Watch list: Danny Peary's Cult Movies
While Mr. D and I are not yet done with our OrsonWatch project, we've embarked on an overlapping film series which involves watching every movie in Danny Peary's Cult Movies [volume 1], mostly because every movie we've seen that we heard about from reading it (or the two follow-up volumes) has been awesome. Some may dispute the cult cred of the titles, and I've seen many of them before, but we figure it's as good a guide as any. So for my own amusement, I'm going to list them here in the hopes it will make me write reviews of them as I go.
Film's I've seen in bold, even if I'm going to watch them again. Particular favorites are asterisked. Reviews will be links.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
* All About Eve (1950)
Andy Warhol's Bad (1977)
Badlands (1974)
Beauty & 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)
The Brood (1979)
Burn! (1970)
Caged Heat (1974)
Casablanca (1942)
*Citizen Kane (1941)
The Conqueror Worm (1941)
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)
The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
*Greetings (1968)
Gun Crazy a.k.a Deadly is the Female (1949)
Halloween (1978)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
The Harder They Come (1973)
*Harold and Maude (1971)
The Honeymoon Killers (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)
The Killing (1956)
King Kong (1933)
King of Hearts (1967)
Kiss Me, Deadly (1955)
La Cage aux Folles (1979)
Land of the Pharaos (1955)
Laura (1944)
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Lola Montis (1955)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Mad Max (1979)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Man of the West (1958)
*Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
Out of the Past (1947)
Outrageous! (1977)
Pandora's Box (1929)
* Peeping Tom (1960)
Performance (1970)
Petulia (1968)
Pink Flamingos (1973)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956)
Pretty Poison (1968)
The Producers (1968)
The Rain People (1969)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Reefer Madness (1936)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Rock'n'Roll High School (1979)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
*The Searchers (1956)
Shock Corridor (1963)
The Shooting (1967)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
*Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sylvia Scarlett (1936)
The Tall T (1957)
* Targets (1968)
Tarzan and his Mate (1934)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (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)
The Warriors (1979)
Where's Poppa? (1970)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Film's I've seen in bold, even if I'm going to watch them again. Particular favorites are asterisked. Reviews will be links.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
* All About Eve (1950)
Andy Warhol's Bad (1977)
Badlands (1974)
Beauty & 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)
The Brood (1979)
Burn! (1970)
Caged Heat (1974)
Casablanca (1942)
*Citizen Kane (1941)
The Conqueror Worm (1941)
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)
The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
*Greetings (1968)
Gun Crazy a.k.a Deadly is the Female (1949)
Halloween (1978)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
The Harder They Come (1973)
*Harold and Maude (1971)
The Honeymoon Killers (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)
The Killing (1956)
King Kong (1933)
King of Hearts (1967)
Kiss Me, Deadly (1955)
La Cage aux Folles (1979)
Land of the Pharaos (1955)
Laura (1944)
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Lola Montis (1955)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Mad Max (1979)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Man of the West (1958)
*Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
Out of the Past (1947)
Outrageous! (1977)
Pandora's Box (1929)
* Peeping Tom (1960)
Performance (1970)
Petulia (1968)
Pink Flamingos (1973)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956)
Pretty Poison (1968)
The Producers (1968)
The Rain People (1969)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Reefer Madness (1936)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Rock'n'Roll High School (1979)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
*The Searchers (1956)
Shock Corridor (1963)
The Shooting (1967)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
*Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sylvia Scarlett (1936)
The Tall T (1957)
* Targets (1968)
Tarzan and his Mate (1934)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (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)
The Warriors (1979)
Where's Poppa? (1970)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)