10 Awesome Films That Never Got The Cult Following They Deserved 

The Film:

Spring Breakers follows Brit (Ashley Benson), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Cotty (Rachel Korine), and Faith (Selena Gomez), four college girls that have been best friends since grade school. As their schoolmates all head off on spring break, the girls remain confined to their dorms, not having the money to go and party with everyone else. Until they commit an armed robbery.

This is a strange film that only gets stranger when the girls meet a rapper calling himself Alien (James Franco) who convinces the girls to turn their one-off robbery into a full-on crime spree. At first glance is comes across as nothing more than a torrent of guns, bongs, and boobs, though underneath the sticky fluorescent outer shell is an exceedingly sexy film that deals in some morally challenging concepts.

Why It Never Got The Cult Following It Deserved:

The names Selena Gomez and Venessa Hudgens do not exactly scream instant classic, and James Franco takes part in more bizarre projects than David Blane. Former Disney star Gomez and High School Musical actress Hudgens were both looking for drastic image change at the time, though Spring Breakers was, in the eyes of many, too desperate an attempt to distance themselves from the roles that made them famous.

Franco also appeared in the hugely popular This Is The End in 2013, though in that same year his smaller side projects were bombing. His adaptation of William Faulkner classic As I Lay Dying was panned, as was his Sal Maneo semi-biopic Sal, and (though he didn't direct it) Spring Breakers was labelled another pseudo-arty Franco misfire.

The film was considered a splat on Rotten Tomatoes for a long time after its release, though over time, as more reviewers sat down to give it an honest chance, the film dragged itself up to a respectable 66% rating. It was all a little too late for Harmony Karine's film, however, and a shamelessly indulgent and addictive movie was left on the scrap heap.