Neglected Gems


Name a movie that you love that almost nobody you know has seen or cared for
It could be brilliant or silly, funny or scary...anything goes!

'Ride With the Devil' is my pick...
A quite good cast, performances were great, the bittersweet romance and brutal violence were perfectly portrayed, some of the dialogue is still with me after many years and the production values were top shelf
This is one fine forgotten beauty of a film!
See it if you can find it:)
You got one?

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A more recent one would be End of Watch from 2012

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I saw it several years ago and remember liking it a lot
Gylenhaal is top shelf in everything and i really like that Pena guy
Im due for a rewatch

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The Wanderers (1979). Very entertaining teen drama/comedy dealing with relationships and ethnic gang rivalries in the Bronx, 1963.

Andy Warhol's Blood for Dracula (1974). A post-modern take on Count Dracula dressed up as exploitation and set in 1920's Italy. A double bill with Andy Warhol's Flesh for Frankenstein.

Flesh + Blood (1985). Paul Verhoeven's first American feature - a gritty Middle Ages Adventure film starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Crimes of Passion (1984). A stylised and over the top psychological thriller/drama/comedy featuring Anthony Perkins as a psycho preacher obsessed with China Blue - a streetwalker played by Kathleen Turner.

For cheap, campy and entertaining fare that not many have seen.

Zardoz (1973). Campy, futuristic British sci-fi starring Sean Connery and the worst costume design in film history.

Class of 1999 (1989). Cheap action film involving high school gangs warring with killer robot teachers.

Deep Down (1994). A direct to video erotic thriller that doesn't even have a listing here! Set almost entirely in a LA condominium starring Tanya Roberts and George Segal as her over the top and entertaining psycho husband.

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Oops my mistake - Deep Down is listed on this site but with no comments added to it.

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Wanderers was great (i enjoyed the early Sly!)
Flesh+Blood was a fun oddity ive caught a few times...Leigh was at the height of her cuteness:)
Class of 1999...im a sucker for these cheapo actioners and this was good stuff
Thx!

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All good :)
I think maybe you might be mistaking The Wanderers with The Lords of Flatbush which featured a young Stallone.

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Oops youre right lol
I do that a lot with those two!
Both real fun gang movies

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Van Helsing
The Magic Christian
Withnail and I

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Oddly i have not seen any of your movies Dazed...
The Magic Christian sounds like something ill look into
Thanks for the reply

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The first is based on a graphic novel I believe,bringing together Alan Quartermain,the Invisible Man,Mina Harker,Dorian Gray,Dr.Jeckyl,Tom Sawyer and Captain Nemo all fighting a common enemy.It got quite a lot of hate when it came out but I never wanted it to end.

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That sounds very interesting
I sort of recall it and will check it out
Thanks Dazed

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I nominate "The Forbidden Room" (2015). Very ambitious and such a feast for the eyes, it's gorgeous! Should, in a just world, be a pure cinephile's wet dream, but it seemed to garner very little attention and everyone that I have convinced to watch it seemed to hate it. Also, I'm a huge fan of both absurdism and dream logic in film, and this one executes both as good or better than any other as far as I'm concerned. If Salvador Dali and David Lynch collaborated on a film using motion picture methods from the 1930s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fxJ79qED0Y

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I found it on Amazon Prime and added it to my watchlist
Thanks...i dig the weird stuff too:)

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Awesome, hope you like it. The above linked video is a pretty good write-up that might hopefully clue you in on what to expect, because, warning, admittedly the first viewing can be a jarring slog, but I can guarantee you subsequent viewings (which the film utterly deserves) once you've been clued in are just a whole lot of fun. There's a learning curve to this sucker, so don't rely on your initial kneejerk reaction.

Here's another review from a critic I enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V4YDhLewhI

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Much appreciated!

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Dead Calm (1989)

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Good one and genuinely terrifying.

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Excellent!
Billy Zane does crazy convincingly
Maybe too convincingly...

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Ammethyst is a very under-appreciated gem.

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I loved K-PAX too. Great job by both Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey.

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Dang!
You blanked me on all of 'em
Seems i have plenty of things to look into
Thank You:)

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Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure.


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I don’t love the following two as I won’t watch them again...too disturbing. I'm not aware of anyone I know who has seen the two.

The Night of the Hunter
What Lies Beneath

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Ive been wanting to watch 'Hunter for a while now...Mitchum was an all timer and one of a kind
My favorite was 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle'
Mitchum was tops!

'Beneath?
The Harrison Ford one?
Never saw it but if its spooky let me know cuz im in
Thx kspkap:)

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Oh, yeah! Is there a stronger word than spooky? I would add disturbing. It stayed with me making me uncomfortable. Harrison Ford out of his genre. Michelle Pfeiffer also stars. The following is part of a review from another reviewer:

“This is the most suspenseful thriller I have seen in the past year. As a refreshing change to more formulaic chillers, WLB takes its time to build the suspense. It is allowed to do this by virtue of Harrison Ford, and, especially, Michelle Pfeiffer, who, I feel, deserved an Oscar nomination for her convincing portrayal of a happy, but suddenly lonely, wife. It is just about as Hitchcockian as you can get, and I rate the bath sequence as gripping (pardon the pun) as taking a shower at the Bates Motel.”

Night of the Hunter/ “Leaning, Leaning, on the Everlasting Arms” Brrrr!
Following is part of a review by a reviewer. Just reading the reviews gives me chills.

“I could barely speak at the end of the film. Pauline Kael called it one of the scariest movies ever made, and she was absolutely right. Robert Mitchum becomes the embodiment of evil, and his pursuit of the children is so relentless, and so menacing, that it becomes impossible to believe that they can escape. The images are brilliant; there's a depth to black and white that colour somehow lacks, and it is used superbly here to create a sense of brooding terror.”

Another reviewer:
“Sleep, Lit'le ones, sleep...”

Please Shogun watch and give me your opinion. I watched Psycho when it first came out on the big screen, 1960, and will not watch it again. Same goes for the other two.

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I need to see this
Many thanks for taking the time to explain both so well!

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both are worth the watch

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Im on it chief!
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Another bit of info from Roger Ebert in 1996:

“Charles Laughton's "The Night of the Hunter” (1955) is one of the greatest of all American films, but has never received the attention it deserves because of its lack of the proper trappings.”
“It is one of the most frightening of movies, with one of the most unforgettable of villains, and on both of those scores it holds up as well after four decades as I expect "The Silence of the Lambs" to do many years from now.”

“"Chillll . . . dren?”” Gives me the chills!
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BTW, I forgot to mention “Se7en” with Morgan Freeman & Brad Pitt.
“The Vanishing” with Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland.

I will NOT watch either one again!

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I remember certain lines or phrases from Ebert's many reviews quite often and remembered parts of this one for 'Hunter (man do i enjoy Ebert...Loved his stuff) Ill go on REchicagosun.com and reread it all later...I didnt ALWAYS agree with his reviews but he was a decent, intelligent and heartfelt guy
Died way too young

I really enjoyed Se7en...hell of a cast, gloomy, NOT a first date film for sure!

Saw The Vanishing years ago and cant really comment...i remember it as pretty good
Thanks (especially for the Ebert stuff...i cared for this guys opinions and i often reread his reviews several times...he was a good man)
Most kind of you:)



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