Weird & Obscure Movies

I really enjoyed "Mumford" because it was decidedly different. Loren Dean was also very good in it and I'd have expected a bigger career from him. A guy I used to date in L.A. dated Loren for a while. Said he was very quiet, almost withdrawn, but had a great sense of humor and was fun to be around.

Loren Dean is gay? Did everyone but me know this?

Eraserhead

R2 it’s nowhere else on the Internet. R1 just outed him here.

DATALOUNGE EXCLUSIVE

I thought it was common knowledge although he has always been reticent in talking about his personal life with the press or media. When they thought he was going to be the next happening thing, he was probably advised to not overshare, back in the 90's. I heard about it from friends who regularly saw him with dates at the Abbey and other West Hollywood spots.

You Kill Me - An alcoholic hitman overshares in AA meetings. It was a little indie with a tiny budget, but stars Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni with Bill Pullman, Dennis Farina, and Luke Wilson in supporting roles. I loved it.

"Return of the Secaucus 7"

The Anniversary Party, 2001, with Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Phoebe Cates. I think this is Phoebe Cates' last role (and she did it for Jennifer as a favor).

It's a really good "in the moment" type of movie, absolutely LOVE the house where this was filmed in LA.

Buio Omega/Beyond the Darkness (1979). It's a trashy Italian horror film, probably not classy enough to be considered giallo. It's graphic, it's gross, and I hate myself for loving it. The twist-ending is so over-the-top and satisfying.

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This was bizarre. I watched it on TV years ago and never forgot it.

Are these films available NOW to be viewed anywhere? If not this thread is just a list of "one time,I saw this movie, so weird, totally," Which is kind of pointless/useless.

R12 needs a DVD player and an eBay account

r12 needs a Valium.

The Bothersome Man. A man kills himself and is sent to a comfortable yet joyless purgatory

You'll never be the same afterward..

Miss Jackson, if you're lonely.

I don't know about 'obscure' (it *is* Steven Soderbergh, after all), but I enjoyed the film "Bubble" (2005), about three people working in a doll factory, where one gets jealous of the budding relationship between the other two and "takes matters into her own hands." Half the scenes seemed to be of workers heating up food from various fast-food restaurants in the kitchen microwave and having some of the most realistic, mumbling, un-cinematic dialogue ever.

That sounds pretty good, r18. I'm going to watch it tonight or tomorrow.

Years ago I caught an interesting little movie called Bug on cable. Not the Ashley Judd movie or the giant cockroach movie from the 70s. This one is a low-budget interconnecting character study about the effects of a little kid stepping on a bug on the sidewalk. No major stars but many familiar faces (Sarah Paulson, John Carroll Lynch, Brian Cox, Jamie Kennedy, Ed Begley Jr.). Doesn't have the budget to pull off its Altman aspirations but it's an entertaining watch if you can find it. It doesn't appear to be streaming anywhere and I couldn't even find the trailer on YouTube. Many websites incorrectly give the synopsis of the Ashley Judd movie if they list it at all. I've seen the DVD available at Dollar Tree so that may be the only way to track it down.

R12 every mafuckin post from this moron is the same. I can smell the bastard a mile away

Sounds like Gen Z pussy shit.

PASS.

Abandon 2002 Benjamin Bratt, Katie Holmes

"The Beaver Trilogy." A short documentary about an Olivia Newton John impersonator in a small Utah town is remade twice with actors (first Sean Penn, then Crispin Glover).

Lake Mungo

Blood Rage, an 80s slasher movie which takes place on Thanksgiving Day. Louise Lasser's SERIOUSLY WEIRD performance makes it a must-see.

Gathering around my hole

The Experts, total BObomb from Travolta.

House of Games. A David Mamet movie about a woman being drawn into some kind of elaborate con game.

Hot Chili. A Spring Break romp starring Bubba from Mama's Family. They used to show this on USA late at night.

The weirdest movie I've ever managed to sit through is Dogtooth.

Since it was Yorgos Lanthimos' second film, that shouldn't be surprising to anyone.

Give it a try if you have a strong stomach and an appreciation for irony.

