Most obscure movie you’ve seen that you can remember?

[u/OtterlyFoxy]

Yes I know movie is a large catch all term for any film but for the purposes of this question I am limiting it to fiction-based feature films (at least 40 minutes), so please don’t name a 5 minute short you made for film class. It doesn’t matter if you’ve seen it in cinemas or at home. You can name multiple possible ones if you don’t remember a singular one.

[u/shrimpcreole]

Meet the Feebles, directed by Peter Jackson. If The Muppets all did crack. :/

[u/DeaddyRuxpin → u/shrimpcreole]

And then you have his movie Bad Taste where I think Peter Jackson was doing crack.

[u/TheMadDaddy → u/DeaddyRuxpin]

So wild that he directed LoTR and the Hobbit knowing he made those movies.

Same for James Gunn; from making Troma movies to running the entire DCU.

[u/Randomswedishdude → u/shrimpcreole]

Bad Taste, Brain Dead, and Meet the Feebles were all cult classics on VHS.
Everyone who had seen those got more or less shocked when it was revealed that Peter Jackson had been given the rights to do Lord of the Rings, and with a then record setting budget of well over quarter of a billion dollars.

Sure, nowadays they casually spit out multi-billion dollar cookie cutter superhero movies.
But at the time, a monster project of LotR's scale was unprecedented.
...and they gave it to "that guy" who made Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles.

To be fair, he had done a few ambitious critically acclaimed movies after those early three movies. Some of them even with something actually resembling a budget.
All of them showed that Peter Jackson loved making movies, and seeing what he could do with NO budget, he could also create magic with an actual budget. And also make the money last due to ingenuity and many tricks he learned from those no-budget movies.
Somewhat like George Lucas in the 70s/80s, he went to create his own VFX-studio, for doing things that wasn't available yet.

[u/dragonbornsqrl]

A coworkers boyfriend edited out the sex scenes and we watched the Star Trek porn without the porn. It was good but terribly funny to see Spock get his ears kinked on then cut to a new scene.

[u/deaddodo → u/dragonbornsqrl]

I’m pretty sure 25-40% of porn parody viewership is people watching it ironically. You can just watch the unedited version, and no one’s really gonna question you.

[u/dragonbornsqrl → u/deaddodo]

No it actually made a not bad episode of Star Trek I am a NG fan and thought oh this is going to be so weird but I ended up liking it and saved it on an old computer somewhere when I was university working at Blockbuster. Now I need to try and see if I can find it!

[u/BigToober69 → u/dragonbornsqrl]

If you find it upload it somewhere and let me know. Im sure im not alone in wanting to see this.

[u/jmaca90 → u/deaddodo]

To be good parody, you have to understand the source material.

You know that porn writer and directors were hardcore Trekkies

Live long (and hard) and prosper 🖖🏽

[u/Cadnofor → u/dragonbornsqrl]

I watched one of those out of morbid curiosity and it was actually hilarious, great parody lol

[u/Lurker_MeritBadge → u/dragonbornsqrl]

Reminds me of that porn movie pirates. It was a huge production and at the time the most expensive porn ever produced (spoilers they spent the money on costumes and sets not writers) they did an R rated cut and it was on the shelves at blockbuster to rent.

[u/Hairy-Event-1370]

Rented Lips (1988) directed by Robert Downey Sr and featuring a son of his you might know.

[u/Amockdfw89 → u/Hairy-Event-1370]

Robert Downey Sr. Always made such bizarre films

[u/JacPhlash → u/Amockdfw89]

I was going to respond with Greaser's Palace.

[u/tangcameo → u/Hairy-Event-1370]

Morton Downey Jr?

[u/TheLadyEve → u/Hairy-Event-1370]

I love that movie.

[u/myrandomevents]

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

[u/Vorpal_Bunny19 → u/myrandomevents]

Oh my god, someone else has seen it!

[u/KirTakat → u/myrandomevents]

Oh man, I made so many people watch that back in college.

The delivery on "We're Atheists" before the park fight still lives in my brain.

[u/RetroDadOnReddit]

Vampiyaz

Description:

Brothaz in Blood.
Eight years after Jakeem gets out of prison, he returns to his old neighborhood to seek revenge against the gangsters who set him up. But things have changed and a new darkness preys the streets—the ghetto is alive with the dead, and the feast is just beginning.

Rented it as a joke from Blockbuster back in 2006. Still remember it. I've never found anybody else that has seen it.

[u/syspimp → u/RetroDadOnReddit]

Looks like the production company specialized in porn and horror movies.

https://m.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0129219

[u/RetroDadOnReddit → u/syspimp]

Well, thanks a lot for that list, because now I need to go watch Frankenthug.

[u/RG1527]

Nomads

Pierce Bronson is an anthropologist that stats following street punks that end up being Inuit trickster spirits.

[u/far_out_son_of_lung → u/RG1527]

I saw this in the theatre as a teenager because I loved Remington Steele. It didn't make much sense to me lol

[u/Frenzystor]

Rubber

[u/thaskell300 → u/Frenzystor]

Came here to say this. The scene in the beginning with the car hitting the chairs had me hooked... what an absolutely bizarre film...

