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; 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; “Alicia” (1994); 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; Ascension; At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul; Attenberg; The Atrocity Exhibition; Audition; Avida; Bad Taste; Bad Timing (AKA Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession); Battle in Heaven; Beauty and the Beast (1978); Bernie (depending on availability); The Beyond; 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]; Boxing Helena; Brain Damage; Brain Dead (1990, d. Adam Simon); The Brave Little Toaster; Breakfast of Champions; Brick; 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; Chappaqua; “Charleston Parade”; Charly: Dias de Sangre; 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; Creatures of Destiny; 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; 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; Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster; “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; The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai; Glen or Glenda?; The Godmonster of Indian Flats; Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell; Goodbye 20th Century; Goodbye Uncle Tom; Grendel Grendel Grendel; Haggard; Hair Extensions; Hanger; Happiness; Hard Candy; “Harpya”; Head; Heart of Glass; Heavenly Creatures; Hell Comes to Frogtown; Holy Motors; 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; Killer Nun; Killdozer; Killer Condom; Koyaanisqatsi; La Razon de Mi Vida; The Last Days of Planet Earth; Last Life in the Universe; 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 Exposure; 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; Me and You and Everyone We Know; Meet the Feebles; Meet the Hollowheads; Memento Mori; Mermaid in a Manhole; Metropia; Midnight Skater; “The Mighty Boosh” (TV show); Mind Game; 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; Night Across The Street; Nightdreams; Night of the Hunter; The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz; 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 Is the Place (re-review); Space Thang; Spermula; Spirited Away; Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds; “Star Maidens” (TV show); Static; Strange Circus; Street Trash; 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; Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees; 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.
Well, I’ve just spent way too much of my weekend on your site. Wonderful work.
I’d love to suggest two of my favorites: Brian DePalma’s “Phantom of the Paradise” and the Troma classic (?) “Tromeo and Juliet.”
“Phantom” is a rock n’ roll blend of Faust and Phantom of the Opera that seems custom-made for midnight showings. It has a cult, but it also has some surprising depth and very clever satire. It’s also oddly moving.
“Tromeo and Juliet,” a low-budget, gory retelling of “R&J,” never should have worked. But with a smart screenplay by James Gunn (“Slither” and “Super” – oh, consider looking at “Super,” too!), a surreal attitude, and surprisingly good performances, it’s hilarious, weird, surreal, sexy, and exhilarating. Did I mention weird? Because it’s weird.
Thank you for all you have done – and continue to do!
- Zooter
I just realized that this site suffers from a serious condition known as “lack of Raoul Ruiz movies”. I recommend you the last one, Night Across The Street, a splendid and utterly weird movie, released after the filmmaker’s death, which brings a poignant resonance with the subjects tackled in the film.
Don’t miss it if by chance you can see it on the big screen.
Oscar, believe it or not you’re the first person to mention Raoul Ruiz. Night Across the Street looks like a good one and I’ll add it to that long, long list.
Hombre mirando al sudeste (Man Facing Southeast)
I’ll just add a little bit more to wonderful Mr. Ruiz “City of Pirates” and “On Top of the Whale”
Good suggestion F. We’ve overlooked Man Facing Southeast until now because it’s never been released on DVD in North America.
Morgan: City of Pirates seems appropriate to add since it was mentioned today in Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais’ top 10 movie list.
I need help finding a movie!! What is that one movie were a girl has sex with the guy sje likes nd he records it cus he had a bet with his friend nd the a girl sends the video to everyone and the girl finds oit nd runs out from the party nd gets hot ny a car nd she dies???? Help!!!
carrie 2: the rage
I have seen 70 of the movies out of the official list!!! And suggested a few of the ones that are on there. I haven’t watched much lately, and I was thinking about y’all today and decided today is a great day to make it to 72 at least
Cool list,so many crazy films.I have a few suggestions: Vase De Noces (aka The Pig F***ing Movie),Pink Narcissus,Guinea Pig 2,Cannibal Holocaust,Freaks,Thundercrack!,The Last House On Dead End Street
Thanks for the suggestions the_man. Of those you list Vase de Noces is already in the queue, and we’ve already got a piece on Freaks (it hasn’t been “officially” considered for the List yet, though). Pink Narcissus is a good suggestion that I don’t believe anyone has mentioned before, so I will add it to the queue.
How’s about Kung Pow: Enter the Fist? I saw Kung Fu Hustle on the list but was rather surprised to not see the earlier, much more bizarre movie on there.
