Cult

A cult film is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside of the small fanbases, however, there have been exceptions that have managed to gain fame amongst mainstream audiences, including 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Taxi Driver (1976), The Warriors (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Blue Velvet (1986), and Pulp Fiction (1994). Many cult movies have gone on to transcend their original cult status and have become recognized as classics; others are of the "so bad it's good" variety, and are destined to remain in obscurity. Cult films often become the source of a thriving, obsessive, and elaborate subculture of fandom, hence the analogy to cult. However, not every film with a rabid fanbase is necessarily a cult film. The term cult film is used to describe a film that has had little to no success commercially and critically upon its...