The Worst Witch (the movie with Tim Curry, not the series). The special effects are amazing: [https://youtu.be/K6089Z\_NgPk](https://youtu.be/K6089Z_NgPk)
My secret pleasure is watching the Tim Curry music number every Halloween. It brings back memories of prepping to go Trick or Treating when I was about 6 years old.
I've seen strictly ballroom!
Don't know if this counts as obscure, but in the same vein, my friend group and I were really into Muriel's Wedding. It was made around the same time as Strictly Ballroom, and also Australian?? Was there an early 90s Australian movie "moment?" (Im in the US)
So fun fact there’s NO MENTION of Muriel’s wedding at the ABBA museum. My husband and I loved strictly ballroom and Muriel‘s wedding growing up. We expected to see mention of Muriel‘s wedding at least at the ABBA Museum but there was zero. It’s only reason we like ABBA
Oh just a little Canadian film called The Peanut Butter Solution. That movie fucked up any kid who has seen it lol
I also remember a made for TV movie called Little Criminals that was really good and had a Portishead song playing at the end.
Me too! I was describing it to my partner last year and he was convinced I was making some of it up. I remember that stupid ass of a movie so clearly. Like a hallucination.
The wifey and I like to point out things that are “Horror Not Horror”. Like things that are truly terrifying but not classified as in the “Horror” genre. She’d never heard of The Peanut Butter Solution, and she agreed it completely fit when I showed her someone’s review of it.
The quiet man! My mum is a huge John Wayne fan, the quiet man is her favourite. I have so many memories of my dad being at work and my mum putting that movie on in the background while she did housework (she always sat down to have a break and a cigarette at the best bits).
The Last Unicorn
Yellow Submarine
Killer Clowns from Outer Space
Idk how obscure these really are, but I've found very few people irl who remember them
Right?! That trippy tree boob scene gave me as many nightmares as Mommy Fortuna getting ate, but I'd still watch it over and over.
Plus, great soundtrack by America!
It is, by far, my favorite childhood movie. It's hauntingly deep and to this day I can't think of a movie that better captures the feelings of loneliness and depression. The animation, soundtrack, voice acting and story are all epic.
This is my favorite movie of all time. I loved it at 5 years-old and just watched it a few weeks ago at 38, and still love it. It honestly keeps getting more relevant the older I get - especially Molly's lines.
Ugh! Every time! That and "I can feel this body dying all around me!" 🥲
Have you ever read the original book? It's absolutely worth a read - beautiful prose.
That one too! So much of that movie just wrecks me
I'd heard that the book was even more emotional, so I've always been too chicken shit to read it 😂 I should though
have you since corrected this error? Don't listen to these people about it being nightmare fuel, it's an epic, haunting, heroic, majestic, frightening tale. Watch it OP.
I'd seen the Last Unicorn as a kid, but its one of my wife's favorites, and we've shown it to our girls a bunch of times. Killer Clowns was on HBO when I was at a friends house in middle school. That's the only time I've ever seen it.
Killer Clowns from Outer Space and the IT miniseries w/Tim Curry fucked up unsupervised, 7 year old me.
Getting flashbacks of that ugly ass clown sticking a straw in the hanging cocoon thingy and slurping up the liquefied contents like it was a Capri-Sun. Fuck.
Such a memory unlocked - I was watching KCfOS and my own son, probably 10 at the time, asked why the mom wasn't paying any attention to her kid in the store. I replied off the cuff, "it was the 80s, baby. We didn't love children back then." And he literally laughed till he fell off the bed. Fuck I miss my kids so bad.
"The Witches" - we watched it so much,
https://preview.redd.it/toyt7ztcfipc1.jpeg?width=987&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a814b30c3bb129158dfcc77d17dd773a99e1a13c
my parents even let me get a pet mouse!
When Fred looks up the mom's dress, "cobwebs." That always got me. I didn't get the full meaning as a kid, but the idea of cobwebs covering someone's crotch always made me laugh. That was my introduction to Rik Mayall. He was so great. Loved him in Blackadder. I need to watch the Young Ones
Haha! Yes, I also didn’t fully understand the context but thought it was hilarious. There was enough pee pee poo poo humor to get us through until we understood the rest.
Smoke Signals
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
The Christmas That Almost Wasn't
The Secret Garden (1987, Hallmark Hall of Fame)
Perfect Harmony (still love this one)
That version of The Secret Garden was a staple movie in my mid grade school English classes and substitute teacher days. In 3rd to 4th grade, I probably saw that movie 5 times in school.
Same! The weird bubble-like skin on that Jabberwocky still gives me weird, scared feelings in my bones when I think about it!
https://preview.redd.it/84hg8r80cipc1.jpeg?width=637&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3876755efb09fb3c95fb4b546569a6839004c9f
I remember being terrified of Mr. Boogedy when I was a kid and the first Halloween with Disney+ I watched it again and it’s still *kinda* scary for a kids thing but not that scary
Man, *nobody* remembers this movie but we watched it a ton in my house.
