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".
Hobo With a Shotgun (Blu-ray) (2011)
6.1/10
Director: Jason Eisener
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Brian Downey
Originally a trailer featured in the Canadian theatrical run of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's "Grindhouse," this exploitation tribute stars... Read more
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (Blu-ray) (2009)
4.4/10
Director: Tom Six
Starring: Akihiro Kitamura, Dieter Laser, Andreas Leupold, Ashley C Williams, Ashlynn Yenn...
Advertised as being 100% medically accurate, this outrageous horror film finds two stranded American tourists and a Japanese businessman held captive... Read more
Sucker (Mosquito-Man) (2013)
5.7/10
Down on his luck and unlikely hero, Jim Crawley is having the worst day of his miserable life. He decides to end it all and even fails at that. An imp... Read more
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000)
4.3/10
Director: Lloyd Kaufman
Starring: Rick Collins, David Mattey, Ron Jeremy, Corey Feldman
The Toxic Avenger must defend his friends from his own evil alternate universe doppelgänger, The Noxious Offender. Read more
Palindromes (2004)
6.8/10
Director: Todd Solondz
Starring: Ellen Barkin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Adly-Guirgis, Emani Sledge, Valerie...
Todd Solondz' new film begins with the funeral of his beloved 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' character, Dawn Wiener. Touching on the same raw-nerve subje... Read more
the Toxic Avenger: Part II (1989)
5.1/10
Director: Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
Starring: Ron Fazio, Phoebe Legere, John Altamura, Rick Collins
The world's ugliest and most unusual crimefighter is back! Spawned from toxic waste, the Avenger has cleaned up Tromaville and even found romance, but... Read more
Baby Geniuses (1999)
2.6/10
Director: Bob Clark
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, Dom DeLuise, R...
Scientist hold talking, super-intelligent babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin... Read more
Dragon Versus Needles of Death (1976)
Director: Kuo-Heng Chung
So Dragon Yu is a "good lad," but gets bullied a lot. Poor man. Thank goodness, he's just discovered an ability he never knew he had: being able to th... Read more
Mommie Dearest (Blu-ray) (1981)
6.7/10
Director: Frank Perry
Starring: Diana Scarwid, Faye Dunaway, Steve Forrest, Mara Hobel
Based upon the best-selling book by the adopted daughter of film legend Joan Crawford, Christina Crawford literally blew the lid off the private life... Read more
Doctor Who: The Complete Thirteenth Series - Flux (Blu-ray) (2021)
8.6/10
The enigmatic time-traveller from Gallifrey returns in this all-new sci-fi series from producer Russell T. Davies. Step back inside the TARDIS with th... Read more