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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".

Scanners II: The New Order (1991)

6.8/10
Director: Christian Duguay
Starring: David Hewlett, Deborah Raffin

A scanner discovers a plot by renegade elements in the city government to take power with the help of evil scanners. Read more

Short Night of Glass Dolls (Blu-ray) (1971)

6.7/10
Director: Aldo Lado
Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bach

An American journalist temporarily stationed in Central Europe searches for his new girlfriend, who has suddenly disappeared. Read more

Rollerball (Blu-ray) (1975)

6.6/10
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, Moses Gunn, John Beck, Pamela Hensley, Ra...

The most popular sport in the 21st century is Rollerball--a gory combination of roller derby and gladiator combat played with motorcycles. James Caan... Read more

Assault of the Killer Bimbos (1988)

4.6/10
Director: Anita Rosenberg
Starring: Nick Cassavetes, Elizabeth Kaitan, Christina Whitaker, Griffin O'Neal, Tammara S...

Sometimes great bodies disguise great brains. Not in "Assault of the Killer Bimbos". Go-go dancers Peaches (Christina Whitaker) and Lulu (Elizabeth Ka... Read more

Flesh For Frankenstein (Blu-ray) (1973)

5.9/10
Director: Paul Morrissey
Starring: Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren, Udo Kier

Baron Frankenstein (Udo Kier) dreams of restoring Serbia to glory, so he builds male and female monsters whose children will become the new master rac... Read more

Witchfinder General (Blu-ray) (1968)

6.8/10
Director: Michael Reeves
Starring: Ian Ogilvy, Vincent Price, Rupert Davies, Wilfrid Brambell, Patrick Wymark

Aka "The Conqueror Worm". 1645 sees England in the grip of a bloody civil war. The structure of law and order has broken down. During this climate of... Read more

La Fuerza Del Destion/Force Of Evil (Blu-ray) (1948)

7.3/10
Director: Abraham Polonsky
Starring: Beatrice Pearson, John Garfield, Thomas Gomez

Film Noir featuring John Garfield as an attorney who works for a mobster and finds himself caught in a numbers racket scheme that could bankrupt New Y... Read more

Iron Sky (Blu-ray) (2012)

5.9/10
Director: Timo Vuorensola
Starring: Udo Kier, Julia Dietze, Christopher Kirby, Gotz Otto, Peta Sergeant, Stephanie P...

Aiming for instant cult status, this outrageous sci-fi comedy reveals how the Nazis managed to continue their plans for world conquest after losing Wo... Read more

Scanners III: The Takeover (1991)

5.3/10
Director: Christian Duguay

A young female scanner turns from a sweet young thing into a murderous, power-crazed villain after she takes an experimental drug developed by her fat... Read more

The Servant (Blu-ray) (1963)

7.9/10
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig

Joseph Losey directs a Harold Pinter screenplay, a tale of decadence and debauchery unravelling the relationship between the servant (Dirk Bogarde) an... Read more