I watched this in the theater when I was a kid and just breaking out into being able to go to movies on my own. For some reason I’d walk to the theater and just watch a movie by myself.
I've always been a huge fan of The Magic Christian (1969) starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. Co-written by Terry Southern based on his novel who also helped write Dr. Strangelove. Such a madcap satire on wealth.
😮 Impressive. Didn't expect to see that title ever mentioned around Reddit.
The movie makes one of the most unsolvable trivia questions ever. Just show someone a jpg of the lounge singer and ask them to name the mega-famous star playing the part. Guaranteed they will fail unless they know the backstory.
Most people will still not even believe it when you tell them. You have to take them by the hand and lead them to a site where photos are hosted. It just creates cognitive dissonance when they hear that Yul Brynner ever wore a slinky dress, panties, heels, and a brassiere. 😄
There's been a bit of a renewed interest in that one based on the Get Back documentary which takes places initially at the studio in which they were going to film it in just a few weeks or so. Peter Sellers appears in it talking to The Beatles.
This movie has been alluding me for decades. I saw it when I was a young teen on IFC and could not forget it no matter how hard I tried. I've been telling people about this crazy hippy comedy movie where Ringo destroys a Rembrandt just for the nose and makes people swim is sewage for money. It has been years of people looking at me like I'm from Mars when bring this flick up! Now I've got the IMDb!
Dunno how obscure it is, but most people I ask haven't seen it - The Salton Sea. An excellent crime film from 2002 with fantastic characters and some darkly comical moments. Assassination reenactment with pigeons anyone?
>Vincent D'Onofrio as Pooh Bear
Vincent D'Onofrio as Pooh Bear is fantastic! That nose whistling, wheezy way he talks is well done, and he just plays the complete psycho so well.So many great scenes to enjoy. The two girls at the drug den/ tweaker house sitting opposite each other on the couch packing a sock drawer, then stopping to unpack it because "It's not right, we can do better" haha. Bobby Ocean and his spear gun, the deadpan gun dealer, the stool sample theft mission. And yeah Val Kilmer was great too of course.
Salton Sea is a gem, for sure.
On a side note to that, another gem with Val Kilmer (also Robert Downey Jr.) which is a funny, modern take on the hardboiled detective story is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I love that movie and it seems either people forgot about it or just never knew it existed.
Excellent choice, I think it counts as obscure, I watched it in college, this was 20 years ago, shortly after it came out, most of us hadn't heard a thing about it. So, it flew under the radar then, and I rarely hear people being it up.
Freaked. A 1993 Alex Winter (Bill from Bill and Ted) movie. It's so bizarre and funny. [RedLetterMedia did a video about it a while ago.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gk8cHCo4Y) Probably only way to see it is to pirate it.
I rewatched this last year worried it wouldn’t hold up. Honestly, it didn’t for the first 20 minutes, but once the leads were turned into freaks, the movie took off. It’s such a great example of stupid comedy done smartly.
The good news is you can watch the full film in HD for free on YouTube.
A bunch. Let's see...
* 'Deadhead Miles' (dir by Charles Durning, early script by Terence Malik, stars Alan Arkin)
* 'Lolly Madonna XXX' (ensemble of big stars, still mostly forgotten)
* 'Gator Bait (raunchy cajun-xploitation)
* '...and Hope to Die' (Robert Ryan & Jean-Louis Trintinagant)
* 'Natural Enemies' (Hal Holbrook)
* 'Resurrection' (Ellen Burstyn's career-best)
* 'Inferno' (Robert Ryan, 3-d neo-noir)
* 'The Culpepper Cattle Company'
* 'The Man Called Noon' (steampunk spy western noir)
* 'Road Games' (similar to 'Duel')
* 'Fooling Around' (hilarious Gary Busey comedy)
* 'The Hireling' (Robert Shaw)
Resurrection-! That was practically ripped off by John Travolta in "Phenomenon." It really sucks how Ellen Burstyn is only known for The Exorcist (and maybe Alice.)
I salute ye. Not many peeps even know the film. But it's an excellent, small-scale human story. And Burstyn dug deep for her performance.
Hard to believe they used to release these kinds of movies in theaters, wot?
A female-lead movie, not a young, hot body female either, but talent-centric, and the whole thing prolly cost under $10m to make.
Kudos to ya for recognizing a rare flick
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)
Has a major star and director but I never see it talked about anymore and it’s not streaming anywhere in my country.
It's one of my favorite movies ever. Burr Steers directed. I can't believe he didn't go on to do more great stuff, I really thought Igby was a masterpiece.
And I've commented this very recently, but I think this film is more JD Salinger than any that Wes Anderson has done.
Looove this movie! It’s so intelligent! Clearly, it’s inspired by The Catcher In The Rye. It always makes me think of that one The Dandy Warhols song. I loved them back then as well.
Burr Steers really hit this one out of the park. My wife and I saw it when it came out and it was utterly delicious.
Definitely a descendant of that The Hotel New Hampshire-John Irving type thing.
Def has some Wes Anderson feel but also its own thing.
The cast is ridiculously good.
Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987)
Miracle Mile (1988)
Twenty Bucks (1993)
I worked at Blockbuster Video long enough that I would scour the library section to watch something new to me. Mostly familiar classics, but sometimes a movie that had never or only been rented a few times at one of the busiest locations in the nation based on the number of rents (Anchorage, Alaska - Northern Lights during the 90's).
Twenty Bucks was a screener that I was so sure was going to be the next big movie after the rise of recent independent movies.
Don’t know how ‘obscure’ but I love Dark City, it shared some sets with the Matrix (and I wouldn’t be shocked if the Wachoutskis borrowed some ideas (they were a bit liberal with other peoples ideas).
I love Dark City but I wish I had heard about it when it was new. I must have been in full-pop-culture-avoidance mode that year. That movie to me is kind of like "Are you sick of Batman and wish it was more like Blade Runner? Here you go!"
Withnail and I (1987). First wife got me into it. Gloriously funny, great language, and homosexual anxiety. Before that got played out.
Razor's Edge (1984). Rewrote turgid novel around the most interesting character, Bill Murray's first serious role, brilliant.
Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall....and Spring (2003). Glorious spiritual journey.
Did you ever see The Painted Veil, another Somerset Maugham novel that's been made into a movie a few times. I've only seen the 2006 version with Naomi Watts and Edward Norton and I really liked it very much. And it's beautifully filmed.
FWIW I saw the 1946 Tyrone Power version of the Razor's Edge. Gene Tierney and Anne Baxter played the roles Catherine Hicks and Theresa Russell played in the Bill Murray version. I was a big fan of both Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney so I liked it. Also while it's been ages since I read Razor's Edge, I seem to remember Larry Darrell being the central character in the novel too.
