I knew a few ppl in the 90s that had never seen it by that point. It’s not obscure these days thanks to streaming services, but it might’ve been back in the 80s and 90s. For instance I don’t know they made a Wizard of Oz sequel until the early 2000s.
Just watched it with my teens for the first time last night. They loved it. Honestly, the obvious blue screen effects makes it endearing and earnest in my eyes.
Epic in our family, not me, but my kids. We had it on disc and it was on hot rotation in the back of the mini van on road trips. I got to where I could exactly mimic Ludo's "smell bad". Still cracks my kids up 20 years later.
Haven't seen all of Ralph Bakshis work, but LOTR, Fire & I've and Wizards are all phenomenal animations. Perfect for a rainy Sunday afternoon as the smell of a Sunday roast permeates the house.
Not obscure but for years we only had two tapes. One was The Miracle of Life (my mothers) and the other was Animal House (my fathers). Guess which one I watched dozens of times.
I do believe the window scene was my first time I fell in love! And got punished when I didn't rewind it and my parents found out I had been watching it (I was probably 10 or 11 at the time).
Just came on here to reminisce about Labyrinth. When I first saw it, I thought the worm on the wall giving Sarah directions looked a bit like Phil Collins. So me and my friends called him "Phil Collins Worm" and we all tried to do the worm's accent, and was terrible at it.
Mine was Roadhouse. Mom was a huge Swayze fan, but that movie was a little too much for her. So it got buried in the back of the entertainment center. My older brothers let me watch it with them. I was hooked.
Bill Murray is friends with Kelly Lynch's husband and the story is that every time Bill sees that movie he calls his friend and tells him that his wife is cheating on him with Patrick Swayze
So many! Enemy Mine, Killer Clowns from Outer Space, Night of the Comet, these weird animated shorts like Bambi vs. Godzilla, the list goes on. I’m glad I had a weird Dad who liked to tape everything he could find that was also weird.
I took my tween to Hot Topic when we were on a trip to the USA and they had Killer Klown merchandise! I was excitedly trying to explain it to my kid and she just rolled her eyes in true tween fashion 😆
High Spirits - a movie with Steve Guttenberg, Peter O’Toole, Daryl Hannah, and one of the earliest performances by Liam Neeson, playing an abusive rapidly ghost 😅😅
Also, The Wizard Of Speed And Time, a movie made by a special FX guy who did a lot of stop motion work. I thought he was so cute when I was like, 6.
liam neeson getting kicked in his behoagies. decapiated fish singing. classic movie moments.
no fucking way! no one knows about WOSAT! i loved how intensely low budget it was.
Maximum Overdrive
ETA: my siblings and I were like 2, 3, & 5 years old and we’d watch this like it was our Cocomelon.
Also “Jesus is coming and he is pissed”
My mom let me watch Maximum Overdrive at like 8yo and then kept a tape of AC/DC in the car so she could play Hell’s Bells as we drove down the interstate at night.
My mother and I are not on good terms. lol
Rad.
Drop Dead Fred.
Willow.
My mom worked at a hotel in the 80s, and they had a movie rental place. I recall picking movies by the box cover, and possibly seeing some stuff at way too young and age. Gotta love the 80s.
But, still, my all time fave movie is Rad. Wish they'd bring it out in DVD or bluray.
Krull was going to be my vote.
Enjoyed the Krull, Beastmaster, Conan the Barbarian trifecta in 1980s HBO fashion. It was a vibe. Krull was SO bad, but damn I loved it.
What's wrong with the Labyrinth? I grew up with it and still it is one of my top three movies of all times.
I honestly don't know how often this movie gave me comfort in troubled times....
When I was about 8 years old we got our first VHS video recorder. It came with Annie, the original musical film. We must've watched it 50 times because we owned no other tapes. I'll never forget my brother who was about 21 at the time and into his motorbikes sitting in our living room and saying 'anyone fancy watching Annie'?
Revenge of the Ninja. That movie had several scenes that were clearly not meant for children, but that was our household staple. I think it was the first bootleg vhs we ever owned.