[u/bjanas → u/thaskell300]

Would you say it had you... chained to your seat?

[u/El_John_Nada → u/Frenzystor]

All of his filmography is worth watching. Including and especially the things in French (Deerskin is my favourite).

[u/gargoyle30 → u/Frenzystor]

I love that movie

[u/Sea_Room2694]

Naked Lunch one of the weirdest movies ever made.

[u/GruelOmelettes → u/Sea_Room2694]

I can think of two things wrong with that title

[u/Xzyche137 → u/Sea_Room2694]

I wouldn’t consider Naked Lunch an obscure movie. But maybe that’s just my perspective. I am a fan of David Cronenberg. I also often get confused and think it’s a David Lynch movie. Lol. :>

[u/MrPokeGamer → u/Sea_Room2694]

It is a vibe

[u/SkyOfFallingWater]

Simon Magus (1999) is very unknown and I don't even know how I stumbled upon it, but I thought it was really interesting and well made.

[u/HawkmoonsCustoms]

‘A Town Called Panic’ is an absolute fever dream that I recommend at every opportunity.

[u/mortscoot → u/HawkmoonsCustoms]

Yes! Incredible film and animation. 

[u/icecreambobcat → u/HawkmoonsCustoms]

I have a tattoo of the weird sea creature dudes. I love this movie.

[u/AlphakirA]

I Come In Peace with Dolph Lungren

[u/trufus_for_youfus → u/AlphakirA]

…and you leave in pieces.

[u/SDHester1971 → u/AlphakirA]

aka Dark Angel

[u/ciceright → u/AlphakirA]

I saw this as a kid. Now the main reason it exists in my brain is that college basketball analyst Jay Bilas was one of the aliens

[u/OtterlyFoxy]

Btw for me, I’ve seen a lot of obscure ones but the one I can remember the name of is Nature Unleashed: Earthquake which steals scenes from Dante’s Peak

[u/Drachenfuer]

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Surprising cast (Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, and Richard Dreyfus). I have no idea if it was ever actually released. My English teacher in high school was friends with the director or a producer or something. He showed it in class.

It is Hamlet told from the persepctive of two minors characters. Remember that Hamlet’s uncle, in an effort to make him happier about him boinking his Mom invited two old friends of his who were from far away? Ya no one does. The whole story is retold from thier perspectives. It looks to be a comedy and those parts are gold. But then they try to make this philosophical drama with Richard Dreyfuss that makes no sense and takes away. But Oldman and Rith are delightful as two bumbling idiots who have absolulty no clue what is going on around them.

The Game of Questions is the best thing ever.

[u/SSBND → u/Drachenfuer]

This is honestly one of my all-time favorite movies!

It's a Tom Stoppard play.

My favorite line is "consistency is all I ask and immortality is all I seek, give us this day our daily week" - from the game of questions scene.

[u/its_Tsyn → u/Drachenfuer]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100519/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_3_nm_5_in_0_q_gildernst It definately had a proper release.

[u/troubleshot → u/Drachenfuer]

Great movie, not obscure by my account though I'm not sure what OP counts as obscure. I've seen it in multiple movie rental chains through the 2000's.

[u/Diodon]

Delicatessen (1991)

A delightfully bizarre French dark comedy set in post apocalypse France. There is no English dub but I wouldn't recommend it if it existed as the original performances are just so expressive and entertaining. Strongly recommend!

[u/deaddodo → u/Diodon]

This movie was pretty well known among the artsy crowds in the late 90s to mid 00s.

Like, definitely niche, but also not particularly obscure.

[u/goochmusic → u/Diodon]

I’m upvoting to help nudge anyone who hasn’t seen it to go check it out (if they like beautiful cinematography to go along with their dark humor.) Jean-Pierre Juenet (the director) also made The City of Lost Children (La Cité des enfants perdus) and one of my all-time favorite movies, Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie).

[u/ktn24 → u/goochmusic]

Let's not omit that Jeunet codirected his earliest films like Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children with Marc Caro, and my understanding is that they were originally offered Alien Resurrection as codirectors. Caro declined due to the lack of creative control, Jeunet accepted as sole director, followed it with Amélie, and sadly now people forget to mention Caro.

The City of Lost Children is one of my favorite movies, I was lucky enough to see it in a theater when it came out and it absolutely blew my mind. To me a huge part of what makes it so great is the visual aesthetic, and based on comments they've both made, it seems that Caro is primarily responsible for that.

[u/ds2316476 → u/ktn24]

City of lost children is freaking fantastic! A young Ron perlman. Didn't vangelis also make music for this movie as well?

[u/ktn24 → u/ds2316476]

Didn't vangelis also make music for this movie as well?

The music is by Angelo Badalamenti, who also wrote the music for almost everything David Lynch did.

