Whether they’recult comediesorcult horror movies, their impact on cinema is unforgettable.
Their use of violence typically has a purpose; exploring the human fascination with it.
The violence inRoad Houseis tame by some standards, but the movie’s full of it, regardless.
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This is howThe Warriorsbecame a cult film.
The movie is rated X in some countries, and R in the US.
The movie is rated R, and, interestingly, wasbanned from home release in the UK until 1995.
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A Clockwork Orangefollows a group of teenage boys led by the sociopathic Alex (Malcolm McDowell).
They terrorize their neighborhood, dressed in white with gray suspenders and black bowler hats.
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A bouncer hired to clean up the baddest honkytonk in a Missouri town. Armed with a black belt in karate and a Ph.D. in philosophy, Patrick Swayze sets out to tame the Double Deuce for its owner.
Coppolla’s wife, who turned it into a documentary about filmingApocalypse NowtitledHearts of Darkness.
The movie follows Max Renn (James Woods), the president of a sensationalist TV channel in Canada.
Cronenberg’s vision, though bloody, gory, and violent,predicted the future in many ways.
It’s also one of the strangest cult classics ever made.
In the US, it has an official R rating.
Ichi the Killeris about Ichi as a mythical man.
The story initially follows Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano), a crime boss' enforcer with sadomasochistic tendencies.
When the man attacks one of the kids in the van, they kick him out and move along.
A group of friends traveling through rural Texas encounter a family of deranged cannibals, including the terrifying Leatherface.
As they explore an old homestead, they are systematically hunted down in gruesome ways.
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The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
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In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn’t go as planned.
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
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