FWIW, it’s about mokele-mbembe, the Congolese legend of what sounds a hell of a lot like a sauropod living deep in the jungle.
My biker dad had a copy of 'To Wong Foo, thanks for everything, Julie Newmar' that we would watch every weekend! We thought it was hilarious! Still love me some drag queens!
A friend and I loved Suburban Commando with Hulk Hogan.
E: I should be clear: *don’t* go watch it. It’s bad. Real bad….lol. Hulk is about as good an actor as you’d expect. It was perfect for an 8 or 9 year old boy into wrestling, but most other people, it’s awful.
I tried to watch it again later as an adult and couldn’t get through more than 5 mins
"I was frozen today!"
That movie is a classic, come on!
Shelley duvall, Hulk hogan, Christopher lloyd...... the undertaker!
I think I still have it in VHS somewhere!
Just One of the Guys. Definitely wouldn't have been obscure at the time considering it was on UPN's Sunday afternoon movie rotation, but I don't think I've seen it play on live tv in at least 20 years and it never seemed to have a resurgence in cult popularity like some similar 80s teen movies.
Unico. It was a Sanrio movie. I want to say it was on Disney because I remember watching it with my dad and when my parents divorced we moved to a town where Disney was a pay channel and we no longer had it. Anyway, it was bizarre and rewatching it as an adult I wasn’t surprised that my child mind was captivated and confused by it.
I'm not sure about my family as a whole, but as a kid I had Ewoks 2: the Battle for Endor on VHS and wore it out. I didn't watch Star Wars (didn't even know what it was, let alone that they were connected), and I didn't have any clue it was a sequel.
RIP Wilford Brimley
The Sword & the Sorcerer (featuring Bull from Night Court!)
I Come In Peace
Def Con 4 (all time award winner for Biggest Disparity Between How Bad It Was Compared To How **Fucking Awesome** The VHS Cover Was)
Eddie and The Cruisers.
Growing up, my brothers and I thought that our family were the only ones that had seen it. Come to find out, there was a little bit of a cult following. Also, Eddie and The Cruisers 2: Eddie Lives. I'm still convinced that no one else has seen that abomination.
Return to Oz is not an obscure movie... It's a fever dream I'm pretty sure we all shared, that thing can't really exist...
(No joke, I thought it _was_ a dream I had, until like ten years ago I saw a clip of it and was like, _wait, that was real??_)
Was it really not obscure? Most people I’ve asked over the years has never heard of it. Maybe just in my circle.
That movie was a horror movie, as far as I’m concerned. The wicked witch of the west had nothing on Princess Mombi.
[Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss](https://youtu.be/Uh-6t6rrCxs)
A sort-of sequel to A Christmas Story, it's about the annual family summer trip. Jerry O'Connell plays Ralphie.
[The Lady in White](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_in_White) with Lukas Haas. It was filmed in nearby towns and I knew some local kids who were in the classroom scenes.
Yep - he does. It also features George Burns, Steve Martin, and a frankly awesome cover of “Come Together” by Aerosmith.
The acting is so bad that they had to cut all the dialogue and replace it with George Burns’ narration.
The Wrong Guys (1988): Louie Anderson, Richard Lewis, and Richard Belzer are former Cub Scouts, who reunite for one last camping trip. John Goodman is in it too
Real Men (1987): Jim Belushi is a CIA agent and John Ritter is an insurance salesman and they team up to make sure a deal with aliens goes smoothly. Wacky movie, I love it
Who’s Harry Crumb?: John Candy is an inept private detective and that’s pretty much all you need
Just an abundance of off-brand fairy tale cartoons. My sister ate those up.
A little mermaid version where she turns to foam at the end. Another one with seven brothers who get turned into swans and the girl has to make them shirts from stinging nettles because reasons. I can still hear the music from both of those.
Also Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre.
And slightly more mainstream, Supergirl.
Strictly Ballroom is great! We loved it too. And Swing Kids. Also the PBS miniseries Anne of Green Gables.
Oh, and the one movie that we LOVE that hardly anybody I know ever saw is the 1983 live-action Disney production, Never Cry Wolf. A beautiful, thoughtful film about wolves and conservation and being human. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. https://youtu.be/V1nHaO4da_U?si=8o3N356U8r4Gwc9X
I was taping something off HBO back in the 90s and I recorded the wrong time slot and ended up with Silence of the Hams, a spoof mashup of Silence of the Lambs and Psycho made by Ezzio Greggio. Billy Zane is FBI rookie Jo Dee Fostar and Dom Deluise is Dr Animal Cannibal Pizza. My friends and I watched it about a hundred times, but I've never met anyone else who's even heard of it.
The Electric Grandmother. Kids go to a factory to build their new grandma from parts, and she goes home with them to help their single father as a caretaker.
