Please nominate a film for August’s “Fedi Film Club”!
This is the “Fringe Theater” … for weird, niche films, unknown classics and pioneering statements. If you’ve got more “popcorn” or popular films in mind, you should check out the “Popcorn Theater” post.
Anything that either you’d like to watch or would recommend to the community!
Please make sure it’s more than roughly two years old so that it will (hopefully) be available somewhere.
And if possible, provide a quick description for why you’d like to watch or why you suggest it.
- See the July’s Nominations and the introductory post for “Fedi Film Club”.
- We’ll take a vote on the suggestions in about a week’s time after this. Then we can watch and discuss.
- If you’re keen to host a live watch & chat, let us know and we’ll help notify others.
Hermit: Monster Killer (2016) IMDB
*A hilarious monster flick made on Sweden. With incredible special effects and a great performance by Borje Lundberg.*
It’s in Swedish, so you need to find the subtitles in English.
Haven’t watched it in years but it’s a classic everyone should watch, absolutely gut wrenching. Some of it was later used in a Metallica music video bringing it back to notoriety somewhat.
La Grande Bouffe (1973) wikipedia
*The film tells the story of four friends who gather in a villa for the weekend, with the express purpose of eating themselves to death. *
Thanks so much for the suggestions! I was worried no one would be into this “fringe” idea!!
So I have no idea if this is really fringe, I mean today it probably is, but I watched it with my friends in our “Classic Movies Night” film circle where we would once a month get together and watch one classic movie from before 2000, because like many we were no film nerds but we wanted to be able to talk about good older movies so we had to watch them :D. Anyway we had some rules that it needed at least a 7 on IMDB and it needed to be considered a classic by some standards. And this was one of those movies we saw. Probably one of the weirdest movies we watched :D
Meet the Feebles (wikipedia)
Released in 1989, this is an early-ish Peter Jackson movie (yes, the LOTR guy).
It’s a lurid and disturbing backstage comedy of a troupe similar to The Muppet Show.
I watched it with one friend in the mid 90s who, when it ended, stood, turned to me, and said “It is possible to go too far” before leaving the room.
Thanks for the suggestion! I was worried no one would be into this “fringe” idea!!
Have you seen Jackson’s next film, Braindead! An over the top zombie comedy. I’ve only seen it once years ago, but I remember it being a lot of fun. In the US, it’s known as* Dead Alive*. Also check which version you’re watching, as its been cut in different ways in different countries.
For example, in the US the unrated cut is 97 minutes, and the R-rated version is only 85 minutes with many of the gore scenes removed. In the UK, it is the fully uncut 104 minute version.
