By Grabthar’s hammer, what a list!
Comment on Which are the lesser-known movies that are well worth seeing?
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Rampage, it’s such a good popcorn flick. It’s so over the top that I wouldn’t blame you for writing it off without watching it, but give it a chance, it’s ultimate action silliness.
Cabin in the woods, its a top 2 horror satire, but you may have heard of that one
Tucker and Dale vs evil, maybe watch this one before cabin in the woods, it’s the best horror satire.
Galaxy quest, easily the best star trek movie ever made, one of the top 5 movies ever made.
I’m not sure how many of these are hidden gems, it depends on your viewing habits (not many people would consider horror to contain much good cinema)
zcd@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Barring Rampage these are massive cult classics.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Which is generally defined as a lesser known movie that people consider worth watching?
smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Cult movies are well known but didn’t make money at the box office.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I will preface this with it’s not going to be for either of us to decide, there are plenty people with plenty more intelligence who have debated this topic, according to Wikipedia: “The difficulty in defining the term and subjectivity of what qualifies as a cult film mirror classificatory disputes about art.”
However the general definition according to Google has nothing to do with it’s box office success,
A cult classic is a movie or other work that has a devoted following, but is often not well-known or popular with the mainstream.
Further on,
The definition of a cult classic can be difficult to define, and there are different interpretations. Some definitions include major studio productions, while others focus on more obscure films. Some definitions also exclude films that have been released by major studios, or that have tried to become cult films.
So it’s open to interpretation, and I’m going to stand by my list, and reinforce the notion that even if they are cult classics there’s a good chance someone looking for movies might not have seen some on this list.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 days ago
(don’t want to edit my post so adding another in the reply)
Another somewhat mainstream movie that was very easily missed, “forward unto dawn”, if you know much about the Halo universe you’ll know this story pretty well, but if you’ve only heard of Halo in passing this is a great place to start (and probably stop unless you’re going to play the games or read the books) the series.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 days ago
Yeah. Tucker and Dale vs evil gets way too little love.
Hugin@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
“We’ve got your friend!”
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
As a horror fan, I disagree.
The premise gets old fairly fast and then the twist doesn’t really add anything or accentuate the spoofiness, just makes the film more generic.
If you’re a fan of a certain era of teen slashers, sure go for it.
《Little Monsters》 and 《The Rise of Leslie Vernon 》are recent takes on horror films I personally prefer.