Esoteric Moving Picture Thread for 'Movie Heads'

Couldn't find an esoteric film thread so thought it made sense to create one.

As and when I find links to trailers or complete films (it happens) I will post them here. Please feel free to do the same.

Basically it's going to be 'lost' TV movies, true 'cult' classics, exploitation, unusual documentaries or clips... anything I come across that looks interesting enough to share.

What it won't be anything to do with is anything to do with mainstream 'supermarket cult films' like 'Scarface', 'Pulp Fiction', 'The Big Lebowski' etc. They have their place, but then so do CREATE bikes.

So, first off the block...

Finally found a link to the lost Richard Harris film '99 and 44/100% Dead' from 1974. It's a kind of Pop Art Gangster film, well worth a butchers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2OKSpK8I8o

Not a film but a truly awe inspiring piece of live television.

Most shockingly, nobody died.

FYI: The guy with the UZI is called Robert Wanko...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDIVheB5kIM

Another one just to get the ball rolling...

'A Killer in the Family' was a TV movie from 1983. Basically it centers around a guy who tells his three sons he was falsely imprisoned, is being bullied on the inside and needs to escape. They break him out and it turns out he was lying about that and a lot of other things...

Stars Robert Mitchum, Eric Stoltz and James Spader, never released on video or DVD, below is the entire film in parts...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-dzpTeyZck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTGdGgQtZic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVllDp2IemU

One more...

Peter Watkins' 'War Game' from 1965. He's the same guy that did 'Punishment Park'.

It's a pastiche of a PIF (Public Information FIlm) about what would happen in the event of multiple nuclear strikes on the British Isles. It's awesomely bleak and on a par (albeit in a very different way) with 'Threads'.

One of the best examples of a world gone to shit ever and again the entire film in 5 parts...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58NmAzQzRjk

Wong Kar Wai is not esoteric (at least, not anymore), but the ending to Happy Together (amongst other moments - in particular, one scene while they're fighting, but I can't find a video for it online) is still one of my favourite scenes in cinema ever. Christopher Doyle's cinematography + their editing is amazing. An example of "you can't write this shit" and why cinema is RAD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUCt0Ce8MQI

Wow. Unusual choice of music ( a live Turtles track) but the tempo of it definitely works. Will have to try and dig that film out. Really like the last couple of lines of dialogue.

Unrelated but awesome and esoteric by default rather than intention:

Kitch devil-worship-sploitation classic 'The Devil Rides Out' (1968). One of Christopher Lee's best performances, 'WIcker Man' withstanding of course....

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Unrelated but awesome and esoteric by default rather than intention:

Kitch devil-worship-sploitation classic 'The Devil Rides Out' (1968). One of Christopher Lee's best performances, 'WIcker Man' withstanding of course....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjiesKYB758

Quality film. Oddly I watched this again just the other night.

Homicide: Life on the Street

Subway - Part 1 of 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhplAN8ie2w

fuck me best thread ever,
I enjoyed reading that Wheatley story and all the other black magic novels as a teenager, and wasnt even a goth.
didnt know it was a film- awesome.
wait til Manc Ronnie gets here, prepare to be edumacated

Anyone seen "Merge" by H. Ippy? Fucken weird.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHXy8DpF5k0

Killer clowns ownz yo!

"in space no one can eat ice cream."

@winganwill.
Apologies if this shit is alredy covered, really didn't see anything about 'lesser' and 'unseen' film out there. If you guys already covered every angle of film based perversion then awesomeness!
awesomeness! Merge me off.

It's THAT film! The one about the guy trapped in the phone box...

Actual film starts at 9.38, it's interviews up to then, entire thing is in Spanish but then it's kind of obvious what is going on. A guy it trapped in a phone box...

'La Cabina' (1972)

http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20090127/cabina-integra-con-presentacion-mercero-lopez-vazquez/393271.shtml

On a slightly lighter note, somebody posted one of the best Hammer House of Horror episodes in it's entirety on Youtube...

The
House
That
Bled
To
Death
Yo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jTdimh1wBo

I used to know a bloke who referred to his music taste as "esoteric". He was a complete fuckwit.

There was a record shop in Montreal called "CD Esoteric". Really good shop. Closed down, unfortunately.

And last one for today...

Can't quite believe this is on YT at the moment.

'Ninth Configuration' (1980)

One of only two films WIlliam Peter Blatty author of the Exorcist ever directed, possibly one of the most influential films ever made. It's one of those movies where you sit and watch it and go 'ah that's where they got that from!'. That really good scene from 'Shawshank Redemption' where it's raining and he looks up at the sky... yep.

It's supposed to exist in the same universe as 'The Exorcist' and the Linda Blair line 'They're gonna die up there' is attributed to an off camera incident involving an astronaut here. Stars Stacey Keach of 'Fat City' fame.

Anyway, it's brilliant, watch it in its entirety here... before it gets taken down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2aND3Y9bc8

There is a rapper called Esoteric. He refers to himself as the Esoterodactyl.

@Balki,

Hey I don't like the word either, but it sure beats 'Cult' and 'Eclectic'.

I may start the exoteric movie thread.

recommend this slight, overlooked mid 90s film 'coldblooded' starring 90210's jason priestley as a hitman. from my favourite genre 'assassins slowly crumbling...' (le samourai etc.)

YouTube - Scene from Coldblooded with Michael J Fox