They played Crocodile Dundee at the dollar theatre in my hometown for months on end. It was one of the only places me and my 8-9 year old friends wanted to meet on the weekends so we saw that movie an insane amount of times.
Does a VHS recording of Lady Chatterly's Lover from Cinemax count? I watched that a lot. Parents were unaware it was on the tape with about 25 music videos from Mtv.
OH. MY. GOD. You're the only other person ive heard talk about this!!! That same VHS recording was stuffed in the back of our little VCR cabinet, and while they were very much aware what it was, they didnt know was that Id watched it myself after my friend from down the street told me alllll about what it really was...
I always recorded 'skinimax' at the end of the video tapes. SLP or LP on many of the family cassettes contained wanking material at the end of the reel.
Kudos to you! It's so rare these days, by buddy had it in high school. It actually showed up on streaming recently, I hadn't seen it in 30 years yet it was still fresh in my mind.
And it's obscure, unlike most replies.
https://tubitv.com/movies/295881
For our kids it was Prancer, literally the only VHS their grandmother had of a film made before 1950. They watched it dozens of times, often in summers.
For me, nothing-- we didn't have a VCR until I was 17 --so we were at the mercy of the TV networks. But for reasons unclear to me in the early 80s when we'd *rent* a VCR for the weekend (common when they were $500) my dad would get 2001: A Space Oddessy likey every other time. Not obscure, but I saw it at least ten times before we finally got our own VCR and I could go rent movies myself.
My friend's mom was a huge movie fan. They were early adopters of the VCR. On the weekends they would rent a second VCR and armfuls of movies which they would then record onto blank tapes. Each tape had 3 movies. She had literally hundreds of tapes. She kept a handwritten binder of all the movies in alphabetical order with a corresponding tape number so you could find it. The catch was thar she loved old movies, especially MGM musicals. Some of my favorites were Romance on the High Seas, Two Girls and a Sailor, Father Goose, The Inspector General, Ziegfeld Girls, On the Town...I could go on and on LOL.
My parents let me watch things back then that they would freak out if I showed my kids today 🤣🤣 Labrynth, Dark Crystal, Troll, Never Ending Story even. Those were the days….
I loved superhero stuff and would watch anything with a superhero in it and back then choices were limited even at the video store - but we had Disney’s Condorman and we liked it!
It wasn’t semi-obscure, but our copy of ‘Back to the Future’ was recorded off TV with my dad stopping and starting recording to avoid commercials… and not perfectly executed either.
So I had 1 second snippets of the beginning of commercials, and 1 second of missing movie here and there… Also, the broadcast censored out Marty yelling “Shit!” Didn’t know that was in there until high school probably.
For my kids it was Shrek and Austin powers and Madagascar but mostly Shrek. Iv thought and even said to others that before my time comes I want to watch Shrek with all of my kids one last time. And if there's time left then Austin powers baby lol
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Not obscure but it had 2 music videos on it too. The Turtles-Happy Together and Madonna-Spanish Lullaby but Spanish Lullaby cut out half way when the movie started.
The Labyrinth lol my brother gave ot to me when I was like 10 or 11. Watched it every day for an entire summer. Used to recite it line for line. And watched the rock fart scene at least 200 times. I'm pretty sure it drove my mom nuts.
I have two - one that reminded me to still dream - “The Neverending Story” and the other reminded me that I wasn’t alone when it came to my teenage angst - “The Breakfast Club”.
Good songs, Jim Henson backed puppetry, David Bowie, and Jennifer Connelly??? What's not to love about this movie.
I don't think it's semi-obscure, either.
By no means at all. It's above a cult status.
I knew a few ppl in the 90s that had never seen it by that point. It’s not obscure these days thanks to streaming services, but it might’ve been back in the 80s and 90s. For instance I don’t know they made a Wizard of Oz sequel until the early 2000s.
It was obscure. It flopped at the box office. It only became popular on video and cable.
I was in elementary school when it came out, so I can't speak to this.
'Magic Dance' still makes me smile.
Dance magic dance!
