10 Awesome Films That Never Got The Cult Following They Deserved 

The Film:

Nicholaus Goossen’s offbeat comedy Grandma’s Boy follows a 35-year-old video-game tester named Alex (Allen Covert) as he attempts to finish designing his own game Demonik despite a lack of encouragement from his boss. His progress is halted when he is unexpectedly forced to move out of his apartment due to his roommate blowing their entire rent on Filipino prostitutes.

After being turned away by his weed dealer, Alex has no choice but to move into his grandma’s house, where he must bunk with her and her two friends. He leads his buddies to believe that he has moved in with three beautiful young woman, keeping his living situation a secret, though in the end granny proves a vital part of bringing Demonik to life.

Why It Never Got The Cult Following It Deserved:

With a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 16%, Grandma's Boy received little love from the critics. The film was labelled a lazy and unrewarding gross-out comedy that could only be enjoyed by (some) gamers, stoners, or indeed any mixture of the two, with everyone else having to suffer through flat toilet humour and career-low performances from the entire cast.

Ironically, a lot of the things said in derision of Grandma's Boy are said of a number of existing cult films, only in a positive light. If gross-out toilet humour has a place anywhere, it is among the ranks of cult followings, and Grandma's Boy has more than enough about it to warrant its own fanbase. Strangely, the reason it doesn't is likely because of a man who doesn't even appear in the film.

Grandma's Boy was made by Adam Sandler's Happy Maddison productions, and by the time of its release even those who had previously defended Sandler on the grounds of some of his early work had lost patience with the tiresome comedian. Coming out in the same year as the abomination that was Click, Grandma's Boy was a genuinely funny film that suffered death by association.