> On 15 January 2013 22:12, SS <[email protected]> wrote: > >> made some (fairly awful) cult movies, > >> > > What is a cult movie?
Really, "cult movie" is a broad, vague, terribly over-inclusive term. But basically, it's a film that people go fanatical over (literally, the cult.) The way I'm using it, I mean lousy z-grade movies that have an obsessive fan following. (Films in the vein of "Surf Nazis Must Die," "Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters," and, yes, "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead." The kind of films that usually bomb everywhere, but inspire regrettable tattoos among crazed fans.) But the term can be also used for big budget films like Fight Club or Big Lebowski, old 1930s horror films, Japanese zombie musicals, etc. I think Sholay would definitely be considered a cult movie in the US, outside the NRI community. Rarely-seen, loved-by-few, but my lord how those few love it. ;P
