How many Cult Films do you own on Blu-ray?

[Todd Tomorrow]

Yes, cult films are not that easy to define, but films which were a huge mainstream success are generally not considered cult films. They are generally films which weren't a huge success at first and which found a devoted following over time. Until the advent of home video they were easy to determines because they were films which did the rounds at midnight screenings.

The 70s was the beginning of the trend of the cult film. The Rock Horror Picture Show, Pink Flamingoes, El Topo, Eraserhead and Harold and Maude are some of the key cult films from that era, but earlier films like The Night of the Hunter also became cult films in then. Sometimes films were huge financial hits, but were initially dismissed and than later rediscovered, like the films by Douglas Sirk. Some classics like Casablanca were also considered cult films because of quotable lines and because they got rediscovered.

I still have a collection of a series of reference books from the late 70s and 80s called Cult Movies by Danny Peary which consisted of critical essays on films which were considered as such.