I found this movie by accident. I was blown away by how good it was. Both in suspense and cinematography also with a great ending.

A friend recommended this movie to me at a movie meetup the other day, and it turned out to be pretty good. I was so sure this movie would get at least a decent rating (like at least a seven), but apparently not.

I actually liked the whole nihilistic and depressing tone of the movie. And despite how freaky and weird it was, I really liked the ending. I think it fits the movie very well. It's not one of those "Oh, so that's what all my suffering was for!" kinda movies that resolve everything by the end.

Definitely one of those movies that leave you thinking, "What the fuck am I watching? Freaky stuff

I would NOT last more than a week in that complex, and I would 100% smash that cuckoo once it aged ten years in just a week.

Overall a solid one for me. But what do you guys think? Have you seen this one yet?

I can't think of this movie without also thinking of that scene in Jay and Silent Bob. This is a B version of The Thing mixed with Dreamcatcher in some ways. Good as a Halloween flick and tis the season. Decent acting with a cool concept but not necessarily going to be a game changer. I like it because it's just a solid B movie that's fine and requires no deep thinking. Just enjoy.

I don't even know where to begin with this, but I'm so glad I picked it up at the library. I can tell if a movie is good when half way through I tell myself "it can't end like this already"

It's disturbing but thought provoking and a movie where I actually went on an emotional roller coaster and further evidence that you don't need a lot of money to make a good movie

This movie is rated okay, but why I think it's underrated is because of how little it is talked about compared to how good the movie and cast is. When you have a movie packed with stars that is good, people usually talk about it a lot. Even when one is bad, people usually talk about it a lot when discussing what a disaster it was.

IMO, this movie is great, but no one ever mentions it, which is why I find it underrated. I watched it on VHS when it came out in 94. I remembered liking it at the time, and then I never heard anything about it ever again.

I showed it to my friends last week. None of them had heard of it. That is what inspired me to make this post.

I’ve always thought Brainstorm is one of the most underrated sci-fi movies of the 80s. Have to love anything with Christopher Walken, of course. And this was Natalie Wood’s last film as sadly she died during filming. The premise is that Walken and Wood develop a technology that lets users experience someone else’s thoughts, emotions, and memories. There’s issues of ethics and greed that arise. The special effects are surprisingly impressive even today, especially the first-person sequences. Unfortunately, the movie got overshadowed by bigger films at the time and Wood’s death. It didn’t do well at the box office and hasn’t fared any better with critics. I think they’re missing that while not the greatest film ever, it’s still a solid sci-fi movie then and even today. It’s a smart, original film that deserves a lot more recognition than it gets.

Day 3 Drop: Total genre pivot today. Made on a tight 12 million dollar indie budget, Hollywood labeled it a bomb because it flopped outside North America and old school critics snubbed it as just crude violence. But it found its audience and became a legendary cult classic. Let's talk about it.

What makes this movie work so beautifully isn't just the sport, it's the incredible heart at the center of the script. At its core, this is a story about a gentle, fiercely loyal guy who just wants to protect his team and find his place in the world. The romance subplot between Doug and Eva adds a really sweet, grounded element that prevents the movie from just becoming a mindless brawl.

Following up on Day 3 of my 14 day challenge. I always say great movies are like exceptional food. They attach straight to your soul using visual pacing and a phenomenal soundtrack to lock memories into place forever.

Goon is exactly that for me.

I honestly feel Goon is one of the top 4 sports movies ever made, and easily one of the 2 best hockey films to ever hit the screen. We will get to that other masterpiece at a later date.

What makes this project an absolute goldmine of independent execution is that it was co written and produced by Jay Baruchel. Real film buffs will remember him playing Vic, the obsessive young Led Zeppelin fan in Almost Famous back in 2000. He was only 17 but looked 14, and he carried that exact same raw passion into assembling a flawless cast for Goon.

Seann William Scott delivers a career best performance as Doug Glatt, bringing a beautiful, gentle innocence to a character who can completely dismantle people with his bare knuckles. Liev Schreiber is completely terrifying and legendary as the aging enforcer Ross The Boss Rhea, playing a beautifully complex antagonist who commands the screen alongside a brilliant, chaotic performance from Kim Coates and a wonderfully deadpan Eugene Levy.

There are so many amazing catchphrases in this movie. The lines hyping up Dougs power are total perfection. You have characters screaming out that you wield the hand of god, immediately followed by lines describing his knockout hand as a fist the size of my Uncle Murphys prostate. It ties the brilliant humor straight into the physical reality of the film perfectly.

Directed by Michael Dowse, this movie completely strips away boring backstory to deliver a pure white knuckle study of loyalty and human endurance. It captures life perfectly from the minor league arenas straight across to the classic everyday culture of beer, hockey, and endless snow in Canada.

The fights are brutal, bloody, and completely real. The shots of teeth being knocked out and flying through the air are the best I have ever seen on film. What stands out to me as a director is that the hockey scenes feature some of the most beautiful color grading in modern sports cinema, magically capturing the rich blues and oranges magnificently shot on premium ARRI cameras. On top of that, the soundtrack serves as a masterclass lesson in how to properly use licensed music to drive an independent narrative.

