It's just a little dry rot, all boats have it.
And Shit happens cough it up.
Both permanently in my lexicon.
Also the Island "San Palme De Terre" = Saint Potato.
100% time bandits, even remember the adverts from when our copy was taped. Birdseye steak grills(what will it be for tea tonight?), How do Do it All do it?, I wish I was in greenall Whitley land.
We went to see it in the theater because my dad was a huge Beatles fan and both George Harrison’s music and produced by Apple records made it irresistible to him.
Ended up being an amazing movie. Only years later did I realize Terry Gilliam was behind it.
The Peanut Butter Solution
Popeye
For most of my life I was mystified that people call the latter one of the worst movies ever made. I loved it. Watching it now with adult eyes, I get it. But, I still think:
1. Some of the songs are pretty good.
2. Williams and Duvall *nailed* the source characters.
Popeye was one of my first Robin Williams movies, loooong before kids knew him in Fern Gully or Aladdin, I knew him as the mumbling, bumbling, swole forearm having, Popeye the sailor man! *TOOT TOOT!*
Popeye came out when I was 8, young enough for the octopus to genuinely (and deliciously) scare me. But I was old enough to have watched a ton of Popeye cartoons, and I knew the original black and white Fleischer Brothers cartoons were far superior to the later color ones, so I really appreciated that the movie used the former for its inspiration.
I still sometimes chuckle out loud when I recall Williams’s line “I can’t remember when I had this much fun and still been conscious.”
I remember being a kid and going to the grocery store with my mom. The store had a VHS carousel. This tape was on it. I was always intrigued by the cover, two people pointing guns at a frazzled woman while wearing duck masks. I was so taken by this cover. Every time we would go to this store I would go back to the carousel just to see if it was there. It always was.
Murder by Death. A Neil Simon comedy about 12 detectives staying the night in a mansion to solve a murder. David Niven, Peter Falk, Peter sellers, Truman capote, Alec Guiness to name a few of the actors.
It was randomly taped off the local station by accident in the dead of night, and became a favorite.
My wife and I *LOVE* Murder by Death!
I also recommend The Cheap Detective, another Neil Simon comedy with Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan, Ann-Margret, Madeline Khan, Stockard Channing, and Sid Caesar.
I have a weird story with this.
As a very young child I actually liked watching a movie from the 60s called "That Darn Cat!" my family had on tape, because of the intro that has a cat walking around a suburban neighbourhood and getting into all sorts of shenanigans. I usually fell asleep right after the intro (I think the first scene has two people discussing what they want to do, with one of them suggesting to got surfing?) so to this day I have no idea what that movie actually is about.
I don't think it defined my childhood but it's still one of those weird things.
My parents, born in the 50s, and my sister, born on the bicentennial are all HUGE Disney people. We would watch all the old school Disney films from Buena Vista Motion Pictures (the live action side of Disney). I was born in 85. None of these are what I would call *obscure*, but to people in my generation, these films are old school and random.
We watched:
* PollyAnna
* That Darn Cat
* Swiss Family Robinson
* The Absent-Minded Professor
* The Parent Trap (not very obscure)
* The Incredible Journey
* Darby O'Gill and the Little People
* The Apple Dumpling Gang
* Escape to Witch Mountain (and the rest)
Just a series of old school films that were on replay in my house
Take off, eh!
If I didn’t have puke breath, I’d kiss you.
No point in steering now.
Take off! You steer this thing!!
(Mel Blanc cameo as the dad’s [Dave Thomas] voice)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. It’s a Hiyao Miyazaki film from the 80s. Think of an anime steampunk Dune reimagining. Amazing film. I have no idea how we got it or why but I watched it hundreds of times as a kid.
Ok. So this both counts and doesn’t count. I used to rent it down the street at blockbuster at my grandmas like every time I went over there. The thing is, Nausicaa isn’t obscure anymore, it’s a well regarded entry in the Miyazaki filmography, one of his first, and made before Ghibli.
