Best Obscure Movies

[blackout-]

I started a thread like this on another board awhile ago that worked pretty well, found quite a few cool movies that I hadn't seen - post a list of yours and a short desc. Also just paste any of these names in amazon or imdb and I'm sure you can get a better description.

Suicide Kings - walken kidnapped and tied up thru the whole movie, awesome dialogue

Boondock Saints - irish brothers decide to kill a bunch of russian mobsters, very cool

Thursday - former criminal guy's buddys all show up (on thursday) and a whole shitload of stuff goes down (think tarantino and reservoir dogs w/o the flashbacks)

Formula 51 - kinda over the top, but alright - samuel l jackson in a kilt - invents a new drug - goes to london to sell it, robert carlye, meatloaf

Plunkett and Macleane - 1700's london - fuckin awesome action movie about some highway robbers (much cooler than that sounds) - definatley check this out. also, liv tyler massive cleavage scenes!

True Romance - christian slater, walken, hopper - 1st movie tarantino wrote, very cool stuff

Battle Royale - japanese movie - 1 high school class per year selected for the game - have to goto an island, all get weapons - kill eachother off, last kid after 3 days alive is the winnaarrr!

Equilibrium - christian bale (american psycho guy) - futureistic scifi - kinda like matrix+1984 hybrid, awesome special fx.

Mean Guns - like battle royale but with ice T and christopher lambert in a new prison - winner gets lotta $$$

some more well known but that don't get enough mention....

12 monkeys
orgazmo (south park guys - mormon enters porn)
amazon women on the moon
not another teen movie (actually very funny)
leon: the professional
cube
ronin (great car chase)
kung pow: enter the fist (another 'stupid' movie like dude wheres my car that is actually funny)


I'll post some more as I think of 'em I'm sure.

[T Brokenjaw]

Suicide Kings
Boondock Saints
True Romance
Great movies...



The Thing (1982)

Plot Outline: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/

[Seth]

Suicide Kings - also stars Jay Mohr
Boondock Saints - As good as Resevoir Dogs
Formula 51 - silly, but pretty good
Plunkett and Macleane - I enjoyed this one too
True Romance - Quentin Taratino- of course it rules! (Also Christopher Walken)
Equilibrium - Cool flick. Reminds me of Imposter with Gary Sinise, which is also a good movie
Mean Guns - I couldn't watch passed 10 minutes, it looked that awful

12 monkeys- goes without saying
orgazmo (south park guys - mormon enters porn)- so stupid its funny
not another teen movie- not much different than all of these types of movies
leon: the professional- excellent excellent movie
cube- Cube 2 was pretty good
ronin (great car chase)- the only thing good was the car chase


The Thing (1982) was good, but the original was better I believe. Creepier in its "50s horror movie" awfulness


Shaun of the Dead is must see- could be the funniest movie ever, start to finish

[SurlyTonyDanza]

Not many of those movies are that obscure. If you could get it at blockbuster, it should be eliminated from the list.

[fandango86]

Not many of those movies are that obscure. If you could get it at blockbuster, it should be eliminated from the list.
I think he more meant 'Movies that made less than $20 million dollars at the box office.' Figuring if nobody paid to see them in the theatre, not many people would have seen them, making them obscure. But that would have been a long thread title...:rolleyes:

[Seth]

Not many of those movies are that obscure. If you could get it at blockbuster, it should be eliminated from the list.I was thinking that too (esp. True Romance and 12 Monkeys), but I think they'd be considered obscure if they came and went in the movie theaters so the first time you see them is at blockbuster (or on starz or encore- not HBO).

(EDIT: oops, fandango, you beat me. Took too long to write this out I guess)

I'm trying to think of more than just "Imposter", but good movies are hard to come by. Kevin Smith's "Vulgar" starring Dante from Clerks is disturbingly good.
"Romper Stomper" with Russell Crowe as a skinhead
"Rounders" with Edward Norton and Matt Damon. Not obscure, but a good enough movie to warrant a mention
"A Boy and His Dog" is a favorite from childhood. Starring Don Johnson, but don't let that scare you off
Is "The 13th Warrior" with Antonio Banderas obscure?
How about "The Killing Fields" and anything by Ed Wood?
Okay, I give up.

[SurlyTonyDanza]

I think he more meant 'Movies that made less than $20 million dollars at the box office.'

Reservoir Dogs made less than 3 million in the box office. I wouldn't call that an obscure movie..







I'm just busting balls now...But Im right.

[Seth]

Is "not found at blockbuster" the only criteria for obscure to you Surly? Just asking, I'm curious.

[SurlyTonyDanza]

This isn't my thread, so who cares what I think.

That would kind of be my criteria, even though their is probably tons of holes in it. Citizen Kane isn't at my blockbuster, if you could beleive that, and that's not exactly obscure.

I always kind of found obscure being, I have to find it online and wait 2 fucking weeks for it to get here.

[Bach]

I think "cult" films should be incorporated into the obscure category. Just my two shekels on the thread direction. As for contributions, tack "Boxing Helena" and "Kentucky Fried Movie" onto the list.

[SurlyTonyDanza]

I like the 'Cult' Films addition. That's broader, and less subjective then 'Obscure.'