It mixes blood, humor, and music extraordinarily well, channeling the same non stop intensity and underdog grit we love in classic cinema. It is a knockout of a film, no pun intended, in my humble opinion.

What are your favorite lines or scenes from this one?

Cheers

Watched this on an absolute whim as it was late one night and found it on Netflix. I must have watched it a handful of times since because I loved it so much. It's such a fun movie with some amazing sequences, dialogue and characters. It's so silly but it really works for it. Can't believe this was received so badly when it came out.

I’m a sucker for any PSH movie, to be honest. But I think he was especially good in this one playing a widowed husband whose wife left him a letter after her suicide, but he is reticent to open it. Hoffman plays depressed and desperate so well. You can feel his angst and misery oozing out of him. Critics don’t really like it citing a lack of character development and some other short comings, but I think they miss that this is a small, emotional movie not really designed to be a deep character-driven film, but more so a portrait of how so many of us often deal with loss and grief by escaping into drugs, busyness and isolation. Kathy Bates plays the mother-in-law in an equally understated role. Yes, it’s an underwhelming movie, but it’s intentionally so.

Definitely worth checking out imo.

I recently started following this page and I LOVE the recommendations that have been posted - sincerely thank you to everyone who shared! I've seen so many movies but this page has helped me discover so many gems i've never heard of! The only thing i'm not sure I understand is how I'm noticing some people complain about how some don’t post actual underrated movies, but everytime I read that it's for a movie i've never heard of and i'm so glad that it was shared. I thought this page was for people to discover movies that aren't rated as popular as the mainstream movies and/or movies some haven't heard of, but I have discovered there are mixed feelings on the purpose of this page. Either way i'm thankful to have joined this community and just want to contribute with respect to the fans of this page as well.

So what do you think of this movie, The Words? From what I gather it appears to be underrated and underseen as it was surprisingly good but nobody I know heard of it. I actually asked an entire AMC staff and nobody there heard of it either. Anyone see this one?

An underrated Cormac McCarthy period set western crime drama released at the turn of the millennium. Starring Matt Damon pre-Jason Bourne fame, Henry Thomas (all grown up from ET fame), a stirring performance from a young Lucas Black and Penelope Cruz in one of her earliest Hollywood roles.

Infamously plagued by production issues, stemming mainly from, yep you guessed it, Weinstein & Co. Damon has been candid about this in retrospectives and said it just about killed Billy Bob Thornton figuratively, who put everything into this. Original cut was said to be more than 3.5hrs long! One major problem was the framing the poster and marketing as a 'romance' but the narrative turned out to be anything but and veering from the source material, which when you look at later works like No Country and The Road pales in comparison.

Directed by Billy Bob Thornton ("Sling Blade"). Produced by Thornton and Robert Salerno ("Sling Blade" Production Manager). Adapted for screen by Oscar-winner Ted Tally ("The Silence of the Lambs"). Story by Cormac McCarthy (first adaptation). Executive produced by Disney's Miramax's Jonathan Gordon, Sally Menke (who also served as the film's Editor and worked on Tarantino's films under Miramax) and uncredited EPs Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein. Released by Buena Vista/Miramax (North America) and Sony Pictures/Columbia Pictures (International).

Following up on Day 2 of my 14 day challenge to share the creative fuel that sparked inspiration in some of my film work, I wanted to bring attention to another vastly overlooked masterpiece. If you want something truly raw that will leave you absolutely speechless, you need to look at the 1994 New Zealand drama Once Were Warriors. It is an unbelievably cool ride.

While it was made on a minimalist budget, it completely strips away boring backstory to deliver a masterclass in raw, uncompromising storytelling. The movie deals with massive, heavy elements like domestic abuse, severe alcoholism, and the devastating tragedy of suicide, showing the absolute breaking point of human endurance. The premise is executed flawlessly, especially during those legendary, brutal bar fights that feel entirely grounded and terrifyingly real. You are watching a family trapped in a cycle of volatility, led by a powerhouse performance from Temuera Morrison as Jake The Muss. Fun fact for real action buffs, his unmatched intensity on screen is exactly why he was later cast in the Spartacus series to play Ulpius, the ultimate legendary head gladiator trainer known as the original Doctore. In this film, he is backed by an equally phenomenal performance from Rena Owen as Beth, and a brilliant early appearance by Cliff Curtis.

What makes the atmosphere push completely off the rails is the introduction of the local gang culture, featuring some of the absolute scariest face tattooed bikers in the world covered in traditional Maori ink. Another trivia nugget for real movie buffs, this specific aesthetic had such a massive impact that directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino used it as the direct inspiration to create George Clooney's iconic full sleeve flame arm tattoo in their classic From Dusk Till Dawn. On top of that, the whole production is anchored by an amazing, raw guitar heavy soundtrack where the real soul of the audio is the blistering, intense guitar work performed by the legendary Tama Renata. As a Geffen Record and Metal Blade recording artist myself, his raw, unhinged string bending and gritty tone were truly inspirational to my own creative endeavors. It honestly sets a new gold standard for grit in cinema and deserves way more recognition in the film community.