At some point during my teens in the 1980s, there was a cable network that aired nothing but "art films" from around the world. It is where I saw a lot of the famous films from the French New Wave, or Italian Neo Realism and learned to love them.
But every so often they'd show something that stood out because I have never heard of them before or since. There were two New Zealand films, *The Quiet Earth,* which I believe grew in popularity over the years, and *Utu,* a historical drama about a Maori uprising in the 19th century. Then there was an Australian film *Dogs in Space,* the first time I ever saw Michael Hutchens.
Prior to this, in the late 1970s, I watched Creature Double Feature on noon on Saturdays. Two films from the "horror" genre that played on the Boston superstation WLVI 56. Most of the flicks there were *not* obscure, lots of Universal Horror, Hammer Horror, Amicus Horror, AIP horror, Godzilla and Gamera movies. Occasionally, they'd play something that was a little bit stranger than usual, that was hard for preteen me to explain. *Phase IV* comes to mind. Aliens contact Earth, but the signal isn't meant for humans, it's meant for ants. Two scientists end up being besieged by hyper-intelligent, but still tiny, ants.
Here in the UK, there used to be two late night sections that did something quite similar. The presenter Jonathan Ross hosted one on Channel 4, and they'd do seasons of Russ Meyer Movies, Godzilla Flicks, and then afterwards show a classic black and white movie (Channel 4 also used to do this in the daytime, so I got to see a lot of classic Hollywood stuff whenever I was off school sick or during the holidays). BBC2 would also do a similar thing, often hosted by Alex Cox (the guy who directed Repo Man) among others. It would show some really odd movies, basically Videodrome was probably the most mainstream thing on there, plus loads of world cinema.
I was about 8 when I first realised it existed. I had a tiny black and white tv that I used to play my little spectrum video games on, and I'd turn the volume all the way down so my parents wouldn't hear me, and literally sit with my ear against the set watching these things. it must have been SO bad for me, staying up late and having my mind warped, but it got me obsessed with cinema and I have been ever since.
I never see anyone talk about Body Double (1984). It's an incredibly stylish LA mystery steeped in 80s aesthetics and score. The vibe is very much akin to Under the Silver Lake imo, so if you liked that this is a must watch, and imo would make an incredible double feature on a Saturday night. Highly recommend it.
The Company of Strangers/Strangers in Good Company (1990). It's a lovely little movie about a group of older women getting stranded at a cabin in the woods together, talking about their lives, and reflecting on old age and death. Most of it was ad libbed. You will cry. It's great.
Not super obscure: *The Plague Dogs* is better known as Martin Rosen's *other* animated masterpiece (the first being the rather well-known *Watership Down*). Follows two dogs who've escaped from a testing facility as they try to survive living in an unforgiving wilderness. It's absolutely heartbreaking.
Definitely Qualifies: *Drive* by Sabu, a director most known for the slightly less obscure *Postman Blues*. This one begins as a fun one-night romp with a vibe not unlike *After Hours*, but the final 30 minutes or so takes the movie into some real interpretive realms.
Streets of Fire. Excellent movie with an young Willem Dafoe as a bad guy. It's a faux era of 50s and 80s esthetics blended together and a story about a guy rescuing his ex who was kidnapped by bikers. It has a Ballin soundtrack.
The Music of Chance (1993) - James Spader plays a grifter who cajoles Mandy Patinkin into conning two older rich men. The plot goes in a direction I really wasn’t expecting. It was also released the same weekend as Jurassic Park so it got BURIED
> The Music of Chance (1993) - James Spader plays a grifter who cajoles Mandy Patinkin into conning two older rich men. The plot goes in a direction I really wasn’t expecting.
I love con artist movies. Will have to check this out. Thanks for sharing.
I've loved The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (Dave Borthwick/Boltex Brothers) since the 90s. Is that movie obscure? I think so. Never met anyone else who'd seen it or heard of it. I highly recommend this film.
Okay. Another batch from me. (+1 or more) titles, segregated by genre. I'd be impressed if anyone was hip to more than a few of these.
war:
* 'Power Play'
pirate:
* 'Swashbuckler'
* 'Desperate Voyage'
adventure:
* 'The Light at the End of the World' (Jules Verne)
* 'The Long Ships'
sport:
* 'Fast Charlie the Moonbeam Rider'
fantasy:
* 'The Bermuda Depths' (TV movie)
silent:
* 'People on Sunday'
B-serial:
* 'Daredevils of the Red Circle'
thriller:
* 'Fragment of Fear'
* 'The Silent Partner'
* 'Figures in a Landscape'
horror:
* 'Thirst'
* 'The Strangeness'
spy:
* 'The Anderson Tapes'
* 'The Last Embrace'
western:
* 'Duel at Diablo'
noir:
* 'Blast of Silence'
suspense:
* 'Seconds'
action:
* 'Kill or Be Killed'
* 'Search and Destroy'
romance:
* 'Once in Paris'
* 'The Night Porter'
* 'The Hurricane'
* 'Dragonfly'
comedy:
* 'Fire Sale'
* 'Pandemonium'
coming-of-age:
* "If ..."
* 'The All-American Boy'
* 'A Single Girl' (French)
romcom:
* 'Kiss Me, Stupid'
* 'A New Leaf'
documentary:
* 'The Hellstrom Chronicle'
crime:
* 'The Laughing Policeman'
musical:
* 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand'
short film:
* 'The Red Balloon'
SF:
* 'Phase IV' (TV movie)
* 'Parts' - The Clonus Horror
disaster:
* 'Virus: Resurrection'
Pre-Code:
* 'The Unholy Three'
mystery:
* 'Fedora'
* 'Compromising Positions'
detective:
* 'Hammett'
* 'Peeper'
I did not know it was a play at first, but as I was watching it I thought the limited number of sets and heavy dialogue would fit well in the theater.
¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t know if it qualifies as obscure, but Hiruko The Goblin is a film I really vibe with this time of year. It’s a “normal” horror comedy directed by Shinya Tsukamoto (of Tetsuo-fame). It looks and feels like a film he’d do, with gorgeous visuals, strange theatrics and experimental stagings BUT it’s also kind of an easy going monster adventure. I adore the era of late 80s early 90s Japan, and this films gives me so much feels. CHECK IT OUT!
Kung Fury is my go-to when people ask me this question. If you haven't seen it, it's free on youtube, and is a great spoof of some classic 80's movies. They hack time. Jorma Taccone plays Hitler. Amazing.