[fandango86]

I think "cult" films should be incorporated into the obscure category. Just my two shekels on the thread direction. As for contributions, tack "Boxing Helena" and "Kentucky Fried Movie" onto the list.
Speaking of obscure, what the f is a 'shekel'?:icon_conf

[SurlyTonyDanza]

'shekel'?:icon_conf

Coins, right?

[Seth]

This isn't my thread, so who cares what I think.I believe tis I who asked the question

Okay. Cult. I can get behind that. "Rocky Horror Picture Show" is a cult fave, but that's not obscure. Great none the less, though.

[CallmeQtie]

I'm confused....

[JhaxShucksChock]

Five words ...

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

[Seth]

Five words ...

Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Fucking terrific awful scifi "horror" movie. I was obsessed with this movie as a preteen. It shows up on cable every-so-often. Sometimes I just have to watch it over and over.

[JhaxShucksChock]

Fucking terrific awful scifi "horror" movie. I was obsessed with this movie as a preteen. It shows up on cable every-so-often. Sometimes I just have to watch it over and over.

They have a "special edition" DVD out, including commentary from the guys who wrote and directed the film. It is fucking hilarious to hear these guys talk like they're serious filmmakers and how in certain scenes they were trying to reference classic movies. If you like the movie you have to buy it.

[Tbones]

Here's a few:

Session 9
May
Bubba Ho-Tep
Donnie Darko
City of God
The Rules Of Attraction
Frailty
Narc
Auto Focus

[JhaxShucksChock]

Here's a few:
Frailty
Narc

Completely agree on those, very good movies.

[Seth]

If you like the movie you have to buy it.Definitely! Thanks so much!

Bubba Ho-Tep? I keep meaning to see that- I kick myself everytime someone mentions it!

"The Howling" One through...? 539 I think they're up to

[SPEWEY]

True Romance - christian slater, walken, hopper - 1st movie tarantino wrote, very cool stuffOne of my favorite movies of all-time. The scence in the trailer with Walken and Hopper is classic.

Clifford Worley (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000454/): You're Sicilian, huh?
Coccotti (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000686/): Yeah, Sicilian.
Clifford Worley (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000454/): Ya know, I read a lot. Especially about things... about history. I find that shit fascinating. Here's a fact I don't know whether you know or not. Sicilians were spawned by *******.
Coccotti (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000686/): Come again?
Clifford Worley (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000454/): It's a fact. Yeah. You see, uh, Sicilians have, uh, black blood pumpin' through their hearts. Hey, no, if eh, if eh, if you don't believe me, uh, you can look it up. Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, uh, you see, uh, the Moors conquered Sicily. And the Moors are *******.
Coccotti (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000686/): Yes...
Clifford Worley (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000454/): So you see, way back then, uh, Sicilians were like, uh, wops from Northern Italy. Ah, they all had blonde hair and blue eyes, but, uh, well, then the Moors moved in there, and uh, well, they changed the whole country. They did so much fuckin' with Sicilian women, huh? That they changed the whole bloodline forever. That's why blonde hair and blue eyes became black hair and dark skin. You know, it's absolutely amazing to me to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, that, uh, that Sicilians still carry that ------ gene. Now this...
[Coccotti busts out laughing]
Clifford Worley (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000454/): No, I'm, no, I'm quoting... history. It's written. It's a fact, it's written.
Coccotti (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000686/): [Laughing] I love this guy.
Clifford Worley (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000454/): Your ancestors are *******. Uh-huh.
[Starts laughing, too]
Clifford Worley (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000454/): Hey. Yeah. And, and your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a ------, ho, ho, yeah, and she had a half------- kid... now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.
[All laugh]

[Tbones]

Roger Avary claims he wrote 'True Romance', but they won't give him credit. Anyway, still an awesome movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108399/fullcredits#writers

It's funny how IMDB credits him by saying "Uncredited". Most likely cause he isn't in the actual movie credits.

[Darkstar]

I think "cult" films should be incorporated into the obscure category. Just my two shekels on the thread direction. As for contributions, tack "Boxing Helena" and "Kentucky Fried Movie" onto the list.
I was just going to say KFM and Amazon Women on the Moon, classics.

ACtually, I have found that not a lot of people have seen Clerks for how well know it is or PCU for that matter.

[JhaxShucksChock]

I was just going to say KFM and Amazon Women on the Moon, classics.

ACtually, I have found that not a lot of people have seen Clerks for how well know it is or PCU for that matter.

PCU seem to depend on the type of person they were in college (if your my age anyway). My friends and I have seen PCU at least 50 times and quote lines from it all the time. Other people I know have never seen it and at best might now the "don't be that guy" stuff but have no idea what movie it's from.

[Hudson]

Donnie Darko great film!
Lifeforce: Space Vampire walks around town totally naked, killing people
Rounders
Bad Lieutenant

[Bach]

Speaking of obscure, what the f is a 'shekel'?:icon_conf
Unit of currency in Israel. Get the gag? My two cents = my two shekels. Feel free to substitute drachma, kroner, rupees, or lire as you see fit. :action-sm

[Hudson]

Eraser head was good too

[blackout-]

i forgot about Bubba Ho-Tep - awesome movie. Bruce Campbell plays elvis in a retirement home alongside some black guy who is actually jfk's mind in another body and they have to fight off an ancient evil mummy. yea, wai what?

