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What (who) is 100 Cult Films - definition
100 Cult Films
BOOK BY ERNEST MATHIJS
100 Cult Films is a 2011 book written by Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik, who selected one hundred cult films to discuss.WorldCat.
Cult film
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![[[Quentin Tarantino]] is an example of a cult film director who has achieved mainstream success.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Quentin Tarantino by Gage Skidmore.jpg?width=200 "[[Quentin Tarantino]] is an example of a cult film director who has achieved mainstream success.")
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FILM THAT HAS ACQUIRED A CULT FOLLOWING
CultFilm; Cult Film; Cult movie; Cult movies; Cult films; Cult Films; Cult favorite; Cult Classics; Love it or hate it movie; Cult Movies; Cult classics; So bad, it's good; So bad it's good; So bad its good; Cult favourite; So-bad-it’s-good; It's so bad it's good; Unintentional hilarity; Unintentionally hilarious; Unintentional comedy; So-bad-it's-good
A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known for their dedicated, passionate fanbase which forms an elaborate subculture, members of which engage in repeated viewings, dialogue-quoting, and audience participation.
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![[[Howard P. Becker]]'s church–sect typology, based on [[Ernst Troeltsch]]'s original theory and providing the basis for the modern concepts of cults, [[sect]]s, and [[new religious movement]]s](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Church-sect continuum.svg?width=200 "[[Howard P. Becker]]'s church–sect typology, based on [[Ernst Troeltsch]]'s original theory and providing the basis for the modern concepts of cults, [[sect]]s, and [[new religious movement]]s")
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![[[LaRouche Movement]] members in [[Stockholm]] protesting against the [[Treaty of Lisbon]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EAP demonstrerar mot EU - 2008-05-01 - 1.jpg?width=200 "[[LaRouche Movement]] members in [[Stockholm]] protesting against the [[Treaty of Lisbon]]")
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![[[Max Weber]] (1864–1920), one of the first scholars to study cults.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Max Weber 1894.jpg?width=200 "[[Max Weber]] (1864–1920), one of the first scholars to study cults.")
![[[Jim Jones]], the leader of the [[Peoples Temple]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rev. Jim Jones, 1977 (cropped)2.jpg?width=200 "[[Jim Jones]], the leader of the [[Peoples Temple]]")
SOCIAL GROUP WITH SOCIALLY DEVIANT OR NOVEL RELIGIOUS, PHILOSOPHICAL OR SPIRITUAL BELIEFS AND PRACTICES
Totalitarian religious group; Destructive cult; Cult worshipping; Political cult; Cultist; Cult debate; Cult war; Millennial cult; Destructive cults; Religious cult; Cultism; Dangerous cult; Cult leader; High control group; Cult homicide; Homicidal cult; Cult homicides; Cults and terrorism; Cultlike; Cults; Xiejiao; Terrorist cults; Polygamist cult; Cultists; Polygamous cult
¦ noun
1. a system of religious devotion directed towards a particular figure or object.
a relatively small religious group regarded by others as strange or as imposing excessive control over members.
2. [often as modifier] a thing that is popular or fashionable among a particular group: a cult film.
Derivatives
cultic adjective
cultish adjective
cultishness noun
cultism noun
cultist noun
Origin
C17: from Fr. culte or L. cultus 'worship'.
