Through an acting career that spanned 57 years, Wray attained international renown as an actress in horror movie roles, leading to many considering her as the first " scream queen ".

Go Nutz, the album Brood had recorded while in the States, and the movie Cha-Cha, which finally premiered in December 1979, were considered artistic failures, even though Go Nutz produced three charting singles in the Netherlands and the Cha Cha soundtrack attained platinum status.

Even after he attained the status of movie star, he continued to play theatre.

" SURRENDER DOROTHY " is a famous special effect used in the movie The Wizard of Oz, which later attained local fame as a graffito in the Washington, D. C metropolitan area.

It attained a cult following among younger audiences due to its youth-oriented, anti-authority message combined with the then-novel martial arts fight scenes which predate the Bruce Lee / kung fu movie trend that soon followed.

The fact that the Quill footage could not be used for the Woodstock movie seriously disappointed Ertegün and the band's record was never actively promoted, even though over the years it has attained some cult status.

* After Conan O ' Brien mentioned the movie on The Tonight Show, the movie attained cult classic status with over three million hits on YouTube within a week of its mention.

In response to the idea that the film has attained cult status, he remarks, " if Inseminoid has become some form of cult movie, then I am very pleased and, indeed, very flattered.

With its science fiction storyline and low budget, the film attained popularity with some movie fans, and in the subsequent years has attracted a cult film following.

A cult film is a movie that attracts a devoted group of followers or obsessive fans, often despite having failed commercially on its initial release.

After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct The Elephant Man ( 1980 ), from which he gained mainstream success.

The themes of this movie have become a cult favorite among tattoo clientele.

The 1980s saw a wave of gory " B movie " horror films – although most of them were panned by critics, many became cult classics and later saw success with critics.

* Total Love ( 2000, cult movie from Israel )

However, it gained a strong cult following, was a hit internationally, and is regarded by many as the best movie in the series.

Pie was a major box office success, and achieved cult status for her nude bedroom scene in the movie.

Army of Darkness, the final movie in the Evil Dead trilogy, was a box office flop, yet on video became a cult classic.

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

It became a cult favourite at late-night movie houses, and its subsequent release on video and then DVD has ensured a growing base of fans.

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 movie was panned by critics, but it made a profit at the box office and had a strong cult following.

In 1976, he played a supporting role as a dog owner in the cult movie The Amazing Dobermans, co-starring Barbara Eden and James Franciscus.

The movie. The movie is based on a character created for television promos at the time of the launch of the music network Channel in 1994 which had cult following.

Beginning in the early 1960s, Freaks was rediscovered as a counterculture cult film, and throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the film was regularly shown at midnight movie screenings at several movie theaters in the United States.

In addition to AFI's naming J. J. Hunsecker number 35 of the top 50 movie villains of all time in 2003, Mackendrick's film has achieved cult film status because of its dialogue.

MonsterVision eventually found a permanent host in cult personality and drive-in movie aficionado Joe Bob Briggs.

While the song and the movie have become 1980s cult classics, working on the soundtrack postponed Lauper's second album.

When left derelict, the house was stripped of fixtures and fittings by devotees of the cult movie.

After leaving Laverne and Shirley in 1982, McKean played David St. Hubbins in the cult spoof documentary movie This is Spinal Tap with both Guest and Shearer, and appeared in the soap opera spoof Young Doctors in Love.

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.

While it ’ s true that the top television and film actors have become movie and television stars, musicians and pop singers that become pop stars, or athletes that become sports stars often become celebrities, the other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the entertainment sphere, such as television, music, and film directors and producers, screenwriters, playwrights, and animators are less likely to attain celebrity status ( albeit there are some exceptions, such as directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and animator Seth MacFarlane ).

Robinson had always had top billing over Bogart in their previous films together but for this movie, Robinson's name appears to the right of Bogart's, but placed a little higher on the posters, and also in the film's opening credits, to indicate Robinson's near-equal status.

This is still subject to change, particularly because the " status " of the movie was listed as " unknown " in April 2009 ( the date of IMDb's last update to " The Dirt ").

In October 1953, with the release of Mogambo, she became a movie star, a status confirmed in 1954 with a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nomination as well as leading roles in five films, including The Country Girl, in which she gave a deglamorized, Academy Award-winning performance.

However, when Darryl F. Zanuck merged his fledgling studio, 20th Century Pictures, with Fox Film Corporation to form Twentieth Century Fox, her status became precarious and even tertiary to that of actresses Loretta Young and Shirley Temple, although she always received top billing in every movie that she made during the 1930s, including Ladies in Love ( 1937 ) with Constance Bennett, Young, and Tyrone Power.

In the movie Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Porky makes a cameo appearance alongside Speedy Gonzales, where they both lament their politically incorrect status.

However, it was his then-unexpected turn in the film Die Hard ( 1988 ) that catapulted him to movie star status.

* In the movie RoboCop, RoboCop uses Augmented Reality tech via his head-mounted display to get into the details of a particular person or status quo.

Harris achieved a form of cult status for his role as the mercenary tactician Rafer Janders in the movie The Wild Geese ( 1978 ).

Full-blown movie star status for Costner arrived in 1987, when he starred as federal agent Eliot Ness in The Untouchables and in the leading role of the thriller No Way Out.

In the 1970 movie Le Mans, McQueen famously wore a blue faced Monaco 1133B Caliber 11 Automatic which has led to its cult status with watch collectors.

The movie was filmed in 1993 – 94, and although it was almost universally panned by critics, the film has achieved cult status among The Jerky Boys ' loyal fan base.

And has reached near cult status among romantic comedy aficionados and is considered by many critics to be the most successful movie in the genre.

By 1935 Scott was firmly established as a popular movie star and, thus, following the release of Rocky Mountain Mystery ( 1935 ), Paramount moved him up from his " B " Western status to a star of " A " features, many on loan out.

At the time of its release the movie was reviewed unfavorably by critics, but over the years has gained a cult status.

Few things summarise his status as well as a T-shirt worn by Raquel Welch, one of the greatest movie stars of the era.

This iconic status was reflected in the 1977 movie Smokey and the Bandit, which centered around an illegal shipment of Coors from Texas to Georgia.

After appearing on stage, Young was signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM )— a movie studio that, at the time, was known for holding contracts with a large number of stars — and, in spite of having a " tier B " status, he co-starred with some of the studio's most illustrious actresses, such as Margaret Sullavan, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, and Helen Twelvetrees.

In 1970, several episodes were edited together to create the movie Voyage Into Space, which has now reached cult film status.

Gambit is just the sort of tortured soul that X-readers love, and his continued presence in the TV and movie spinoffs cements his status as one of the greats.

However, when released in the United States a year later, it achieved bona fide cult-film status, eventually running for five years at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and other repertoire movie theaters.