What makes a cult film?
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Cult film is being celebrated by thousands of fans in London in a festival of strange outfits and aficionado enthusiasm. But what makes a film become cult?
A fully-grown man - lawyer by day - constructs a fully-functional Predator costume for a themed party.
At another party a different fully-grown man arrives with rouged lips, stockings and suspenders in homage to Dr Frank N Furter.
This kind of behaviour usually signals when a movie has achieved cult status.
Cult film is a tricky term.
The Oxford English Dictionary informs us that cult films should have "enduring appeal to a relatively small audience", and be "non-mainstream". But search the internet, and you see the cult badge has been applied to a plethora of disparate films.
Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is a cult classic. The director's withdrawal of the film in the UK soon after its release denied it a place in the mainstream.
But it lived on in the form of battered VHS tapes passed reverentially between teenagers, becoming a small screen rite of passage in the near three decades until it was finally rereleased.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8640334.stm
A fully-grown man - lawyer by day - constructs a fully-functional Predator costume for a themed party.
At another party a different fully-grown man arrives with rouged lips, stockings and suspenders in homage to Dr Frank N Furter.
This kind of behaviour usually signals when a movie has achieved cult status.
Cult film is a tricky term.
The Oxford English Dictionary informs us that cult films should have "enduring appeal to a relatively small audience", and be "non-mainstream". But search the internet, and you see the cult badge has been applied to a plethora of disparate films.
Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is a cult classic. The director's withdrawal of the film in the UK soon after its release denied it a place in the mainstream.
But it lived on in the form of battered VHS tapes passed reverentially between teenagers, becoming a small screen rite of passage in the near three decades until it was finally rereleased.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8640334.stm
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