Forgotten films you remember -

[Shittus Maximus]

How about the Adventures of Baron Munchhausen? I loved that movie since I first saw it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0p9W47frhI

Batteries Not Included was also fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJmvsb13dA8

 

[Syaoran Li]

All those "arthouse" indie genre flicks, usually foreign, from the mid to late 2000s that were usually known for being really violent and really edgy that I used to read about on Ain't It Cool News, movies like High Tension, Martyrs, Frontier(s), Inside, Timecrimes, Let The Right One In and A Serbian Film, they all seem pretty forgotten today.

The only one I actually bothered to watch was Timecrimes and it was actually pretty awesome and not nearly as extreme as some of those other movies, with a lot of fun, mind bending time travel shenanigans, it was slated to get a Hollywood remake but sadly never did.

The "arthouse horror" subgenre still continues on to this day with movies like Hereditary to be fair, but they don't seem to be quite as extreme with the gore.

A Serbian Film is still remembered mainly because it's way too shocking to forget and was extreme even by the standards of avant-garde extreme horror cinema.

A Serbian Film is to the 2010's what Salo was to the 70's, Men Behind The Sun was to the 80's, and August Underground was to the early 2000's.

Martyrs is good and is only seen as "arthouse" because it's French and French movies always get marketed as "arthouse" in the United States.

Italian cinema's in a weird position in that Italian cinema was a major contributor to both the arthouse and the grindhouse.

The same country that gave us Bertolucci and Fellini also gave us Bruno Mattei, peplum movies, the cannibal flicks of the 70's, and the bulk of the zombie genre in the 70's and 80's.

Then you've got the movies that freely blend the arthouse and the grindhouse mentalities, like Giallo flicks or Salo (which combined the worst excesses of both and took them to the extreme)

With Italian genre movies, there's a good rule of thumb: If it's got an English dub, it's seen as grindhouse. If it's in the original Italian and is a lavish period piece or one of the older and "classier" giallo flicks or Spaghetti Westerns, it's seen as arthouse.

 

[Dom Cruise]

A Serbian Film is still remembered mainly because it's way too shocking to forget and was extreme even by the standards of avant-garde extreme horror cinema.

A Serbian Film is to the 2010's what Salo was to the 70's, Men Behind The Sun was to the 80's, and August Underground was to the early 2000's.

Martyrs is good and is only seen as "arthouse" because it's French and French movies always get marketed as "arthouse" in the United States.

Italian cinema's in a weird position in that Italian cinema was a major contributor to both the arthouse and the grindhouse.

The same country that gave us Bertolucci and Fellini also gave us Bruno Mattei, peplum movies, the cannibal flicks of the 70's, and the bulk of the zombie genre in the 70's and 80's.

Then you've got the movies that freely blend the arthouse and the grindhouse mentalities, like Giallo flicks or Salo (which combined the worst excesses of both and took them to the extreme)

With Italian genre movies, there's a good rule of thumb: If it's got an English dub, it's seen as grindhouse. If it's in the original Italian and is a lavish period piece or one of the older and "classier" giallo flicks or Spaghetti Westerns, it's seen as arthouse.

I guess A Serbian Film is still pretty infamous, but most of those others movies seem forgotten today.

 

[tehpope]

The Drifting Classroom

Its from the director of House (Hausu), that weird 70s Japanese haunted house film. He did a ton of other shit too. This being one of them. Based on a Manga. Way toned down from what I've heard. Its pretty fucking weird. Mostly because its got both Japanese actors and Americans / english speakers. Not sure if this was supposed to be a Spielberg type film, but it almost seems that way. It can't decided if its a family film or a horror movie. Seems like it was cut down from a longer version. Lots of fades as scene transitions.

Basically, a time slip happens and sends an international school in Japan into the far future.

Never been released digitally. Had a VHS and LD release back in the day, but that's it. This comes from a WOWOW airing years ago.

There's apparently a US adaptation of the same manga. Never seen it, but here's the trailer:

 

[Bobby Worst]

Jumper (2007)
Haden Christensen and Samuel L Jackson.

