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The program has earned cult status at Lancaster University, and is still widely used, despite its now limited effectiveness.


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Amy Hill

She is perhaps best known for her roles as Mrs. DePaulo in That's So Raven, Mrs. Kwan in The Cat in the Hat, Sue in 50 First Dates, Miss Hyo-Kim in Next Friday, Yung-Hee "Grandma" Kim on All-American Girl through more of a cult status, and the voice of Jasmine "Ah-Mah" Lee on The Life and Times of Juniper Lee.

Blindman

The film achieved over the years a cult status, mainly for the participation of ex-Beatle Ringo Starr in a role of weight.

Bug Buster

Despite having a reputation as being a poorly made film, it has nonetheless has achieved small B movie cult status.

Christiane F. – We Children from Bahnhof Zoo

Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo is a 1981 film directed by Ulrich Edel that portrays the drug scene in West Berlin in the 1970s, based on the non-fiction book of the same name written following tape recordings of Christiane F. The movie immediately acquired cult status (which it still retains today) and features David Bowie as both himself and the soundtrack composer, which gave the movie a commercial boost.

Daryl Kerrigan

She began to develop the Hip Hugger Bootleg Jean, which drew people like Sonic Youth front women Kim Gordon, as well as fashion editors like Camilla Nickerson and stylists to the store and earned Daryl cult status in fashion circles.

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

Despite its low production values, the film has achieved a certain cult status for the appearance of Price and other AIP Beach Party film alumni, its in-jokes and over-the-top sexism, the claymation title sequence designed by Art Clokey, and a title song performed by The Supremes.

Fucking USA

The video has developed a minor cult status in the West, where it has been shown on comedy shows such as Tarrant on TV and Web Junk 20.

Jokari

The game has reached some cult status in France, it is featured in several comics, and also in the James Bond spoof movie OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006), in the English translation of which the game is called "paddleball."

KAAY

KAAY's cult status was forged in the late 1960s, when, after 11:00 each evening, the station abandoned the standard Top 40 format for three hours of underground music with the program Beaker Street hosted by Clyde Clifford.

Laurent Boutonnat

Starring Farmer, Jeff Dahlgren and Joss Ackland, the film was a major critical and commercial flop at the time, even if more recent reviews of the film are less hostile with the film after it achieved cult status with its DVD release.

Marco Krainer

In 2004 he presented to the audience an erotic menu during his debut at the TV station VOX (Hamburg, Germany) in the erotic magazine “Wa(h)re Liebe” (True love or love for sale) with Lilo Wanders whose program has achieved cult status.

Max Design

Max Design was an Austrian game developer located in Schladming who originated various games which attained cult status – like the Anno-series – especially in German-speaking regions.

Melnitsa

For the first several years the band had worked the club and festival circuit, earned a bona fide cult status in the folk-n-fantasy teenage sub-culture and released an acoustic album Doroga Sna (Дорога Сна, The Road of Dream) featuring the underground hit Gorets (Горец, Highlander) set to the Russian translation of Robert Burns' Highland Harry Back Again.

Metal Wolf Chaos

Despite not receiving a Western release, Metal Wolf Chaos gained cult status after a series of YouTube videos depicting the game's cheesy voice acting and nonsensical plot were released.

Nathan Norton

Directed by Joshua Leonard, the film achieved cult status after premiering at The Sundance Film Festival.

Nolan Thomas

In the UK during the mid 80's "Yo, Little Brother" received some cult status after it was aired on the Max Headroom Show (channel 4 Television).

Silvi Vrait

For being a demanded and highly popular soloist in her native Estonia, she has toured and recorded with the likes of Suuk and Fix, both on cult status in Estonia.

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin

The film has since gained a small cult status, but has been criticized over the years due to similarities to Star Wars.

Superhiks

The band got its name after Superhik (in Italian: Superciuk), a fictitious anti-Robin Hood character who steals from the poor and gives to the rich from the Italian comic book Alan Ford that had and still has a cult status in the former Yugoslav countries.

Tony Edwards

The character was inspired by Gilbert Shelton's Wonder Wart-Hog and achieved cult status with the Australian surfing community.

Weirdsville

Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter wrote "Director Allan Moyle has described Weirdsville as a Canadian Trainspotting, which is a bit of wishful thinking", saying "it lacks the inventiveness and biting edge of Danny Boyle's landmark movie" and while the film "has some quirky pleasures, it seems unlikely to achieve either major cult status or boxoffice success."