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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Cuban Rebel Girls
No one would likely ever claim that CUBAN REBEL GIRLS is a good film. The title, alone, should be a bit of a giveaway. But it is a fascinating story, regardless. This curious effort was the final film by actor (and, in this case, writer) Errol Flynn. Flynn portrays a war correspondent in Cuba intent on...Start your free trial to watch -
Curse of the Voodoo
Big game hunter Mike Stacey (Bryant Haliday) leads a safari in the African jungle. After shooting and killing a lion, a tribe of lion worshippers place a curse on Stacey, vowing to kill him by witchcraft. The curse follows Mike back to London where it begins to take a terrible toll. After speaking with an...Start your free trial to watch -
Cyclone
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and the few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive. That is‚ until the rescue planes...Start your free trial to watch
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Dark Arc
From the director of the 90’s cult hit THE LAST BIG THING, comes a modern comedy noir about love, lust, art and the power of the image in today’s culture. DARK ARC tells the story of Viscount Laris, an eccentric modern-day dandy obsessed by the power of art and visual imagery to mold the behavior and psychology of the...Start your free trial to watch -
Dark Night of the Scarecrow
When young Marylee Williams (Tonya Crowe) is found viciously mauled, all hell breaks loose in her small rural town. Officious postmaster Otis P. Hazelrigg (Charles Durning) leads a gang of bigots in pursuit of the suspect: her mentally challenged friend Bubba Ritter (Larry Drake). Finding him hiding inside...Start your free trial to watch -
Dark Star
In the mid twenty-first century, mankind has reached a point in its technological advances to enable colonization of the far reaches of the universe. DARK STAR is a futuristic scout ship traveling far in advance of colony ships. Armed with Exponential Thermosteller Bombs, it prowls the darkest reaches of space on a mission to...Start your free trial to watch
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Darkness Light Darkness
A corporeal and Kafkaesque claymation from Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer. Two hands find each other in a room and begin molding themselves into a human figure. Different body parts come knocking, some more insistently than others, until the small space is stuffed with the finished man. Whether viewed as...Start your free trial to watch
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Deadly Snail vs. Kung Fu Killer
In this kung fu fantasy, a daring duel of powers between the fairies finds the young mortal Cheung rescuing the Sky Mussel Fairy. His bravery is not repaid, however, as Cheung is driven out of his home by his uncle. Now Cheung must struggle to stay alive in a world of gods and demons with only his kung fu...Start your free trial to watch -
Deadly Sweet
Starring 17-year-old beauty contest winner Ewa Aulin (CANDY), and Jean-Louis Trintignant (A MAN AND A WOMAN), DEADLY SWEET is a most unusual crime story. In the film, a French actor finds his business contact lying murdered on the floor. Rather than call the police, he decides to protect the young woman at the scene and nail...Start your free trial to watch -
Death Kappa
When military experiments go haywire and trigger an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic proportions. A monster arrives in the midst of the nuclear fallout and Japan's defenses are helpless against it. Mankind's only savior is an irradiated water goblin from Japanese folklore called the Death Kappa. The two rival...Start your free trial to watch
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Death of a Snowman
Master criminals meet violent death in Johannesburg, South Africa, a city wrought with organized crime. Steve Chaka (Ken Gampu), an ambitious news reporter, learns that these deaths are from the hands of an all-black vigilante group known only as “War on Crime." Teaming up with Lt. Ben Deel (Nigel...Start your free trial to watch -
Debauchery
The sexy Ryôko Watanabe stars as Ami, a jaded housewife who pitches herself, body and soul, into the Tokyo decadence of the decade in an attempt to pep up her marriage. She secretly joins the elite “Madame Machiko Society Club” to experiment with discrete sex games and the thrill of making love to anonymous men. The sexual...Start your free trial to watch
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Delinquent Schoolgirls
Our protagonists in this low-budget cinematic carrion are escapees from an insane asylum! One is an ex-baseball player turned rapist, another is gay and the ringleader is a hack impressionist. When they stumble upon an all-girls school, antisocial behavior with these siliconed "students" ensues... but with...Start your free trial to watch -
Desperate Teenage Lovedolls
DESPERATE TEENAGE LOVEDOLLS chronicles the rise and fall of Bunny, Kitty, and Patch (Hilary Rubens, Jennifer Schwartz, and Janet Housden), three teenage runaways who form an all-girl rock group, The Lovedolls. Their rise to fame from a nowhere, drug-filled street life, is overnight thanks to the sleazy...Start your free trial to watch -
Destroy All Rational Thought
The great Beat Generation experiments took place in Tangier, the Moroccan city where William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and the Moroccan painter Hamri taught Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg how to live outside the law. This documentary features one of the last interviews with Burroughs and...Start your free trial to watch




