Evil dead is now full on classic. See that’s the shyt I’m saying. Evil dead is talked about by academics and studied in colleges. Books have been written about it. It’s a horror classic. That shyt isn’t cult anymore. Cult to me is a movie that has a big following but not huge. Like Clue. People love Clue but it’s still niche enough where it’s a cult of people who love it and not the whole damn world
It is a cult classic.
A cult classic could be a classic, too.
Like godfather is an actual cult classic because of the content and taboo nature of the Content to the background of Italian Americans. Plus it is a classic as well.
It is a horror classic firstly and it is a indie movie classic but at the end of the day. You classify them as cult classic.
As there is some resistance in culture to the content.
Which is why the connotation of cult and the word is attached in the combo of cult classic, too.
Art Barr