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".
Beach Blanket Bingo / How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
Director: William Asher
Starring: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Deborah Walley, Harvey Lembeck, John Ashley,...
The best of the long-running 'Beach Party' series, this surfin' singin' sandfest has Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) riding h... Read more
Beastie Boys Anthology (2000)
The Beastie Boys are among the most influential groups of the last two decades. As their music has opened hip-hop to a wider audience and changed the... Read more
Beat The Devil (1954)
6.6/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre
An audacious offbeat comedy with Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida and Peter Lorre, and screenplay by Truman Capote, about a motley group of petty th... Read more
Bedazzled (1967)
7/10
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch, Eleanor Bron
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's update of the Faust legend, in which timid short order cook Stanley Moon sells his soul to the devil (aka George Spiggot... Read more
Bedroom Mazurka (1970)
4.8/10
Director: John Hilbard
Starring: Ole Soeltoft, Birte Tove
Max (Ole Soeltoft) is the popular teacher at a public school who needs a new schoolmaster. In an effort to entice him to take the vacated position, th... Read more
Being John Malkovich (1999)
7.8/10
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Charlie Sheen, Orso...
What would you do if you found a doorway in your workplace that led, via a mysterious portal, into the head of actor John Malkovich, giving you the ch... Read more
Belief (2005)
4.8/10
Director: Phil Davison
Starring: Sara Georgie, Marguerite Juanico-Nielson, Anita Cumming, Amadeus Rainbow
From the director/writer of 'Kung Fu Vampire Killers' comes this black comedy horror that finds three friends on holiday in Central Otago who pick up... Read more
Bellflower (2011)
6.4/10
Director: Evan Glodell
Starring: Evan Glodell, Jessie Wiseman, Tyler Dawson, Rebekah Brandes, Vincent Grashaw
"Bellflower", a heartfelt story of obsession, friendship, young love gone awry, and an angst-ridden critique of and from Generation Y, is the debut fe... Read more
Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (1979)
Director: Russ Meyer
Starring: Francesca Natividad, Anne Marie, Ken Kerr, June Mack
Russ Meyer's final ode to the uber-bosom takes place in the fictional town of Rio Dio. With an hilariously deadpan 'plot' narration it follows the se... Read more
Beware! Children At Play (1989)
Director: Mik Cribben
Starring: Michael Robinson, Rich Hamilton, Robin Lilly
Childhood was once about jumping rope and playing hopscotch...but in a small backwoods town it's now about slitting throats and eating flesh! Lured i... Read more