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The Boedecker Theater at the Dairy Arts Center, another local venue, regularly shows B-list cult favorites as part of its Friday Night Weird series.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The present was inspired by Awad’s goth-tinged comic novel “Bunny,” which has garnered a cult following on social platforms like BookTok over the last several years with readers who call themselves “bunnies.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The rub here is that there’s a difference between a film that becomes a cult classic because it’s genuinely underrated, and one that achieves that status through the unholy, rose-colored lens of social media obsession.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

The original 1998 film hardly enchanted critics upon its debut, but went on to conjure a cult following that had kept hopes of a sequel alive ever since.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difH- cult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

Perhaps a book that couched Castaneda’s story more deeply in the context of the ’70s counterculture and the nature of cults past and present would make his story clearer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

Since Niyazov's death in 2006, successive presidents -- Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and his son Serdar -- have kept the system in place, along with the cults of personality and grand architecture.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

But cults are generally led by charlatans, so that’s not surprising.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

As a zany critique of authoritarian cults, the novel is superficially relevant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

There are the tone cults, of course, dressing in sackcloth and worshiping sonic vibrations—but like so many things in our world, they seek to imitate what once was.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman