Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Cult: 1323 Films to Rent
Monkey! (TV Series) (Volumes 14-17) (1978-1979)
- Feat. Masaaki Sakai, Toshiyuki Nishida, Shiro Kishibe…
- Further episodes from the cult TV Series. Supplementary to the original 'run' of the show, these episodes were recently dubbed by the original…
Patrick (1978)
- Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Robert Thompson, Sir Robert Helpmann, Susan Penhaligon
- Shrill Aussie B–movie about a comatose hospital patient who utilizes his psychokinetic powers to inflict pain and death.
Takes its time to…
Return to Fantasy Island (1978)
- Dir. George McCowan
Feat. Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize, Adrienne Barbeau…
- Mysterious millionaire ‘Mr Roarke’ and his sidekick Tattoo play host (and God, or devil?) to various guests, who pay a fortune have their…
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
- Dir. Michael Schultz
Feat. The Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, Steve Martin…
- A blushing musical turkey that contrives a potty narrative from Beatles’ songs interpreted by The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton, along with guest…
Slave of the Cannibal God (1978)
- Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, Helmut Berger
- A star–studded, big–budget entry in the Italian 'cannibal movie' cycle, with Andress and Keach off to the wilds of New Guinea and the…
Stud, The (1978)
- Dir. Quentin Masters
Feat. Joan Collins
- Joan Collins stars in this appropriately ludicrous dramatisation of sister Jackie's trash novel about the rise and fall of a…
Thank God It's Friday (1978)
- Dir. Robert Klane
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Debra Winger, Donna Summer
- Disco Sucks! Essential 70's retro viewing in this one–night–on–the–town comedy. Appearances by the Commodores, Donna Summer…
Wise Blood (1978)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Brad Dourif
- Brad Dourif plays the obsessed leader of the 'Church Without Christ' in this marvellous satire on contemporary evangelism in the American South. From…
Wiz, The (1978)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor
- Much maligned 'black musical' version of L. Frank Baum's classic fairytale (best known through the Judy Garland version).
Here, New York City was…
Backroads (1977)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Bill Hunter
- This short road–movie was a moody debut for dir. Noyce, laying out the tale of two drifters (one black, one white) who steal a car for an…