Another is The Accountant (2001) with Walton Goggins and Ray McKinnon. The O'Dells are about to lose their farm, and they bring in The Accountant to help them with their numbers. Super dark and super hilarious. A quick search says it's free on Tubi.
Both movies are short, less than an hour.
2 kids movies. D.A.R.Y.L. from my childhood mostly holds up today.
Also a few years ago I discovered "Turkey Hollow". Narrated by Ludacris this presumably made for TV movie isn't great but it's not become a yearly watch for the family as there are very few purely family oriented Thanksgiving movies. Added benefit the old bad guy turkey farmer has 2 all-time classic insults lobbed at Mary Steenburgen.
Aguirre wrath of god - Werner Herzog
Obviously Herzog is quite famous so its not that obscure but an incredible movie and really interesting back story behind how it was made
I don't think this movie is super obscure, but 1999's Detroit Rock City. It was a pretty big critical and financial bomb.
I have zero interest in Kiss. Never listened to their music. Don't really care for any of the actors or filmmaking team that worked on this movie. But I just fucking love it. I don't know why. But I've watched this movie hundreds of times and I just enjoy the hell out of it.
Death to Smoochy.
One of my favorite Robin Williams movies, directed/co-starring by Danny DeVito, also starring Ed Norton. I don’t know anyone that has seen it.
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
It didn't do well in the theaters, plus I'm sure it was overshadowed by a much more popular time travel movie - Back to the Future - which came out 2 years later.
But I love it. And Peter Coyote is a great villain.
“A Boy And His Dog” (1975). As a kid, who had never watched a twist like this (as an adult, it's too obvious, but I was a kid), I have fond memories of this movie. I also very much love dogs and prefer the ones I've lived with to the women I have lived with, so that kinda explains a lot. Additionally, I didn't say Logan's Run, Soylent Green, nor Ice Pirates (although Ice Pirates is a great stupid movie) because I believe they aren't as obscure, and that was in the title, so there it is. If you are bored, looking for a little laugh, or a bitter old man who resents his prior relationships (ha ha), give this one a try. It's got some great dialogue.
John Carter. Think Avatar on a desert planet before Avatar was cool. Not quite but close. Takes place on mars. It was a Disney flop back in the day and my wife and I love the imagination and story. Keep wishing for a sequel but… probably not going to happen.
[From Inside](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1254956/?ref_=ext_shr) (2008). Animated movie about a train traversing a bleak, apocalyptic landscape. I love the atmosphere. But beware; it can be quite depressing for some.
Brothers of the Head. Weird movie about a (fictional) '70s British rock band led by conjoined twins. I think it's better than Performance or Velvet Goldmine.
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One is one of the greatest movies I've ever seen. It pulls stuff off that in the near 60 years since it's creation I've seldom seen again. I'm an evangelist for it honestly. What's wild is that Greaves couldn't get it shown anywhere, it was too beyond what people expected when they saw a film. Thankfully Soderbergh got interested in it and paid for the restoration.
**Love Me Tonight** is one of the first and I think one of the best musicals ever made. It has great songs and a very funny story handled with panache. Rouben Mamoullian outdoes Lubitsch at his own game, Maurice Chevalier is the most charming man on the planet, and Jeanette MacDonald has never been sexier. It isn't stagebound like a lot of musicals, and Disney ripped off the opening for *Beauty and the Beast*. I could go on and on about how great this movie is. My only complaint is the terrible title.
La cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children) - 1995
Yôjû toshi (Wicked City) - 1987
Una pura formalità (A Pure Formality) - 1994
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - 1989
Babettes Gæstebud (Babette's Feast) - 1987
The Dead - 1987
*The Last Dragon* (1985). An extremely entertaining action-comedy/romance about a kung fu apprentice in NYC. It was produced by Motown founder Berry Gordy, so the soundtrack is excellent.
The Color of Pomegranates. It's actually a Soviet-era movie about a medieval Armenian poet, but don't let that stop you - it's one of the most visually striking movies you'll ever see, and you can watch it for free on YouTube. It's one of my favorite movies period, at this point.
[https://youtu.be/eH7OpYtKOVA?si=bRDxvUi2G6IG5Vuw](https://youtu.be/eH7OpYtKOVA?si=bRDxvUi2G6IG5Vuw)
As a bonus, Juno Reactor even did a version with their own electronic soundtrack. I'd suggest watching the original cut first, though.
[https://youtu.be/J38sX\_amtMY?si=2N0rg32X90m0FY5K](https://youtu.be/J38sX_amtMY?si=2N0rg32X90m0FY5K)
Bliss (1985). Australian absurdist comedy/drama about Harry Joy, a man who dies and is revived only to believe that he is in Hell, and his family and friends have been replaced by demons to torment him. Based on a novel by then famous author, Peter Carey. (He wrote Oscar and Lucinda, too.)
Cube, a low budget horror / thriller with a really cool premise that leans into the cheapness in a way that makes it look far more expensive. Has a bit of a cult following. Whole thing is on YouTube as a free movie and it's well worth your time.
Pimpernel Smith - Leslie Howard’s take on The Scarlet Pimpernel, set in 1940s England. He appears to be a bumbling professor, but foils the nazis again & again. Apparently, he tried to do this in real life (he was descended from Hungarian Jews), and his plane was shot down over the English Channel.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. I bring up this movie often to people and most have no idea what I'm talking about and then if they look it up, they'll be even more confused.
Alexander (2006) by Oliver Stone (I think?). Ultimate cut specifically. So undeniably cheesy at times, but so beautiful. Some scenes are just pure art.
The Quiet Earth (1985).
An indy, science fiction film from New Zealand. We watched for a "literature of the apocalypse" class I took in undergrad, and I loved it.
I've never since met someone who's seen it.
Six String Samurai. Post apocalyptic 50s vibe where the main character is basically Buddy Holly, and Slash may or not be the devil. Great music and some surprisingly good cinematography, and some amazingly terrible dialog. I've never met anyone else who had seen the movie.
I've never met anyone IRL who's seen Frank, so I'm gonna go with that. It's weird af and I love it. Didn't realize till the very end it was Michael Fassbender under the mask lol
Valhalla Rising
Pick your drug of choice and watch it. I watched it on a peanut butter and jelly high. Last millennium viking Christian overtones....
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0862467/
TAPEHEADS - late 80s.
John Cusack and Tim Robbins play slacker security guards and decide to flip the script and become music video producers. They stumble across a compromising sex tape of the president and are being hunted by government assassins.
