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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".

Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)

6.8/10
Director: Allan Arkush
Starring: P J Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard, Dey Young, Mary Woronov, Paul Barte...

"Hey, ho, let's go" with free-spirited Vince Lombardi High student P.J. Soles, as she literally blows the roof off the school and overthrows tyrannica... Read more

They Saved Hitler's Brain (1963)

2.5/10
Director: David Bradley
Starring: Walter Stocker

Connoisseurs of bad movies rank this execration as an all-time favorite, rivaling Ed Wood's infamous Plan 9 from Outer Space as the worst film of all... Read more

Shake, Rattle and Rock! (1956)

5.1/10
Director: Edward L Cahn
Starring: Fats Domino, Sterling Holloway, Touch Connors, Margaret Dumont

The endearingly awful "Shake, Rattle and Rock!" serves as a showcase for four top rock-and-roll talents of the 1950s. Fats Domino heads the cast as "h... Read more

Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World (1963)

Director: Riccardo Freda
Starring: Gordon Scott, Yoko Tani

In the 13th Century, hordes of sadistic Mongol warriors descend upon China, enslaving the people and plotting to defile and assassinate the virgin pri... Read more

The Return of Swamp Thing (1988)

4.5/10
Director: Jim Wynorski
Starring: Heather Locklear, Louis Jourdan, Sara Douglas, Dick Durock

Everyone's favourite muck-encrusted plant-man is back and once again fighting the evil Dr Arcane, in this tongue-in-cheek action-adventure. But this t... Read more

White Comanche (1968)

4.1/10
Director: Jose Britz
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Rosanna Yanni, William Shatner

AKA: "Hour of Vengeance," "Rio Hondo." Filmed in Spain during a hiatus on "Star Trek," this campy Western melodrama stars William Shatner as twin brot... Read more

Swingers ( Blu-ray ) (1996)

7.3/10
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Heather Graham, Jon Favreau, Ron Livingston, Vince Vaughn, Patrick Van Horn, Ale...

Doug Liman's debut is a surprisingly winning look at the romantic and social entanglements of a group of Los Angeles lounge lizards. Jon Favreau and V... Read more

Macon County Line (1974)

6.7/10
Director: Richard Compton
Starring: Alan Vint, Geoffrey Lewis, Jesse Vint, Joan Blackman, Max Baer

Terrific actioner about two brothers travelling through the South in the '50s. Suspected of murdering the wife of sheriff Max Baer, Jr., the siblings... Read more

Darkman (Blu-Ray) (1990)

6.4/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Colin Friels, Dan Hicks, Frances McDormand, Larry Drake, Liam Ne...

When thugs employed by a crime boss lead a vicious assault on Dr. Peyton Wilder (Liam Neeson), leaving him literally and psychologically scarred, an e... Read more

Love (Blu-ray) (2015)

6.1/10
Director: Gaspar Noe
Starring: Karl Glusman, Aomi Muyock, Klara Kristin

Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the effe... Read more