Knights & Knaves Alehouse

Hitchcock Movies- Vertigo, the Birds, Without a doubt, Rear Window, etc.

Pirates by Roman Polanski starring Walter Mathau

Silent Running

The Dark Crystal

My picks for great but obscure movies would include...

The Thin Man Series - Starring William Powell and the lovely Myrna Loy. This series shouldn't be obscure but these days it certainly feels like it.

The Valley of Gwangi - Cowboys & dinosaurs with some great Ray Harryhausen special effects. Sure this movie isn't oscar material but it is certainly a lot of fun (IMNSHO).

Quatermass and the Pit - I have always loved this movie.

Island of Lost Souls (1933) - Charles Laughton as Dr Moreau.

The G-String Murders (1943) - An adaptation of the Gypsy Rose Lee detective novel (ghost written by Craig Rice), Lady of Burlesque starred Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea and Pinky Lee.

Oh ya, anything by Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Stephen Chow, & Sergio Leone (but then again I wouldn't consider any of these men as obscure).

There are many more that I'm forgetting but this will do for now.

Cheers,
Tim

I remember Quatermass & the Pit. I believe they were digging a new Tube/Subway and bumped into a strange object.









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The rest of the movie got corny very fast, though. Very MST3K-ish material, none the less.

Mordenkainen wrote:I remember Quatermass & the Pit. I believe they were digging a new Tube/Subway and bumped into a strange object.









*SPOILER ALERT*







The rest of the movie got corny very fast, though. Very MST3K-ish material, none the less.

Well obviously YMMV but I didn't see it as being MST3K material at all. Sure the special effects weren't the best (it was a 60s Hammer film so the budget was tight) but the ideas behind the show were certainly sound.

Ah, MST3K... now there's a series I loved (especially the Gamera episodes... laughed my arse off).

Cheers,
Tim

As an interesting corallary to this thread, y'all should check out today's Photoshop Phriday at somethingawful.com - posters for classic movies done up in the grindhouse style!

I have no clue whether this is obscure or popular, but after watching The Game (w/Michael Douglas) again the other day, I'd have to recommend it.

I think by far the best movie in this list is A ClockWork Orange.

I just watched Lifeforce for the first time this morning. The title track sounded kind of familiar. Sure enough, after doing some digging in my software collection, I come across what made the music so familiar to me: the Baldur's Gate computer game! One of the combat themes (Attacked by Assassins) is a rip-off of the Lifeforce title track! Or are both tracks derivative of another source?

All a google search brought up was this:

http://www.last.fm/user/maek/journal/2006/12/25/298392/