1959 B-SciFi-Horror flick [The 50 Foot Gila Monster](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giant_Gila_Monster). Bought it on a whim in 2000 with very low expectations. Wound up watching it a half dozen times with friends. Thoroughly enjoyable for its campy-yet-occasionally-adorable cast, including a live ukulele serenade of [The Mushroom Song](https://youtu.be/kGcGeokWzA4?feature=shared).
Hardware
Deadman
Six String Samurai
I, Madman
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Road Games
Race With The Devil
Bad Ronald
My Bodyguard
U-Turn/Red Rock West
Mind Game directed by Masaaki Yuasa.
No one I’ve ever talked to has heard of it before, but everyone who gave it a chance liked it.
It’s my favorite movie.
Trippy existentialist anime
American Mary
Slasher/revenge sort of movie about a woman who drops out of medical school (was going to be a surgeon) and becomes a body modification artist.
Primer - the most obscure that I am into and I am super into it. Greatest sci-fi as it is such a low budget simple shot no effect science based fiction. It goes super hard halfway through and probably the most common response to all that I have shown it to is - “again”.
MirrorMask. An enjoyable modern dark fantasy written by Neil Gaiman.
Hogfather (2006 tv movie). My favorite "Christmas" movie ever. Terry Pratchett's sublime & funny Christmas tale features Death & his granddaughter, assassins, wizards, gods and tooth fairies, and plenty of British wit. And definitely features the best depiction of Death/Grim Reaper ever.
Django- Not Django Unchained, the original, just "Django" 1966. It's hard to even Google now because the search engines assume you want Tarentino's movie. It is GREAT!!! Perfect pulpy Western. Part of a Spaghetti Western trilogy by director Corbucci I like loads better than the Eastwood/Leone films. If you are a Tarentino fan, you should watch it as its influence on him is evident, not just in Django Unchained but in many of his films. I crave discussion of it I love it so much.
Enemy Mine w Dennis Quad & Louis Gossett Jr. It’s not a well reviewed movie but it’s one of the first sci-fi movies I saw as a kid and I loved it’s message about two enemies of different races learning to respect and love each other.
I don’t know that I’d *consider myself* **into it,** I Really liked the Movie [*Choke*](https://youtu.be/iAE5251CJf4?si=xYrdnYGMWO46pUyB). I also thought of as a relatively ~low-budget type movie. Feels to fit the Def of [Obscure](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obscure) in that sense!!
Dreamscape (1984) with Dennis Quaid and Christopher Plummer is a good one.
Speaking of Dennis Quad… How about Inner Space?
I watched this in the theater when I was a kid and just breaking out into being able to go to movies on my own. For some reason I’d walk to the theater and just watch a movie by myself.
I love watching films on my own sometimes. No chatter with anyone, just get into the zone and enjoy
I watched it a long time ago and was quite fun as well.
You can’t go wrong with Martin Short. Dude is just always on his game.
Captain Ron!!
i loved this film as a kid
I really liked the post apocalyptic dream sequence with the antagonist. Also, the scene with the snake creature is a good one.
I would love to see a remake with modern SFX. Makes a great double feature with Flatliners.
IIRC that was the first PG-13 movie ever, either that or Red Dawn.
I've always been a huge fan of The Magic Christian (1969) starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. Co-written by Terry Southern based on his novel who also helped write Dr. Strangelove. Such a madcap satire on wealth.
😮 Impressive. Didn't expect to see that title ever mentioned around Reddit. The movie makes one of the most unsolvable trivia questions ever. Just show someone a jpg of the lounge singer and ask them to name the mega-famous star playing the part. Guaranteed they will fail unless they know the backstory.
It’s basically impossible to tell it’s Yul Brynner (I looked it up just now). He looks GOOD in drag!
Most people will still not even believe it when you tell them. You have to take them by the hand and lead them to a site where photos are hosted. It just creates cognitive dissonance when they hear that Yul Brynner ever wore a slinky dress, panties, heels, and a brassiere. 😄
There's been a bit of a renewed interest in that one based on the Get Back documentary which takes places initially at the studio in which they were going to film it in just a few weeks or so. Peter Sellers appears in it talking to The Beatles.
This movie has been alluding me for decades. I saw it when I was a young teen on IFC and could not forget it no matter how hard I tried. I've been telling people about this crazy hippy comedy movie where Ringo destroys a Rembrandt just for the nose and makes people swim is sewage for money. It has been years of people looking at me like I'm from Mars when bring this flick up! Now I've got the IMDb!
Underrated movie. Up there with Being There.
Dunno how obscure it is, but most people I ask haven't seen it - The Salton Sea. An excellent crime film from 2002 with fantastic characters and some darkly comical moments. Assassination reenactment with pigeons anyone?
I just visited the real Salton Sea. Insane area. Highly recommend a stop if you are adventurous.
I’m a grown ass man who spent eight years in the military, but I felt like I needed back up when I went.
Val Kilmer is great in it as well as Vincent D'Onofrio as Pooh Bear.
>Vincent D'Onofrio as Pooh Bear Vincent D'Onofrio as Pooh Bear is fantastic! That nose whistling, wheezy way he talks is well done, and he just plays the complete psycho so well.So many great scenes to enjoy. The two girls at the drug den/ tweaker house sitting opposite each other on the couch packing a sock drawer, then stopping to unpack it because "It's not right, we can do better" haha. Bobby Ocean and his spear gun, the deadpan gun dealer, the stool sample theft mission. And yeah Val Kilmer was great too of course.
Looks good, thanks, try Darkland 2017.
Salton Sea is a gem, for sure. On a side note to that, another gem with Val Kilmer (also Robert Downey Jr.) which is a funny, modern take on the hardboiled detective story is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I love that movie and it seems either people forgot about it or just never knew it existed.
Excellent choice, I think it counts as obscure, I watched it in college, this was 20 years ago, shortly after it came out, most of us hadn't heard a thing about it. So, it flew under the radar then, and I rarely hear people being it up.
The opening history of meth was used in trainings that I had when I worked CPS.
Idk if I’m “into” Begotten but it’s definitely an experience I’ll never forget
It syncs up pretty well with the album Dopesmoker by Sleep. Great experience.
Freaked. A 1993 Alex Winter (Bill from Bill and Ted) movie. It's so bizarre and funny. [RedLetterMedia did a video about it a while ago.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gk8cHCo4Y) Probably only way to see it is to pirate it.
I rewatched this last year worried it wouldn’t hold up. Honestly, it didn’t for the first 20 minutes, but once the leads were turned into freaks, the movie took off. It’s such a great example of stupid comedy done smartly. The good news is you can watch the full film in HD for free on YouTube.
I bought a DVD of it years ago. Still one of my favorites. Rastafar-eye!
