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Amazing Underrated Obscure Bizarre Films PART 6

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Decade: Rating: List Type:

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7.1

7.4

Léolo (1992)

Coming-of-age story about a young boy who creates a fantasy world in order to make his life more tolerable. Plot kinda sounds like same old same old right? Well it's graphic, funny as shit, wayyyyyyyy out there and definitely not the same old room temperature art plop. GOTTA SEE IT.

178

6.4

6.5

Into the Night (1985)

Think Scorsese's After Hours but with a lighter comedic feel yet possessing unexpected moments of nasty darkness. Unconventional & unpredictable. Cool David Bowie as a British hitman plus all sorts of other OH SHIT! big name cameos.

JayTrotter's rating:

1086

7.9

Harold and Maude (1971)

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 that yeah yeah yeah I know is pretty well known but it still needs more exposure cause Hal Ashby gotdammit.

6.4

6.7

Private Parts (1972)

A well shot black comedy/slasher/erotica with a killer soundtrack that is nothing but a weirdo invention of wicked cinema you shouldnt miss. Paul Bartel directed!

613

7.2

The Hitcher (1986)

Rutger Hauer and Eric Red at their terrifying best.

867

6.9

6.8

Primer

Low budget indy filmmaking done the way it should be done. Complicated ideas executed brilliantly with multiple viewings needed to wrap your head around this sci-fi masterpiece. Its one of those movies you need to say you totally understand and it might get you laid at a party.

250

7.3

7.1

The Big Feast (1973)

Let's eat and fuck till we DIE!

.......

Okay!

aka Hedonism Till We BURST: The Movie

238

6.8

7.1

Fearless (1993)

Peter Weir yet again shows why he's one of the most undervalued directors alive. Outstanding, emotional flick. Rosie Perez got a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance as a grieving mother.

429

7.1

Cemetery Man (1994)

This is one of the smartest, coolest, sexiest, funniest, prettiest, most thought provoking zombie movies ever made. I suggest you see this beauty.

7.4

7.2

Secret Honor

Phillip Baker Hall's one man show as Richard Nixon in Robert Altman's psychological examination of our raving 37th president.

6.8

The Untold Story

Anthony Wong with no restrictions in a Category III Hong Kong flick that is FUCKED UP, SO SO SO FUCKED UP, SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO you get the point.

6.5

6.1

Greaser's Palace (1972)

Kinda like if Alejandro Jodorowsky helped the Coens make No Country For Old Men. It's Robert Downey Sr. extreme insanity so that's all the reason you really need to check it out.

100

6.5

The King of Marvin Gardens

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.

913

8.1

La Haine (1995)

A black and white angrily profound slice of French street life.

508

7.6

7.5

Santa Sangre

Jodorowsky drops a bead of acid into each one of your eyes and you gotta deal with that shit to the best of your abilities without screaming yourself into the madhouse in this visually stunning mix of Psycho and Freaks. FUCKING OFF ITS ROCKER.

7.5

The Boxer's Omen

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 if ya got em.

251

7.4

7.6

The Long Good Friday

Bob Hoskins is king in this suave, hard hitting British gangster flick with a trippy synth score.

345

6.7

7.1

Beautiful Girls (1996)

Rarely does a mainstream movie balance a big cast with the right amount of drama and the right amount of comedy but Ted Demme nailed it purty damn good.

179

7.1

6.9

The Indian Runner (1991)

Sean Penn wrote and directed this small town Vietnam vet drama that primarily shows off how underrated David Morse will always be plus a loaded cast of Viggo Mortensen, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Sandy Dennis, Benicio Del Toro and Charles Bronson.

7.1

6.8

Bliss (1985)

Kinda like American Beauty + The World According to Garp with hints of What Dreams May Come and Jacob's Ladder. Surreal, funny, moving.

JayTrotter's rating:

6.5

Georgia (1995)

I have an unhealthy love for Jennifer Jason Leigh and I blame her cause if she wouldn't keep putting out stellar fucking performances like this one then I wouldn't have to seek highly expensive professional help. Mare Willingham is top notch here too in this life-long embattled sister music drama.

247

6.5

6.8

Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

Will Smith fuckin up some white people lives lulz

121

6.6

Deathtrap

Sidney Lumet directs Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve in this Sleuth like play adaptation. Cat and mouse psychological battle all inside one room.

250

7.4

The Day of the Beast

Alex de la Iglesia bringing an armageddon comedy with humor and hectic style,

A Catholic priest commits as many sins as possible to get in contact with Satan so that he may kill him but still needs the help of a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian occult TV show host!

