#obscure film

[davey-jones-lock3r]

Limbo the organized mind.

jim henson 1966

[arconinternet]

The Aliens Are Coming (Video, 1980)

You can watch it here.

@skinslip

[marsmarvel02]

Has anyone heard of this movie?

Seriously, I’ve been attempting to research it but can’t find anything due to this movie’s general obscurity as well as the fact that there are like three other, better-known movies with this name.

[papas-majadas]

What if I told you there was a buddy cop comedy starring Bob Hoskins as a racist cop — who gets a heart transplanted from a man named Napoleon Stone played by Denzel Washington?
I wouldn’t believe it either; but it happened. 
Further proof that everyone in Hollywood during 80s and early 90s was high on cocaine.

[dragonomatopoeia]

it is so deeply important to have friends who have completely different tastes than you re: media. gotta be the normie friend for some and the weirdo esoteric niche guy for others. the one who can be chased with a worm around the playground and the one who can do the chasing in turn. peace and love on planet earth

[anitapallenberg]

That Obscure Object of Desire / Cet obscur objet du désir (1977) | Dir. Luis Buñuel

[anna-scribbles]

h-how do you ever finish any of your work? genuine question because you seem to be productive despite your agreste syndrome and I need to learn your ways. but also how do you ever finish any of your work

unclear. last night i stayed up and finished a report worth 25% of my grade at about 5am, arrived on time for my 9am lecture, and spent about half of it zoned out while thinking about seventeen year old emilie agreste. and i was one of the most active participants in the class discussion

[johbeil]

Look through an obscured window

into the room behind it and to the window at the other end. Rolleiflex SL35 E with 50 mm Zeiss Planar on Foma 100 B&W film.

[cybernetikdeathboy0666]

Strange Days

[arconinternet]

The Thief in the Night Film Series (Videos, 1972/1978/1981/1983)

The never-completed Christian film series about the end times. You can watch them here.

(They're listed on the page in anachronic order; note the years of release.)

@skinslip

[marsmarvel02]

WHAT THE HECK IS THIS?!

I was indulging my curiosity about low-budget films by researching “Musicland Band” when this happened to pop up in my Youtube recommendations. “Oh cool”, I thought, “another silly kids’ cartoon with living musical instruments. I wonder how stupid this one gets”.

Opening credits say “Based on the short story by Jennifer L Matlik”; never one to let an adaptation come before the source material, I pause the video to Google her.

Guess what comes up? NOTHING. Just some facebook profiles of people with the last name “Matlik”. Confused, I Google around some more before returning to the video. “Directed and animated by Gray West“ pops up next. I search him up; again, NOTHING.

Returning to the video, I take a few seconds to laugh at the bad animation before skipping to the credits; almost everyone involved in the film’s production seems to have the last name Matlik (no one had a Facebook profile, I checked), with the exception of Gray West and one “Mikey DuHack” (again, nothing); and at the very end a card that says “Presented By Syzygy Pictures” pops up, with a link to Syzygy Picture’s website... which DOESN’T EXIST. Googling “Sygyzy Pictures” gets me NOTHING WHATSOEVER HELPFUL, either, just pictures of the astronomical phenomenon known as “syzygy”.

What on EARTH is going on here?! Why is there LITERALLY NO INFORMATION WHATSOEVER available about this thing online?! I swear this feels like the starting point of a creepypasta (the characters definitely look Uncanny Valley enough)!

[sinfullyrosey]

Little Metal Pinocchio

(Can be read as platonic or romantic. Go wild.)

Ortho: What’s love?

Y/N: It’s, uh, love is uh, a little more harder to explain, because of um… sit down.

Ortho: *proceeds to stand on chair and listen*

Y/N: *notices* Ah, you didn’t sit down. *gestures to chest* Love is something you feel, inside.

Ortho, copies Y/N’s gesture: Inside… Do I feel it?

Y/N: I don’t know, you’re made of metal, but maybe some is there.

Ortho: Oh. What’s that? *points to the chair he’s standing on*

Y/N: That’s a chair.

Ortho: *stumbles but Y/N catches him* What’s that? *points to Y/N’s shoe*

Y/N: That’s a shoe.

Ortho: What’s that? *points to Y/N’s mouth*

Y/N: That’s a mouth. *gently kisses Ortho on the cheek*

Ortho, flustered & excited: What’s that?

Y/N: That’s a kiss.

Ortho: Oh. *points to chair* A kiss. *points to his shoe* A mouth. *points to his mouth* A chair. I give you a shoe. *kisses Y/N on the forehead*

Y/N, flustered as well: Close enough.

