Best obscure movie

Anyone remember Chopping Mall?



These guys were awesome:

 

Not totally obscure or anything but check out Hell in the Pacific. Lee Marvin, RIP

I still meet a lot of people that haven't seen The Machinist so maybe it's more obscure then I think

 

MILLER.....

 

Does Gattaca count as an obscure movie? If the IMDB box office numbers are to believed, it would seem like not too many people watched it. I would consider it more of a 'thinking' science fiction movie that's closer to science than fiction.

 

Saragossa Manuscript

 

sure why not.

Few more;

Detroit Rock City
Saturday the 14th
Real Genius
Meatballs

 

The Europa Report

 

and


Rocket River
Nothing more cheesy than the 80s!!!

 

I thought "best" meant best, not "cheesiest" . . .

 

Learn everything you ever needed to know about girls

Rocket River

 

Five Deadly Venoms

Five Deadly Venoms is a cult 1978 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Chang Cheh, starring the Venom Mob, with martial arts choreography by Leung Ting, and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio, about five kung-fu fighters with unique animal styles: the Centipede, the Snake, the Scorpion, the Lizard, and the Toad.

Saw this way back in the day, but could not remember the name until he recently stumbled upon a youtube clip. Fighting from the side of a wall still cracks me up.

 

Top 50 Cult Movies by Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly Magazine published their list of the Top 50 Cult Movies in their May 23, 2003 issue. Seven of their choices below were pre-1970, and only two pre-1950.

The magazine's introduction to the article on the Top 50 Cult Movies stated that "most died at the box office, some of them horribly. Mangled and despised, they were re-animated on video. And now they compose our cultural Esperanto, a subliminal vocabulary of vaguely subversive images, ideas, and phrases that we continue to obsess over and dissect at parties, around watercoolers, in bars, over the blaring banalities of the mainstream media din. They are Cult Movies...So if you take your dead evil and your buckaroos banzai-ed, pour yourself a tall glass of Kool-Aid and peruse this list complete with signature lines and a near Talmudic trove of trivia."

Spoiler: Spoiled for length

1. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
   "It's such a fine line between stupid...and clever."
   "He died in a tragic gardening accident... Authorities said... it's best to leave it... unsolved."
   
2. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
   "Hi, my name is Brad Majors..." (*******!) "...this is my fiancee, Janet Weiss." (Slut!)
   
3. Freaks (1932)
   "Gobble gobble, gobble gobble... We accept her... One of us, one of us..."
   
4. Harold and Maude (1971)
   Harold: "You sure have a way with people."
   Maude: "Well, they're my species!"
   
5. Pink Flamingos (1972)
   "Filth are my politics! Filth is my life."
   
6. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
   "Hey, Grampa, we're gonna let you have this one!"
   
7. Repo Man (1984)
   "Let's go get sushi and not pay!"
   
8. Scarface (1983)
   "Shay 'jello to my wittle vrend!"
   
9. Blade Runner
   "Wake up. Time to die."
   
10. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
    "Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'."
    
11. Five Deadly Venoms (1978)
    "Hwayiii!"
    
12. Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
    "All you of Earth are IDIOTS!"
    "Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future."
    
13. Brazil (1985)
    "That is your receipt for your husband...and this is my receipt for your receipt."
    
14. Eraserhead (1977)
    (A pervasive hiss of unsettling white noise.)
    
15. Faster, p***y-Cat! Kill! Kill! (1966)
    "Honey, we don't like nothing soft. Everything we touch is hard."
    
16. The Warriors (1979)
    "Warriors come out to plaaay." or
    "Can...you...dig it?"
    
17. Dazed and Confused (1993)
    "That's what I love about these high school girls, man: I get older, they stay the same age."
    
18. Hard-Boiled (1992)
    "There's no room for failure now. The innocent must die!"
    "Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God."
    
19. Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn (1987)
    "Groovy" or
    "I'll swallow your soul!"
    "Let's head on down into that cellar and carve ourselves a witch."
    