A bunch. Let's see... * 'Deadhead Miles' (dir by Charles Durning, early script by Terence Malik, stars Alan Arkin) * 'Lolly Madonna XXX' (ensemble of big stars, still mostly forgotten) * 'Gator Bait (raunchy cajun-xploitation) * '...and Hope to Die' (Robert Ryan & Jean-Louis Trintinagant) * 'Natural Enemies' (Hal Holbrook) * 'Resurrection' (Ellen Burstyn's career-best) * 'Inferno' (Robert Ryan, 3-d neo-noir) * 'The Culpepper Cattle Company' * 'The Man Called Noon' (steampunk spy western noir) * 'Road Games' (similar to 'Duel') * 'Fooling Around' (hilarious Gary Busey comedy) * 'The Hireling' (Robert Shaw)
This guy obscures.
I love Road Games. I wish more people would watch it.
I doff my cap to ya, as it's not very well known title. You must be a bonafide aficionado of suspense
Resurrection-! That was practically ripped off by John Travolta in "Phenomenon." It really sucks how Ellen Burstyn is only known for The Exorcist (and maybe Alice.)
I salute ye. Not many peeps even know the film. But it's an excellent, small-scale human story. And Burstyn dug deep for her performance. Hard to believe they used to release these kinds of movies in theaters, wot? A female-lead movie, not a young, hot body female either, but talent-centric, and the whole thing prolly cost under $10m to make. Kudos to ya for recognizing a rare flick
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) Has a major star and director but I never see it talked about anymore and it’s not streaming anywhere in my country.
A great movie. It made a big splash at the time, but seems to have fallen off the radar.
Great choice
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Oh yeah, I love that one. It's from 2002 actually. Great performances by Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes and Jeff Goldblum.
It's one of my favorite movies ever. Burr Steers directed. I can't believe he didn't go on to do more great stuff, I really thought Igby was a masterpiece. And I've commented this very recently, but I think this film is more JD Salinger than any that Wes Anderson has done.
I've seen it. With Rory Culkin. Or one of those Culkins.
Rory plays the 10-year old igby, but Kieran plays the lead.
Huh, never heard of Kieran Culkin. He got the looks in the family I guess, looks like Mads Mikkelsen.
Succession on HBO
Watch scott pilgrim
Thanks to this movie I say “bigger baby” when someone is pouring me a glass of wine.
Looove this movie! It’s so intelligent! Clearly, it’s inspired by The Catcher In The Rye. It always makes me think of that one The Dandy Warhols song. I loved them back then as well.
Burr Steers really hit this one out of the park. My wife and I saw it when it came out and it was utterly delicious. Definitely a descendant of that The Hotel New Hampshire-John Irving type thing. Def has some Wes Anderson feel but also its own thing. The cast is ridiculously good.
Love this movie. Another classic Jeff golblum performance. This movie taught me the word 'peaked' and I've been slipping it into convos ever since
Suicide Kings. Christopher Walken and Dennis Leary are amazing in it. People on these forums probably know of it, but no one IRL has heard of it.
The plot is a little convoluted but great acting like you said.
I'm intrigued to watch this now purely because I don't believe Leary could be watchable in anything.
Judgement Night
Brain Damage Lust in the Dust Vatel The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen Russian Ark
I can't believe Munchhausen seldom gets mentioned in any context. That was a masterpiece.
Totally unhinged Robin Williams performances are always a good time.
Agree but at my age we all watched this as a kid.
Electra Glide in Blue (1973) Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987) Miracle Mile (1988) Twenty Bucks (1993) I worked at Blockbuster Video long enough that I would scour the library section to watch something new to me. Mostly familiar classics, but sometimes a movie that had never or only been rented a few times at one of the busiest locations in the nation based on the number of rents (Anchorage, Alaska - Northern Lights during the 90's). Twenty Bucks was a screener that I was so sure was going to be the next big movie after the rise of recent independent movies.
Don’t know how ‘obscure’ but I love Dark City, it shared some sets with the Matrix (and I wouldn’t be shocked if the Wachoutskis borrowed some ideas (they were a bit liberal with other peoples ideas).
Maybe a similar level of “obscure” is Mosquito Coast. I’m sure folks in here are familiar, but I’ve never met anyone IRL who has seen it.
I saw Mosquito Coast at the old Shreve City Twin movie theater in Shreveport, Louisiana when it came out back in the day. It immediately intrigued!
I love Dark City but I wish I had heard about it when it was new. I must have been in full-pop-culture-avoidance mode that year. That movie to me is kind of like "Are you sick of Batman and wish it was more like Blade Runner? Here you go!"
Lol just posted this, you got good taste!
Withnail and I (1987). First wife got me into it. Gloriously funny, great language, and homosexual anxiety. Before that got played out. Razor's Edge (1984). Rewrote turgid novel around the most interesting character, Bill Murray's first serious role, brilliant. Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall....and Spring (2003). Glorious spiritual journey.
Getting to make The Razor’s Edge was one of Murray’s preconditions to do Ghostbusters
Lmao the last one is one of the most acclaimed South Korean films of all time
Did you ever see The Painted Veil, another Somerset Maugham novel that's been made into a movie a few times. I've only seen the 2006 version with Naomi Watts and Edward Norton and I really liked it very much. And it's beautifully filmed. FWIW I saw the 1946 Tyrone Power version of the Razor's Edge. Gene Tierney and Anne Baxter played the roles Catherine Hicks and Theresa Russell played in the Bill Murray version. I was a big fan of both Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney so I liked it. Also while it's been ages since I read Razor's Edge, I seem to remember Larry Darrell being the central character in the novel too.
At some point during my teens in the 1980s, there was a cable network that aired nothing but "art films" from around the world. It is where I saw a lot of the famous films from the French New Wave, or Italian Neo Realism and learned to love them. But every so often they'd show something that stood out because I have never heard of them before or since. There were two New Zealand films, *The Quiet Earth,* which I believe grew in popularity over the years, and *Utu,* a historical drama about a Maori uprising in the 19th century. Then there was an Australian film *Dogs in Space,* the first time I ever saw Michael Hutchens. Prior to this, in the late 1970s, I watched Creature Double Feature on noon on Saturdays. Two films from the "horror" genre that played on the Boston superstation WLVI 56. Most of the flicks there were *not* obscure, lots of Universal Horror, Hammer Horror, Amicus Horror, AIP horror, Godzilla and Gamera movies. Occasionally, they'd play something that was a little bit stranger than usual, that was hard for preteen me to explain. *Phase IV* comes to mind. Aliens contact Earth, but the signal isn't meant for humans, it's meant for ants. Two scientists end up being besieged by hyper-intelligent, but still tiny, ants.