[consanguinitatum]

Pinned Post: All My Deep Dives into David Tennant's Rare or Obscure Audio, Video and Theatre Performances

About Me: I'm a professional archivist and fan of David's since 2013 who was once a research reporter for the now-defunct DT unoffical news site, David Tennant at DT Forum. I began my research into David's early Scottish theatre work in mid-2014, and though that's my main research focus, my research interests usually fall somewhere in the "if it's rare or obscure and DT did it, I'm curious and want to hunt it down!"

If you're interested in David Tennant's early career in theatre, film and audio, you'll want to read my research. From Bite, to Spaces, to my interview with Takin' Over The Asylum's David Blair, I post my deep dives into the obscure facets of David's work. They feature rare photos, interesting information, archival finds, and every now and again, videos and audios you can listen to. You can also listen to a minisode of my in-development podcast (also called A Tennantcy To Act) where I explore Golaschin, an unknown 1989 audio play David did as a 2nd year drama student! A Tennantcy To Act is an in-depth compendium of David's growth from the sharp kid to the greatest live stage actor of his generation.

There's so much to read and learn and be amazed by, and a resource you'll find yourself going back to again and again. You'll find nothing else like it on the internet, expertly curated and compiled over many years of professional research others will never have the opportunity to do. Subscribe for free (or click "Let me preview it first!) to get notifications whenever a new article is posted; you won't be disappointed!

And feel free to chat with me there - you can message me directly if you have any thoughts, questions, or info to add!

[turtletoads]

film red on my mind

[thebramblewood]

Read an exclusive excerpt of "Chapter 5: The Mysterious Cal and Lily" from Tangled Vines: A Complete Investigation of the Vatore Disappearances, the bestselling phenomenon sweeping Sim Nation!

The advent of the Roaring '20s put a new city on the map. Prohibition was in full swing across the nation (though often loosely and selectively enforced), but citizens were more eager than ever to revel in excess. Producers of alcoholic beverages (including the Vatore family itself, having swiftly resumed business operations despite the loss of its future inheritors) transitioned to an outward emphasis on medical spirits while moving recreational production underground. Equally clandestine speakeasys began cropping up by the dozens, but one city's winding sidewalks, grimy storefronts, and labyrinthine system of underground tunnels made it particularly well-suited to hosting these secret locales. Soon enough, San Myshuno was the pinnacle of glitz, glamor, and elegant debauchery. All who attended a party wanted to be seen. Curiously, though, two of the names most often uncovered in tabloid archives, Cal and Lily, seemed to fully avoid the increasingly ubiquitous flash of the camera. While other frequenters of the speakeasy circuit often found their grainy black and white faces in print, providing endless fodder for the burgeoning gossip rag industry, this pair remained elusive, which of course sold even more papers. Fellow partygoers pitched first-hand accounts to the highest bidders, and readers clung onto every salacious word. Lily and Cal were always observed to arrive together, but she would soon make a beeline for the gramophone while he settled in at the bar. Nearly every report calls Lily an exquisite beauty with an almost supernatural ability for drawing men into her orbit. In some instances, partygoers describe a herd of suitors nearly erupting into fisticuffs as they competed for her attention. It is impossible to say how many of these accounts are exaggerated or even fabricated. Nevertheless, it is clear she was quite the force. At the end of the night, she would leave with her chosen companion, stupefied by his stroke of good luck, on her arm. Meanwhile, Cal would watch listlessly from a distance, nursing a glass of whiskey he was never observed to actually drink. The relationship between the two was unclear, as was his reason for accompanying her, as he seemed to have little interest in the raucousness surrounding him. He rarely engaged with other guests or even Lily herself, though there is at least one report of an argument in which he seemed with little success to be dissuading her from leaving with yet another man. One cannot help but draw parallels to a certain set of siblings with suspiciously similar names. Despite being younger, Caleb Vatore was always said to be protective over his sister Lilith's interests, even if she rarely heeded his advice. Digging into the newspaper archives at Myshuno Meadows Library unearths several more disturbing accounts. Increasingly, there were whispers that the men Lily seduced completely vanished from San Myshuno society after coming into contact with her. While there was a small spike in unsolved murder cases at the time, a concrete connection between the victims and the mysterious Lily cannot be made. In one story, which admittedly reads like a hallucinatory drug trip, Lily is described as a succubus with glowing red eyes and sharp blood-stained teeth. This account was clearly dismissed, for its revelations were never entertained further. All at once, the champagne and glitter dissolved into a more sober era, and these socialites vanished from public life just as swiftly. In isolation, similarities between Cal and Lily and the disappeared Vatore siblings may seem like mere coincidences. In truth, it cannot even be proven that they existed. No official records matching either individual have been discovered. One could argue that they were works of fiction concocted to boost sales or composites drawn from several individuals. However, considered alongside the evidence to be presented in later chapters, the theory that this duo and the Vatores are one and the same becomes too tantalizingly probable to dismiss.

[baiwu-jinji]

poetic sceneries and imaginative character designs in The Storm (大雨)