Movies that you love but nobody else (in the world) seem to know about.

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Originally Posted by Impossible

Birth and What Richard Did are both amazing!

Have you seen the Spanish film Sleep Tight?

Never heard of it. Which makes it perfect for this thread, I'll keep an eye out for it.

Originally Posted by wonkavision

Interesting choice. I was fascinated by the novel by Patrick McGrath back in 1990. A truly horrifying book, narrated by a paranoid schizophrenic, that I read multiple times. I was so excited that Cronenberg chose to bring it to film, but was ultimately disappointed in the final result. Obviously it is a difficult story to bring to film due to it's nature and I really shouldn't compare books to film too much. Perhaps I expected too much from my own thoughts on the novel. I'm glad you mention the film though and I need to watch it again, it's been many years.

I never read the book, which might be why I've taken to the film. It's really short, brief compact film so I imagine the book itself has a lot more depth to it, but I found the tone really disturbing, it felt like being led into the dark by someone you don't fully understand at that really creeped me out, the scenes where his jotting things in his book with some sense of purpose but it's utter jibberish really felt like it brought that first person perspective to what is essentially a third person medium. I hope you like it more when you get around to revisiting it.

Originally Posted by Moviefan2k4

I don't know much about either one on a technical level, but I like the message of the film, and how its woven into the narrative instead of shattering it. Most of the story takes place in the restaurant, yet it never feels cramped or rushed. The first sequel is much the same way, taking place mostly on an airplane...but the third one branched out a little bit. The fourth is more of a spinoff, than a direct sequel.

Fair enough, it's a shame the faith based movies don't get taken seriously enough to get proper productions around them. The idea of spending an afternoon with Jesus is an interesting one, questioning existence, morality and tragedy in faith and spiritual based way is always something that interests me. But it often feels like challenging subject material tends to either get pushed aside from most the Christian based films, or they create unnecessary villains to create easy answers. The film you posted looked interesting, it's just a shame the production around it seemed a bit cynical and cheap.