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SQUIRMFEST (1989)
I bought this tape from one of them bootleg VHS sellers.
They only film that made everyone in the room gag.
Here's the full IMDB description-
"A woman is held hostage and forced to eat insects and feces."

And worse. She's forced to eat maggots, s**ts them out and is force feed them. It's from- I dunno- somewhere in the far East. I watched half of it once with some friends when we were drunk. I pulled it out and stomped it.
Me Wifey Tara Sue did the same thing to the obscure tape DEATH SCENES II (1992). Right after Senator Budd Dryer stuck a gun in his mouth and blew his brains out. She was p**sed! Her son Jim and his buddy Sloth were watching it. I got it at a flea market! I was sad!

Inchon - I watched this ...thing on YouTube years ago

I work with 20 year olds so......most of them haven't seen ANY movies before the 2000's. XP

The works of of Cartoon Saloon (The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and Wolfwalkers) are film nobody has seen outside of animation fans.

JEBEDIAH'S AXE.
I watched it because it was filmed on Lake Tawakoni, where I grew up.  HORRIBLE film.

Return of the Family Man: the SA version of The Stepfather 😳😳

Twice Upon a Time (1983)

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An often forgotten animated film from the 80's produced by George Lucas. The film was in regular rotation on Cartoon Network throughout the 90's however outside of a DVD release from Warner Archive it is rarely talked about. Where other animated films of the 80's like Heavy Metal, The Secret of NIMH, Rock & Rule and The Last Unicorn found an audience.....Twice Upon a Time just didn't. Also features legendary voice actors Lorenzo Music & Paul Frees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP3HB4l71_I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP3HB4l71_I)

Demon Cop.

I still rate this is the most painful film to watch even 30 years after seeing it. Maybe I should revisit it to see if it really was that bad.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229332/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229332/)

couple of years ago a new employee age 20 had no idea what blu rays were... I still think of blu rays as 'new'  :bluesad:

they also did not know what an 'album' was. as in, a collection of songs released by an artist. they knew what a track / song was,  but an album was alien to them. (this was someone straight out of university)

I think the streaming revolution has altered perceptions of media for young people

.rant over !

CHAMPION KILLER (1994)

one of the worst produced films I've seen. muffled audio, background noise...

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Future Shock (1994)

PG-13 rated Indie sci-fi horror anthology that deals with virtual reality. Solid B-cast with a few unique moments but the movie isn't very good, except for the story with coyotes terrorizing a woman.
The film gives cheap made-for-cable TV vibes, like it was shot on video but not really.

I don't see Future Shock mention at all on message boards which makes me think I'm the only one seen it. I believe this was never released to DVD but IMDb says it is/was streaming on Tubi.

FUTURE SHOCK was reviewed (and praised) by Joe Bob Briggs in his (snail mail) newsletter way back in the early 90s.

Kids today (...) often appear unaware of things that have been major cultural phenomena in their own lifetimes/even in the past 5-10 years. I had some HS students this week claim to be unaware of Thanos and Beyonce. Okay, maybe Beyonce isn't a thing right now, but they know Jay-Z still and they know Kanye - they don't know Beyonce? Even ten years ago an ignorance of Thanos would be expected. You don't read comics, you wouldn't know Thanos. But he was the centerpiece of a few of the biggest grossing motion pictures of all time within the past 4-5 years. Goes to show the monomyth is dead. We can't take anything for granted as being universal anymore.

Also I watch obscure movies pretty often. Watched one called DARK ARC last night. Anyone ever see that one?  :smile:

honestly have no idea who or what Thanos is.... initially guessed musical artist when you linked it with Beyonce... mind you I watch about 1 or 2 new movies a year

not that many people seem to have seen THINGS (1989).  maybe they're the lucky ones

I read comics so I well knew who Thanos was. XD Oddly enough the MCU has almost burned me out of comics in general. LOL

The Demon: South Africa's first slasher film 😳😳😳

Josh Brolin played Thanos in roughly 4 Avengersverse films: AVENGERS, INFINITY WAR, ENDGAME, and I think the original GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, briefly. Maybe even another one I'm forgetting. Those four films alone have likely been watched (in total/altogether) by... possibly as many as 25% of all human beings on earth or something ridiculous like that.

But if you're not one of them, I ain't judgin'. GOTG and INFINITY WAR are pretty good but there are plenty of other films more worth your time. Again, you're a good example of how even the most popular films of recent history still make no impression on some people. That's a reflection on the deluge of content available to us more than it's a reflection on you.

