20 INSANE Recent Movies You Probably Missed
Sleep on these utterly BONKERS new movies at your peril.
Even though we're living through a particularly challenging period for the film industry, where original visions are often quashed in favour of generic IP slop, that can't fully prevent deranged and daring projects from finding their way to adventurous moviegoers.
Whether on the big screen or at home, there's clearly still a raging appetite for unique films that push the envelope and, one way or another, leave viewers wondering quite what the hell they just saw.
And in the last year-or-so, these are the 20 films which truly let their freak flag fly, and yet for whatever reason they've flown way, way under the radar.
Unsurprisingly many of these bonkers movies had a minimal-at-best marketing campaign, ensuring they flopped at the box office in spite of positive reviews - if they even had a theatrical release at all.
But if you're in the market for something different, you should absolutely consider all of these films, which, regardless of their individual quality, were at least trying to do something wild.
A commendable goal in a filmmaking landscape ever-more dominated by safe-playing franchise fare...
20. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Let's kick things off with perhaps the single most overlooked film of the year so far - Gore Verbinski's brilliant sci-fi black comedy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die.
Though it screened to strong reviews at several prominent film festivals over the last few months, this Sam Rockwell-starring romp about a man travelling back through time to prevent an AI apocalypse was an infuriating box office flop, grossing less than $10 million worldwide.
Considering Verbinski somehow produced such a slickly gorgeous film for just $20 million, that's an even more depressing result, and while the film has performed decently enough since landing on streaming, it still feels like a movie destined to be discovered en masse years from now.
But you absolutely shouldn't wait, because between Rockwell's superb performance, the brilliantly inventive script, and Verbinski's ultra-stylish direction, this is one heck of an unforgettable ride that manages to feel both incredibly topical and yet utterly timeless.