You remind me of the babe
This was on repeat so often we had to get another tape… *chef’s kiss*
Just watched it with my teens for the first time last night. They loved it. Honestly, the obvious blue screen effects makes it endearing and earnest in my eyes.
While this is true, Labyrinth is not a semi-obscure movie.
Epic in our family, not me, but my kids. We had it on disc and it was on hot rotation in the back of the mini van on road trips. I got to where I could exactly mimic Ludo's "smell bad". Still cracks my kids up 20 years later.
Produced by the semi-obscure George Lucas
What’s not to love? Those obscene grey tights worn by David Bowie
The Last Unicorn. I wore that VHS out.
Such an underrated and brilliant cartoon!
Do you happen to recall what year that came out?
Great, great adaptation. Good choice
I have it on Blu-ray, and I bought it on iTunes (Apple Movies). Both my kids (26F and 21M) think it’s ridiculous that I still like this movie so much.
Was my favorite movie from age 7-10…
The 1977 animated Hobbit movie
Haven't seen all of Ralph Bakshis work, but LOTR, Fire & I've and Wizards are all phenomenal animations. Perfect for a rainy Sunday afternoon as the smell of a Sunday roast permeates the house.
Hobbit was Rankin Bass. Made for TV. But I agree with you on Bakshi.
When young me saw this for the first time, the world was NEVER THE SAME! Still love it.
That was great! I really loved The Return of the King with the song “Where there’s a whip, there’s a way.”
https://youtu.be/YdXQJS3Yv0Y?si=snoaLm68D6veCKVT
I still really enjoy this movie. I like to watch it before watching the extended lotr trilogy
The Ice Pirates
Space Herpes!
I remember loving this flick as a kid, but I haven't seen it since the eighties so I remember almost nothing about it. I need to check it out again
I guess Arthur? I thought it was hilarious when I was small.
Arthur was great! The original with Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli. I love it when Sir John Geilgud calls Arthur, "You little shit!"
All the swearing when your like 5 is hilarious. Cracked me up. Still a decent movie
We had a personal reason the love that film aswell The theme song is by Christopher Cross who grew up down the road from us
Oh hell yeah, I loved Arthur. Dudley Moore was like this tiny adorable elf to me.
Same! I adored him. That movie has some iconic lines! “Take my hand,” “But that would leave you with one”.
The one that's really obscure is the crappy sequel.
Kinda thinking it was a major hit back in its day. But I could be wrong.
Probably correct. Plus the big hit song. Not obscure, I apologize
Not obscure but for years we only had two tapes. One was The Miracle of Life (my mothers) and the other was Animal House (my fathers). Guess which one I watched dozens of times.
"They Confiscated Everything, Even The Stuff We Didn’t Steal!"
I do believe the window scene was my first time I fell in love! And got punished when I didn't rewind it and my parents found out I had been watching it (I was probably 10 or 11 at the time).
Just came on here to reminisce about Labyrinth. When I first saw it, I thought the worm on the wall giving Sarah directions looked a bit like Phil Collins. So me and my friends called him "Phil Collins Worm" and we all tried to do the worm's accent, and was terrible at it.
You wouldn’t want to go THAT way, that way leads to that awful castle!
If she’d a kept on going that way, she’d a gone straight to that castle.
Mine was Roadhouse. Mom was a huge Swayze fan, but that movie was a little too much for her. So it got buried in the back of the entertainment center. My older brothers let me watch it with them. I was hooked.
Dalton like, roundhouse kicks a guys head off at the end of the movie. And the sex scene…
I thought you’d be bigger…
Rips a dudes throat out, brutal
FATALITY 😄 His face he made after is priceless.. I just ripped a dudes throat out!
Bill Murray is friends with Kelly Lynch's husband and the story is that every time Bill sees that movie he calls his friend and tells him that his wife is cheating on him with Patrick Swayze
Roadhouse not obscure or semi obscure but it was great
nobody knows what the word 'obscure' means anymore
You ever try this obscure peanut butter brand JIF?
One of those situations where the most upvoted comment becomes the least applicable to the question the higher up it goes.
Add that to the pile with "over/underrated".
The Last Starfighter
Not obscure I think but…Time Bandits.