Final Approach (1991)

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I bought this film on VHS at a Goodwill in the 2010's and added this sci-fi film to my 31 Films for Halloween. It was the first film to use recorded, mixed and mastered in pure digital sound. Checking as of 2023, the film still has no release on DVD, Blu-Ray or 4K. It also stars Hector Elizondo and Kevin McCarthy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrPc_z2YjZU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrPc_z2YjZU)

So many it's not funny. Not only do I actively seek out obscure movies, low-budget directors are always sending me movies to review unsolicited. Some of them never get distribution or are only seen by dozens of people. Most are forgettable.

Of those in this thread I've seen SECRET OF KELLS and TWICE UPON A TIME.

One obscure movie I'd champion is TEENAGE TUPELO. It was the first postmodern grindhouse movie, before Tarantino or anything like that and far weirder and sleazier. Released directly to VHS by Something Weird video. The director sells a Blu-ray directly.

Nice to know there's someone else who has seen this.

Grim Prairie Tales

James Earl Jones is a possibility tubercular Old West bounty hunter with a dead man slung across his saddle, who stops at another man's campfire one dark night and proceeds to swap creepy stories with him. Saw it at the Rep a long time ago.

Horror westerns could dominate this thread - they're rare and generally unpopular.

I was on Joe Bob's panel of amateur reviewers in the early 90s and somehow didn't get GRIM PRAIRIE TALES (which they reviewed) - but he did send me one titled MAD AT THE MOON, a three-hander about an Irish settler in the American West who might be a werewolf or might just be bonkers. Slow and not great, but w/ surprisingly good acting. Haven't heard nor seen any reference to it since that original review saw print in News Of The Weird 30+ years ago.......

What? What was this? Why wasn't I invited?

Here's an internet archive link to an issue:
https://archive.org/details/the-joe-bob-report-joe-bobs-we-are-the-weird/The%20Joe%20Bob%20Report%20Vol.%20XI%2C%20No.%2019%2C%20September%2018%2C%201995/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater

He called them "Drive-In Experts" and they would submit reviews of movies he was too busy to bother watching himself. I did it from maybe '93-'95... got my name and pull-quotes in print a few times... I have hard copies of some of the old issues.

I presume you were either not of age yet OR entirely of age and busy doing a real job for real money.  :smile:    I was a bored high school student.

I was reading Joe Bob back when he wrote for the Dallas Observer in the mid 80s, when no one outside of Dallas knew him yet. But once his regular column got canceled and I moved away from Dallas, I lost track of him (I didn't have the Movie Channel or whatever pay service his cable show was on). That's so cool, I would have loved to participate if I'd known about it at the time.

(You should probably take away my key to the Krakens-Only break room, because I have no idea who Joe Bob is.)

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He wrote humorous satirical movie reviews of drive-in movies in character as a redneck and turned it into a cable gig.

Joe Bob plays a supporting role in Scorsese's CASINO!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EI3q4UNWoAA7s5Q.jpg:large

He also shot (what became) a deleted scene in TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 iirc...

the LEGEND OF BLOOD MOUNTAIN (1965) is a convoluted horror(?) movie starring horror movie host Bestoink Dooley from Georgia. Mind numbing. It features Bestoink fighting a big assed 2 tailed monster and him having a dream of a clock and cookies?
Renamed DEMON HUNTER for video.
I had this tape once.

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1980's UNDER SIEGE aka THE PANIC MAKERS, which recently took me an age to identify from a vague memory. now watched it again

highly entertaining home invasion flick, exploitation a rama!

VERY rare! You were lucky to have it on video! I envy you.

^ Try watching it- not so lucky. Whatta stinker!

a film from either late 90s or early 2000s called SCAR, which I can't seem to find among all the movies with that name on imdb. It seemed to be about a bunch of regular looking twenty-something women who were actually witches, or in a cult, or something similar.

