Amid negative reactions to content in the film that had been perceived as being offensive, the film was screened as a midnight movie, received positive notice, and developed a cult following.

The series became a cult classic and later came to be regarded as a masterpiece.

At first his body was laid in state, but since so many people came to see it, the reformers were afraid that they would be accused of fostering a new saint's cult.

It is difficult to trace when the cult of Mithras came to an end.

Under the two preceding kings, Amon and Manasseh, idolatry had been introduced in the most shameful forms ( especially the cult of Baal and Astarte ) into the Holy City, and with this foreign cult came a foreign culture and a great corruption of morals.

* November 26 – The 1975 cult classic movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show came out in America.

The film was subsequently universally panned by critics but met a receptive late night audience as a curious example of a cult film where all the unintended hilarity came from the overly serious approach, " cheesy " production values and ludicrous plot.

Participants in his Grecian cult in Both Lands Egypt and those who are in the temples of Egypt came here from their own districts and are given cultivated land to make their life good beyond measure.

His cult and functions were increasingly associated with Bacchus and his Greek equivalent Dionysus, whose mythologies he came to share.

Lucas came up with ideas that involved a religious cult devoted to child slavery, black magic and ritual human sacrifice.

It is believed that the cult of Adonis was known to the Greeks from around the sixth century B. C., but it is unquestionable that they came to know it through contact with Cyprus.

As the religion's chief cult divinity he came to be perceived as its divine priest.

After his death, Edwin came to be venerated as a saint by some, although his cult was eventually overshadowed by the ultimately more successful cult of Oswald, who was killed in 642.

Spacemen 3 came to prominence on the independent music scene around 1989, gaining a cult following.

Then came the new breed of South African metal with a band called Ragnarok, who were labelled as South Africa's Metallica and the only metal band at that time to have a cult following!

The Lindsay-Mori-Wright lineup of DNA developed something of a cult following between 1979 and 1982, but perhaps more of their fans came from the art world than from rock audiences.

As neighboring Lydia came to control Phrygia, the cult of Attis was given a Lydian context too.

Its pre-war attitudes came to seem increasingly reactionary, and its cult of the bushman increasingly anachronistic in what was already an urbanised country.

) At Corinth, he was so closely connected with the cult of Poseidon that the Isthmian Games, originally instituted in Poseidon's honor, came to be looked upon as the funeral games of Melicertes.

From this point on his community and its branches spread throughout Iran and Syria and came to be called Hashshashin or Assassins, also known as the Fedayin ( Meaning ' The Martyrs ', or ' Men Who Accept Death '), a mystery cult.

The popular turn-based strategy Battle Isle series from the early 1990s achieved cult status similar to Settlers but when revised in 1997 as a 3-D tactical game Incubation similar to UFO: Enemy Unknown and later in 2001 Battle Isle: The Andosia War, which tried to breach the gap between turn-based strategies and real-time strategies, it alienated many players who came to expect that the Battle Isle brand would represent traditional turn-based strategies.

It is unknown whether this is an equation of two originally separate goddesses whose names happened to fall together or whether Anat's cult spread to Mesopotamia where she came to be worshipped as Anu's spouse because the Mesopotamia form of her name suggested she was a counterpart to Anu.

Some suggest its origin came from the Turanian Great Ara, a female fertility cult that may have existed along the rim of the early village.

During this period, the funerary cult of Osiris rose to dominate Egyptian popular religion.

All of these, to extents, impact on Sainkho's voice, although the Siberian influences dominate: her thesis produced while studying voice, first at the University of Kyzyl, then in the Gnesins Institute in Moscow during the 1980s focussed on Lamaistic and cult musics of minority groups across Siberia, and her music frequently shows tendencies towards Tungus-style imitative singing.

Different branches of mainstream Hindu religion such as Shaktism, Vaishnavism and Shaivism now dominate the cult of Theyyam.

Stael, leader of the local black magic cult, recognises this and believes he can control the Fendahl and use it to dominate.

Religious, military, and cultural propaganda fostered a cult of personality, and by nominating himself perpetual censor, he sought to control public and private morals.

Religious, military and cultural propaganda fostered a cult of personality.

