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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".

Glen or Glenda (1953)

4.2/10
Director: Edward D Wood Jr
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Daniel Davis, Dolores Fuller

A.k.a. 'I Changed My Sex'. 'Beevare the beeg green dragin!' Thus we are warned by narrator Bela Lugosi who introduces us to the hopelessly confused Gl... Read more

House Of Wax / Mystery of the Wax Museum (1953)

Director: Andre De Toth, Michael Curtiz
Starring: Carolyn Jones, Phyllis Kirk, Frank Lovejoy, Vincent Price, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wr...

A spooky double feature DVD of "Mystery of the Wax Museum" and its remake, "House of Wax". "House of Wax" (1953) - Vincent Price stars as the demented... Read more

Dr Seuss' The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr T (1953)

Director: Roy Rowland
Starring: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Tommy Rettig

An unusual, rarely seen fantasy, co-scripted by Dr. Seuss following a young boy's nightmares about his tyrannical piano teacher. Hans Conried is the f... Read more

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

7.2/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell form a unique duo in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', one of the classic musicals of the 1950's. Featuring Marilyn's rendit... Read more

Radar Men from the Moon: Volume 2 (1952)

4.5/10
Director: Fred Brannon
Starring: George Wallace, Aline Towne, Roy Barcroft, William Blakewell, Clayton Moore

Chapters 7-12 (of 12). A string of mysterious bombings striking at our nation's defense systems precipitates the call for the invincible Commando Cody... Read more

Radar Men from the Moon: Volume 1 (1952)

4.5/10
Director: Fred Brannon
Starring: George Wallace, Aline Towne, Roy Barcroft, William Blakewell, Clayton Moore

Chapters 1-6 (of 12). A string of mysterious bombings striking at our nation's defense systems precipitates the call for the invincible Commando Cody... Read more

The Quiet Man (1952)

7.8/10
Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald

Galway in the 1920's. After a long and profitable career as a boxer, Irish-born American Sean Thornton returns to his home village to settle down and... Read more

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

8.3/10
Director: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Starring: Millard Mitchell, Jean Hagen, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Cyd...

Silent movies are giving way to Talking Pictures and a hoofer-turned-matinee idol (Gene Kelly) is caught in that bumpy transition, as well as his budd... Read more

The Bettie Page Collection (1951)

Director: Irving Klaw
Starring: Bettie Page

Throughout the 1950s Bettie Page ignited the world with her notorious bondage and burlesque poses. Today a cult icon, Page started her career performi... Read more

The Thing From Another World (1951)

7.2/10
Director: Christian Nyby
Starring: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Douglas Spencer

An American scientific expedition, set up in the North Pole, discovers a UFO crashed in the icecap. Inside is a frozen extra-terrestrial visitor. The... Read more