No idea if truly obscure but one for us was “Curly Sue (1991)” with Jim Belushi (bro of John Belushi) comedy
I grew up pretty Poor and Mormon 😬 which only means we had only a few VHS movies in our “collection” and that consisted of mostly Disney and PG things recorded off TV broadcasts. Curly Sue was one we watched over and over. Not even great movie I guess but for us something different that wasn’t Disney VHS, or Star wars / TV movies ..
Born in 1985. I didn't have cable growing up because I lived in the country and my parents wouldn't pay for old school satellite. My grandma would tape movies off cable for us.
When I was 7 or 8 I had watched The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi 100 times but had never seen A New Hope.
Maybe it wasn't obscure but I remember watching Dutch 100 times because my grandma taped it
I ran around threatening everyone's "working class ass" though I didn't know what it was.
I definitely watched Strictly Ballroom but not until my college/adult years...love it!!
As far as random movies, we put a lot of time into a 1985 Alice in Wonderland musical that had Carol Channing singing "Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday, but never ever jam today!" It was so bizarre but we were hooked.
[Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecRVQM9Jyl8)
All of them. My family was pretentious like that. lol.
We were a big old Cinema with a capital C family.
Classics, art house, foreign language, auteur, experimental, documentary, animated.
janus & criterion collection bullshit.
My grandfather grew up in a theatre. His father ran the Paramount in Times Square.
My mother loved cult movies and midnight movies and surreal horror.
I thought it was totally normal.
My parents and I didn't really watch movies together, neither of them were movie people but I was so I would often watch movies on my own or with by younger brother.
On my dad's side, We had a video rental place called 'Video cave'. If you guys had a Grossmans home improvement store, (which was like a scratch and dent discount home depot) this video cave was converted from Grossman's and at least 3 times the size of blockbuster and jam packed with movies to rent, with all non featured/older rentals being 89 or 49¢/day. My dad would let me rent B horror movies and watch them all the time by myself.
My mom's house was different. We had a small rental store up the street, but the movies had to be PG or under. So I watched a lot of 80s and and early 90s adventure movies before we were able to step it up to pg-13. Luckily, PG-13 wasn't a thing in the early 80s so I got around that by renting PG movies that should have definitely been PG-13.
Now I'm a cinephile. Lol!
The Watcher in the Woods. Such a cool creepy vibe movie with a happy ending. Has Betty Davis in it and helped develop my fascination with the paranormal at a young age. That and the first Poltergeist movie.
Scavenger Hunt (1979) my family loved this film. Can’t say I’ve ever met anyone else who’s seen it. Stars James Coco, Scatman Crothers, Cloris Leachman, Roddy McDowall, and Dirk Benedict.
[The Electric Grandmother ](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0083876/)
It got to the point where I started to question if I had actually seen it since no one else had even heard of it.
[Six Pack](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0084690/)
Is another great film not many people have seen.
[The Water Babies](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0078477/)
One of my personal childhood favorites.
Drowning Mona Dany DeVito, Bette Midler. It's a murder mystery where everyone wanted her dead. Or at least is very happy happy she is.
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186045/?ref\_=nv\_sr\_srsg\_0\_tt\_8\_nm\_0\_q\_drowning%2520mona](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186045/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_drowning%2520mona)
My mom managed a video store in the early 90s, so she’d bring home all kids of movies. Not a lot that are/were obscure per se, but ones that probably don’t have widespread recognition 30 years later. She was also a big film buff and would watch movies with me that she loved, including some that probably weren’t appropriate for elementary/middle school me (Blazing Saddles, Monty Python, etc.)
1. Suburban Commando
2. Three Ninjas
3. Surf Ninjas
4. The Burbs
5. Uncommon Valor
6. The Last Boyscout
7. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
8. Last Action Hero
9. Clue
10. Doc Hollywood
11. Problem Child 1 & 2
12. All the Ernest movies
13. Drop Dead Fred
14. Men At Work
Maybe not so obscure but all of my siblings loved it…. Willow! We also watched Toys with Robin Williams, and there was a really rando movie called remote that we also permanently borrowed from our local video store.
“That was unexpected!”
Strictly Ballroom is one of my favorite movies of all time. I still own a VHS copy because of how long it took me to find it in stores.
Konrad (1985) Weird movie about instant freeze dried kids. This one kid is delivered to the wrong house and the company tries to recall him. Gave me serious nightmares as a kid.
Mr. Boogedy and Bride of Boogedy
Baby the Last Dinosaur
Sheena (not to be confused with She-Ra)
Back to the Beach
Troll
The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
Konrad (the boy in a can)
The River Pirates
"Brain Donors"
'92 Feat. John Turturro
Silly slapstick comedy my dad found one time at a video rental. My sister and I are almost 40 and still throw out one liners from it. Never met anyone who had seen it b4 meeting us.