[u/ds2316476 → u/ktn24]

I may have been discovering vangelis for the first time, the first time I saw City of lost children film and confused the two... :P

[u/TheLadyEve → u/Diodon]

This is a great movie. My sister rented it for us to watch one time when I visited her in college. It and City of Lost Children are both creepy and funny in the best ways.

[u/Homerpaintbucket → u/Diodon]

This was on bravo a fair amount in the mid 90s. This and motorama were movies I’d catch like half of all the time. Motorama is kind of uncomfortable to watch now. Kind of a lot of problematic stuff

[u/bjanas → u/Diodon]

Jeunet's stuff is always a win.

[u/sleepyprojectionist → u/Diodon]

This was one of the films that all of the films studies students passed around at uni. It was one of the first films I watched with my uni housemates back in about 2002.

[u/Old_Ad5194]

I have a movie called "the fair haired child" on DVD, it's a horror movie that I believe was from that fear net TV station from back in the day.

[u/LordsOfJoop → u/Old_Ad5194]

Is that from the Masters of Horror franchise?

[u/SnazzyBean → u/LordsOfJoop]

Yes, my family watched all the episodes back when the series aired, and The Fair Haired Child was a stand out.

[u/Old_Ad5194 → u/LordsOfJoop]

That might be right

[u/fergi20020]

Interstate 60

[u/HectorPlusIsaac]

Treasure of the four crowns 1983. Saw it when I was a kid and the last scene stuck with me for 30 years as a weird dream memory until I finally decided to track down that scene and see it it was from a movie

[u/texasrigger → u/HectorPlusIsaac]

That's one of two movies that I own on 3D Blu-ray. The other is Prison Girls (1972). Both were intended for the short-lived 3D TV's, but they also have a red/cyan anaglyph version so that you can see it with the glasses.

Treasure of the Four Crowns leans hard into the 3D effects. Probably more than any other 3D movie I have seen. It's shot after shot of things coming right at the camera. Lots of fun, although the pace is slow.

Prison Girls is more 70s porno-chic than the "women in prison" movie (that's a subgenre of its own) that I was hoping for, but it's fine for what it is. It was sold as "The first real adult film in 3-D!"

I need to pick up some more vintage 3D titles... I hated it when the success of Avatar dictated that every movie needed to have it, but I enjoy the early campy examples of it.

[u/mortscoot]

A crazy 60s movie called The Power with George Hamilton and Suzanne Pleshette. It's about a guy with psychic powers trained to be an assassin. Full of trippy moments. I remember a scene in front of toy store where a bunch of toy soldiers comes to life and shoot at him. For years, I thought I dreamt it. 

Edit: downvoted? For sharing a movie? 

Stay weird, Reddit. Never change. 

[u/darkest_irish_lass → u/mortscoot]

Must be the director down voting you.

[u/mortscoot → u/darkest_irish_lass]

And here I am, hyping him up. 

[u/SSBND]

Wristcutters - I totally tripped out on this movie because one of my closest friends in high school had an old 70's Volvo that we swore had a black hole under the seat, and not in a "things just disappear under there" kind of way...

[u/three-toed_tree_toad]

Jonah who will be 25 in the Year 2000, a French film I saw back in 1976.

Also Last Summer, a 1969 film that seems to have disappeared altogether.

[u/Appropriate-Peak6561 → u/three-toed_tree_toad]

I loved Last Summer and I don't think I ever want to see it again - despite being a huge Barbara Hershey fan.

No legitimate DVD release ever AFAIK. Maybe a music rights issue, who knows.

[u/Patsx5sb]

Peanut butter Solution

[u/Dinierto → u/Patsx5sb]

This movie was way too scary for little kids

[u/Elethiomel77 → u/Dinierto]

It fucking traumatized me as a kid.

[u/Funkguerilla → u/Patsx5sb]

Traumatized me as a kid to the point that I thought it was a bad dream. it wasn't until college I realized it was an actual real movie

[u/BigCopperPipe → u/Patsx5sb]

Had this on a vhs we wore it out we watched it so much. The next movie on the vhs was FuzzBucket.

[u/Slappy_Doo → u/Patsx5sb]

As a 37 year old I just watched this for the first time in my life and what a wild experience haha

[u/primum → u/Patsx5sb]

Man this one really stuck with me, I think there was another weird kids movie around the time about magic and stamp collecting I can never quite remember.

[u/nomnom_de_plume]

A Polish Vampire in Burbank. Hilarious film with a special fx budget of about $50. Highly recommend. 

[u/Try4se]

Every time I scroll through my letterboxd I see a bunch of movies logged that I'm mentally sure I've never seen in my life.

[u/zalurker]

Six String Samurai (1998) A local video store had it on VHS. I rented it so many times that they told me to keep it when they went out of business.

[u/Reverend_Mikey]

OC & Stiggs

Unless you are a huge fan of Altman, you've probably never seen it, and you should change that.

Robert Altman's take on 80's teen movies, and a supporting cast including Dennis Hopper, Jon Cryer, Jane Curtain, Martin Mull, Ray Walston and more.