Was a box office flop but has a small cult following. I thought this movie was amazing when it came out but got generally lack luster reviews and apparently I'm one of the few that thought it was exceptional.

 

[Syaoran Li]

I guess A Serbian Film is still pretty infamous, but most of those others movies seem forgotten today.

True. But it does remind me of another 2000's horror trend that's forgotten: "Torture Porn" horror flicks not named Saw or Hostel.

Saw had so many sequels and largely started the trend and Hostel is a brilliant movie that helped put Eli Roth on the map, and is often seen as the Jack Daniels to Saw's Budweiser.

But you had a bunch of other movies like Turistas, which I saw way back when and that one's totally forgotten.

 

[JosephStalin]

"Our Daily Bread" (1934) Directed by King Vidor. About a group of people who set up a collective farm in the depths of the Depression. Recently read a book about the Great Depression, where the author says "Our Daily Bread" was the ONLY movie touting the virtues of a people's collective effort made during the entire Depression.

Added: The scene of the farm community celebrating as the life-giving water irrigation reaches their parched corn field is surreal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXWXmb5MC2k

 

[Max Doof]

The Faculty is one that seems to be not remembered in recent times but I like it. It was Rodriguez's fourth theatrical film and was written by Kevin Williamson. Had an ensemble of 90's stars like pre-frodo Elijah Wood, Clea DuVall, Jordana Brewster, Josh Harnett, and...usher kinda.

Also had T-1000, Carrie's Mom, and Jon Stewart.

 

[Preferred Penne]

There was a TV movie from 1990 or so about Boris and Natasha, the villains from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Dave Thomas and Sally Kellerman starred, and there's a brief cameo by John Candy. I watched the hell out of it as a kid but I haven't seen it in maybe twenty years, so I don't know how well it held up.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Oddly enough Serbian Film just got a blueray release in the past few weeks.

Also, Martyrs is pretty high regarded in cult/horror cinema circles and usually comes up when talking about stuff like Serbian Film and Cannibal Holocaust.

Personally I think Laugier's "Incident in a Ghostland" is a lot more fucked than Martyrs.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Jumper (2007)
Haden Christensen and Samuel L Jackson.

Was a box office flop but has a small cult following. I thought this movie was amazing when it came out but got generally lack luster reviews and apparently I'm one of the few that thought it was exceptional.

Oh boy, I saw that in theaters no less because I thought the premise was interesting, it was pretty lame though despite a few cool moments.

True. But it does remind me of another 2000's horror trend that's forgotten: "Torture Porn" horror flicks not named Saw or Hostel.

Saw had so many sequels and largely started the trend and Hostel is a brilliant movie that helped put Eli Roth on the map, and is often seen as the Jack Daniels to Saw's Budweiser.

But you had a bunch of other movies like Turistas, which I saw way back when and that one's totally forgotten.

I saw Turistas in the theater as well, I didn't really like it much but it's interesting looking back because you could absolutely not make that movie today, people would decry it as racist.

In fact it makes me think of another forgotten film, the 2015 Owen Wilson movie No Escape, that one I never saw but like Turistas it was another "white people caught in a scary, dangerous non-white country" movie that by 2015 was decried by SJW media as racist, so it shows both how much things changed from 2006 to 2015 and it shows much things have changed since just 2015 because you could absolutely never come out with a movie like that now.

The Faculty is one that seems to be not remembered in recent times but I like it. It was Rodriguez's fourth theatrical film and was written by Kevin Williamson. Had an ensemble of 90's stars like pre-frodo Elijah Wood, Clea DuVall, Jordana Brewster, Josh Harnett, and...usher kinda.

Also had T-1000, Carrie's Mom, and Jon Stewart.

I remember really liking this movie as teen when I watched back in 2005, but I totally forgot it was a Robert Rodriguez movie.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

The only one I actually bothered to watch was Timecrimes and it was actually pretty awesome and not nearly as extreme as some of those other movies, with a lot of fun, mind bending time travel shenanigans, it was slated to get a Hollywood remake but sadly never did.

