cult film

English

Noun

cult film (plural cult films)

1. A film that has acquired a cult following.

   Synonym: cult movie

   Hyponym: cult classic

   • 2016, I.Q. Hunter, Cult Film as a Guide to Life, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 3:

     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.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cult,‎ film.

Translations

film with a group of dedicated fans

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邪典電影／邪典电影 (xiédiǎn diànyǐng)

• Danish: kultfilm (da) c
• Dutch: cultfilm (nl) m
• Finnish: kulttielokuva (fi)
• French: film culte (fr) m
• German: Kultfilm m
• Hungarian: kultuszfilm (hu), kultfilm (hu)
• Japanese: カルト映画 (karuto eiga)
• Korean: 컬트 영화 (keolteu yeonghwa)
• Portuguese: filme cult m
• Romanian: film idol n
• Russian: ку́льтовый фильм m (kúlʹtovyj filʹm)
• Spanish: película de culto f
• Swedish: kultfilm c

Further reading

• cult film on Wikipedia.Wikipedia