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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".

Under the Cherry Moon (1986)

4.9/10
Director: Prince
Starring: Jerome Benton, Prince, Kristin Scott Thomas, Steven Berkoff, Alexandra Stewart,...

Prince stars as Christopher Tracy, an American musician on the French Riviera, living off the bank accounts of rich, bored divorcees. The next object... Read more

Under The Silver Lake (2018)

6.5/10
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough

Sam (Andrew Garfield) is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah (Riley Keough), frolicking in his apartment's swimming poo... Read more

Under the Skin (2013)

6.3/10
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Scarlett Johansson

An unnamed woman, played by Scarlett Johansson with unshakably alluring menace, cruises the streets of Scotland in a cargo van looking for men. She's... Read more

Under the Skin ( Blu-ray ) (2013)

6.3/10
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Scarlett Johansson

An unnamed woman, played by Scarlett Johansson with unshakably alluring menace, cruises the streets of Scotland in a cargo van looking for men. She's... Read more

Upgrade (2018)

7.6/10
Director: Leigh Whannell
Starring: Melanie Vallejo, Harrison Gilbertson, Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel

A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure -- an artifici... Read more

Upgrade (Blu-Ray) (2018)

7.6/10
Director: Leigh Whannell
Starring: Melanie Vallejo, Harrison Gilbertson, Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel

A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure -- an artifici... Read more

Used Cars (1980)

6.8/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham

Outrageous comedy about used car dealer rivalry. 'A classic screwball fantasy - a neglected modern comedy that's like a more restless and visually hig... Read more

Valhalla Rising (2009)

6/10
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen

Mads Mikkelsen stars in this brutal Viking adventure as One-Eye, a mute warrior with supernatural strength who has been held prisoner for years by the... Read more

Valley of the Dolls (1967)

5.9/10
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, Lee Grant

Based on the phenomenal best-seller by Jacqueline Susann, this melodrama dares to tell the truth about the seamy underside of Hollywood and the status... Read more

Vampire's Kiss (1988)

5.9/10
Director: Robert Bierman
Starring: Maria Conchita Alonso, Nicolas Cage, Kasi Lemmons, Jennifer Beals

A bizarre black comedy (from the writer of 'After Hours'), with a suitably demented Nicolas Cage ('Raising Arizona') playing an arrogant, pretentious... Read more