The films that failed on arrival and conquered on video, midnight screenings, and word of mouth. Cult classic reviews for the movies audiences refused to let die.
ComedyRoman Polanski's affectionate Hammer parody is more gorgeous gothic fairy tale than laugh-out-loud comedy. The Fearless Vampire Killers earns its 6.5 as a beautiful, uneven oddity, a horror comedy that is more interested in atmosphere than in jokes and lands…
Cult ClassicA drifter discovers sunglasses that reveal the wealthy elite are alien creatures controlling humanity through subliminal messaging. They Live is John Carpenter's 1988 American science-fiction horror film depicting a drifter who discovers sunglasses that reveal the wealthy elite are alien…
ComedySam Raimi's part-remake, part-sequel where Ash returns to the cabin and battles increasingly absurd demonic forces. Evil Dead II is Sam Raimi's 1987 American horror-comedy film operating as part remake and part sequel to his 1981 The Evil Dead, depicting…
Body HorrorLovecraft's 'Herbert West, Re-Animator' serial about a Miskatonic University medical student who develops a serum that revives the recently deceased with violent and unpredictable results. Re-Animator is one of the most successful Lovecraft adaptations ever produced and one of the…
CheerleaderMichael Lehmann's 1988 dark teen comedy. Winona Ryder, Christian Slater murder high school cliques.
CheerleaderGreydon Clark's 1977 American horror film about a high school cheerleading squad kidnapped by Satanic cultists for a sacrifice ritual. Satan's Cheerleaders is Greydon Clark's 1977 American horror film depicting a high school cheerleading squad whose bus breaks down on…
Cult Classic
ComedyMike Judge's 1999 cubicle satire. Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Stephen Root as Milton.
AdventureBuckaroo Banzai is one of the strangest films Twentieth Century Fox released in the 1980s and one of the most beloved cult artifacts of that decade. Peter Weller plays Buckaroo Banzai, a neurosurgeon, particle physicist, samurai, race car driver, and…
AdventureBarbarella is the late-1960s French-Italian science fiction sex comedy that became a cult artifact more for its visual identity than for its plot. Jane Fonda plays Barbarella, a forty-first-century astronaut sent to recover the scientist Durand-Durand, whose Positronic Ray weapon…
ActionEscape from New York is John Carpenter's dystopian action film and one of the foundational works of 1980s post-apocalyptic cinema. Carpenter directed and co-wrote with Nick Castle.
ActionTron is the foundational computer graphics film and one of the earliest mainstream features to use computer-generated imagery as a significant production. Bonnie MacBird co-wrote with Lisberger.
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