It definately needs to have a following -- and something that gets passed down from generation to generation. Movies don't become cult status during the time of their initial theatrical release.

A cult movie is a film that ought to be a popular hit prescribed to school children and watched in sunday congregations after the sermon, except that the pitiable foo's dont have the taste, judgement good sense or the craving for the gratuitous sex violence and gore(whatever) in it. that the cult audience has.

Plus it's a pity that people that didn't see "the devil's rejects" still want to be able to say something about the blood and gore in it.

We love you Rob Zombie!!! (exiting with a two finger salut).

Really? "The Devil's Rejects"? It looked awful. Was it any good?

did you see it?

It was an awesome poetry of a falling apart theatre macabre of sex violence and anti social venom that only rob zombie could hav made. reinforces my pet theory that art is always contextualized to a time and place, evne if the time is an alternate universe and the place is zombieville texas...

but you need not nescesarily like it...of course

( two fingered salut....exit lr)

I haven't seen it, but I guess I could put it on my GreenCine queue if you really think it's good enough.

So, I do need to know more about your "pet theory." Is this related to the movie and something I'll only understand after I watch it? Or is it about how "Angel's Wild Women" is kind of like the art of the 1970s biker flicks, revealing the alternate world of Manson-paranoid freedom-loving motorcycle gangs?

More like easy rider was a cult classic but you gotta have been there, or somethin' or it's just a film about blonde white women in a commune walking around in circles.

Dont kill me if you hate it....Men stopped being providers when chicks discoverd feminism in the seventies..

;)

Chiming into this thread, I thought I would put in my two cents worth into this topic because there always seems especially in this day and age to be questions about what makes a cult film. From my experience and my taste the more "departure" from mainstream a move is the more cult status it can be which is ironic. Basically I find that really true cult classic films feature stories and direction that aren't afraid to take chances at all, whether it is in regard to stories, complexity etc. Responding to this thread about Rob Zombie and the "Devil's Rejects" although I appreciate his homage to the older 1970s and 1980s horror film, there is no better horro film director from that era then TOBE HOOPER (Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Poltergeist, Eaten Alive), where Zombie tries to reinvent the genre, Tobe Hooper perfected it and it is disappointing to watch these remakes like Texase Chainsaw Massacre, Amityville Horror come to the big screen again to capitalize on a new generation of filmmakers loaded with marketing schloky gimmicks of the trade to entice that 17 - 24 year old market to embrace these films like the SCREAM series and Wes Craven's schock fest of the new millenium, but I digress. Check out Tobe Hooper's film and I think you will see what I am talking about!

So, I saw Black Sheep a couple weeks ago and it was funny... but gross.