Also, 11:14 is definitely untypical. It’s an interesting story told from several different perspectives that change throughout the movie, each story intertwined, visiting new and old scenes, and telling more of the story each time.
Hi Nick, normally, I would take your first suggestion, but I think 11:14 may have more potential than Kung Pow. Though I haven’t seen Pow, it looks more “wacky” than “weird” to me.
I have a good one for you: Teknolust. It has four Tilda Swintons, all of them trying to have sex (or rather to obtain semen). I really liked this sort of sci-fi dramedy.
It’s time for me to make another suggestion, I think. There are imo too few weird romance movies on the list so I’d like to suggest “El Lado Oscuro del Corazón” aka “The Dark Side of the Heart”. The main character is a poet who is trying to seduce death (who in this movie is a woman), who sends women he is not satisfied with out on the street through a hidden chute built into one half of his bed after reading a poem to them and who is looking for the perfect woman who in his mind is someone who literally levitates while making love. Romance movies don’t get much weirder than that, I think. Of course, someone might try to argue that it is poetic rather than weird, but I’d say that there is no conflict between the two, it is weird because of it’s particular way of being poetic and to some extent poetic because it is weird.
Just saw Period Piece by Giusseppe Andrews. Not sure if I recommend seeing it, but it’s zero-budget weirdness.
Sorry I haven’t checked in for a while, that darn “What Was That Weird Movie” thread seems to be taking up all my spare time these days…
Anyway, I am aware of Teknolust (though I haven’t seen it) and agree it’s a promising candidate.
Dreamer is right that we need more weird romances so I’ll also add The Dark Side of the Heart to the queue.
And heck, why not add Tally’s Period Piece while I’m at it?
Blue velvet…very weird
Good suggestion, Tim, but it’s already been mentioned.
Inland Empire.
Definitely, it deserves to be included in the list…
G, I’m sorry, but you’re going to have to list two movie from 1985:
Gwen, Book of Sand
Krysar
Alexandre: done – Inland Empire.
Morgan: you know the rules, one suggestion at a time or we’d be even more ridiculously behind than we already are. Of these two, I’ll enqueue Krysar (AKA The Pied Piper of Hamelin) just because it looks to be more readily available.
Hi there. thanks for these lists dogg:) i have enjoyed quite a few films thanks to this list. i have one to add that seems to be absent from all your lists.
One Soldier. a steven wright film.
while it’s not really a “movie” per se it was very very weird and it left me with a starnge feeling lol. let me know what you think…..
Hi Robin, sorry it took so long to get back to you. I wasn’t aware of One Soldier; it’s a short (30 min) movie by comedian Steven Wright. It sounds appropriate for us to cover, so thanks for the suggestion!
I saw a movie in 2007 or 2006. I’m pretty sure it was 1995 – 2007/2006 moreso after 2000. It was in english and I’m assuming it was american. It seemed that way. One significant scene I remember was a blond girl may 10 – 13, being tied to in front of a woman I think her mother, the woman was tied to a stake and they started setting it on fire. They didn’t tie em together at same time, it was they were tying the woman to the stake for some reason and maybe little girl didn’t want to leave her or something, I’m not sure, but the soldiers then tied the girl to the front. There was a crowd and uh men/soldiers doing the tying to the stake and setting on fire work. The girl’s feet may or may not have been burned or injured. Um next thing i remember is we’re in the future sometime when little girl is now young woman, late teens, 16 – 18, I think. And also I remember the girl as a young woman on a horse at some point. I think there may have been a “love interest” for the girl. I remember a tent or tents, as in a couple or more tents. I don’t know. The girl may or may not have led some sort of army in the movie at some point.
The girl is blonde. There were dark haired men in the movie. I don’t remember any blonde guys.
I was shocked not to see the movie ” GUMMO ” added to the list …its my all time favorite weird movie.
This movie is an alien abduction movie a yound lady was finding all these weird sores and bruises and even a weird little insturment kinda like a tracking device in her leg and on her throughout her life and when she got older she then realized she was being abducted by aliens and I think she wanted to be aware of why they were abducting her which seemed over her entire life or something what is the name of this
hnnbfv and kelly chappell, you guys meant to post on the What Was That Weird Movie thread—you may have better luck there.
Robert Olinik, the list above only covers the reader-suggested reviews we haven’t gotten to yet—Gummo has already been officially reviewed.
I suggest a disturbing, swedish, cult vengeance movie “Thriller: A Cruel Picture”.
