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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".

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

The American Way ( aka Riders of the Storm ) (1986)

5.9/10
Director: Maurice Phillips
Starring: Dennis Hopper, James Aubrey, Michael J Pollard

A group of radical Vietnam vets become broadcasting pirates and take on a Presidential candidate in this crazy comedy. The vets and their leader, "Cap... 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

Antiviral (Blu-ray) (2012)

5.7/10
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Sheila McCarthy, Wendy Crewson, Nicholas Campbell, Douglas Smi...

Syd March (Caleb Landry Jones) is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. Syd... Read more

The Manchurian Candidate (Blu-ray) (1962)

7.9/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Frank Sinatra, Henry Silva, Janet Leigh, Laurence Harvey

One of the finest political thrillers ever made. John Frankenheimer's blend of Cold War paranoia and sly satire stars Laurence Harvey as a former Kore... Read more

Body Heat (Blu-ray) (1981)

7.4/10
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, Mickey Rourke

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

Voodoo Woman (1957)

4/10
Director: Edward L Cahn
Starring: Marla English, Tom Conway, Touch Connors

Science meets sorcery in this A.I.P. shocker that features Tom Conway as a mad doctor who uses a voodoo spell to turn beautiful Maria English into a h... Read more

Teenage Zombies (1959)

2.7/10
Director: Jerry Warren
Starring: Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor

Cinematic punishment from grade-Z auteur Jerry Warren. On a secluded island, a mad scientist concocts a horrific plot for world domination. When a gro... Read more

Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers - Chapters 9-13 (1936)

6.5/10
Director: Ray Taylor, Ford Beebe
Starring: Larry 'Buster' Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton

Chapters 9-13. Buster Crabbe stars as Flash Gordon in this classic 1930s serial. Humanity is doomed to destruction! A distant planet has broken its or... Read more

The Haunted Strangler (1957)

6.3/10
Director: Robert Day
Starring: Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan, Anthony Dawson

Aka 'Grip of the Strangler'. Set against the backdrop of Victorian society in London, this atmospheric horror features Boris Karloff as a novelist inv... Read more