Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

6.3 / Rating 87 votes 2006
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Country: Canada

From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.

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A cult film, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known for their dedicated, passionate fanbase, which forms an elaborate subculture, members of which engage in repeated viewings, dialogue-quoting, and audience participation. Inclusive definitions allow for major studio productions, especially box-office bombs, while exclusive definitions focus more on obscure, transgressive films shunned by the mainstream. The difficulty in defining the term and subjectivity of what qualifies as a cult film mirror classificatory disputes about art. The term cult film itself was first used in the 1970s to describe the culture that surrounded underground films and midnight movies, though cult was in common use in film analysis for decades prior to that.