DIRECTED BY: Rod Hardy
FEATURING: Chantal Contouri, Shirley Cameron, Max Phipps, Henry Silva, Rod Mullinar
PLOT: A direct descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is kidnapped by vampires who want
to make her one of their own.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: While Thirst has an offbeat plot for a vampire movie, it doesn’t go that extra [...]
Graham Reznick is the director of the extremely weird 2008 feature I Can See You, described as “a psychedelic campfire tale” and certified by us as one of the 366 Best Weird Movies of All Time. Graham’s personal homepage is
Next week we will review two unrelated vampire movies with the same name: Thirst (1979) and Thirst (2009). There’s also a good chance we may get up a review of Richard Kelly’s latest, The Box (2009): there’s sure to be a difference of opinion among our writers on this one! Also, on Thursday Alfred gives [...]
Give Zach Galifianakis a late night show, and this is what you’ll get: sketch comedy that’s too absurd for TV. This is the first of seven episodes of Zach’s web series, “Between Two Ferns”. In it Zach interviews Michael Cera about acting in the comedy film Superbad (2007).
For more episodes of “Between Two [...]
A look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons…
Trailers of new release movies are generally available on the official site links.
IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):
Home (2008): When a busy highway opens next to a rural Swiss homestead, the insular family takes increasingly desperate and bizarre measures to block out the [...]
DIRECTED BY: Stephen Chiodo
FEATURING: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon
PLOT: Aliens from outer space, who look exactly like circus clowns, land their
carnival-tent spacecraft near a rural town and begin abducting humans for unknown purposes.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Killer Klowns is actually a very conventional spoof with an unusual gimmick that’s [...]
NOTE: A Serious Man has been promoted from the “Borderline” category onto the List of the Weirdest movies of all time! This page is left up for archival purposes. Please view the full review for comments and expanded coverage!
DIRECTED BY: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
FEATURING: Michael Stubargh, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Fyvush Finkel
PLOT: A [...]
DIRECTED BY: Sophie Barthes
FEATURING: Paul Giamatti, Dina Korzun, David Strathairn
PLOT: Paul Giamatti (playing himself) feels burdened by his soul, so he utilizes the
services of a company that specializes in soul removal and storage; when he decides to reclaim it from its safe deposit box, he finds there’s a problem…
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: [...]
DIRECTED BY: Brett Leonard
FEATURING: Alex O’Loughlin, Patrick Thompson, Gabby Millgate, and Jack Thompson
PLOT: A psychopathic opportunist known as a “Feeder” enables bedridden, morbidly
obese women to grow even more grossly overweight, to the point of immobility. As their caretaker, he keeps them alive, but gradually feeds them to death. All the while, he [...]
Next week you can expect to see reviews of the “sick” film Feed (2005) and two opinions on the metaphysical Paul Giamatti comedy Cold Souls (2009). Other films that may get tackled include Chan-wook Park’s Thirst (2009), the Coen brothers’ A Serious Man (2009), or Richard Kelly’s The Box (2009). 2009 is rushing to a [...]
