Many cult movies have gone on to transcend their original cult status and have become recognized as classics.

Many films enjoy cult status because they may be seen as ridiculously awful, for example Plan 9 from Outer Space ( 1958 ) or The Room ( 2003 ).

He also acknowledged the film's cult following saying, " Many people tell me they have it in their video collection, it's a family film but also a cult film in a way, being passed down to other generations ".

Many Protestants consider Catholicism to be a cult, due to its beliefs regarding the Pope, Mary, and Purgatory.

Many dictators create a cult of personality and have come to favor increasingly grandiloquent titles and honours for themselves.

Many suffered execution, engendering a cult of martyrdom.

Many legionaries became devotees in the cult of the minor goddess Disciplina, whose virtues of frugality, severity and loyalty were central to their code of conduct and way of life.

Many of them were absorbed by more powerful divinities, and some like the vegetation goddesses Ariadne and Helen survived in Greek folklore together with the cult of the " divine child ", who was probably the precursor of Dionysos.

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.

Many comics achieve a cult following while touring famous comedy hubs such as the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, the Edinburgh Fringe, and Melbourne Comedy Festival in Australia.

Many archaeologists have believed that the monument had religious significance of some sort of another, either as a place of worship for a " cult of the dead " or for an astronomically-based faith.

Many of these cult cinema fans learned all of the lines in the film and would recite them at the screenings, a phenomenon which would later become associated with another popular midnight movie of the era, The Rocky Horror Picture Show ( 1975 ).

Many of the monuments on Mount Nemrud are ruins of the imperial cult of Commagene.

Many religions that were not part of Rome's earliest state cult offered leadership roles for women, among them the cult of Isis and of the Magna Mater.

Many authors adopt colorful pseudonyms and can develop cult followings within their genre, though a small number use ( or claim to use ) their real names.

Many religions that were not part of Rome's earliest state religion offered leadership roles as priests for women, among them the imported cult of Isis and of the Magna Mater (" Great Mother ", or Cybele ).

Many cities in the Ancient Near East were home to the cult centers of certain deities, such as Marduk in Babylon or Ptah in Memphis.

Many of the productions she starred in were low-budget B-movies with some having gained a cult following for their high camp value.

However, despite the initial reception, it is now regarded as a cult classic, and has a dedicated fan base. Many people called it a rip-off of Anaconda.

Many archaeologists have suggested that this is because Early Neolithic people adhered to an ancestor cult that venerated the spirits of the dead, believing that they could intercede with the forces of nature for the benefit of their living descendants.

Many liberals in Russia fear that the organization is designed to set up a cult of personality around President Putin.

Many Hollywood films manage somehow to be authentic, but not realistic.

Many titles for novels and films have been drawn from Housman's poetry.

Many types of packaging can be made from biopolymers: food trays, blown starch pellets for shipping fragile goods, thin films for wrapping.

Many of Marker's earliest films were produced by Anatole Dauman.

* Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance ; there are several manga ( or graphic novel ) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.

Many of his principles, therefore, found their way back into the mainstream animation consciousness, and can be seen in films such as The Emperor's New Groove and Lilo & Stitch.

Many non-disco artists recorded disco songs at the height of disco's popularity, and films such as Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It's Friday contributed to disco's rise in mainstream popularity.

Many of the first films, such as those made by Auguste and Louis Lumière, were a minute or less in length, due to technological limitations.

Many works have been inspired by the novella, including novel sequels, short films, and a feature film called Flatland.

Many of the German films of the immediate post-war period can be characterised as belonging to the genre of the Trümmerfilm ( literally " rubble film ").

Many films were remakes of earlier Ufa productions shorn of the nationalistic Blut und Boden traits of those Nazi-period films.

Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).

Many contemporaries of Godard and Truffaut followed suit, or achieved international critical acclaim with styles of their own, such as the minimalist films of Robert Bresson and Jean-Pierre Melville, the Hitchcockian-like thrillers of Henri-Georges Clouzot, and other New Wave films by Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais.

Many British films are co-productions with American producers, often using both British and American actors, and British actors feature regularly in Hollywood films.

Many successful Hollywood films have been based on British people, stories or events, including Titanic, The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films.

Many of them would go on to produce important films during World War II.

Many Hollywood films with a British dimension ( based on British people, stories or events ) have had enormous worldwide commercial success.

Many of its sojourners were devoted to seclusion and quiet, and lived there to the end of their days.

Many of the myocardial fibers were hypertrophied and had large, irregular, basophilic nuclei.

Many aspects of civilization were not yet sufficiently crystallized to find expression, nor could the simple economic and social foundations of this world support a lofty structure.

Many potters clung to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; ;

Many patent contests were waged over automobile components and accessories, among them tires, detachable rims, ball bearings, license brackets, and electric horns.

Many of the roads also were hit by an unusually severe winter.

Many of the latter were destroyed in their turn, during the burning of the vast Ch'in palace some ten years later ; ;

Many anthropologists ( students and teachers ) were active in the antiwar movement.

Many of the non-alphanumeric characters were positioned to correspond to their shifted position on typewriters.

Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.

Many batting records were set in this period.

Many lesser beings were said to be children of Aphrodite.

Many peasant parties were also nationalist parties, because peasants often worked their land for the benefit of landlords of different ethnicity.

Many remarkable insects and spiders were recently discovered in the amber of Jordan including the oldest zorapterans, clerid beetles, umenocoleid roaches, and achiliid planthoppers.

Many students left and were enrolled in the local common school or a recently re-opened private school for boys.

Many of the Ainu dialects, even from one end of Hokkaido to the other, were not mutually intelligible ; however, the classic Ainu language of the Yukar, or Ainu epic stories, was understood by all.

Many fragments were supplied in quotes by Athenaeus, principally on the subject of wine-drinking, but fr. 333, " wine, window into a man ", was quoted much later by the Byzantine grammarian, John Tzetzes.

Many officials, including those from Maryland, Virginia and Louisiana, as well as Chief Justice Chase personally, underscored for the President that the Southern states were economically in a state of chaos and governmental disorganization, and most anxious to reach agreements that would restore them to the Union.

Many of the men involved with Johnson's acquittal committee were friends of Secretary William Seward, Johnson's strongest ally on his Presidential Cabinet.

Many critics considered Johnson's actions were passive and delayed, and thought his defense of the Monroe Doctrine in this instance was weak.

Many of the burhs were twin towns that straddled a river and connected by a fortified bridge, like those built by Charles the Bald a generation before.

Many Athenians prominent earlier in the century would have lost citizenship, had this law applied to them: Cleisthenes, the founder of democracy, had a non-Athenian mother, and the mothers of Cimon and Themistocles were not Greek at all, but Thracian.

Many of these were arrested in Ireland, and some in Great Britain.

Many clinical tests were inconclusive, probably because it had been used as a surface antiseptic.

Many of these were part of the corruption indulged in by Scott and the Pennsylvania's president, J. Edgar Thomson, which consisted of inside trading in companies that the railroad did business with, or payoffs made by contracting parties " as part of a quid pro quo ", as biographer David Nasaw writes.