Dude that's a blessing. Every foreign horror remake (mostly J-horror and that atrocious Martyrs remake (which isn't nearly as hard hitting with... fucking anything) Hollywood does bends it over, rapes it, and makes it most palatable for the lowest common denominator. And I'm really not even a film snob.

 

[The Nothingness]

Jumper (2007)
Haden Christensen and Samuel L Jackson.

Was a box office flop but has a small cult following. I thought this movie was amazing when it came out but got generally lack luster reviews and apparently I'm one of the few that thought it was exceptional.

And two years later there was the movie Push with Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning, which kind of had a similar premise (character as extraordinary abilities and is on the run from a government agency).

 

[Mr. ShadowCreek]

Terminal Error (2002)

It's about a computer virus that starts killing people and the only way they can defeat it is with a Gameboy. I saw it once was a kid and eventually forgot about it. Looking it up it has mostly bad reviews.

 

[CapricornusRex]

Happiness ( 1998 )

There's some really deviant shit in it, but it's well made and overall a good film. It struggled to get released, and Sundance wouldn't touch it.

 

[Sage In All Fields]

Hotwheels Acceleracers, this series of movies was just so hype.

You can also watch all the movies on YouTube for free because Mattel doesn't care about the IP, I rewatch it regularly

One movie I never hear anyone talk about is the Robert Rodriguez movie Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock.
This movie was like if you took the tone of Spy Kids and the general idea of The Lego Movie. It was very odd, and I don’t know if I recommend it or not.

Lol I loved that movie

 

[Dom Cruise]

Dude that's a blessing. Every foreign horror remake (mostly J-horror and that atrocious Martyrs remake (which isn't nearly as hard hitting with... fucking anything) Hollywood does bends it over, rapes it, and makes it most palatable for the lowest common denominator. And I'm really not even a film snob.

Yeah, but supposedly the Timecrimes remake was going to be done by the original director himself and the original movie could have benefitted with a bigger budget since some of the sci fi aspects were a bit cheesy on a lower budget.

I'm assuming he didn't want to compromise on anything which is why it never happened though.

Also, I never knew that Martyrs got a remake.

And two years later there was the movie Push with Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning, which kind of had a similar premise (character as extraordinary abilities and is on the run from a government agency).

I saw that in theaters as well but only because it was on a date so I had to pick something, thankfully I didn't hate the movie, it was alright.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Baise-Moi. A French rape-revenge film with hardcore sex scenes. It was making the rounds as a midnight movie back in 2001 and I was dragged along to watch it. Despite the fact that it was a violent film, it was quite boring. There's a bunch of shootings that are repetitive except for one hilariously bad scene where one of the gals shoves a gun into a guy's ass and pulls the trigger. One of the actresses was a porn star and later on committed suicide. I don't think there's much of a cult following for this flick.

A friend recommended that. It felt pretty juvenile to me, lots of 3edgy5me sex and violence. I’m fine with sex and violence, but in Baise-Moi there was just nothing behind it. I found the main characters pretty unlikable too.

But you had a bunch of other movies like Turistas, which I saw way back when and that one's totally forgotten.

I saw a preview screening of Turistas and I don’t remember a thing about it apart from I think someone getting their organs removed.

One I would recommend is Duck, You Sucker!, aka A Fistful of Dynamite, aka Once Upon a Time... The Revolution. Directed by Sergio Leone, psychedelic soundtrack by Ennio Morricone, starring James Coburn and Rod Steiger. It’s about a Mexican bandit and an Irish explosives expert who team up, but both of them have their own agendas and in true Leone style, neither one is a good guy.

 

[Panty Shroom]

Flight of Dragons. It was awesome and probably ignited my lifelong obssession with the beasts.

(If you're up for it, the film is available on Youtube but the uploader had it broken into 29 short videos)

 

[starborn427614]

Flight of Dragons. It was awesome and probably ignited my lifelong obssession with the beasts.

(If you're up for it, the film is available on Youtube but the uploader had it broken into 29 short videos)

This definitely qualifies. I forget it every so often and then it comes back at random only to disappear just as fast.