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 Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes”; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; 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; All That Jazz; Alphaville; Amazon Women on the Moon; Amelie; Amanece, que no es poco; “Analog”; L’Ange; Angel in the Flesh: The Confidential Report on Mr. Dennis Duggan AKA The King of Super 8 (if it’s ever released); Angelus; Anguish [Angustia]; The Annunciation; La antena; The Appointment (1981); Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters; Arrebato; At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul; Attenberg; The Atrocity Exhibition; Audition; Avida; Bad Taste; Bad Timing (AKA Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession); Barbarella; Battle in Heaven; Beauty and the Beast (1978); Bernie (depending on availability); Big Man Japan (official review); Big River Man; Big Time; “The Big Shave”; Birth of the Overfiend; Black Cat, White Cat; Black Devil Doll; Bliss; Bloodsucking Freaks; 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; Britannia Hospital; “Broken Glass”; Bruce Lee vs. Gay Power; Bubba Ho-Tep; Buddy Boy (1999); Buffalo ’66; Buffet Froid; Cafe Flesh; Calamari Wrestler; Candy (1968); The Cars That Ate Paris; Casino Royale (1967); Cat Soup; Celine and Julie Go Boating; The Cell; The Cement Garden; “Charleston Parade”; Charly: Dias de Sangre; “Un Chien Andalou”; Chingsao the Clown; Christmas on Mars; La cicatrice intérieure; Clean, Shaven; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs; Color of Pomegranates; Conspirators of Pleasure; The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover; Coonskin; Cosmopolis; Crash (Cronenberg); La Cravate; Crimewave; Cutie Honey; Dance With The Devil; Dante’s Inferno (2007); Dark Arc; Dark City; Dark Waters; Daymaker; Death Powder (1986); Decasia; The Devils; Dirty Duck; 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; Drunken Wu Tang; Dumplings; The Earl Sessions; Electric Dragon 80,000 V; The Element of Crime; Evil Ed; Executive Koala; Exterminating Angel; Eyes Wide Shut; The Fall; The Falls; Fando y Lis; Fantastic Planet; Fast, Cheap and Out of Control; Feherlofia; Felidae; Fever Night AKA Band of Satanic Outsiders; Fido; Final Programme; Finisterrae; Forbidden Zone; The Fountain; “Foutaises” (short); The Fox Family; “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life”; 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; Grendel Grendel Grendel; Haggard; Hair Extensions; Hanger; Happiness; Hard Candy; “Harpya”; Head; Heart of Glass; Heavenly Creatures; 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; The Illustrated Man; Incubus; Innocence (2004); Insidious (2010); Institute Benjamenta; In the Mouth of Madness; I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse; Jack and the Beanstalk (1974, Japan); Julien Donkey-boy; Killdozer; Killer Condom; Koyaanisqatsi; 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; Lo; Lost Highway; Love Me If You Dare; Lovers on the Bridge; Lucky; Lust in the Dust; Mad Detective; The Magic Christian; Marebito; 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; “The Mighty Boosh” (TV show); Moebius (1996); Momo (1986); Monobloc; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Mr. Nobody; Multiple Maniacs; Murder Party; Mutant Aliens; My Dinner with Andre; Mystics in Bali; Nails; 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; Organ; Orpheus; The Ossuary; Parents; Perfect Blue; Persona; Phantasm IV; The Phantom of Liberty; Piano Tuner of Earthquakes; Picnic at Hanging Rock; Pierrot Le Fou; Pink Flamingos; The Pit; Porcile [AKA Pigpen]; Portrait of Jennie; “Premium” (if it can be found); “Prometheus’ Garden”; Prospero’s Books; The Quiet; The Quiet Earth; Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure; Rampo Noir; Rat Pfink a Boo Boo; The Real McCoy; Reflections of Evil; Repo Man; Return to Oz; Revolver; Robot Monster; Roller Blade; The Room; 