366 Weird Movies

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Entries for the ‘Reader Recommendations’ Category

THE FUNKADELIC POST: A TOP FAN’S WEIRD RECOMMENDATIONS

Background: reader Funkadelic has gone above and beyond the call of duty in making suggestions/recommendations for inclusion on the site, both in the feature and short film categories. Not that I want to encourage readers to compete to outdo him and try to get their own dedicated posts, but I thought I could clean [...]

RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: HAPPY HERE AND NOW (2002)

Review writing contest #1 winner, by Pamela De Graff.
DIRECTED BY: Michael Almereyda
FEATURING: Clarence Williams III, David Arquette (who also co-produced), Ally Sheedy, former super model Shalom Harlow, model Gloria Reuben, Karl Geary, rhythm and blues star Ernie K-Doe
PLOT: Happy Here and Now is a surrealistic satire in which a young woman tries [...]

RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: AFTER HOURS (1985)

The “Reader Recommendation” category includes films nominated by our readers as deserving of consideration for the List of the 366 Best Weird Movies of all time.
by reader “Rajiv”
DIRECTED BY: Martin Scorsese
FEATURING: Griffin Dunne, Rosana Arquette, Catherine O’Hara
PLOT:  One night, Paul Hackett ( Griffin Dunne), New York computer word-processing

consultant, is trapped in SoHo because his last [...]

RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: JANNIE TOTSIENS [JOHNNY FAREWELL] (1970)

The “Reader Recommendation” category includes films nominated by our readers as deserving of consideration for the List of the 366 Best Weird Movies of all time.
by Trevor Moses, film archivist at the National Film, Video and Sound Archives (South Africa)
DIRECTED BY: Jans Rautenbach
FEATURING: Cobus Rossouw, Jill Kirkland, Hermien Dommisse, Phillip Swanepoel, Katinka Heyns, Don Leonard, [...]