I like House of Games purely for the nostalgia of seeing late 80s Seattle. There's even a scene at SeaTac airport. The acting sucks and the dialogue is absurd.

"Mandy" was the perfect deployment of Nicolas Cage at his most... most. Sublime.

Mandy was ok but not worth repeat viewings. I’m sure straight guys love it.

"Miracle Mile" from 1988, with Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham. I just saw it on TV the other day. I can't decide if it's ridiculous or a lost gem from before its time. I'm glad I didn't see it when it was released, as a high schooler, since it would've made me depressed and scared of nuclear annihilation.

Happily. Weird little film starring some of my favourite actors. Not quite funny enough to be a comedy, not scary enough to be a thriller, but still I quite enjoyed it.

It's mostly a mystery with a tiny bit of sci-fi and a lot of attractive people being slightly creepy and mean to each other in a gorgeous booze-filled mansion.

R29, "House of Games" is BRILLIANT, not weird! Lindsay Crouse's (ex-Mrs. Mamet) best role.

My first candidate is "The Dead Don't Die," a Zombie movie with Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Selena Gomez, and Austin Butler.

Second is "Yoga Hosers," a Kevin Smith film about (aboot) Killer Hitler Sausages, starring his daughter Harley Quin, Lily-Rose Depp, Johnny Depp, and...Austin Butler. Have to say, the "Canadian Satanist" scene with Austin and Harley Quin is hilarious!

The Legacy (1978)

"The" fucking "Bluebird," with Shirley Temple.

Not Liz Taylor's, which is its own abomination.

I focused more on obscure, r36. I had to Google David Mamet to make sure I had the title right.

Chuck and Buck (2000) An oddly naive man-child stalks his childhood best friend and tries to reconnect with their past. Written by and starring Mike White.

I remember Mumford having seen it at the movies. It was actually quite a charming film and Loren Dean was pretty good in the protagonist. I believe I only seen it another time one cable.

# Chad Gets The Axe, Oddity, and Deadstream, all on Shudder.

Raging Grace, which is on Prime, that was written and directed by Paris Zarcilla. He was the guy on Twitter who found a cat under his bed that gave birth and he kept all of them. He even gave writing credit to his cat Pancake.

R40 — great pick!

The Big Picture with Kevin Bacon - for Martin Short's role as his agent alone...

“Metropolitan”—catching it on TCM right now.

"Metropolitan" is in the Criterion Collection.

A Boy Called Sailboat is such a beautiful, quirky, heartfelt, moving movie.

The Woodsman -- Kevin Bacon as a recently paroled pedophile trying to start a new life.

The Good Girl - A Mike White film with Jennifer Anniston and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Outrageous! with Craig Russell. Saw it years ago.

For these kind of threads I like to nominate Remember My Name starring Geraldine Chaplin as the stalker of Anthony Perkins.

The Reflecting Skin is pretty weird. The imagery and storyline is a bit out there.

Debbie Reynolds and Shelly Winters in 1971s, 'What's the matter with Helen'

Does a documentary count? If so, Crumb.

The Hitler Gang (1944) - it's like if Hitler's rise to power was a Warner Brothers gangster film. Directed by Mia Farrow's dad.

All Good Things, with Kirsten Dunst and Ryan Gosling

Maybe not all that obscure, but definitely weird in LL the best ways:

Velvet Goldmine

R36 here. No sooner did I post than "The Dead Don't Die" started trending because of Netflix!

Through the Fire (1988). A very weird supernatural horror flick shot in Texas that sort of morphs into a zombie action movie in the last act. More entertaining than it has any right to be.

R36 R59 The movie sucks. Bill Murray and Adam Driver --- ugh.

Great movie, R48. Very poignant. I always cry after the little girl sits on his lap.

Gives you hope that people can change...but I know it's just a movie.

R62 It's amazing that movie ever made it to the screen PLUS how big are Kevin Bacon's balls that he had the nerve to star in it? Yikes. The Woodsman could've been a career killer and he pulled it off. Also, R62, I don't believe she sits on his lap. The way I remember it, he asks her to sit on his lap, and then they talk for a bit and when she asks him if he still wants her to sit on his lap - he refuses and tells her to go home.