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; Schramm; Screamplay; The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb; Seom [The Isle]; “Serial Experiments: Lain” (TV show); The Shape of Things; Sheitan; The Shout; The Signal; Singapore Sling (official review); Sir Henry at Rawlinson End; Sitcom; Skeletons; Slacker; SLC Punk; Sleepaway Camp; “Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions”; A Snake of June; Society (official review); Space Thang; Spermula; Spirited Away; Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds; “Star Maidens” (TV show); Static; Strange Circus; 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; They Came Back; Things; This Filthy Earth; Three Crowns of the Sailor; Thundercrack!; Time Masters; The Tin Drum; Titicut Follies; Der Todersking; Tokyo Gore Police; Tourist Trap (1979); The Trial [Le procès] (1962); The Triplets of Belleville; Troll 2; “Turkish Star Wars” [Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam]; “Twin Peaks” (TV series); Twister (1989); Uncle Meat; Underground; Uzumaki [AKA Spiral] (official re-review); Vakvagany; Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (official review); Vase de Noces; Vera; Vermillion Souls; Versus; Videodrome; Visions of Suffering; 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; Wool 100%; W.R.-Mysteries of the Organism; Yesterday Was a Lie; Yokai Monsters, Vol. 1: Spook Warfare [AKA Big Monster War]; Zachariah; A Zed and Two Noughts.
How about Seven Women? It’s unintentionally weird, I think.
I’m not exactly sure what movie you mean, s. Are you talking about John Ford’s 1966 movie 7 Women, or one of several other exploitation-type films with similar titles?
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CREATURES OF DESTINY and SHADE AND SHADOW. BLOODLUST may also qualify, but those two for sure ( http://www.gabrielmaitreya.com )
Just found your site recently and i have a few good weird recommendation for ya:
‘I Never Left the White Room’
-Really bizarre and gruesome nightmare of a film, it’s kinda like having a bad acid trip while watching torn up VHS copies of gruesome horror movies.
‘Where the Dead Go To Die’
-Crude and disturbing animated film that touches on some very unsettling subjects, but is completely off the wall in terms of story telling and visuals.
‘Organ’
-A strange and dreary Cronenberg like Japanese film, directed by the woman who played the girlfriend in Tetsuo.
‘Frankenstein’s Bloody Nightmare’
-Tripped out, slow paced, super-8 horror flick that creates a pretty good dream like atmosphere.
‘Flexing With Monty’
-Really odd dark comedy about a narcissistic and bigoted body builder, with some Lilith mythology and lots of phallic symbolism.
‘The Manson Family’
-A great film made from the families point of view, endless acid trips and insanity.
‘The Mutilation Man’
-A grim film, at some pints reminiscent of Begotten, about a man with a damaged past wandering through a post apocalyptic future and slicing him self up for cheering crowds. It’s pretty surreal and dream like in it’s not particularly linear style.
‘Subconscious Cruelty’
-Strange, artsy and gruesome vignettes filled with indescribable symbolism and nastiness.
‘Long Island Cannibal Massacre’, ‘They Don’t Cut the Grass Anymore’ and ‘Weasels Rip My Flesh’
-3 super-8 horror flicks by Nathan Schiff that are overflowing with bizarre inept charm, strange stories, over-acting and amazingly cheap special effects.
lo-fi: Mysteries of the Organism is already in queue.
Morgan: What is this, some kind of reverse psychology? Now I reluctantly have to add Momo to the queue. I feel like I’ve been dared. You can only remove it by reviewing it yourself.
Mondo: OK, you’ve got me. Most of those I’ve never heard of (although we did already review Frankenstein’s Bloody Nightmare). Some of those films are obscure and hard to track down, but Organ is relatively common so I will add that to the queue for now. There is also a slight chance we may review Where the Dead Go To Die as a new release.
Anything by David Lynch. He doesn’t make movies he makes acid trips on film.
