Suggest a Weird Movie!

Please do not ask “what was that movie?” questions on this page. We set up an entire site here to answer those questions. This page is for suggesting movies to be reviewed.

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. (More than that since I last updated the page)! 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. The best you can really hope for at this point is to bring something to our attention that we might have overlooked. (Also note that although we prioritize the earliest nominations later suggestions may get reviewed before earlier ones if they receive a re-release on DVD or Blu-ray, or interest us for our own inscrutable reasons).

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.

All serious suggestions will receive a response, as well as all most non-serious ones.

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  1. 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.

    1Day; 3 Women; The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao; 8 1/2 Women; The 10th Victim; 2001: A Space Odyssey; 11:14; “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 Mark Twain; The Adventures of Picasso; “Afraid So” from “The Films of Jay Rosenblatt, Vol. 2″; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Air Doll; Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams; “Alicia” (1994); Alien Alibi; All That Jazz; Alphaville; Amazon Women on the Moon; Amanece, que no es poco; An American Hippie in Israel; “Analog”; Anatomy of Hell; 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; Angst; Anguish [Angustia]; The Annunciation; La antena; The Appointment (1981); Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters; Arrebato; Ascension; As Filhas do Fogo; The Atrocity Exhibition; Audition; Avida; Bad Taste; Bad Timing (AKA Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession); Battle in Heaven; Beauty and the Beast (1978); Berberian Sound Studio; Bernie (1996) (depending on availability); The Beyond; Bhoner; Bibliotheque Pascal; Big Man Japan (official review); Big River Man; Big Time; “The Big Shave”; Birth of the Overfiend; Black Cat, White Cat; Black Devil Doll; Blind Beast; Bliss; Blood for Dracula; Blue (1993, Jarman); Blue Velvet; The Bothersome Man; The Boxer’s Omen [aka Mo]; Boxing Helena; Brain Damage; Brain Dead (1990, d. Adam Simon); Brain Dead [AKA Dead-Alive]; Brand Upon the Brain!; The Brave Little Toaster; Breakfast of Champions; Brick; Britannia Hospital; “Broken Glass”; “The Brothers Quay Collection”; Bruce Lee vs. Gay Power; Bubba Ho-Tep; Buddy Boy (1999); Buffalo ’66; Buffet Froid; Burnt Offerings; La Cabina [AKA The Telephone Box]; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Cafe Flesh; Calamari Wrestler; Candy (1968); The Cars That Ate Paris; The Cat in the Hat; “Cat Soup”; Celestial Wives Of Meadow Mari; Celine and Julie Go Boating; The Cell; The Cement Garden; Chappaqua; “Charleston Parade”; Charly: Dias de Sangre; Christmas on Mars; Christ the Movie; La cicatrice intérieure; Citizen Dog; City of Pirates; City of Women; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs; Color of Pomegranates; Confessions; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; Conspirators of Pleasure; The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover; Coonskin; Crash (Cronenberg); La Cravate; Creating Rem Lezar; Creatures of Destiny; Crimewave; Criminal Lovers; Cube; Cutie Honey; Dance With The Devil; Dante’s Inferno (2007); Dark Arc; The Dark Side of the Heart; Dark Waters; Daughter of Horror; Daymaker; Day of the Wacko; Death by Hanging; Death Powder (1986); Decasia (second review); The Devils; Diamond Flash; Dirty Duck; A Dog Called Pain; La Dolce Vita; The Doom Generation; The Double Life of Veronique; The Drifting Classroom; Drowning by Numbers; Drunken Wu Tang; Dumplings; The Earl Sessions; Edward II; Electric Dragon 80,000 V; The Element of Crime; Evil Ed; Executive Koala; Eyes Wide Shut; The Fall; The Falls; Fando y Lis; Faust: Love of the Damned; Fear X; Feherlofia; Felidae; Fellini’s Cassanova; Fido; A Field in England; Fiend (1980); Fiend Without a Face; Finisterrae; Flaming Creatures; The Fountain; Four Rooms; The Fox Family; Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster; Fudge 44; Funeral Parade of Roses; Gahjini; Galaxy of Terror; Genius Party; Gerry; The Giant Claw; 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; Gorod Zero; Green Snake; Grendel Grendel Grendel; Haggard; Hair Extensions; Hanger; Happiness; Hard Candy; “Harpya”; Head (re-review); Heartbeeps; Heart