Know a weird movie? Something strange that glued you to the screen with awe, amazement or reverence, while your more mundane minded friends left the room (or theater) in boredom, confusion or disgust? A movie whose omission from a list of the 366 weirdest movies of all time would offend you on a personal level? Something even I haven’t heard of or considered? There are potentially thousands of forgotten films, critically dismissed films, foreign or independent films that never got a proper release, or misplaced oddities hiding out there that may deserve a place at the table. One man can’t be expected to track them all down. Here is the place to mention those treasured curios that no one else seems to have even heard of. Nominate a movie in the suggestion box and I’ll move it up on my review queue, or at the very least, explain why I’m not going to review it.
NOTICE: The “Suggest of Weird Movie!” feature has become a victim of its own success. At the time of this update, we have about 250 reader suggestions (!) in queue. Since we can only do 1 or maybe 2 reviews a week, be aware there may be a huge delay—currently, possibly over a year!—between the time you make a suggestion and the point at which it’s actually reviewed. I considered shutting down the suggestion box as of 2011, but I decided to let you keep your suggestions coming (if nothing else, it tells us what types of movies readers are interested in seeing reviews of). Just be aware that when you make a suggestion, it may not receive the promptest of attention.
If you can’t wait for one of our staff to review your movie, why not review it yourself and submit it to us via the contact form? We can’t swear we’ll publish every submission we receive, but we want reader participation and we are fairly liberal.
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Here’s the review queue of reader suggestions that have yet to be reviewed, in alphabetical order. You can always see this list ordered according to intended order of publication in the weekly “What’s in the Pipeline” column (published on Sundays).
Be aware that, given the number of titles here, there will be a (long and ever-growing ) delay between suggesting a title and its eventual review.
1 (2009); 1Day; 3 Dev Adam; 3 Women; The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao; 8 1/2; 2001: A Space Odyssey; 2012 Aficionado DVD Zine Issue #0; The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T; Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; The Adventures of Mark Twain; The Adventures of Picasso; L’Âge d’or; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Air Doll; Akira; Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams; Allegro Non Troppo; Alphaville; Amazon Women on the Moon; Amelie; Amanece, que no es poco; The American Astronaut; L’Ange; Angelus; Anguish [Angustia]; The Annunciation; La antena; Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters; Arrebato; At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul; The Atrocity Exhibition; Audition; Avida; Bad Taste; Barbarella; Battle in Heaven; Beauty and the Beast (1978); The Bed Sitting Room; Bernie (depending on availability); Big River Man; Birth of the Overfiend; Black Cat, White Cat; Black Devil Doll ; Bliss; Bloodsucking Freaks; Blood Tea and Red Strings; Blue (1993, Jarman); Blue Velvet; The Bothersome Man; The Boxer’s Omen [aka Mo]; Brain Damage; Brain Dead (1990, d. Adam Simon); The Brave Little Toaster; Breakfast of Champions; The Bride of Frank; Britannia Hospital; “Broken Glass”; Bubba Ho-Tep; Buddy Boy (1999); Buffalo ’66; Buffet Froid; Bunny & the Bull; Cafe Flesh; Candy (1968); Careful; The Cars That Ate Paris; Casino Royale (1967); Cat Soup; Celine and Julie Go Boating; The Cell; “Charleston Parade”; Charly: Dias de Sangre; Un Chien Andalou; Chingsao the Clown; Christmas on Mars; Chronopolis; La cicatrice intérieure; Cinema 16: European Short Films; Clean, Shaven; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs; Color of Pomegranates; Conspirators of Pleasure; The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover; Coonskin; Crash (Cronenberg); La Cravate; Crimewave; Cutie Honey; Dark Arc; Dark Waters; Daisies; Dark City; Decasia; Dellamorte Dellamore [AKA Cemetery Man]; The Devils; Django Kill!; A Dog Called Pain; Dogville; La Dolce Vita; The Doom Generation; Dororo; The Double Life of Veronique; The Drifting Classroom; Drowning by Numbers; Electric Dragon 80,000 V; Even Dwarves Started Small; Evil Ed; Executive Koala; Eyes Wide Shut; The Fall; The Falls; Fando y Lis; Fantastic Planet; Fast, Cheap and Out of Control; Feherlofia; Felidae; Fellini Satyricon; Fido; Final Programme; Finisterrae; Forbidden Zone; The Fountain; “Foutaises” (short); The Fox