Your long lost obscure movies

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What obscure movies do you remember watching many years ago that no one else seems to know anything about, but have for some reason stayed with you?

For me it has to be:

Star 80 - With Eric Roberts about the real ife murder of a Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten.

and

The Return - With Jan-Michael Vincent, Cybil Sheherd and Vincent Sciavelli. It had something do to with aliens and cattle mutilation.

Other than my brother who I saw the movies with as a kid I dont know anyone who has ever seen these.
 
That's not obscure is it? Isn't that a Saturday Night/National Lampoon/John Landis brigade's early outing?


I remember that's got a really cheesy ending, with the young lovers witnessing the birth of the new moon. Classic sci-fi - I'd love to see it again.
 
Watch Out We're Mad! A great italian film with Bud Spencer And Terence Hill about two men who own dune buggies bug one gets smashed by a local mafia type with Donald Pleasence. if you've seen it you'll know what i mean. a classic. look for it on youtube. anyone seen it??:)
 
I might have, it does ring a bell. As a Kid growing up in Spain in the 80's I was subjected to a whole bunch of Bud Spencer & Terence Hill movies.
 
My favourite lost movies are The Beastmaster (which fortunately I managed to pick up on an excellent R1 disc), and Battle Beyond the Stars (which is practically impossible to get).

Big films from my misspent youth there. :)
 
That's a great shout! My mates and I went through a phase years ago of renting out the crappest looking film at the video shop. We rented this expecting it to be dire and it was hillarious! In a good way! Totally bonkers story too. I'd completely forgotten about it until I read your post. I'm on a mission now to track it down :D
 
Great films!!!!

Anyone heard of a kung fu film called King Boxer?
Freebie and the Bean - an excellent buddy-buddy car-chase cop film starring James Caan and Alan Arkin - never released on DVD as far as I know.
Unman Wittering and Zygo - a creepy school film similar to If. The names were the last three on the register - Zygo was always absent.
M Butterfly by David Cronenberg. I think it's the one he made after Naked Lunch and before Crash, but I only ever saw it once on VHS in a video shop. Starring Jeremy Irons in a true story about a diplomatic incident in China. Oooo - just checked and it's available on DVD on Amazon Marketplace - ordered it!
Fantastic Planet - a surreal cartoon set on a weird planet. Currently available complete on YouTube in about 20 parts!
 
Excellent film, had a very young Michael Cashman (gay Colin from early Eastenders) as one of the schoolkiRAB who rape the teacher's wife. :eek:
 
I would go for The Keep - bonkers sci-fi horror with 30's Nazis fighting demons, monks and other weird shit. Directed by Micheal Mann, with a Tangerine Dream soundtrack. complete flop from the 80's never released on video i reckon, never mind DVD...Actually no sorry, maybe was a straight-to-video release back then.

to ThinBoy, I think u CAN get Fantastic Planet on DVD now...reckon its quite well known in France, naturally. Do a check and see, I'm sure it was released quite recently...
 
The obscurities that I enjoyed on tv for years that never became generally available on VHS were The Amazing Mr Blunden and Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter aswell as the Mark Lester film Melody (AKA S.w.a.l.k.).

But in recent years my dreams were fulfilled although I had to get Melody from Japan.

Most of what I longed for has been released on dvd somewhere in the world- I have discs from the US,Japan and Australia.

Mainly little tv movies left that I would like.

Hope Lange in Crowhaven Farm would be nice.

My Jap dvd of Dont Be Afraid of the Dark could do with a better quality release.

But I have several thousand titles and even my most obscure films and even tv shows have hit the silver platter - I can die happy
 
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