El Topo created a religious cult following from midnight screenings

Evidence

What indeed? Commune, like Ice, was meditating on something. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo (The Mole), an obscure Mexican movie and a third single-noun narrative, which began showing midnights at the Elgin around the time Commune opened, was creating something—namely a religious ritual. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1675