Your long lost obscure movies

Really liked Timescape

good little film about time travel tourism going back to watch natural desasters

Always thought it was a nice touch that Robert Colbert from the time tunnel show was in it too as the time traveler guide.
 
Medusa Touch...fav of mine, great little British film.


British:

Payroll---brilliant British gangster film from 1961, with Michael Craig and Billie Whitelaw

Revenge--1971 brutal thriller with James Booth and Joan Collins as two parents out to revenge the rape and murder of their daughter. Freddie Jones also stars.

Hell Is A City--classic 1950's gritty crime drama with Stanley Baker

Never Take Sweets From A Stranger---Hammer child sexual abuse drama from 1960, set in Canada, a film years ahead of its time in terms of the subject matter.

Camp On Blood Island--1958 Hammer war drama which caused controversy on its release, due to its then brutal depiction of Japanese torture in a POW camp during ww2..
 
I'd like to see The Forbin Project again.
I remember it was a really tense thriller about a supercomputer that was given control of America's defense system, but started collaborating with its Russian counterpart. Inspiration for Skynet in Therminator I reckon.
 
I could mention two films which were obscure/forgotten, but are now regarded as classics of their genre...

Peeping Tom--1960
Villain--1971

The former is now regarded by many as possibly the best British horror film ever made, and one of the best British films full stop.
 
Night of The Comet.

Early 80's teen movie about a comet that kills nearly everyone and turns the rest of the population into zombies. Two valley girls survive the aftermath and go shopping, naturally.

Saw it on telly about 15 years ago, hasn't been on since. I tried to get it on DVD a couple of years ago but had to settle for a video transfer as it hadn't been released but I think they've officially released it now.
 
American:

Beach Red: the 1967 Cornell Wilde classic which received an X cert due to its (still shocking) brutality of the battle scenes as American troops land on an island to attack the Japanese.

Last shown a couple of years ago on CH5, its is still a pretty bloody film ,with graphic scenes of missing limbs and men being burned alive.

This film was a large influence on Spielberg and Private Ryan, to the point that he stole scenes almost wholesale...
 
Was the one with Eric Roberts?

If so, I really liked that one, at the time it was the only decent TaeKwonDo film around.

EDIT: No, sorry ignore me, I'm thinking of Best of the Best.
 
Michael Winner's Dirty Weekend

Will we ever see an uncut version of this trashy classic?
 
Sword and the Sorcerer, one of my first memories of fantasy films. Released the same year as Conan the Barbarian, I always liked S&S more for the fact that the hero had a three bladed sword :D
 
My crashed plane film was actually Sole Survivor and was a TV Movie from 1970 (apparantly featuring William Shatner).

I've not had any luck in tracing the other film (WW2 "men on a mission" movie which I thought also starred William Shatner).
 
Battle Beneath the Earth - completely ridiculous tale of China trying to invade USA by lasering tunnels underground. Pure hokum, the type of film the BBC would show when the cricket had been cancelled due to rain. Coming out on R1 DVD next week apparently.

The was another similarly silly film, I've fogotten the title, had volcanos erupting & the scientists were going to drop a nuke into the volcano to stop it.
 
I remember seeing the original When A Stranger Calls 1979 and being scared witless. It literally had me on the edge of my seat. :eek::eek:

Another one I'd like to see again is Personal Services 1987 with Julie Walters, she was great, as a brothel keeper !:D
 
Thanks for the memory! It seems there was a golden age in American Kung Fu back then, what with Kickboxer, BlooRABport, the first 4 Segal films, American Ninja and the like. Great days.

Or were they rubbish and i was just young?
 
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