[pooter]

Big Lebowski :)

[Arch Stanton]

PCU seem to depend on the type of person they were in college (if your my age anyway). My friends and I have seen PCU at least 50 times and quote lines from it all the time. Other people I know have never seen it and at best might now the "don't be that guy" stuff but have no idea what movie it's from.
Wait, your wearing the t-shirt of the Band your seeing tonite? Don't be that guy.
Cup of Coffee, Yeah, I would like that.

Oh yeah, My obscure movie..... BIG NIGHT (Tony Shalloub, Stanley Tucci)

[Arch Stanton]

Big Lebowski :)
Wow, LOL! (sig pic)
Look, the world does not start and stop at your convenience, you insignificant piece of shit.

[JhaxShucksChock]

Wait, your wearing the t-shirt of the Band your seeing tonite? Don't be that guy.
Cup of Coffee, Yeah, I would like that.

Oh yeah, My obscure movie..... BIG NIGHT (Tony Shalloub, Stanley Tucci)


I've used that cup of coffee line a couple of times and the strange looks I get from all the Ivy League retards I work with, it's unreal. That movie should be shown to every freshman as part of orientation.

Want some advice?

Classes, nothing before 11.
Beer, it's your best friend, drink a lot of it.
Women, you're a freshman, they're out of the question.
Do you have a car?
No.
Someone on your floor will, find them and make friends the first day.

[zagman76]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this one... very odd, especially the last scene...

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/62/75/51m.jpg

Pi:

In Manhattan, behind six locks, lives Max Cohen, a mathematician and computer whiz. Since staring at the sun at age six, he's had terrible headaches; plus, he can't abide human contact except with an aging professor, and he's obsessed with finding numeric patterns. His current obsession is the stock market; his theories bring him to the attention of Wall Street traders. He also keeps running into Lenny, a fast-talking Hasidic who fronts for a cabal that wants to rediscover long-lost mathematical mysteries in the Torah. Neither group is benign, and they pursue Max as his hallucinations and headaches worsen. Does nature offer any solutions? Can Max find them?

[Tbones]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this one... very odd, especially the last scene...

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/62/75/51m.jpg

Pi:

In Manhattan, behind six locks, lives Max Cohen, a mathematician and computer whiz. Since staring at the sun at age six, he's had terrible headaches; plus, he can't abide human contact except with an aging professor, and he's obsessed with finding numeric patterns. His current obsession is the stock market; his theories bring him to the attention of Wall Street traders. He also keeps running into Lenny, a fast-talking Hasidic who fronts for a cabal that wants to rediscover long-lost mathematical mysteries in the Torah. Neither group is benign, and they pursue Max as his hallucinations and headaches worsen. Does nature offer any solutions? Can Max find them?



I actually have this movie. I always get about 30 minutes in and pass out. It's not cause I think it's bad (what I have seen of it is really good). It's because I always watch it when I'm tired. Who fucking dumb is that? Anyway, I'm gonna have to watch it soon, though. Thanks for the reminder.

Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky's other flick) was pretty damn good too.

[blackout-]

Pi was pretty cool, but kinda anti-climatic.

[JhaxShucksChock]

I'm probably jumping in the barrel here, but I think Ghostbusters 2 is much better than it gets credit for and most people never really gave it a chance.

[SurlyTonyDanza]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this one... very odd, especially the last scene...

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/62/75/51m.jpg

Pi:

In Manhattan, behind six locks, lives Max Cohen, a mathematician and computer whiz. Since staring at the sun at age six, he's had terrible headaches; plus, he can't abide human contact except with an aging professor, and he's obsessed with finding numeric patterns. His current obsession is the stock market; his theories bring him to the attention of Wall Street traders. He also keeps running into Lenny, a fast-talking Hasidic who fronts for a cabal that wants to rediscover long-lost mathematical mysteries in the Torah. Neither group is benign, and they pursue Max as his hallucinations and headaches worsen. Does nature offer any solutions? Can Max find them?

Pi was decent. A little pretencious for a first film, but whatever. Requiem was decent too. I think Aranofsky is very over-rated as a director. Defintelly cult films though..

[Hudson]

Fist of the Northstar(anime)
Fist of the Northstar(live)-both stories about an epic if not rediculous martial artist who can cause people to explode with a few strategic touches of the fingers...pal from footloose plays the evil brother in the live version
Best of the Best: usa recruits Martial artists to fight Korean martial artists in a brutal points only match

No Retreat No Surrender: Bad guys move into the the life of the new kid in town whose dad has a dojo, kid gets trained by Bruce Lee's ghost, and fights the russian thug the bad guys have hired to take over the town.....Jean Claude Van Damme's first American movie as the Russian baddie... does split on ropes at beginning of fight,

[SpamChunks]

Heavyweights

it's about a fat kid camp, and Ben Stiller comes in and tortures these fat kids. Supposed to be a kid movie but one can find a bit of cringe humor in it. like a fat kid wearing an i'm distusting shirt, and Ben Stiller's performance is great

[Seth]

Fist of the Northstar(anime)
Fist of the Northstar(live)-both stories about an epic if not rediculous martial artist who can cause people to explode with a few strategic touches of the fingers...pal from footloose plays the evil brother in the live version
Best of the Best: usa recruits Martial artists to fight Korean martial artists in a brutal points only match

No Retreat No Surrender: Bad guys move into the the life of the new kid in town whose dad has a dojo, kid gets trained by Bruce Lee's ghost, and fights the russian thug the bad guys have hired to take over the town.....Jean Claude Van Damme's first American movie as the Russian baddie... does split on ropes at beginning of fight,I'm sensing a theme here


I'm probably jumping in the barrel here, but I think Ghostbusters 2 is much better than it gets credit for and most people never really gave it a chance
I really liked that one too!