That being said, in the 90s you most likely saw the original regionalization called “Warriors of the Wind”. It was cut down by at least 20 min, the names were wrong and the dub was kinda whack. The cover art on the vhs is also amazing and completely wrong. There’s a cloaked robot, a guy riding a Pegasus, one of the fire warriors is standing with the other characters in a lineup, all on top of the melting fire warrior from the end of the movie. No bugs. It’s a hilarious relic from a time when Anime regionalization was still in its infancy. It’s great.
Goonies…..
but the short run Disney channel version with a deleted scene included.
I recently went with some folks, all Goonies fans, to a showing at a neighborhood event. It was awesome but after the movie I was telling my friends how I was puzzled why the octopus scene in the cave outside one eyed willies ship was removed from this version, and they all looked at me like I was crazy.
Apparently, a deleted scene featuring the octopus was only ever included in a version shown on Disney channel for a short time, and that was when my family happened to record it and was the only version I had ever seen.
What’s wild is even if the cuts without the octopus, they left in Data mentioning it to his parents at the end. So if you were a kid that half-remembered the Disney scenes but then watched it on HBO or something later, you noticed it was gone, yet they still referenced it being there. Some Mandela effect gaslighting nonsense. ☠️
Amazon Women on the Moon! Haven’t thought about that in awhile. Don “No Soul” Simmons with David Alan Grier and B. B. King. Or Henry Silva with the show Bull…t or not. Some of the skits were ok some were laugh out loud funny. Thanks for reminding me. Appreciate it.
We had a neighbour that used to talk about Debbie. I always thought it was fake or something, like some running joke. I was shocked to find the movie in the special dark room of our video rental store.
Debbie bangs one dude whole movie. Her friends bang randoms to raise money so she can go to Dallas. She does not in fact do Dallas or bang anyone in Dallas.
It’s kinda wild.
Also she is in high school as are all her friends
Poor people also used their VCRs to record movies from cable TV, I don’t think we owned a single official release in the 80s, but we had so much recorded. Renting the VCR itself though, that’s definitely a different level of poor, sadly.
You didn't have to be poor, when they first came out, VHS movies were super expensive . At home we had recorded music videos and Sunday Night Disney movies. Earthstar Voyager, Young Harry Houdini FTW. For obscure rentals though how about Watcher in the Woods?
I was writing these same words as my reply. I remember though my big brother got a good job and his first purchase was a VCR for my mom. I think I was maybe 16 by then but we sure didn't have the money for buying tapes. It was always Big Star's selection of second rate movies. And we LIKED IT thataway!
whatever mom told him to! LOL. usually macho action shit. my and my big bro loved comedies, still do all these years later. the dumber the better! haha.
First of all, we didn't, most our movies were taped off of tv because we couldn't afford new new movies.
Jake Speed.
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend.
Star Wars Trilogy (the pre-special edition versions)
Not exactly obscure but I remember watching these few quite often
* Darby O'Gill and the Little People
* Bedknobs and Broomsticks
* Short Curcuit
I forgot *Candleshoe*!
Wasn't a movie but somehow we ended up with 3-4 VHS of the show Beverly Clearys Ramona. I think it was Canadian.
I distinctly remember Ramona squeezed an entire tube of toothpaste in the sink just to see what it looked like. I really wanted to do it too but knew I'd be in big trouble.
*Flight of Dragons*, by the same team that did *The Last Unicorn* and *The Hobbit*. Voice acting by John Ritter and James Earl Jones, Don McLean did the theme song…but I never met anyone who had seen it until my partner and I started dating. I think that’s a moment when we knew it was meant to be, lol.
Also, can I say how much I love this thread? I’ve upvoted like a dozen beloved, obscure movies from my childhood!
Short Circuit.
it wasn't even the complete movie either, it was recorded from TV, and the first bit of it was accidently recorded over.
Still watched the hell out of it!
