Movies that could have a future cult following.

We all know the big cult films that have followings of untold numbers. The Big Lebowski, Donnie Darko, Blade Runner, The Goonies, Evil Dead, Clerks, etc.

But what do you think are some movies that have been released within the past few years might have a hit cult status?

I think defenatly the film Observe and Report will have a cult status. The movie is really split down the middle, people either loved it or hate it (I'm tagging along with the first group), with no gray area. I could without a doubt see it having almost a Clerks like following.

One of the films that I have seen get a small following already is Southland Tales. I've seen this a few times and I can't really decided whether I liked it or hated it. But while it was bashed by some critics, it also showed up on a few top 10 lists. I'm just not sure what the hell the whole concept of the movie was.

Like the thread, haven't heard of the first flick, second is an interesting choice. Think that Anchorman is already almost a cult classic. Horror films are easy ones to become future cult films- Zombie Strippers, Feast or my main pick would be Repo: The Genetic Opera.

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I think Clerks 2 has the chance and/or has already got a cult following.

The movie Fan Boys will defently have a cult following as soon as it is released.

I think the movie Big Stan will get a cult following. To me the movie was very bad but i assume some people out there will love it.

I think most films made by Seth Rogan will have a cult following in like 20 years from now. Zack and Mirri make a porno esspecily.

And the movie 11:14. It was made in 2003 and already has a cult following, i personaly loved the film.

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Seth Rogan will only become a cult star if he doesn't make it big and i think where he is now is firmly in mainstream thus won't achieve cult status. Harold and Kumar i think will be pretty cult and maybe Primer

I think American Splendor has something of a cult following, if not then it probably should.

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Really. The movie opened and went virtually unnoticed in 2003 I thought...which usually happens for 'cult' films. I did watch it a few years later though in 2007...rather like it.

A more recent release...how about Adventureland?

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Some of these films I like a lot, some not so much, but all would seem to be cult material to me.

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Was waiting for you to pop in this thread UF. I thought about Death Race but it seemed bit obvious being remake of a cult flick and also thought about Doomsday which i think tries to hard to be a cult film. We studied cult cinema in the last year of my degree, the general consenus from most of the few theories there are on the subject is that you can't consciously make a cult film, which why i'm apprehensive about those two. Same applies to Grindhouse and Pineapple Express; both of which seem like they have an agenda to aspire to proven cult films and adapting their formula. But time will tell

I think that films that try to be cult films are actualy being the opisite. Films like Planet Terror and Hell Ride (i havent seen HR, but i have an opinion based on its advertisments) figure that people think cult films are cool so they make the film look cult like, that leads the film to becoming a main stream film in the end.

So i agree with the fact that you can not conciously make a cult film.

If a director says that he is going to make a cult film one day, then he is actualy trying to make a main stream movie that looks like a cult film so posers can go see film and seem "cool".

For a real cult film to work, it must actualy fail first.

Cult films are made by the audience end of the day, it's however they receive it.

I think this may have been true in the past, but times have changed; to me audiences are a lot more cynical now, and can therefore spot a cult film a mile off. Planet Terror and Doomsday are what you might call instant cult films, as opposed to something like Fido which will no doubt grow in popularity through word of mouth; to me that doesn't make it any more or less of a cult. Death Race and Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake are also cult flicks to me in that they're pretty solid remakes/reinterpretations that will only grow in popularity over the years. Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake probably wasn't considered a cult movie at the time, but now it definitely is. The fact that it was a remake and a good one contributed to it's cult status if anything.

The fact that Pineapple Express is easily identifiable as a cult movie doesn't make it any less of one in my opinion either. For example, Is True Romance an obvious cult film? I would say most definitely. Did Tarantino and Tony Scott set out to make a cult movie? I think quite possibly; does that make it less of a cult phenomena? No. If a rock band set out to make a cult album and succeed, that doesn't make it any less of a cult record either.

