Throughout the history of cinema, numerous films have been met with derision upon release, only to find an appreciative audience years or even decades later. John Carpenter's The Thing was largely viewed as a failure when it premiered in 1982, but has since gone on to be considered one of the greatest horror movies ever made. Ditto The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which went from box office flop to the longest-running movie of all time when programmers started screening it at midnight.

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