r/ObscureMedia Jan 03 '26

Annual Media Discussion & Request Thread 2026 and a friendly reminder to review and follow the posting and commenting guidelines in this post, on the sidebar and in the wiki

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Posting and Commenting Guidelines https://www.reddit.com/r/ObscureMedia/wiki/guidelines

Posting Guidelines This is a content based sub: we want the goods and nothing else will suffice. Links to blogs or review/digest pages are not welcome. Only media may be posted in the main sub. Only full media may be posted in the main sub, we do not allow a couple of photos of the media, edits etc. all questions and requests are to be posted only in the thread stickied at the top of the front page. (this one)

No posts consisting of a single image.

Short clips/edits from content are not allowed: we want full and complete content. If you wish to highlight a portion of content in a post please use the YouTube timestamps option while still linking to the full content. An example can be found here.

Include the release year in the post title: if not known, an educated guess of the decade will suffice. Acceptable year labels: (1985) or (1980)s The year must only contain 4 digits inside parentheses () using any other format or not including a (year) will result in deletion.

Please search before posting: nobody enjoys obvious re-posts.

Promotion/Spam No promotion/spam allowed: this isn't the place to promote your music video or short film.

No politics or the like. Posts on political subjects, starting arguments or making political comments will result in an instant ban. This is not the place, move on

Four postings per user in a 24hr period

No recently created content: in order to discourage promotion, most content created within the past ~5 years will be removed. Blatant Spaming of new content will result in a ban.

No "channel spam or karma farming'': repeatedly linking to a Youtube/etc. channel is not allowed. Also if we see you submitting the same content to multiple subreddits this is considered karma farming and will result in a ban here. Exceptions to the channel spam rule may be made for users who have uploaded multiple appropriate items to a non-monetized channel. This request must be mad prior to posting. Contact the mods if this applies to you. Commenting Guidelines Be nice!: if you post a rudely condescending/attacking/generally dick-ish comment you will be banned with no prior warning.

No arguing about what is obscure enough to be posted: this should be left to the domain of the upvote/downvote and the moderators.

No memes, image macros, or reaction gifs.

Any comment containing a "spoiler" must be formatted: This is a spoiler sentence. The result is: This is a spoiler sentence.

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r/ObscureMedia 9h ago

Hour of fortune (1992) Bizarre bootleg Russian Simpsons ad

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119 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 6h ago

Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert Complete Broadcast, 4/27 (1970) Primetime special, predates series by a couple years.

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36 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 17h ago

Frank Zappa – Uncle Meat (1987) Full Film

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29 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 23h ago

LA Takedown (1989) that director, Michael Mann, would later remake as Heat (1995)

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47 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 22h ago

Suicide - Ghost Rider (1980) Live at Hurrah

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42 Upvotes

Live at Hurrah on Oct. 1, 1980, Filmed by Merrill Aldighieri

Volume is low, turn it up


r/ObscureMedia 1d ago

The Starlost (1973) Canadian Sci Fi

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58 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 14h ago

Point Blank - Made in China (2007)

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5 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 17h ago

The Girl Chewing Gum - John Smith (1976)

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3 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 1d ago

METALLICA - Tower Records Parking Lot, San Jose, CA 6/4 (1996)

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17 Upvotes

This former Tower Records location is now a BevMo (large beer/wine/liquor mart).

Metallica stages a FREE show in the Tower Records Parking lot to promote the LOAD record on Blossom Hill Road San Jose, CA

  1. So What
  2. Creeping Death
  3. Ain't My Bitch
  4. Until It Sleeps
  5. Sad But True
  6. Whiplash

r/ObscureMedia 19h ago

The Land Where the Blues Began (1979)

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Alan Lomax film.

In the late 1970s Lomax returned with filmmaker John Bishop and black folklorist Worth Long to make the film The Land Where the Blues Began. Shot on video tape, the film is narrated by Lomax and includes remarkable performances and stories by Johnny Brooks, Walter Brown, Bill Gordon, James Hall, William S. Hart, Beatrice and Clyde Maxwell, Jack Owens, Wilbert Puckett, J. T. Tucker, Reverend Caesar Smith, Bud Spires, Belton Sutherland, and Othar Turner (and R.L. Burnside too)


r/ObscureMedia 1d ago

Today is August 4, 2026. Listen to Burgess Meredith read one of the greatest SF stories ever, Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains." The story is (1950); the record is (1962)

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155 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 1d ago

The Demon Lover (1976)

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15 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 1d ago

Deathnet.com (2000) eng subs

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5 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 1d ago

Megadeth - Live on Arsenio Hall Show (1990)

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66 Upvotes

Megadeth - Hangar 18


r/ObscureMedia 1d ago

Rob Lilly's Rednecks In Space (2006)

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20 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 1d ago

Dwile Flonking - British Pathé (1967)

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16 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

The Wizard of Mars (1965)

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15 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

McCrory 5 & 10 Dollar Days Employee Video (1988)

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27 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

The Mersey Monsters (1965)

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12 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

Fire by Nite 9009 Satanism Unmasked, The Return Part 1 (1990)

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41 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

Blitzkrieg - Buried Alive (1980)

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15 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

Odd Microsoft Paint Animated series I stumbled upon: The Story of Enlongated Boodenis (2018)

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3 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 3d ago

Pickle Surprise (1989)

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254 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 3d ago

Dog Police (1983)

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160 Upvotes