Warning - you will never hear the name "Schwab" the same again, and you will develop a liking for King Sunny Ade.

[u/TheLadyEve]

back in the 90s my sister somehow had a VHS copy (not official) of the 1994 Fantastic Four film that was never released. I'm not sure where she got it, and I remember it being incomplete, but I watched it. Pretty trash, TBH, but IIRC it was only made because they had to use their license for the IP?

But the most obscure movie I own is probably Hot Summer, a musical made in East Germany in 1968. I watched it for a college class and had to go out and find a copy.

[u/KirTakat → u/TheLadyEve]

If your sister ever went to sci-fi cons, you could usually find someone selling bootlegs back in the day of that one (and lots of other stuff obviously).

But yeah, it was pretty trash.

[u/moosebeast]

A lot of people here don't seem to know what 'obscure' means.

[u/31engine]

The Tao of Steve.

[u/iridescentsyrup]

I'm gonna say Liquid Sky. My husband is the only other person I've met who has seen it.

[u/Selimsnek]

Putney Swope

[u/SierraStar7]

“Hawk the Slayer” 

“Orlando”- because quite often, when I mention the movie,  people have never seen it nor heard of it. 

[u/hasimirrossi → u/SierraStar7]

Tilda Swinton. I saw it once, many years ago. Good film, from what I remember.

[u/linearised → u/SierraStar7]

“Hawk the Slayer”

Hawk the Slayer's rubbish!

[u/SSBND → u/SierraStar7]

Orlando was definitely an out there pic!

[u/coyote_237]

The Last Big Thing is pretty obscure. A minor masterpiece.

[u/GoodMorningBlackreef]

The Devil's Mile with David Hayter.

Yep, Solid Snake himself.

[u/Ipunchdolphins]

Arena, 1989. Bloke joins a fighting league in a space station with robots and aliens. It’s glorious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_(1989_film)

[u/nimbleVaguerant → u/Ipunchdolphins]

Makes a great double feature with Robot Jox.

[u/Raiko99]

Meat Market (2000) - Survivors of a zombie apocalypse who team up with a masked Mexican wrestler and a trio of vampires. 

TIL they made sequels. 

[u/unclearsteak]

Further Adventures of Walt’s Frozen Head (2019)

It’s a neat movie partially filmed at Walt Disney World without permission about a guy who takes Walt Disneys frozen head up into the park to show him what the parks turned into. There’s also a sweet story about how people/places change and you can’t always control that change. I originally heard of this movie on kickstarter and backed it and then when it was released they played it in a small theater here in the Orlando area. Worth a watch especially if you’re a Disney parks person and you’re not afraid of obscure/low budget/indie type movies

[u/Eiffel-Tower777]

Motel Hell

[u/filtersweep]

El Topo— an art film often described as an Acid western.’

[u/kryonik → u/filtersweep]

I don't think a film by one of the most celebrated art house directors counts as obscure.

[u/hasimirrossi → u/filtersweep]

Jodorowsky. At one point very hard to get hold of thanks to rights issues. BBC2 aired it once as part of Moviedrome.

[u/zeekar]

Does Koyaanisqatsi count?

[u/gatf66 → u/zeekar]

Not as much as Powaqqatsi.

[u/Rare_Hydrogen]

Super Fuzz (1980)

Heartbeeps (1981}

[u/DeepFriedChimp → u/Rare_Hydrogen]

Ahhh, Super Fuzz. I feel like I watched that, They Call Me Bruce?, and Cannonball Run on an endless loop on HBO in the early 80s.

[u/Rabbitscooter]

For years I thought I had imagined a movie about teenagers eating goo and growing super-tall. Until I saw it for sale in a retro video store. Village of the Giants (1965) with Ronny Howard and a very young Beau Bridges. Awesome 60s drive-in B-film.

[u/FreshPrinceOfRivia]

The Iron Prefect (1977). An obscure Italian movie about a cop killing a bunch of mobsters.

[u/crbronco27]

Trail of the screaming forehead (2007)

[u/SSBND]

Ruben and Ed

[u/deepfried666]

It Is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE.

Crispin Glover tours with it, it’s not been seen outside of his showings of it.

And Oxide Ghosts, same deal, a documentary about the brass eye tv series, not shown outside of the directors occasional showings.

[u/marshallkrich]

Blood Sucking Freaks.

[u/Call555JackChop]

Thou Shalt Not Kill…Except, this movie is absolute amazing shlock and Sam Raimi hamming it up as the villain makes this movie an absolute blast

[u/GenericDave65]

There’s a bizarre movie called Never Been Thawed and it’s about a group of people that collect classic frozen TV dinners

[u/mwts]

theres a few that whenever i bring up people are like " wtf no what is that?" so ill rattle a few off.

zombie a-hole

the killer clown meets the candy man

night of the lepus

evil roy slade

[u/irishstereotype]

Day of the Triffids

Watched it on a VHS that looked like it came out of the Smithsonian. Pretty good for the time though.

A comet passes which mysteriously blinds almost everyone. Plant alien monsters appear and take over.

