Of course other people have seen it, seeing as how it is related to a mildly successful PC-only video game, I’m sure quite a bit have seen it. However I’m the only person I know who has scene it, or heard about it, or thinks they may have known someone who saw something one day relating to it.
Was channel surfing in Germany, and came across a fascinating prison-break movie. I think it was in French with German subtitles, neither of which did me any good, but it was just amazing to watch. And I could mostly tell what was going on; the intricacy of the escape was brilliant. I should nominate it in the “great scenes without dialog” thread. I wrote down one or two names from the closing credits so I could find it on IMDb.
It’s Le Trou. I got it from Netflix a few years ago. It’s great. There’s a class warfare angle that was lost on me when I couldn’t understand what anyone was saying. It’s one of the great movies of that genre.
Also, the original Gone in 60 Seconds.
CC and Company - a biker movie starring Joe Namath. Much as we all loved Joe, there’s a reason his acting career never took off in a big way.
Let’s Kill All The Lawyers.
I went to school with the director. Ron Ashton has a bit part.
Golden Earrings. Not the 1947 version. The independent film starring my wonderful niece, Julia Marchese. Her of the recent save the 35mm print petition.
Neat little thriller.
Hmm. Strangely it has an imdb page, but then you can also say the same about the supposed fourth Indiana Jones film.
There are also rumors of sequels to Highlander but clearly those never happened either.
Evil Alien Conquerors - a very stupid, campy, sometimes funny movie about two aliens who must behead everyone on earth in 3 days.
“Sun Chips and Crystal Geysers!”
Luna Papa, a comedy/drama set in Uzbekistan and thereabouts. Saw it in an indie/foreign cinema festival in Mexico, which just adds to the weirdness.
It’s on my Netflix “waiting for availiability” queue, but I’m not holding my breath.
Screen Door Jesus. I saw it at a local film festival. A terrific film about religious faith and how different people react to it. The title refers to someone deciding a stain on a screen door looks like Jesus, but it’s not just about that; it’s about the small town and their reaction to it.
I’m sure it didn’t get much distribution; I wrote positively about it and got an e-mail from the producers wanting to know more.
But if Jesus had super powers, he could make a robot with a soul.
I’m one of a handful of people that saw “Collisions.” It stunk, and was never released. Possibly the worst movie ever.
Of course other people have seen these (I’ve seen or heard of some of those listed above), but they’re not spoken of much
Creation of the Humanoids – really stiff and stilted dialogue, but intriguing futuristic play about how the Robots are getting more and more like humans (they’re blue and bald), and how an Order of Flesh and Blood springs up as a sort of anti-robot KKK to keep them from getting too human. Worth watching.
Le Dernier Combat – Fremnch post-apocalyptic film with absolutely no dialogue. The hero has a mini-=plane. Other guys wear full suits, as if the Apocalypse was formal. Very few women.
Invisible Invaders – surely a big influence on George Romero’s Living Dead flicks. The zombies, like the post-apocalyptic guys in Le Dernier Combat, wear suits. John Carradine co-stars as a zombie
The Prehistoric Sound (AKA The Sound of Horror) – Spanish ultra-cheap monster film – people in a cave are menaced by a dinosaur – but it’s invisible. Features some of the worst invisibility effects you’ll ever see. With Horror B-movie regular Ingrid Pitt
The American Astronaut. Saw it at a drive-in during the Seattle International Film Festival in 2001. Oh my God, this movie is so shitty. It was punctuated with the regular flashes of headlights from cars starting up and driving away.
I’ve spent the last year screening John Gilbert films at the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress, so I think that may be cheating . . .
Black Moon, a French SF (or maybe fantasy) film by Louis Malle. It’s not easily described – basically a woman in the middle of a war is stuck in a mysterious farmhouse where weird and wonderful things happen. No plot and very little dialog but the images (especially the final one) are extremely memorable. Also has thestrangest looking unicorn in all of fiction.
Back in the 80’s on the USA channel on Saturday afternoons, Commander USA showed groovy movies, including a few of the more obscure Hammer horror films, seldom seen AFAIK, since.
One memorable NON-Hammer film starred Andrew Prine as “Simon, King of the Witches”, 1971, which has since disappeared off the face of the earth. About a magician (“no man, not that kind of magician, I’m a MAGICIAN”) - a hippie in robes with powerz who lived in a storm drain. A VERY 70’s movie, weird, funny, and…odd.
The Hammer film I remembered was “Vampire Circus”, set in eastern Europe, and like “Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter”, was really rather interesting and well made.
Living Arrangements - a great little indy film about a young vegan couple who move into an apartment and find out their attic is inhabited by a werewolf. Full disclosure: I know the cinematographer; he’s a friend. They put it together using local locations and actors for some insanely tiny amount of money. Sure, it has its flaws, but it’s pretty good for such a small budget. I doubht it’ll make them any money, but I do hope that they can use it as a stepping stone to bigger things.
A Creepy Day, and Lesbian Chicken Vampires from Outer Space.
Some cheap monster movie involving dinosaurs in the Ozarks of all places.