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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Chariots of the Gods
"Fifty million stars in our galaxy have the potential of supporting life forms capable of traveling to other planets," says world-renowned authority Erich von Daniken, whose film version of his best-selling book, CHARIOTS OF THE GODS, gives stunning visual proof that some form of life from outer space...Start your free trial to watch -
Chickens in the Shadows
In 1979, Toasters ‘N’ Moose formed, put out one album and disbanded. Now thirty years later, their old manager has brought them together again for a three-day tour of Northern California. Featuring their now classic hit “Taste the Biscuit” and live performances of many more great songs, our cameras follow...Start your free trial to watch -
Chiseen
An insane anthology of some of Hong Kong's biggest stars and friends performing stomach-churning, neck-breaking and (at times) some of the stupidest acts possible! This crazy combination of daredevil tribute to JACKASS and FEAR FACTOR will leave you cringing, crying and hysterical with disbelief! The main CHISEEN crew are...Start your free trial to watch
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Christmas Evil
Harry Stadling (Brandon Maggert) is obsessed with Christmas. In fact, he wants to be the authentic Santa Claus with a real suit, sleigh and reindeer. Ever since he learned the truth about Santa, he’s tried to make Christmas a reality. Growing up a toy maker, Harry is met with naysayers and critics who mock him for his...Start your free trial to watch -
Cinderella 2000
Drive-in movie legends Al Adamson and Sam Sherman (DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN) created some of the most outrageous, colorful and beloved 'B' pictures ever to hit the silver screen. Adamson's CINDERELLA 2000 takes the popular Brothers Grimm fairy tale into the farthest reaches of a way-out future and puts an Orwellian spin on...Start your free trial to watch -
Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession
Classic Japanese nunsploitation! In this Roman Pink feature, pretty Runa joins a convent when her stepsister steals her boyfriend. But to her surprise, Runa’s life of devout religious observance doesn’t exactly turn out the way she expects. Inside her cloistered domain, she discovers more perversity than...Start your free trial to watch
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Club of the Discarded
A warehouse full of disfigured mannequins springs to life as a streetcar rumbles by. They’re creatures of habit but the daily routine is overturned by the arrival of a new crate of punkish statues. Czech animator Jiří Barta's brilliant choreography holds a cracked mirror up to our own learned behaviors....Start your free trial to watch -
Coeds
Sexy Dagmar Lassander is the stunning new teacher that every male student yearns for. Her sultry looks virtually guarantee that every boy makes it to class. School attendance is way up and no longer is staying after school considered a punishment! Equally delicious Femi Benussi plays Alfredo Pea's voluptuous aunt who is...Start your free trial to watch
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Commissioner of Sewers
COMMISSIONER OF SEWERS combines interview and archival material, paintings and clips of William S. Burroughs' film appearances (including DECODER and Gus Van Sant's DRUGSTORE COWBOYS and THANKSGIVING PRAYER) with footage from Burroughs' last European reading in Berlin on May 9th, 1986 to create a witty and...Start your free trial to watch -
Commute
A key figure at the inception of San Francisco avant-garde film in the 1960s, Bruce Baillie finds beauty in the everyday, even challenging the notion that there is anything "avant-garde" about recording the world as it is. Baillie, in cartoonish drag, badly lipsynchs an overture to COMMUTE, mocking the viewer with the Cole...Start your free trial to watch
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Congolaise
This fascinating documentary was made in conjunction with a group of French scientists who spent fourteen months traveling along the Ogowe (aka Ogooue) River in central Africa, recording and studying timeless tribal lifestyles en route that were likely to confront modernity all too soon. The U.S. version starts out in typical...Start your free trial to watch
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Cowards Bend the Knee
Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE is jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger. In this twisted and poisoned wish-fulfillment, the mythomaniacal Guy Maddin casts 'himself' (actually, Darcy Fehr) as a hockey sniper made...Start your free trial to watch -
The Craven Sluck
An unhappy housewife seeks solace in the arms of a stranger in this underground film from Mike Kuchar. Adele (Floraine Connors) loathes her husband and fantasizes about starring in a movie called THE CRAVEN SLUCK. Bumping into a dashing suitor while out walking her dog, Adele thinks she may have finally...Start your free trial to watch -
The Crawling Hand
A manned rocket returning from the Moon is invaded by an alien life force that possesses the astronaut, maintains control of his disembodied hand after a California beach crash-landing and then imposes its will on a local medical student (Rod Lauren). Veteran players Kent Taylor, Richard Arlen, Alan Hale...Start your free trial to watch




