Cult
"cult" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor
Synopsis:
A group of cold case investigators stay at the Carmichael Manor, site of the grisly and unsolved murders of the Carmichael family back in the eighties. After four nights, the group was never heard from again. What is discovered on their footage is even more disturbing than anything found on the Hell House tapes.
Starring:
Bridget Rose Perrotta,
Destiny Leilani Brown,
James Liddell
Plot:
found footage,
house,
mockumentary,
mockumentary comedy,
hotel,
cult,
woods,
haunted manor,
murder mystery,
clown mask
...
#2
Babylon A.D.
Synopsis:
A veteran-turned-mercenary is hired to take a young woman with a secret from post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to New York City.
Starring:
Mark Strong,
Charlotte Rampling,
Lambert Wilson
Plot:
genetic,
veteran turned mercenary,
cult,
road movie,
armored car,
virgin birth,
flashback,
street violence,
scientist,
nun
...
#3
V/H/S/85
Synopsis:
Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five chilling tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a gore-filled journey through the grim underbelly of the forgotten 1980s.
Starring:
Alex Galick,
Anna Sundberg,
Chelsey Grant
#4
Fascination
Synopsis:
A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.
Starring:
Brigitte Lahaie,
Franca Maï,
Jean-Marie Lemaire
Plot:
castle,
knife,
cult,
thief,
aristocrat,
anemia,
gramophone,
eaten alive,
murder,
lens flare
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#5
Don't Worry Darling
Synopsis:
Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, a…
Starring:
Florence Pugh,
Gemma Chan,
Nick Kroll
#6
I'm a Virgo
Synopsis:
A coming-of-age joyride about Cootie, a 13ft tall young Black man in Oakland, CA. Having grown up hidden away, Cootie soon experiences the beauty and contradictions of the world for the first time. He forms friendships, finds love, navigates awkward situations, and encounters his idol, a real life superhero named The Hero.
Starring:
Carmen Ejogo,
Walton Goggins,
Kara Young
#7
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
Synopsis:
Explorer Bruce Wayne accidentally unleashes an ancient evil, and returns to Gotham after being away for two decades. There, Batman battles Lovecraftian supernatural forces and encounters allies and enemies such as Green Arrow, Ra's al Ghul, Mr. Freeze, Killer Croc, Two-Face and James Gordon.
Starring:
Navid Negahban,
David Dastmalchian,
John DiMaggio
#8
The Devil Conspiracy
Synopsis:
The hottest biotech company in the world has discovered they can clone history’s most influential people from the dead. Now, they are auctioning clones of Michelangelo, Galileo, Vivaldi, and others for tens of millions of dollars to the world’s ultra-rich. But when they steal the Shroud of Turin and clone the DNA of Jesus Christ, all hell breaks loose.
Starring:
James Faulkner,
Joe Anderson,
Spencer Wilding
Plot:
jesus christ,
supernatural horror,
cult,
wicked,
shroud of turin
...
#9
Videodrome
Synopsis:
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that th…
Starring:
Julie Khaner,
James Woods,
Jack Creley
Plot:
snuff film,
hallucination,
surrealism,
suicide,
satire,
cyberpunk,
cult,
body horror,
canuxploitation,
illegality
...
#10
The Wicker Man
Synopsis:
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Starring:
Aubrey Morris,
Christopher Lee,
Britt Ekland
#11
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Synopsis:
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky'.
Starring:
Barry Bostwick,
Tim Curry,
Susan Sarandon
#12
The Pit and the Pendulum
Synopsis:
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive!
Starring:
Vincent Price,
Barbara Steele,
Luana Anders
#13
The Omega Man
Synopsis:
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain - sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.
Starring:
Charlton Heston,
Anthony Zerbe,
Brian Tochi
Plot:
plague,
post apocalypse,
based on novel,
global pandemic,
antidote,
albino,
dystopia,
mutant,
survival,
last man on earth
...
#14
Them!
Synopsis:
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent, and the world.
Starring:
James Whitmore,
Edmund Gwenn,
Fess Parker
Plot:
giant ant,
new mexico,
mutation,
gigantic monster,
post nuclear,
creature feature,
panic,
formic acid,
infestation,
car phone
...
#15
The Meaning of Life
Synopsis:
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
Starring:
John Cleese,
Eric Idle,
Michael Palin
Plot:
death,
greed,
philosophy,
gluttony,
vomiting,
monty python,
meaning of life,
exploding body,
restaurant,
blood
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#16
The Crow
Synopsis:
Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven—watched over by a hypnotic crow—returns from the grave to exact revenge.
Starring:
Anna Levine,
Ernie Hudson,
Bai Ling
#17
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Synopsis:
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
Starring:
Tony Musante,
Enrico Maria Salerno,
Suzy Kendall
#18
The Beach
Synopsis:
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio,
Tilda Swinton,
Virginie Ledoyen
Plot:
thailand,
paradise,
travel,
beach,
island,
pretentiousness,
voice over narration,
utopia,
computer,
cricket the sport
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#19
Starship Troopers
Synopsis:
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".
Starring:
Clancy Brown,
Casper Van Dien,
Neil Patrick Harris
Plot:
space war,
giant insect,
future war,
satire,
space travel,
alien planet,
fascism,
military,
insect,
space station
...
#20
Shaun of the Dead
Synopsis:
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
Starring:
Bill Nighy,
Simon Pegg,
Peter Serafinowicz