual style that defined the original blockbuster, brings the fight for glory to a... Read more

300: Rise of an Empire ( Blu-ray ) (2014)

6.2/10
Director: Noam Murro
Starring: Hans Matheson, Lena Headey, Rodrigo Santoro, Eva Green, Sullivan Stapleton

This new chapter of the epic saga "300", told in the breathtaking visual style that defined the original blockbuster, brings the fight for glory to a... Read more

42nd Street (1933)

7.6/10
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Starring: Dick Powell, George Brent, Guy Kibbee, Ruby Keeler, Warner Baxter, Una Merkel

The archetypical backstage musical given depth, life and power by the extravagant touch of Busby Berkeley. Warner Baxter is Julian Marsh, the 'musical... Read more

54 (1998)

5.8/10
Director: Mark Christopher
Starring: Mike Myers, Neve Campbell, Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Breckin Meyer, Sherry St...

The days of 70's disco, drugs and hedonism rear their heads in this look back at New York's infamous Studio 54. Starring Mike Myers as the druggie clu... Read more

A Boy and His Dog (1975)

6.6/10
Director: L Q Jones
Starring: Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Jason Robards

Don Johnson (Vic) stars with a telepathic canine named Blood in this cult black comedy adapted from a novella by Harlan Ellison. Set in a post-apocal... 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

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

8.3/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Miriam Karlin, Patrick Magee, Malcolm McDowell, Adrienne Corri

Stanley Kubrick's dark, dazzling, ironic tale of an ultra-violent future filled with marauding gangs, decaying cities and bizarre technologies. Follow... Read more

A Clockwork Orange ( Blu-ray ) (1971)

8.3/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Karlin

Stanley Kubrick's dark, dazzling, ironic tale of an ultra-violent future filled with marauding gangs, decaying cities and bizarre technologies. Follow... Read more

A Dirty Shame (2004)

5.1/10
Director: John Waters
Starring: Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, Chris Isaak

John Waters returns to X-rated territory in this wildly over-the-top comedy. Tracey Ullman is Sylvia Stickles, a wife and mother who, after receiving... Read more

A Fantastic Fear Of Everything (2011)

5.9/10
Director: Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell
Starring: Simon Pegg, Clare Higgins, Paul Freeman

A crime novelist whose research on Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck must confront his worst fears when a film executive t... Read more