10 Amazing Movies Nobody Knows About
3. The Man From Earth
2007's sci-fi drama The Man from Earth is a fascinating beast indeed, what with its script being started by prolific genre writer Jerome Bixby back in the 1960s, and only being completed on his death bed in 1998.
The $200,000 film did enjoy something of an uptick in popularity due to a pirate copy leaking online mere weeks before its official release, with even producer Eric D. Wilkinson thanking pirates for raising the movie's profile.
Indeed, the movie - about a university professor (David Lee Smith) who claims to be 14,000 years old - was illicitly distributed online by pirates which, in conjunction with rave reviews, led to it enjoying a brief-but-fleeting period of buzz.
Yet just over 15 years later, the movie is more-or-less forgotten, which considering the quality of its enigmatic screenplay and brilliantly ambiguous central performance, is an absolute travesty.
Though a sequel, The Man from Earth: Holocene, was eventually released in 2017, it failed to make much of a dent at all, in part because the original movie had largely evaporated from the cultural consciousness, and also the fact that it was a huge step down in quality from the first.