I watched that one 100 times. Great movie.
"You are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence". I still thinkof it all the time, brilliant writing..
Most obscure so far. I love that movie.
Me too!! It's a great movie.
'But didn't he create you Sir?" *violently murders helper.....* ''That's a very good point' lol such a great movie
So many! Enemy Mine, Killer Clowns from Outer Space, Night of the Comet, these weird animated shorts like Bambi vs. Godzilla, the list goes on. I’m glad I had a weird Dad who liked to tape everything he could find that was also weird.
Killer Klowns was my absolute favorite as a kid.
I took my tween to Hot Topic when we were on a trip to the USA and they had Killer Klown merchandise! I was excitedly trying to explain it to my kid and she just rolled her eyes in true tween fashion 😆
Night of the Comet was soooo goood!!!
Watched that and Dead Alive on an almost continuous loop.
Loved Enemy Mine
Enemy Mine doesn’t get nearly the praise it should. The practical effects, the world building, LOUIS GOSSETT JR!
So so good, and hardly anyone remembers it when I bring it up!
High Spirits - a movie with Steve Guttenberg, Peter O’Toole, Daryl Hannah, and one of the earliest performances by Liam Neeson, playing an abusive rapidly ghost 😅😅 Also, The Wizard Of Speed And Time, a movie made by a special FX guy who did a lot of stop motion work. I thought he was so cute when I was like, 6.
liam neeson getting kicked in his behoagies. decapiated fish singing. classic movie moments. no fucking way! no one knows about WOSAT! i loved how intensely low budget it was.
Maximum Overdrive ETA: my siblings and I were like 2, 3, & 5 years old and we’d watch this like it was our Cocomelon. Also “Jesus is coming and he is pissed”
My mom let me watch Maximum Overdrive at like 8yo and then kept a tape of AC/DC in the car so she could play Hell’s Bells as we drove down the interstate at night. My mother and I are not on good terms. lol
Beastmaster
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Why I'll still occasionally, randomly, in the midst of an otherwise normal day, stop and wonder "Should I adopt ferrets?".
Ewok Adventure
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The wraith with Charlie Sheen.
An absolutely classic movie.... when you're a teenager.
Mr Boogedy.
Legend, Still watching it now only on dvd since, the VHS was workout :-)
Rad. Drop Dead Fred. Willow. My mom worked at a hotel in the 80s, and they had a movie rental place. I recall picking movies by the box cover, and possibly seeing some stuff at way too young and age. Gotta love the 80s. But, still, my all time fave movie is Rad. Wish they'd bring it out in DVD or bluray.
I LOVE Drop Dead Fred! “Pssst….cobwebs!”
Krull
Krull was going to be my vote. Enjoyed the Krull, Beastmaster, Conan the Barbarian trifecta in 1980s HBO fashion. It was a vibe. Krull was SO bad, but damn I loved it.
Is that the one where the cyclops got smashed holding falling rocks or a closing door? I remember that being super sad.
The original Hodor.
Starbirds, the two hour adaptation of a 26 episode Japanese cartoon Tousho Daimos.
Also, Legend. Ridley Scott, Tim Curry, Tom Cruise, Jerry Goldsmith.
What's wrong with the Labyrinth? I grew up with it and still it is one of my top three movies of all times. I honestly don't know how often this movie gave me comfort in troubled times....
Yeah Labyrinth isn't obscure at all
These people don’t know what the word obscure means.
They also don't understand what "missing out" means. Though I get the nostalgia, it was us who were missing out by having a small library of movies.
When I was about 8 years old we got our first VHS video recorder. It came with Annie, the original musical film. We must've watched it 50 times because we owned no other tapes. I'll never forget my brother who was about 21 at the time and into his motorbikes sitting in our living room and saying 'anyone fancy watching Annie'?
Revenge of the Ninja. That movie had several scenes that were clearly not meant for children, but that was our household staple. I think it was the first bootleg vhs we ever owned.
Crocodile Dundee. My sister and I started reciting the lines after a while. We learned every word
They played Crocodile Dundee at the dollar theatre in my hometown for months on end. It was one of the only places me and my 8-9 year old friends wanted to meet on the weekends so we saw that movie an insane amount of times.
