20 Obscure Movies People Were Lucky to See in Theaters

20 Obscure Movies People Were Lucky to See in Theaters

Most movies get one shot at a theatrical run and either become blockbusters or sink into the imaginary vault in every producer’s heart where their failures live. They might be rediscovered in some far-flung corner of Netflix, but only the special few who rise to the top of the trending list will ever get another chance at your local indie theater. Viewers who happened to be among the handful who saw their first run have a claim to fame almost as good as the movie itself.

It’s in one of those indie theaters where user jimmypfromthe5thgala has recently been spending a lot of time. “The 1986 BMX classic, Rad, is coming back to theaters for one night,” they explained, which got them “thinking about all the films I have seen in the theater over the many, many decades I have been viewing films in a movie theater,” some of which have risen from anonymity to infamy. They asked r/Movies, “What is the most obscure film you have seen in theaters?” and it turns out Reddit has been witness to some serious film history.

Housesitter: The Night They Saved Siegfried’s Brain

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

Shortbus

Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend

Drawing Restraint 9

Airborne

Tapeheads

Mirrormask

Titus

Pink Flamingos

Bubba Ho-Tep

Man With the Screaming Brain

Hamlet

Last Days

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Escanaba in da Moonlight

Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies

The Last Broadcast

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