Family; “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life;” Freaked; From Beyond; Fudge 44; Funeral Parade of Roses; Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Gahjini; Garden State (official review); Genius Party; Glen or Glenda?; The Godmonster of Indian Flats; Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell; Goodbye Uncle Tom; La Grande Bouffe; Grendel Grendel Grendel; Haggard; Hair Extensions; Happiness; Hard Candy; Head; Heart of Glass; Heavenly Creatures; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Hell Comes to Frogtown; Horror Express; The Hour-glass Sanatorium [Saanatorium pod klepsidra]; I Am Here Now; Ichi the Killer; ID; The Idiots; I [Heart] Huckabees; “I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney” (assuming I can find it); The Illustrated Man; Innocence (2004); I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse; Jack and the Beanstalk (1974, Japan); Johnny Suede; Julien Donkey-boy; Kairo [AKA Pulse]; Killdozer; Killer Condom; Labyrinth; La Razon de Mi Vida; The Last Days of Planet Earth; The Last Sunset; Last Year in Marienbad; Leolo; Let the Right One In; Liquid Sky (re-review); Lisa and the Devil; Litan; Little Deaths; Little Otik; Lost Highway; Love Me If You Dare; Lovers on the Bridge; Lucky; Lust in the Dust; Mad Detective; The Magic Christian; Marquis; Master of the Flying Guillotine; May; Me and You and Everyone We Know; Meet the Feebles; Meet the Hollowheads; Memento Mori; Mermaid in a Manhole; “Meshes of the Afternoon”; Metropia; Midnight Skater; Moebius (1996);p Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Mr. Nobody; Multiple Maniacs; Murder Party; Mutant Aliens; My Dinner with Andre; Mystics in Bali; Natural Born Killers; The Neverending Story; Nightdreams; Night of the Hunter; The Ninth Configuration; Noroi; Northfork; No Smoking; Nuit Noire; One Eyed Monster; On the Silver Globe; Orpheus; The Ossuary; Parents; Perfect Blue; Persona; Phantasm IV; The Phantom of Liberty; Piano Tuner of Earthquakes; Picnic at Hanging Rock; Pink Flamingos; The Pit; Porcile [AKA Pigpen]; Portrait of Jennie; “Premium” (if it can be found); Prospero’s Books; The Quiet; The Quiet Earth; Rampo Noir; Rat Pfink a Boo Boo; The Real McCoy; Reflections of Evil; Repo Man; Revolver; Robo-Geisha; Robot Monster; The Room; Rubber’s Lover; Rubin & Ed; The Ruling Class; Run Lola Run; Russian Ark; Safe; The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea; Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom; Santa Claus(1959); The Saragossa Manuscript (official review); Savages; Save the Green Planet; A Scanner Darkly; Schizopolis; Schramm; Screamplay; The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb; Seom [The Isle]; “Serial Experiments: Lain” (TV show); Session 9; Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; The Shape of Things; Sheitan; Shock Treatment; The Shout; The Signal; Sir Henry at Rawlinson End; Skeletons; Slacker; SLC Punk; Sleepaway Camp ; A Snake of June; Society (official review); Spermula; Spirited Away; Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds; Strange Circus; Strings; Stroszek; Suicide Club (re-review); Svidd neger (depending on availability); Sweet Movie; Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song; Symbol; The Tale of the Floating World; Tales from the Quadead Zone; Tampopo; Tank Girl; The Taste of Tea; Teeth; The Ten; The Tenant; La Teta y La Luna; That Deadwood Feeling; Themroc; Things; This Filthy Earth; Three Crowns of the Sailor; Thundercrack!; Time Masters; Titicut Follies; Der Todersking; Tokyo Gore Police; Tommy; Tourist Trap (1979); The Trial [Le procès] (1962); The Triplets of Belleville; “Turkish Star Wars” [Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam]; Tuvalu; “Twin Peaks” (TV series); Twister (1989); Uncle Meat; Underground; Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (official review); Vase de Noces; Vera; Vermillion Souls; Versus; Videodrome; Visitor of a Museum [Posetitel muzeya]; Waiting for Godot; The War Zone; Watership Down; Weekend; Weirdsville; Wicked City (1992 live-action version); Wild at Heart; Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; Wool 100%; Yesterday Was a Lie; Yokai Monsters, Vol. 1: Spook Warfare [AKA Big Monster War]; Zachariah; A Zed and Two Noughts; “Zombie Jesus” (if we can locate it).
Also- Have y’all ever seen anything by Wojciech Has? I haven’t yet, I have heard his work is surreal so I’m looking forward to watching The Saragossa Manuscript sometime this week. Just wondering if he was weird enough to be on your radar.
I don´t see “The Phantom of Liberty” from Luis Buñuel in any of your lists!
Man, I spend way too much time on here… And have been meaning to ask- Why only 1-2 movies per week?