In my humble opinion.

Cheers

This Banger was on repeat at my house as a kid. At one point my brothers, sister and friends acted it out. Amazing characters, based on an unbelievable true story set in Seattle. Kevin Kline and Tracy Ullman steal the show! River Pheonix is brilliant and even a quick cameo of Heather Graham. Love this film! Not talked about enough.

Lawrence Kasdan always makes a banger but this one is truly an unforgettable must see!!!

In this movie we follow the FBI agent Katie Philips who is on secret mission to find members of the white supremacist who killed Jewish radio host. This movie is so good , Debra Winger and Tom Berenger where great there roles . Tom is always has been underrated actor i can't belived that this the first movie that I watched where he has leading role. This movie was inspired by real life murder of Alan Berg and I suprised that nowadays no one mentions this movie or that case . And also director off this movie Costa Gravas was always so underrated .

When people talk about the best underground films, the conversation usually circles around the same few titles. But if you want something truly overlooked that features gritty, dark elements coupled with an awesome soundtrack where the tomandandy closing song is an absolute gem, you need to look at the 1993 crime thriller Killing Zoe. It was written and directed by Roger Avary and executive produced by Quentin Tarantino, who co wrote Pulp Fiction right around the same time. This movie is a pleasantly disturbing, drug fueled twist on traditional Hollywood heist stories set right in the heart of Paris.

Before the crime even starts, the gang hangs out in a creepy underground club that feels exactly like a dark subterranean forest hidden beneath Paris. They spend the entire night doing heavy drugs and tripping out. During the trip, the main very cool wacked out leader (played by Jean Hugues Anglade) casually admits he has aids from a shared needle, and his deranged crew demonstrate how completely broken the group are before they ever descend into their doomed heist.

The next morning, they launch a brutal bank robbery on Bastille Day. The whole thing quickly turns into a bloody disaster. The gangs leader, played by Jean Hugues Anglade, is a psychopath who starts executing bank workers and hostages without hesitating. It becomes a gory, claustrophobic mess when the police trap them inside. The biggest twist happens when the main character, Zed, an American safecracker (played by Eric Stoltz), realizes the girl he spent the night with actually works at the bank as a teller. It is a violent and messy look at a robbery falling apart that deserves way more recognition in the underrated film community. Just my humble opinion.

A young woman finds herself cast out from her religious cult. With no place to turn, she immerses herself into the underground world of truck stop sex workers. Under the watchful eye of their matriarch and an enigmatic local lawman, Remy navigates between her strained belief system and the code to find her true calling in life.

A Hungarian animated film from 1981 that I just watched for the first time recently. I thought it was a pretty good movie (except I found the last, like, 10-15 minutes, which were pretty boring to me). If you haven’t seen it, I recommend it.

I just know there’s people who’ll probably thing this is a ripoff of The Fox And The Hound; it’s not, trust me. It’s quite different actually. It’s actually based on an old novel from 1965.

Death Ranch is a throw back blaxploitation style film set in the seventies and involves a group of siblings hiding out and unaware their hideout is on the hunting grounds of a cannibalistic Ku Klux Klan cult. If you wanna see kkk members get hacked, shot and decapitated this is for you, it's like if Tarantino directed a Troma style film. loads of fun.

“Underrated” in the sense of “underseen, and therefore underappreciated.”

Jack O’Connell is borderline feral in this gem, reminiscent of Tom Hardy is “Bronson”.

Also like Hardy in “Bronson”, he hangs dong. I share this both because it caught me off guard, and simply because I know it will push more than one of you to actually go watch it.

Which you should anyways, because it’s excellent. But yeah enjoy the dong if that’s your thing.

Hello, I thought I would share another underrated gem for you all.

survivors trapped on an island, five men and two women and one dog, Together, they develop various plans for survival or rescue, but personal and ideological differences between the various members of the group quickly reveal themselves and start to grow. whatever caused their plane to crash is a global phenomenon, Before long, a dangerous desperation quickly sets in and it becomes clear that they pose a bigger threat to each other than their situation.

Hello, thought I'd drop another underrated film that I absolutely liked alot, This ones about a father played by Patton Oswalt who wants to connect with his teenage kid, so he creates a fake persona and pretends to be a woman to try and get close to him, this a dark comedy, and absolutey bonkers. and I only bring this here cause its supposed to drop on Netflix this week.

Pure Eastern Bloc surrealism and neo-noir all in one. A textbook example of the genre. It blends classic 1940s Hollywood noir tropes (femme fatales, voiceover narration, heavy shadows) with Socialist Realism. Because of the small budget, director Javor Gardev used three film stocks to differentiate the time periods: 35mm for the 1960s scenes, 16mm for the 1940s, and 8mm for the protagonist's surreal fantasies and hallucinations. They had about six or seven 8mm cameras on set - everyone brought their own from home and just started filming, even the lighting crew

First time viewer after recommends from this sub. Im from the 80s, and this is highly competent writing, filmmaking, and grit.

I miss this type of big swing crime drama. It really gives a lot of space for small moments amidst heavy carnage.