[Hoagie]

If you want a really sick and twisted obscure movie filled with people that even the Jerry Springer show would reject, then "Gummo" is the movie for you.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj 0wfHE9Z3VtbW98aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=2;fm=1

[Hudson]

Heavyweights

it's about a fat kid camp, and Ben Stiller comes in and tortures these fat kids. Supposed to be a kid movie but one can find a bit of cringe humor in it. like a fat kid wearing an i'm distusting shirt, and Ben Stiller's performance is greatWhat Spam? Roll out of bed and turn on TBS this morning? It was on as I left for work:icon_mrgr :icon_mrgr :icon_mrgr

[NUGHUFFER]

Anyone know the name of the cartoon that JLo is watching in "The Cell"? Pretty obscure and frightfully weird movie right there.

[Jolie]

The House of Yes
But I'm a Cheerleader

[RunninStag]

Dead Alive - directed by Peter Jackson
Meet the Feebles - directed by Peter Jackson
Re-Animator
Evil Dead
Dawn of the Dead

[Arch Stanton]

Heavyweights

it's about a fat kid camp, and Ben Stiller comes in and tortures these fat kids. Supposed to be a kid movie but one can find a bit of cringe humor in it. like a fat kid wearing an i'm distusting shirt, and Ben Stiller's performance is great
How's it going little Tony?
Bad
Why?

BUDDY.....buddy Perkisize!!!

[blackout-]

The House of Yes

good one! forgot about that. parker posey is awesome in this movie.

[SpamChunks]

What Spam? Roll out of bed and turn on TBS this morning? It was on as I left for work:icon_mrgr :icon_mrgr :icon_mrgr
Yeah, I fell asleep with Tbs on, and wake up to find Ben Stiller Yelling at a fat kid. it was good stuff.

[MrSquidlow]

Not "obscure", but Neighbors with John Belushi and Akroid.

Mondo New York-A film that captures the alternative stuff going on in New York in the 80's..Includes a scene of interpretive dance while body painting a retard..

[cicp^p]

Black Christmas - A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break. - Scarier than it sounds.

Fritz the Cat - A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960's. - He's a cat, it's a cartoon, it's rated "X". What more do you need to know?

Phantasm - A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave-robber known only as the "Tall Man." - Not too obscure, but deserves a mention.

Barton Fink - In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. - A true mindfuck.

[kse 8585]

If you want a really sick and twisted obscure movie filled with people that even the Jerry Springer show would reject, then "Gummo" is the movie for you.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj 0wfHE9Z3VtbW98aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=2;fm=1

completely agree with you man. I saw the clip from Gummo in the movie Belly with DMX and Nas, I immediatley got the DVD and it is one of the most fucked up movies I've seen. I just burst out laughing every time I see the scene when the one guy is whoring out the retarded girl to the little kids.... There are some lines in the movie that would be great additions to O&A's library of sound effects.

[blackout-]

just saw a great movie the other day - employee of the month - matt dillon, steve zahn (whos in every other movie now it seems), christina applegate, very cool movie great soundtrack

[istink]

Mondo New York-A film that captures the alternative stuff going on in New York in the 80's..Includes a scene of interpretive dance while body painting a retard..

This is a great forgotten documentary. I love the footage of the performance artist (forgot his name) with the chest plate of firecrackers (or some other kind of explosive).

I've been getting into sleazy Italian crime flicks from the 70's. Movies like Hitch Hike, with David Hess from Last House On The Left and Beast With A Gun with Helmut Berger.

Also, a great JD flick is Over The Edge with a very young Matt Dillon. It's about a suburb with bored kids.

[THE FEZ MAN]

dogs in space was strange
dark star is a fav of myn
best in show (i take part in sporting dog compitions and those people realy do exist)
mars attacks! akkk akk aaakkk

[generoso]

Obscure I will go with the cult theme
Toxic Advenger
The Evil Dead 1,2,and 3
Frankenhooker
Reanimator
Motel Hell
SLC Punks
Class of nuke'em high
And the classic of sleeze the bottom scraping of the barrell it is so bad thats it is bad but funny
Pink Flamingo's

[MrMotherFucker]

Vulgar (greatest clown **** movie ever made)
Monument Ave. (Easily Denis Leary's best performance)
Eulogy (Ray Romano steals the show in this)
Igby Goes Down (a darker Royal Tenenbaums)

[Etherfiend]

Hamburger: The Movie

Slugs

Killing Zoe

Troll 2 ready for this.....Joshua's family takes a trip to NILBOG, which, unbeknownst to them, is the kingdom of the goblins, as told to young Joshua by his grandfather Seth, who just happens to be dead. Now it's up to Josh, magical time stopping Grandpa Seth, and a BOLOGNA SANDWICH to save the family from the evil Goblin Queen, who uses everything from magical rocks to an ear of corn, to destroy Josh's family. (amazing - never laughed so hard at a movie)

[salisburysteak]

Not many of those movies are that obscure. If you could get it at blockbuster, it should be eliminated from the list.


how about last temptation of christ, Try to find that god damn movie at a blockbuster! But hamburger the movie....does it get any better than that...Really?

