cult film
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A film that has acquired a cult following.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cult, film.
Example Sentences
- "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 collections on the phenomenon."