of Glass; Heavenly Creatures; Homebodies (1974); Hugo the Hippo; I Am Here Now; Ichi the Killer; ID; The Idiots; If…; I [Heart] Huckabees; The Illustrated Man; Incubus; I Never Left the White Room; In a Glass Cage; L’Inferno; Innocence (2004); In Search of the Titanic; Insidious (2010); I Think We’re Alone Now; I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse; Jack and the Beanstalk (1974, Japan); Johnny Aquarius; Killer Nun; Killdozer; Killer Condom; The Killing Room; King Lear (1987, Godard); Koyaanisqatsi; Krysar (AKA The Pied Piper of Hamelin); Kung Pow; La Razon de Mi Vida; The Last Days of Planet Earth; Last Life in the Universe; The Last Sunset; Last Year in Marienbad; Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events; Leolo; Let the Right One In; Liquid Sky (re-review); Litan; Little Deaths; Lo; Love Me If You Dare; Lovers on the Bridge; Lucky; Mad Detective; Man Facing Southeast; Marebito; Marutirtha Hinglaj; 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 Ballad for Ghost Theater; Midnight Skater; “The Mighty Boosh” (TV show); The Million Dollar Hotel; Mind Game; Moebius (1996); Mom (1986); Monday (depending on availability); Monobloc; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Mood Indigo; Mr. Nobody; Multiple Maniacs; Murder Party; Mutant Aliens; My Dinner with Andre; Myra Breckenridge; The Mysterians; Mystics in Bali; Nails; Natural Born Killers; Neighbors; The Neverending Story; “Next Floor”; Nick the Feature Film; Nightdreams; Night of the Hunter; Night of the Lepus; Night on the Galactic Express; The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz; The Ninth Configuration; Nitwit; Noroi; Northfork; No Smoking; Nuit Noire; Of Freaks and Men; One Eyed Monster; “One Soldier”; Only God Forgives; On the Silver Globe; Organ; Orpheus; “The Ossuary”; Paperhouse; Parents; The Passion of Darkly Noon; Peeping Tom; Perfect Blue; Period Piece; Phantom of the Paradise (re-review); Phase IV; Piano Tuner of Earthquakes; Picnic at Hanging Rock; Pierrot Le Fou; Pink Flamingos; Pink Narcissus; The Pit; Point Blank (1967); Pola X; Porcile [AKA Pigpen]; The Pornographers; Portrait of Jennie; Possession (official re-review); “Premium” (if it can be found); The President’s Analyst; Príncipe Azul; “Prometheus’ Garden”; A Pure Formality; The Quiet Earth; Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure; Rampo Noir; The Real McCoy; Reflections in a Golden Eye; Reflections of Evil; Return to Oz (official review); Revolver; Riki-Oh: The Story of Riki; Rock n’ Roll High School; Roller Blade; The Room; Rubin & Ed; The Ruling Class (second review); Run Lola Run; 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; The Sea That Thinks; A Scanner Darkly; Schramm; Screamplay; The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb; “Serial Experiments: Lain” (TV show); The Shape of Things; The Shining; The Shout; The Signal; Singapore Sling (official review); Sir Henry at Rawlinson End; Sitcom; Skeletons; SLC Punk; Sleepaway Camp; The Slit [AKA United Trash]; “Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions”; A Snake of June; Snow White and Russian Red; Society (official review); Something Weird; Space Is the Place (re-review); Space Thang; Spermula; Sphere; The Spirit; Spirited Away; Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds; Spirits of the Dead; “Star Maidens” (TV show); Static; Strange Circus; Strangers in Paradise; Stroszek; Suicide Club (re-review); Surviving Life: Theory and Practice; Svidd neger (depending on availability); Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song; Symbol; Tales from the Quadead Zone; Tampopo; Tank Girl; Tasher Desh; The Taste of Tea; Teeth; Teknolust; The Tenant; La Teta y La Luna; That Deadwood Feeling; Themroc; They Came Back; Things; This Filthy Earth; Thriller: A Cruel Picture; Thundercrack!; THX 1138; Time Masters; Titicut Follies; Der Todersking; Tourist Trap (1979); Tout Va Bien; Troll 2; “Turkish Star Wars” [Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam]; Twister (1989); Uncle Meat; Underground; Uzumaki [AKA Spiral] (official re-review); Vakvagany; Vanishing Waves; Vase de Noces; Vera; Vermillion Souls; Versus; Vigasiosexploitation; Visions of Suffering; Visitor of a Museum [Posetitel muzeya]; Waiting for Godot; The War Zone; Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees; We Are the Strange; Welcome to the Dollhouse; Wicked City (1992 live-action version); Wild at Heart; Wild Tigers I Have Known; A Woman’s Face (1940); Womb; 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.