( watching only in uncensored version )
We can cover Thriller: A Cruel Picture (more on the basis of it’s cult appeal than anything). It will be quite a while until we get around to it, though.
Zooter (see first post) suggests Phantom of the Paradise, and frankly I’m a little bit surprised he’s the first one to mention it. I’ll add it to the queue.
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) is fabulous! I think it’s one of the best weird movies I’ve seen.
“The Million Dollar Hotel” is another film I’d like to recommend. 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.
Tally, we will be covering Black Rainbow soon…
Motyka, I will add The Million Dollar Hotel into that very long queue.
hello i am trying figure out the name of a movie which has kids and witches or just 1 witch the plot of the story is while the parents of a little girl were away on vacation or hunnymoon she stayed with her grandma and the little girl went out alone to pick somthing up and a witch grabbed her the police went to the wiches house but the witch and girl was gone and the parents came home the grandma camitted suicide or got sick then died also the parent ended up dying themselfs this witch or witches were turning kids into rats but the only movie i know of is witches but in that movie kids got turned into mice but iv seen that movie and i never sawv a little girl going out on her own unsupervised to pick something up
I rented this cassette in the year 1994 and movie name was written Nana on it.I tried searching a lot on the web but couldnt found it.A women was running nude in the bush (car is parked next to it) and a man was trying to catch her.Does anyone know the name.
Killer Joe
Sound of My Voice
being flynn
bernie
drive angrey
The Do-Deca-Pentathlon
The Trouble with Harry
the witches
Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
KICK ASS
HAPPY FEET
Rango
LOOPER
Mars Needs Moms
Hanna
THE WITCHES
LOOPER
RANGO
HAPPY FEET
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
Bridesmaids
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN
KICK ASS
SUPER
Natural Born Killers
Hesher
300
SIN CITY
The Tree of Life
Submarine
Cowboys & Aliens REAL S**T
You guys who are looking for movie names should ask here.
As for e, those are all movies we decided to pass over reviewing this year… however, we did come close to checking out Killer Joe, so I can relent and add that to the queue.
Bernie (assuming you mean the one with Jack Black and Shirley McClaine) is a very good black comedy, a little quirky, but not so weird.
HitMan is the same person as e. We won’t be reviewing any of those except I will point out we already did Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie.
Some more e/HitMan suggestions (?) came in while I was typing this response…
Maybe b/w, maybe color: can’t remember. Saw this in the 70′s on Channel 43 (WUAB TV Lorain/Cleveland), which featured classic monster movies and Sci-Fi. PLOT: A man suffers a strange itching rash on his shoulder, and after a doctor cannot help, he later pulls down his shirt to discover a human-looking EYE growing there. In time, a creature grows into his body and eventually rips free to terrorize a town. I cannot remember the title, but any help would be appreciated. Someone HAS TO know what movie this is.
The Fall
Perfect Blue
killing zoe
nothing
inc.
the wrestler
Carnage
Ginger Snaps
birdy
Oldeuboi
The Samaritan (rippoff Oldeuboi )
hunger (2008)
control (2007)
the beaver (the pussy)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (what next Gandhi the superman or batman jesus)
Léon
Requiem for a Dream
Into the Wild
Network
Mary and Max
Tyrannosaur
Dead Man’s Shoes
WHITH DOG
Johnny/frank: are you the same person as e/HitMan83?
Well I believe the movie might be an old Disney film but it is not animated. All I remember was that it was one scene where a girl (young teen, possibly blonde) takes a picture of a family, while the daughter isn’t home, and traps the family in the black and white picture. The daughter eventually goes home and finds that the blonde girl has trapped her family and since the girls are friends, the blonde girl decides to release the family.
I’ve had a Movie in my head for years and would like to find out what it is, all I can remember is that the movie is Black and White, there is a beam of wood inserted into what looks like a Female Zombie or maybe she’s a Witch. Removing the beam with some kind of wench, brings the Zombie/Witch back to life. At the end of this movie the beam is being removed and the Zombie/Witch is she is coming to life, all of a sudden the beam is shoved back into her and she lunges forward and her head drops and what looks like sand(to me anyway)comes out, and that’s the end of the movie.
This is all I can remember, other than I think the Zombie/Witch is chained in a dungeon or cave, somewhere dark. If anyone out there could remember this Movie, any information would be greatly appreciated.
Peeping Tom (1960) a film about a young man who films fear in women he is killing. The fact that it almost destroyed the career of the director.