High praise indeed!
How about Battle Beyond the Stars --kind of a shitty outer space version of The Magnificent Seven.
Lies My Father Told Me - a very sweet movie about a Jewish kid in the ghetto coming to see that adults aren’t perfect.
Under the Bridge - a movie made in China in 1983 whose purpose was to show that private business is now a good thing, and that children born out of wedlock are not to be condemned by society anymore. Completely in line with the Chinese propaganda of the time, but pretty well done.
I saw both of these in Williamsburg, Virginia, at the public library circa 1986 when the library made a concerted effort to show movies from other cultures.
Seen it sweveral times. It stsars John-Boy Walton. Sam Jaffe is in it, too. Robert Vaughn reprises his role from The Magnificent Seven. George Peppard plays a Space Cowboy.
Sybil Danning is a Space Valkyrie. There are two versions – inn one she wears a lot less clothing.
“I’ll show you how a Volkyrie Goes Down!”
When you’ve seen as many zombie movies as I have you learn to not throw out phrases like “Wow! That was the worst movie ever!” because believe me, there is always a worse one! Go watch Of the Living Dead or Living Dead Lock Up for example… :dubious:
Just recently rewatched Batttle Beyond the Stars on Netflix (as well as the previously-mentioned Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter).
I’ve seen this twice now, and recently. It keeps coming on TV for some reason.
How about Maxim Xul? A friend of mine invested in that movie, and I got to attend the premiere. Ancient demon can only be killed by a special sword.
Oh, and My Twentieth Century. Saw it when the Biograph in DC showed a bunch of weird international movies once. It was just really, really weird.
When I was in Ghana in the 90s I saw a few locally made films (all shot on video). I have no idea what their titles were, but they were in English and production values were low, low, low. Each time there were no more than a few dozen others in the theater (oddly enough, mostly in the back – Ghanaians fill the back rows first). I doubt that more than a few thousand people won Earth can have seen any of these movies.
I used to write reviews for movies screened at the Berlin FilmFest.
Most of the films I would screen were Gay films (the reviews were for The Advocate).
Let’s just say many of those films never got a distributor and were seldom, if ever, screened again to a larger audience. And 95% deserved to go back into the can and never be seen again. There are some really, really bad films out there - and finding those few gems in-between takes a lot of effort.
I did get to meet film director Derek Jarman when he screened The Angelic Conversation and again the following year when he screened Caravaggio, both achieving some success later in other film festivals.
I hung out with Pedro Almodóvar for a day when he brought his film, Law Of Desire to the festival.
Also spent some time with Gus Van Sant when he brought his festival cult-hit, Mala Noche.
I was a fairly good friend of Frank Ripploh when he released the film Taxi Zum Klo, which later earned a cult status in lots of worldwide Gay film festivals. (The success turned him into a jerk…and he was never able to follow up with anything close to that success again.)
There were lots of other actors and directors I met while screening their films - but again, the film business is tough; easy to make a film but damned hard to get distribution unless you really get some buzz going at a film festival.
No love for Manos: The Hands of Fate?
This movie led IMDB’s bottom 100 list for a lonnnng time, and deservedly so. It’s currently moved up to #5 on the list; I shudder to think how badly those other 4 movies must suck to beat out Manos.
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute - a 1983 movie consisting of four segments, with Ellen Barkin, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, Giancarlo Esposito, Maria Tucci, and many other lesser-knowns.
The Navigator: a Mediaeval Odyssey - time travelers tunnel from 14th century England to 20th century New Zealand following a boy’s vision of sparing his village from the Black Plague.
Loved that movie – saw it at a drive-in! If it’s the one I’m thinking of, does it end with Simon sinking into some quicksand, after a witch switches bodies with him?
But from your description, maybe it’s not the same movie. I’m remembering a movie with Witch or Witchmaker in the title, and the name Simon.
I’ve also seen Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, Gone in 60 Seconds – it a movie hit a drive-in in the 70’s, I probably saw it. This includes the original Last House on the Left, Flesh Feast, Death Race, Motel Hell.
ETA: Loved The Navigator, but man, not something to see if you’re already depressed.
I also saw that one. Sci-fi adventure with John-Boy Walton. How can you go wrong with that? 
So I clicked on your link, then click on an actor and found that he’s in another movie called The Magnificent Eleven. I’ll save you the trouble of reading the plot by pasting it here.
“A modernization of the classic western in which the Cowboys are a struggling local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori restaurant and the bandits are a group of menacing thugs led by a maniac known simply as ‘American Bob’.”
Way to suck the life out of a great movie.
And yes, I know The Magnificent Seven was a remake of Seven Samurai, but I still liked it better.
I didn’t list any MST3K-featured movies because I assume that lots of us have seen those, albeit alongside Joel or Mike and the bots.
One of my favorites, “Bert Rigby, You’re A Fool.”
Written by Carl Reiner specifically for Robert Lindsey. Very cute little film. I own it on VHS, I’m embarrassed to say.:o
(not embarrassed that I **own **the movie, but that it’s on VHS. I **love **this film!)
The Monitors, I even met Avery Schrieber, one of the stars, and I told him I loved it.
He said “Oh, you’re the one who saw it.” 
Heh. I saw it, but it wasn’t easy.
Damnation Alley with Jan-Michael Vincent and Paul Winfield. An end-of-the-world movie, it wasn’t too bad.
Star Crash with Marjoe Gortner. Hubster wanted to see it. When I found out it had Marjoe Gortner, I didn’t want any part of it. All I remember is a space ship with boobs. I fell asleep.
Fantastic Planet an animated movie that was so terrible, I walked out of the theater.
~VOW
Probably one of my all time favorites, but I have never seen it in a theater.
What about my movie*? Scarfies, aka Crime 101
*Not really my movie