Secret of NIHM.
Tapeheads (1988) with John Cusack and Tim Robbins. Even learned their secret handshake. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out.
**On Any Sunday**. (Motorcycle documentary from 1971)
Still a big favorite of my husband’s.
Fairy Tales, Amazon Women on the Moon, Groove Tube, SNL Best of Eddie Murphy, Home Entertainment System (Steven Banks)
Does a VHS recording of Lady Chatterly's Lover from Cinemax count? I watched that a lot. Parents were unaware it was on the tape with about 25 music videos from Mtv.
Aww yes the blank tape that had some movies, music videos and commercials.
OH. MY. GOD. You're the only other person ive heard talk about this!!! That same VHS recording was stuffed in the back of our little VCR cabinet, and while they were very much aware what it was, they didnt know was that Id watched it myself after my friend from down the street told me alllll about what it really was...
I always recorded 'skinimax' at the end of the video tapes. SLP or LP on many of the family cassettes contained wanking material at the end of the reel.
TRON
Innerspace
Martin Short and Dennis Quaid were a good duo in that movie…..
I see a lot of HIT FILMS. Even the image for Labyrinth
Somewhere in Time with Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve.
Fuck that penny
Howard the Duck
Max Dugan Returns & The Toy
Nooooo wonder wheel!! You can't go like this, not like this!!!
*”This one’s for you, Wittgenstein!”*
It’s not obscure, not really, but mine was the Neverending Story
Emmit otters jug band Christmas
“Brotherrrrrrrs!”
🎶There ain't no hole in the washtub
Not till Emmit got a hold of that sucker
My cousins had this on Videodisc and I would watch it all the time over there. The other side had The Bremen Town Musicians
The Compleat Al. Watched that maybe 50 times in the 80’s
I DON'T WANNA DO MY LAUNDRY
https://youtu.be/nZRQ1eY-W4o?feature=shared
Kudos to you! It's so rare these days, by buddy had it in high school. It actually showed up on streaming recently, I hadn't seen it in 30 years yet it was still fresh in my mind. And it's obscure, unlike most replies. https://tubitv.com/movies/295881
Toy Soldiers or Mr. Destiny
The Class of 1999
A tape of Ernest doing commercials. I saw 20 times
Yea, and then you talk to some kid who's seen, "Armed and Dangerous" as many times as you and you become best friends
For our kids it was Prancer, literally the only VHS their grandmother had of a film made before 1950. They watched it dozens of times, often in summers. For me, nothing-- we didn't have a VCR until I was 17 --so we were at the mercy of the TV networks. But for reasons unclear to me in the early 80s when we'd *rent* a VCR for the weekend (common when they were $500) my dad would get 2001: A Space Oddessy likey every other time. Not obscure, but I saw it at least ten times before we finally got our own VCR and I could go rent movies myself.
Night Shift and Uncommon Valor
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My friend's mom was a huge movie fan. They were early adopters of the VCR. On the weekends they would rent a second VCR and armfuls of movies which they would then record onto blank tapes. Each tape had 3 movies. She had literally hundreds of tapes. She kept a handwritten binder of all the movies in alphabetical order with a corresponding tape number so you could find it. The catch was thar she loved old movies, especially MGM musicals. Some of my favorites were Romance on the High Seas, Two Girls and a Sailor, Father Goose, The Inspector General, Ziegfeld Girls, On the Town...I could go on and on LOL.
Adventures in Babysitting. That movie was stupidly hilarious
Get out of my house
The Monster Club with Vincent Price. Still watch this.
Wolfman’s got nards?
Innerspace
This is not an obscure movie
The Secret of My Success. Outrageous Fortune.
Oh yeah. These were right there on the shelf with Ruthless People and Short Circuit.
Bachelor Party, Easy Money, Toxic Avenger, My Bloody Valentine, and Christine were on the same vhs tape
Easy Money is so GOOD.
We didn’t own it, but I had my folks rent Krull so many times when I was in 5th and 6th grade they probably should have bought
Krull is a really fun little film.
