What are the most obscure movies you have watched recently?

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Eraserhead, dunno why but I loved it.

An animated film called Where The Dead Go To Die.

It's a horror film and it was made almost entirely by one guy. It's... not great. It's weird, ugly and extreme. Like a death-metal LSD trip nightmare. It's messed up to the point of being funny at times, but becomes more and more genuinely disturbing as it goes along. I'm not sure if I'd recommend it, I love it but you need to be a certain kind of person to enjoy it.

I'm no fan of watching films, but I've read about a horror film called Await Further Instructions recently. Upon first reading a summary, it deeply unsettled me.

Here's a YouTube video reviewing it: link

This is one of my favorite movies, so good to know that you loved this film.

I know, I’ve heard good things about From Beyond (if I recall correctly) and Re-Animator is supposedly good if you like comedy with your horror (which I don’t), but that’s all I’m aware of

I watched Eraserhead a while ago, I couldn’t really enjoy it because I just felt so bad for the baby

My go-to “WTF” movie is Tetsuo: The Iron Man. I honestly can’t decide if I like it or not but sometimes just get the compulsion to watch it.

Elephants Dream

Animated short film from 2006. A dutch production made using blender. It's got a relatively simple message and theme wrapped up in... weirdness. It's creepy and odd, the animation hasen't aged well at all. It's in english but the voice actors are all dutch and their accents are terrible. Still a fun watch if you like odd stuff.

The whole thing's on youtube for free.

Take This Waltz

I can't remember exactly why, but that movie bummed me out for days after I saw it, and it was a long time before I could hear that Buggles song without getting depressed.

My offering is Gerry - an obscure Gus Van Sant movie with Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. Essentially two guys go for a walk in the desert - that's it, that's about all that happens. It's all lingering shots and shuffling feet noises. I loved it. So little happens for so long that when something (small) does happen it almost feels like an action sequence.

Punch-Drunk Love

Psycho II

Deep Throat Part II ^{(Chill! It's only rated: R)}


Well, technically we only watched part of it. By mutual consent we decided to switch to something better.

"Fierce People", and "the Cake Eaters".

Two obscure independent films that feature mega star Kristen Stewart (in the main role in the "Cake Eaters", and in a supporting role in "Fierce People".

One obscure one I'd love to see again is the TV adaptation of the book "Junk" by Melvin Burgess but I can't find it anywhere!

I don't usually like a mix of horror and comedy but sometimes I do and I loved "Re-Animator" (along with the "Evil Dead" films and a few others).



I've watched that so many times in the past. Strange that the book's story is totally different to the film's.

The Ten Commandments and Cant Hardly Wait

Meshes of the Afternoon. You could watch several of Maya Deren's films in the time it takes to watch a single feature since she is known for her short films. Maya Deren was part of a group of fellow film enthusiasts who believed that modern film (film in the 40s) had become too obsessed with dialogue and plot since the popularization of the talkie. Films had lost their unique experience, pure light and motion, and instead become recordings of theatre. Not to mention that the art had been thoroughly lost due to the commercialization of the film industry. These are all the opinions of Maya Deren, and not necessarily me.

So her and her colleagues made independent silent shorts with no real plot. They are incredibly surreal experiences that cannot be logically understood. They feel like a window into a dream with their experimental editing, weird scenarios, and non-linear structure. A lot of handheld camera-work too, as Deren believed modern filmmakers were constrained by the tripod. At Land is another big one, but Meshes of the Afternoon is my favorite of hers that I've seen because I love the image of the hooded figures with glass faces. You can draw interpretations from them, but I'm not sure that they even have an intended meaning.

It's also an interesting window into, what was essentially the punk filmmaking of the 40s. Indie, and against the sensibilities of the mainstream. The one I'm linking has a soundtrack added by the uploader, but the film was originally shot with no intended score. It's a silent film, so you can just mute for your first viewing.