Cult Classics

Cult Classics

A world of legendary and infamous alternative entertainment awaits in Cult Classics, a collection of unmissable, iconic and, sometimes utterly insane films. Have you seen them all?

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  • Massacre At Central High

    1976 • United States • Directed by Renee Daalder

    When David (Derrel Maury) arrives at Central High, he discovers it is lorded over by a gang of bullies who rule through intimidation and violence. David's friend Mark (Andrew Stevens, THE FURY) encourages him to join this dominant clique, but inst...

  • Don't Torture a Duckling

    Movie

    1972 • Italy • Directed by Lucio Fulci

    From Lucio Fulci, the godfather of gore (City of the Living Dead, The House by the Cemetery), comes one of the most powerful and unsettling giallo thrillers ever produced: his 1972 masterpiece, Don't Torture a Duckling.

    When the sleepy rural village of Acc...

  • The Invitation

    Movie

    2016 • United States • Directed by Karyn Kusama

    In this taut psychological thriller by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Jennifer's Body), the tension is palpable when Will shows up to his ex-wife Eden and new husband David's dinner party. The pair's tragic past haunts an equally spooky present: Amid Ede...

  • Messiah of Evil

    Movie

    1973 • United States • Directed by Willard Huyck

    A woman arrives in a sleepy seaside town after receiving unsettling letters from her father, only to discover the town is under the influence of a strange cult that weeps tears of blood and hunger for human flesh.

  • Zombie Holocaust

    Movie

    1980 • Italy • Directed by Marino Girolami

    It sparked riots on 42nd Street, spawned a generation of gorehounds on VHS and forever set an insane standard for Italian zombie/cannibal carnage worldwide: Ian McCulloch (ZOMBIE), Alexandra Delli Colli (THE NEW YORK RIPPER), Sherry Buchanan (TENTACLES)...

  • Torso
    Movie + 9 extras

    Torso

    Movie + 9 extras

    1973 • Italy • Directed by Sergio Martino

    A talented and versatile journeyman, director Sergio Martino (The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key) lent his talents to multiple genres across his long and varied career, but is undoubtedly best known for hi...

  • The Addiction

    Movie

    1995 • United States • Directed by Abel Ferrara

    The mid-nineties were a fertile period for the vampire movie. Big-name stars such as Tom Cruise and Eddie Murphy flocked to genre, as did high-caliber filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, veterans Wes Craven and John Landis, independents Michael A...

  • The Reflecting Skin

    Movie

    1990 · United Kingdom and Canada · Directed by Philip Ridley

    An instant cult classic when it premiered to sold out screenings at Cannes in 1990, THE REFLECTING SKIN is a darkly humorous, nightmarish vision of the American dream. Growing up in the 1950s in small-town Idaho, 8-year-old Seth and hi...

  • Tetsuo - The Iron Man

    Movie

    A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of dis...

  • Eaten Alive
    Movie + 4 extras

    Eaten Alive

    Movie + 4 extras

    1976 • United States • Directed by Tobe Hooper

    Nearly a decade before he donned Freddy Krueger's famous red and green sweater, horror icon Robert Englund delivered a supremely sleazy performance in Eaten Alive another essay in taut Southern terror from Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chain Sa...

  • Action U.S.A.

    Movie

    1989 • United States • Directed by John Stewart

    Starring stuntmen with no fear, you have never seen action go this hard before!

    Billy Ray steals a cache of priceless diamonds from Frankie and unleashes the crime boss’s fury. When Billy is killed, his girlfriend Carmen and the diamonds are chase...

  • Rampo Noir
    Movie + 5 extras

    Rampo Noir

    Movie + 5 extras

    2005 • Japan • Directed by Akio Jissôji, Atsushi Kaneko, Hisayasu Satô & Suguru Takeuchi

    Four filmmakers from completely different backgrounds bring their radically personal takes to the stories of Japan’s celebrated master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, Blind Beast).

    ...

