30 Unknown Pop-Culture Gems From Your Favorite Creators
This list will take your artistic snobbery to bold new heights
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Look, we get it. You want to pick your next thing, but there’s just so much out there to choose from. And nobody wants to invest their time and/or money into entertainment they’re not going to like. We’re all way too busy and way too broke. So here are some guides to fantastic entertainment you’ve never heard of by writers, musicians, artists and other geniuses that you already like…
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![Although he's for now famous creating the Simesods, Matt Groening was previously better known for his comic strip LIFE IN HELL. WHAT IS Mom? 'LIFE HEL](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/8/4/673384.jpg?v=2)
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![George RR Martin is well-known for his A Song of Ice and Fire series, but many overlook his 1983 publication, The Armageddon Rag. The novel is a murde](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/7/7/673377.jpg?v=2)
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![BEFORE JOHN CARPENTER BECAME A HOUSEHOLD NAME AS A DIRECTOR, HIS FIRST FEATURE- LENGTH MOVIE WAS DARK STAR, A WEIRD SLACKER COMEDIC TAKE ON 20018 A SP](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/5/8/673358.jpg?v=2)
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![Katsuhiro Otomo's anime classic AKIRA is a widely beloved masterpiece all over the world! Though few seem to know about his 2004 release STEAMBOY. It'](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/4/9/673349.jpg?v=2)
![The Sex Pistols, and their legendary frontman Johnny Rotten, need no introduction... Now meet Rotten's later and less famous band, Public Image Ltd, a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/4/8/673348.jpg?v=2)
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![SF you enjoy Black Mipror, creator Charte Brooker also wrote a five part zombie horor thriler set a fictonal Big Brother house, called Dead Set, DEADO](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/4/1/673341.jpg?v=2)
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![If you are interested in learning more about JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth, try The Children of Hurin Dol Sduln J.R.R. The tragic tale of a TOLKIEN famil](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/3/8/673338.jpg?v=2)
![James Wan is known for his terrifying horror films and for directing the upcoming AQUAMAN movie for DC... But people often forget he also directed the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/3/7/673337.jpg?v=2)
![Among Bruce Lee's many movies, The Big Boss is relatively unknown. Yet its dark tale of Chinese workers suffering under the heel of organized crime de](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/3/6/673336.jpg?v=2)
![Before Tim Burton was directing feature films, he made his own insane version of Hansel and Gretel that aired on the Disney Channel Halloween night 19](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/3/5/673335.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDCON COMPLETE SAVAGES An underrated sitcom from The Simpsons writers Mike Scully and Julie Thacker. The show follows the shenanigansof five unru](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/3/3/673333.jpg?v=2)
![If you like Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of unhinged intelligence, then you will love this 1978 film where young Hopkins ANTHONY ANN. BURGESS HOPKINS MA](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/3/2/673332.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED.COM SMOKING Check out Sam Raimi's CRIMEWAVE Raimi's directorial follow-up to The Evil Dead, it was written with the Coen Brothers, and feature](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/5/0/673750.jpg?v=2)
![Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear series was pretty cool but one of his other games, Snatcher (1988), received little fanfare. 1111 It is a Blade Runner- esqu](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/3/1/673331.jpg?v=2)
![You probably know The Lonely Island's songs (D**l In A Box, J*k*z In My Pants, etc.), but not their movie. POPSTAR NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING Popst](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/0/2/673602.jpg?v=2)
![After Hours (1985) is a weirdly hilarious film about a yuppie's night out that descends into a total nightmare. It is one of director Martin Scorsese'](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/8/7/673387.jpg?v=2)
![prastien Before he found success as a solo artist, Billy ldol was in the classic punk band Generation X. Their 1978 self-titled album is pure punk roc](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/2/8/673328.jpg?v=2)
![Mostly known as Michonne in The Walking Dead, and Okoye in Black Panther, Danai Gurira COMICAVE 813910 INEINI is also a playwright, who wrote Eclipsed](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/2/4/673324.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED COM K If you love Stephen Colbert, check out Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. He voiced the hilarious Phil Ken Sebben and Myron Reducto on the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/2/2/673322.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDcO Sam Raimi, who ushered in the modern superhero movie with his Spider-Man trilogy, also gave us a hilarious take on superheroes with his unde](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/1/1/673611.jpg?v=2)
![Before The Lord of the Rings and King Kong, Peter Jackson made m mee:te e e t t e A deranged dark comedy about the entertainment industry with sex, dr](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/1/8/673318.jpg?v=2)
![George Romero may have been king of the zombie movie, but you probably don't know about his 1981 film Knightriders, about a traveling Renaissance fair](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/2/7/673327.jpg?v=2)
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