Quintessential but obscure 80s movies...?

[trancejeremy]

I guess in part because I'm getting excited by the new Vice City game, but for whatever reason, I have a hankering to watch 80s movies.

But not the ones that were hugely popular. I already know about The Goonies, the various John Hughes movies, Fast Times, etc

An example of what I mean is "The Gate".

Any other suggestions?

 

[Mycanid]

An example of what I mean is "The Gate".

Any other suggestions?

AHHHH! I had forgotten about that one?! What a horrible movie that was....

Quintessential 80's though? Hmm ... what specific genre? You looking at sci fi/fantasy stuff? Or other things?

 

[TwistedBishop]

You want 80s movies? We give you 80s movies!

http://www.fast-rewind.com/

 

[Crothian]

The Gate was just bad...really bad.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

The Gate was just bad...really bad.

Yeah. So disappointing. It could have been Sturmgeschutz & Sorcery, but Nooooooo...

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Maybe obscure, but one of my faves: Brewsters Millions

EDIT: and oh yeah, InnerSpace!
I'll be a son of a buck, I'm inside a strange man

 

[trancejeremy]

Yeah. So disappointing. It could have been Sturmgeschutz & Sorcery, but Nooooooo...

I think you're thinking of the Keep (the one where Germans enter the Keep and unleash an evil dude - based on an novel by one of my favorite authors, F. Paul Wilson)

The Gate is the one where 2 kids find a geode in the backyard, then dig a hole, which happens to be a gate to hell. And one kid who is a heavy metal fan puzzles it together thanks to a album.

Which I like a lot because the kid in it reminds me a lot of me back then (I even had some of the same posters on the wall), and it's got a very authentic use of the language back then. Like when 2 friends of his sister show up, he says something like, "Oh, no, it's the Lee sisters". Which was a stupid but common joke back then.

 

[ThirdWizard]

The Lost Boys?

I never know what was popular and what was cult because of the people I hung out with. When you're all geeks and nerds, you kinda get distanced from society!

 

[Ambrus]

The Lost Boys?

*Ominous voice-over* There's something weird in the city of Santa Carla... all the vampires have mullets...

If you want fantasy titles I'd have to say Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal. Go muppets!

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

"Streets of Fire"