[NikDaSchwugie]

A Better Tomorrow
Infernal Affairs
God of Gamblers

[BeezerBlanks]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this one... very odd, especially the last scene...

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/62/75/51m.jpg

Pi:

In Manhattan, behind six locks, lives Max Cohen, a mathematician and computer whiz. Since staring at the sun at age six, he's had terrible headaches; plus, he can't abide human contact except with an aging professor, and he's obsessed with finding numeric patterns. His current obsession is the stock market; his theories bring him to the attention of Wall Street traders. He also keeps running into Lenny, a fast-talking Hasidic who fronts for a cabal that wants to rediscover long-lost mathematical mysteries in the Torah. Neither group is benign, and they pursue Max as his hallucinations and headaches worsen. Does nature offer any solutions? Can Max find them?

wooo PI rules and I suck at math too lol. Really suprised I liked it.
My cult movie is Cannibal the Musical, first Matt and Trey movie made in college, if you listen in one scene you can hear the voice of cartman.

For awesome anime that not alot of people have seen try Jin Roh and Perfect Blue (fucking awesome suspense anime)

[EZE]

There is only one movie that trully shuts the gate.
PINK FLAMINGOS

[MikeTheTeacher]

Mostly old stuff and documentaries, and beats me how they rate on the Obscure-o-meter...

Fritz Langs Metropolis
Caligula
The whole Godzilla genre, but King Kong Vs. and Destroy All Monsters...
Big Trouble in Little China
Koyaanisqatsi
Powaqqattsi [better music, not as good visuals as Koya]
GG Allin: Hated
What the Bleep Do we Know?
For All Mankind
Hoop Dreams
The Thin BLue Line [Please put this out on DVD]
Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time
When We Were Kings [Ali Foreman in Zaire]
The Omega Man
Foxes
The Taking of Pelham 123
Hollywood Knights
Dogtown and the Z-boys
Riding Giants

[evilmonkey]

Probably the funniest one i saw was Gay ******* from Outer Space.



Sounds like I made that up, and I sound like a faggot for listing that movie, but let me post a couple lines, courtesy imdb.com....


Capt. B. Dick: I know you're afraid ArmInAss, but my son- this is just step on the long road to becoming a Gay******.
Capt. B. Dick: It started when you're father gave birth to you... and who knows, maybe after this mission, you'll get the sign of the brown ring- and can truly call yourself a Gay******.
Capt. B. Dick: And that's what you've been preparing for since you went to GayAgent School.
ArmInAss: You really think so sir?

[Tre$$]

Pups


Burt Reynolds + Kurt Loder + 2 young kids + a bank robbery = One strange movie

[Nitrostatic]

Santa Sangre - IT's a a bizarre psychedelic horror story that cannot be described in a few words. Good luck getting it since it's NC-17 and no movie rental store has it. Amazon has it though. It was banned at one time too

Island of Death - The most banned movie of ALL TIME. That should give you enough incentive to see it

[Doogie76]

True Romance - christian slater, walken, hopper - 1st movie tarantino wrote, very cool stuff

I totally agree and that is my fave movie. Best scene is Walken and Hopper with a young James Gandolfini looking on.

Another movie I have to add is "Pieces of April". I thought that would suck, but I was surprisingly entertained by it.

I got a special edition you could add to this list. The illegal copy of Superman II that is out there but very hard to find where Richard Donners original footage is inserted into the film and makes a hell of a lot of sense. WB is having a hard on trying to stop the circulation of this movie.

[AngryHugo]

Hard 8 was fucking great (gambling movie, not a pr0n), and Ghost Dog: The Way of The Samurai is a good find as well.

[mikepop]

Gummo Hehheh
Elephant
MeanCreek

[BeltOfScotch]

Fear of a Black Hat

IFC has been showing this one more often recently which reminded me of it again. It's a Spinal Tap-esque documentary about gangsta rappers NWH (Ni---z with Hats) in the early 90's. It's really funny stuff but the stupid star rating system on my digital cable only gives it 1.5 stars, fucking Cabin Fever has 2.5, what a load of crap.

[stella4star]

MikeTheTeacher: The Thin Blue Line is coming soon! Errol Morris box set release date is July 26, 2005. That brings me to Gates of Heaven....an amazing little documentary that I really enjoyed.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00094AS8G.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Other great obscure/underated flicks:
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Spanking the Monkey
Buffalo 66
The Ice Storm
Conspirators of Pleasure (Jan Svankmajer)
My Flesh and Blood (Documentary)
Strictly Ballroom

[boxowine]

One of the greatest under-rated movies ever is Fletch. And Strange brew 2 of the best movies of all time no if and or buts about it.

[NikDaSchwugie]

One of the greatest under-rated movies ever is Fletch.
Fletch isn't underrated. It's Chevy Chase's best movie.

