10 Terrible Movies That Inspired Their Own Cult Followings

4. Showgirls

Joyless and joyful (in an utterly sleazy way) in equal measure, Showgirls stars Elizabeth Berkeley - who two years previous was starring in Saved By The Bell - as a drifter determined to make it as a topless showgirl in Las Vegas. Everybody's gotta have a dream, right? Berkeley starts out as a stripper but quickly strikes up a relationship with the star and director of the Goddess show, and the film devolves into melodramatic betrayals, catfighting and artless nude scenes from there on out. Although the film was panned critically and flopped at the box office due to its restrictive NC-17 rating, Showgirls predictably took the home video market by storm and still remains on shelves today, having been given a Blu-ray release in 2010. It quickly developed a cult following akin to that of The Rocky Horror Picture show, being shown at midnight screenings and sharing that film's status as a camp classic, ironically beloved by young people with too much time on their hands everywhere. However, even the critical community started to change their minds, with some re-evaluating the film as a jet-black satire of "a star is born" stories and empty Hollywood values, and as such succeeding incredibly. Other critics like Mark Kermode, however, still just think it's rubbish.