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The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint; a subset of worship. | A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing. | A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.
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A cult is a cult is a cult, be they Jesus freaks or people so annoying even Missouri chased them out.
You may defeat an incumbent with cult followership by fielding a candidate with cult followership, you will not solve Nigeria’s myriad of problems with a president with cult followership.
All known copies of the film were destroyed, and Nosferatu become an early cult film, kept alive by a cult following that circulated illegal bootlegs. citation Academic Chuck Kleinhans identifies the Marx Brothers as making other early cult films.
Agbasim was killed and his body dismembered by 2Baba and his dreaded Iceland cult group terrorising Ahoada-East, an area known as a safe haven for violent cult activities.
All three men are talented, but they’ve just never clicked as this cult based off Eric Young’s old cult faction.
But as with any cult of this nature, it is not rational thought that governs behavior, but the rush to go farthest to escape the wrath of the cult leader, even if the objective result is an electoral disaster.
It’s a cult classic that’s so cult many people have probably never heard of it but it’s the ultimate movie.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide is less a cult classic than a cult (imagine PG Wodehouse in space), but the enduring pop-cultural appeal of this series stems from something deeper than its intergalactic wit.
Queer director Darren Stein—whose own films like have cult followings—told : “I think all cult movies have something that’s intrinsically transgressive about them.
Narcissism is a result of emotional trauma that occurs when children are exposed to toxic cultural messages that overall impose the cult of masculinity on men and cult of femininity on women.
According to him, the slain policeman died while fighting on the side of his cult group against rival cult group.
Hassan said the information he gathered fulfills most of his criteria for what a “destructive cult” is, although he was unwilling to label WMS a cult.
He said: “On April 14, policemen attached to Ogombo Division received a distress call that rival cult groups had a clash of supremacy at Abraham Adesanya on Lekki-Epe Expressway and four members of Eiye cult gang were killed by Aye members.
There was, Price says, a cult that lived there in the '70s, which made it an apt backdrop for "Never Really Over" — in it, Perry explores new-age treatments to cure her broken heart that aren't entirely un-cult-like.
Following their Lovecraftian modern cult classic SPRING, writer/directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead star as brothers who receive a mysterious message inspiring them to pay a visit to the cult they escaped as children.
My Mormon step-relatives had their own subset of beliefs that made them, essentially, a cult-within-a-cult.
Yeah, you can talk about the PFDJ supporters being a cult all you want, but the question to ask is: why is it that it is so hard for you non-cult anti-PFDJ elements with all your patrons to defeat these delusional and mindless PFDJ cultist supporters?
At the height of their popularity, the band's success spurred a host of cult-like activities, such as a Marshfield, Massachusetts, Blue Öyster Cult-themed summer camp which featured competitive air guitar and lip synching contests.
Because Rome and Smyrna had no ties until then, Smyrna created a cult of Rome to establish a bond, and the cult eventually became widespread through the whole Roman Empire.
Briggs highlights the mainstreaming of cult films by pointing out the respectful obituaries that cult directors have received from formerly hostile publications and acceptance of politically incorrect films at mainstream film festivals.