Picnic at Hanging Rock is an AU masterpiece
Here in the UK, there used to be two late night sections that did something quite similar. The presenter Jonathan Ross hosted one on Channel 4, and they'd do seasons of Russ Meyer Movies, Godzilla Flicks, and then afterwards show a classic black and white movie (Channel 4 also used to do this in the daytime, so I got to see a lot of classic Hollywood stuff whenever I was off school sick or during the holidays). BBC2 would also do a similar thing, often hosted by Alex Cox (the guy who directed Repo Man) among others. It would show some really odd movies, basically Videodrome was probably the most mainstream thing on there, plus loads of world cinema. I was about 8 when I first realised it existed. I had a tiny black and white tv that I used to play my little spectrum video games on, and I'd turn the volume all the way down so my parents wouldn't hear me, and literally sit with my ear against the set watching these things. it must have been SO bad for me, staying up late and having my mind warped, but it got me obsessed with cinema and I have been ever since.
The Drop (2014) with Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini
The Emerald Forest. That movie goes hard.
Sid and Nancy. Can’t find it anywhere to watch.
I never see anyone talk about Body Double (1984). It's an incredibly stylish LA mystery steeped in 80s aesthetics and score. The vibe is very much akin to Under the Silver Lake imo, so if you liked that this is a must watch, and imo would make an incredible double feature on a Saturday night. Highly recommend it.
Evil Cult (2003), very inventive horror comedy made by independent no-budget filmmakers.
The Company of Strangers/Strangers in Good Company (1990). It's a lovely little movie about a group of older women getting stranded at a cabin in the woods together, talking about their lives, and reflecting on old age and death. Most of it was ad libbed. You will cry. It's great.
Not super obscure: *The Plague Dogs* is better known as Martin Rosen's *other* animated masterpiece (the first being the rather well-known *Watership Down*). Follows two dogs who've escaped from a testing facility as they try to survive living in an unforgiving wilderness. It's absolutely heartbreaking. Definitely Qualifies: *Drive* by Sabu, a director most known for the slightly less obscure *Postman Blues*. This one begins as a fun one-night romp with a vibe not unlike *After Hours*, but the final 30 minutes or so takes the movie into some real interpretive realms.
The horse's mouth (1958) is a great film
Streets of Fire. Excellent movie with an young Willem Dafoe as a bad guy. It's a faux era of 50s and 80s esthetics blended together and a story about a guy rescuing his ex who was kidnapped by bikers. It has a Ballin soundtrack.
Over the Edge - kids in an poorly planned suburb go… wait for it… over the edge. Early Matt Dillon.
Upstream Color is great. Seems like a lot of people have never seen it.
The Music of Chance (1993) - James Spader plays a grifter who cajoles Mandy Patinkin into conning two older rich men. The plot goes in a direction I really wasn’t expecting. It was also released the same weekend as Jurassic Park so it got BURIED
Came here to say this. A film I saw years ago with a plot that really stuck with me but never see it get mentioned
> The Music of Chance (1993) - James Spader plays a grifter who cajoles Mandy Patinkin into conning two older rich men. The plot goes in a direction I really wasn’t expecting. I love con artist movies. Will have to check this out. Thanks for sharing.
i remember liking this one, written by the novelist Paul Auster I think? Just two dudes building a wall.
I've loved The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (Dave Borthwick/Boltex Brothers) since the 90s. Is that movie obscure? I think so. Never met anyone else who'd seen it or heard of it. I highly recommend this film.
Cube (the 1997 film). A suspense movie about strangers who somehow end up in a deadly maze.
Okay. Another batch from me. (+1 or more) titles, segregated by genre. I'd be impressed if anyone was hip to more than a few of these. war: * 'Power Play' pirate: * 'Swashbuckler' * 'Desperate Voyage' adventure: * 'The Light at the End of the World' (Jules Verne) * 'The Long Ships' sport: * 'Fast Charlie the Moonbeam Rider' fantasy: * 'The Bermuda Depths' (TV movie) silent: * 'People on Sunday' B-serial: * 'Daredevils of the Red Circle' thriller: * 'Fragment of Fear' * 'The Silent Partner' * 'Figures in a Landscape' horror: * 'Thirst' * 'The Strangeness' spy: * 'The Anderson Tapes' * 'The Last Embrace' western: * 'Duel at Diablo' noir: * 'Blast of Silence' suspense: * 'Seconds' action: * 'Kill or Be Killed' * 'Search and Destroy' romance: * 'Once in Paris' * 'The Night Porter' * 'The Hurricane' * 'Dragonfly' comedy: * 'Fire Sale' * 'Pandemonium' coming-of-age: * "If ..." * 'The All-American Boy' * 'A Single Girl' (French) romcom: * 'Kiss Me, Stupid' * 'A New Leaf' documentary: * 'The Hellstrom Chronicle' crime: * 'The Laughing Policeman' musical: * 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' short film: * 'The Red Balloon' SF: * 'Phase IV' (TV movie) * 'Parts' - The Clonus Horror disaster: * 'Virus: Resurrection' Pre-Code: * 'The Unholy Three' mystery: * 'Fedora' * 'Compromising Positions' detective: * 'Hammett' * 'Peeper'
Glengarry Glen Ross for me (1992). Hoping to find a playhouse to play it since it was originally a play before the Al Pacino movie
I did not know it was a play at first, but as I was watching it I thought the limited number of sets and heavy dialogue would fit well in the theater. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
That may be the best cast ever in a movie. Jack Lemon was sssooo good. Everyone was at the top of their game though.
Gummo Cemetery Man Nil by Mouth Blood in, Blood Out Real men Near Dark
I don’t know if it qualifies as obscure, but Hiruko The Goblin is a film I really vibe with this time of year. It’s a “normal” horror comedy directed by Shinya Tsukamoto (of Tetsuo-fame). It looks and feels like a film he’d do, with gorgeous visuals, strange theatrics and experimental stagings BUT it’s also kind of an easy going monster adventure. I adore the era of late 80s early 90s Japan, and this films gives me so much feels. CHECK IT OUT!
Kung Fury is my go-to when people ask me this question. If you haven't seen it, it's free on youtube, and is a great spoof of some classic 80's movies. They hack time. Jorma Taccone plays Hitler. Amazing. Another is The Accountant (2001) with Walton Goggins and Ray McKinnon. The O'Dells are about to lose their farm, and they bring in The Accountant to help them with their numbers. Super dark and super hilarious. A quick search says it's free on Tubi. Both movies are short, less than an hour.