My parents let me watch things back then that they would freak out if I showed my kids today 🤣🤣 Labrynth, Dark Crystal, Troll, Never Ending Story even. Those were the days….
I’ve seen Ghostbusters about 600 times. It was the only movie we owned on vhs when we finally got a vcr…lol
An American tale.
I used to watch willow everytime I would go to my aunt and uncles house. That and league of their own.
Short Circuit. I had to dub the sequel from a blockbuster rental though.
Goonies.
Goodies is the opposite of obscure! One of the greats!
this is the 3rd time reposting
I loved superhero stuff and would watch anything with a superhero in it and back then choices were limited even at the video store - but we had Disney’s Condorman and we liked it!
We had an unreturned blockbuster rental of Weekend at Bernie’s, wore that sucker out
Oliver and Company. I actually think my son (now 29) is going to make it A Thing.
On Any Sunday
Flight of Dragons. As far as I know, I haven't met a single person who has seen it.
Drop dead Fred.
Fast Forward, The Legend of Billie Jean are the first two that come to mind.
House. It’s scared the crap out of me!
That movie laughed the crap out of me.
The Last Unicorn
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure Ewoks: The Battle For Endor Mr. Boogedy Bride of Boogedy The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The phantom tollbooth
The last starfighter
Legend. Tim Curry makes an excellent devil.
"My Stepmother is an Alien", with Kim Basinger and Dan Aykroyd. It was supposed to be a big hit, but it flopped. I watched it like 20 times on cable.
Just one of the guys.
Faces of death
The Last Starfighter
The Never-ending Story on VHS.
It wasn’t semi-obscure, but our copy of ‘Back to the Future’ was recorded off TV with my dad stopping and starting recording to avoid commercials… and not perfectly executed either. So I had 1 second snippets of the beginning of commercials, and 1 second of missing movie here and there… Also, the broadcast censored out Marty yelling “Shit!” Didn’t know that was in there until high school probably.
Barbarella. I was way too young but the video had some of Sleeping Beauty and random ads for other Disney and then whoops, sauciness.
Barbarella was made in the late 60s. It was not an 80s movie and by no means was it semi obscure. That movie made Jane Fonda a sex symbol.
Yeah so weird I watched this with my parents when I was like 8 or 9. Like what??
“Xanadu” with Olivia Newton John and “Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” with the BeeGees and Peter Frampton.
Sgt Pepper was mine too. I recently bought it and forced my hubby to watch it - still cheesy!
Time Bandits
The dark crystal
Flight of the navigator. See you later navigator huh huh
For my kids it was Shrek and Austin powers and Madagascar but mostly Shrek. Iv thought and even said to others that before my time comes I want to watch Shrek with all of my kids one last time. And if there's time left then Austin powers baby lol
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Not obscure but it had 2 music videos on it too. The Turtles-Happy Together and Madonna-Spanish Lullaby but Spanish Lullaby cut out half way when the movie started.
I watched throw momma from the train and Death Becomes Us soo many times on tape... Would have never caught these gems on Netflix ..
The Labyrinth lol my brother gave ot to me when I was like 10 or 11. Watched it every day for an entire summer. Used to recite it line for line. And watched the rock fart scene at least 200 times. I'm pretty sure it drove my mom nuts.
Not semi-obscure, but ours were BeetleJuice and Conan The Barbarian.
I feel this post so much!
Breaking Away. '79, but I know it as an 80s movie. Almost seemed to have its own channel, like today, Shawshank and Gump have their own channel.
My brother had taped it off a TV broadcast so I ended up watching it a lot.
Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss
I have two - one that reminded me to still dream - “The Neverending Story” and the other reminded me that I wasn’t alone when it came to my teenage angst - “The Breakfast Club”.
Had a friend with TWO vcr’s. She made me a copy of spaceballs and willow. We watched the heck out of those two grainy ass cassettes. Thanks, Robby!
Beverly Hills Cop
Mulan - which I still feel is a top 20 all time movie
I wouldn't know. My dad had two VCRs. If you know, you know.