Topic: Obscure good movies?
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Sat 11/29/14 12:22 PM
Actually Stan, I think they do!

http://www.slashfilm.com/tucker-and-dale-vs-evil-2/

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Sat 11/29/14 12:38 PM
Cool.


To add...

Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai
Dead Man
El Topo (really hard to find, but the bloodiest Western I've EVER seen)
Ran
Seven Samurai
Heroes (1977)
Legends Of The Fall
Gigot
Ravenous
The Searchers

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Sat 11/29/14 05:13 PM
Sukiyaki Western Django, a spaghetti western with Quentin Tarantino in it. So out there that it was good.

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Sat 11/29/14 05:53 PM

Sukiyaki Western Django, a spaghetti western with Quentin Tarantino in it. So out there that it was good.


Interesting, sounds like a plot in the same style as Yojimbo.

Another sorta forgotten one I guess:

Papillon

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Sun 11/30/14 10:48 AM


El Topo (really hard to find, but the bloodiest Western I've EVER seen)


No longer hard to find as it's been released on DVD and Blu Ray.:smile:

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Sun 11/30/14 11:08 AM
Eraserhead. Not sure if it was good though

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Sun 11/30/14 11:16 AM



El Topo (really hard to find, but the bloodiest Western I've EVER seen)


No longer hard to find as it's been released on DVD and Blu Ray.:smile:



Cool, only took about 20 years. I made discs for me and all my friends from a BetacamSP master about that long ago (an anamorphic copy, so I could do true 16:9). It even has motion menus and Faroujda enhancements with hand tuned VBR on a scene by scene basis. (but only DD 2.0) bigsmile

Damn, I miss my Sonic HW encoder. It made really pretty video.

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Sun 11/30/14 11:19 AM
Edited by Nomadous on Sun 11/30/14 11:17 AM
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) Jack Nicholson & Jessica Lange

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Sun 11/30/14 11:22 AM
Edited by Nomadous on Sun 11/30/14 11:25 AM
Irreversible directed by Gaspar No� starring Monica Bellucci & Vincent Cassel

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Sun 11/30/14 12:43 PM
Edited by Torgo70 on Sun 11/30/14 12:49 PM
Horror:

Vampyr (1932) - Very surreal, German.
Dementia (1955) - No spoken dialogue
The Cremator (1969) - Czechoslovakian
The House That Screamed (1969) - Spanish
I Drink Your Blood (1970) - Satanic hippies eat meat pies infected by rabies, go on killer rampage.
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (1970) - British
The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie (1972) - Young woman confines man to bed. Hm...Misery?
Terror At Red Wolf Inn (1972) - Something strange about the food at this bed & breakfast.
The Baby (1973) - 20 something who still thinks he is a baby.
Don't Look In The Basement (1973) - Who is running the asylum?
Hollywood 90028 (1973) - Psycho cameraman in tinsel town
Homebodies (1974) - Don't piss of the elderly
Poor Pretty Eddie (1975) - Shelley Winters, Ted Cassidy, Slim Pickens
Dark August (1976) - Man runs over gypsy child, has curse put on him by her gypsy father.
Island of the Damned (1976; aka Who Can Kill A Child?) - British couple find themselves on a Spanish island inhabited by killer children
Rituals (1977) - Excellent Canadian Deliverance-inspired backwoods tale
Till Death (1978) - A widower becomes trapped in his wife's crypt over night
The Plumber (1979) - Australian TV movie about a woman harassed by a psychotic plumber.
Screams Of A Winter Night (1979) - Underrated low-budget anthology
The Silent Scream (1979) - Yvonne De Carlo and Barbara Steele play mother and daughter
Ghostkeeper (1981) - Creepy snowbound backwoods from Canada
Lady Stay Dead (1981) - Australian
Next of Kin (1982) - Australian
The Scarecrow (1982) - Small town residents are terrorized by an unknown killer in 1950's New Zealand
Eyes of Fire (1983) - Group of settlers in the 1700's discover a haunted valley
Combat Shock (1984) - Vietnam vet slowly loses his mind
Fair Game (1986) - Young woman is terrorized by a trio of kangaroo hunters in the Australian outback
Poison For The Fairies (1986) - Two children play deadly games in 1960's Mexico
Frenchman's Farm (1987) - Horror/mystery with time travel in Australia
Ghost Town (1988) - Modern day cop finds himself in a mysterious old west town in the past
The Forgotten One (1989) - Troubled writer moves into an old house with a haunted past
The Dark (1993) - Something lurks underneath a cemetery
Lighthouse (1999) - Shipwrecked prison ship survivors are stalked by one of their own
Dead Birds (2004) - During the Civil War, a group of thieves hide out in a house and soon discover they're not alone
The Last Winter (2006) - Creepy Arctic setting
Witches' Night (2007) - Fun little flick with sexy killer witches
The Cottage (2008) - Bumbling kidnappers and killer mutant farmers in the UK

