Reaction Shots Hidden Gems Watchlist

In the recent Reaction Shots Matthew Walden, Tokyo Slim, Huber, and I rattled off so many hidden gem films I thought it'd be nice to collect them all here for you, plus there are some bonus ones in here too, and of course check out the amazing Patron recommendations here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hidden-gems-feb-47258503

Watch or listen to the episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47401482

Matthew Walden's Gems:

The Legend of Billie Jean

Sneakers

Bastard Swordsman

The Crawling Eye

Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People

School of the Holy Beast

Daisies 

Near Dark

Face in the Crowd

Class of 1999

Clifford 

Welcome to Me Kritsen Wiig

Skeleton Twins

The Bride Wore Black

Goro Body Snatcher From Hell

Ninotchka

Firemen’s Ball

The Villainess 

Last Hurrah For Chivalry

Stromboli

They Live By Night (nicolas ray)

The Devil’s Envoys (marcel carne)

The Gorgon

Wild Zero

Ian's Gems:

Upstream Color

Pain and Glory

The Skin I Live In

The Handmaiden

On Silver Globe (Dir. Andrzej Żuławski 1988)

Phase 4 

Tangerine

Coherence

Only Lovers Left Alive

Mystery Train

Holy Motors

Borgman

Let The Right One In

Cache

Titus (Dir. Julie Taymor)

eXistenZ

Dead Ringers

House

El Topo

Fail Safe (Dri. Sidney Lumet 1964)

Don’t Look Now

Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia

Kafka

The Limey

The Conversation

Deathtrap

The Guest

The Buffy The vampire Slayer

Under the Silver Lake

Tokyo Slim's Gems:

Christian Petzold’s films Phoenix and Transit

Cold War

Red Rock West

Bubba Ho Tep

Primer and Upstream Color

Headhunters

Better Luck Tomorrow

The Guilty

Embrace of the Serpent

Brother

Big Night

Tampopo

Banana Split

Long Day’s Journey Into Night (3d disclaimer)

Border

Frank

Tarsem Singh’s The Fall and The Cell

Skeleton Twins

Angel Heart

Short Term 12

The Edge of 17

Good Time

The Florida Project

99 Homes

The One I Love

Midnight Special

Amer

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s Resolution,

Spring, The Endless, Sychronic.

Monga

In The Mouth of Madness

Frailty

Pontypool

The Little Hours

Romeo Is Bleeding

Stuff that’s probably mainstream-ish but more

people should see:

Observe and Report

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Strange Days

Gattaca

Constantine

The Love Witch

The Sisters Brothers

Overlord

Exit Through The Gift Shop

Dark Days

Layer Cake

Stoker

Attack The Block

True Romance

Pump Up The Volume

TV

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

Huber's Gems:

Dredd – Pete Travis

The Raid 1 and 2 – Gareth Evans

Polytechnique – Denis Villeneuve

Cronos – Guillermo Del Toro

The Brood – David Cronenberg

Pulse – Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Hard Eight – Paul Thomas Andderson

The Killing – Stanley Kubrick

Barry Lyndon – Stanley Kubrick

Touch of Evil – Orson Wells

Near Dark – Kathryn Bigelow

The Wailing – Hong-jin Na

Meet feebles – Peter Jackson

Elephant – Gus Van Sant