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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".

Village of the Giants (1965)

3.3/10
Director: Bert I Gordon
Starring: Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Ron Howard, Beau Bridges

Eleven year-old Genius (future successful director 'Ronny' Howard) mixes up some super-goo with his chemistry set, turning cats and ducks into giants.... Read more

Visioneers (2008)

6.1/10
Director: Jared Drake
Starring: James LeGros, Mia Maestro, Missi Pyle, Judy Greer, Zach Galifianakis

In this satirical comedy, our hero George Washington Winsterhammerman (Zach Galifianakis) works as a level-three 'tunt' at the Jeffers Corporation, th... Read more

Viva La Muerte (1971)

Director: Fernando Arrabal
Starring: Anouk Ferjac, Nuria Espert

This is an extremely violent, gory and surreal meditation on the life of a young lad during the time of the Spanish Civil War, as he attempts to find... Read more

Vixen (1968)

5.8/10
Director: Russ Meyer
Starring: Erica Gavin, Harrison Page, Gart Pillsbury

Russ Meyer is Producer, Scriptwriter, Cameraman and Director of this bizarre number concerning a voluptuous young woman called Vixen (Erica Gavin) who... Read more

Voodoo Woman (1957)

4/10
Director: Edward L Cahn
Starring: Marla English, Tom Conway, Touch Connors

Science meets sorcery in this A.I.P. shocker that features Tom Conway as a mad doctor who uses a voodoo spell to turn beautiful Maria English into a h... Read more

Vulgaria (2012)

6.3/10
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
Starring: Chapman To, Ronald Cheng, Dada Chan

To Wai-cheung (Chapman To), a long-time film producer, has yet to produce anything resembling a hit. Beset by financial troubles, he agrees to recreat... Read more

Walkabout (1971)

7.7/10
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: David Gulpilil, Jenny Agutter, Lucien John

Lost in the Australian Outback after their father takes his own life, two young Brits are found by an aboriginal teenager who shows them how to surviv... Read more

Walkabout (Blu-Ray) (1971)

7.7/10
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: David Gulpilil, Jenny Agutter, Lucien John, John Meillon

Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist (John Meillon) takes his teenage daughter (Jenny Agutter) and 6-year-old son (Lucien John) into the... Read more

Walker (1988)

6.5/10
Director: Alex Cox
Starring: Ed Harris, Marlee Matlin, Richard Masur, Peter Boyle

Alex Cox directed this hallucinatory bio-pic starring Ed Harris as 19th-century American adventurer William Walker, who abandoned a series of careers... Read more

War of the Colossal Beast (1958)

3.3/10
Director: Bert I Gordon
Starring: Sally Fraser, Dean Parkin, Roger Pace, Charles Stewart

A frightened young man races his truck down a dirt road, constantly looking back in terror. He is being pursued by some unseen menace! Undoubtedly it... Read more