  • Miami Connection

    Movie

    1987 • United States • Directed by Richard Park and Y.K. Kim

    Motorcycle ninjas tighten their grip on Florida’s narcotics trade, viciously annihilating anyone who dares move in on their turf. Martial arts rock band Dragon Sound have had enough, and embark on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crush...

  • Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

    Movie

    Sequel to 'Tetsuo', this time has the Iron Man transforming into a cyber-kinetic gun when a gang of vicious skinheads kidnap his son. When the skinheads capture him, they begin to experiment on him... speeding up the mutative process!

  • The Church

    Movie

    1989 • Italy • Directed by Michele Soavi

    For his second feature film - and first full collaboration with co-writer/producer/mentor Dario Argento - writer/director Michele Soavi unleashes a "mind-blowing" (Bloody Disgusting) "masterwork" (DVD Drive-In): In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass gra...

  • Incubus
    Movie + 7 extras

    Incubus

    Movie + 7 extras

    1966 • United States • Directed by Leslie Stevens

    EVIL HAS NEVER BEEN SO SEDUCTIVE.

    It is often said that films about the Devil are cursed with bad luck, but Leslie Stevens’ Incubus might be the most cursed of them all. By the time it premiered in 1966, two of its stars had tragically taken th...

  • The One-Armed Swordsman

    Movie + 11 extras

    1967 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chang Cheh

    Even non-kung-fu lovers will be mesmerised by Jimmy Wang Yu in the role that made him a superstar. As the mysterious swordsman whose one arm is more powerful than his two-armed rivals, Wang and director Chang Cheh revolutionised the Hong Kong action genr...

  • The Sect

    Movie

    1991 • Italy • Directed by Michele Soavi

    The Sect, also known as The Devils Daughter, the third feature by director Michele Soavi - his second collaboration with producer/co-writer Dario Argento - can now be experienced like never before: As a global satanic cabal grows in ferocity, an unwitting...

  • Beast From Haunted Cave

    Movie

    1959 • United States • Directed by Monte Hellman

    "Screaming young girls sucked into a labyrinth of horror by a blood-starved ghoul from Hell." So said the original advertising for Beast from Haunted Cave. Directed by Monte Hellman, filmed in the Black Hills of South Dakota, this feature is about...

  • The Psychic

    Movie

    1977 • Italy • Directed by Lucio Fulci

    It's been called "amazing" (Oh, The Horror!), "classic" (The Geek Show) and "a magnificent film" (Diabolique Magazine). It remains writer/director Lucio Fulci's ultimate giallo masterpiece: Jennifer O'Neill (SCANNERS) stars as a woman tormented by violent v...

  • Vamp
    Movie

    Vamp

    Movie

    1986 • United States • Directed by Richard Wenk

    Two fraternity pledges head to a seedy part of town to find some entertainment for their college friends but are faced with bloodthirsty vampires!

    Keith (Chris Makepeace, Meatballs) and AJ (Robert Rusler, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s ...

  • Nightmare

    Movie

    1981 • United States • Directed by Romano Scavolini

    When a homicidal mental patient flees an experimental drug program, he'll leave a 5-day trail of psychosexual carnage from the peep shows of 42nd Street to the gore-soaked shores of Florida. Written and directed by Romano Scavolini, this "devas...

  • Creepshow 2

    Movie

    1987 · United States · Directed by Michael Gornick

    Titans of terror George A. Romero and Stephen King deliver yet another selection of blood-curdling tales in Creepshow 2, the follow-up to the 1982 horror classic. In "Old Chief Wood'nhead", a group of young hoodlums face retribution from an unli...

  • House
    Movie + 2 extras

    House

    Movie + 2 extras

    1986 · United States · Directed by Steve Miner

    ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!
    Step into the House of horror! From the team that brought you Friday the 13th comes one of the all-time ’80s horror greats, at long-last right here on ARROW!
    William Katt (Carrie) stars as Roger Cobb, a divorced horror noveli...