mass culture , auch: masscult

In reality, it's a mass cult, established to some greater, messianic end at which we can yet only guess.

As The X-Files saw its viewership expand from a "small, but devoted" group of fans to a worldwide mass cult audience, digital telecommunications were becoming mainstream.

Echoing two murders committed 33 years previously in exactly the same spot, and a mass cult suicide, it brings back a part of the island's history that it has tried hard to forget.

The name "Brian Jonestown Massacre" is a portmanteau of The Rolling Stones' founder and guitarist Brian Jones and the infamous mass cult suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.

As director of "Eraserhead" and "Blue Velvet," David Lynch had developed what might be called a mass cult following, and the strange, moody drama that he wove together with Mr. Frost came pre-packaged and stamped with an official cult seal of approval.