By very definition Star Wars is a cult film in that it has a loyal following of fanatical fans; 'the cult of Star Wars' if you like. It's very easy to confuse popularity with cult status and visa versa, it's like a chicken and egg situation. Night of the Living Dead is probably considered more of a cult film though because of it's low budget drive-In origins. The film gained a reputation through word of mouth, it was underground and hence cool. Is it more of a cult that Star Wars?

Most cult films that audiances consider cult films arnt realy cult films and in fact are more films that "look bad ass and sell heaps of t-shirts because 14 year old boys want to impress their friends by saying they saw a cult film".

A cult film must have a very small die-hard fan base to make it cult.

Latly though i think audiances have mixed cult films up with bad ass awesome films.

It's a tricky subject to define where it's very subjective and a lot is down to the audiences and granted a popular film can have a cult following. Just because Planet Terror and Doomsday have features of cult film, i don't think that can determine their status- Planet Terror has attributes of a Grindhouse flick but it is it actually a Grindhouse film? I don't feel cult is a determinable feature more a perspective of regarding films. I think any film released in cinema is less likely to become a cult film unless it bombed. Then again a lot of the context of Planet Terror, in the release troubles, cuts, studio interference etc endears to a cult status. Doomsday may well get picked up in time as a cult film.

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Hmmm I think it's very easy to get into semantics regarding what is and isn't a cult film. I agree a lot of it is down to personal interpretation of what a 'cult' movie actually is, not to mention which films you then consider worthy of such status

Agreed. Nearly all zombie films are cult films anyway. I don't agree that it needs a small amount of fans to be a cult film, however.

I think In Bruges is one of the only films that has been out recently worthy of becoming a cult film, original and unexpected. Maybe not a typical cult classic but it would still get my vote.

Actually I'd say Superbad is the most recent film gone cult. Everything else Seth Rogen releases has a following but I don't know if you'd call it 'cult'.

Harold and Kumar had there shot but after the sequel they've lost momentum.

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I defenatly think Let the Right One In is a good choice for a future cult following.

And Pyro Tramp, I'm surprised you haven't heard of Observe and Report. It's a dark comedy that just came out starring Seth Rogen, and is split down the middle between either being loved by critics or despised by critics. I for one thought it was hilarious.

Usually I would say a cult film is not an immediate box office hit or an Oscar-winning film. I'm trying to decide when Star Wars became a cult movie or a cult series, but I wouldn't say it was all that immediate. It was massively popular. I went to see the first one 20 times at the theatre but I never collected Star Wars memorabilia or even read up that much about it. I never felt myself to be a member of a cult but that probably doesn't really apply. However, can you think of any other initially massively-popular films which could be legitimately be called "cult movies"? Can you really be a cult movie and be mass entertainment at the same time?

That's why I question whether these R-rated comedies which are very popular for R-rated films can be considered cult movies. I mean "popularity" is becoming harder to define because ticket prices are so inflated nowadays that $100 million gross today is equal to about $20 million gross back in the days of Jaws. Add in all the people watching pirated copies of flicks and it's hard to tell how many people are actually watching what films. I also don't think that substantial amounts of people being able to quote all the dialogue of a movie makes it a cult film because if that were true then every Disney cartoon ever made is a cult film.

Can a film which wins an Oscar be a cult film? Also, do members of a cult have to fall into a certain age group or be defined by something else which all the cult members share besides the love of a film? No Country For Old Men has the seal of approval of the Oscar, and for many people that's anathema to a cult film. That implies to many that it's a highbrow film with "lots of talking". To this day, there are very few students at my high school who have even heard of No Country For Old Men, let alone have watched it. Can a cult film be approved by Oscars and only known by well-read viewers? I guess this begs the question whether you can separate the cult from the cult filmmaker. None of the Coens' films have grossed that much at the box office, so maybe all their films can be seen as cult movies, whether they win Best Picture or not. What do you think?

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