Curious to see what niche movies the community knows
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Dunno what you might expect with obscure or niche, but if you’re fishing for random non algorithm suggestions on something you could watch, I’ll give you this: Fantastic Planet (1973)
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Interesting, thanks!
I was thinking indeed movies that are usually not well known, and could be interesting to the rest of the community
One at random that I enjoyed that I don’t think is well known is “God Bless America (2012)”.
The title might be misleading, so I’ll say that it is not a religious or patriotic film.
Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, great movie!
Two movies I don’t think I’ve met anyone who’s seen.
Young Einstein (1988)
Super fun, slightly accurate, biopic.Spaced Invaders (1990)
Not good, but still funny alien invasion movieI seriously feel like I’m the only one who remembers Young Einstein. Glad to see there are two of us.
Three.
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I loved it as a kid! Found it a few years ago. I still enjoyed it! But I have to admit it’s kinda insane.
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I’ve never seen Young Einstein but I’ll never forget the poster, especially as it starred someone called Yahoo Serious.
I was reminded of the film several years ago when one of my favourite sites ran this article about the actor.
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Both of those movies are excellent for very different reasons
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That’s one hell of an unsafe Google!
I dunno about obscure but I owned Meet the Feebles on VHS.
I love telling people it’s by the guy who did Lord of the Rings.
I also subjected my friends to A Boy and his Dog and The Wicker Man without telling them anything about them going in.
They loved both.
I dunno about obscure but I owned Meet the Feebles on VHS.
I saw it in the cinema, my girlfriend was not impressed but I was already a Peter Jackson fan, so I had some idea what I was getting myself into. Talented guy, pity he never made it big.
“Street Trash” was one of the movies ever made… if you’re into terrible gross out b-movies it should be at the top of your list
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If you do end up watching it I’d love to hear your impressions afterwards. The movie is fucked hah
Definitely give it a spin!
The Greasy Strangler had a very minor theatrical release and is a fantastically weird movie I love to recommend.
I feel I can’t recommend it - if they hate it, they’ll wonder what kind of maniac I thought they were; of they love it, they’ll become worried I might be able to see into their dark soul and try and so they try and kill me. Greasily.
I do try to be careful with recommendations like this, but those that get it are good people.
It definitely separates the sheep from the goats.
I recommend this often and my girlfriend and her sister still think I’m a psycho for not only enjoying, but oft recommending, this funny-ass film.
The potato scene kills me, and the car wash screaming, and Hootie-tootie-disco-cutie.
You get it! Sadly the star Michael St. Michael was recently ill and had a GoFundMe, but that did give us the opportunity to view the movie in a limited support screening to help him out. Was worth it to see it again in theater.
Porto
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haha I was trying to figure out how to write it as well as he says it. P-t-to
I don’t know if it’s obscure, but Psycho Goreman is a fantastic movie and I can’t recommend it enough. Anything by Steven Kostanski, really.
Also Termitator if you speak French and can manage to get a copy is hilarious.
Six-String Samurai, imagine if Elvis was literal King of Las Vegas, dies and leaves a power vacuum that send numerous baddies on a mission to become king, and Buddy Holly can not only play the axe, he can handle a katana blade even better. In hindsight this could just be a fallout movie with a few tweaks.
Honorable Mention: Wild Zero, very loud Japanese punk band Guitar Wolf takes on zombies with their instruments and maybe some magic?
Honorable Mention 2: Delivery, a pizza delivery driver is shit on constantly by everyone around him until he snaps and basically kills everyone who fucks with him.
The Red Elvises have Six String Samurai official full movie on their YouTube channel. They appeared in the movie and provided the soundtrack, or at least most of it.
Not counting the ones made by family members, Forbidden Zone.
An Argentinian Sci fi movie called Moebius. Broke my fucking teenage mind. The theme still is relevant and the msssage is more sound than ever.
The Tune (1992) by Bill Plympton is definitely an experience. Hausu (1977) is a weird fever dream. Dead In the Water (2006) was co-written & directed by a friend and is a decent indie zombie movie. It was fun seeing his parents cameo as zombies and then have Thanksgiving dinner with them.
Oh I love The Tune. Had it taped once off IFC.
It is admittedly weird.
I love Plympton’s stuff in general, but The Tune is epic. I lucked into a DVD at a used shop years ago and I’m so happy to have it.
Gundress (1999) is the most obscure anime movie I’ve seen and maybe also the most obscure movie overall – of stuff that was actually professionally made and shown in theaters, anyway. I posted about it in one of the weekly anime threads a couple months ago with some screenshots and additional details.
Outside of anime, I’ve seen a number of cult films and non-English films that are probably obscure to English speaking audiences, but I have no idea how obscure they actually are. (The one above I know is obscure since it doesn’t even have an English Wikipedia page – unlike every other anime show and movie I’ve seen.)
Some examples are Wonderwall (1968) with music by George Harrison, eXistenZ (1999), Cemetery Man (1994), and I Served the King of England (2006). I know at least one other person on Lemmy has heard of Cemetery Man since it was brought up in a thread around Christmas, but they were surprised I’d seen it.
Primer (2004) and Dark Star (1974) also came to mind, but I don’t think those are actually that obscure. They are interesting though.
Edit: rephrased for clarity
Edit2: typo in title fixed (“Kind” -> “King”)
It wasn’t popular and it took forever to get on DVD, while also being an hysterically dark take on reality TV. No idea why it didn’t end up a cult hit.