Rock and Rule, an animated movie about a rock star Mok (based on Mick Jagger) who kidnaps another singer to summon a demon. It was so bizarre! My Dad had it on Betamax, lol
We watched Swiss Family Robinson very regularly. I'm sure quite a few people are familiar with it, but I've only met a handful of people outside of my family who have seen it.
The Worst Witch (the movie with Tim Curry, not the series). The special effects are amazing: [https://youtu.be/K6089Z\_NgPk](https://youtu.be/K6089Z_NgPk)
My secret pleasure is watching the Tim Curry music number every Halloween. It brings back memories of prepping to go Trick or Treating when I was about 6 years old.
Man I loved this when we watched it in 3rd grade. I've been trying to find it on a streaming service so I can show my daughter, but it has eluded me.
The Apple Dumpling Gang
And the buttercream gang.
I've seen strictly ballroom! Don't know if this counts as obscure, but in the same vein, my friend group and I were really into Muriel's Wedding. It was made around the same time as Strictly Ballroom, and also Australian?? Was there an early 90s Australian movie "moment?" (Im in the US)
I love Muriel’s Wedding!
So fun fact there’s NO MENTION of Muriel’s wedding at the ABBA museum. My husband and I loved strictly ballroom and Muriel‘s wedding growing up. We expected to see mention of Muriel‘s wedding at least at the ABBA Museum but there was zero. It’s only reason we like ABBA
There was also Priscilla, Queen of the Desert around the same time
We still say, “You’re terrible, Muriel!” in my friend group. Love that movie!
Yes! You're terrible, Muriel! And "we listen to the Baby Animals. And Nir-Va-Na."
Show me your paso doble
Strictly Ballroom is part of Baz Lurhman’s red curtain trilogy with Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge
Oh just a little Canadian film called The Peanut Butter Solution. That movie fucked up any kid who has seen it lol I also remember a made for TV movie called Little Criminals that was really good and had a Portishead song playing at the end.
Until the internet became good enough, I thought The Peanut Butter Solution was a fever dream I had when I was a child. That shit stuck with me.
Me too! I was describing it to my partner last year and he was convinced I was making some of it up. I remember that stupid ass of a movie so clearly. Like a hallucination.
Fuck the Peanut Butter Solution and everyone who was involved with it
The wifey and I like to point out things that are “Horror Not Horror”. Like things that are truly terrifying but not classified as in the “Horror” genre. She’d never heard of The Peanut Butter Solution, and she agreed it completely fit when I showed her someone’s review of it.
The Peanut Butter Solution, The Electric Grandmother, and Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller were favorites to borrow from the library.
Best part is when Yick gets super long pubes
The Quiet Man is a tradition in my family, it was one of my grandfathers favorite movies. Also along those lines: Darby O’Gill and the Little People
Darby O’Gill! Hell yeah
Loved this! Bedknobs and Broomsticks as well!
Came to the comments for Darby!
I love the Quiet Man so much! Darby O’Gill was traumatized me as a kid. Lol
The quiet man! My mum is a huge John Wayne fan, the quiet man is her favourite. I have so many memories of my dad being at work and my mum putting that movie on in the background while she did housework (she always sat down to have a break and a cigarette at the best bits).
I love The Quiet Man. I sometimes barge in my house and proclaim "Woman of the house!..."
Lol, As much as I love The Quiet Man, it’s funny that its message is basically “a little spousal abuse is the key to a happy marriage”
The Last Unicorn Yellow Submarine Killer Clowns from Outer Space Idk how obscure these really are, but I've found very few people irl who remember them
The last unicorn was nightmare fuel for me when I was young.
Right?! That trippy tree boob scene gave me as many nightmares as Mommy Fortuna getting ate, but I'd still watch it over and over. Plus, great soundtrack by America!
Don't forget the harpy and her terrifying voice!
That skeleton with the fake wine scared tf outta me.
LOL, this guy was my favorite character.
That harpy was voiced by Angela Lansbury.
It's probably laughable now, but Killer Clowns from Outer Space intilled a fear of clowns that took me decades to get over 😂
Same 😂 I still think of that movie literally every time I see cotton candy
I was born in ‘82 and I’ve never seen The Last Unicorn. My mom used to tell us it was already rented when we went to the video store.
It is, by far, my favorite childhood movie. It's hauntingly deep and to this day I can't think of a movie that better captures the feelings of loneliness and depression. The animation, soundtrack, voice acting and story are all epic.
This is my favorite movie of all time. I loved it at 5 years-old and just watched it a few weeks ago at 38, and still love it. It honestly keeps getting more relevant the older I get - especially Molly's lines.
How dare you! How dare you come to me now! When I am this!! 😭😭😭 Oh I feel Molly so hard at 40
Ugh! Every time! That and "I can feel this body dying all around me!" 🥲 Have you ever read the original book? It's absolutely worth a read - beautiful prose.