Viqman: Readers haven’t asked for as much Buñuel (or Fellini, or Cocteau) as I would like. I’ll be happy to rectify the oversight on Phantom of Liberty.
Cletus: I agree Casino Royale would be interesting to cover and I’ve actually been hoping someone would ask for it. As for Has, we do have a preliminary review of The Saragossa Manuscript, and we will be covering more movies from him. Why only 1-2 movies a week? If you mean out of the reader-suggestion queue, we were slacking off to cover 2011 releases by year’s end. Now that a new year is here we’ll be focusing on more reader suggestions, at least until we get behind on 2012 stuff.
I think I have decided to help with that. I average 2-3 movies per day- technically 1 a day for the last 2 years if you only count first time viewings. Is there any particular format/ length you would prefer for a review?
Reader reviews are always encouraged. Check out these examples and follow the format they use. We also welcome “second opinions” on films we’ve already covered (especially if you disagree with us putting something on the List or leaving it off). Submit the finished review using the contact form.
SPACE THANG!
Stop animation cut up 1970′s adult sci-fi adventure.
Weirdest movie you will see all day. I promise.
http://vimeo.com/31650821
I skimmed it and it is indeed weird. Potential viewers should be aware it’s definitely R-rated and incorporates lots of clips from 1970s porn features (no hardcore, but still for adults only).
Just submitted my first review. Apologies for not being able to write an especially lengthy or informative one this time- it is still difficult for me to effectively describe what I was seeing.
Thanks very much Cletus; look for your review to appear on the site within the week.
I’ll try to write better ones from now on. If you saw the movie I reviewed you would totally know what I was talking about
I think this movie is worth of watching and covering it here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070628/. Director: Wojciech Has.
It’s after a story by Bruno Schulz, one of the most remarkable writers who wrote in Polish in the 20th century, often compared to Franz Kafka, born in Drohobycz, current Ukraine. Bruno Schulz was shot by the Nazis on the street on November 19th, 1942.
Hi Irene, nice to see you again. Has’ The Hour-glass Sanatorium [Saanatorium pod klepsidra] is already in the reader-suggested queue, and I predict we’ll be getting to it within two or three months.
Great! Waiting for the essay. And Natalia asked what about “Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life”, still unavailable in the USA? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113429/releaseinfo. Yesterday we watched together “The Hour-glass Sanatorium [Saanatorium pod klepsidra]“, and she said they are ”in the same key”, and remembered that “Institute Benjamenta” was not reviewed by you so far…
Dr. Calagari (1989) Its so odd and strange I’m just at a loss for words as to what to say about it. the trailers online don’t do it nearly any justice. you have to watch it yourself. Think Rocky Horror, meets Pink Flamingos. the baby they produce grew up on acid and wrote this movie
Irene: The DVD version of Institute Benjamenta is out-of-print in the U.S. But thanks to you asking about it, I looked it up and discovered that the new British Blu-ray release is region-free and should play on North American Blu-ray players! So we can add it back to the queue… though I’m still hoping a more affordable (and rentable) DVD version will be released.
Jake: Here’s our take on Dr. Caligari. I confess that we may have been too timid in not putting it on the List immediately.
There are soooo many to suggest, but 2 of my favorites are Drunken Wu Tang and Spiderbaby.
:=8)
Hi MooCow, we were already planning on covering Spider Baby, but Drunken Wu Tang is the one I want to add to the queue. I can’t say whether the movie will make the List or not, but the Watermelon Monster is something everyone should see before they die.
I saw Fellini’s Satyricon and would like to request that my suggestion of Amarcord be taken down. Review of Satyricon coming soon.
Cletus, I deny your request to take down Amarcord because we want to see and review it! Looking forward to your take on Satyricon, though.
Well, that’s reasonable. It is a great movie. If you put 8 1/2 and Amarcord together, it still wouldn’t be close to as weird as Satyricon. So in terms of The List, it is better left off.
Let me think. Is Insidious included? Should be. At first the movie’s great, but when it reached the climax, I found it weird. I hate the twists. Not scary anymore. Ended up funny.
Rick, I assume you mean the big-budget Insidious from 2010. When I saw the trailer it looked like a standard-issue Hollywood horror and I left it off my radar screen, but looking at the IMDB page I admit there may be more potential weirdness to it than I saw at first. I’ll add it to the queue.
Just saw the EARL SESSIONS. A head trip movie you may want to lay in bed and smoke a dooby with.
It doesn’t look like The Earl Sessions (2011) is done with its festival run yet, but we’ll put it in the queue and keep an eye out for it.
