Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Cult: 1325 Films to Rent
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956)
- Dir. Ed Wood Jnr.
Feat. Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Bela Lugosi
- Ed Wood's 'masterpiece' is renowned as the worst film ever made, but in truth any film this enjoyable can't be so bad. Zilch production values and…
Rock Rock Rock (1956)
- Dir. Will Price
Feat. Tuesday Weld
- Tuesday Weld (at 13) schemes to get herself a strapless gown for the prom, surrounded by an impressive array of rock'n'rollers both black and white,…
Shake, Rattle and Rock! (1956)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Michael Connors, Lisa Gaye, Douglas Dumbrille…
- Shaky but endearing pop relic in which a group of concerned adults try to ban rock 'n' roll music in their town believing that it promotes juvenile…
Violent Years, The (1956)
- Dir. William J Morgan
Feat. Mamie Van Doren
- Scripted by Ed Wood Jnr (PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE) this tawdry 50s juvenile–delinquent pic features Mamie Van Doren leading a gang of…
Written On the Wind (1956)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack…
- Douglas Sirk’s strident Texas oil–dynasty drama about a pair of spoiled and wayward heirs to the family fortune and the…
Bettie Page - Teaserama (Betty Page) (1955)
- Dir. Irving Klaw
Feat. Betty Page
- Latterday fetish icon Betty Page dominates the screen in this near plotless curiousity from the mid–1950s: a loosely organised series of…
Bride of the Monster (1955)
- Dir. Ed Wood Jnr.
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson
- Mad scientist Bela Lugosi and hulking monster Tor Johnson abduct passers–by in a scheme to create a super–race. Super–bad acting,…
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin
- High–camp spectacle about treachery in ancient Egypt during the building of the great Pyramid has procured something of a cult following, with…
Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
- Dir. Charles Laughton
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
- A disturbing yet poetic masterpiece in which Robert Mitchum is mighty mean as a psychopathic preacher pursuing two runaways across the American…
Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955)
- Dir. Franklin Adreon
Feat. Phyllis Coates, Myron Healey, Arthur Space
- Cult movie serial which reworks stock footage from 1941's JUNGLE GIRL. A giant crayfish monster terrorises the African jungle and it's up to the…