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Re:Beautiful Disasters: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (2015) by zxcvbn4038 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @08:57AM (#28048586)
I think it was the US TNT cable tv network that used to run a late night “100% Weird” movie block on Saturday nights that used a lot of clip art from this movie in their promo spots and actuality showed this movie one night - it was the first and only time I’ve ever seen it. It mostly triggers flashbacks to my own parents obsession with trying to get me to play the piano.

It’s really hard to find movies like this anymore, nobody bothers to stream them. If you know about them you can sometimes find them on Amazon but if you don’t know them I don’t know how you’d ever discover them.

There was one movie called Night Patrol which was a standard police farce movie except the main character (credited as “the unknown comic”) wore a paper bag over his head in every scene.

And all of the Trama Team movies from the 80s - Toxic Avenger, Surf Nazis Must Die, Rock ‘N Roll High School.

And the worst horror film ever -Student Bodies - which had an on-screen body count, helpful pointers to the fatal mistakes each character made before they died, and the main bad guy “The Breather” who would lose all his footwear every time he went up stairs because he’d constantly step in gum.

Even NetFlix doesn’t roll out gems like those.

Re:Beautiful Disasters: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (2015) by leephillips on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @09:34AM (#28048948)
Some of these types of films are available through Kanopy, which you might be able to use if you have a US library card. If your library participates, it’s free, but limited to 10 movies or episodes per month. It was a great day when I found it, owing to a comment here on HN. Far better catalog than Netflix.
Re:Beautiful Disasters: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (2015) by cupcake-unicorn on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @11:13PM (#28056790)
Kanopy is the best! I used to use a service called Juststreamit, to find what streaming service something was on, now there's an app called Justwatch. I'd signed up for a Kanopy account years ago and was able to put it good use. It has so many indie films that I'd been waiting to watch and you can also sort by language which is great for learning.
Re:Beautiful Disasters: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (2015) by xsmasher on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:35PM (#28083038)
Hoopla and Pluto.tv have a lot of these cult films too.
Re:Beautiful Disasters: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (2015) by FuriouslyAdrift on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:26AM (#28072733)
I miss Night Flight on USA Network. Probably ruined my GPA from staying up so late but it was worth it. It's kind of back in streaming form, now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Flight_%28TV_series%29

https://www.nightflightplus.com/

Re:Beautiful Disasters: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (2015) by cylinder714 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:40PM (#28051950)
I recorded this in April when it was shown on TCM (in the U.S.). Haven't seen it yet!