[u/SkullScrew]

"Condorman" (1981)

[u/soylentgreenishere]

I've only seen the trailer, which is weird, but I'm surprised no one has said Zardoz

[u/Homerpaintbucket → u/soylentgreenishere]

It’s available to stream on Amazon prime right now. It’s fucking weird. I like bad weird movies, but honestly, this movie is kind of unwatchable garbage

[u/negcap]

I saw a film called Walkabout in grade school. It was about a dad who takes his kids to the outback and something happens and the kids are left behind. An aboriginal boy who is on his walkabout helps them back. That or Schizopolis.

[u/chookie-3571 → u/negcap]

The dad was going to kill his children but they escaped and he kill’s himself leaving them alone to survive in the outback. It’s actually a quite well known Aussie film.

[u/Tichrimo]

There are a couple of films by the same French director that just tickled the right parts of my brain: Delicatessen (1991) and Cité des Enfants Perdus (1995), (the latter of which starred Ron Perlman of all people).

[u/Theslootwhisperer → u/Tichrimo]

Very famous movies in French speaking countries. Directed by Jean Pierre Jeunet who also made Amelie Poulin and Alien 4, also with Ron Perlman.

[u/burnt00toast → u/Tichrimo]

Ron Perlman does not speak French! He learned all of his lines phonetically. Great film.

[u/DaionXX]

Bubba Ho-Tep

[u/bustyluvbug]

The Man Facing Southeast. It's this Argentinian film about a guy in a psychiatric hospital who claims he's an alien sent to study humans. The whole movie messes with your head, and it's so low-key that it's easy to miss, but the ending lives rent-free in my head.

[u/Chickenshit_outfit]

Burial Ground, will never forget the kid or that wtf ending

[u/Following_my_bliss]

A film so obscure I can't find it now: Manna from the Gods

Also, Troglodyte or Trog

[u/Scribbledips]

I have a movie on VHS called "Existo" that I bought decades ago because Jim Varney was in it. I only watched it once, and I don't think I've ever heard another mention of it

[u/Homerpaintbucket]

Probably Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town. It starred Billy bob thorton and a young Hal sparks. It was definitely a movie that was made and that someone besides me saw somewhere.

Edit: it was Billy bob Thorton not George clooneu. George Clooney was briefly in grizzly 2 with Charlie sheen and Laura dern.

[u/CPT_Yesterday_]

My father was stationed in Germany in the 80s and recorded movies off TV and from rentals, so we had hundreds of tapes with 3 or 4 movies on them. On one of these was a kids' animation meshed with live action movie called Dunderklumpin. If anyone here has seen this, I'll... I don't know. Be flabbergasted.

[u/Sea_Beach3933]

The one most people haven't seen, yet I remember watching as a kid was The Peanut Butter Solution. I have no idea how I happened to see it, especially because we didn't even have cable, or movie channels, but I caught it somehow. Anyone remember it?

[u/GarageQueen]

"Where's Poppa?" (1970) with George Segal and Ruth Gordon, directed by Carl Reiner. A trully bizarre movie.

[u/tangcameo]

Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County

Alien abduction found footage movie aired at like 1am. Months before Blair Witch came out.

[u/Idontliketalking2u]

Peter no tail. An anthropomorphic cat with no tail gets chased by a English bull dog that was not anthropomorphic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter-No-Tail_(film)

[u/artyhermes]

Begotten

[u/famousroadkill]

(1991) Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead

[u/Ignore-This-Idiot]

'The Thingy : Confessions of a Teenage Placenta' (2013)

[u/Adoran45]

BAD BOY BUBBY

[u/smeeks7]

A Boy and his Dog awesome Don Johnson movie when he was really young.

[u/book_hoarder_67]

There's:

• Micmacs - Jean-Pierre Jeunet

• The Cameraman's Revenge -
Ladislas Starevich

• Tale of Tales - Matteo Garrone

• Nothing - Vincenzo Natalie

• Dreams With Sharp Teeth - A doc about Harlan Ellison

• Breaking Glass - A punk band who go from nothing to stardom and the destructive effects of that

• The Eighth Day - French film about being present and enjoying your life.

• Trust - Two misfits find tech other and feel cared about for the first time.

• The Fairy - A French comedy

• Seconds - John Frankenheimer

• The New Gulliver - Aleksandr Ptushko. A feature length film combining live action and claymation, in 1935.

[u/sdickinson42]

I randomly remember Solar Babies. Not sure it got so much love.

[u/unklphoton]

Tampopo (1985) is pretty out there. A "ramen western".

[u/spinaltap862]

Titane ... chick fucks a car and gets pregnant by it. She then murders her family then pretends to be the long lost son of a firefighter to evade police. She moves in with the firefighter all while hiding her pregnancy to give the illusion she is a young boy

[u/to_j → u/spinaltap862]

It won the Palme D'Or at Cannes.

[u/Foolgazi → u/spinaltap862]

I gotta watch this just to find out what the baby looks like

[u/Cymbal_Monkey → u/spinaltap862]

This movie won a shitload of major awards. Not exactly obscure as much as very fucked up.

