Name an obscure movie sub-genre

Two headed transplant movies:

The Incredible Two Headed Transplant
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067245/

The Thing with Two Heads
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067245/

Manster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manster

 

My favorite is the Italian Horror/Mystery sub genre 'Giallo'. It includes films by directors like Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, etc. Lots of amazing and atmospheric films in that sub genre. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giallo

 

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"Guy in a box" movies.

BURIED
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462758/

BRAKE
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1990181/



Admittedly it's a small sub-genre...

 

Exploitation genre has a lot of specific sub-genres: blaxploitation, hicksploitation, nunsploitation, rape and revenge, carsploitation, women-in-prison, nazisploitation and many more...

 

two levels of Zombie sub-genres:

Nazi Zombies - Dead Snow and Oasis of the Zombies

Aquatic Nazi Zombies - Shock Waves and Zombie Lake

 

Then there are non-Nazi zombies.

-Bill

 

Nuclear genetic mutation.

 

I just watched this with my son last night. We had a blast. It just kept getting better as it went, and the maniac's toothy grimace put us in stitches. A so bad it's good movie, and I loved all the 1970 outdoor locales used in filming. And don't forget that proto-prog soundtrack, with wild flute playing & fuzz guitar. And was that a mellotron I heard?

 

Heck, "Nazi exploitation" was a whole sub-genre unto itself, especially Nazi sexploitation films where the evil SS officers would get up to all sorts of terrible things with female prison camp inmates. The ultimate film of this genre would have to be, of course, the deathless Ilsa: She-Wolf of The SS (1975).

 

Related to the two-headed transplant genre - How To Get Ahead In Advertising (1989)

 

I've got a few from that genre in my collection, as well:

Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS (1974)
Elsa Fraulein SS (1976)
Salon Kitty (1976)
SS Camp: Women's Hell (1976)
SS Experiment Love Camp (1976)
Red Nights of the Gestapo (1977)
SS Girls (1977)
SS Hell Camp (1977)

There are a few others I've been wanting to track down, but the DVDs don't show up too often in the used bins.

 

I like collecting movies about music and it hit me one day that there sure are a lot about fictional artists or bands:
Eddie and the Cruisers
Streets of Fire
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
This is Spinal Tap
A Mighty Wind
Still Crazy (pretty much the UK's answer to Spinal Tap; although I have yet to see Bad News)
Grace of My Heart (pulls from so many real life people that it's fun to spot the reference)
Inside Llewyn Davis (although again based in reality)

 

I've got a question. Now could the infamous Salo be put into this category or is it something else altogether?

 

"Car Race Across The Country"
-Gumball Rally
-Cannonball!
-Cannonball Run 1, 2
-Death Race 2000

"Groups Comically Looking For Someone's Hidden Treasure"
-It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
-Million Dollar Mystery
-Midnight Madness
-Rat Race

 

Wasn't this more of a straightforward drama though? I saw it on TV a few years ago and recall it more as a "dramady" than a straight-up satire or comedy.

 

It's been a long time since I've seen it - but it struck me at the time as a much darker satire than even Spinal Tap.

 

Musical Westerns with a cast of little people
Westerns involving a duel between a gunman and a harpoonist

 

I was completely alone in my appreciation for this film, for a long, long time. I saw it as a mixture of many different moods...like life itself.

May I add to your list The Commitments ?

 

I'm not really sure how to categorize Salo... it's one of those films that could fall into a number of genres (drama, horror, exploitation, etc....)

 

+ the Outpost series

 

Mockumentaries: fake documentaries...

All You Need Is Cash (The Rutles)
A Mighty Wind
Best in Show
Real Life
Take the Money and Run
Zelig

Lots and lots of those.

 

Don't forget Vanished! and Boxing Helena!

 

Fly crawls over a woman's naked body movies:

Yoko Ono's Fly

ummm, I'm having difficulty coming up with another here...

 

... and then there's the "shockumentary" genre, including classics like the Faces of Death series, the Death Scenes trilogy, the Mondo Cane films, etc....