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The Killing of Satan

It's a bizarre Filipino action movie with an even more bizarre dub

Manila in the Claws of Light

edit: heh, thought I'd be the only one to bring up a movie from the Philippines lol

"Manila" is an interesting character study of a young man moving from a rural village to Manila as it was under the Marcos regime. It's a fairly bleak movie that was made with a lower budget (even for 1975) but I feel that it's nevertheless intriguing and worth a watch.

The Killing Box, aka Grey Knight, aka Ghost Brigade. I have only ever seen it once but I have never, ever, heard someone else mention it. I knew it as The Killing Box but apparently it has multiple names.

It's a Civil War zombie movie. It actually has a cast with some well known people, Martin Sheen, Billy Bob Thornton, David and Alexis Arquette. I remember it being kinda bad but reading about it on Wikipedia it seems like it more "okay."

Edit: Actually the Martin Sheen thing may have just been a cameo.

Not obscure to us Mexicans but it was dubbed in English worth a watch at least once also known as Santa vs Satan it's a comedy not as funny though when translated

https://youtu.be/Z9ObledAwlE?feature=shared

Si Mario At Si Goko

I don't know if this is obscure enough but Disorganized Crime is a favorite of mine. It's a late 80s ensemble heist movie with a cast of a bunch of recognizable actors. Corbin Bernsen, Ruben Blades, Fred Gwynne, Ed O'Neill, Lou Diamond Phillips, Daniel Roebuck and Hoyt Axton.

I've never heard anyone else mention this movie and only saw it on TV once when I stumbled across it very late one night.

The Spanish Prisoner

I thought it was a great movie but no one seems to have heard of it

Lesbian Vampire Killers.

Fantastic movie.

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various Stan Brackhage stuff.

JKwaffle posted...

Animalympics

Furries know this film well.

Dagon and thats not even very obscure

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I need to look at my list.

I don't know if it was obscure when it came out, but Mom and Dad Save the World. Short version: A man and woman get kidnapped onto an alien planet full of idiots, where they have to over throw the ruler who wants to blow up Earth. Also, there are dog men and fish women. Starring Teri Garr, Jeffrey Jones and Jon Lovitz.

Also, Stepmonster. "No one, especially his father (Alan Thicke), believes a boy who says his future stepmother (Robin Riker) is a murdering monster."

Battlefield: Baseball

It's a Japanese live-action baseball movie that me and my brother watched.

It features things like a poisonous baseball bat, a pitcher who can kill with his throws and other anime-like nonsense.

The Young Cycle Girls (also known as Cycle Vixens but that version is heavily edited).

The only thing I could find on my letterboxd with under 1k watchers (that isn't a short film) is the Bulgarian version of Treasure Planet which is hilarious and probably way less obscure than that suggests because I remember that movie getting memed (it's how I heard about it!)

Prey For Rock n Roll.

Starred Gina Gershon and Lori Petty. Film was about a struggling female rock band. Good story, good soundtrack.

It's a mainstream movie, but I never hear it talked about. I've been a fan since I saw it the early 90's.

Night of the Generals: a murder mystery in the midst of Nazi Germany in WW2. The Cast is a who's who of 50's and 60's actors.

Man I don't even know

I've seen a lot of movies. But none I can think of that jump out as obscure

Plus my memory is absolutely dogshite. I've probably forgotten countless ones I've watched

Probably "The Order" from the Cremaster Cycle. I guess it's not obscure in certain artsy circles, but for the general public it is. I wouldn't really recommend it.

Salo... Which is pretty infamous at this point, I saw it in 2009.Other contenders are basically any Fassbinder movie. Or maybe something random, like Michael Cera's short film.

Rodger Dodger with Elizabeth Berkley

Baby

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457286/

JKwaffle posted...

Shit, that sounds awesome. If you remember the name let me know, I'd be down to check that out if I could find it anywhere.

Okay I found it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Won't_Be_Alone

Jackie Chan's Fantasy Mission Force. One of Jackie's friends backed him on a contract dispute and used that to call in a couple favors to star in two of his films. This is one of them.

It's bad. Like... what if Kung Fu Hustle was played straight with references to other action heroes and ended with a bunch of white supremacists showing up in muscle cars, bad.

AbsolutelyNoOne posted...

The only thing I could find on my letterboxd with under 1k watchers (that isn't a short film) is the Bulgarian version of Treasure Planet which is hilarious and probably way less obscure than that suggests because I remember that movie getting memed (it's how I heard about it!)

I've seen various clips of that movie (one streamer I watch has some in his giant set of alerts) and good god it's absurd

This Giant Papier Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy
Director's Cut
The History of Time Travel

AbsolutelyNoOne posted...

The only thing I could find on my letterboxd with under 1k watchers (that isn't a short film) is the Bulgarian version of Treasure Planet which is hilarious and probably way less obscure than that suggests because I remember that movie getting memed (it's how I heard about it!)

I was going to list that too lol. It's great

Sons of the Stars, a cool Romanian sci Fi animated film from the 80s. It has 29 votes on IMDB.

Sophie's Place, an experimental animated feature film, also from the 80s. 39 votes iirc

Flesh Gordon

I Are You, You Am Me, a JP movie. I think its on the Internet Archive now, but it wasnt when I saw it. Im not sure its obscure, but I would imagine relatively few English speakers have seen it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Are_You,_You_Am_Me

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Coriolanus:
A (very) modern version of one of Shakespeares works. I like Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler, but I honestly couldnt finish this one. Excellent acting by Fiennes, though.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1372686/

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus:
This is like Rankin and Basss version of The Hobbit and LotR mixed with a Christmas movie. Very unique story about the history of Santa Claus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Santa_Claus_(1985_film)

Rubber. Its about a telekinetic tire that goes around killing people.

why? No reason.

Link_of_time posted...

He never died

great flick.

I've seen an incredible amount of obscure movies. I was going to list and briefly summarize movies I've seen that have less than 1k votes on IMDb and/or less than 1k logs in Letterboxd but I ended up with over a dozen pages worth of notes. Apparently the most obscure movie I've seen is a Christian cartoon called the GodMan. It's not on Letterboxd and it only has 11 ratings on IMDb.

JKwaffle posted...

Dave Made A Maze and Happiness of the Katakuri's are also both really good, but they might be a little more well known.

Dave Made a Maze was really good.

I didn't want to do a deep dive or anything on my whole list, so I'll go with Freddie as F.R.O.7.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Okay I found it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Won't_Be_Alone

Ayyy, thanks for finding it. I'll need to check it out at some point.

The Great American Fourth of July
One of the made-for-TV films about the family from A Christmas Story, with Ralph now in high school. It has a different cast, but the same narrator.

There's a weird absurdist lesbian movie called Looking For Cheyenne I caught on SBS once.

Watched Tales of the Night last night, cool French animated anthology movie that I don't think is super well known.

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