cult films

A cult film is characterized by its active and lively communal following. Highly committed and rebellious in their appreciation, cult audiences are frequently at odds with cultural conventions – they prefer strange topics and allegorical themes that rub against cultural sensitivities and resist dominant politics. Cult films transgress common notions of good and bad taste, and they challenge genre conventions and coherent storytelling. Among the techniques cult films use are intertextual references, gore, loose ends in storylines, or the creation of a sense of nostalgia. Often, cult films have troublesome production histories, colored by accidents, failures, legends and mysteries that involve their stars and directors. In spite of often-limited accessibility, they have a continuous market value and a long-lasting public presence.

So cult films have a place to make money and build up on a story rather than other movies because cult films often lead the loose ends. Making the viewer question the film which can really bring up important topics if you make the shots right. In some cases their guilty pleaser movies which is a movie that is bad and you knows it’s bad but you like it anyway.