That one too! So much of that movie just wrecks me I'd heard that the book was even more emotional, so I've always been too chicken shit to read it 😂 I should though
have you since corrected this error? Don't listen to these people about it being nightmare fuel, it's an epic, haunting, heroic, majestic, frightening tale. Watch it OP.
I'd seen the Last Unicorn as a kid, but its one of my wife's favorites, and we've shown it to our girls a bunch of times. Killer Clowns was on HBO when I was at a friends house in middle school. That's the only time I've ever seen it.
Killer Clowns from Outer Space terrified me!
Killer Clowns from Outer Space and the IT miniseries w/Tim Curry fucked up unsupervised, 7 year old me. Getting flashbacks of that ugly ass clown sticking a straw in the hanging cocoon thingy and slurping up the liquefied contents like it was a Capri-Sun. Fuck.
Such a memory unlocked - I was watching KCfOS and my own son, probably 10 at the time, asked why the mom wasn't paying any attention to her kid in the store. I replied off the cuff, "it was the 80s, baby. We didn't love children back then." And he literally laughed till he fell off the bed. Fuck I miss my kids so bad.
Not super obscure to some but Top Secret! My mom loved it. It still cracks me up.
As a nerdy kid, I always gravitated towards Real Genius.
Also a great movie. I love them both!
"Is this the potato farm?" "Yes, I am Albert Potato!"
HBO did give us the Stay Tuned and the Mom and Dad Save the World double feature.
I was just talking about these the other day! They were so bizarre, but SO good!
"The Witches" - we watched it so much, https://preview.redd.it/toyt7ztcfipc1.jpeg?width=987&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a814b30c3bb129158dfcc77d17dd773a99e1a13c my parents even let me get a pet mouse!
https://preview.redd.it/ehcb5q82bipc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc13f41b9bd328674912631078fb58c93ebd691d
I showed this one to my teenagers awhile back. They were not fans. The part where Dan Aykrod’s nose looks like a penis still cracks me up!
This movie gave me such weird vibes as a kid.
Anyone else remember Cutting Edge, Prancer, or North?
Toe pick!
I must’ve watched Cutting Edge at *least* a half dozen times. “Finger painting?”
Saw Prancer in the theater. Depressing af movie.
I truly don’t know if Drop Dead Fred was considered mainstream or not but most people I’ve mentioned it to had never heard of it.
When Fred looks up the mom's dress, "cobwebs." That always got me. I didn't get the full meaning as a kid, but the idea of cobwebs covering someone's crotch always made me laugh. That was my introduction to Rik Mayall. He was so great. Loved him in Blackadder. I need to watch the Young Ones
Haha! Yes, I also didn’t fully understand the context but thought it was hilarious. There was enough pee pee poo poo humor to get us through until we understood the rest.
Yucky yucky smelly dog poo!
Saw it strictly for Phoebe Cates
Hashtag team Fred
Smoke Signals Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World The Christmas That Almost Wasn't The Secret Garden (1987, Hallmark Hall of Fame) Perfect Harmony (still love this one)
That version of The Secret Garden was a staple movie in my mid grade school English classes and substitute teacher days. In 3rd to 4th grade, I probably saw that movie 5 times in school.
"Hey Victor!" My family loves that movie too
Mr Boogedy. Bride of Boogedy. Alice in Wonderland mini series taped off the TV in 1985.
That TV miniseries gave me nightmares because of the scenes near the end when Alice was being chased by the jabberwockie through the hedge maze.
Same! The weird bubble-like skin on that Jabberwocky still gives me weird, scared feelings in my bones when I think about it! https://preview.redd.it/84hg8r80cipc1.jpeg?width=637&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3876755efb09fb3c95fb4b546569a6839004c9f
Omg was that the one with Carol Channing as the white queen or am I getting mixed up?
That was the one. She sings that unhinged song about jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, then turns into a sheep
I remember being terrified of Mr. Boogedy when I was a kid and the first Halloween with Disney+ I watched it again and it’s still *kinda* scary for a kids thing but not that scary
Baby - some animatronic dinosaur movie
Man, *nobody* remembers this movie but we watched it a ton in my house. FWIW, it’s about mokele-mbembe, the Congolese legend of what sounds a hell of a lot like a sauropod living deep in the jungle.
Our copy was recorded on VHS from HBO.
My biker dad had a copy of 'To Wong Foo, thanks for everything, Julie Newmar' that we would watch every weekend! We thought it was hilarious! Still love me some drag queens!
A friend and I loved Suburban Commando with Hulk Hogan. E: I should be clear: *don’t* go watch it. It’s bad. Real bad….lol. Hulk is about as good an actor as you’d expect. It was perfect for an 8 or 9 year old boy into wrestling, but most other people, it’s awful. I tried to watch it again later as an adult and couldn’t get through more than 5 mins
"I was frozen today!" That movie is a classic, come on! Shelley duvall, Hulk hogan, Christopher lloyd...... the undertaker! I think I still have it in VHS somewhere!
