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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".

Attack Of The 50 Ft. Woman (1958)

3.8/10
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers

Brilliantly terrible sci-fi with some of the worst special effects of all time, involving Nancy Archer (Allison Hayes) a wealthy woman fresh from the... Read more

Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes! (1977)

4.6/10
Director: John De Bello
Starring: David Miller, Sharon Taylor, George Wilson

A tomato farm downwind from the local nuclear reactor grows intelligent, monster-sized vegetables (or are they fruits?) that run amok and threaten Sou... Read more

Baadasssss! (2003)

7.4/10
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Starring: Joy Bryant, Ossie Davis, David Alan Grier, Nia Long, Paul Rodriguez, Saul Rubine...

Based on a true story, this is actor/writer/director Mario Van Peebles' candid portrait of his father Melvin's struggle as a young, black director dur... Read more

Baby Geniuses (1999)

2.6/10
Director: Bob Clark
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, Dom DeLuise, R...

Scientist hold talking, super-intelligent babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin... Read more

Bachelor Party (1984)

6.3/10
Director: Neal Israel
Starring: Tom Hanks, Adrian Zmed, Tawny Kitaen, William Tepper

This outrageous look at one man's final moments of bachelorhood stars Tom Hanks as Rick, reluctant recipient of a bachelor bash given by a group of fr... Read more

Bad Boy Bubby (1993)

7.4/10
Director: Rolf de Heer
Starring: Claire Benito, Nicholas Hope, Ralph Cotterill, Carmel Johnson

Locked in his room for 35 years (no TV or Radio here) as not much more than a sex slave, Bubby's perception of the universe is not extensive. Through... Read more

Bad Boy Bubby ( Blu-ray ) (1993)

7.4/10
Director: Rolf de Heer
Starring: Claire Benito, Nicholas Hope, Ralph Cotterill, Carmel Johnson

Locked in his room for 35 years (no TV or Radio here) as not much more than a sex slave, Bubby's perception of the universe is not extensive. Through... Read more

Bad Lieutenant (1992)

7.1/10
Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Frankie Thorn, Paul Hipp, Victor Argo

About a morally bankrupt cop (Harvey Keitel) who starts to pull himself out of the abyss when he investigates the rape of a nun who refuses to press c... Read more

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

6.6/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Brad Dourif, Fairuza Balk, Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, Eva Mendes, Alvin 'Xzibit'...

Neither a strict remake of nor a sequel to Abel Ferrara's lurid 1992 crime drama, Werner Herzog's outrageous, blackly comic procedural is its own odd... Read more

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans ( Blu-ray ) (2009)

6.6/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Brad Dourif, Fairuza Balk, Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, Eva Mendes, Alvin 'Xzibit'...

Neither a strict remake of nor a sequel to Abel Ferrara's lurid 1992 crime drama, Werner Herzog's outrageous, blackly comic procedural is its own odd... Read more