    1. I would like to suggest these few films…

      “Dead-End Drive-In”

      “Bride Of Frank”

      “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things”

      “Liquid Sky”

      “Life And Death Of A Porno Gang”

      (Sorry if any of these have already been submitted)

  2. Matador.

    Also, I think Exterminating Angel should definitely make the list. It’s the scariest movie I’ve ever seen. Horror movies don’t scare me, but that movie will haunt me forever.

    1. I forgot to add Velvet Goldmine and Teeth. Though they’re probably not weird enough.

  3. i saw this tv show back in the early 2000’s maybe 2003-2004 idk but i was like 11 years old and it was really late at night at like 10-11 pm and it was this weird anime that was dark and creepy and it was about this young girl and she encounters aliens and she thinks the alien is “god” and is obsessed with it and its really creepy. hopefully someone can help me out

  4. I’ve got a couple of gems you missed. First, The Twonky; a completely mental Hans Conried flick about an alien-possessed TV set. And Wild In The Streets; a bit of ’60’s sci-fi paranoia about teenagers taking over the US and putting everyone over 30 into concentration camps. Both paragons of weirdness.

  5. Pink flamingos, female trouble, kondom des grauens, emperor tomato ketchup, the witch who came from the sea, angustia, dust devil, marquis, liquid sky

  6. Sofiya: Marquis made the List.

    Preliminary reviews of Female Trouble and Liquid Sky are here.

    Pink Flamingos, Kondom des Grauen [Killer Condom], and Angustia [Anguish] are already listed in the queue above.

    Emperor Tomato Ketchup is not in the queue, so I can add it.

    faaip: I will add Borgman. It will be seeing a theatrical (and hopefully a DVD) release in the U.S. this year so we will likely get to it then.

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  8. Some others that should probably get consideration:

    Jigoku (1960)
    Japanese depiction of Hell. The visuals are nightmarish, artful and often strange as fuck.
    http://youtu.be/ts4iyUuS-mA

    Pound (1970)
    Robert Downey Sr. film about a bunch of dogs (and one penguin) about to be put down at the dog pound. All of the animals are played by actors who very convincingly assume the mannerisms of their respective breeds. The movie is brimming with sex, drugs and base depravity, but also pathos. It’s satire at its most absurd, very weird, very 70s, and very, very good. I couldn’t find a trailer but here’s a clip:
    http://youtu.be/SfceSj5koBo

    Toomorrow (1970)
    Early Oliva Newton John movie about Aliens who kidnap a pop band for their healing musical vibrations. It was a relative hit in Japan, but absolutely tanked everywhere else on the planet so this clip has hardcoded Japanese subs.
    http://youtu.be/mrS5brpYxDs

    Human Highway (1982)
    Neil Young directs and stars in this post-apocalyptic musical comedy about the last day on earth at a roadside gas station populated by DEVO, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell and an assorted stream of radiated weirdos.
    http://youtu.be/5BOz12CN7tM

    True Stories (1986)
    A film about a bunch of people in Virgil Texas. David Byrne guides the viewer through modern Texas and its population of amiable, regular people who work, socialize and look for love amongst the sprawl. He finds absurdity amongst the mundane, and normalcy inside the bizarre.
    http://youtu.be/mhRgCsQf3CU

    Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1992)
    Craig Baldwin found footage collage movie exploring science fiction, conspiracy theory, Apocalyptic prophesy, and U.S. political policy on South America. Here’s a clip:
    http://youtu.be/-So8ncddSBY

    Rollergator (1996)
    Zero budget kid’s movie by schlockmeister Donald G. Jackson about a teenage girl and her purple, baby alligator puppet. They fight ninjas, rollerblade around town, and try to find “the swamp trader” (Conrad Brooks) while evading capture by Joe Estevez, all beneath a totally oppressive freestyle guitar score. Ugh, it’s bad, but seriously weird. Clip:
    http://youtu.be/DGAfUx9jJZ8

    1. Good suggestions. If you want, come back later and suggest one of them. I don’t accept suggestions from the same reader twice in a row as a way of keeping submissions down. I still could decide to look into any of those on my own, or maybe someone else will submit a review.