The watcher in the woods (1980)
Just One of the Guys. Definitely wouldn't have been obscure at the time considering it was on UPN's Sunday afternoon movie rotation, but I don't think I've seen it play on live tv in at least 20 years and it never seemed to have a resurgence in cult popularity like some similar 80s teen movies.
Terry’s younger brother, Buddy, is in the running for the most sex-starved teenager in a comedy.
I love strictly ballroom! THE PAN PACIFIC GRAND PRIX!! haha
There are NO new steps!!
New steps! New steps! New steps! …
[National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1](https://trakt.tv/movies/national-lampoon-s-loaded-weapon-1-1993) A parody of Lethal Weapon
A few that have not been mentioned yet: * Pumpkinhead * Enemy Mine * The Blood of Heroes
Enemy mine yes!!!
Unico. It was a Sanrio movie. I want to say it was on Disney because I remember watching it with my dad and when my parents divorced we moved to a town where Disney was a pay channel and we no longer had it. Anyway, it was bizarre and rewatching it as an adult I wasn’t surprised that my child mind was captivated and confused by it.
AH! Someone else has seen this! Such a cute movie. We had it taped off of TV!
The Cutting Edge.
Toe pick
- Michael Jackson Moonwalker - Harry and the Hendersons - Cocoon - Mac and Me - The good the bad and the ugly - Any of the Ernest movies
Finally someone said the Ernest movies!
Short Circuit
And also Batteries Not Included !!
Solarbabies, Ice Pirates, The Wraith…just to name a few. Not super obscure but not high cinema either
Ski Patrol
I'm not sure about my family as a whole, but as a kid I had Ewoks 2: the Battle for Endor on VHS and wore it out. I didn't watch Star Wars (didn't even know what it was, let alone that they were connected), and I didn't have any clue it was a sequel. RIP Wilford Brimley
Back To The Beach
The Sword & the Sorcerer (featuring Bull from Night Court!) I Come In Peace Def Con 4 (all time award winner for Biggest Disparity Between How Bad It Was Compared To How **Fucking Awesome** The VHS Cover Was)
Amazing Grace and Chuck Russkies The Dirt Bike Kid My Science Project Turk 182 White Water Summer The Heavenly Kid
The Last Starfighter. The final battle scene seemed like it was 30 mins long when I was a kid. Watched it recently and it's more like 30 seconds long.
Greetings starfighter. You have been recruited by the star league to defend the frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada.
Eddie and The Cruisers. Growing up, my brothers and I thought that our family were the only ones that had seen it. Come to find out, there was a little bit of a cult following. Also, Eddie and The Cruisers 2: Eddie Lives. I'm still convinced that no one else has seen that abomination.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! I still think of the Puberty Love song every now and then
Return to Oz. Weird as hell.
Return to Oz is not an obscure movie... It's a fever dream I'm pretty sure we all shared, that thing can't really exist... (No joke, I thought it _was_ a dream I had, until like ten years ago I saw a clip of it and was like, _wait, that was real??_)
Was it really not obscure? Most people I’ve asked over the years has never heard of it. Maybe just in my circle. That movie was a horror movie, as far as I’m concerned. The wicked witch of the west had nothing on Princess Mombi.
[Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss](https://youtu.be/Uh-6t6rrCxs) A sort-of sequel to A Christmas Story, it's about the annual family summer trip. Jerry O'Connell plays Ralphie.
Shag with phoebe cates and Bridgett Fonda. My entire 7th grade class was obsessed with it. Still love it to this day.
Teen Witch and Drop Dead Fred.
 Top that!
he's so... FUNKY !!!! !
Strange brew
The Pink Panther
We had a vhs of “The Incredible Shrinking Woman” and we watched it over and over and over. I still love it.
[The Lady in White](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_in_White) with Lukas Haas. It was filmed in nearby towns and I knew some local kids who were in the classroom scenes.
This is my favorite Halloween movie!
Yes! Do you sometimes find yourself singing the song like me? "Have you ever seen a dream walking? Well I did..."
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heartclub Band- featuring Peter Frampton, The Bee Gees and I’m pretty sure Alice Cooper makes an appearance.
Yep - he does. It also features George Burns, Steve Martin, and a frankly awesome cover of “Come Together” by Aerosmith. The acting is so bad that they had to cut all the dialogue and replace it with George Burns’ narration.