No, R63, I think you're right -- and I'm too lazy to go look. But it's still a major tearjerker for me.

Plus I love his wife.

Ace in the Hole - Billy Wilder directs. It's one of those oldies that perfectly reflects today like NETWORK or FACE IN THE CROWD.

R64 I was surprised; didn't know Kyra was anything more than a model.

Trouble in Mind. It bears up wel under repeat viewing.

Split. Ewan McGregor. He was sensational.

Correction - James McAvoy. Oscar caliber performance.

I promise you, it's one not to miss.

Thanks for this thread —- finally looking forward to Xmas and movies .

Big-time, r61.

R64, Never saw TV's "The Closer"?

Plus, R64, Kyra Sedgwick was not a model.

[quote]I don't know about 'obscure' (it *is* Steven Soderbergh, after all), but I enjoyed the film "Bubble" (2005), about three people working in a doll factory, where one gets jealous of the budding relationship between the other two and "takes matters into her own hands." Half the scenes seemed to be of workers heating up food from various fast-food restaurants in the kitchen microwave and having some of the most realistic, mumbling, un-cinematic dialogue ever.

My local Dollar Tree used to have dozens of copies of this movie for sale. I bought one, just because, but I've never watched it.

The Nazi version of"Titanic". Made during the war. Naturally, the hero is a German officer and the villains are all American or British.

Cuban cinema from the 60s 70s. "Classic" Egyptian cinema. I wish someone would restore the Egyptian cinema, digitise it at hi def, and properly distribute it.

Dawson’s 50 Load Weekend

The character development astounds. The story arcs of the supporting cast are all fully realized. But the main character, who you really root for in the beginning, stuns. He’s almost an Everyman, the way he’s really just in it for himself (and truly indifferent to others, flagrantly using them to achieve his own goal — something that becomes clear about the many supporting players). A damning indictment of humanity.

R66? Watch and learn.

R68 R69 Split was absolutely incredible. Yes, James McAvoy was a revelation.

Scrawny Kristoffer Tabori miscast as a high school Don Juan in what I suppose is supposed to be a cautionary tale. The climax has Tabori being forced to witness his widowed mom's abortion because the doctor feels the experience may make a man of him. His mom is played by Joyce Van Patten whose lover in the film is played by her real-life brother Dick Van Patten! One of Tabori's conquest is the football coach's wife who confronts to Tabori in a scene that is very homoerotic.

The tone of the film is very uncertain and the whole thing is very amateurish. The extras look uncomfortable, and the director John Erman spent decades working in television. Production wise it feels like an episode of the Brady Bunch. Released by 20th Century Fox in 1971 the film pretty much disappeared. Erman directed such TV movies as An Early Frost and The Two Mrs. Glenville's. And nearly two decades after Making It his next feature film was Stella starring Bette Midler in 1990

Humky Denny Miller who played Tarzan played the football coach in Making It!

R36/R59 is sharing the news of the most exiting event of the year for her!

Paul Douglas and Ruth Roman star in a take-off on 'MacBeth' entitled "Joe MacBeth." Not the best film I ever saw but its uniqueness should recommend it to you.

A young William Shatner was in the film "Incubus," wherein all the dialogue is in Esperanto.

"Mindwalk" starring Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston and John Heard. 3 characters bitching about life, philosophically.

Ace in the Hole -- Billy Wilder. Shows up once in a while on cable.

You can tell we've crossed a generational divide that Eating Raoul did not make the list.

Paul Bartel's first feature film Private Parts (1972)

Toys Are Not for Children

A young girl fixated on her absent father and childhood toys moves to New York City and becomes a prostitute catering to men with father daughter fetishes acting as their daddy's little girl

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (1992) is a crazy little movie with Adrienne Shelley, Sean Young, and Diane Ladd. The lead is dreamy Max Parrish, who pretty much disappeared after this. Porn star April Rayne is hilariously filthy in a supporting role. I haven’t watched or even thought about this movie in years! I need to find it and watch.

[quote] Split. Ewan McGregor. He was sensational.

LOL

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There's an English movie from the 60's - 70's that features frogs, motorcycles and I think a butler. It was very off beat.

Psychomania, R92.