Dance With The Devil with Rosie Perez
Star Wanderer, you can find our to-date David Lynch coverage here (we’ve already Certified three of his movies weird, with more to come). We’ll cover the rest of his oeuvre too but in the meantime I can add Dance with the Devil to the queue.
Hey, G Smalley, is the Spanish film ‘INTACTO’ on the list? Watched it again last night on telly and its certainly got a weird atmosphere about it – and also just simply being a very good film too.
Ignore the last comment about Intacto. I just looked and saw its been put in the capsule. Fair enough.
Frankestein meets the space monster (1965)
Vanishing Point (1971)
Accion mutante (1993)
Bob: I will put your first suggestion, Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, into the queue.
You’re not the Bob Gorelick who was a cameraman on Dead Man and a ton of other very cool movies, by any chance?
I’ll make this short and sweet for next Saturday: Jaume Balaguero’s Alicia (1994)
The 1996 movie “Crash”, “Liquid sky”, “Cafe Flesh”. “Space is the place”
Morgan: I can’t promise we’ll have “Alicia” by Saturday but I’ll put it on the list so it’s not forgotten.
markiss: Good suggestions, but: Crash, Cafe Flesh and Liquid Sky are all already in the queue above. Space Is the Place, on the other hand, already has an unofficial review here but I haven’t looked at it personally so I can add it to the queue.
Hello,
I was going to suggest ‘Valerie and her week of wonders” but I see it’s already in the queue. I’d certainly recommend watching it sooner rather than later though as apart from being very strange it is also excellent.
The only other film I can think of is ‘The Baby’ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069754/ Not all that great but good god is it a weird film!
How strange. This is the second suggestion of The Baby in a month. I already reviewed it and didn’t find it overwhelmingly weird. Obviously, the public out there disagrees with my assessment. I’m going to have to reconsider it. Look for The Baby in our upcoming (July? August?) poll in which the readers will select a couple of movies to officially place on the List.
I just watched a film called Killer Nun. Got it from Netflix (DVD only). It’s from 1978, directed by Giulio Berruti, starring Anita Ekberg and Joe Dallesandro. It’s a b-movie in all the classic senses, but I found it to be surprisingly disturbing and effective. Some of its themes are sexual repression and lesbianism. And it’s hilarious. But weird.
phoenix, I can’t remember for sure but I think you’re not the first one to mention Killer Nun. I will put it in queue and give it a fair chance, even though we already have another title in mind to represent the nunsploitation genre on the List..
A few omissions:
The Beyond (1981), Emanuelle in America (1977), Hardgore (1974), Forced Entry (1973), Last House on Dead End Street, Shirley Pimple, Jigoku (1960), Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971), Mermaid in a manhole, Flower of Flesh and Blood, Aftermath (1994), Man Behind the Sun, Black Sun the Nanking Massacre, Serbian Film, The Pig F***ing Movie aka Wedding Trough (1975), The Clones of Bruce Lee, The Dragon Lives Again(1977), The Sinful Dwarf, Vampyros Lesbos, Cannibal Holocaust, Teenage Babylon, Thanatopsis, Terror Firmer, The Story of Ricky, Inferno (1980), NIN The Broken Video, Liquid Sky.
Also, Dr Caligari (1989) is a well deserved choice.
Hi Alex,
I’d qualify several of those movies as “extreme” rather than “weird,” and many others are already accounted for: we have a review up of A Serbian Film, and have announced Inferno, Liquid Sky, and Dr. Caligari as candidates for the List. Goodbye Uncle Tom, Mermaid in a Manhole, and Vase de Noches [AKA Wedding Trough, AKA The Pig F***ing Movie) are all already in the review queue above.
However, I can (and will) put your first suggestion, Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond, into the queue: it’s one of those bizarre Italian horror movies that pushes the boundaries of exploitation in the direction of surrealism.
Hi, i would like to suggest “The Stain” (1991). It’s a short movie (11 miunutes.)
