"Cult appeal" refers to something, such as a movie, TV show, or book, that has a small but very dedicated and passionate group of fans who deeply appreciate and follow it. These fans may create a community around this particular thing, often valuing its unique and obscure qualities.
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If it can get the balance right, Trader Joe's may be one of the few retailers to marry
cult appeal with scale.
The GTI has long become a car with
cult appeal as well as an independent brand.
In their place they've assembled a gang of players who are either unappreciated or unloved, and a coach
whose cult appeal was by no means a guarantee that he would succeed in European club management.
Although global expansion poses something of an existential question for Supreme (how can the label continue to scale without watering down its
homegrown cult appeal?)
Meanwhile, writerly voices don't come any more distinct than esteemed British playwright Martin McDonagh's, and I think this is where the slow -
burning cult appeal of «In Bruges» will reveal itself.
Much of Donnie Darko's
cult appeal lies in the accurate way in which it recounts awkward adolescence and teenage rebellion.
Well if Nintendo picked it up then they could actually call it Eternal Darkness, and that brand has a pretty
decent cult appeal.
With its offbeat level design (Marina has to compete in an athletics event in one mission) and decent boss battles, Mischief Makers
achieved cult appeal at the time, but because it could be finished reasonably quickly, reviews were muted.
Gordon Matta Clark has a
certain cult appeal among architecture and conceptual art fans alike, perhaps fueled by his haunting, ephemeral works of the 1960s and»70s in which he pounded holes and sawed huge fissures through ramshackle historic buildings slated for demolition in areas grappling with mid-century modernization — New York, New Jersey, and Chicago among them.
He first saw The Room circa 2009, when Troll 2's
cult appeal was receiving global recognition.
Released 30 years ago, John Carpenter's frantic San Francisco beat»em up has lost none of
its cult appeal.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia has long been available only on import tapes, laserdiscs and DVDs, which has probably added to
its cult appeal.
Employing a new 4.0 - litre twin - turbo V8 that now makes 430kW and 850Nm — up 10kW and 90Nm on its predecessor — the iconic off - roader moves in a slightly more gentrified direction than before, purportedly without losing
its cult appeal.
You can also pull a variety of dance moves during the game, and some of these have taken on
a cult appeal in schoolyards around the globe.
Ahead of a new exhibition, Sukhdev Sandhu and others examine his cult appeal