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".
This 2 disc version of The Who's psychedelic rock opera starring Oliver Reed, Ann-Margaret, Elton John and many more, contains a raft of new extras in... Read more
Commonly called the quintessential Astaire-Rogers musical, Top Hat is a breathless combination of glorious music, marvelous dance routines which seem... Read more
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
An eerie and deserted wax museum, Slausen's Lost Oasis, is the site for spine-tingling terror where four unsuspecting young travelers (including Tanya... Read more
In this low-budget British slasher a team of archaeologists lands on a fog-shrouded island, the site of a recent, horrific double murder. A private de... Read more
Nicolas Roeg's playfully beguiling mystery stars Theresa Russell as a bored young woman trapped in a loveless and childless marriage with model train... Read more
Twenty-one years after two zoologists disappeared in the jungle, detective Hamilton Hornee leads an expedition into daftest Africa to search for their... Read more
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles are about to get out of jail and this time, Julian vows to go straight, even open a legit business. Soon the boys will be ri... Read more
Taking their trailer trash antics to the big screen, Ricky, Julian and Bubbles have the perfect job lined up, the job to end all jobs - The Big Dirty.... Read more
A gritty, graphically painful and, at times, blackly funny look at a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh, Scotland focusing on one young man as he re... Read more