Obscure movies

[andini]

A lot of what Hollywood churns out these days is either a remake or something dull that has been churned out 100 times before; anybody got any obscure recommendations for something a little different?

[Matthewman]

It all depends on your opinion of whats obscure.

 

I went through a stage a few years back where I started getting into foreign movies after going to the cinema with a friend to see the Japanese film Battle Royale. This kinda started my obsession with Japanese cinema, especially the horror movies. This was before the good old US of A started remaking them. I remember watching the original Ringu one night knowing nothing about it, The ending to that movie will stay with me forever. The remake, although it done well at the box office and with the critics, isn't nearly as great as the original. Another film that will never leave my subconscious is Audition. Even though I bought the DVD, I still haven't watched it again.

 

The great horrors of recent years in my opinion, have been French. There are a few really great movies like, Haute tension, Inside, and Frontiers. Martyrs is another great horror film which I have absolutely no desire to re-watch :)

Edited December 4, 2013 by Matthewman

[smcelhenny]

Agree with a lot of those films Matthewman Martyrs left me emotionally drained by the end. Audition was such a suckerpunch of a film and such a great example of slow build and subtlety followed by WTF. Inside was just brutal.

 

A obscure horror that I really recommend checking out is a Spanish one called The Baby's Room.

 

Also there's a Japanese Mockumentary called Noroi which is really interesting and creepy it's one of my faves and is on Youtube in its full form and well worth checking out.

 

 

[Matthewman]

Agree with a lot of those films Matthewman Martyrs left me emotionally drained by the end. Audition was such a suckerpunch of a film and such a great example of slow build and subtlety followed by WTF. Inside was just brutal.

 

A obscure horror that I really recommend checking out is a Spanish one called The Baby's Room.

 

Also there's a Japanese Mockumentary called Noroi which is really interesting and creepy it's one of my faves and is on Youtube in its full form and well worth checking out. [media=]

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I might check this out.

[dwarfbabe]

Agree that Audition is a great film. Another very good one is A Tale of Two Sisters which is a ghost story. Very well done and keeps you guessing right up to the end.

[andini]

By obscure I mean the one's that don't get talked about much, one's that you have to search around for to even know they exist.

 

I noticed Puritan was on the Horror Channel last night, love it and have owned it for years but not many people seem to know about it.

 

 

 

I love The Baby's Room, I own every one of Alex De La Iglesia's movies and they are pretty much all amazing (except maybe the only English one, The Oxford Murders). I will check out Noroi.

Edited December 5, 2013 by andini

[JacknDaniel]

There's a lot of great asian horror out there. Noroi and JuRei The Uncanny are two of my favourites. The Locker (Shibuya Kaidan) is another

[Indiana]

La Cabina (The Phone Box) is an obscure horror that I remember as a kid being shown late on ITV. It hasn't been shown for years, but it's an unusual little film, which you can see here on you tube.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CABpfvOgbjw

[Matthewman]

Two movies which I really enjoyed that have been relegated to the horror Channel are Splinter (2008) and Frayed (2007).

 

[andini]

Only discovered I had the horror channel a few days ago and I'm loving it already; haven't seen Frayed I'll keep an eye out for that.