Pig Hunt (2008) - City slickers hunting encounter local rednecks, hippies, and a giant killer boar

Plague Town (2008) - American family in Ireland encounter killer kids.
Albino Farm (2009) - Group of college kids investigating a small town local legend, learn it's real.
Doghouse (2009) - Group of British men out for a good time, discover a small British town inhabited by undead women
Alyce Kills (2011) - A woman's world and sanity comes apart after she accidentally kills her best friend
Lovely Molly (2011) - A woman experiences creepy happenings after moving into her dead father's house
The Battery (2012) - Two friends deal with boredom, each other, and the zombie apocalypse
The Pact (2012) - A woman searching for her missing sister in their dead mother's house, finds something evil.
House Hunting (2013) - Two families go to an open house, and can't leave
The Returned (2013) - During the zombie apocalypse, a new drug is discovered that is able to make the infected normal as long as they take the drug, but the drug supply is running low.




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Sun 11/30/14 02:05 PM
Clash of the titans (1981)

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Sun 11/30/14 02:20 PM
Good stuff there, some I've seen. Holy Moly torgo, now THAT's a list!

The Returned caught my eye there.

Ok, another one I haven't seen in years:

Catch 22

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Sun 11/30/14 03:53 PM
Primer


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Tue 12/02/14 08:46 AM
Five (1951) I think this is one of the earliest of the post-nuclear war films.

The Quiet Earth (1985) New Zealand film about an experiment gone wrong causing everyone to vanish but one of the scientists who was working on the project.

Going Back (1984) Nice little indie drama about 2 friends who decide to spend their summer after high school graduation backpacking around Michigan. This is Bruce Campbell's first movie after The Evil Dead.

Purple Haze (1982) Set in the late 60's, after being kicked out of college a young man deals with home life and the impending draft.

Static (1985) A worker at a crucifix factory creates a device that he claims takes pictures of heaven.

Android (1982) A lonely android on a desolate research space station wants to be human. Interesting re working of Frankenstein with a scifi spin.

My Friends Need Killing (1976) Vietnam vet snaps and goes after those he served with.

Kenny And Company (1976) A great time capsule of childhood in the 70's. Kids just being kids. Written and directed by Don Coscarelli before he made Phantasm.

And speaking of Don Coscarelli, his first film: Jim, the World's Greatest (1976) About a high school student trying to take care of his younger brother, and protect him from their alcoholic father (played by the Tall Man himself Angus Scrimm)

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Tue 12/02/14 08:47 AM

Good stuff there, some I've seen. Holy Moly torgo, now THAT's a list!

The Returned caught my eye there.

Ok, another one I haven't seen in years:

Catch 22



It's one of those I had not idea about it going in and was pleasantly surprised.

Catch 22 is excellent.

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Tue 12/02/14 11:45 AM
Lifeboat

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Tue 12/02/14 11:52 AM
The good, The bad and The ugly

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Thu 12/04/14 06:32 AM
Celia (1989) About a young girl growing up in 1950's Australia. The film gets labeled as horror because of the girl's vivid imagination where she sees creatures. But it really isn't. I'd categorize it as a coming of age film.

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Thu 12/04/14 10:39 AM

You asked for obscure and good movies.
Some of the movies previously listed are not obscure.
Here are my obscure entries:

"Ghost Dog" (with Forrest Whitaker) was excellent and previously listed.

"Crimson Rivers" (with Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel) was originally released in French. The second in the series was not so good.

"The Station Agent" (with Peter Dinklage, yes, the dwarf in Game of Thrones).

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Thu 12/04/14 10:48 AM
Forgot 2 more... Maybe that is why they are obscure?

"The Dish" (with Sam Neill) based on a true story.

"World's Fastest Indian" (with Sir Anthony Hopkins) also based on a true story.