Subgenre Sampler
Cult: 1365 Films to Buy & Rent
For Your Height Only (1981)
- Dir. Eddie Nicart
Feat. Weng Weng, Yehlen Catral, Carmi Martin…
- Schlocky riff on the 007 franchise with pint sized ass–kicker Weng Weng as the world's smallest super spy, Agent 00, doing battle with mad…
Force Five (1981)
- Dir. Robert Clouse
Feat. Joe Lewis
- Ultraviolent action, with Joe Lewis leading a skilled quintet of martial artists to rescue a girl from an island fortress ruled over by a religious…
Gods Must Be Crazy, The (1981)
- Dir. James Uys
Feat. Jamie Uys
- The infamous African cult fave about a jolly bush–man who ventures across country to dispose of an 'evil' coke–bottle. The sequel is more…
Knightriders (1981)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Ed Harris, Tom Savini
- One–of–a–kind event follows the bizarre exploits of a travelling motor–cycle show who engage in medieval–style combat…
Loveless, The (1981)
- Dir. Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Robert Gordon, Marin Kanter
- A brooding, fetishised love–letter to the motorcycle movies of the 1950s (THE WILD ONE et al), with a bike gang having a troubled interlude in…
Madame Wang's (1981)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Virginia Bruce
- Latterday Morrissey/Warhol production set around the politico–erotic misadventures of a German lad who stows away to New York City. Features…
Mommie Dearest (1981)
- Dir. Frank Perry
Feat. Faye Dunaway
- The eyebrow–raising private life of Joan Crawford makes for a gaudy compulsive shocker, in which Faye Dunaway puts on her most ferocious…
Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians, The (Tajemstvi hradu v Karpatech) (1981)
- Dir. Oldrich Lipsky
Feat. Michal Docolomansky, Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlastimil Brodsky…
- Cult oddity based on the Jules Verne novel The Carpathian Castle, a sci–fi horror story about a campy count who haunts a house overlooking a…
Pacific Banana (1981)
- Dir. John D. Lamond
- One of the last Australian sexploitation–ers is set around a madcap airline and a pilot with an 'undercarriage problem'. Randy humour abounds…
Polyester (1981)
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey
- Divine gives suburban neurosis a new meaning as a wife and mother of a whacked–out family living in Baltimore. The director's first…