Being born in the early 80's I grew up right around when the home video market exploded. There were a ton of movies released directly on video. Some of these were actually pretty good, and the special effects at times could be really well done as well. Not all of these will fall under this catagory, point being there were a lot of lesser known movies released. So I started thinking about some of the stuff I grew up with that I never hear anyone talk about and wanted to see what others can contribute as well.
Witch's night out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1m6nGGNgBk
full movie only 20 so minutes long.
An old late 70's cartoon with garbage animation, about a witch who's wand gets stolen and people start turning themselves into monsters. For some reason I owned the vhs of this, so i would watch it often as you generally did as a kid.
Mio in the land of Faraway
Costaring a young christian bale
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ1jtGWdIuA
I honestly don't remember much about this one aside from the main kid (not bale) gets whisked away from his modern life by being transported to the land of faraway by grabbing on to the beard of a large floating head of an old man.
The wizard of speed and time
trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSB6ZRC-dyQ
despite the name its actually about an amature film maker trying to get his movie made about the wizard of speed and time. It has some pretty good special effects with a lot of stop motion, and apparently over 1000 subliminal messages throughout the movie.
Tommy Tricker and the stamp traveler
only trailer i can find https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLXB8t3fTuo
This movie I had taped off of the tv and watch all the time. Its about a kid named tommy and his friend ralph (though tommy is a little shit that tricks him out of one of his rare stamps)Ralph figures out how to put himself on stamps by i think reading some other guy who was a stamp traveler sand accidentally ends up going around the world meeting people from different countries, trying to get back home and to find the previous stamp traveler who has been lost I think?
Witch's night out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1m6nGGNgBk
full movie only 20 so minutes long.
An old late 70's cartoon with garbage animation, about a witch who's wand gets stolen and people start turning themselves into monsters. For some reason I owned the vhs of this, so i would watch it often as you generally did as a kid.
Mio in the land of Faraway
Costaring a young christian bale
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ1jtGWdIuA
I honestly don't remember much about this one aside from the main kid (not bale) gets whisked away from his modern life by being transported to the land of faraway by grabbing on to the beard of a large floating head of an old man.
The wizard of speed and time
trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSB6ZRC-dyQ
despite the name its actually about an amature film maker trying to get his movie made about the wizard of speed and time. It has some pretty good special effects with a lot of stop motion, and apparently over 1000 subliminal messages throughout the movie.
Tommy Tricker and the stamp traveler
only trailer i can find https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLXB8t3fTuo
This movie I had taped off of the tv and watch all the time. Its about a kid named tommy and his friend ralph (though tommy is a little shit that tricks him out of one of his rare stamps)Ralph figures out how to put himself on stamps by i think reading some other guy who was a stamp traveler sand accidentally ends up going around the world meeting people from different countries, trying to get back home and to find the previous stamp traveler who has been lost I think?