[blackout-]

you think so? id say vacation or christmas vacation would beat out fletch.


or orange county. wahhht happened chevy :(

[askewcore]

Bully, it's made by the same dude who made Kids, Brad Renfro and that young girl who married Macauly Culkin are both in it. It's pretty similar to Kids, but takes place in a rednecky area of Florida. Good flick, few people have ever seen it.

[Hudson]

I spit on your grave
Gator Bait
freaks
they live
PHANTASM PHANTASM PHANTASM!

[sender_name]

A few for you...


Yellowbeard (1983) - Pirate comedy at its best. I loved this movie as a kid...
---->whoa! Lot's of boobies!
Bad Boy Bubby (1993) - Australian cult film classic about an abused(bangs
his mom...) son of a priest an a whore killing his mom and runaway
to join a band. I think this might be where south park got the "Tim-may"
sings show idea.
The Castle (1997) - Another Australian cult comedy about a family with a
house adjacent to an airport that wants to buy up the neighborhood to
expand the runway. Well, they don't want to move because "Living next
to the airport is great, if you ever want to go away you don't get stuck
in traffic" great film... Straight to the pool room!

[mikepop]

Bully, it's made by the same dude who made Kids, Brad Renfro and that young girl who married Macauly Culkin are both in it. It's pretty similar to Kids, but takes place in a rednecky area of Florida. Good flick, few people have ever seen it.

yeah i liked BULLY
based on a true story
i read the book.

[Hudson]

Has anyone seen the movie by Crispen Glover? I think it is called "What is it"? but I may be wrong...stars deformed and retarded people really fucked up movie from what I hear......

[askewcore]

freaks

Is this the one with the freaks in the sideshow, there's like a worm guy and a wolfman in a milkman outfit, and some rastafarian eyeballs with machine guns?

PHANTASM PHANTASM PHANTASM!

Yessiree, the Tall Man is the best villian ever.

IT'S NEVER OVER!

[LeeHarveyoswld]

maximum overdrive

[jrewing5]

Donnie Darko is one of the best movies ever. I'm also a big fan of Jacob's Ladder.
As far as comedies go, Raising Arizona is one of my fav's.

[bloody driveway]

here is a few

the newton boys
at close range (sean penn christopher walken)
( Francis for coppola film ) rumble fish
the foreigner (steven seagal)
bandits

[bloody driveway]

Donnie Darko is one of the best movies ever. I'm also a big fan of Jacob's Ladder.
As far as comedies go, Raising Arizona is one of my fav's.



Jacob's ladder one of the best

if you turn a way you have lost the story

[Dark Reyule]

I cant believe you compared KUNPOW to fucking Dude, Where's My Car? Not even close. yeah, KUNGPOW is stupid, but genius as well. Where's My Car is pure crap.

[NightStalker3]

Corvette Summer(1978), I used to love this movie as a kid. Its pretty awful, its on TBS every once in awhile.


High School Senior Kenny Dantley's only love in life is cars. For a shop class project, he and his classmates build a Corvette ("Stingray"). The car is a big hit -- so big, in fact, that it gets stolen! Kenny, having fallen in love with the car, sets out on a summer-long adventure in Las Vegas to find it. Along the way, he meets up with a "hooker-in-training" named "Vanessa" (played by Annie Potts). The two encounter danger and romance as they try to steal back the Stingray.


http://corvette.cabbagestew.com/images/corvette3.jpg

[askewcore]

The Monster Squad....its also pretty awful, but I used to watch it all the time, it's pretty obscure. It taught me a valuable life lesson, the wolfman does indeed have nards.

[NikDaSchwugie]

The Monster Squad....its also pretty awful, but I used to watch it all the time, it's pretty obscure. It taught me a valuable life lesson, the wolfman does indeed have nards.
Holy crap, I love that movie!

[UnOriginal]

anyone ever see Pink Flamingos? I've heard alot about it.

[mike70ss454]

Hollywood Knights


This is a fantastic movie. Michelle Pfeiffer looking delicious in one of here first movies.

You've got to give credit to the Hollywood Knights. They may be crass, juvenile, sex-mad pranksters, but they have an open-door policy: nerds and jocks alike are welcome, as long as they show proper disrespect for authority. The Hollywood Knights, a minor 1980 cult comedy poised somewhere between the innocent nostalgia of American Graffiti and the raunchy humor of Animal House, chronicles the antics of a practical-joking high school gang on Halloween night, 1965. In tribute to the last night of their favorite hangout, a Beverly Hills drive-in marked for destruction by the snooty Chamber of Commerce, the gang's court jester Newbomb Turk (Robert Wuhl in his film debut) leads the Knights in an all-out assault on the forces of law and order, conformity, and good taste. Nestled in the parade of toilet humor, fart jokes, mooning rebels, and topless co-eds, however, are the ruminations of the end of an era: the times they are a changin'. The doo-wop and surf soundtrack gives way to Motown, the Mamas and the Papas, and the Byrds as high school sweethearts Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer weather the transition from puppy love to adult romance and Vietnam looms on the horizon. It's a schizophrenic film, bopping from juvenile anarchy to thoughtful drama and back again with a sloppy but energetic drive and a rowdy rebelliousness that will never be accused of sensitivity, decency, or dignity. Fran Drescher, Gary Graham, and a hilarious Stuart Pankin also star



Dogtown and the Z-boys


If you were into skateboarding in the heyday of Powell Peralta ('90-'94) this is a great documentary about the beginnings of the sport.

