While cult films can emerge from pretty much anywhere, there are six studios that seemed to specialize in producing these off-brand oddities. Why not familiarize yourself with these six studios that pumped out a ton of cult flicks:

Cannon Films

Take practically any movie genre in the ’80s — but primarily action — and lower your expectation a full tier, and there you’ll find bountiful Cannon Films. This studio pushed out its fair share of stinkers and unnecessary sequels, but it occasionally rose to prominence with genuinely good movies or bad ones that involved popular IPs and well-known actors.

Best known for: Masters of the Universe, Runaway Train, Cyborg, American Ninja, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Troma Entertainment

Looking for sleazy, gross, and cheaply made exploitation films that look like they were shot on VHS but got inexplicably popular in certain circles? That’s some weird taste you have, but at least we can point you in the direction of Troma, which has been doing this sort of thing for decades now.

Best known for: The Toxic Avenger, The Toxic Avenger II, Tromeo and Juliet, Class of Nuke ‘Em High, Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. 

The Asylum

If you want a studio to make either a super cheesy mockbuster of a well-known franchise or a super cheesy scifi flick featuring animals improbably attacking people, there’s The Asylum. Don’t ask it to do anything else. At all. Even their coffee is the pits.

Best known for: Sharknado, Transmorphers, Mercenaries, War of the Worlds (not the Spielberg one but released at the same time)

Full Moon

Charles Band led the charge in producing an amazing assortment of B-movies and scifi and horror franchises over the years, especially in the ’80s and ’90s. The studio also produced a lot of kids B-movies under Moonbeam Entertainment. You won’t find excellence here, but you’re pretty much guaranteed to have a rip-roaring geeky time.

Best known for: Trancers, Subspecies, Dr. Mordrid, Puppet Master, Oblivion, Dollman, Prehysteria!

New World Pictures

In 1970, Charles and Roger Corman set up a cult movie-generating machine that delivered knock-offs, originals, and sequels in plenty. By the time it called it quits in 1993, New World was responsible for an astounding assortment of horror, scifi, comedy, comic book, and action vehicles.

Best known for: Hellraiser, Hell Comes to Frogtown, The Punisher, Elvira, Return of the Killer Tomatoes, Dead Heat, House, C.H.U.D., Children of the Corn, Battle Beyond the Stars

PM Entertainment

If you ever feel like you’re starving for out-of-the-blue gunfights and gratuitous explosions, one PM Entertainment film will tide you over for basically the rest of your life. This straight-to-home-video outfit took action movies to the MAX — and they were glorious (and gloriously bad).

Best known for: Skyscraper, T-Force, Steel Frontier, Rage, Recoil, Zero Tolerance