What really makes A Cult is Isolation

"What is a Cult Film? 

A Cult Film is one, which 

has A Passionate Following, but 

Does NOT appeal to everybody :

James Bond Movies are NOT Cult Films; 

but Chainsaw Movies are --

Just because A Movie is A CULT Movie, 

Does not automatically guarantee Quality : 

Some Cult Movies are very bad;

others are very, very Good -- 

Some make an awful lot 

of Money at The Box-office;

others make No Money at all --

Some are considered ‘Quality’ Films; 

others are Exploitation -- 

One thing they 

DO have in common 

is that they're all Genre films --

That's to say, a French word meaning, 

'The Type or Category of Film in question' -- 

For example, Gangster Films or Westerns. 

Cult Films also have a tendency to 

slosh over from one genre into another;

Me : That's very True -- 

So that A Science-fiction Film might 

become A Detective Movie, or vice versa. 

They're also generally cheaply made :

Most of the films in this cost under $2 million;

Some of them cost a great deal less."

“It is really interesting to think of The Idea of 

Cult Film becoming a genre that people ASPIRE to....

And I think it goes back to when people were 

Watching Moviedrome at Home on Television, alone. 

There WASN'T this big, shared Internet Culture. 

There's something about the personal engagement 

with Film, and how it filters down through Your Imagination 

and You might make A Film of Your Own -- 

You can't guarantee You're making A Cult. 

You make What You Like, and it's filtered 

through What You've Seen -- 

And I Think that's perhaps

what's become Harder to Do, 

because everything can be shared instantly 

on social media platforms with each other;

and so people are more conscious of Feeding

-into this big pool of stuff that's labeled 'Cult'. 

And I think perhaps The Key to going back to The Roots 

of What Really Makes a Cult, is, it comes out of Isolation --

And You Don't yet KNOW until it lands, and possibly 

over The Years that You'll find Kindred Spirits --

That's The Truth of A Cult, isn't it?”