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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".

The Brain Eaters (1958)

4/10
Director: Bruno Vesota
Starring: Ed Nelson, Alan Frost

Strange things are happening in Riverdale, Illinois. A mysterious cone, 50-feet tall by 50-feet across at its base, is discovered sticking out of the... Read more

The Astounding She-Monster (1958)

3.3/10
Director: Ronnie Ashcroft
Starring: Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan, Shirley Kilpatrick

Astoundingly cheap little film in which Hollywood gangsters kidnap a Beverly Hills socialite and take her to a remote mountain cabin where a curvy 'st... Read more

Attack Of The 50 Ft. Woman (1958)

3.8/10
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers

Brilliantly terrible sci-fi with some of the worst special effects of all time, involving Nancy Archer (Allison Hayes) a wealthy woman fresh from the... Read more

The Blob (1958)

6.4/10
Director: Irvin S Yeaworth
Starring: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corseaut, Earl Rowe

This classic cult movie of the 50's combined both elements inherent in the Sci-Fi and teen delinquent movies of the time and created a new hybrid that... Read more

First Man Into Space (1958)

5.5/10
Director: Robert Day
Starring: Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards

"A better than it looks" tale of a daring pilot who disobeys orders and becomes the title character, returning to Earth a dust-encrusted, blood-drinki... Read more

Monster From Green Hell (1958)

3.4/10
Director: Kenneth G Crane
Starring: Jim Davis, Barbara Turner, Robert E Griffin

Man tampers with the unknown when a rocket carrying test animals crashes in Africa's Green hell. As the local animal population begins to flee, scient... Read more

The Spider (1958)

4.1/10
Director: Bert I Gordon
Starring: Ed Kemmer, June Kenny, Geene Persson, Gene Roth

A.k.a. "Earth vs The Spider". The ads warned 'It must eat you to live'. A spider bigger than a bus is found in a cave and, when revived, decides to st... Read more

Touch of Evil (1958)

8.1/10
Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff, Joseph Calleia, Marle...

This twisting cinematic masterpiece of style and suspense, based on the Whit Masterson novel, features Orson Welles as a corrupt cane-wielding officia... Read more

Jailhouse Rock ( Blu-ray ) (1957)

6.5/10
Director: Richard Thorpe
Starring: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Dean Jones, Jennifer Holden

Elvis Presley goes to prison for accidentally killing a man in a bar fight, and is signed to a musical contract following his performance on a TV show... Read more

The Mysterians (1957)

6.3/10
Director: Ishiro Honda
Starring: Momoko Kochi, Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Sus...

'They've come to take our women!' Centuries after the destruction of their planet, the titular aliens land on Earth, install an impregnable dome by a... Read more