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DIRECTED BY: Scooter Downey FEATURING: Lance Henriksen, Sean Elliot WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It’s not weird. Or at least it’s not as weird as horror movies like Don’t Look Now , The Cabin in the Woods, or High Tension, which are genuinely disconcerting and have truly bizarre plot twists. But, this movie does . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: IT’S IN THE BLOOD (2012) DIRECTED BY: Todd Solondz FEATURING: Ellen Barkin, Richard Masur, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sharon Wilkins PLOT: A teenager falls in with a group of anti-abortionists in her quest to become pregnant. WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: As if the plot isn’t off-beat enough, Palindromes‘s teenage porotagonist is played by a variety of actors of . . . → Read More: RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: PALINDROMES (2004) DIRECTED BY: Jacques Tati FEATURING: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek PLOT: Monsieur Hulot gets lost on his way to an appointment and wanders around a nearly unrecognizable, technologically transformed Paris. WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: Play Time is about the alienating, isolating influence technology has on human beings. It’s not the standard elements of . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: PLAY TIME (1967) Reader review by Jason Ubermolch. Some background on this review: in the suggestion thread, Jason recommended three movies: Brother Sun, Sister Moon; this one; and Zachariah. I noted that the first two movies were critically acclaimed but sounded only mildly weird, so I picked Zachariah to cover as the weirdest of the trio. Thinking I . . . → Read More: READER RECOMMENDATION: 3-IRON [BIN-JIP] (2004) |
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