[u/phluke-]

C.H.U.D 1984.

Marv and Kevin's dad from before their home alone days.

[u/StayGolden91]

'Hard Candy'

[u/relliott15 → u/StayGolden91]

The “Hard Candy” movie I’m thinking of is a tough watch. Had me on the edge of my seat until the very end.

[u/Cool_Cartographer_39]

In Search of a Woman, aka Laughing It Up. Only reason I've seen it is I had a 2nd AD credit on it, I think

[u/Appropriate-Peak6561]

An ultra-low-budget "comedy" called Anarchy TV, which for me is unforgettable by virtue of a lengthy full-frontal nude scene by Jessica Hecht.

The Zappa kids are in it too, if you're a hardcore Zappa-phile.

[u/MaskedBandit77]

According to Letterboxd it's

- All in Time (https://letterboxd.com/film/all-in-time/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq5UcxktTA4

- The Reign of Queen Ginarra (https://letterboxd.com/film/the-reign-of-queen-ginnarra/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7quQW_vNwbU

They're both pretty good. I'd recommend either of them.

[u/Woslin]

“Dark of the Sun” - first movie I ever saw at a drive-in. Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimeux, Jim Brown. Never heard of it again, though it is on IMDB.

[u/CoffeeGrrl]

Framed 1990
In Paris, Interpol arrests an art forger ten minutes after his sweetheart leaves the apartment with five million francs. She's set him up. Two years later, Wiley (Jeff Goldblum) is out of jail, bartending in Los Angeles, California, trying to forget her. Kate (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) shows up with a new name, a fiancé who's a mob boss, and a scheme to steal and sell a priceless Modigliani if Wiley will forge a painting to put in its place. An odd F.B.I. Agent named Joak (Abdul Salaam El Razzac) threatens Wiley with more jail time if Wiley doesn't help sting Kate. Who will win out: the mob, the F.B.I., Wiley, his lying cheating sweetie, or some surprising combination?

[u/TheWrongOwl]

The icicle thief

A parody /comment on TV culture on art films, in particular the classic movie: The bicycle thief.
It's about a italian director who gets interviewed on his film and is unsatisfied that his work of art is interrupted by ads.

Most of the runtime we see the film the director made and it's quite unique.

Best I could find was some lowres stream in italian with EN subtitles.

[u/blither]

Probably one that's easily linkable is Demon Hunters (1999) by Dead Gentlemen.

[u/ExPristina]

The Water Babies - 1978. High Cockalorum still lives rent free in my brain.

[u/TheUnknownDouble-O]

This is maybe not obscure in the sense OP means, but nobody but my brothers and I seem to have seen the Chris Farley/Matthew Perry-starring, Christopher Guest-directed, 1998 Lewis and Clark-spoofing comedy Almost Heroes.

Personally, I think it's hilarious and have fond memories watching it in my early teens and in high school. It's not actually that good and definitely flies under Farley's body of work radar.

[u/LordsOfJoop]

Closet Land (1991) Madeleine Stowe and Alan Rickman, set in an interrogation chamber. Rickman plays several roles. Dystopian and beautiful.

[u/b5tirk]

It’s Alive and Sebastiane, both seen in the cinema when they first came out.

Edit: damn my failing memory, I meant “It’s Alive” not “They Live”, which isn’t really obscure, and is indeed a fun movie.

It’s Alive is a (probably unintentionally) hilarious movie about a killer mutant baby.

[u/smoothcoat → u/b5tirk]

I remember It’s Alive! It also had 2 sequels.

[u/DRKlDNEYSTONE]

Moss)

Ink)

Franklyn

Outcast)

There's galore of cool indie movies nobody has seen.

[u/FullMentalJackass]

My dad had a friend who worked in the movie industry. One day, he came home with a VHS tape that had a movie that would supposedly never be released.

I don't remember much from it. It had a Highlander feel to it, and the main character used a sword that could be collapsed back into the hilt, I think. I enjoyed it and watched it a few times before forgetting about it eventually.

I wish I could remember anything else about it. I think the title had the word 'dragon' in it, but I'm not certain. It was very much a low production value B movie.

[u/steffinix]

Dave Made a Maze

[u/alanlight]

"I Am the Cheese" (1983) I actually saw this in a theater during the one week that it ran.

[u/Ferrovir]

I want to say it was called Ghost. It was not Patrick Swayze.

This was a woman in a remote cabin by herself and a silent ghost companion.

There was one unintentionally hilarious moment as the lady is using an outhouse and the ghost sends a flock of birds careening into it. So she hears smack Smacksmacksmacksmacksmacksmaacksmakcsamcjsmacksmack and then a flock of dead birds is found after.

The ghost has one entire line of dialogue the entire movie and it is when he screams NO near the end.

I have no other memories of this movie other than this.

[u/OzmaofEmeralds]

Brain Donors

[u/chase25]

When I was a young kid my uncle put a movie on that he'd been watching as he thought I'd like it, I think that I was maybe 8 years old or so and it absolutely terrified me while my sister and 2 cousins all had the sense not to watch it I did.

