Cult Movies

What truly makes a cult film

Britni Pepper
ILLUMINATION
Published in
6 min readJul 6, 2021

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There’s a twist to this story but you have to read to the end to find out what it is.

Did you ever wonder why cult movies are popular for so long and have so many fans? Other movies rise and fall off the charts but decades later a cult film like Rocky Horror Picture Show still has the power to fill a cinema. The audience knows the words to every song, knows the plot backward, has seen the same movie dozens of times but they still come back for more. Why? What makes a cult film? Why aren’t they all like that?

What is a cult film?

What is a cult actor? If you haven’t watched a cult film in a while and want to watch something funny, I highly recommend watching the television show Entourage. Everyone loves it.

The funny bits are great but the show is so full of events, even when it is just about the boys hanging out that they create a cult vibe. When they are hanging out with one of the guys’ ex-girlfriends or having the “girls” sing backup to their hip-hop songs, they become a cult movement. When one…

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Britni Pepper
ILLUMINATION

Whimsical explorer: Britni maps the wide world and human heart with a twinkle in her eye, daring you to find magic in the everyday.