Subgenre Sampler
      Cult: 1365 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
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…
 
Quatermass Xperiment, The (The Creeping Unknown) (1955)
 
- Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner 
- Effective Hammer Films feature adaptation of the 1953 BBC sci–fi TV serial written by Nigel Kneale, in which an astronaut mysteriously returns…
 
Animal Farm (1954) 
- Dir. John Halas
 
- Animated adaptation of George Orwell's dark political satire keeps faith with the book, except for the optimistic ending.
 
Bettie Page - Varietease (Betty Page) (1954) 
- Dir. Irving Klaw
Feat. Betty Page 
- More titillating footage of one of the greatest 'underground' pinup girls of the 1950s – Betty Page – here taking part in a variety show…