Subgenre Sampler
Cult: 1365 Films to Buy & Rent
Venus in Furs (Paroxismus) (1969)
- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. James Darren, Maria Rohm, Klaus Kinski…
- A high point for dir. Franco's psychedelic Euro–sleaze vision, with a jazz musician becoming obsessed with a beautiful woman, her bloodied…
Wedding Party, The (1969)
- Dir. Cynthia Monroe, Brian De Palma, Wilford Leach
Feat. Jill Clayburgh, Robert De Niro
- Brian De Palma collaborated with others to make this while still at college in 1963. Improvised film details the sparring between a couple before…
Wrecking Crew, The (1969)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate…
- Daft final outing for Martin as erotic photographer/super–spy Matt Helm with bonkers plot centering on a villain stealing a billion dollars…
Andy Warhol Collection, The (Flesh, Heat, Trash, Blood for Dracula, Flesh for Frankenstein, Women in Revolt, Madame Wang's, The Complete Picture) (1968-1981)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
- Seven cult films from 'The Factory' written and directed by Paul Morrissey. Also includes a documentary – Andy Warhol "The Complete Picture".
Angels from Hell (1968)
- Dir. Bruce Kessler
Feat. Tom Stern, Arlene Martel, Ted Markland
- Motorcycling subversives get into trouble with the law, but hey, anything is better than Vietnam, man!
Banana Splits, The (1968)
- Psychedelia for kids! The first three episodes of the cult kids show featuring the mind–boggling antics of Drooper, Snorky, Bingo and Fleegle.
Blood of Fu Manchu, The (Kiss and Kill) (1968)
- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Christopher Lee, Tsai Chin, Shirley Eaton…
- Fourth in Christopher Lee's FU MANCHU series with the calculating Oriental maniac here holed up in the South American jungle spreading world chaos…
Burn! (Queimada!) (1968)
- Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
Feat. Marlon Brando
- An anti–American political allegory veiled as a striking historical chronicle, Marlon Brando plays British colonialist William Walker who…
Candy (1968)
- Dir. Christian Marquand
Feat. Ewa Aulin, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton…
- Sixties sex farce that satirizes pornographic stories through the adventures of its naive eponymous heroine, played by Swedish model, Ewa Aulin.…
Committee, The (1968)
- Dir. Peter Sykes
Feat. Paul Jones
- Short, surrealist slice of British hippie arcana in which a hitchhiker decapitates a passing driver (then changes his mind and sews the head back…