Meaning of cult film | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A film that has acquired a cult following.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cult, film.

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“As John Waters once said, nobody wants to direct a cult film because that invariably means birthing a failure. Cult films are adopted orphans and what defines them is the intensity of their fandom ‘beyond all reason’, as J. P. Telotte, quoting Andrew Sarris, put it in one of the first academic collections on the phenomenon.”

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