OP, just watched Mumford. Great choice, thanks!

The River's Edge -- Young Keanu, Crispin Glover, Dennis Hopper

Geek Maggot Bingo

Night Moves (1975) Gene Hackman

Night Tide - (1961) Dennis Hopper

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Showgirls circa 1970

Happiness (1998) Written and directed by Todd Solondz. Aired quite a bit on premium cable in the late 90s and early 00s. It's available on DVD and on Criterion Collection Blu-Ray release.

I doubt this movie will ever be on any streaming platforms due to one of the subplots in it.

The downward spiral of model Lou Andreas Sand. One of those films that opened and closed simultaneously Faye was nominated for a Golden Globe

I can still hear Nancy Marchand saying "Roland!" over and over.

1968s Green Slime cheesy Japanese produced SciFi with a mostly American cast distributed by MGM complete with title song

Though it's part of the criterion collection this is still a relatively unknown independent film released in 1961. Not to be confused with Jonathan Demme's 1986 film. It stars Carol Baker as a young rape victim. Jean Stapleton and Doris Roberts are in the cast. Filmed on location in New York City.

Based on a novel by Gail Parent. This film explains why Jeannie Berlin never a career had after breakthrough performance in The Heartbreak Kid

Breaking The Waves (1996)

According to the Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film this is one of the sickest films ever to get a GP rating. General audiences admitted parental guidance suggested. You feel like you want to take a shower after watching this grimy horror film. Gloria Graham stars.

Whatever happened to Loren Dean?

Greener Grass is weird. It's darkly funny, it's Like a candy coated David Lynch movie.

"The Pizza Triangle" (1970) is a hilarious Italian satire of the silly, somber love story movies of the 1960s. It is so over the top it reminded me a bit of "Airplane" and made me laugh as hard, although by the end the absurdity of these lost souls in a lost society becomes a bit sad. Young Giancarlo Giannini is bellissimo.

R106 Bridget Jones Diary is just a knock-off of the Sheila Levine novel.

Who Killed Teddy Bear - very sexy, very perverse, very low budget, very 60s NYC.

Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Elaine Stritch, Daniel J Travanti

'Fantastic Planet' (La Planète sauvage), a 1973 French-Czechoslovakian animated science fiction film directed by René Laloux. The movie features a society where humans, known as "Oms," are considered pets by the dominant humanoid aliens called "Draags." The film's poster art, depicting a giant blue humanoid Draag examining a human in her hand, became iconic and was widely reproduced. Fantastic Planet is celebrated for its surreal animation and allegorical storytelling.

Brain Donors is an uncredited remake of The Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera and shows that you have to have the Marx Brothers to make a Marx Brothers movie. John Turturro is no Groucho.

My nomination - The Passion of Darkly Noon with Brendan Fraser, Ashley Judd and, again, Loren Dean. I just remember idyllic forest scenes out of live action Disney and then Brendan Fraser paints himself red and burns down a house.

Psyche 59 (1964) In London, Patricia Neal is the pregnant wife of industrialist Curd Jurgens who falls down the stairs, loses her sight and has no recollection of the events but suspects that a mentally traumatic experience prior to the fall caused her accident.

Another Patricia Neal one is The Night Digger (1971). The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince (Neal) takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis (Nicholas Clay), but there is more to Billy than meets the eye. Score by Bernard Herrmann.

Compromising Positions (1985). Susan Sarandon, Raúl Juliá Edward Herrmann, Judith Ivey, Mary Beth Hurt, Anne De Salvo, Josh Mostel, Deborah Rush, Joe Mantegna.

Compromising Positions is a 1985 American film released by Paramount Pictures and directed by Frank Perry. The screenplay, by Susan Isaacs, was adapted from her 1978 novel. The plot concerns a Long Island housewife and former journalist who becomes involved in a murder investigation.

It’s rather intense for Susan Sarandon.

The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a 2018 American fantasy comedy film directed by Eli Roth, based on the 1973 book by John Bellairs. Starring Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, and Owen Vaccaro, it follows a young boy, Lewis, who is sent to live with his uncle, Jonathan, in a creaky, old house where he soon learns it was previously inhabited by a villainous warlock.