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Danny Peary is perhaps best known as the author of three over-sized paperback books containing lengthy reviews of (in total) 200 cult favorites: Cult Movies (1981), Cult Movies 2 (1983), and Cult Movies 3 (1988). Below are the titles discussed in each book, with hyperlinks to my own reviews when available.


Cult Movies (1981)

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• All About Eve (1950)
• Andy Warhol’s Bad / Bad (1977)
• Badlands (1974)
• Beauty and the Beast (1946)
• Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)
• Behind the Green Door (1972)
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
• Billy Jack (1971)
• Black Sunday (1960)
• Brood, The (1979)
• Burn! (1970)
• Cage aux Folles, La (1979)
• Caged Heat (1974)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Conqueror Worm, The / Witchfinder General, The (1968)
• Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
• Deep End (1971)
• Detour (1946)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• El Topo (1971)
• Emmanuelle (1974)
• Enter the Dragon (1973)
• Eraserhead (1978)
• Fantasia (1940)
• Forbidden Planet (1956)
• Force of Evil (1948)
• 42nd Street (1933)
• Freaks (1932)
• Girl Can’t Help It, The (1956)
• Greetings (1968)
• Gun Crazy / Deadly is the Female (1949)
• Halloween (1978)
• Hard Day’s Night, A (1964)
• Harder They Come, The (1973)
• Harold and Maude (1971)
• Honeymoon Killers, The (1970)
• House of Wax (1953)
• I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
• I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• It’s a Gift (1934)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
• Johnny Guitar (1954)
• Killing, The (1956)
• King Kong (1933)
• King of Hearts (1967)
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
• Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
• Laura (1944)
• Little Shop of Horrors, The (1960)
• Lola Montés / Sins of Lola Montés, The (1955) (1955)
• Long Goodbye, The (1973)
• Mad Max (1979)
• Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
• Man of the West (1958)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Nutty Professor, The (1963)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
• Out of the Past (1947)
• Outrageous! (1977)
• Pandora’s Box / Lulu (1929)
• Peeping Tom (1960)
• Performance (1970)
• Petulia (1968)
• Pink Flamingos (1973)
• Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956)
• Pretty Poison (1968)
• Producers, The (1968)
• Rain People, The (1969)
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
• Red Shoes, The (1948)
• Reefer Madness / Tell Your Children / Burning Question, The / Dope Addict / Doped Youth / Love Madness (1936)
• Rio Bravo (1959)
• Rock ‘N Roll High School (1979)
• Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975)
• Scarlet Empress, The (1934)
• Searchers, The (1956)
• Shock Corridor (1963)
• Shooting, The (1967)
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• Sylvia Scarlett (1936)
• Tall T, The (1957)
• Targets (1968)
• Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
• Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The (1974)
• Top Hat (1935)
• Trash (1970)
• Two For the Road (1967)
• Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Up in Smoke (1978)
• Vertigo (1958)
• Warriors, The (1979)
• Where’s Poppa? (1970)
• Wild Bunch, The (1969)
• Wizard of Oz, The (1939)

Cult Movies 2 (1983)

• Altered States (1980)
• American Friend, The (1977)
• Barbarella (1968)
• Basket Case (1982)
• Beat the Devil (1954)
• Bedazzled (1967)
• Big Heat, The (1953)
• Blood Feast (1963)
• Blood Money (1933)
• Boy and His Dog, A (1975)
• Breathless (1960)
• Bride of Frankenstein, The (1935)
• Children of Paradise (1954)
• Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
• Cutter’s Way (1981)
• Dark Star (1975)
• Daughters of Darkness (1971)
• First Nudie Musical, The (1976)
• Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956)
• Great Texas Dynamite Chase, The (1977)
• High School Confidential (1958)
• His Girl Friday (1940)
• Last Tango in Paris (1973)
• Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976)
• Marnie (1964)
• Massacre at Central High (1976)
• Mommie Dearest (1981)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
• Morgan! / Morgan (A Suitable Case for Treatment) (1966)
• Ms. 45 / Angel of Vengeance (1981)
• My Darling Clementine (1946)
• Night of the Demon / Curse of the Demon (1957)
• Nightmare Alley (1947)
• Parallax View, The (1974)
• Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
• Pretty Baby (1978)
• Quadrophenia (1979)
• Salt of the Earth (1954)
• Seventh Seal, The (1956)
• Some Like it Hot (1959)
• Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• To Be or Not To Be (1942)
• Vanishing Point (1971)
• White Heat (1949)
• Wicker Man, The (1973)
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
• Wuthering Heights (1939)
• Zardoz (1974)

Cult Movies 3 (1988)

• American Werewolf in London, An (1981)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• Black Cat, The (1934)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Body Heat (1981)
• Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1920)
• Café Flesh (1982)
• Chilly Scenes of Winter (1982)
• Choose Me (1984)
• Diva (1982)
• Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Easy Rider (1969)
• Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966)
• Five Million Years to Earth (1968)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
• Glen or Glenda / I Led Two Lives / I Changed My Sex / He or She (1953)
• Gods Must Be Crazy, The (1980)
• Imitation of Life (1959)
• In a Lonely Place (1950)
• It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
• Liquid Sky (1983)
• Martin (1978)
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
• Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
• Naked Kiss, The (1964)
• Napoleon (1927)
• New York, New York (1977)
• Night of the Hunter (1955)
• Now, Voyager (1942)
• Olvidados, Los (1950)
• On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
• One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
• Over the Edge (1979)
• Psycho (1960)
• Quiet Man, The (1952)
• Ride the High Country (1962)
• Road Warrior, The (1981)
• Seconds (1966)
• Sons of the Desert (1933)
• Star is Born, A (1954)
• Stunt Man, The (1980)
• Terminator, The (1984)
• That Hamilton Woman (1941)
• Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)
• Thing from Another World, The (1951)
• Touch of Evil (1958)
• Walkabout (1971)
• Wanderers, The (1979)
• Where the Boys Are (1960)