10 Recent Box Office Duds Destined To Become Cult Classics

Bad Times at the El Royale is more than a little indebted to the work of Quentin Tarantino, which a lot of people acknowledged to both praise and criticize Drew Goddard's long-awaited follow-up to the genre-bending Cabin in the Woods. The violence, the dialogue, the ensemble cast, the soundtrack, the title cards; all of this has been done before by Tarantino (and done better), but that doesn't mean El Royale fails to stand on its own merits as a piece of cinema.

An intricate puzzle of a movie disguised as a stylish period thriller, Goddard's sophomore feature sometimes focus more on style at the expense of substance and the self-awareness becomes a little too much at times, but El Royale's biggest strength is the cast, all working at the top of their game. It's the kind of mid-budget studio movie that was everywhere in the mid-'90s but given a modern twist, which is ironic given the 1969 setting.

In a fantastic coincidence, Bad Times at the El Royale was released the very same month that the word 'Tarantinoesque' was added to the Oxford Dictionary, but it didn't make much of an impact with audiences and could only just recoup the $32m budget in theaters. However, it has all the makings of a cult classic and seems like the perfect kind of movie you would sit down and watch in its entirety if you caught it on late night TV.