Cult
see all genres ›Setting aside “good taste” for better flavor, the cult film gains its name from the cult-like following it can inspire. Ritualistic midnight screenings are historically crucial ingredients for a film cult to develop. Cohering around particular directors, actors, genres and subcultures, the cult film manages to entertain via nostalgia long after the “use by” date has passed.
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Genres / Cult
SUB-GENRES · Camp · Exploitation · Hyperreality · Psychotronic · Schlock
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Acid Redux
When commissioned to make a Futurist-inspired film for the New York Biennial, George Kuchar responded in his characteristic way with this madcap vignette. Knocked out in a weekend (filmed Friday and edited Saturday), ACID REDUX was shot with his Electrographic Sinema class at the San Francisco Art Institute and features his...Start your free trial to watch -
The Acrobatic Fly
The challenge of the very slow lens required by F. Percy Smith for macro-photography, coupled with the insensitive film stock of the day, meant that so much light was required for exposure that the poor flies quickly succumbed to the heat. As Smith had glued their wings so that they could not fly away,...Start your free trial to watch -
Africa in Flames
In the darkest region of Africa, the struggle for survival between man and beast has raged since the dawn of time. Jungle infant Boru is orphaned after his mother, cast into the wilderness, is devoured by a ravenous lion. Adopted by nomadic chieftain Shaikh Asgar, Bory and Asgar's son Nikitu grow up to be...Start your free trial to watch
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After the Ball
Georges Méliès' fantasy films and his re-enactments of current events shared an important quality: both offered audiences images they could not have seen outside the cinema. There's something of this in the appeal of a pornographic or erotic film as well. Featuring a scenario so trite it has become timeless (a woman removes...Start your free trial to watch -
Alice, Sweet Alice
Also known as COMMUNION and HOLY TERROR, this very Catholic horror movie won little attention upon its original release and then a bit more when re-released to cash in on child-model-turned-actress Brooke Shields' success in 1978's big- budget PRETTY BABY. But it took longer still to be appreciated as one...Start your free trial to watch
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Animal Room
Set in the future, the film focuses on Arnold Mosk (Neil Patrick Harris), a high school student caught abusing drugs. When he's put in a controversial isolation program nicknamed the "Animal Room," his life is threatened. It's a classroom where no rules apply. Arnold is terrorized by a gang leader, Doug Van Housen (Matthew...Start your free trial to watch -
Anita
A young girl named Anita (Christina Lindberg) suffers from psychological problems and sexual promiscuity due to her troubled childhood and uncaring parents. She meets Erik (Stellan Skarsgard), a student at a local university, who tries to help her through her troubles by analyzing her past relationships. After revealing her...Start your free trial to watch -
Apple
"In the stillness and the dark before time ever began," opens this faux-trailer for the 1992 film APPLE, "there was a different incantation." Maverick filmmaker Damon Packard, self-described herein as "the hideous director of DAWN OF AN EVIL MILLENNIUM," tells the story of Apple, an elfin girl who matures into a sorceress of...Start your free trial to watch
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la ardilla
LA ARDILLA finds filmmaker Jim Finn in a brief routine with a furry friend, paired with a duet by Juan Gabriel and Rocío Durcal. Writes Senses of Cinema, "Finn beckons tenderly, patiently, and finally has you, and the squirrel, nibbling from his seductively pursed lips."Start your free trial to watch -
Attention! Wolves!
With shades of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER, this unusual Soviet animation blends symbolic allegory and documentary photographs to warn against the persistent threat of fascism. A feral boy is found in the woods the same day that the Nuremberg Trials’ death sentences are carried out....Start your free trial to watch -
Attraction
One of the great taboo-smashers of the late '60s, directed by Tinto Brass, featuring interracial affairs, anti-Vietnam statements, violence versus sex. ATTRACTION (NEROSUBIANCO) will stun anyone expecting a standard softcore European sex flick as released originally in the US as THE ARTFUL PENETRATION OF BARBARA. Brace...Start your free trial to watch
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Au Pair Girls
Eager to capitalize on the Euro sex film trend, but not quite ready to delve into pure pornography, British filmmakers of the early 1970s crafted their own genre of tongue-in-cheek sex spoofs. Helmed by veteran director Val Guest (THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT, EXPRESSO BONGO), AU PAIR GIRLS represents slap-and-tickle cinema at...Start your free trial to watch -
Azole Dkmuntch
At an open microphone performance, a man in a blue tuxedo claiming to be named Azole Dkmuntch heaps transgression on transgression in his bargain-basement retelling of his clearly ludicrous but deceptively poignant personal history. He rips and roars though a bevy of outre afflictions from AIDS to spousal abuse to heart...Start your free trial to watch
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Babes in the Woods
Oh those beautiful babes! Follow three gorgeous young ladies as they go to camp, finding plenty of mischief along the way. These girls aren't ashamed of their beautiful bodies and show them off at every opportunity! Watch the girls as they tantalize a poor gas station owner, bathe in a waterfall and even...Start your free trial to watch -
Bad
A possible prelude to NATURAL BORN KILLERS, executive producer Andy Warhol's BAD is as low as it goes. Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house but makes extra money by providing ruthless women to do hit jobs. K.T. is a parasite and contacts Hazel looking for work when he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a...Start your free trial to watch -
Bad Biology
Acclaimed director Frank Henenlotter is back with a twisted tale of love and weirdness. Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet and the bonding of these two very unusual human beings ends in an explosive and...Start your free trial to watch



