Like i know some movies that can be defined as a cult movie but at the same time i just dont know why they are that... can anyone help me?
this is a great question that will produce a wide variety of answers. to me a cult movie has some of the following qualities: - you watch it over and over again more so than your average movie you love. - its message / characters / subject matter is geared more towards the counter culture than the mainstream - successive generations of people are strongly influenced by the movie/phenomena - sometimes a movie that really lacked proper marketing or support by the major film company that released it but still managed to grow into a "fan favorite" through word of mouth. peace
To me, a movie being a "cult" movie has little to do with its content. A cult movie is a movie that flopped on release and gained a strong following of dedicated fans through word-of-mouth. Or, a movie that didn't necessarily flop but had virtually no marketing (see Eraserhead) and became more and more popular over the years, again, due to word-of-mouth.