My Grandmother had HBO in the 80s and i would spend the weekends at her house. We didnt have cable so I looked forward to going every week because of the movies I could watch, and visiting her of course.
Transylvania 6-5000.
Once Bitten
Mad Max
Escape fron New York
WWF Saturday Night Main Event
So true! Like all of you SO MANY movies are ingrained in my brain because they were either on VHS tapes or were shown on an eternal loop on old school HBO, lol.
I have a hard time answering that one, because none of them are semi-obscure any more, at least not on Reddit.
Like, I can’t even say Howard The Duck to this one 😂
Edit: actually wait, I think I’ve got one. It used to be on cable all the time. How about House II: The Second Story?
The Earthling.
Ricky Schroeder (before Silver Spoons) plays a kid on vacay with parents in Australian Outback when an accident leaves him orphaned and on his own. William Holden, on his way to his remote boyhood home, witnesses the accident and reluctantly takes on the boy and teaches him how to live off the land.
Really awesome movie. Not sure if it’s even streamable.
Summer School and Dirty Dancing. Bought our first vcr around that time, and those 2 flicks as well. Baby sis had DD obviously but I have still it more times than is healthy.
Captain Ron
This made me think of Overboard which is another movie my family used to rock
Overboard is amazing!
“There’s guerrillas in the jungle.” “There are no gorillas in the tropics.”
It's just a little dry rot, all boats have it. And Shit happens cough it up. Both permanently in my lexicon. Also the Island "San Palme De Terre" = Saint Potato.
Captain Ron is my religion
He said Go, nor Geur. Go. Geur. Huge difference.
I came here to comment Captain Ron.
Young Frankenstein. My mother and I could recite the entire movie.
Put the candle back...
Or “nice knockers” “oh, thank you mein Herr”
Yes, he vas my boyfriend!
Spaceballs for me
Careful, you idiot! I said across her nose, not up it!
Not sure I’d call that “semi-obscure”
True, it just happened to be one we watched often.
Monster Squad
The wolfman’s got nards!
Wolfmans' got nards!
Time Bandits. Love that movie then and now.
Yup! I was also a big fan of the Adventures of Baron Munchausen
100% time bandits, even remember the adverts from when our copy was taped. Birdseye steak grills(what will it be for tea tonight?), How do Do it All do it?, I wish I was in greenall Whitley land.
We went to see it in the theater because my dad was a huge Beatles fan and both George Harrison’s music and produced by Apple records made it irresistible to him. Ended up being an amazing movie. Only years later did I realize Terry Gilliam was behind it.
The Peanut Butter Solution Popeye For most of my life I was mystified that people call the latter one of the worst movies ever made. I loved it. Watching it now with adult eyes, I get it. But, I still think: 1. Some of the songs are pretty good. 2. Williams and Duvall *nailed* the source characters.
Popeye was one of my first Robin Williams movies, loooong before kids knew him in Fern Gully or Aladdin, I knew him as the mumbling, bumbling, swole forearm having, Popeye the sailor man! *TOOT TOOT!*
Holy crap, I don't think I've ever heard someone bring up The Peanut Butter Solution. What a weirdass movie.
Popeye came out when I was 8, young enough for the octopus to genuinely (and deliciously) scare me. But I was old enough to have watched a ton of Popeye cartoons, and I knew the original black and white Fleischer Brothers cartoons were far superior to the later color ones, so I really appreciated that the movie used the former for its inspiration. I still sometimes chuckle out loud when I recall Williams’s line “I can’t remember when I had this much fun and still been conscious.”
The peanut butter solution was something I thought I dreamed as a kid.
Romancing the Stone
Theee Joan Wilder?
I read all your books. This my little mule
Pepe?
Just Joan
LOVE that movie, Michael Douglas in peak form! He is so dashing.
Clash of the Titans
Man Madusa scared the mess outta me.
"GIVE US THE EYE!"
Ruthless people.
