# What are the last obscure movies you saw and loved? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2012, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401 "2012-02-20T07:46:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/41 "2012-02-21T18:07:16Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > _Winter’s Bone_, recent, well-reviewed film, but not a blockbuster or anything. A young backwoods woman in the Ozarks confronts her community about the disappearance of her meth-maker father. “Loved” is a strong word. I enjoyed it. _Winter’s Bone_ is bleak and depressing but very well done and worth seeing. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/42 "2012-02-21T22:02:59Z")
**Winnebago Man**. Type that title into YouTube for a taste, then prepare to wet your pants laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/43 "2012-02-21T23:20:55Z")
[Fermat’s Room](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016301/). A horror film about math. Yeah, another one of _those_. ---
**Author:** ![drillrod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@drillrod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drillrod)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/44 "2012-02-22T16:49:26Z")
[Lo](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1047490/) was recommended for me by Netflix and I quite enjoyed it. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/45 "2012-02-22T17:43:27Z")
[Mary and Max](http://www.imdb.com/rg/em_share/rt_iphone/title/tt0978762), an Australian Claymation movie about a pen pal relationship between a lonely Aussie girl and an adult New Yorker with Asperger’s Syndrome. It’s very touching and funny. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/46 "2012-02-22T17:53:24Z")
My favourite movie of all time (other than Star Wars, of course) is “ **Slaves of New York**.” I figure it must be obscure because only one person I’ve told that to has ever heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/47 "2012-02-23T08:26:04Z")
[Eyes Beyond Seeing](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192006/). I am one of the three people I know who has seen it, so like **Soylent Juicy** I figure it must be obscure ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/48 "2012-02-23T13:05:36Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > [The Quiet Earth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Earth_(film)) I’m not sure what was the “last” obscure movie that I saw and loved, but this one is among my all time faves. Saw it at the 1986 Santa Barbara Film Festival. I caught the first showing of it mid-week with about a half-full house, and the word got out about it, so they brought it back for a second showing over the weekend and they had a line around the block to get in. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/49 "2012-02-24T03:39:33Z")
Isn’t it great? Subtle, eponymously quiet, yet powerful. IMO the best of the only person/people left on earth genre. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/50 "2012-02-24T03:46:58Z")
I discovered _[Dreams With Sharp Teeth](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1018887/)_ last night on Amazon streaming. As a long time fan of Harlan Ellison I really got a kick out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/51 "2012-02-24T04:09:48Z")
[Expiration Date](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443501/) It’s a little old by now, but I don’t see very many movies. I caught this at FLIFF (Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival) five or six years ago. I laughed. Often. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/52 "2012-02-24T06:10:27Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > _[Tucker & Dale Vs Evil](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQOZHEYhVtU)_ was a hilarious and fantastic send-up of the redneck horror genre and also had a lot of heart. I’m going to watch that tonight. ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/53 "2012-02-25T10:22:44Z")
Patrick (1978). Don’t know how obscure it is but I love the fact that Tarantino referenced Patrick in Kill Bill; “watch out, she’s a spitter!”. Lord I love an understated horror flick. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/54 "2012-02-25T23:06:34Z")
Just saw _Out of Time_ with Denzel Washington and Eva Mendes, which didn’t get too much attention when it came out in 2003. A clever, engaging South Florida _noir_ thriller with some good twists and turns. Some similarities in plot to _No Way Out_, but different in many other ways. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/55 "2012-02-25T23:09:56Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > I very much enjoyed _The Call of Chthulu_, which is an amateur silent film done by a Lovecraft fan group. It’s on Netflix Watch Instantly and quite a fun little piece. Yes! I got the DVD for that. It’s nicely done as a 1920s silent movie, which let them do it on an ultralow budget and yet have it look authentic for the period of its setting. ---
**Author:** ![relesabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@relesabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/relesabe)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/56 "2012-02-25T23:23:12Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > [Fermat’s Room](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016301/). A horror film about math. Yeah, another one of _those_. Wow, a film with Galois as a character! Thanks for this! ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/57 "2012-02-26T01:57:08Z")
_Tucker and Dale_ and _Chthulu_ look good. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/58 "2012-02-26T02:29:52Z")
_Tucker and Dale vs. Evil_ was enjoyable and clever. I think it would definitely have been more fun to see in a theater with an enthusiastic crowd, though. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/59 "2012-02-26T04:53:01Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > _Winter’s Bone_, recent, well-reviewed film, but not a blockbuster or anything. A young backwoods woman in the Ozarks confronts her community about the disappearance of her meth-maker father. “Loved” is a strong word. I enjoyed it. Can we at least specify that movies that receive academy award nominations for best picture are not ‘obscure’. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/60 "2012-02-26T04:57:11Z")
> [@JoelUpchurch](#): > > Can we at least specify that movies that receive academy award nominations for best picture are not ‘obscure’. Agreed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401.md?page=4)