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cult films

cult films is the plural of cult film.

Meaning of cult film

Noun

cult film (plural cult films)

  1. A film that has acquired a cult following.
    • 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...2016, I.Q. Hunter, Cult Film as a Guide to Life, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 3
    Synonyms:
    cult movie
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cult, film.

Questions about cult films

What is cult films the plural of?
Cult films is the plural of cult film.

Words near cult films in the dictionary

  1. culshies
  2. cult
  3. cult 45
  4. cult archaeology
  5. cult film
  6. cult films
  7. cult follower
  8. cult followers
  9. cult following
  10. cult followings
  11. cult hero

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