Amazing Underrated Obscure Bizarre Films PART 10

All about the way in which movies can completely take over your life. Trippy, graphic and one unexpected moment of 100% pure poppin' goosebumps. A true hidden away masterpiece from Spain that needs more eyes on it.

There is a mummy stalking the residents of a Texas retirment home and it's sucking the souls out of their very old assholes. Who can stop this...Bubba Ho-Tep!?!? Well, 70 year old Elvis (Bruce Campbell) and a black guy who thinks he's JFK (Ossie Davis) are the only ones raising up their shriveled hands. Don Coscarelli and Joe Lansdale make it real, moving and wonderfully mental. I was lucky enough to work boom and PA on this gem.

Revenge. Hardcore William Devane & Tommy Lee Jones Happy as Pigs in Shit Revenge.

Never give up on your dream cause if you do you'll be working at some meat packing plant wishing you could off yourself. Be like Anvil instead.

Rabid n revolting Category III Hong Kong moviemaking filled with OHHHH GODDAMNNNNN moments all ova da place! This is some unfiltered Billy Tang (Dr. Lamb, Red To Kill, Vengeance is Mine) psychosis you MUST SEE

A man confesses to his colleagues that he is...something unbelievable. They then engage a back n' forth discussion of fascinated skepticism and unrealistic revelations. Production values feel like a Lifetime movie but this play-like-film is extremely engrossing. Tony Todd is a stud in this too.

Still holds its place as one of the most shameless, over the top action flicks of all time. This is Chuck's Starry Night or Mona Lisa, whichever works better.

Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs of a stylish Aussie horror with a vile personality.

One of those zany, pedal to the metal comedies you never knew existed with a comedic premise for the ages: a cigarette company offers $25,000,000 to any American town that will quit smoking for 30 days. Well the town of Eagle Rock, Iowa, lead by Dick Van Dyke as the charismatic preacher accepts the challenge! But the cigarette company has no problem playing dirty. Movie hits a lot of spots you don't expect and the scale is huge. Highly recommended.

This is a Norwegian thriller that does its job and deserves a pay raise. When it gets going it's got some of the best moments in the thriller genre in years. Plus hilarious bits of gruesome dark comedy and you gotta see why this demolished car is flying through the sky like a deformed bird!

Take out Spider-Man and put in the black dude as the Hulk and you got your 4 subjects of this doc taking a sincere look at the people who pose for pictures in superhero costumes on Hollywood Blvd in front of Mann's Chinese Theatre and "accept tips." Sneaks up on you with how deeply each character's story hits. Must must see if you're a big documentary nerd like me.

William Shatner stars in a black n' white film spoken in the made up language (well aren't they all???) of Esperanto (which Shatner forgot completely after the movie was finished) that feels like a Ingmar Bergman horror flick produced by Roger Corman. A young Conrad Hall in the DP spot painting your contrasts.

That movie where Peter Boyle hates hippies and blacks and finds a mutually pissed off buddy who just murdered his junkie daughter's boyfriend and they both agree to stick a boot up counterculture's smelly, tie-dyed ass. Makes a great depressing NOTHING HAS FUCKING CHANGED double feature with A Face in the Crowd. The Oscar nominated screenplay was written by Norman Wexler (Serpico, Saturday Night Fever, Drum) who needs a fucking documentary made about that fascinating man. *UPDATE* Apparently there is a trailer for one that's being worked on but that was a couple years ago. Looks real good. Hope it gets completed. vimeo.com/118584015

Very intimate and fly on the wall documentary that watches Lil Wayne drink sizzurp, spit fiya on da mic in his hotel room and say dumb shit like if he was president he would outlaw child support. Even if you don't like rap, this doc is captivating as fuck.

Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor are so in love it'll make your heart race...and then get arrested but then race again...until the law once again catches up. Reminded me of the Jim Carrey of old.

What a mind fuck. What a cryptic awesome mind fuck and the actual SHOUT in the movie...HOLY SHIT. Nicolas Roeg vibe and lots of cool shots to gander at.

Watch Jim Wynorski make The Witches of Breastwick in only 3 days. I mean it, fucking do it cause it's impressive, naked and dirty.

A kinda one location aquatic thriller that might make you freak the fuck out if you're claustrophobic or billyzaneophobic. Both serious medical conditions.

Subversive drummers turn the world and everything in it into their instruments of musical terrorism. Flick is joyfully creative and you'll want the soundtrack as soon as the credits end.

Lily Tomlin invades Steve Martin's body and makes him act all funky monkey like. I mean he didn't get an always HIGHLY regarded Golden Globe Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical nomination for nothing. Okay yeah the Globes are a joke but they nailed it here cause Martin turns in one of the best physical comedy performances of all time. The final Carl Reiner/Steve Martin collaboration.

A Jan Svankmajer short where food (and people?!?!?!?) is eaten or more like DEVOURED! NOM NOM NOM ACKEM ACKEM ACKEM!!!!

Engrossing story of Gary Kasparov as he battled Microsoft's super chess computer, Deep Blue in 1997. Bitter emotions, suspicion of cheating and heavy pressure mount up in this tale sure to make you go hmmmmmmmmmmm.