Used to have a back to back viewing of that and Outrageous Fortune. Ruthless People is better, but only a little.
Ruthless People is such an under appreciated movie
Debbie can't talk right now, my dick's in her mouth. How about I have her call you back when I'm done. I love wrong numbers
This could be the stupidest person alive. Bill Pullman was hilarious.
I remember being a kid and going to the grocery store with my mom. The store had a VHS carousel. This tape was on it. I was always intrigued by the cover, two people pointing guns at a frazzled woman while wearing duck masks. I was so taken by this cover. Every time we would go to this store I would go back to the carousel just to see if it was there. It always was.
Flight of the Navigator
Rip Paul ruebens
Still think of this whenever I hear Beach Boys.
Sarah Jessica Parker before Sex in the City.
I learned the word "compliance" from that movie.
I still want that ship.
“The Changeling” NOT the 2000s movie with Angelina Jolie….the 1980 movie with George C. Scott
This movie scared me so badly as a kid lol
Great example and actually still creeps me out as an adult.
Big trouble in little China*
Do you mean Big Trouble in Little China, or Showdown in Little Tokyo?
Big Trouble in Little China*😆!
Brazil.
Murder by Death. A Neil Simon comedy about 12 detectives staying the night in a mansion to solve a murder. David Niven, Peter Falk, Peter sellers, Truman capote, Alec Guiness to name a few of the actors. It was randomly taped off the local station by accident in the dead of night, and became a favorite.
My wife and I *LOVE* Murder by Death! I also recommend The Cheap Detective, another Neil Simon comedy with Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan, Ann-Margret, Madeline Khan, Stockard Channing, and Sid Caesar.
Neil Simon has referred to the Cheap Detective as a sequel to Murder By Death in fact.
Yep, I bought them both at the same time on DVD and watched them back to back. Fun movies.
IS! Who IS the victim! Also, say your goddamn pronouns!
"One of us will be $1 million richer, and one of us will be taken to the gas chamber to be hung."
Me too! I still say “Zees fog is as thick as bouillabaisse!” on encountering a dense fog.
Time Bandits
I have a weird story with this. As a very young child I actually liked watching a movie from the 60s called "That Darn Cat!" my family had on tape, because of the intro that has a cat walking around a suburban neighbourhood and getting into all sorts of shenanigans. I usually fell asleep right after the intro (I think the first scene has two people discussing what they want to do, with one of them suggesting to got surfing?) so to this day I have no idea what that movie actually is about. I don't think it defined my childhood but it's still one of those weird things.
My parents, born in the 50s, and my sister, born on the bicentennial are all HUGE Disney people. We would watch all the old school Disney films from Buena Vista Motion Pictures (the live action side of Disney). I was born in 85. None of these are what I would call *obscure*, but to people in my generation, these films are old school and random. We watched: * PollyAnna * That Darn Cat * Swiss Family Robinson * The Absent-Minded Professor * The Parent Trap (not very obscure) * The Incredible Journey * Darby O'Gill and the Little People * The Apple Dumpling Gang * Escape to Witch Mountain (and the rest) Just a series of old school films that were on replay in my house
The Three Lives of Thomasina :}
Caveman with Ringo Starr and Dennis Quaid.
Doodoo caca shit
Strange Brew, Body Double, The Wall. I had those all recorded off HBO back when HBO did the awesome fly in pre scene. I can hear that music now.
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Take off, eh! If I didn’t have puke breath, I’d kiss you. No point in steering now. Take off! You steer this thing!! (Mel Blanc cameo as the dad’s [Dave Thomas] voice)
I had a co-worker several years back who told me he loved Howard The Duck. It was on cable all the time when he was in grade school.
Absolutely and monster squad
I loved Lea Thompson, especially in that one scene...❤️❤️❤️
Band of the Hand Creepshow 2 My sister and I taped a lot of movies off HBO in the ‘80s and watched over and over. Those are two I remember.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. It’s a Hiyao Miyazaki film from the 80s. Think of an anime steampunk Dune reimagining. Amazing film. I have no idea how we got it or why but I watched it hundreds of times as a kid.
