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[Mictlantecuhtli]

Stalker

100%? I'm watching this now.

Also there's a movie called 'Moon' I want to check out. I love me the sci-fi mind horror stuff. Who's got stuff I haven't heard of, though, of the horror-due-to-the-unknown type of themes? An HP lovecraft movie that doesn't suck would be my dream.

[Il Palazzo]

100%? I'm watching this now.

Remember that obscure/niche films are usually only watched by those critics who activelly seek them out. I.e., they tend to be already positivelly predisposed to the kind of entertainment they constitute.

An HP lovecraft movie that doesn't suck would be my dream.

Have you seen, ahem, Call of Cthulhu?(the RT page has got the wrong year listed for the film. It's from 2005.)
It's a black-and-white, silent film. Probably the best format to tell the, admittedly rather goofy at its heart, story.

Or Dagon? This one treats itself very seriously which, coupled with rather low budget, makes it often slide into the campy side of filmmaking. Still, at it's best, it manages to effuse an atmosphere I've found to be the closest to what I'd imagine a Lovercraftian story should have.

[Helgoland]

Did anybody mention 2001 yet? Oh, and Dark Star is awesome as well.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

100%? I'm watching this now.

Remember that obscure/niche films are usually only watched by those critics who activelly seek them out. I.e., they tend to be already positivelly predisposed to the kind of entertainment they constitute.

I'm watching it now and stunned at the quality, to be entirely honest. Might have to watch CoC next, I'm feeling cinematic today.

[Cheeetar]

Also there's a movie called 'Moon' I want to check out.

You have picked very well to have chosen this movie to check out.

[nenjin]

Dagon is actually, surprisingly excellent. Had so many low expectations of Lovecraft movies, it surprised me. Also has one of my top 10 cringe scenes in it too.

RE: Hemlock Grove. I'm watching this now. It.........I dunno. It's saying all the right things, just too fucking loudly. A lot of stuff gets tossed around in the first episode that is cut and dry, and the show moves very quickly. Like you know those meaningful scenes with no dialog that last maybe 20 seconds? This show does them in 5 seconds. It manages to mock Twilight while almost giving off the same mass-market vibe, too. Only watched the first episode so I'm going to give it a few more before I render judgment. If you can't watch it or have not yet and want a synopsis so far....

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Gypsies. Werewolves. Other implied weird shit. I assume a lot of that is priming the audience so they can later upset expectations, but still. No series or film about the weird earns my contempt faster than the one that just launches straight into it, being explicit where subtle is more appropriate. There's little things here and there it does too that kind of annoy me in the context of a show like this. For example, character has a prophetic dream filled with weird imagery. Then later, a scene happens that's highly reminiscent, but not a carbon copy, of that dream. What does the director/producer decides needs to happen? Why, show the dream again right along side it, so any fucking muggle can make the fucking connection. Seriously, FU. The essence of the weird and the esoteric is that if you can't keep up, no one gives you fucking Cliff's Notes. Unless you're just peddling another quasi-fantasy piece and throwing a lot of deceptive imagery in there, because visual storytelling is a great substitute for an actual plot. /s

Also, Famke Janssen doing an atrocious, overly indulgent British accent. Goddamnit woman, quit hamming it up!

Also, it's yet another show wholly preoccupied with sex. Damnit, why do these shows always have to have people banging at least once an episode.

EDITSTORM

Jesus christ this show makes Carnivale look like a Bible study group in comparison. Put your genitals away for 5 fucking minutes, please!

Ok, turns out it is pretty decent. A little more TNT-esqe drama than I'd like, but the story has started picking up speed. I'd say it's worth a watch. Not amazing, but it's currently filling my weirdness needs.

[XXSockXX]

Tideland

Oh yeah, Tideland was fun. I wouldn't describe it as esoteric really, but weird it is, very much so.

Speaking of Lovecraftian movies, I need to mention "In The Mouth Of Madness". A while ago I watched a German adaption of "The Colour Out Of Space", called "Die Farbe", which was also pretty good (b/w and low budget though).

The Masters of Horror series had a few good ones too IIRC, I particularly liked "Cigarette Burns".

[Il Palazzo]

Oh, god. I've just remembered Léolo:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/leolo/
Imagine Catcher in the Rye-style stream of consciousness narrative, with Tideland's(or The Fall's) reality filtered through child's imagination, and City of the Lost Children's beauty-among-decay visual style, all mixed with half of the characters being mentally unstable.

[wobbly]

I'm not sure it exactly fit's what your after but I quite enjoyed The Jacket:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jacket

Probably more drug/hallucination/pyschology based wierdness then occult but maybe still fits.

[smirk]

Try Matango. It's billed as a Japanese monster/horror film, but it's much bleaker and more layered than you'd expect. Made in the 60s so the special effects aren't the best, but still a very good atmospheric film.

Speaking of Japanese cinema, anything by Akira Kurosawa is worth watching. Rashomon and Seven Samurai, at least.

And lastly, if you watch only one movie this year that has a zombie invasion, Japanese Greasers and a band called Guitar Wolf, make it Wild Zero.

[Duuvian]

Mean Guns the movie I thought was pretty weird. It worked somehow though, had some cool moments, though of course in real life it would be a massive tragedy.