great cult movies

Ti West got his first breakthrough in “The House of the Devil”, a subtle, slow-burn horror film with a flavor of nostalgic elements. West’s film was celebrated by the critics and earned him lots of fans in the horror community. West kept making horror films. He says his sensibilities are not outrageously commercial but also […]

In 1998 Martin Scorsese compiled a list of his favourite guilty pleasures for Film Comment magazine. Included with them were a further hundred films, termed his “random pleasures”. These were grouped into fifty he considers “unguilty [but] something spoils them”, and fifty which on the whole are “not good” but still “worthwhile”. Widely regarded as […]

Movies designated with cult status draw special audiences because they’re so very different and so much more provocative than mainstream movie fare. The cult film experience differs from conventional cinema by appealing to unique sensibilities, be it the counterculture, genre films, or niche designs that joyfully indulge in taboo content and proscribed subject matter that […]

Shocks… Thrills… Chills! The exploitation movie has been around for a long, long time. There’s even reason to believe that Thomas Edison might have been an O.G. pioneer in the field: his movie The Execution Of Mary Stuart, among the first ever made, features Mary, Queen Of Scots getting her head chopped off and literally […]

Whatever one’s age may be, it’s the same for everyone that an endless stream of films are waiting to be discovered. Considering the age of cinema, the number of masterpieces that have been created and forgotten because of the transitory nature of time is unanticipated, by even the greatest fortune teller. There is a pile […]

Cult films. Two words that inspire a world of weirdness and unique visions. Sometimes, the results are accidental, like The Room or Birdemic. Others garner followings on their bizarreness and originality alone, like Eraserhead and Freaks. The rise of the internet and the unbounded connectivity has brought legions of fans together and opened up innumerable […]