{"id":7492,"date":"2007-03-08T20:37:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T15:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2019-05-13T10:10:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T04:40:41","slug":"jai-arjun-singh-on-cult-movies-3-by-danny-peary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/jai-arjun-singh-on-cult-movies-3-by-danny-peary\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies for the blessed few"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bookdetails\">\n<div id=\"bookimage\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671648101\/jabberwock-20\"><span class=\"wrap-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/uploads\/images\/cult-movies-danny-peary.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Movies for the blessed few\" alt=\"image\" width=\"73\" height=\"93\" \/><\/span><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bookmaininfo\">\n<p class=\"booktitle\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Cult Movies 3<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookauthor\"><strong>By:<\/strong> Danny Peary<\/p>\n<p class=\"amazonlink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671648101\/jabberwock-20\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>   <!-- bookmaininfo --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- bookdetails --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cult films are born in controversy, in arguments over quality, themes, talent and other matters,&#8221; writes Danny Peary in the Foreword to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671648101\/jabberwock-20\" title=\"Cult Movies 3 by Danny Peary\"><I>Cult Movies 3<\/I><\/a>, &#8220;Cultists believe they are among the blessed few who have discovered something in particular films that the average moviegoer and critic have missed.&#8221; If you&#8217;ve ever felt protective towards a film that no one else seems to care for, Peary&#8217;s warm, perceptive, very personal essays are a must-read. He has the most important quality of a genuine movie-lover &#8211; open-mindedness about what he&#8217;s willing to watch &#8211; and backs it up with friendly but informed writing.\n<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 50 films Peary discusses here span every possible genre, including horror (the Lugosi-Karloff <I><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0009X770E\/jabberwock-20\" title=\"The Bela Lugosi Collection\">The Black Cat<\/a><\/I>, George Romero&#8217;s under-watched <I><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0004Z33E6\/jabberwock-20\" title=\"Martin - George Romero\">Martin<\/a><\/I>), melodrama (Douglas Sirk&#8217;s <I><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000WN0NW\/jabberwock-20\" title=\"Imitation of Life - Douglas Sirk\">Imitation of Life<\/a><\/I>), film noir (the latter-day Bogart starrer <I><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000087F79\/jabberwock-20\" title=\"In a Lonely Place, starring Bogie!\">In a Lonely Place<\/a><\/I>), slapstick comedy (<I><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0001Y4LBY\/jabberwock-20\" title=\"The Gods Must be Crazy\">The Gods Must be Crazy<\/a><\/I>), underground-experimental (Slava Tsukerman&#8217;s <I><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/6305660328\/jabberwock-20\" title=\"Liquid Sky - Slava Tsukerman\">Liquid Sky<\/a><\/I>) and even pornography (<I><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caf%C3%A9_Flesh\" title=\"Caf&#233; Flesh - Wikipedia\">Caf&#233; Flesh<\/a><\/I>), as well as camp classics by directors such as Russ Meyer (<I><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000LVBD7M\/jabberwock-20\" title=\"Faster, Pussycat! Kill, Kill! - Russ Meyer\">Faster, Pussycat! Kill, Kill!<\/a><\/I>) and Ed Wood (<I><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003XAMS\/jabberwock-20\" title=\"Glen or Glenda? - Ed Wood\">Glen or Glenda?<\/a><\/I>). He has intelligent, insightful things to say about all of them, and this book is a great example of unselfconscious writing about movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Cult Movies 3 By: Danny Peary Buy from Amazon.com &#8220;Cult films are born in controversy, in arguments over quality, themes, talent and other matters,&#8221; writes Danny Peary in the &#8230; <a title=\"Movies for the blessed few\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/jai-arjun-singh-on-cult-movies-3-by-danny-peary\/\" aria-label=\"More on Movies for the blessed few\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Movies for the blessed few - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/jai-arjun-singh-on-cult-movies-3-by-danny-peary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Movies for the blessed few - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Title: Cult Movies 3 By: Danny Peary Buy from Amazon.com &#8220;Cult films are born in controversy, in arguments over quality, themes, talent and other matters,&#8221; writes Danny Peary in the ... 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