The lighting, colour and picture were so bad and grainy it almost looked like it was in b/w, but it wasn't.

the sound was so bad that even though the audio was muffled, whenever someone spoke there was this agonising, hissing feedback sound that was physically painful. like there was a problem with the mics.

purely out of curiosity I have searched for this movie periodically over the last 20 yrs with no 'luck' (ahem), but we had it on dvd and it had a proper cover so I assume it got distribution.

edit, oh yeah, large parts of the movie seemed to be in slow motion with some kind of dreamy 'hallucination' filter applied to the camera. this thing is a serious contender for worst ever

Z.N.O., so many no-budget atrocities and obscurities got released om DVD in the 90s and 00s, particularly on multipacks to retailers. I've thought of several of these (like the one you describe) when I read this thread. It was truly a flush time for bad movies... I feel like cheaper and worse stuff was reaching an audience then than is even getting out today in the current "Prime and cut-rate Prime competitors will stream any homemade piece of poop" era. I feel weirdly nostalgic for that era....... even though I regret wasting my precious time on so many of those movies!

Cat City (1986) -

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Hungarian animated film spy comedy about cats vs. mice. Just found out the film finally got a western blu-ray release through Deaf Crocodile/Vinegar Syndrome.

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/animation/products/cat-city (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/animation/products/cat-city)

I've also seen it.
Pretty blah IMHO, but at least it came out with the "clawed/knife glove" well before Nightmare On Elm Street (as did GIRLS NITE OUT).
Others:
RANA, THE LEGEND OF SHADOW LAKE/CROAKED
Cheapo monster movie.  Survivor of a monster attack looks for its treasure several years later.
BEASTS
Killer bear menacing middle aged couple in the mountains, who also run afoul of criminals.
COTTONPICKIN' CHICKENPICKERS
Dum-dum comedy from the 60s.  I remember the local video store clerk recommending this turd for some reason.  Even for kids, it was stupid.
THE SLAYER
Dream-generated monster violently menaces two couples stranded on an island.
DR. HEKYLL AND MR. HYPE
Weird take on Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde starring Oliver Reed as an ugly podiatrist who becomes a literal lady-killer upon imbibing a formula, but with much more of an emphasis on comedy than horror.

Seeing that you have seen it, I now need to apologize to you as I knew the director / producer well and the cinematographer was a mentor of mine. :buggedout: :wink:

^ the SLAYER-
 Is that the one with the big scary Indian?

yes it's an odd kind of nostalgia... 'things just ain't crap in the same way they used to be crap', yells old man at young cloud

I have to say not one thing about streaming appeals to me. movies or music. I'm not averse to downloading music on mp3 (especially if it's the only way I can get hold of something), but really physical copies are infinitely preferable every time

Back in rental days I had access to German and American video rental stores. In the German one they had

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Rana - Hüter des blutigen Schatzes (Rana - Keeper of the Bloody Treasure). I've picked up the VHS box many times but never actually rented it, as I wasn't much a fan of German dubbed movies. I believe it was never released to VHS in the U.S. until Troma acquired it.
I bought the Toxie's Triple Terror DVD Set from Troma in the late 2000s and finally watched Rana. Troma had changed the title to Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell.

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The film was obviously shot in the 1970s (I'm guessing 1975) and then shelved. Rana had its U.S. debut on TV in 1980.

^ I've heard of that one!  :thumbup: Never seen it.  :bluesad:

That's an Italian crime movie! I seen that! f**king Stuart Whitman!

The local VHS release had me thinking it was about a killer frog  :buggedout: :wink:

Maybe you're thinking of SCALPS..?

^ Yes! That's the one.

Easy conflation... I believe SLAYER and SCALPS were released as a double feature on VHS in the early 80s...

I’ve seen both those… SLAYER was cool if a little slow. SCALPS could benefit from not having that droning music/ sound fx playing all the way thru it (maybe there’s a different cut where this doesn’t happen?)

Tiger Joe (1982): the Italian war film starring David Warbeck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk5WQe9Q1Qo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk5WQe9Q1Qo)

SCREAMTIME (1983)
British-American vignette flick with 3 stories, involving a crazed puppeteer, a haunted house, and vengeful gnomes.  The stories are tied together by video store thieves who watch them.  Not on DVD or Blu-Ray yet.

this sounds amazing!

It sounds better than it is, in my opinion. Rented this back in the day. The stories are short films the director made at different times. He edited them to fit the movie's 90 minutes time frame. Manson International picked this up for distribution and paid for a wrap around story that was shot in New York, for $150,000,00. The New York footage sticks out and looks unrelated to the British filmed segments.

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It is very amateurish and felt like a patchwork backyard production. Which it actually is for the most part. The image quality is awful, and ugly to look at. Grainy, washed out colors, weird framing. The short films were shot on 16mm or something? The New York footage obviously used a different camera.

Musicals? My heavens! What hath God wrought?

Still, Anna is rather fetching....