Another great flick from 1986 that I loved in my childhood was Rad (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091817/)
Its about BMX racing and its worth checking out, with a special appearance by a young Lori Loughlin.

[blackout-]

hah, rad i remember that. there was another similar one to rad but for rollerbladin, can't remember the name of it tho

[mike70ss454]

hah, rad i remember that. there was another similar one to rad but for rollerbladin, can't remember the name of it tho

Are you thinkin of Airborne with Seth Green and Jack Black?

[THE FEZ MAN]

“Any Given Sunday” it’s about motor cycle racers back in the 60’s way early 70’s it stars some dude that was trying to win the AMA championship. But what’s really cool is that Steve McQueen is in it. Its mostly southern California with the real groovy music and sun sets and them riding these old triumph and bsa dirt bikes in the desert. Its on speed channel early Sunday mornings some times. its really cool if your into old bikes old cars and cool 16mm cinematography I really like it and watch it every time its on damn that sounds kinda gay blechhh check it out its cool “Le Mans” is fucking cool also staring Steve McQueen

[Bushwood]

Mean Streets and Run, Ronnie, Run

[PatFromMoonachie]

maximum overdrive
I felt ***** when I saw that in the movies!...I think Stephen King hates that movie!......the only good thing was the AC/DC music!

[blackout-]

Are you thinkin of Airborne with Seth Green and Jack Black?

looked on imdb, sounds like it might be it but i can't remember for sure.

[MikeTheTeacher]

Any Given Sunday and LeMans = both kick ass!

[Dead EditHer]

I wonder if anyone here has heard of the movie Series 7:The Contenders. It's a satire on the reality tv genre in which 7 random people are picked by government lottery to compete on a tv reality show. The contenstants have to kill each other(yes, kill each other)anyway they see fit. The prize is your freedom if you survive three rounds. It's very bleek in its violence, but it is a very good movie. It plays like a marathon of tv episodes.

[kloraferm]

Henry

[PCLoadLetter]

Any Given Sunday and LeMans = both kick ass!

Yes! LeMans is great! The only better racing movie out there is "Grand Prix" with James Garner (ca. 1966). Some of the best racing footage ever caught on film.

[MikeTheTeacher]

The only better racing movie out there is "Grand Prix" with James Garner (ca. 1966). Some of the best racing footage ever caught on film.

Damn! Now I cant remember which is which, LeMans and Grand Prix.

The one I remember, had these ultra slo-mo shots of some horrific collisions.

Off to IMDB...

[THE FEZ MAN]

it was grand prix because it was more of a documentary than a fiction based film following garner around as he was blowing all of his movie money, and one of the best crashes was when he trashed his lola, lemans was shot during the race but most of the shots were staged mc queen blew a ton of his own money on that film also, I just love the cinematography of Le mans and the blond was hot also. There is also another film that does a lot of in car stuff mostly during practice runs but long before there were in car cameras the bolted huge 35mm cameras to the tops of F1 cars and ran them around the track. That film also included footage of the elf f1 car that had 4 front tires that turned at the same time I think Jackie stewart was driving it. speed channel ran all 4 films on some Sunday movie marathon last winter, my poor kid was dieing from boredom but I just loved it.

[baggio]

Not for anything guys but not of the listings are Obscure movies. Everyone of these posted movies are well known to semi well known. 90% have been in the movies
Especially are the movies listed by the original poster. The only one posted that was obscure was maybe Hamburger : The Motion Picture

555 - thats an obscure movie

Street Trash - thats an obscure

Elves - thats an obscure

For Your Height Only - thats an obscure

Amin - The Rise and Fall - thats an obscure

Escape 2000 - thats an obscure

Miracle Mile - somewhat obscure

Dagon - somewhat obscure

Night of the Zombies - somewhat obscure

[Farm Flufer]

Shawn Of The Dead was F'ing great

[Lil'JimmysMule]

Killer Clowns From Outer Space is a great movie!!!

[JoeyDVDZ]

VideoDrome. James Woods and Debbie Harry are in it, and it's very creepy and uber cool. At least I think so.

[DjAnalLightBulb]

The Party Animal

One of the funniest movies ever. I took my former stage name from the main character of this film.

[BeltOfScotch]

Killer Klowns From Outer Space is a great movie!!!

Sorry but I'm anal about that distinction.

[BeltOfScotch]

Not for anything guys but not of the listings are Obscure movies.

Your grammar was a little rough so I'm not exactly sure what you were saying, but obscure is going to be different for everyone. While I've seen movies like Boondock Saints and Formula 51, I heard about them through friends, not because they were really pumped up by movie studios. After I saw them, I talked them up to my friends, many of them who had not heard of the films either. Over time, they become more well known via word of mouth, but just because you know a movie doesn't mean it's not obscure.

[Jolie]

Cemetery Man was another good obscure movie.

[jewdown]

The Toxic Avenger

[ASSBAG]

Cemetery Man was another good obscure movie.


