What is the most obscure film you've ever seen?

I'll start it off , has anyone seen the film "Scanners" how good is that? They wont even show it on standard t.v. too frightening I guess, look forward to yours....

Probably Yojimbo, Basically its where a fist full of dollars got its ideas

Also remember a film from the 70's called "Shivers", still sticks in my memory even now, especially when I sit on the pot (if you know the premise), quite disturbing. Cronenbergs first film apparently.

Anyone seen The Counterfeiters, a german film about Jews in the camps making counterfeit currency, quality film. On of two subtitled films I rate, the other being Downfall.

Shrek 1,2 and 3 - It's got a talking donkey in it for christ sake!

Toy Story 1 and 2 - toys that fecking come to life when your not around, how farking messed up is that!!

I saw the Counterfeiters in the Blue Room at the Gala...pretty harrowing, but very well done.

I think my choice is 'Babette's Feast'.

It's got to be Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid...


It's the least funny film i've ever seen. In fact, it's just upsetting.

It's basically about a bloke with learning disablilities being mentally abused by his carers and then going Nutzoid.

If thats the one, as madjohn says, about nuclear war in yorkshire, we watched this at school circa 1998!!

[quote="MadJohn"][quote="MutleyRules"][color=#000080]'Threads'....had nightmares for weeks when I was a kid!!!!



You want obscure, I'll give you obscure! Do you remember that Red Dwarf episode where they land on the planet with the waxworks and end up joining with Elvis, Marilyn Monroe and Pythagoras in a battle of good v evil?

I like Red Dwarf but that plots not unique, it mimics an older Star Trek episode "Savage Curtain" where the crew team up with legends of the past to defeat evil legends. Therefore is'nt obscure.

Delicatesen - Brilliant/obscure

I saw one about a year ago which was set in Yugoslavia during the wars of the early 90s.

About an opera singer is married to a railway worker, and their son gets a trial for Red Star Belgrade. Then the war starts and everything goes mental. Son gets called up to the army, mam runs off with a musician, and dad has an affair with a muslim nurse.

It is one of the funniest films I've seen even though the plot is difficult to keep up with.

I can't remember what it's called though, does anyone know?

The Blue Room films are getting a bit too obscure for me. The point of too many of them seems to depend on your knowing the political situation of just about every country in the world.
But I did like 'The Bicycle Thief', which was on recently, and it had probably the best child actor I've ever seen

Quality!!!!!!!!

Iluminados por el Fuego. The battle scenes are frightening realistic.

David Lynch's 'Eraserhead' is my favourite all time film.

Im sure Scanners has been on BBC before?

thought the counterfeiters was a very good film, i put it on sky by accident about 20 mins in a couldnt stop watching it. was one called the boy in the striped pyjamas on sky a couple of months ago, i thought was a decent film dunno if anyones seen it? was about a kid whose father ran a concentration camp made friends with a jew boy in the camp used to take him food and pass it to him through the fence, couldnt understand why the jew was scruffy and locked in camp so jew said come and have a look, he gave him som prisoner clothes and they dug under fence they go in hut for a look and...

[quote="MutleyRules"]I thought 'The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas' was not very good at all....didn't live upto the hype!!!! [/quot

I thought it was rubbish also nothing happens in it

Another film i was really looking forward to watching and was very very disappointed in was The Road, same again nothing happens

there was usually a lot of interesting and thought provoking stuff on the Shooting Gallery, which were indie films lasting anything between 5 minutes and an hour and a half
They used to be screened throughout the night on channel 4, don't know what happened to it ...I like stuff like that

I've changed my mind since last time. The most obscure film I've seen now is 'The Double Life of Veronique'. Amazing.

Anyone seen Weekenders?

It's a pilot for a sitcom Reeves and Mortimer did for UKplay(I think) in the early 90's.
That is obscure even for their standards.

Quel coincidence.

Thoroughly enjoyed Double Life of Veronique too - anyone seen Kontroll - filum about the Budapest underground ?

About all sorts really, but set on the Budapest underground ....

I've still got it on VHS! Watched it about 50 times at least. When R&M were at the height of their powers I reckon.

...and here it is if anyone fancies a watch.

Can't beat it, it's sad watching them now like

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I haven't forgot Mr.John....but my Computer is still buggered at the moment!!!!

I'll get it sorted for you!!!!

Not the most obscure....but Cashback is a good fillum.

Telstar...as recommended on here, is a quality fillum.

There was also the old red triangle fillums on Channel 4, some odd ones in there...Themroc?

It's probably not obscure here, but there was a great filum on telly here about a Downs kid who's Dad was in the local orchestra. His Dad used to take him to rehearsals to keep him out of fights or from wandering. His Mum gave him a chopstick and he used to stand and 'conduct' the orchestra while his Dad was rehearsing.

Anyway, cut to the chase, the conductor gets poached by another orchestra and the orchestra struggles on trying to win this competition and someone notices the kid conducting perfectly. So they use him, he becomes famous and is invited to conduct the Beijing Philharmonic but he loses his chopstick and they give him a proper baton and he simply can't do it. His Mam and Dad have split up but his Mam hears about it and turns up with a tux and a chopstick for him and he goes on to do perfectly. The end and then the whole thing turns out to be a true story.

Barely a dry eye in the house.

Anyone seen Joe's apartment? Bloke rents a flat in New Tork inhabited by dancind=g and singing cockroaches. It's that bad you have to laugh, fookin hilarious.

ha, love the weekenders - weird though, reading this I was thinking of 'Nits in May' which I first seen when R+M did one of them takeover things on beeb2.


Dont know if these films are obscure, but Jean de Florette + Manon des Source are lovely filums and amongst my favourites.

Remember seeing some foreign film about 20 yrs ago about someone who'd turned into a giant cockroach and was inhabiting the ceiling of their flat. French I think, the director must have been smoking summit tho'.

Got bored with it tho', as it was moving slower than the Carlisle defence.

Not the most obscure, but channel 4 loved it in the 80s - Koyaanisqatsi

I remember it and I agree it was really funny.


Goal - the official World Cup film from 1966 is good. Remember seeing it on BBC1 in the early 70's on a Saturday morning (before Swap Shop was created) and always wanted to see it again. Turned up over Xmas on ESPN Classic channel.

Has anyone seen Threads about a nuclear meltdown, Mampi loaned it to me and its very disturbing watching

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads

Seen Delicatessen once, thought it was pretty good, I think it has the original of the scene where everything synchronises in rhythm to a couple getting down to business (specifically the butcher and the woman who pays for her meat "in kind"...)

Anyone seen "Night on Earth", Jim Jarmusch? The segment in Rome is hysterical - basically it's several taxi journeys at the same time in different cities, the Roman one picks up an elderly Catholic Priest and then proceeds to give him his confession, including encounters with vegetables (pumpkins?), his sister in law, and a sheep - not realising the priest has popped his clogs in the back! Saw it years ago.....

as you can tell I only scan read the thread

I can't find the discussion people had about 'A Prophet' so I'm putting this on here. Have seen it myself now and though I thought it was excellently done and acted, I'm not sure I agree with the total media reverence.
Was it really better than some other prison filums? I thought it bought its status a bit by presuming to mention political 'hot cakes'.
Also, it seemed to pass quickly over the assumption that if someone told you he would kill you unless you killed his enemy, you would just rush off and commit murder. Not sure I know many people who would do that, like.

You fantasist, that's not possible .......

The laberynth with david bowe - "Dance magic dance"

Anyone seen Pans Laberynth I watched it the other week very random but brilliant