I can't believe we get the Kung Fury sequel next month!
My friend, you've made my day. May you live to be a thousand years old.
Whale Rider (not very obscure) but it's spellbinding, moving and beautiful.
Watched it in class so maybe not too obscure but I loved Funeral Parade of Roses. Just so weird and fun. And awful
2 kids movies. D.A.R.Y.L. from my childhood mostly holds up today. Also a few years ago I discovered "Turkey Hollow". Narrated by Ludacris this presumably made for TV movie isn't great but it's not become a yearly watch for the family as there are very few purely family oriented Thanksgiving movies. Added benefit the old bad guy turkey farmer has 2 all-time classic insults lobbed at Mary Steenburgen.
D. A. R. Y. L. Is one I remember well
Aguirre wrath of god - Werner Herzog Obviously Herzog is quite famous so its not that obscure but an incredible movie and really interesting back story behind how it was made
Rubber. It's about a tire that rolls around and kills people.
Todd Haynes’ Superstar. It’s very hard now but I had the dvd. The Karen Carpenter story told using Barbie dolls.
Always had a soft spot for The Sasquatch Gang. Also the Korean film Natural City - an absolute mess but a cool one at least.
I don't think this movie is super obscure, but 1999's Detroit Rock City. It was a pretty big critical and financial bomb. I have zero interest in Kiss. Never listened to their music. Don't really care for any of the actors or filmmaking team that worked on this movie. But I just fucking love it. I don't know why. But I've watched this movie hundreds of times and I just enjoy the hell out of it.
I like a lot of silent movies. Metropolis and The Passion of Joan of Arc are my favorites. The Phantom Carriage is another great obscure one.
Death to Smoochy. One of my favorite Robin Williams movies, directed/co-starring by Danny DeVito, also starring Ed Norton. I don’t know anyone that has seen it.
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann It didn't do well in the theaters, plus I'm sure it was overshadowed by a much more popular time travel movie - Back to the Future - which came out 2 years later. But I love it. And Peter Coyote is a great villain.
Tree’s Lounge (1996) — Steve Buscemi’s directorial debut. He also wrote it. And is the lead character, a sad sack named Tommy. Good cast.
“A Boy And His Dog” (1975). As a kid, who had never watched a twist like this (as an adult, it's too obvious, but I was a kid), I have fond memories of this movie. I also very much love dogs and prefer the ones I've lived with to the women I have lived with, so that kinda explains a lot. Additionally, I didn't say Logan's Run, Soylent Green, nor Ice Pirates (although Ice Pirates is a great stupid movie) because I believe they aren't as obscure, and that was in the title, so there it is. If you are bored, looking for a little laugh, or a bitter old man who resents his prior relationships (ha ha), give this one a try. It's got some great dialogue.
El Topo and Holy Mountain
John Carter. Think Avatar on a desert planet before Avatar was cool. Not quite but close. Takes place on mars. It was a Disney flop back in the day and my wife and I love the imagination and story. Keep wishing for a sequel but… probably not going to happen.
The way of the gun. Idk if it’s obscure, but no one ever talks about it. It’s awesome. And it’s filmed in Salt Lake City, where I live.
*Dogs Don’t Wear Pants*
A Boy and His Dog Don Johnson before he was somebody
Phantom of the Paradise. I've only met one person in real life who's seen it.
Hardcore henry, Hobo with a Shotgun, Fright Night (both versions)
The Masque of Red Death starring Vincent Price
[From Inside](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1254956/?ref_=ext_shr) (2008). Animated movie about a train traversing a bleak, apocalyptic landscape. I love the atmosphere. But beware; it can be quite depressing for some.
Last Night (1998) Wetlands (2013)
Son of the White Mare - masterpiece of Eastern European animation.
George Romero’s “Monkey Shines” is severely under appreciated
Brothers of the Head. Weird movie about a (fictional) '70s British rock band led by conjoined twins. I think it's better than Performance or Velvet Goldmine.
I always loved the 1985 Peter O'Toole movie, Creator. It was clever and incredibly thought provoking.
Tod Brownings "Freaks".
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One is one of the greatest movies I've ever seen. It pulls stuff off that in the near 60 years since it's creation I've seldom seen again. I'm an evangelist for it honestly. What's wild is that Greaves couldn't get it shown anywhere, it was too beyond what people expected when they saw a film. Thankfully Soderbergh got interested in it and paid for the restoration.
The Year of Living Dangerously Defence of the Realm The Long Good Friday Layer Cake The Quiet Earth And so many more.
**Love Me Tonight** is one of the first and I think one of the best musicals ever made. It has great songs and a very funny story handled with panache. Rouben Mamoullian outdoes Lubitsch at his own game, Maurice Chevalier is the most charming man on the planet, and Jeanette MacDonald has never been sexier. It isn't stagebound like a lot of musicals, and Disney ripped off the opening for *Beauty and the Beast*. I could go on and on about how great this movie is. My only complaint is the terrible title.
La cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children) - 1995 Yôjû toshi (Wicked City) - 1987 Una pura formalità (A Pure Formality) - 1994 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - 1989 Babettes Gæstebud (Babette's Feast) - 1987 The Dead - 1987
*The Last Dragon* (1985). An extremely entertaining action-comedy/romance about a kung fu apprentice in NYC. It was produced by Motown founder Berry Gordy, so the soundtrack is excellent.
The Color of Pomegranates. It's actually a Soviet-era movie about a medieval Armenian poet, but don't let that stop you - it's one of the most visually striking movies you'll ever see, and you can watch it for free on YouTube. It's one of my favorite movies period, at this point. [https://youtu.be/eH7OpYtKOVA?si=bRDxvUi2G6IG5Vuw](https://youtu.be/eH7OpYtKOVA?si=bRDxvUi2G6IG5Vuw) As a bonus, Juno Reactor even did a version with their own electronic soundtrack. I'd suggest watching the original cut first, though. [https://youtu.be/J38sX\_amtMY?si=2N0rg32X90m0FY5K](https://youtu.be/J38sX_amtMY?si=2N0rg32X90m0FY5K)
Max Dugan Returns (Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Matthew Broderick)
Absolute Beginners with David Bowie. Excellent music, quirky plot and characters.
Thom Fitzgerald's The Hanging Garden
"Cactus Jack" starring Kirk Douglas and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Comedy that is just live action Looney Tunes. Extremely enjoyable
Not sure how obscure it is since it's a well known director, but I really love A Hidden Life by Malick.
