Movie You Seen Not Many People Have

[Cult_Moody_Movies]

Final Approach (1991)



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

[Rev. Powell]

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.

[claws]

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

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

[ER]

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.

[M.10rda]

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.......

[Rev. Powell]

I was on Joe Bob's panel of amateur reviewers in the early 90s

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

[M.10rda]

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.      I was a bored high school student.

[Rev. Powell]

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.      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.

[ER]

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

[Rev. Powell]

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

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

[M.10rda]

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...

[RCMerchant]

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.

[zombie no.one]

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!

[M.10rda]

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.

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

[RCMerchant]

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