Subgenre Sampler
Cult: 1365 Films to Buy & Rent
Servant, The (1963)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles
- First collaboration between playwright Harold Pinter and dir. Losey is an elegant diagram of English class cruelties, with man–servant Dirk…
Shock Corridor (1963)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Peter Breck, Constance Towers
- An unsolved slaying in a mental hospital prompts over–ambitious journalist Peter Breck to pose as a 'lunatic', so as to find the killer. Alas,…
That Kind of Girl (1963)
- Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Margaret Rose Keil, David Weston, Linda Marlowe
- Another gem rescued from obscurity by the BFI's Flipside label, this one deals with the hush–hush topic of venereal disease against a backdrop…
X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Ray Milland, Don Rickles, John Hoyt…
- Furrow–browed scientist Ray Milland discovers the ability to see through matters, and takes advantage with card games and ladies etc., but…
Yellow Teddybears, The (Gutter Girls) (1963)
- Dir. Robert Hartford-Davies
Feat. Annette Whiteley
- Packaged as a sexploitation movie, this is actually an earnest message movie about illicit teenage sex, set in a girl's school where those that have…
Young Racers, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Mark Damon, Patrick Magee
- Teensploitation melodrama from the king of the drive–in cheapie about motor–racing rivalry. Some great racing footage and bratty…
Youth of the Beast (Yaju no seishun) (1963)
- Dir. Seijun Suzuki
Feat. Joe Shishido, Misako Watanabe
- Further yazuka tales from the incorrigible Seijun Suzuki: regular lead thug Shishido plays a rogue gangster who muscles in, SANJURO–style, on…
Carnival of Souls (1962)
- Dir. Herk Harvey
Feat. Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey
- A woman's vision of the world is not quite the same after surviving a car accident in this vastly under–appreciated spook story that comes…
Connection, The (1962)
- Dir. Shirley Clarke
Feat. Garry Goodrow, Warren Finnerty
- Experimental cult curio based on the Jack Gelber play, in which a group of musician junkies await a heroin hook–up in a New York loft. Things…
Eegah (1962)
- Dir. Arch Hall, Sr.
Feat. Arch Hall Jr., Richard Kiel, Arch Hall, Sr.…
- Hailed as one of the most compellingly 'bad films' ever made, this concerns a young woman who is menaced by the world's last surviving caveman…