What Makes A Cult Film
What Makes A Cult Film? “What is a cult classic?” “What makes it a film that future generations love?” The Oxford English Dictionary defines a cult film as “enduring an appeal to a relatively small audience.” In addition, cult audiences are frequently at odds with cultural conventions, and often are rebelling against the status quo. These people prefer strange topics and allegorical themes that revolt against the cultural sensitivities. They challenge genre conventions and monotonous storytelling. Among the methods of cult films use are graphic scenes, loose ends in storyline, and intertwining stories. Often, these films also have troublesome production histories, with many accidents, failures, and legends that involve their stars and directors.
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This is contrary to movies that insert tiny and careful innovations to avoid upsetting the majority of the audience, whereas cult films are a shock to the system, and completely ignoring the audience’s feelings to present their true theme. An example of a film that masters this would be Salo (1975), a film about fascist Liberians that round up nine teenage boys and girls, and subject them to mental and physical torture, this story is largely take up by the characters recounting their memories of family, friends, and their childhood. With this film format Salo quickly grew to become a cult classic because of its shocking and gruesome scenes. This film presented a new style of filming to the cinema …show more content…
They regularly have complex, confused, controversial, or bumpy origins, wrought with smaller or bigger narratives. They seem to happen, more than to be planned, even in the cases of generic cult movies, like Roger Corman’s exploitation movies shot on the fly such as Caged Heat. The murky and bizarre storylines of these film help form a basis for their cultural presence. Even legendary directors whose work is seen as very consistent or planned seem to have the odd one out, and that is most likely to be a cult favorites. Filmmakers whose careers are littered with such accidents, like Orson Welles from his film Follow the boys, are likely to be celebrated as cult figures. Brilliant failures and spectacularly ‘tanking’ films have good chance of becoming a cult
This is contrary to movies that insert tiny and careful innovations to avoid upsetting the majority of the audience, whereas cult films are a shock to the system, and completely ignoring the audience’s feelings to present their true theme. An example of a film that masters this would be Salo (1975), a film about fascist Liberians that round up nine teenage boys and girls, and subject them to mental and physical torture, this story is largely take up by the characters recounting their memories of family, friends, and their childhood. With this film format Salo quickly grew to become a cult classic because of its shocking and gruesome scenes. This film presented a new style of filming to the cinema …show more content…
They regularly have complex, confused, controversial, or bumpy origins, wrought with smaller or bigger narratives. They seem to happen, more than to be planned, even in the cases of generic cult movies, like Roger Corman’s exploitation movies shot on the fly such as Caged Heat. The murky and bizarre storylines of these film help form a basis for their cultural presence. Even legendary directors whose work is seen as very consistent or planned seem to have the odd one out, and that is most likely to be a cult favorites. Filmmakers whose careers are littered with such accidents, like Orson Welles from his film Follow the boys, are likely to be celebrated as cult figures. Brilliant failures and spectacularly ‘tanking’ films have good chance of becoming a cult