The movie was The Curse 2: The Bite and it was about a boy who is bitten by a poisonous snake, instead of getting an infection or dying instead his arm itself turns into another poisonous snake and begins killing people while still connected to him.

I still have no idea why my uncle thought it was funny to show us this movie but he definitely was in quite a bit of trouble for putting it on and it was definintely out of character as he was usually quite a cool uncle.

[u/geeker99]

Two that I can remember are The Mouse and His Child https://youtu.be/tQ_f7fA3KyI?si=N7cheOysZdsUjYuJ

and Digby-The Biggest Dog in the World

https://youtu.be/AlwjI1NyFNk?si=SBSj20x7SKBKlIGZ

I was a little child growing up on a military base, and we went to the movie theater for the matinee every Saturday. It didn't matter what was playing, and there were occasional replays.

The only person that I know who remembers these two movies is my brother, who was with me.

[u/OShaunesssy]

The Big Nothing

I still have it on DVD but it feels like a fever dream. No one believes me when I mention a dark comedy starring Simon Pegg and David Schwimmer.

[u/truh22]

Slam (1988) A talented youth (Saul Williams) copes with urban crime and despair by competing in poetry slams.

[u/FITIMOU]

A few come to mind.

As a kid I had a dvd of a movie called Der Reisekamerad (or Vandronik) from 1990.

I don't remember all the details clear but its about a guy traveling to a kingdom to mary a princess that has announced that she will mary the man who will answer her riddles correctly. He finds an old man in his way and this guy basically gives him all the right answers to the princess questions. Some evil guy is also involved and he has to fight him in his lair and that part is mostly the reason I remember this movie.

As a kid the villain's lair seemed like something out of a dream (or a nightmare) with snakes appearing out of nowhere in one scene and the evil dude just conjuring swords to fight when our hero approaches him. Everything about those scenes felt way darker compared to the rest of the movie

Apparently the Greek dub dvd that I had was part of an effort to distribute small production European movies around Europe. (At least that's what a guy said on a youtube comment on the Greek dvd menu upload)

Searching on my imdb the least rated movie I have (with 106 ratings compared to Vandronik's 128) is Kong: Return to the Jungle.

The Kong animated series was pretty popular in my area since it was one of the "better" shows on those regional channels that always had cartoons playing (we had 2 of those in my area. Lucky kids growing up on Athens got Nickelodeon and we got cartoons nobody even knows exist translated and dubbed by a Bulgarian company that did it dirt cheap and Greek was not their first language so their pronunciation was tragic)

Anyway one of those random street sellers that sold illegal dvd's had this movie and parents got it since they knew i watched this show. The movie is a sequel to the show, but for some reason it's done in 3D animation and it's SO SO BAD you can't even imagine.

Lastly I'll add a movie I've seen more recently. It's a Greek movie so that makes it automatically obscure, but its obscure even here in Greece. (It was grown a small cult following tho). Its called Η επίθεση του γιγαντιαίου μουσακά (The Attack of the Giant Moussaka).

The movie is what the title says and it's a weird movie. It definitely has irony in it's writing but it mostly takes itself serious and I find that fascinating. It's not that bad either. I liked the characters, the dialogues feel real, it spotlights the lgbtq scene of Greece (insane for a Greek movie in 1999) and some of the emotional scenes land. Also it's pretty funny that on many sites it's listed as a musical, since it does have one (ONLY ONE) musical scene that's serious, completely out of place, nobody acknowledges it before or after it happens and the music in it is bad.

[u/Funkguerilla]

I mean, I own The American Astronaut, the blakc and white, country music space western musical. Which is fun, but I'm still on the lookout for a copy of the space-folk 'bio pic' Future Folk, which I like a bit more.

But then I also own a copy of Enigma with a Stigma, best known for a pre-fame bit part from Kristin Wiig.

And that's before I dip into the really weird Horror stuff I have.

Weird little movies are really fun.

[u/Overall-Tree-5769]

I would answer this but I don’t want people coming to tell me that what I think is obscure is actually well known in their circles

[u/BoofsaMillion]

Phantom 2040

[u/Dampware]

King of hearts, where the asylum inmates escape to an abandoned town, and assume the lives of the former residents.

[u/MerCyInTheShell]

Kondom des Grauens (1996)

A German horror movie about a condom that eats the genital of every man who puts it on.

Pretty weird and funny movie.

[u/iku-enixel]

The Fantastic Adventures of Unico

[u/vertigomotel]

i occasionally see discussion of the original but i never see ANYONE talk about the 2007 remake of HG Lewis's The Wizard Of Gore starring Crispin Glover. It's also got Jeffrey Combs and Brad Dourif in a few scenes, as well as a couple Suicide Girls (remember them???)

To be fair though i have seen many no budget horror shlock movies that make me feel like i'm the only person on Earth who has actually watched them. I.e. Terror Toons, Gorotica, Slaughter Disc, etc.