Don Johnson is looking for grub and intercourse in a post-apocalyptic world with his best buddy, a telepathic dog.

Patton Oswalt really likes the NY Giants. Like a whole goddamn lot. LIKE A WHOLE GODDAMN LOT!!!!!...........and it's all kinda sad and great.

Imagine all of these guys involved in small time gangsta/hood style movie stuff: Gary Oldman, Sean Penn, Ed Harris, John Turturro, John C. Reilly, and Burgess Meredith with Robin Wright being the customary caught-in-the-middle-of-all-the-illegal-acts female. Good all around.

This movie nails how a relationship ebbs and flows. Some of the realist emotional realism I've seen. Julie Deply I tip my imaginary hat to you.

Ridley Scott's first film. It's about dueling. It's gorgeous and good.

Michael Parks puts in a slambanger of a performance as a sociopathic cop.

Lazy but effective copy n' paste IMDB trivia caption:

"Only aired once on Nickelodeon. It was never shown again due to an unprecedented number of complaints from parents who believed it was too frightening for a kid's network. Since then, Nickelodeon has refused to release it to the public in any form and continues to deny its existence. Random clips of the movie were released to YouTube, and eventually the full 1 hour movie was uploaded. However, the full version was removed by Viacom due to copyright. UPDATE: The film will be shown on Nickelodeon, Halloween night, October 31, 2011. Enjoy!"

One of the most underrated Disney flicks of the past 20. Looney Tunes and Adult Swim type humor works its way in and gels perfectly. Loved it.

This complimentary documentary shows all the drama of what went down during the making of The Emperor's New Groove. Only screened twice at film festivals in 2002. Disney was then like FUCK NO! NO ONE IS SEEING THIS EVER, forbade its release and wanted every copy to be transformed into ashes. It's so hard to get a hold of that a Disney representative had to accompany a copy at all times during a rare screening at Pixar....but yeah it's out there on the internets now if ya look hard enough.

Herzog's mesmerizing experimental thick atmosphere drama about a small town and its obsession with how to make the famous RUBY GLASS! Unfortunately the keeper of the secret just died and didn't tell anyone...well oh fuck. One of those CASTS A SPELL ON YOU methodical mystery movies.

This movie is really hard to watch at times. The main bitch is so good that I really wanted to smash her face in with a goddamn cinder block. Well done, Blanche.

This movie is fucked in the head. Just like this guy who has decided to pour gasoline all over himself in the hopes of attaining nirvana. Early Viggo M.

The definitive stand-up comedy documentary. Well this picture didn't age well.

Renny Harlin's ghost movie mixed with a prison movie that houses some world class practical super duper gore fx is a groovy watch. Another Viggo Mortensen early role is usually the draw here but Lane Smith as the take no shit warden is the real attraction. And seriously, the gory kill scenes are fantastic!

Quiet, puzzling French 80s thriller you gotta think about.

Before Depp & Del Toro did Hunter S. Thompson and Raoul Duke, Bill Murray and Peter Boyle rocked it hard, psychotically and stacked with drugs.

Linklater knows this scene, these characters and he makes it all matter.

A homeless romance flick with literal and figurative fireworks.

The type of ludicrous twisty 90s thriller that'll give you a grin. Bill Pullman accompanies a still relatively slender Alec Baldwin and a young n' stunning Nicole Kidman where you never really know who is fucking over who till you go AHAHAHA THAT WAS KINDA DUMB BUT FUCK IT WHY NOT. George C. Scott and Anne Banecroft show up and it's co-written by Aaron Sorkin!

Oh to be a young boy and meet pedophile Brian Cox who claims to be the best cocksucker on the east coast or something like that. But anyway, stirring and raw view of male adolescence surviving an onslaught of life that is coming at him from all directions all at once.

Ray Liotta and John Leguizamo are hunting a fire loving arsonist in California in the 80s. Based on the true story on one of the most notorious arsonists of the 20th century. Liotta shines in this stylish directorial debut from the cinematographer of The Usual Suspects and Drive.

Not really a homeless people doc but more like a homeless community doc about those that live beneath the streets of New York. Powerful as shit.

I don't even know what to say about this delirious ball of screw loose cinema.

David Lynch's G rated movie that got Richard Farnsworth an Oscar nomination. If you don't like this you probably torture small animals for fun.

Hong Kong zombie flick in a shopping center that gets pretty funny and over the top as you'd imagine given those simple facts. From director of Ip Man series.

Leo Rossi is the fucking man!...in this shockingly simple yet remarkably written and directed b movie where cops (Leo partnered with God's gift to the Western Hemisphere, Robert Loggia) chase a random phone book people picker serial killer (Judd SERIOUSLY? NO HE ACTUALLY DOES A GOOD JOB Nelson) all over LA. Spawned 3 sequels (yeah I felt compelled to watch those too) that never packed the punch to the gut that this one does.

See 6 professional background extras not blend into real life as well.

Stephen Frears (The Grifters, Dangerous Liasions) orders around Terrence Stamp, John Hurt, and Tim Roth (in a very early role) to make a movie filled with hitmen, road trips and bumbling crooks acting like jackasses. They succeed.