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Amazing Underrated Obscure Bizarre Films PART 6
 100  7.7  7.2 Coming of age story about a young boy who creates a fantasy world in order to make life tolerable. Plot sounds like same old same old right? Well it's graphic, funny as shit, wayyyyyyyyy out there and definitely not the same old same old. MUST SEE.
      
95 6.4 6.4 Think Scorsese's After Hours but with a lighter comedic feel yet possessing unexpected moments of nasty darkness. Unconventional and unpredictable. Cool David Bowie cameo as a British hitman.
 JayTrotter's rating:
 
767 8.1 8 Gorgeous magic trick like suicides and happy funerals and Ruth Gordon has an arm tattoo and Bud Cort's mom and Cat Stevens! The epitome of Dark Comedy.
 
27 7.3 6.6 A well made black comedy/slasher/erotica with a killer soundtrack that is nothing but a weirdo concoction of cool ass cinema you gotta see.
      
555 7 6.9 Low budget indy filmmaking done the way it should be done. Great ideas executed brilliantly. Multiple viewings needed to wrap your head around this sci-fi masterpiece.
 
153 7.7 7.1 Let's eat and fuck till we DIE!
....... Okay! Hedonism till we BURST!  
151 6.6 7 Peter Weir yet again shows why he's one of the most underrated directors working today. Such an amazing flick. Jeff Bridges is great as usual.
 
297 6.9 7.2 This is one of the smartest, coolest, prettiest, most thought provoking zombie movies ever made. I suggest you see this beauty immediately.
 
35 7.1 7.3 Phillip Baker Hall's one man show as Richard Nixon in Robert Altman's psychological examination of our 37th president.
 
52 6.8 6.8 Anthony Wong in a Category III Hong Kong flick that is FUCKED UP, SO SO FUCKED UP.
 
18 5.9 5.6 Kinda like if Alejandro Jodorowsky helped the Coens make No Country For Old Men. That's the best I can come up with. It's Robert Downey Sr. batshit crazyness so that's all the reason you really need to check it out.
 
61 6.2 6.4 Jack Nicholson plays the typical Bruce Dern role and Bruce Dern plays the typical Jack Nicholson role in this groovy crime/drama from Bob Rafelson. Ellen Burstyn completes the triangle of cool.
 
299 7.6 7.5 Jodorowsky drops a bead of acid into each one of your eyes and you gotta deal with that shit to the best of your ability without screaming in this visually stunning mix of Psycho and Freaks. FUCKING OFF ITS ROCKER.
      
31 7.1 7 Mega mega mindfuck. Not as good at The Holy Mountain in that regard but it's up there and would go great with some mind altering substances.
    
148 7.4 7.7 Bob Hoskins is king in this cool British gangster flick with a trippy synth score.
 
263 6.6 7.1 Rarely does a movie balance a big cast with the right amount of drama and the right amount of comedy but this one does it purty good.
 
15 6.8 6.6 Kinda like American Beauty + The World According to Garp with hints of What Dreams May Come and Jacob's Ladder. Surreal, funny, and poignant.
 JayTrotter's rating:
73 6.4 6.9 Lumet directs Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve in this Sleuth like play adaptation. Cat and mouse psychological battle all inside one room.
 
105 6.4 6.8 Tupac's greatest performance. He improved A SHIT TON between this and Poetic Justice.
      
94 6.1 6.4 Ron Howard's newspaper movie. It's a lot better than what I just said there sounds like.
 
113 6.7 6.4 Barbara Hershey is getting raped by a ghost and it's all messed up and scary and based on a true story.
 
19 6.4 6 Lots of haunting monologues in this cinema verite style presentation of an AA meeting. Sam Rockwell shows up.
 
48 7.2 6.5 Warrent Oates and Peter Fonda stumble upon some virgin sacrificin' devil worshippers and things get messy!
  
32 6 6.2 Tom Selleck's prison movie is all you really need to know but F. Murray Abraham's performance is a nice bonus. You ever seen Tom Selleck shank a black guy in the shower? I have.
 
726 6.8 6.8 Rob Zombie's picture perfect love letter to exploitation horror films.
 
130 7.6 7.1 Character actors a plenty in this dark n' murky Deliverance-esque action adventure movie by Walter Hill. Fred Ward! Powers Boothe! Brion James!
 
48 6.8 7 I LOVE this film. Sam Rockwell + John Turturro = Groovy
 
11 4.3 5 Eric Bogosian is a filmmaker who likes the death scenes in his films to realistic. VERY REALISTIC. MUAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHHA!
 
18 7 6.2 Outstanding mockumentary about low budget exploitation filmmakers attempting to make a movie about The Bible. Funny as shit.
 
73 7.7 7.6 Terrific made-for-TV movie about the infamous Russian serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo. Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, and Max Von Sydow make up part of the cast cause I mean with a movie like this it seems like those guys just have to be in it.
 
89 6.9 7.1 Why in the living hell isn't Albert Brooks' work recognized as the wonderfully lighthearted yet hilarilously profound flicks that they are?
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Great choices : La grande bouffe (love this movie), The indian runner, Six degrees of separation (also on my "most underrated" list), Gridlock'd, Dellamorte Dellamore (one of my alltime favorite), Year of the dragon, Shallow grave (one of my alltime favorite)
Sorry but I don't agree with "Into the night", it started pretty good but got nowhere...
Being French, I think I'm more aware than you of the realities of the French ghettoes and "La haine", though a good movie, is very overrated.
I was really disappointed by Beautiful girls, in spite of the interesting cast.
"Searching for Bobby Fischer" Brilliantly acted, flawlessly directed and shot. I knew 'nothing' about who Bobby Fischer was beforehand. I was familiar with 'chess', that's what got me watching. Joe Mantegna deserves more credit as an 'quality actor'!
"Primer" One of the SMARTEST movies there ever will be. For pete's sake Shane Caruth, hurry up and release "A Topiary" already!!!
"Harold and Maude" LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie, brilliantly funny, uplifting, romantic, off-beat, original. Anyone who could find fault in this movie is either and android or out of their friggin' mind!!!
"Leolo" Always surprised when people acknowledge this small Canadian hit. This was a WEIRD WEIRD movie, the climax was kinda gross. Probably not as gross as some of the other films on here. Still, 'this' is what my country is importing to the States?
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"Santa Sangre" -Alejandro Jodorowski, that's all that needs to be said, I'm there! Can't wait to see this one. Wonder what the maker of 'El Topo' could possibly concoct in the VHS era???...
"The Boxer's Omen" Woaw, what is going on here? -Looks trippy, can't wait to check it out!
great list anyway
"I LOVE this film. Sam Rockwell + John Turturro = Groovy" - exactly! :)
Southern Comfort (1981) - totally underrated.
Shallow Grave (1994) - 1000 billion years away from Slumdog Millionaire lemonade.