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Originally posted by bridge of love
most of these rules are really "one offs" to describe one movie that is cult. a cult movie is one where most/all people hear of it through a recommendation, as opposed to ads etc. also, I think the "cult" following needs to be somewhat anti-mainstream. for this reason Office Space (which I love, see my Avatar) is not a cult movie. its following is fried engineers. Spinal Tap also is not a cult movie for a similar reason- its following thinks its not mainstream when it is the mainstream. the whole question is made much more complicated once mainstream media starts giving its ten best "cult" movies. the very listing almost makes it not.
3 that are great, and destined to always be "cult" Liquid Sky, Forbidden Zone (Herve V.!) and Driller Killer.
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Isn't the word cult defined as what any given religon was before it found enough suckers to go mainstream? On that theory, I would say a cult movie is one that didnt have great mainstream visibility or acceptance when it came out, but that it found a smaller but obsessively devoted following. With this definition, I would go for films that I loved that werent in the movie theaters for more than a minute, probably bc they didnt have budgets or were panned by critics, and that yet, I can never get at a video store bc they are always out. Waiting for GUffman is an obvious example. I had to go to like ten video stores over a couple of years before I could get this video. Big Lebowski is another excellent example. And Office Space.
While obscure and bizarre are good adjectives for cults, in the SanDiego Nike Warm Up suit, lets kill ourselves and find the aliens kind of way, they are not dispositive of the genre.