20. The Mack (1973)
    "We can settle this like you got some class, or we can get into some gangster s---."
    
21. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
    "I know you are, but what am I? Infinity!"
    "There's a lot of things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie, things you wouldn't understand, things you couldn't understand."
    
22. Un Chien Andalou (1929, France)
    "It's a silent movie, but shrieks and gasps can often be heard in the audience."
    
23. Akira (1988)
    "Tetsuoooooo!"
    
24. The Toxic Avenger (1984)
    "They're going to nuke the monster!"
    
25. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
    "What is this, Wonka, some kind of fun house?"
    "Why? Having fun?"
    
26. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
    "It's Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and he's a wild man, so bug off!"
    
27. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
    "They kill for one reason: They kill for food!"
    
28. The Wiz (1978)
    "Ease on down the road."
    
29. Clerks (1994)
    "I'm not even supposed to be here today."
    
30. The Harder They Come (1973)
    "Don'... f--- ... wit' ... me."
    
31. Slap Shot (1977)
    "Old-time hockey!"
    
32. Re-Animator (1985)
    "You steal the secret of life and death, and here you are trysting with a bubbleheaded coed!"
    
33. Grey Gardens (1976)
    "In dealing with me, the relatives didn't know that they were dealing with a staunch character...S-T-A-U-N-C-H."
    
34. The Big Lebowski (1998)
    "The Dude abides."
    
35. Withnail & I (1987)
    "I demand to have some booze!"
    
36. Showgirls (1995)
    "I'm not a w****, I'm a dancer!"
    
37. A Bucket of Blood (1959)
    "I've never seen anything like it before...and I hope I never see anything like it again."
    
38. They Live (1988)
    "I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass...I'm all out of bubble gum."
    
39. The Best of Everything (1959)
    "Here's to men! Bless their clean-cut faces and dirty little minds!"
    
40. Barbarella (1968)
    "I'd better adjust my tongue box."
    
41. Heathers (1989)
    "Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast or something?"
    "Hey Ram, doesn't this cafeteria have a no-fags-allowed rule?"
    
42. Rushmore (1998)
    "She's my Rushmore, Max."
    
43. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
    "...No matter where you go, there you are."
    "Laugh-a while you can Monkey-Boy!!"
    
44. Love Streams (1984)
    "Life is a series of suicides, divorces, promises broken, children smashed, whatever."
    
45. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)
    "I will not wear that hip-hugger thing. Mother. It makes me look really fat."
    
46. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)
    "I am the Wrath of God!"
    
47. Walking and Talking (1996)
    "Do we really have to listen to this vagina music all the way there?"
    
48. The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years (1988)
    "I'm the happiest son-ofabitch, motherf---er there ever was."
    
49. Friday (1995)
    "It's Friday... You ain't got s--- to do."
    
50. Faces of Death, Vol. 1 (1978)
    "Banned in 46 countries!" (Tagline)

 

Not obscure, but a definite cult film. A box office Bomb..but spent 2 years in the top 10 video rentals. Critics gave it a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but the audience gives it a 91%.

 

ALL TIME FAVE KARATE PICT
Come on. . . THIS IS A CLASSIC!!!!!

Rocket River

 

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0091069/

This movie is called Fortress. I first saw it on channel 20? I think it was paramount 20 at the time. It was a Late Saturday morning or early afternoon showing.

It’s about some dudes who kidnap a classroom and their teacher and hold them for ransom.

A few years ago, I found it on YouTube and watched it.

The guy in the Santa mask scared the crap out of me as a kid.

 

For me it was one I saw as a kid with hang gliding and I just found it again; 1976's Sky Riders.

 

The Way Way Back caught me off guard for how much i liked it. Away We Go can fall into that category as well.

a few B movie mentions:
Killer Clowns from Outer Space
Gleaming the Cube
Critters

 

Oh heck yeah. It's an incredible movie. Great choice.