You can see it here (CAUTION MATURE CONTENT):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C8qcYieFhE
Why i suggested it? Because:
It’s WEIRD. It has a very serious theme: the family. It combines hand-drawn animation and stop-motion. The dark story is narrated by a happy voice. Sometimes, it’s beautiful; the music and the images fit together very well. Some things happen and i will never know if it was fantasy, an allucination or the real experience of the characters.
Oh, and it’s so wicked I would never forget this movie.
PS: 366weirdmovies you guys have a GREAT website!!
Thank you for that Tash. I just got the chance to watch “The Stain” all the way through and it is excellent. Although it does deal with mature themes it’s not at all exploitative or explicit. The film is also available on a compilation called “Desire & Sexuality: Animating the Unconscious” that sounds fascinating.
I’d like to suggest “The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz”
One day, Thomas Katz climbs out of the sewer and sets in motion the beginning of the end of the world. By the time he leaves, the entire universe will be erased. The minister of fish, the Tuning fork of Annihilation, and sinister streetlamp conspiracies all partake in this apocalyptic, weird plot.
Ooh Phantar, that’s a good one, and it was just re-released on DVD-R last year! Into the queue.
Here are three I can think of, if they qualify as weird:
Ascension (2002)
- Very strange, artsy horror(-ish) film with an intriguing plot and near incomprehensible symbolism. While not much happens in the film, it was certainly thought-provoking in its own bizarre vision.
Storm (2005)
- This might be more of a borderline one. It’s an odd, unpredictable mix of pretty much every genre in the book, and throws quite a few interesting twists at the viewer. It certainly leaves a lot open for interpretation, and kind of blends dream and reality.
Jericho Mansions (2003)
- Aside from some shoddy CGI, this was an interesting one. It’s basically a murder-mystery, but it becomes increasingly bizarre and is shot and presented in such an odd manner that it’s difficult not to get lost in it.
OK Andrew, I will add Ascension to the queue. I note for fun that it was directed by the cinematographer of Hobo With A Shotgun and stars the lead from Maelstrom.
Mind Game (2004) by Masaaki Yuasa
I don’t know if anyone has suggested this (seems incredibly unlikely that it hasn’t been suggested, however, in searching the site it doesn’t seem to have been…). If this has been considered and rejected from the official list, I DEMAND a very good explanation as to why!!!
Dane, someone may have mentioned Mind Game in passing, but no one ever officially suggested it. We certainly haven’t reviewed it. This movie is almost unknown here in the U.S.: it’s not on Region 1 DVD, and to my knowledge has never been released here in any form. I will add it to the review queue nevertheless.
Ah interesting… I never thought it would be released outside of Japan… so I bought the Japanese version (it was pretty expensive getting to over here in New Zealand). The Japanese version has English subtitles.
Then it got released on Region 4 a few years later… I bought it again though just cos I love it so much (and there were some bonus features with English subtitles too).
I assumed that since it was released on Region 4 it would have been released in America too… I feel privileged now :)
to both G. Smalley and Dane, my friends literally just had me watch a bit of Mind Game by Massaki Yuasa after raving to me about it for months… i just came on here to suggest a weird movie and seeing it mentioned now is a bit of Jungian synchronicity in my book! perhaps i ought finish it! regardless, the forty or so minutes i saw made me wonder why i hadn’t already seen it here on 366! review queue most def!!!
LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
Last Life in the Universe is a great suggestion Coin Locker!
What was that movie based off a Kurosawa flick? It had poorly written dialog, it was the only film directed by a special effects man, it had derelicts melting from tainted rum…oh yeah. Street Trash (1987).
Street Trash isn’t up there already? OK, I’ll add it to the queue.
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While not as surreal as some of the other films mentioned here, I’d like to nominate Brick. It’s a classic film noir (complete with hard-boiled dialogue) set in a modern California high school. The weirdness comes from seeing teens talk like Dashiell Hammet characters, along with some dreamlike visuals. Brick plays its conceit completely straight, and is a great film in its own right.