149

6.6

6.9

Gridlock'd (1997)

Tupac's greatest performance. He improved A SHIT TON between this and Poetic Justice.

140

6.4

6.6

The Paper (1994)

Ron Howard's newspaper movie. It's a lot better than what I just said there sounds like.

213

6.6

The Entity (1982)

Barbara Hershey is getting raped by a ghost and it's all messed up and scary and based on a "true story."

7.1

No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)

George Segal is a cop tracking down serial killer Rod Steiger in some cat n mouse thrills based on a William Goldman novel.

6.3

Drunks (1995)

Lots of haunting monologues in this cinema verite style presentation of an AA meeting focused on Richard Lewis. Sam Rockwell, Spalding Gray, Faye Dunaway, Parker Posey and Amanda Plummer show up to share with the group too.

104

6.6

Race with the Devil

Warrent Oates and Peter Fonda stumble upon some virgin sacrificin' devil worshippers and boy do things get shogtun n car chasin' messy!

108

6.5

6.6

The House of Yes (1997)

Parker Posey is the best at being best.

7.7

The Trials of Darryl Hunt (2006)

How the US justice system fucks over black people because it's goddamn garbage and probably always will be. RIP Darryl. www.innocenceproject.org

6.2

6.5

An Innocent Man (1989)

"Tom Selleck's prison movie" is all you really need to know here but F. Murray Abraham's performance is a nice bonus. You ever seen Tom Selleck shank a man in the shower? I have.

969

6.8

The Devil's Rejects (2005)

Rob Zombie's picture perfect love letter to exploitation horror films that everyone has an opinion on now but whatever its staying on the list fuck it.

6.1

6.2

The Underneath

Sleek Soderbergh thriller oozing with style.

273

6.8

Matador

Nobody does provocative dark comedy like Pedro Almodovar does provocative dark comedy. Also, Antonio Banderas & Almodovar are big time underrated when it comes to discussion of best director/actor teams.

206

7.4

7.2

Southern Comfort (1981)

Character actors a plenty in this dark n' murky Deliverance minded action adventure movie by Walter Hill. Fred Ward! Powers Boothe! Brion James!

169

6.5

6.6

Home for the Holidays (1995)

As far as dysfunctional-family-acting-crazy-during-the-holidays movies go, this is my favorite.

6.5

6.3

The Seventh Curse (1986)

Wow. In every way.

6.6

7.3

Box of Moonlight (1997)

Much love for this Sam Rockwell/John Turturro/Tom DiCillo creation.

697

7.2

7.3

Shallow Grave (1994)

Danny Boyle's bad ass Hitchcock film.

6.7

6.3

Mr. Jealousy

Noah Baumbach is freakishly good at these types of movies and this is my favorite out of all his stuff. Check it out.

6.2

Video X: Evidence

Why did this movie touch me so much?

412

7.8

7.5

Last Life in the Universe

Romantic odd couple suicide comedy from Thailand.

260

6.9

7.4

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Rated PG for Pretty Great.

5.3

Special Effects (1984)

Eric Bogosian is a filmmaker who likes the death scenes in his films to be realistic. VERY REALISTIC. MUAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHHA!

103

7.5

7.6

Fresh (1994)

Best "in the hood" movie out there even though it's not your typical "in the hood' movie. Samuel L. and Giancarlo Esposito crush it. God I love Giancarlo Esposito.

6.8

6.7

The Making of '...And God Spoke' (1993) (1993)

Outstanding mockumentary about low budget exploitation filmmakers attempting to make a movie about The Bible. Funny as shit.

5.3

7.6

Citizen X (1995)

Terrific made-for-HBO movie about the infamous Russian serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo. Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, and Max Von Sydow make up the bulk of the cast cause I mean with a movie like this it seems like those guys just have to be in it.

131

6.9

7.2

Defending Your Life (1991)

Why in the living hell isn't Albert Brooks' work recognized as the wonderfully lighthearted yet hilarilously profound flicks that they are? I guess they sorta are but still not fucking enough you fucking fucks.

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Not every flick here is a top to bottom masterpiece (well some are dammit) but I will guarantee you that every flick is filled with an OH SHIT moment or two or strives for something big n' bold n' ballsy or will be branded into your brain until the very day you die. Or just all 3. Enjoy ya rat basta'ds!

Also, some are just amazing some are just underrated some are just obscure and some are just bizarre but most of the time there's a little mix n matching crossover going on but don't expect each flick to meet all four criteria. All I know is all these flicks just need more love.

Still gotta finish adding descriptions on some movies. Will do as soon as possible!

*EDIT* Holy shit Im lazy. Will do this eventually I promise.