Cult Movies is a 1981 book by Danny Peary, consisting of a series of essays regarding what Peary described as the 100 most representative examples of the cult film phenomenon. This is a list of those films. Interesting that what Peary considered “cult” in 1981 are now classic films. How many have you seen?
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| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Year Released | Watched | Viewed On |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62 | Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur | 1947 | No | N/A |
| 49 | Kiss Me Deadly | Robert Aldrich | 1955 | No | N/A |
| 40 | I Walked with a Zombie | Jacques Tourneur | 1943 | No | N/A |
| 37 | Honeymoon Killers, The | Leonard Kastle | 1970 | No | N/A |
| 10 | Black Sunday | Mario Bava | 1960 | No | N/A |
| 24 | Eraserhead | David Lynch | 1977 | No | N/A |
| 26 | Forbidden Planet | Fred M. Wilcox | 1956 | No | N/A |
| 19 | Detour | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1945 | No | N/A |
| 75 | Tell Your Children | Louis J. Gasnier | 1938 | No | N/A |
| 25 | Fantasia | Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, T. Hee, Ford Beebe Jr., Jim Handley, Hamilton Luske, Paul Satterfield, William Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, David Hand | 1940 | No | N/A |