Vace de Noces “The Pig F***ing Movie” (1974). It leaves me shocked and in tears. I don’t care what anyone else says. A sow sniffing at her dead offsping hanging from an arch is in no way considered art. This film that tries to speak to an audience, who begs for something different, has a disgusting after effect. It’s like a pre-Lynch film with what I identified as a snuff film for animals. Since Tarintino has convinced me not to HATE what cinema has to offer, I’ll be firm when I say that I do not like this film. And goddamn it, it needs to be part of 366.
C.H., Vace de Noces is already in our review queue—I can’t pretend I’m actually looking forward to viewing it, but we will give it a fair shake. I agree with your theory that we don’t have to like a film for it to deserve to number among the 366.
A little while ago, my aunt recommended a French movie from 1998 called ‘Sitcom’ to me. It features a dysfunctional family that is further destabilized by something I found hard to fathom. While it’s certainly not the best movie I’ve seen, it seems to be something a weird movie completionist would not want to miss. I was surprised I wasn’t able to find it on here.
Hi XIV, I agree that François Ozon’s Sitcom is a good suggestion for us to check out.
Hey, let’s continue the “French-speaking weird movies” thread…
I just remembered a recent French movie that might interest you. ‘Les Revenants’ (‘They Came Back’), in which recently dead people in a little town come back from the grave. This non-weird premise is subverted when we learn that they are totally harmless and just want to get their lives back. Excellent film, and creepy in an unusual way.
Here’s the IMDb link : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378661/
Dwarf Oscar: re: They Came Back — sure, we’ll add it, why not?
Prometheus’ Garden is pretty good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX3c10keGWI
Steven, Prometheus’ Garden certainly does look like our kind of thing. Availability may be an issue with this one but I can put it in the queue.
I’ve been going on this site everyday for over a year now and I’m just now realizing that I don’t think I have ever seen Steven Soderbergh’s Schizopolis mentioned. Truly one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen. So obscure that it will give you a headache if you try to follow the storyline too closely. Still very entertaining and bizarre: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2E7ArARdaE
I know it hasn’t appeared on dvd yet, but last night i went to a screening of “Surviving Life (Theory And Practice)” by Jan Svankmajer (the director of Neco Z Alenky, which thankfully is already on the list). I would definitely say it is a textbook definition of a “weird movie”, and if you do watch it, you’ll know why. Basically an interpretation of Freudian psychoanalysis, whereby the main character falls in love with his own mother in his dreams, and full of trippy sequences you expect in Svankmajer’s work, such as: seemingly disconnected tongues wrestling, swimming in pools of blood, half-human half-chicken/dog hybrids, and other grapic and disturbing images. This trailer doesnt do it justice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auUXVqRaqVM&feature=related
Danielle: Schizopolis is in our reader-suggested review queue and in fact a review is likely coming up fairly soon. Stay tuned!
Jason: It’s Svankmajer, it’s weird. No need to officially add Surviving Life to the queue, because rest assured we will be all over it when the DVD is released!
I’m still a little surprised that Jodorowsky’s Fando Y Lis hasn’t made the list.
Movies are generally reviewed in the order they were suggested. There are 113 titles (!) in the queue ahead of Fando y Lis.
When you consider short movies, you should definitly check out Harpya (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261725/). Belgian short story from the late seventies which won the palme d’or in Cannes. You can find it on YouTube!
And in Japanese animation: Tenshi no Tamago (Angel’s egg, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208502/), hard to find though…
Absanktie: You don’t have to tell us about Angel’s Egg, it ranked #2 on our list of weird movies we’re praying get released someday. “Harpya” looks like a good one and I’ll add it to the queue, though I wish there was a DVD version of it available (there is a Raoul Servais collection out on region 2, I hear).
Hi Ya
How about ‘Bruce lee Vs Gay Power’ (1975)
This insane peice of weird sh** is not suppose to exist?
Hello
Sorry about that!
It Did exist?
Hi again Regicide, we can add Bruce Lee vs. Gay Power to the queue. As far as I can tell it does indeed exist.
Weird movies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHZhnkuhR00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqLmDY7rhWI
This is a collection of clips (some from video games) lolnik edited together. Zipping through it I noticed scenes from Disney’s Alice, Ken Russell’s Altered States and Begotten. You might enjoy viewing the compilation.
my friend suggested ‘Dumplings’
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472458/
it’s about a woman who cooks foetuses into her dumplings and that’s about all i know so far, haven’t watched it yet!
would love to suggest Attenberg another greek weird movie that just come out.
I had an amazing experience with Kynodontas and read your impressively accurate critic I suppose this might be worth too?
Hi Ed, Dumplings does sound weird enough to put in the queue. Gnosoz, there’s something up in Greece lately, isn’t there? I can add Attenberg as well.