Destron: I never got around to seeing it but I’ve always been intrigued by the premise of Brick, so I don’t object to putting it in the queue.
Sion Sono’s Love Exposure
Hi Janna – Love Exposure is getting a very special Blu-ray release this September – I will add it to the queue but we will likely review it as a new release in a few months!
moviebuffnube suggests Rubber, which we have already reviewed here. I have not personally looked at it yet and given it the thumbs up or thumbs down for making the List, however, so I can add it to the queue for an offcial look (although given the length of the queue, that second look may take have to take place in 2025).
I would have just suggested Little Otik. Very odd, very surreal hungarian nightmare.
Little Otik is climbing the review queue, I would expect we’ll get to it in 2012.
Just finished Wax or The Discovery of Television Among The Bees (1991). A wandering bee expert travels deep into the earth’s core to find billions of bees congregating inside the tower of babel transmitting very early cgi into the brains of people…..nah….
Morgan, you just keep uncovering more little weird gems. Yeah, Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees deserves a shot.
Bruce Robinson (1989) How to Get Ahead in Advertising, British satire about an ad exec whose pimple grows into a head/evil alter-ego, and Bliss (1985), directed by Aussie Ray Lawrence, on a similar theme (in its own inimitable way): the surreal distortions of neoliberal life. Two of my all-time favorites. Can’t believe they haven’t made the list yet!
Lisa, I confess that sometimes I am too timid in putting a film on the List, and I may have been so with How to Get Ahead in Advertising, which I named a “List Candidate.” It still may make it in the future and I’ll take your vote into consideration (there hasn’t been any discussion of the movie one way or the other until you came along). On the other hand I can add Bliss (1985) to the queue; I’ve heard of it but I haven’t seen it. It’s not on Region 1 DVD and seems to be a forgotten movie outside of its native Australia.
Strange Circus is a Japanese film that is really disturbing and visually quite interesting.
Adam M suggested we review Creatures of Destiny (2012)—Adam, if you are involved with this production you can always send us a screener and we’ll get to it much sooner.
sstreuly: I can add Strange Circus to the queue for you.
I recently watched Goodbye 20th century. That one is certainly weird enough to deserve being considered for the list.
I see Little Otik has been recommended. Can I just say that I feel the same way about that film as I do about Tommy. Yes, it’s certainly very odd, but Jan Svankmajer is quite prolific, and Little Otik is actually one of his least weird films. As one of the tiny handful of official card-carrying surrealists to make feature-length movies, everything he’s ever made would probably qualify for this list.
Since, as an old-school surrealist, he’s obliged to regard Leon Trotsky, Sigmund Freud and André Breton as a kind of atheist Holy Trinity, he can be more than a little dogmatic, but his best work is extraordinarily weird. Personally I wouldn’t have picked Alice for the List, because the nature of the source-book means that any film version is automatically weird, and I see that you already have either on the list or under consideration just about every version of Alice ever filmed by anybody other than Disney.
The trouble with Little Otik in my view is that it’s a fairly straight adaptation of a traditional fairy-tale, and the weirdness is strictly one-note – an infertile woman wants a baby so much that she somehow imbues life into a vaguely baby-shaped tree-stump. Which makes the whole story one-note, and frankly a little dull – it would have worked far better as a short.
I would suggest that you get hold of a box-set (assuming there is one) of Jan Svankmajer’s complete opus, and choose the best ones. My personal choice, over both Alice and LIttle Otik (I haven’t seen Faust), would be Conspirators Of Pleasure. Thankfully free of clumsy Marxism, it’s simply an exploration of the sex-lives of several people with the most complicated fetishes imaginable (and then some).
Since it contains almost no nudity, the perversions on display are so bizarre that they wouldn’t even be recognizably sexual if the participants didn’t enjoy them so much, and the most explicit imagery by far appears in a series of pornographic 18th-century etchings used as the backdrop for the opening credits, it’s not by any normal standards a dirty movie. Also, it’s frequently hilarious, and you genuinely don’t know where it’s going.
