Season 4 Episode 28.5 :: Microsode – Cinema Obscura
Welcome to another donation-funded Microsode! Honorary Producer, Dan Blake asked us to share our favorite obscure films! But as a nerd, what is an obscure film? With all our nerdy specializations, and age differences – what truly makes an obscure film? What is an obscure film? Join Cap, Hex, Colin, Jon, and Brandon as they ask all these questions and unload on what our favorite oddball films are. It’s a rousing discussion – so rousing in fact that this microsode isn’t so micro!
Where can you see these cinematic oddities? Check out our extensive links below!
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Tracks:
- Number One :: Chaz Jankel
- Running Out of Time :: Tangerine Dream
Films We Mentioned in this episode:
- Interstate 60
- True Stories
- Miracle Mile Amazon Instant
- Forbidden Zone
- Unico in the Island of Magic
- Return To Oz
- Reanimator
- FIDO
- Undead
- Interstella 5555
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- The Black Cauldron
- Song of The South
- Dead Alive
- Real Genius
- Black Sheep
- Cannibal! The Musical
- Robot Carnival
- Road Games
- Cat’s Eye
Links:
- Share your favorite obscure films on the forums
- Piranha 3D‘s Lake of Blood
- Spooky Internet Findings on our Forums
- Song of the South Banned Clips
- FIDO Trailer
- Dead Alive Trailer
- Black Sheep Trailer
- Road Games Trailer
- Interstate 60 Trailer
- Forbidden Zone Trailer
- Cat’s Eye Trailer
- Undead Trailer
- Cannibal: The Musical Trailer
- Robot Carnival – Opening
- Unico and the Island of Magic Full Movie
- Interstella 5555 Full Movie
- Something Wicked This Way Comes Full Movie
- The Black Cauldron Full Movie
- Miracle Mile Full Film
6 Comments
Wait wait wait wait wait…
..wait. Just…wait.
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVEN’T WATCHED THE SWORD IN THE STONE!?
Mind = Blown.
Also, I have heard of Song of the South mostly due to Cracked. And I can certainly say that I’ve never seen it, but your summary matches up pretty will with accounts that I have heard.
@Kaosubaloo
I think the Sword in the Stone name drop was a mistake, whoever brought it up actually meant The Black Cauldron.
@Cap The Sword in The Stone drop wasn’t a mistake, I was serious. Many people haven’t seen it — its not making its way around the disney circuit anymore, younger people haven’t been seeing it.
@Musical_Jinn
Oh dang! MY mistake I guess. Sheesh, what’s the world coming to? Curse you Disney vault!!! Curse you…
A lot of good ones here, but personally speaking nobody else I know has heard of Robot Carnival. My favorite segment by far is “Nightmare,” basically robot Night on Bald Mountain combined with Sleepy Hollow.
A few obscurities from the Old Fart era….
— “Performance” (starring Mick Jagger). Trippy and dark Brit gangster movie,,includes a cool scene where you’re the bullet travelling through Mick’s head. Here’s the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFxfn3LakeM
— “Zacharia”. First “Electric Western”, included various rock and soul artists as actors. Pre-Vice Don Johnson is a main character. (Didn’t include his “Boy and his Dog” since it’s pretty much got cult status.) Here’s the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3-1ZFPSaro
— Speaking of westerns, have to include Warhol’s “Lonesome Cowboys”.(among many other of his obscurities) — a “Gay Western” that he made while recuperating from the Saldana assassination attempt. Couldn’t find a trailer, but here’s a compilation of clips from it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77OpEdQIDWc