Audience reception is a funny thing. Despite the millions of dollars Hollywood studios spend on market research, movies don't always resonate the way they were expected to. In some cases, films fizzle out because they're simply bad. In other instances, movies struggle to succeed because they were released at the wrong time, or their marketing strategy was poor, or they just didn't find their audience.

Such is the case for many films we now call cult classics. Though there's no set definition for the term, it generally refers to films that had poor box office showings or were overlooked in some way, but later garnered a passionate fan base, thus giving them new life. While cult films aren't necessarily defined by their content, they often include campy elements or diverge from mainstream s

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