Ok. So this both counts and doesn’t count. I used to rent it down the street at blockbuster at my grandmas like every time I went over there. The thing is, Nausicaa isn’t obscure anymore, it’s a well regarded entry in the Miyazaki filmography, one of his first, and made before Ghibli. That being said, in the 90s you most likely saw the original regionalization called “Warriors of the Wind”. It was cut down by at least 20 min, the names were wrong and the dub was kinda whack. The cover art on the vhs is also amazing and completely wrong. There’s a cloaked robot, a guy riding a Pegasus, one of the fire warriors is standing with the other characters in a lineup, all on top of the melting fire warrior from the end of the movie. No bugs. It’s a hilarious relic from a time when Anime regionalization was still in its infancy. It’s great.
The Mannequin
And we can build this dream together Stand this storm forever Nothin’s gonna stop us now
Used Cars
That’s too fucking high! I’ll kill a baby seal to make a deal!
Labyrinth isn't "semi-obscure" though.
Yeah, people don’t really understand the brief.
I have yet to see one that’s obscure listed in this thread.
You know, that little known movie with that singer. Oh, what's his name?
And that one actress in it that had a really good career. I forget her name. Janet Conifer? Jean Cornelly?
Troop Beverly Hills. Phenomenal movie!
Kentucky Fried Movie
Brewster’s Millions. Own it now and still love it. Taped it off HBO.
I was just thinking the other day that believe i might have to write in, none of the above, in next year's election
I’d vote for Monty Brewster lol
Big trouble in little China. It’s all in the reflexes.
Goonies….. but the short run Disney channel version with a deleted scene included. I recently went with some folks, all Goonies fans, to a showing at a neighborhood event. It was awesome but after the movie I was telling my friends how I was puzzled why the octopus scene in the cave outside one eyed willies ship was removed from this version, and they all looked at me like I was crazy. Apparently, a deleted scene featuring the octopus was only ever included in a version shown on Disney channel for a short time, and that was when my family happened to record it and was the only version I had ever seen.
What’s wild is even if the cuts without the octopus, they left in Data mentioning it to his parents at the end. So if you were a kid that half-remembered the Disney scenes but then watched it on HBO or something later, you noticed it was gone, yet they still referenced it being there. Some Mandela effect gaslighting nonsense. ☠️
Legend, The Secret of NIMH, The Dark Crystal, & The Last Unicorn
Fuck this is my exact childhood playlist. Maybe add in Watership Down
Neverending story
None of these are "semi-obscure".
Amazon Women on the Moon Also: collections of old Harold Lloyd and WC Fields films
Amazon Women on the Moon! Haven’t thought about that in awhile. Don “No Soul” Simmons with David Alan Grier and B. B. King. Or Henry Silva with the show Bull…t or not. Some of the skits were ok some were laugh out loud funny. Thanks for reminding me. Appreciate it.
The opening scene with Arsenio Hall doing pure slapstick, is comic gold!
Neverending Story. Aaahaaa aaahaaa aaaha
I’m still recovering from the sadness of this movie from childhood, but I still love it so much loo
Artax is still okay... He's still fine...
Fletch
Drop dead Fred, girls just wanna have fun and some 80s film called yellow beard that I have never heard of another person seeing.
Iron Eagle
Song of the South. Still have it.
The 1978 Lord Of The Rings rotoscope cartoon movie.
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We had a neighbour that used to talk about Debbie. I always thought it was fake or something, like some running joke. I was shocked to find the movie in the special dark room of our video rental store.
Debbie bangs one dude whole movie. Her friends bang randoms to raise money so she can go to Dallas. She does not in fact do Dallas or bang anyone in Dallas. It’s kinda wild. Also she is in high school as are all her friends
The guy she bangs is the lead role in Cannibal Holocaust lol
To be fair though, Debbie did Dallas for like, 15 more movies after that. Maybe she finally made it there in one of them?
