Psychotronic
see all genres ›Cult and exploitation flicks, genre trash, the eccentric, silly and surreal: film historian Michael Weldon invented the term "psychotronic" to encompass all of cinema's guilty pleasures.
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Asylum
Widely regarded as one of the best horror anthology films ever made, this serpentine chiller takes you deep inside the psyches of the patients of an experimental asylum. Under the guidance of a controversial psychiatrist who engages in some very strange practices, the patients of the Archway...Watch Movie
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The Bubble
THE BUBBLE is the science-fiction spine-tingler that shocked audiences! The eye-popping thrills and chills begin when a plane carrying pregnant Catherine and her husband Mark is forced to land in a mysterious remote town. The townspeople are quite strange, indeed: they repeat certain phrases and...Watch Movie
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In the Beginning Was the End
"De-evolution," the idea that mankind is on a downward spiral of regression, was initially espoused by deconstructionist rockers Devo as a joke until the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students at Kent State (including band members Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh),...Watch Movie
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Diary of a Nudist
When newspaper editor Arthur Sherwood stumbles upon a nudist camp while out hunting, he's so horrified by the sun lovers on display that he orders sexy ace reporter Stacey Taylor to enroll in the camp and expose its sinful ways. Stacey is so thrilled with the jaybird lifestyle...Watch Movie
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Inga
In 1968, Scandinavia was considered to be at the very forefront of sexual permissiveness, particularly onscreen. That was certainly okay by Brooklynite Joe Sarno, whose already considerable body of titillating softcore features tended more toward angst-filled psychodrama than their usual...Watch Movie
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Slaughter Hotel
Fernando di Leo's Italian exploitation horror cult classic stars a terminally creepy doctor (Klaus Kinski) at an asylum for suicidal and disturbed women. There's a team of strange doctors, unprofessional nurses and even a hunky gardener at these ladies' service to help them recover. In classic...Watch Movie
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Castle Freak
Stuart Gordon takes you on a pulse pounding roller coaster ride in CASTLE FREAK...one of the most macabre thrillers you'll ever experience. John Reilly and their daughter come face to face with terror when they travel to Italy to move into a castle they have inherited. They soon discover it is...Watch Movie
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In the Folds of the Flesh
In a genre defined by shocking violence and psychosexual kink, it remains perhaps the most over-the-top "giallo" in EuroCult history: former MGM starlet and doomed James Dean paramour Pier Angeli (two decades past her Golden Globe award for "Most Promising Newcomer" and just...Watch Movie
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Iguana
A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he escapes and takes up residence on a remote island. He makes himself ruler of the island and declares war on mankind. Anyone unfortunate enough to wind...Watch Movie
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Lurking Fear
John Martense has just been released from prison after serving five years for a crime he didn't commit. John wants to stay as far away from the wrong side of the law as he can, but family ties won't let him. John gets a message to see Specs, an old friend and undertaker with a taste for larceny....Watch Movie
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Tourist Trap
An eerie and deserted wax museum, Slausen's Lost Oasis, is the site for spine-tingling terror where four unsuspecting young travelers are lured into a very deadly "tourist trap." Slausen, is the reclusive and bizarre owner of this attraction, which is actually more like a macabre chamber of...Watch Movie
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Dr. Hawaii
DR. HAWAII is a film project made by Rock Ross and Michael Rudnick in the early 1970s while both were students at the San Francisco Art Institute. It is a unique sampler of all the various cameras, lenses, film equipment, techniques, filmstocks, editing, lighting, A/B/C/D roll FX, tricks and...Watch Movie
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Bad Girls Go to Hell
Gigi Darlene learns that bad girl's go to hell when she's attacked by a janitor with bad teeth, accidentally kills the guy then flees to New York... where her troubles really begin. With it's crazed plot, rampant nudity and predatory sex maniacs BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL is one of...Watch Movie
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Crucible of Terror
His name was Mike Raven, the popular Pirate Radio DJ and known occultist whose spectacularly failed attempt at '70s horror stardom marked one of the most bizarre careers in British movie history. In his most infamous role of all, Raven stars as an insane sculptor whose...Watch Movie
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They're Coming to Get You
Trapped in a feminist parable wrapped tightly within multiple layers of an Italian low-budget giallo, Jane, an English housewife, may or may not be 1) the victim of a conspiracy to kill her; 2) a central figure in an elaborate occult ritual; 3) prone to wild paranoid...Watch Movie
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Psychomania
The cult classic known as "the greatest British zombie biker movie ever made" returns with the ultimate full-throttle restoration. Nicky Henson, Beryl Reid and Academy Award®-winner George Sanders star in this beloved '70s mind-blower about a motorcycle gang who burst from their graves to crush a...Watch Movie
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Werewolf Woman
From notorious Italian exploitation filmmaker Rino Di Silvestro comes WEREWOLF WOMAN, a psychological, psychosexual, pseudo-shapeshiter shocker and a favorite of director Quentin Tarantino. In it, a mentally unstable young woman named Daniela fantasizes that she is the reincarnation of her...Watch Movie