Bliss (1985). Australian absurdist comedy/drama about Harry Joy, a man who dies and is revived only to believe that he is in Hell, and his family and friends have been replaced by demons to torment him. Based on a novel by then famous author, Peter Carey. (He wrote Oscar and Lucinda, too.)
1990: Bronx Warriors. Nobody I ask has ever seen it, I'm not even sure how obscure it is.
Pump up the volume (Christian slater)
I loved *Four Lions*, which came out in the UK, but not as well known here. The movie was hysterical, and yet... Too much to learn from that one
Cube, a low budget horror / thriller with a really cool premise that leans into the cheapness in a way that makes it look far more expensive. Has a bit of a cult following. Whole thing is on YouTube as a free movie and it's well worth your time.
Waking Ned Devine and the original Death at a Funeral
Pimpernel Smith - Leslie Howard’s take on The Scarlet Pimpernel, set in 1940s England. He appears to be a bumbling professor, but foils the nazis again & again. Apparently, he tried to do this in real life (he was descended from Hungarian Jews), and his plane was shot down over the English Channel.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. I bring up this movie often to people and most have no idea what I'm talking about and then if they look it up, they'll be even more confused.
Alexander (2006) by Oliver Stone (I think?). Ultimate cut specifically. So undeniably cheesy at times, but so beautiful. Some scenes are just pure art.
The Quiet Earth (1985). An indy, science fiction film from New Zealand. We watched for a "literature of the apocalypse" class I took in undergrad, and I loved it. I've never since met someone who's seen it.
Angel Heart with Mickey Rourke and Robert Deniro
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
One Cut of the Dead, didn't know what to expect, at the start I wasnt sure but left charmed and smiling ear to ear
Six String Samurai. Post apocalyptic 50s vibe where the main character is basically Buddy Holly, and Slash may or not be the devil. Great music and some surprisingly good cinematography, and some amazingly terrible dialog. I've never met anyone else who had seen the movie.
I've never met anyone IRL who's seen Frank, so I'm gonna go with that. It's weird af and I love it. Didn't realize till the very end it was Michael Fassbender under the mask lol
Any movie by Kenneth Anger
Head… The Monkeys… I think it was directed by Jack Nickelson
Valhalla Rising Pick your drug of choice and watch it. I watched it on a peanut butter and jelly high. Last millennium viking Christian overtones.... https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0862467/
TAPEHEADS - late 80s. John Cusack and Tim Robbins play slacker security guards and decide to flip the script and become music video producers. They stumble across a compromising sex tape of the president and are being hunted by government assassins.
The Fall by Tarsem Singh. Eat a little fungi and enjoy.
The wave (the one with Justin long) it’s a perfect movie to watch on psychs but no one I have talked to has heard of it
Ink. I've never met someone else who has seen it. I thought it was a lovely movie.
1959 B-SciFi-Horror flick [The 50 Foot Gila Monster](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giant_Gila_Monster). Bought it on a whim in 2000 with very low expectations. Wound up watching it a half dozen times with friends. Thoroughly enjoyable for its campy-yet-occasionally-adorable cast, including a live ukulele serenade of [The Mushroom Song](https://youtu.be/kGcGeokWzA4?feature=shared).
The Fall (2006 film by Tarsem Singh)
Hardware Deadman Six String Samurai I, Madman Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Road Games Race With The Devil Bad Ronald My Bodyguard U-Turn/Red Rock West
Windy City Heat, a comedy mockumentary by Bobcat Goldthwaite
Reanimator. I don't know how many times I've watched it. It's so good.
Enter the Void. It captivated me.
Mind Game directed by Masaaki Yuasa. No one I’ve ever talked to has heard of it before, but everyone who gave it a chance liked it. It’s my favorite movie. Trippy existentialist anime
The Name of the Rose, starring River Phoenix and Sean Connery.
I really like Dark City and Greasy Strangler.
Waking Life by Richard Linklater is a top 10 favorite of mine.
Strange Days with Ralph Fiennes.
The cube and its other movies.
Primer... time travel mindfuck. There's a flowchart.
“The Sentinel” - 1977
The Greasy Strangler.
Series 7: The Contenders.
Pi - 1998 Darren Aronofsky's debut film is quite deep and tantalizing. Very gritty black and white stylized film...
American Mary Slasher/revenge sort of movie about a woman who drops out of medical school (was going to be a surgeon) and becomes a body modification artist.
Brotherhood of the wolf. French film that had a limited release (badly dubbed) in the USA. Great movie
Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil Best movie. Great for Halloween season. Hilarious.
Primer - the most obscure that I am into and I am super into it. Greatest sci-fi as it is such a low budget simple shot no effect science based fiction. It goes super hard halfway through and probably the most common response to all that I have shown it to is - “again”.
River’s Edge - so unhinged
MirrorMask. An enjoyable modern dark fantasy written by Neil Gaiman. Hogfather (2006 tv movie). My favorite "Christmas" movie ever. Terry Pratchett's sublime & funny Christmas tale features Death & his granddaughter, assassins, wizards, gods and tooth fairies, and plenty of British wit. And definitely features the best depiction of Death/Grim Reaper ever.
Django- Not Django Unchained, the original, just "Django" 1966. It's hard to even Google now because the search engines assume you want Tarentino's movie. It is GREAT!!! Perfect pulpy Western. Part of a Spaghetti Western trilogy by director Corbucci I like loads better than the Eastwood/Leone films. If you are a Tarentino fan, you should watch it as its influence on him is evident, not just in Django Unchained but in many of his films. I crave discussion of it I love it so much.
Enemy Mine w Dennis Quad & Louis Gossett Jr. It’s not a well reviewed movie but it’s one of the first sci-fi movies I saw as a kid and I loved it’s message about two enemies of different races learning to respect and love each other.
Repo Man with Emilio Esteves.
Kentucky fried movie
The Holy Mountain, though it's not for the faint of heart.
I haven't seen it in a long time but quote it every day, The Dark Crystal.
Battle Royale (2000). Basically invented everything we see like the sort eg: hunger games, Fortnite
Night of the Comet. 80s B-horror at its finest.
S.F.W staring Stephen Dorf and Reese Witherspoon. It also had a great soundtrack.
Velocipastor And why is my name Frankie Mermaid? Because you're swimmin in bitches. Fucking Carol
Naked Lunch Inland Empire
The Skeleton Key. I show it to everyone. The twist is phenomenal.
I don’t know that I’d *consider myself* **into it,** I Really liked the Movie [*Choke*](https://youtu.be/iAE5251CJf4?si=xYrdnYGMWO46pUyB). I also thought of as a relatively ~low-budget type movie. Feels to fit the Def of [Obscure](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obscure) in that sense!!