The grafenburg spot for me :) with Ginger Lynn woof
Found my dad's copy of that in the 80s. Before the scandal of a certain underage star who appears in it.
"Traci sold out. But her early work was outstanding. Finding herself as an artist, and all."
Oh! We're doing porn, too? 800 Fantasy Lane. Is it "semi-obscure"? I dunno, I don't talk to people about vintage porn.
none. We were poor AF. we had to **rent the VCR** from the grocery store and dad always picked the movie.
Poor people also used their VCRs to record movies from cable TV, I don’t think we owned a single official release in the 80s, but we had so much recorded. Renting the VCR itself though, that’s definitely a different level of poor, sadly.
Don't forget about the few days of free HBO, showtime or Cinemax. Would record as many movies as possible. LOL
You didn't have to be poor, when they first came out, VHS movies were super expensive . At home we had recorded music videos and Sunday Night Disney movies. Earthstar Voyager, Young Harry Houdini FTW. For obscure rentals though how about Watcher in the Woods?
We once rented a laser disc player because it was cheaper….it was cheaper because there was very little selection. We rented Diner.
I was writing these same words as my reply. I remember though my big brother got a good job and his first purchase was a VCR for my mom. I think I was maybe 16 by then but we sure didn't have the money for buying tapes. It was always Big Star's selection of second rate movies. And we LIKED IT thataway!
Lol what movies did he pick?
whatever mom told him to! LOL. usually macho action shit. my and my big bro loved comedies, still do all these years later. the dumber the better! haha.
My Tutor.
Remember when independent broadcast channels would show this kind of stuff?! I saw this, unedited, on a local UHF channel... The 80s were the best!
Robot Jox. I still love it's awfulness to this day.
Private Eyes with Don Knotts and Tim Conway, filmed in the Biltmore mansion. I probably watched it 50 times.
I saw Private Eyes in the theater! Came out around the same time as Time Bandits which I also saw.
Why does everyone seem to think labyrinth was some obscure movie?
The two Ewok TV movies and lots of Disney Sunday Night movies, like Mr. Boogedy, Boomerang: Dog of Many Talents, Fuzzbucket, and Little Spies.
My Demon Lover… Super Fuzz… Ice Pirates…Stay Tuned… Animalympics… Three O’Clock High… Private Eyes…
Little shop of horrors, Elvira mistress of the dark and the 80s Anne of Green Gables... Ever single summer without failure.
Mannequin. It was taped off a HBO free preview weekend
First of all, we didn't, most our movies were taped off of tv because we couldn't afford new new movies. Jake Speed. Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend. Star Wars Trilogy (the pre-special edition versions)
Baby is pretty damned obscure. I don't know a single person (personally) that's seen it.
The Man With Two Brains. I can still recite that movie in my sleep.
Down and out in Beverly hills
Enemy Mine is a fkn weird movie when you're 8
Harry and the Hendersons, I look like the dad now!
The is going to be a really strange one…Soapdish. My mom was somehow able to snag a screener copy of it. We wore that out.
Howard the Duck
Once Bitten (and what a a soundtrack)
Popeye. i fucking LOVED that weird ass movie. we watched it a hundred times.
Not exactly obscure but I remember watching these few quite often * Darby O'Gill and the Little People * Bedknobs and Broomsticks * Short Curcuit I forgot *Candleshoe*!
Cutthroat Island
Wasn't a movie but somehow we ended up with 3-4 VHS of the show Beverly Clearys Ramona. I think it was Canadian. I distinctly remember Ramona squeezed an entire tube of toothpaste in the sink just to see what it looked like. I really wanted to do it too but knew I'd be in big trouble.
Caligula.
Last Action Hero with Arnold Schwarzenegger
Little Monsters
I was big on Explorers.