  9. Well i hope i’m not being annoying but i gotta mention a film called where the dead go to die. Otto or up with dead people is also another suggestion of mine as well as wavelength.

  10. Hi Sofiya, you finally found some we haven’t covered yet! I will add Where the Dead Go to Die to the queue. We would have reviewed that one when it came out if it had been better distributed. The stills look… interesting.

    Sirako: Kárate a muerte en Torremolinos looks like it would be hard to come by here in the States (never released on Region 1 DVD) but I’ll add it nonetheless.

  11. The Devils (1971) – Ken Russell
    Dreams (1990) – Akira Kurosawa
    Dolls (2002) – Takeshi Kitano

    are these on the list?

  12. Sorry for responding late again, guys.

    Sandy: Berberian Sound Studio is already in the queue. My Twentieth Century and The Fifth Season are both reasonable suggestions, though a little hard to find here in the USA (Century is on VHS only). Since The Fifth Season is at least available on Region 2 DVD I’ll add that one.

    Tzith: I can add The Chumscrubber to the queue.

    Thomas Fenton (see post at very top, responding directly to the list): We considered and rejected Bride of Frank. We have a preliminary positive review of Liquid Sky up while we’re waiting on a DVD re-release. Of those others I like Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things best, so I’ll put it in the queue.

  13. Again, sorry for the late replies. I’ve gotten in the bad habit of only responding to this thread once per week.

    The two shorts recommendations have been taken under advisement.

    Matthew Moonie: As far as I can tell Hostel is just standard-issue torture porn. Someone will need to second that suggestion to endorse its weirdness.

    Jeff B: we have a review of Hourglass Sanitorium up, but The Sea That Thinks looks quite interesting—I’ll add that one to the queue.

    Cindy Hoskey: I’ll add Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou to the queue.

  14. I’m pretty sure The Sea That Thinks was in the queue already. I seem to remember adding it to my own “to watch” list when it was recommended the first time because I thought it looked promising.

  15. This movie crossed my mind. I was talking about this (these) movie this last weekend, and I feel they are more disturbing than weird.

  16. Someone has probablyalready mentioned these, but Mirrormask and Bad Taste,an Aussie film come to me. Bye

  17. Pixote. Life of a Brazilian slum child played by a Brazilian slum child. More disturbing than this list. I dont even want to say what it contains because I don’t want potential viewers to be put off. A shame Brazilian police killed the child.

  18. I had assumed Edward Scissorhands had been dismissed earlier, since it was nor in the queue. Love that movie.Also love Powder.

  19. Paperhouse (1988)

    While suffering from glandular fever, 11-year-old Anna Madden draws a house. When she falls asleep, she has disturbing dreams in which she finds herself inside the house she has drawn. After she draws a face at the window, in her next dream she finds a disabled boy named Marc living in the house. She learns from her doctor that Marc is a real person.

    Anna sketches her father into the drawing so that he can help carry Marc away, but she inadvertently gives him an angry expression which she then crosses out, and the father (who has been away a lot and has a drinking problem, putting a strain on his marriage) appears in the dream as a furious, blinded ogre. Anna and Marc defeat the monster and shortly afterward Anna recovers, although the doctor reveals that Marc’s condition is deteriorating.

    Anna’s father returns home and both parents seem determined to get over their marital difficulties. The family goes on holiday by the sea, where Anna finds an epilogue to her dream.

    (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperhouse_(film) )

  20. _The End of Evangelion_, directed by Hideaki Anno, is a cinematic re-take on the end of the 90s anime TV series _Neon Genesis Evangelion_, and, in my honest opinion, it’s weird even by anime standards. The second half especially is a concentrated pastiche of nightmare imagery and psychological horror, with an ending that remains infamous (among anime fan circles, at least) to this day. I feel it’s definitely worthy of being on the list, and could use exposure outside of the otaku domain. The fact that a 26-episode series must be watched to gain a proper sense of context is problematic, though…

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