Top 10 Cultpix Films of 2022

These are NOT the Top 10 films of 2022 but a glimpse of the variety on Cultpix.

As 2022 comes to an end, we look back on a year of a great many new films that we added and you enjoyed on Cultpix these past 12 months. We say "new", but of course we only show films from before 1991 (except for documentaries) on Cultpix as we try to stay true to the motto of being the home of classic cult and genre films. And event with the 30-year cut of rule, there is such a wealth of films to choose from that we don't think we will ever run out. We try to show films from every type of genre, from bigger ones like 'horror' and 'science fiction' to more obscure ones like 'fake gorilla suits' and Sammy Petrillo - a Venn diagram that neatly forms "Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla" (1952).

So it is fascinating to look at what data tells us you were watching on Cultpix in 2022. We don't do data analytics or AI recommendations (Death to algorithms! Long live curation!), but we have to collect the data for when it comes to paying our content partners. We also do a weekly Top 10 to show what's been popular in the past week, which tends to be the most recent releases. Last year's top film unexpectedly was sniper thriller "Zero in and Scream" (1971) from Something Weird. This year it's an all-sexy top 10. Although nudies and adult films only represent a small proportion of all the films on Cultpix, there is no denying their popularity today, just as it was in cinemas fifty years ago, when Christina Lindberg films played in many more London cinemas than the latest Bergman release. 

While you could watch enough smut on Xhamster (pop-ups ads, viruses, nasty cookies and all) to go blind several times over, we are proud to have curated some of the finest grown up films here o Cultpix, as well as sourced the best restored masters in partnership with the likes of Vinegar Syndrome, Something Weird and several European partners. So don't feel guilty for watching some of these with a box of tissues within easy reach because these films were meant to be enjoyed.

Don't tell Coppola! 

#10 The Goddaughter (1972)

The most popular film from our Uschi Digard season was "The Goddaughter" (1972), a blatant knock-off of "The Godfather" about the rivalry between East Coast and West Coast mobsters. There is just the briefest glimpse of hardcore action, with plenty of bad comedy, singing and violent action. Uschi smothers a man with her mammaries, two years before Doris Wishman used the same plot device with Chesty Morgan in "Deadly Weapons" (1974), as well as shooting another man with a bullet from her nipple. Here is a fun insight about the movie, from one of the cast members, as shared on IMDb:

"As Gene Roland, I played the part of Vito Vendetta from Cony. The actor listed in the credits, Gene Rowland is in many other movies, but not the Goddaughter (1972). Cathy Hilton, who appears in the fellatio scene with me, asked, "What is simulation?" I told her, "You just don't actually put it in." Her "simulation" turned out to be more like "stimulation. The director of this film, in response to my ad lib to the head nun, "We knows yous is all nice goils, or you wouldn't be here in the foist place!" not only cut my ad lib out of the film, he had the nerve to ask me, "What do you think this is, a comedy?" I don't know. Watch the gunshot from the rectum, and you tell me. I also appeared with Becky Sharp and Ushi Digart in "The Egyptians are Coming! The Egyptians are Coming!" in 1971."

Everything will be just peachy. 

#9 Pretty Peaches 3: the Quest (1989)

Somehow some of our members skipped straight over "Pretty Peaches 2" (1987), which was 17th on the list, and went straight for "Pretty Peaches 3: the Quest" (1989) instead. Both feature Tracey Adams, but the third part also has the delectable Keisha in the title roll. Peaches is convinced by predatory lesbian psychiatrist Dr. Thunderpussy to travel to San Francisco to seek spiritual enlightenment. Director Alex de Renzty has a grest time poking fun of preacher hucksters, spiritual charlatans, religious hypocrisy and organized religion in general, all the while fitting in some great sex scenes. See it as a piece of 1980s cultural critique, not just hardcore action, or just watch and enjoy. 

Isn't she a peach?

#8 Pretty Peaches (1978)

The original "Pretty Peaches" (1978) was a groundbreaking adult comedy. Starring Desiree Cousteau as the eponymous heroine Peaches, described as, "a daffy carefree female who cheerfully plunges through life without any worries." She suffers from amnesia after a car crash and the film was clearly inspired by the Terry Souther  and Mason Hoffenberg's 1985 novel "Candy". The film was not without its controversy, as noted on its Wikipedia page:

"While the film features sexual violence, including lesbian rape and a forced enema in a public rest-room – a sequence that was excised from most video releases – the film's tongue-in-cheek attitude keeps it up-beat. The Astronics/Telecine, Ltd. VHS release of the film is un-cut with the forced enema scene intact. Cousteau received the Adult Film Association of America Best Actress award in 1978 for her performance in the movie."

It spawned two sequels, though with Siobhan Hunter and Keisha in the lead role. All three beautifully restored by Vinegar Syndrome and available on Cultpix.