cult film en · NOUN
Meanings
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A film that has acquired a cult following.
As John Waters once said, nobody wants to direct a cult film because that invariably means birthing a failure. Cult films are adopted orphans and what defines them is the intensity of their fandom ‘beyond all reason’, as J. P. Telotte, quoting Andrew Sarris, put it in one of the first academic collections on the phenomenon.
2016, I.Q. Hunter, Cult Film as a Guide to Life, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 3:
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cult, film.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cult films | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (16)
hu kultfilm (film with a group of dedicated fans) · cs kultovní film m du (film with a group of dedicated fans) · hu kultuszfilm (film with a group of dedicated fans) · sv kultfilm (film with a group of dedicated fans) · de Kultfilm (film with a group of dedicated fans) · ru ку́льтовый фильм (film with a group of dedicated fans) · ro film idol (film with a group of dedicated fans) · da kultfilm (film with a group of dedicated fans) · nl cultfilm (film with a group of dedicated fans) · ja カルト映画 (film with a group of dedicated fans) · es película de culto (film with a group of dedicated fans) · fr film culte (film with a group of dedicated fans) · ko 컬트 영화 (film with a group of dedicated fans) · cmn 邪典電影 /邪典电影 (film with a group of dedicated fans) · pt filme cult (film with a group of dedicated fans) · fi kulttielokuva (film with a group of dedicated fans)