cult film

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Noun

cult film (plural cult films)

  1. A film that has acquired a cult following.
    Synonym: cult movie
    Hyponym: cult classic
    • 2016, I.Q. Hunter, Cult Film as a Guide to Life, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 3:
      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.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cult,‎ film.

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