Since the turn of the millennium, notable successes among cult and midnight movies have been Donnie Darko ( 2001 ), the 2001 comedy Wet Hot American Summer, an absurdist parody of the pre-MTV summer camp genre, and the comic book adaptation Ghost World.

In the world of anime, the MTV spoof series Ultracity 6060 created by Beavis and Butt-head animator Mike Judge has become a hard-to-acquire cult classic among American anime fans.

Entry-level IT workers and white-collar American workers alike have given Mike Judge's 1999 comedy film Office Space a cult following because of its heroic portrayal of ordinary office employees who become fed up with their jobs.

The American Medical Association called chiropractic an " unscientific cult " and boycotted it until losing an antitrust case in 1987.

Not intended to appeal to mainstream filmgoers, these early Jarmusch films were embraced by art house audiences, gaining a small but dedicated American following and cult status in Europe and Japan.

* 2007 – Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader, founded Nation of Yahweh ( b. 1935 )

* 1934 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and convicted murderer

** Jim Jones, American cult leader ( d. 1978 )

* June 26 – Dwight York, American musician, fashion consultant, cult leader, and child molester

** David Koresh, American spiritualist, leader of the Branch Davidian religious cult ( d. 1993 )

* November 12 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and criminal

Another soundtrack appearance occurred with the song “ Watching Me Fall ” ( from the 11th The Cure ´ s album: Bloodflowers ), a remixed version by Underdog ( of Massive Attack ) for the 2000 American cult movie American Psycho.

The Producers is a 1968 American satirical dark comedy cult classic film written and directed by Mel Brooks.

Cargo cult activity in the Pacific region increased significantly during and immediately after World War II, when the residents of these regions observed the Japanese and American combatants bringing in large amounts of matériel.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a 2001 American comedy film directed, written by, and starring Kevin Smith as Silent Bob, the fifth to be set in his View Askewniverse, a growing collection of characters and settings that developed out of his cult favorite Clerks.

Bob Zmuda ( born December 12, 1949 ) is an American writer, comedian, producer and director best known as the sidekick, co-writer and friend of cult personality Andy Kaufman.

Devon Ryan Gummersall ( born October 15, 1978 ) is an American actor, writer, and television and film director, perhaps best known for acting on the cult classic television show My So-Called Life.

Theatrical releases, and especially TV syndication, of the Toho monster movies created a new cult movie market for Japanese monster movies, and such long-running television movie syndication packages such as Creature Double Feature exposed the Toho movie monsters to young American audiences, who embraced them and helped them maintain their popularity throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

* Jill Banner, American film actress, possibly best recalled for her role as Virginia, the " spider baby " in the 1964 cult horror-comedy film Spider Baby.

Despite the poor sales figures, the game has been lauded by gamers for its humorous depictions of American culture and parody of the role-playing video game genre, and has since become a cult classic.

* The psychiatrist Alexander Deutsch performed a long-term observation of a small cult, called The Family ( not to be confused with Family International ), founded by an American guru called Baba or Jeff in New York in 1972, who showed increasingly schizophrenic behavior.

Ogre, Key, and Goettel signed a contract with American Recordings and moved to Malibu, California, in 1993 to record The Process, a concept album inspired by 1960s cult The Process Church of The Final Judgment, with Roli Mosimann producing.

Many of these bands were able to enjoy cult and then national success in the UK, but found it difficult to break into the American market.

Bowie's impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, " challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day " and " created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture.

With his next venture, Bowie, in the words of biographer David Buckley, " challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day " and " created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture ".

The rock music " scene " in India is small compared to the filmi or fusion musicality " scenes " but as of recent years has come into its own, achieving a cult status of sorts.

Arriving on the wave of country rock following on from Gram Parsons, The Band, and the Eagles, Friedman originally found cult fame as a country and western singer.

Spurning the " cult of rock star personality ", their plain, all-black dress became a staple of the genre.

1968 saw the first major German rock festival in Essen, and the foundation of the Zodiak Free Arts Lab in Berlin by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Conrad Schnitzler, which helped bands like Tangerine Dream and Amon Düül achieve cult status.

The Brazilian psychedelic rock group Os Mutantes formed in 1966, although little known outside Brazil at the time, have since accrued a substantial international cult following.

Through his brief collaborations with Björk, however, he also exerted influence closer to the pop and alternative rock mainstream, and he developed a large cult fan-base.

The group also picked up a cult following in Australia thanks to the support of the Sydney rock radio station 2JJ ( now Triple-J ) and the nationally broadcast weekly music TV show Countdown, which screened all of the band's early videos ( beginning with their first Australian single release-" This Is Pop "); thanks to this interest, the group made two well-received tours there in 1979 and 1980.

Gabriel's theatrics were unpalatable to some of the mainstream rock audience, resulting in a cult following rather than mainstream.

In the early ' 70s, when the group specialised in ambitious, theatrical story-songs, it attracted an avid cult following but was largely ignored by the rock press and public at large.

Although he achieved little commercial or mainstream critical success, he sustained a cult following as a " highly significant " and " incalculable " influence on an array of New Wave, punk, post-punk, experimental and alternative rock musicians.

The gritstone edges of the Peak District are an important climbing area and the rock is much relished by English climbers, among whom it has almost cult status and is often referred to as " God's own rock ".

Country rock has survived as a cult force in Texas, where acts including The Flatlanders, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Jimmy Dale Gilmore and California-based Richard Brooker, have collaborated and recorded.

Evidence for the origins of the Pueblo katchina cult as suggested by Southwestern rock art.

King Crimson gained a massive cult following in the late 1960s and 1970s with their explosive instrumental output that merged rock, jazz, classical and heavy metal styles, though their albums also included songs with vocals.

The New York Dolls were first and foremost a major influence on the rock music scene in New York City, having accumulated a devoted cult following during their career.

Their funk rock recordings of that period were cult favorites and they were raved for their brash interpretation of rock and roll and for dealing with subject matter that was not touched by black groups.

They documented the reunion tour with a two-disc live set, 1997's Return to Paradise, which featured three new studio tracks: " On My Way ", " Paradise " ( a soft rock hit that also appears in another version on Dennis DeYoung's Hunchback of Notre Dame album ) and " Dear John ", a tribute to the late Styx drummer John Panozzo that has become a cult favorite among Styx fans.

The group's lead singer, Jay Black, dubbed Becker and Fagen " the Manson and Starkweather of rock ' n ' roll ", referring to cult leader Charles Manson and spree killer Charles Starkweather.

From their Nettwerk debut EP Remission in 1984 to their 1992 album Last Rights, Skinny Puppy developed into an influential band with a dedicated cult following, fusing elements of ambient, noise, new wave, electro, and rock music and making innovative use of sampling.

Mainstream public was warned that punk rock is " a sinister new teenage pop cult, based on sex, sadism and violence, is sweeping Britain.