I wonder if a good 35mm print of it still exists? Being that it’s in the Public Domain, I could buy it, have it transferred to digital for a few thousand dollars, distribute it, and make a mint selling it to enthusiasts! 
De Gustibus Non Disputandum Est. In my opinion, it sure as hell does. But tastes vary.
Quite a few old sci-fi and horror movies mentioned used to be shown on TV creature feature type shows in the afternoon or late at night, with comical cut-ins by the ‘hosts’. ‘Commander USA’ on the USA network in the early '80s had some real gems that disappeared. ‘Up All Night’? Rhonda Shear alternating with Gilbert Gottfried. Elvira, of course…They don’t seem to have those kind of movie shows any more. They were a memorable part of my childhood.
Not of This Earth (the 50’s version) was really scary. Quartermass and the Pit (known here as Five Million Years to Earth) - I was living alone years ago and saw this on TV, and I was so creeped out I had to go stay with a friend for a couple of nights.
Oh, and my father was a theater manager at night, and my WHOLE FAMILY went to see Myra Breckinridge :o (though I refused to sit with them! I thought Rex Reed was, well, extremely good looking :o).
I know they used to be shown on independent TV and late night TV, but that was quite a while ago. Then they moved to cable, but it’s been over a decade since we had “Monstervision” on TNT. Even the small cable channels can get newer bad movies, and in color. The only places I seem to see these flicks anymore is in muli-volume DVD collections (or the rare “collectors DVD” or “Midnight Movie” DVD). We don’t get the “THIS” channel mentioned upthread.
How about Scavenger Hunt? The movie is from 1979, so it is highly unlikely that there are no copies left. The movie was often on pay tv in the early 1980s, but I haven’t seen it either on VHS or DVD ever. I haven’t seen it broadcast either sine around 1983 or so.
Sonny & Cher’s Chastity. They named their daughter after it.
E.T.: the Extraterrestrial.
No, seriously, think about it - it’s one of the top 5 box office hits of all time, and yet somehow, it’s completely dropped off the pop culture radar. When was the last time you heard an E.T. reference? When was the last time you met an E.T. fan? Does anyone, anywhere have an E.T. poster on their wall?
I’m not saying the film has disappeared, per se, but a mega-blockbuster of that magnitude should have a lot more “presence”, even after 27 years.
Five Million Years to Earth shows up on TV occasionally. And it’s still creepy.
Although it didn’t make a lot of money, White of the Eye is an amazing, creepy, disturbed movie that I fear will never be available on DVD or Blu-ray.
Luckily I have a VHS copy, but I’m afraid to play it anymore lest it break, and I don’t have the equipment to dub it over to digital atm.
Also, since I have never met anyone who has seen this movie unless I showed it to them I have to ask: anyone else seen this movie?
ETA: Cathy Moriarty! MRRRROWW!
Some of my favorite, but apparently obscure, favorite films -
La Planete Sauvage
I love Fellini’s Satyricon, but realize why it doesn’t get more airtime - it’s basically people strolling around having carnal sex again & again & again, straight sex, gay sex, weird androngynous characters - it wouldn’t play in Peoria. (Same goes for “Prospero’s Books” FTM).
I just got a copy of that on DVD, together with When dinosaurs ruled the earth. Only watched the first couple of minutes, but looks fun.
This is by no means a great film, but I’d like to revisit What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? . It’s a piece of fluff from 1968 starring Mary Tyler Moore and George Peppard about a “feel good” infection and it’s effect on New York City.
One of my favorites was The Lady Takes a Flyer, a romantic comedy starring Lana Turner as part of a husband-and-wife pilot couple. Never got a DVD or even VHS release, but aired every couple of weeks on AMC. Now that AMC is just another crappy cable network, I may never get to see it again.
That one at least is available on DVD. Or at least it was - I have a copy.
Also the awesome Horror Express with Telly Savalas as a Cossack captain - a staple of my childhood that I simply had to posses.
Burt Reynolds action movies:
Remember Malone, City Heat, Gator, Stick…?. No, and you don’t want to. They played these things to death on cable when I was little.
And one more…Kenny Rogers’ Six Pack. I loved that when I was a kid, afraid to try and hunt it down now.
Around the mid 70s, I remember seeing something called The Tenth Level on TV. It was a movie with William Shatner, and it was based on the real-life experiment carried out in which people were allowed to give (or thought they were giving) electric shocks to subjects. Apparently some of them got really carried away with the shocks.
It scared me at the time. I have no idea what became of it.
There’s a lot of really great movies from the 30s through the 60s that are hardly ever shown or even talked about because they feel really dated today.
I happen to like many of them because I don’t mind dated stuff, being kind of an old-fashioned type of person anyway.
I 
you Hal!
This classic with Sean Connery and Michael Caine is one of the best films I’ve ever seen. Never see it on TV and the only DVD available is of absolutely piss poor quality. But I bought one and watch it anyway!