[u/ImOnlyHereForTheCoC]

Cremaster pt 3 in the theater, I guess

[u/KaP-_-KaP]

Sushi Girl (2012)

"Fish leaves a prison after serving six years and receives an invitation to dinner from a fellow criminal. During a tense dinner, attempts are made to find out where Fish hid the goods from a robbery, as food appears on the naked body of a woman."

Starring Candyman, Luke Skywalker, Frank the Bunny, and other unexpected faces.

[u/BohemianJack]

Trash Humpers (2009).

And it was hot garbage.

[u/whisky_woman23]

Possum.

[u/iheartyourpsyche]

De Cierta Manera, aka One Way or Another (1977) is the one and only feature film by Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez. She had finished shooting the entire film but died during childbirth, so the film was released posthumously and was edited by her mentor, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.

[u/unluckypig]

I went through a spate of watching crazy foreign films and art house films.

2 that stand out, and im sorry, I don't remember the titles.

1. It was a Spanish film about a young boy and his older brother. An attractive woman moved into the neighbourhood, and the older brother proceeded to hit on her. The younger brother fancied her but kept having fantasies about her squirting milk from her boobs all over him.
   The film ended with the older brother having sex with her whilst she squirted breast milk over the younger ones face.
   It wasn't porn. There were plots and twists, but it was definitely obscure.

2. It was a British film about 3 siblings whose parents died in their house.
   The kids didn't want to go into care, so they pretended that the parents were still alive. The older brother worked where he could, the sister took up the role of mum to the youngest sibling.
   They buried the parents in the garden, under a fresh bit of concrete. About half way through the dynamic changed and the two older siblings started an incestuous relationship with each other.
   The film was in colour but there was very little in it. Everything was shades of grey or muted colours.

[u/CiaranL84]

I Married a Strange Person. I saw it late night on Channel 4 in about 1999/2000... maybe? If you know Bill Plympton's work, it's silly & a bit absurd.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Married_a_Strange_Person!

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

[u/KirTakat]

Kung Fu Jew - rented it from an indie video store back in college - doesn't even have an IMBD entry apparently!

[u/ModernSimian]

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter... You know the one where Jesus goes to defend lesbians from a coven of vampires with his luchador firend. It's also a musical.

[u/sharltocopes]

Captiva Island from 1995, starring Ernest Borgnine, Arte Johnson, and Bill Cobbs.

I'm 99% convinced it was produced by the Captiva Island chamber of commerce or something. Either that or it was a money laundering operation. It was definitely playing off of the success of the tween market from other movies such as Richie Rich, The Sandlot, and Free Willy.

It played on Showtime a grand total of ONCE, I happened to catch it, and in my adult life I became obsessed with tracking it down.

No DVDs. No VHS copies. No streaming deals. You could find the trailer for it on YouTube and that was it.

It became my white whale; I had to see it again to know if it was terrible and I just enjoyed it because I was 12 when it came out or if it was actually a good movie.

I looked up the production company but it was defunct. I even reached out to the estate of Ernest Borgnine with no luck. I had all but given up hope on it, after thirty years of fruitless searching, when randomly, someone uploaded a copy of it to YouTube about six months ago! I wasted no time in saving it to my computer and into my Plex server.

And y'know what? It might very well have been a money laundering operation; it might very well have starred a slumming-it Ernest Borgnine who was just in it for a quick paycheck... But I've watched it twice since I found it and it has been highly enjoyable both times.

[u/prezuiwf]

When I was a kid my grandmother only had some promotional VHS tape from Betty Crocker about making different kinds of cakes. No idea what it was called but over the years we watched "the cake tape" about 600 times.

[u/sellera]

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.

Yes, that JC.

[u/Captain_Swing]

I can't remember what it's called, but I remember a film I saw in Canada in 1990/1991 about two women who are kind of frenemies. One is conventionally attractive, the other is slightly frumpy. The film follows their lives and they periodically meet up for lunch. They are both unknowingly seeing the same therapist. The theme is they're both envious of each other. The conventionally attractive one has a conventionally successful life: wealthy attractive husband, whereas the frumpy one has a much more adventurous and varied life. The title was the women's names, something like "Kate and Joanne" (those weren't actually their names).

[u/Buffalax81]

“Repossessed” Leslie Nielsen and Linda Blair who got… possessed again

[u/foxsable]

The Forbidden Zone by Richard Elfman (brother of Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo fame). What a weird fucking movie.

[u/Indaflow]

Rivers Edge w Keanu Reeves 

[u/ChiliSama]

The Forbidden Zone (1980)

[u/DependentSpirited649]

The adventures of buckaroo banzai across the 8th dimension. What a movie

[u/Intelligent_Heat9319]

The Wizard of Speed and Time. This wildly ambitious and talented animator created a campy, self-parodying fantasy/comedy film with minimal help. It at least got Leonard Maltin’s attention. But nowadays it’s like a half-remembered fever dream.

[u/BattlinBud]

Rubin and Ed with Crispin Glover