His rule, based on a purged military, a rural militia and the use of a personality cult and voodoo, resulted in the murder of an estimated 30, 000 Haitians and an ensuing " brain drain " from which the country has still not recovered.

Their participation in military service, taxation ( for the rich at Athens a matter of public display and pride ) and cult must have given them a sense of involvement in the city, and of their value to it.

As a result of the war the Anthelan body was known thenceforth as the Delphic Amphictyony and became the official overseer and military defender of the Delphic cult.

* The Idiots Abroad: The Brothers are split up attempting to travel to Colombia hoping to score on cheap dope down there, yet none of them manages to even just reach Bogotá ; Fat Freddy accidentally joins a group of nuclear terrorists in Scotland before disrupting the International Workers ' Day military parade in Moscow, USSR and being subsequently sold to slavery in Africa, Franklin is almost killed by a native apocalyptic South American cult before joining a group of pirates, while Phineas ends up in Mecca and becomes the world's richest man after founding a new religion.

In the years that followed, the film has developed a cult status among science fiction and military aviation fans.

The Roman ritual of evocatio was premised on the belief that a town could be made vulnerable to military defeat if the power of its tutelary deity were diverted outside the city, perhaps by the offer of superior cult at Rome.

In the speech, Khrushchev criticized actions taken by the regime of Joseph Stalin, particularly the purges of the military and the upper Party echelons, and the development of Stalin's personality cult, while maintaining support for the ideals of Communism by invoking Vladimir Lenin.

Throughout his presidency, Ferdinand Marcos had set up a regime in the Philippines that would give him ultimate power over the military and the national treasury, as well as set up a personality cult.

Mithraism had no concept of the death and resurrection of its god and no place for any concept of rebirth -- at least during its early stages ... During the early stages of the cult, the notion of rebirth would have been foreign to its basic outlook ... Moreover, Mithraism was basically a military cult.

The Sunday Times reported that the list included at least twenty senior executives, a senior teacher at an exclusive girl's public school, personnel from military bases, GPs, university academics and civil servants, a famous newspaper columnist, a song writer for a legendary pop band, a member of a chart-topping 1980s cult pop group, and an official with the Church of England.

: "... By its nature, Zionism concentrates ultra-nationalism, chauvinism and racial intolerance, excuse for territorial occupation and annexation, military opportunism, cult of political promiscuousness and irresponsibility, demagogy and ideological diversion, dirty tactics and perfidy ...

While Steve Canyon never achieved the popularity that Terry and the Pirates had at its height as a World War II military adventure or the cult fame Terry generated over the years, it was a successful comic strip with a greater circulation than Terry ever had.

Some scholars, mostly Italians, recognize in the Junos of Falerii, Tibur and Lavinium the Greek Hera, rejecting the theory of an indigenous original cult of a military Juno.

The ritual was conducted in a military setting either as a threat during a siege or as a result of surrender, and aimed at diverting the god's favor from the opposing city to the Roman side, customarily with a promise of better-endowed cult or a more lavish temple.

The extent to which former military leaders were appointed to run the nationalised industries led Common Wealth to warn throughout the 1950s and 1960 ’ s against trends towards regimentation in society and later the growing cult of the ‘ expert ’ technocrat.

For example evidence of the Mithras cult, which was popular among the military, has been found including a sculpture showing Mithras slaying a bull and a dedication to Arimanius, the god of evil in the Mithraic tradition.

The game follows the player as, commanded by elite officer Major Natalia and assisted by inept techie Lieutenant Foster, they fight the military forces of the cult, assist in the liberation of the planet from Word of Blake rule, and assassinate Commander Strader.

Caesarism is a form of political rule that emulates the rule of Roman dictator Julius Caesar over the Roman Republic, in that it is led by a charismatic strongman whose rule is based upon a cult of personality, whose rationale is the need to rule by force, establishing a violent social order, and being a regime involving prominence of the military in the government.

The popularity of the cult of Sergius and Bacchus grew rapidly during the early 5th century, in accordance with the growth of the cult of martyrs, especially military martyrs, during that period.

On 25 February 1956, at a closed session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered a " secret speech " in which he criticized actions taken by the Stalin regime, particularly the purges of the military and the upper Party echelons, and the development of Stalin's cult of personality, while maintaining support for the ideals of Communism by invoking Vladimir Lenin.