How about rollerball? The original 1975 classic with James Cann featured the far distant world of 2018 where all history is stored in computers and corporations essentially ruled the world (governments were sidelined)

The game of rollerball, essentially roller derby but with motorcycles and cannons is the star but there is a lot more here, when the athlete finds out the games are rigged.

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“Vanishing Point” wow. That brings back memories, that and the original “gone in 60 seconds” drove my car-mania for many years

One of my favorites in the obscure category is “The Green Slime” still available to watch in its entirety on YouTube. Alien fungus that grows to eat electricity and attack a space station.

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Is it bad that I have dvds of several of these?

Since the thread is favorite classics and not just the most obscure things that can be found I want to add in one of my favs. Most know of Jackie Chan and many of his movies but his 1980 USA big budget “Battle Creek Brawl” or “The Big Brawl” still remains pretty obscure

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Great movie! - one thing to note, the special computer-generated graphics were basically the second ever done for a movie (Tron had done some earlier) and were done in 1984 on a Cray X-MP "supercomputer," the 27 minutes of footage took 4 months to render.

Don’t forget about the awesome “boy and his dog” in a post apocalyptic landscape a boy and his telepathic dog encounter a group of women who need him to repopulate their race.

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"The Villain" holy moley - that looks awesome! I am going to see if I can get that one

Don't forget about the classic "Hell Comes to Frogtown" starring Roddy Piper, yes its just as awesome as you can imagine!

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It’s awesome. A budget somewhere in the $50 neighborhood. Roddy is one of the last human males that can still conceive. So it’s his duty (as demanded by the government) to get with every woman he can. Oh yea, and for some reason there are giant mutant frogs who live in a town and even though they are peaceful, they kidnapped all of the fertile women left. What’s a guy to do? Rescue the dames, guns blazing, then leave them with a parting gift...

Check out the trailer, it will give you all you need to know.

How about “Damnation Alley”? Obscure enough?? Cost $8 million and only made $4. I read the original book by Roger Zelazny and the movie had some cool stuff, especially the truck. But even then the “earth has been knocked off its axis by ww3” was a bit much.

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THX1138 reminded me of the other obscure yet very innovative college project, John Carpenters: Dark Star. Well worth watching.

Kirk was so good at out-talking suicidal computers, I wonder how he would have fared against bomb #20.

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Haha, I didn’t know the barbarian brothers made a baby sitter movie. I loved them in “the barbarians” great movie. It starts pretty serious with the brothers separated at birth, one was beaten all his life by a man in a red mask, the other by a man in a blue mask. They were each given the others mask and told to “get their revenge” just as a sport for rich people.

Then It starts not taking itself seriously and by the end they climb inside a dragons body and start punching its internal organs....you have to see it to believe it

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I think it qualifies, it was obscure to me. Iron Sky was an awesomely bad Finnish-German-Australian movie where the Nazis set up a secret base on the moon during ww2 to build a planet-destroying super-weapon. It is now done and all they need is a functioning computer. Unfortunately, one of the lunar astronauts brings an iPad with him...

Watch for the Nazis riding their ww2 sidecar motorcycles around on the moon in space suits with air systems for the motorcycle motors...

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No Australian actors, they were the production company.

It’s awesome though, after the battery dies on the iPad, they decide they have to invade the earth with flying saucers to get another one.

and there is a sequel in the works!

Lol, awesome movie. The “Hail to the King” edition comes wrapped in a sequined white leather Elvis jacket

We watched this the other night, amazing movie. It probably was not obscure in its day but it’s a 1920’s silent movie so it will be relatively unknown to most nowadays.

Most consider the phantom carriage to be the best Swedish movie ever made. It starts a little slow but it is Well worth watching and the special effects are astounding considering the capabilities they had back then. Can you imagine the difficulties in double exposure of the film? Brightness and acting slip ups and movement issues...just wow

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Haha, we watch it every year, along with the ref. Dennis Leary as a thief stuck holding a dysfunctional family hostage

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Speaking of Sean Connery, it doesn’t appear that Zardoz has been mentioned. Not sure if it’s obscure enough ( my wife had never heard of it) , but it’s awesome!

As flashbak.com says: “John Boorman’s Zardoz is a genuinely quirky movie, a trip into a future that seems ruled by perpetually stoned set decorators.” It’s set in a post-apocalyptic Ireland...Connery wasn’t much in demand at the time. So James Bond did away with the fussy cocktails, priapic cars and other adolescent seduction techniques honed in sticky carpeted casinos, strapped on a red leather posing pouch buckled to matching bandoliers with ample room for a few dozen vials of amyl nitrate and found like-minded people in an out-of-town S&M fetish club under the auspices of a perverted flying god-rock.
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Is there a “movie that is sooo bad it’s awesome” thread? I want to nominate “hell comes to frogtown” I watched the whole thing....omg my brain hurts

Haha. I was reading this to my wife and she said, “oh my god, was that the one where they were on a ship in the ice at the end? That was the best one ever, you have to find it so I can watch it again”

Thanks a lot guys.......

Update: IMDb says it is 3hr 5 min long. There is one on prime but it’s only 116 minutes. Over 1 hour shorter!

I watched this not too long ago. The space and "hi-tech" portions were incredibly cheesy and have not aged well, but the parts with the two characters work so well even after all these years. It was a real joy to watch.

I remember watching it and really really wanting a lair like he has....I am definitely going to put one on my island when I get one!