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".
Bliss (2019)
5.7/10
Starring: Rhys Wakefield
A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory... Read more
Blood Feast (1963)
5/10
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Starring: Connie Mason, Mel Arnold, Thomas Wood
Herschell Gordon Lewis invented the modern gore film with this 1963 low budget thriller about a mad Egyptian caterer who uses human victims to spice u... Read more
Blood for Dracula (1974)
6.2/10
Director: Paul Morrissey
Starring: Vittorio De Sica, Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro
A.k.a. 'Andy Warhol's Dracula'. Count Dracula travels from Romania to Italy in search of virgin's blood in this campy, sexy and gory version of the va... Read more
Blood for Dracula (Blu-ray) (1974)
6.2/10
Director: Paul Morrissey
Starring: Vittorio De Sica, Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro
A.k.a. 'Andy Warhol's Dracula'. Count Dracula travels from Romania to Italy in search of virgin's blood in this campy, sexy and gory version of the va... Read more
Blood of Dracula (1957)
3.9/10
Director: Herbert L Strock
Starring: Sandra Harrison, Louise Lewis, Gail Ganley, Jerry Blaine
Six weeks after her mother dies, Nancy Perkins' father remarries. The stepmother then sends Nancy (Sandra Harrison) off to a school for girls where th... Read more
Blood Simple (1983)
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M Emmet Walsh
A critically acclaimed thriller set in rural Texas combines chilling suspense with offbeat black humour. Double and triple crosses build to a blood-cu... Read more
Bloodsucking Freaks (1975)
4.8/10
Director: Joel Reed
Starring: Seamus O'Brien, Niles McMaster, Viju Krim, Luis De Jesus, Dan Fauci
Cult classic cannibal 'comedy' about the sadistic Sardu, a man who stages elaborate S & M torture shows in an exclusive New York theatre. What the un... Read more
Blow Out (1981)
7.4/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, John Travolta, Dennis Franz
In the enthralling 'Blow Out', brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma, John Travolta gives one of his greatest performances, as a movie sound-effects m... Read more
Blow Out ( Blu-ray ) (1981)
7.4/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Dennis Franz, John Lithgow, John Travolta, Nancy Allen
In the enthralling 'Blow Out', brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma, John Travolta gives one of his greatest performances, as a movie sound-effects m... Read more
Blow-up (1966)
7.6/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings
Michelangelo Antonioni's close-up of Swinging Sixties London. David Hemmings plays a master photographer who explores the city twenty-four hours a day... Read more