Wow I haven't thought about that one in years

[blackout-]

The Toxic Avenger

check out toxic avenger IV if you haven't seen it yet - best in the series with ron jeremy playing the mayor and a class of retards being held hostage in the first 5 minutes.

[roche]

obscure is going to be different for everyone. While I've seen movies like Boondock Saints and Formula 51, I heard about them through friends, not because they were really pumped up by movie studios. After I saw them, I talked them up to my friends, many of them who had not heard of the films either. Over time, they become more well known via word of mouth, but just because you know a movie doesn't mean it's not obscure.

I would say any movie that is made by a large studio, with a large budget, that had spots on the networks during prime time television, cannot be considered obscure.

Formula 51 had all of the above. The reason you didn't hear of it was becuase it failed in the theaters and was out on video in under five months.

[City View]

I skipped right to the end of the thread so I don't know if there were mentioned yet.

Super Fuzz (cop with super powers, when he sees RED he loses them)

Midnight Madness (teams compete in a clue/scavanger hunt through LA)

Hollywood Knights (movie about the last night of a buger joint in the 60s)

C.H.O.M.P.S (crime fighting robot dog)

[Lil'JimmysMule]

Sorry but I'm anal about that distinction.


Dude your right...............I so fucked up!!!!!

Sorry

[turdfrgsn]

River's Edge:

Dennis Hopper, Crispin Glover, Keaneu Reeves
A high school stoner strangles his girlfriend and throws her in the river while the rest of his buds put him up in a one-legged biker pot dealer's house while they figure out what to do. A classic.

[baggio]

I would say any movie that is made by a large studio, with a large budget, that had spots on the networks during prime time television, cannot be considered obscure.

Formula 51 had all of the above. The reason you didn't hear of it was becuase it failed in the theaters and was out on video in under five months.
I second that. Your the only one thats gets the idea of obscurity.

[baggio]

again River's Edge a great movie .... but not obscure.

The Toxic Avenger not obscure

Cemetery Man somewhat obscure.

[baggio]

I skipped right to the end of the thread so I don't know if there were mentioned yet.

Super Fuzz (cop with super powers, when he sees RED he loses them)

Midnight Madness (teams compete in a clue/scavanger hunt through LA)

Hollywood Knights (movie about the last night of a buger joint in the 60s)

C.H.O.M.P.S (crime fighting robot dog)
4 great movies but Hollywood Knights would not be classified as obscure. Very popular movie ....but the other 3 movies would be.

good additions.

[baggio]

Your grammar was a little rough so I'm not exactly sure what you were saying, but obscure is going to be different for everyone. While I've seen movies like Boondock Saints and Formula 51, I heard about them through friends, not because they were really pumped up by movie studios. After I saw them, I talked them up to my friends, many of them who had not heard of the films either. Over time, they become more well known via word of mouth, but just because you know a movie doesn't mean it's not obscure.

grammar a little rough? sorry I used not instead of none. but anyway did you check my short list. That is what can be classified as obscure. I can list more if you need examples:

[istink]

Love the discussion about just what obscure is. I have seen most of the movies on your list, baggio (which Night of the Zombies? The Italian one or the Nazi one w/Jamie Gillis?). A lot of those films are exploitation classics and personal favorites.

Any film about Idi Amin is a treasure. Their are a couple of cheesey films about the raid on Entebbe that feature hilarious depictions of Amin, including one with Yaphet Kotto. They have been popping up on cable a lot lately.

A great obscurity I saw recently was No Blade of Grass. It's an end of the world type film made in the UK. It will be playing later this month on TCM. Turner owns the rights and hasn't released it on video, that rich bastard.

[baggio]

Night of the Zombies 1983 the italian one. Remember the rat crawling up the guys contamination suit and biting his face!

when you mentioned No Blade of grass at first i thought you were going to write BLADES (the film with the killer mower) thats also is obscure. Damm, now i want to see it!!!

[Hudson]

Morons From Outerspace
The Pope must Die
Re-Animator
I Spit on Your Grave
Gator Bait

[THE FEZ MAN]

I’ve seen re-animator
here's one its called Dogs in space . it had to do with the guys in INXS I think
also the original Swept Away in Italian the ass fuck scene is hilarious

[Kate]

Ruben and Ed - which Ruben was the character Chrispin Glover was seemingly portraying when he "freaked out" on Letterman.

[GreatAmericanZero]

This movie is great and nobody believes me that its an actually good movie because its a Troma films:

COMBAT SHOCK

The only Vietnam war movie shot entirely in Staten Island

[TimPud]

The Monster Squad....its also pretty awful, but I used to watch it all the time, it's pretty obscure. It taught me a valuable life lesson, the wolfman does indeed have nards.

The above was posted over a month ago but Monster Squad the first movie I thought of when I clicked on this thread. Hilarious 80's "kids" movie that seems to be totally lost in the DVD era. Think I'll always laugh at the scene where Dracula has the little girl up in the air by the neck and calls her a bitch. They just don't make em like that anymore.

I'll also throw in another movie by the same director of Monster Squad called "Night of the Creeps." Pretty enjoyable zombie movie laced with terrible one-liners and bad acting. Was impossible to find for a long time and I bought a pirate DVD on ebay a couple years ago of it. Recently has been playing a lot on Starz now that zombie movies are all the rage again.