Forgotten films.

[John C. Holmes]

Vincent Price's Edgar Alan Poe films, most notably The Conqueror Worm, are all awesome. (Any film where Price played a witch hunter was off the charts, he's that chilling in them.)

[gapedhok]

Some random films that come to mind:

Going Berserk - John Candy's best IMO. Also includes Eugene Levy and other SCTV alums.
I have never spoken to a John Candy "fan" who has seen it.

Johnny Got His Gun - Disturbing anti-war film with Donald Sutherland as Jesus Christ.

Blood Simple - Coen bros first film, well-edited and produced.

[Refhand]

Cronos Guillermo del Toro, writer/director

Though this might have resurfaced on TV following the success of the Hellboy movies and Pan's Labyrinth. Definitely one for the film cultists though.

IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104029/

[melies]

Originally Posted by John C. Holmes

Vincent Price's Edgar Alan Poe films, most notably The Conqueror Worm, are all awesome. (Any film where Price played a witch hunter was off the charts, he's that chilling in them.)

It's actually called 'Witchfinder General' and based upon the exploits of the real life Matthew Hopkins (although the events portrayed were totally ficticious). 'The Conqueror Worm' was the title the American distributors gave to it for some inexplicable reason and is the title of a poem by Edgar Allen Poe. Perhaps they got confused by Price's many AIP 'Poe' films, or thought that the audience would. In fact, with all due respect, you seem to have done so yourself.

Anyway.. does anyone remember 'The Smiling Ghost' with Wayne Morris and Willie Best?
a 1940 B picture rip-off of Bob Hope's 'The Ghost Breakers' which also had the very funny Best - yes I know that it's the typical early Hollywood stereotyping of the negro but he seems to rise above all that and (I think) has some of the best lines in both films.

[Night Haunter]

Originally Posted by gapedhok

Some random films that come to mind:

Going Berserk - John Candy's best IMO. Also includes Eugene Levy and other SCTV alums.
I have never spoken to a John Candy "fan" who has seen it.

Johnny Got His Gun - Disturbing anti-war film with Donald Sutherland as Jesus Christ.

Blood Simple - Coen bros first film, well-edited and produced.

The Metallica song 'One' is based on Johnny Got His Gun.

[Navvet]

Originally Posted by Aubrey

Carnival of Souls is a goodie. The whole thing's like a dream. Very influential, IE, on David Lynch and George Romero. It was made by Herk Harvey, who (I think) was a car dealer. He never made any more films. The star was Candace Hilligoss.

(I think it may really be better known than I'm making out.)

I remember seeing Carnival of Souls when I was a boy. It scared the Hell out of me.
I knew even then though, that Candace Hilligoss was a real beauty.

[Navvet]

Originally Posted by gapedhok

Some random films that come to mind:

Going Berserk - John Candy's best IMO. Also includes Eugene Levy and other SCTV alums.
I have never spoken to a John Candy "fan" who has seen it.

Johnny Got His Gun - Disturbing anti-war film with Donald Sutherland as Jesus Christ.

Blood Simple - Coen bros first film, well-edited and produced.

Going Berserk is, without doubt, John Candy's funniest movie. Eugene Levy and Joe Flaherty add brilliant comic performances. I strongly recommend it to any SCTV fan and, in fact, anyone who likes to laugh.

[trailmaster]

Amazon.com claims that they have every movie ever made for sale, although many are very expensive.

[thunderfly]

Premature Burial. Another Edgar Allan Poe story starring Ray Milland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ps8uu_q-w

Sole Survivor. About an American WW2 bomber lost in the North African desert where the crew have survived as ghosts starring William Shatner and Richard Basehart,
Here is the intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U0F2qwF9pU

Mr Sardonicus. A horror film where a man's face has turned into a hideous fixed smile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou4Xidb3fVE

[Mister Fide]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

Amazon.com claims that they have every movie ever made for sale, although many are very expensive.

That is quite a claim since.........

......about half the movies ever made are lost.........forever!


Ahead of its time in 1967, The Shuttered Room with Carol Lynley, Gig Young & Oliver Reed deserves to be better known.
A 'special edition' DVD, with a commentary from Miss Lynley, is probably too much to hope for.