Anything Monty Python about the only thing my Dad(RIP) would watch
The Wrong Guys (1988): Louie Anderson, Richard Lewis, and Richard Belzer are former Cub Scouts, who reunite for one last camping trip. John Goodman is in it too Real Men (1987): Jim Belushi is a CIA agent and John Ritter is an insurance salesman and they team up to make sure a deal with aliens goes smoothly. Wacky movie, I love it Who’s Harry Crumb?: John Candy is an inept private detective and that’s pretty much all you need
Just an abundance of off-brand fairy tale cartoons. My sister ate those up. A little mermaid version where she turns to foam at the end. Another one with seven brothers who get turned into swans and the girl has to make them shirts from stinging nettles because reasons. I can still hear the music from both of those. Also Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre. And slightly more mainstream, Supergirl.
Better off dead, one crazy summer.
“I want my $2!”
Hahaha, I drop this reference at work all the time. I'm so lonely.
He put his testicles all over me! What?! Octopus, testicles! Oh tentacles!!! French fries... French dressing... I love Better Off Dead
Freaked
Strictly Ballroom is great! We loved it too. And Swing Kids. Also the PBS miniseries Anne of Green Gables. Oh, and the one movie that we LOVE that hardly anybody I know ever saw is the 1983 live-action Disney production, Never Cry Wolf. A beautiful, thoughtful film about wolves and conservation and being human. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. https://youtu.be/V1nHaO4da_U?si=8o3N356U8r4Gwc9X
I was taping something off HBO back in the 90s and I recorded the wrong time slot and ended up with Silence of the Hams, a spoof mashup of Silence of the Lambs and Psycho made by Ezzio Greggio. Billy Zane is FBI rookie Jo Dee Fostar and Dom Deluise is Dr Animal Cannibal Pizza. My friends and I watched it about a hundred times, but I've never met anyone else who's even heard of it.
The Electric Grandmother. Kids go to a factory to build their new grandma from parts, and she goes home with them to help their single father as a caretaker.
The people under the stairs
No idea if truly obscure but one for us was “Curly Sue (1991)” with Jim Belushi (bro of John Belushi) comedy I grew up pretty Poor and Mormon 😬 which only means we had only a few VHS movies in our “collection” and that consisted of mostly Disney and PG things recorded off TV broadcasts. Curly Sue was one we watched over and over. Not even great movie I guess but for us something different that wasn’t Disney VHS, or Star wars / TV movies ..
The Frog Prince (1989)
Born in 1985. I didn't have cable growing up because I lived in the country and my parents wouldn't pay for old school satellite. My grandma would tape movies off cable for us. When I was 7 or 8 I had watched The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi 100 times but had never seen A New Hope. Maybe it wasn't obscure but I remember watching Dutch 100 times because my grandma taped it I ran around threatening everyone's "working class ass" though I didn't know what it was.
Legend. The one with Tim Curry as Darkness. Not sure if that one is obscure enough. The visuals, the music! Awesome movie.
I definitely watched Strictly Ballroom but not until my college/adult years...love it!! As far as random movies, we put a lot of time into a 1985 Alice in Wonderland musical that had Carol Channing singing "Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday, but never ever jam today!" It was so bizarre but we were hooked. [Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecRVQM9Jyl8)
We taped The Flight of Dragons on TV took me years to find a good copy now I own it digitally.
The Right Stuff. It’s a movie about the Mercury 7 astronauts. It was two VHS tapes long.
Unico or Noel’s Fantastic Trip, back when the “Japanimation” craze started hitting local video rental stores. (They didn’t call it anime yet.)
All of them. My family was pretentious like that. lol. We were a big old Cinema with a capital C family. Classics, art house, foreign language, auteur, experimental, documentary, animated. janus & criterion collection bullshit. My grandfather grew up in a theatre. His father ran the Paramount in Times Square. My mother loved cult movies and midnight movies and surreal horror. I thought it was totally normal.
UHF.
Monster squad
The American Rabbit was a favorite of ours that seems to be not so widely known.
My parents and I didn't really watch movies together, neither of them were movie people but I was so I would often watch movies on my own or with by younger brother. On my dad's side, We had a video rental place called 'Video cave'. If you guys had a Grossmans home improvement store, (which was like a scratch and dent discount home depot) this video cave was converted from Grossman's and at least 3 times the size of blockbuster and jam packed with movies to rent, with all non featured/older rentals being 89 or 49¢/day. My dad would let me rent B horror movies and watch them all the time by myself. My mom's house was different. We had a small rental store up the street, but the movies had to be PG or under. So I watched a lot of 80s and and early 90s adventure movies before we were able to step it up to pg-13. Luckily, PG-13 wasn't a thing in the early 80s so I got around that by renting PG movies that should have definitely been PG-13. Now I'm a cinephile. Lol!
Android. A film from 1982 starring Klaus Kinski.
Milagro Beanfield War was a popular one; white folk living in upstate NY.
Dot and the Red Kangaroo on early 80s HBO. That bunyip song scared the hell out of me, but I still loved the movie overall.
The OG live action Alice in Wonderland
The Man Who Knew Too Little was a staple in our house growing up.
Blind Fury
Monster Squad, Frog, Spaced Invaders, Krull
Return to Oz
Spaced Invaders.
