Beyond the Mind's Eye
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Mind's Eye
The Gate to the Mind's Eye
A Boy and His Dog
Dark Star
Wizards


You mean those werent mainstream? Jees, one of my favorite lines of all time was from a boy and his dog. Yeah, she had good taste! Or was that yeah, she tasted good?

I come to think of Murder a la mod. A rare film by a famous director, Brian De Palma. It's not hard to find as it's a special feature on Criterion Collection's edition of Blow-Out on Dvd/Blu-Ray but not many people have seen it though.

Allthough i have a particular genre that i prefer i still want to share some gems with you that are hard to find
but still worth while if you like good cheesy 80's movies

Ragewar http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089060/

Macabra http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082257/

The last shark (Jaws Rip-off) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081677/

all three where no real top notch films but still very consumeable ....

don't have a clue if any of these were ever released on LD ....

brings back sweet memories ...

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An FYI on Silent Running:

Some of the footage of spacecraft in Silent Running was left over from 2001.


Do you where or which scene in the film I wasn’t aware of that and I heard that Stanley Kubrick had all the models destroyed so they couldn’t be used in other films?
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The scene that I heard of is the one where a fleet of spacecraft are shown approaching the space arc. It is only a few seconds long. Apparently, the scene was rescued from the 2001 cutting room floor by someone for later use(?).

I've not seen Silent Running (it's on my to see list) but I read in the forward of a copy of the 2001 novel that Silent Running featured unused test footage of Saturn that was created before the Saturn sub plot was dropped from the 2001 film.

In the novel the location of the giant monolith is Iapetus/Japetus, a moon of Saturn, to get there the Discovery slingshots around Jupiter. Kubrick and Clarke thought this would be too difficult to execute on film and would confuse the viewer so just moved the destination of the Discovery to Jupiter.

Most of these are obscure by today's standards. Plenty were hits in their day, though.

Bedlam (1946)
La Bete Humaine (1938)
The Big Combo (1955)
The Black Room (1935)
The Body Snatcher (1945)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Crime Wave (1954)
Criss Cross (1949)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Fury (1936)
The Grifters (1990)
Gun Crazy (1949)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
The Last Detail (1973)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Little Murders (1971)
The Lodger (1944)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Man With a Cloak (1951)
Night and the City (1950)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Night Nurse (1931)
The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
Picture Snatcher (1933)
Red Rock West (1992)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Seconds (1966)
The Set-Up (1949)
The Small Back Room (1949)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Stand-In (1937)
The Stranger (1946)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
The Trial (1962)
Two Seconds (1932)

A good movie worth watching is Zachariah - it is classified as an musical western and features a very young Don Johnson.
I doesn't seem to have ever been issued on laserdisc which is a shame although you can easily find it on DVD.
If you are a psycholedic hippy from the 70's you will love this!

There was a film entitled Sssss. It was about a guy who went through a reptile metamorphisis and eventualy became a snake. A King cobra to be exact. Also contains a few odd carnival scenes. I'm surprised it was never released on LD. It's from the early 70s and is on dvd. I saw it in the theatres back in the day, it's creepy as hell.

Leviathan and Screamers with peter weller

Meteor (1979) no I don't have it as of yet, only seen it at the cinema 1979 and again panned and scanned on VHS I think and TV in the late 80's possibly early 90's on TV?

http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/06052/ID2 ... teor-(1979)

Its up for sale and I like to get this, early pressing no signs of four-track discrete DVD/bluray insight so might as well keep this, one on the watch list.

The LaserDisc of Meteor is a beautiful widescreen pressing with excellent stereo surround sound and well worth seeking out.

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Well I'll see how it goes over the next few weeks. When was the last time you played it?

Actually, your post made me play it just a few minutes ago. I checked it on both my Panasonic LX-900 and my Pioneer LD-1100, which has no noise reduction at all, just to be sure the LX-900 wasn't hiding any rot or crosstalk. It looked beautiful, and from the lack of NTSC artifacts, appears to be a Faroudja Super NTSC encoded pressing. The sound is great too and decodes wonderfully, especially through the Shure HTS-5300 Acra-Vector Logic Decoder, which I prefer to Pro Logic or Pro Logic II since the Shure decoding precisely duplicates the original Dolby Stereo theatrical decoders logic action.

As a side note, if anyone is interested in owning a Shure Acra-Vector decoder, you can pretty much always find them on eBay for less than 50 bucks (they sold for well over a thousand originally) They can decode 2 directions simultaneously, something no Pro Logic or Pro Logic II decoder can do and also use special processing of the surround channel, called the Acoustic Space Generator, to make 2 speakers sound like a huge U-shaped array of multiple speakers as would be found in a theater. No current matrix surround decoders come close to the decoding and overall sound quality of the Shure decoders. Many LaserDisc's were mastered using the Shure decoders to monitor the soundtrack and also used Shure's own Stereosurround encoding system to encode the surround sound on disc. CBS used the Stereosurround process for many years on their broadcasts of Letterman, movies, etc. I have brochures in PDF form if anyone is interested. Believe me, if you watch a lot of films made before Dolby released Pro Logic in 1997 (and which didn't exactly duplicate the action of their theater decoders due to patent issues with the Tate Audio company and Gary Reber), a Shure decoder is an amazing addition to your LaserDisc setup - and can be had for a very low cost.

I think I've seen bits of that one. Is that Sean Connery vs. the Giant Space Rock?

All I can remember is Sean Connery arguing with Government officials about how his anti-meteor satellite was turned into and anti-commi satellite

Yes that's the one.

Meteor was the movie that killed American International Pictures due to its cost. A disaster film caused a disaster. Sadly, some of the disaster footage is taken from Roger Corman's Avalanche, which was Rock Hudson's entry in the disaster film genre. Avalanche was released on CED VideoDisc and even DVD, but never on LaserDisc.

I saw Meteor theatrically and then on ON TV which was an over-the-air pay TV system in Los Angeles. I was also lucky and saw Avalanche at the drive-in during it's theatrical run.

Avalanche I remember that one and didn't know they used stock-footage?

well, here is a list of ones that i own, there are more but i can't remember all of the titles

Last Dinosaur, The (Kyokutei tankensen Pora-Bora) (1977) [88C59-6156]
Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977) [16-005]
After the Fox (1966) [ML103034]
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) [1101-85]
Bullet For the General, A (1967) [SF047-1772]
Crippled Masters, The (1979) [ID4053LI]
Go, Johnny, Go! (1958) [3M26]
Johnny Got His Gun (1971) [ID5275ME]
Pied Piper, The (1972) [FY026-26VC]
Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, The (1960) [11366]
Streetfight (1975) [1093]

these are newer, there are other older films but it's harder to find really good obscure films from that time.

Well if I can get hold of this on Laserdisc I'd like it to be my, "obscure uncommon" disc, just watched the film on youtube I like the whole U.F.O. cover-up operation.

No listings as of yet on eBay maybe its a cover-up?

Hangar 18 (1980) [ID8618WV]

I watched it on history ch2 that they used footage from banned nazi propaganda film "titanic" on "the night to remember". Titanic was approved 8 million reich mark budget over $200 million today. It had great special effects. Propaganda office found the film not much of propaganda and banned it. The british captured the film right when the war ended. It was meant to be anti british. They used special effect scenes on the night to remember. I can not confirm this myself I have not seen the nazi "titanic" this is history ch claim.
I also heard about 2001 sets and models were destroyed ordered by kubrick so that they wont make a sequel. 2010 making of comfirms this. They say it was difficult they had to make models watching 2001. They had no bluprint or any plan.