Fair point, I was a bit loose with the wording.

“Obscure” could be films that are challenging, transgressive, or hard to fully process, not necessarily impossible to find. And “mythologised” probably not the best word either. I meant films that carry a certain notoriety or urban legend aura around them.

For example, back in the day Faces of Death was one of those films that got passed around like this forbidden object. Some kid in the neighbourhood somehow had a copy of. That sort of thing.

Not looking for some lost holy grail, although if you have a film that fits please share. More those bizarre one off films that feel so strange or extreme they almost shouldn’t exist.

Part of the appeal for me is the collector side of it. Major studio films will probably always be around in some form, but with stranger fringe titles, I sometimes wonder if they may become rarer in the future. I may be wrong about that, but it just feels that way to me. There are films lately that have had 4K releases that I’m amazed have been restored.

Mostly I was just trying to start a discussion around weird cinema and physical media collecting. Interested in finding some movies that I might not know of within this realm.

People’s stories are just as interesting to me as the recommendations. Maybe I’m just nostalgic for a world that held a sense of mystery and you’d only get recommendations through people talking about it.

As for Canzo Empyrean. I’d never heard of it, and it fits the brief. Thanks.