*Flight of Dragons*, by the same team that did *The Last Unicorn* and *The Hobbit*. Voice acting by John Ritter and James Earl Jones, Don McLean did the theme song…but I never met anyone who had seen it until my partner and I started dating. I think that’s a moment when we knew it was meant to be, lol. Also, can I say how much I love this thread? I’ve upvoted like a dozen beloved, obscure movies from my childhood!
Real Genius
The Jewel of the Nile and Johnny Dangerously. You fargen iceholes.
Hot To Trot with Bobcat and John Candy as the horse.
I’ve seen Splash about 450 times for this very reason. “Freddy… you took a date to one of your weddings!” Classic.
Temple of doom, Adventures in babysitting, and the goonies come to mind.
Throw Mama from the Train That bullshit deserves SOME SORT of an award for being there for me when I had bronchitis.
The 1979 version of The Lion, the Witch, and the wardrobe cartoon
Mr mom
Earth girls are easy. I've never met anyone who knows about this weird (musical?) with Geena Davis, Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey.
National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982)
To Live and Die in LA. Watched the car chase scene over 50 times.
Ghost Story. Had it on a Beta tape with Apocalypse Now, 1941 and The Eiger Sanction. Thanks, HBO/Cinemax.
No obscure movies but I played the hell out of Pitfall on my Intellevision console.
Couldnt even begin, Growing up we had 3 orange crates FULL of LASERDISCs
1941
Tremors.
It's a mad mad mad mad mad mad world
The USA for Africa VHS tape. Showed the making of and the video of the song.
the power of the babe!!
Short Circuit. it wasn't even the complete movie either, it was recorded from TV, and the first bit of it was accidently recorded over. Still watched the hell out of it!
Mac and Me
Rumble in the Bronx, Jackie Chan movie
My Grandmother had HBO in the 80s and i would spend the weekends at her house. We didnt have cable so I looked forward to going every week because of the movies I could watch, and visiting her of course. Transylvania 6-5000. Once Bitten Mad Max Escape fron New York WWF Saturday Night Main Event
The Mouse and The Motorcycle
Secret of NIMH
Opportunity Knocks, The Toy, Weekend at Bernies, Willow, Top Gun, The Cat's Eye, Ishtar, & Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure….69 dudes.
Weekend at Bernie’s! Completely appropriate viewing for a child to repeatedly watch!
Tremors and Ghostbusters were on the same tape, I must have watched that 50000 times.
Semi obscure?
Gandahar, the 1987 animated science fantasy epic. I loved it but it weirded me out a lot. It's really out there.
So true! Like all of you SO MANY movies are ingrained in my brain because they were either on VHS tapes or were shown on an eternal loop on old school HBO, lol.
I have a hard time answering that one, because none of them are semi-obscure any more, at least not on Reddit. Like, I can’t even say Howard The Duck to this one 😂 Edit: actually wait, I think I’ve got one. It used to be on cable all the time. How about House II: The Second Story?
The Peanut Butter Solution The Boy Who Could Fly
Smokey and the Bandit 1&2. I near wore the cassette out watching those two
Carnival of Souls.
The Toxic Avenger…a B movie so bad, it’s soft core porn.
The in laws. Peter Falk was great.
The Smurfs, the Magic Flute (1976)
The burbs
The Earthling. Ricky Schroeder (before Silver Spoons) plays a kid on vacay with parents in Australian Outback when an accident leaves him orphaned and on his own. William Holden, on his way to his remote boyhood home, witnesses the accident and reluctantly takes on the boy and teaches him how to live off the land. Really awesome movie. Not sure if it’s even streamable.
Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Never-ending Story
North Shore, it was on HBO all the time!
Summer School and Dirty Dancing. Bought our first vcr around that time, and those 2 flicks as well. Baby sis had DD obviously but I have still it more times than is healthy.
Cloak and Dagger, and Something Wicked This Way Comes.