So, have as much by Jan Svankmajer as you like, but I would suggest you include Conspirators Of Pleasure.
Dreamer: I agree that Goodbye 20th Century is something we should look at. There is an availability issue as it has never been released on DVD but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Orloff: That may be the longest prologue to a suggestion we’ve ever seen! I will put Conspirators of Pleasure in queue. And yes, every Svankmajer feature really is a contender for the List.
Yep, “Holy Motors” is weird, weird, weird. You already guessed, i know that, but right now i’m making it official. For once, i’m pretty confident it’s going to make its way to the List…
Oscar: I’ll add Holy Motors to the queue just in case, but we will almost certainly review it as a new release just as soon as it shows up over here in the U.S.
Love this site :)
Here are my suggestions, hopefully you enjoy them :)
- “Boxing Helena”: Jennifer Lynch’s debut feature. This movie was a box-office flop, the ending is very disappointig, but overall, the film presents an interesting – and definitely weird take on the issue of posession and obsession. Besides, who doesn’t love watching Julian Sands amputating all four limbs of his beloved one? The original DVD release had almost no extras – and is allegedly out of print – so here’s a special edition with extras from the laserdisc: https://cultcine.com/products-page/all-titles/boxing-helena-directors-cut-2-disc-special-edition-1993-ntsc-jennifer-chambers-lynch/
- “The Million Dollar Hotel”: what happens when Wim Wenders makes a movie based on Bono’s script? Well, the results are… weird. On the surface, the movie seems to be just an excuse to use some U2 songs, but it hints on having darker, more symbolic undertones. Available on Netflix Instant.
- You have reviewed “Blue Beard” but what about other films directed by Catherine Breillat? I think “Romance” or “Anatomy of Hell” are worth including in the List, if only for their cold and nightmarish depiction of human sexuality. “Anatomy…” is especially worth looking at, because of its rejection of a traditional plot.
- “A Pure Formality”: Giuseppe Tornatore’s thriller film seems to be a standard procedural feature but turns out to have more symbolic and allegorical undertones. Gerard Depardieu is interrogated by Roman Polanski – his presece is weirdness personified – about a murder or maybe about something else entirely?
- “Criminal Lovers”: another debut feature, this time by Francois Ozon. A story about a couple of two teenage lovers who kill their classmate and then are threatened to be eaten by a hermit… yes, that’s defenitely weird, if a little pretentious (well, it’s French.)
- “Faust: Love of the Damned”: now here’s something delightful: a horror/gore/romance film about a damned superhero-like man who tries to stop the devil from becoming a giant blob (or something like that.) I love this movie because of its insanity.
- “Gerry”: a masterpiece of minimalism. Gus Vas Sant rejects any notion of plot or characters. Matt Damon and Carey Affleck are symbolic figures wandering in the desert. This movie deserves to be in the List, if only for its uncompromising refusal to be a traditional cinematic experience. “Gerry” is fascinating because of its deliberate boringness.
Has anyone suggested ‘Chappaqua’ by Conrad Rooks? Pretty much a non-narrative, tripped-out movie about addiction featuring the legendary WS Burroughs. Good movie too.
Motyka: good list, but to keep the length of the review queue down we only accept one consecutive suggestion per reader. So I’ll add Boxing Helena; actually, I’m a little surprised you’re the first person to mention it. You can come back later to suggest some of the others.
Tally: I don’t believe anyone has ever mentioned Chappaqua, I’ll add it.
Thanks a lot :)
i just discovered your site and love it!! i recommend “The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai” and ” Teenage Caveman” .. have you seen either of these two movies?
Hi Frank, I’ve seen Teenage Caveman, but only the 1958 version, and for some reason I think you’re thinking of Larry Clark’s 2002 film of the same title. The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai interests me because it looks weird and we’ve never covered a pink film here before: I’ll add it to the queue, but it will probably be 2/3 of the way to forever before we actually get to it.