Originally posted by neon_duke
I don't know if these qualify as "no one's ever seen them", but here goes:
Dark Star - space weirdos whose job it is to blow up "unstable" planets have to catch an alien beach ball loose in their ship, and deal with an existentialist bomb
Evil Dead series - stupid but funny sendup of horror movies
My Dinner With Andre - I didn't think a 90 minute movie of a real-time dinner conversation would be interesting, either
Head - the Monkees movie. Better than the show, even, and features a cameo of Frank Zappa telling the Monkees that they really need to focus on being musicians more
Brimstone and Treacle - a great movie starring Sting in a really disturbing role. Made before his awful preformance in Dune; in between he must have suffered a head injury and totally forgotten how to act, but in this one he's great - and I hate Sting
Raising Arizona - the movie that gave us Nicolas Cage, Molly Hunter, and John Goodman, truly hilarious
The Bedford Incident - honest-to-goodness, gripping drama made in the early '60s about a Cold War duel between a US cruiser and a Soviet sub
Koyannasqatsi - not sure if I spelled it right. Atmospheric Phillip Glass soundtrack flows through a plotless, dialogueless movie that sets time-lapse images of modern urban humanity against images of third world poverty. Blunt and heavy-handed in its indictment of Western culture, but visually compelling nonetheless
That will do for now.
[edit] Hey, Boom - I saw Billy Budd! Is that the original black and white version with Terence Stamp?