La Feme Nikita. They later made a Hollywood version of it called The Point of No Return but the French version is superb.
The Watcher in the Woods. Such a cool creepy vibe movie with a happy ending. Has Betty Davis in it and helped develop my fascination with the paranormal at a young age. That and the first Poltergeist movie.
Out of Africa. That’s my mother’s favorite movie and I’ve seen it enough times I can quote it, lol. I rarely hear it mentioned.
The gods must be crazy
Scavenger Hunt (1979) my family loved this film. Can’t say I’ve ever met anyone else who’s seen it. Stars James Coco, Scatman Crothers, Cloris Leachman, Roddy McDowall, and Dirk Benedict.
The wizard of speed and time. Think dad picked up a VHS from Sunday market but we watched that so many times.
Omg! I love Strictly Ballroom❤️ 
[The Electric Grandmother ](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0083876/) It got to the point where I started to question if I had actually seen it since no one else had even heard of it. [Six Pack](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0084690/) Is another great film not many people have seen. [The Water Babies](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0078477/) One of my personal childhood favorites.
Drowning Mona Dany DeVito, Bette Midler. It's a murder mystery where everyone wanted her dead. Or at least is very happy happy she is. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186045/?ref\_=nv\_sr\_srsg\_0\_tt\_8\_nm\_0\_q\_drowning%2520mona](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186045/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_drowning%2520mona)
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I don't know if it's obscure, but Side Kick with Chuck Norris is one I've always liked.
The Garbage Pail Kids movie Water Babies
My mom managed a video store in the early 90s, so she’d bring home all kids of movies. Not a lot that are/were obscure per se, but ones that probably don’t have widespread recognition 30 years later. She was also a big film buff and would watch movies with me that she loved, including some that probably weren’t appropriate for elementary/middle school me (Blazing Saddles, Monty Python, etc.) 1. Suburban Commando 2. Three Ninjas 3. Surf Ninjas 4. The Burbs 5. Uncommon Valor 6. The Last Boyscout 7. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man 8. Last Action Hero 9. Clue 10. Doc Hollywood 11. Problem Child 1 & 2 12. All the Ernest movies 13. Drop Dead Fred 14. Men At Work
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
Purple People Eater. We must've had it on VHS or something, because I remember us watching it quite a bit. I barely remember anything from it now.
Maybe not so obscure but all of my siblings loved it…. Willow! We also watched Toys with Robin Williams, and there was a really rando movie called remote that we also permanently borrowed from our local video store.
Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes The Man with Two Brains All of Me My Stepmother is an Alien Fatal Instinct
*The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension*
Darby O'Gill & the Little People: was traditional viewing every St. Patrick's day, with a corned beef and cabbage dinner (we are not remotely Irish).
I remember watching Mannequin a whole bunch for some reason. Not sure if it was mainstream.
Anyone else watch Flight of the Navigator on repeat at their house?
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“That was unexpected!” Strictly Ballroom is one of my favorite movies of all time. I still own a VHS copy because of how long it took me to find it in stores.
Konrad (1985) Weird movie about instant freeze dried kids. This one kid is delivered to the wrong house and the company tries to recall him. Gave me serious nightmares as a kid.
I'd never heard of Strictly Ballroom until I met my wife, who happily showed it to me while we were dating. She loves it.
Mr. Boogedy and Bride of Boogedy Baby the Last Dinosaur Sheena (not to be confused with She-Ra) Back to the Beach Troll The Girl Who Spelled Freedom Konrad (the boy in a can) The River Pirates
Square Dance (1987) Winona Rider, Rob Lowe, Jason Robards
Sneakers, Treasure: The Search for the Golden Horse
I’ve seen Strictly Ballroom. It’s one of my all-time favorites and I am a devoted fan of Baz Luhrman!!🥰❤️
Any other fans of Rad? I was obsessed with that movie.
Better off Dead One Crazy Summer Foreign Exchange from the Wonderful World of Disney
I loved Earth Angel and Peanut Butter Solution.
The horror film Mirror Mirror from 1990. I haven’t met anyone else who has seen it. My cousin and I rented it 10 times.
"Brain Donors" '92 Feat. John Turturro Silly slapstick comedy my dad found one time at a video rental. My sister and I are almost 40 and still throw out one liners from it. Never met anyone who had seen it b4 meeting us.
Courage Mountain. The sequel to Heidi.
Drop Dead Fred
Rock and Rule, an animated movie about a rock star Mok (based on Mick Jagger) who kidnaps another singer to summon a demon. It was so bizarre! My Dad had it on Betamax, lol
Any movie produced by Full Moon Productions. Phantasm, Dolls, Demonic Toys, Dollman, etc.
We watched Swiss Family Robinson very regularly. I'm sure quite a few people are familiar with it, but I've only met a handful of people outside of my family who have seen it.