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.
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; 8 1/2 Women; The 10th Victim; 2001: A Space Odyssey; 11:14; “2012 Aficionado DVD Zine Issue #0″; 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 Devil Doll; Blind Beast; Bliss; Blood for Dracula; Blue (1993, Jarman); Blue Velvet; Borgman; 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); Buffet Froid; Burnt Offerings; La Cabina [AKA The Telephone Box]; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Cafe Flesh; Calamari Wrestler; Candy (1968); Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death; 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; Che strano chiamarsi Federico [How Strange to Be Named Federico]; Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things; Christmas on Mars; Christ the Movie; The Chumscrubber; 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); Detention; The Devils; Diamond Flash; Dirty Duck; A Dog Called Pain; La Dolce Vita; Dolls (2002); The Doom Generation; The Double Life of Veronique; The Drifting Classroom; Drowning by Numbers; Drunken Wu Tang; Dumplings; The Earl Sessions; Edward II; Edward Scissorhands; Electric Dragon 80,000 V; The Element of Crime; Emperor Tomato Ketchup; The End of Evangelion; Evil Ed; Excision; Executive Koala; eXistenZ; Eyes Wide Shut; The Fall; The Falls; Fando y Lis; Faust: Love of the Damned; Fear X; Feherlofia; Felidae; Fellini’s Cassanova; Fido; Fiend (1980); Fiend Without a Face; The Fifth Season; Finisterrae; Flaming Creatures; The Fountain; Four Rooms; The Fox Family; Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster; Frontier; Fudge 44; Funeral Parade of Roses; Gahjini; Galaxy of Terror; Gandu; Genius Party; Gerry; The Giant Claw; The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai; 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; ‘Hukkunud Alpinisti’ hotell [Dead Mountaineers Hotel]; I Am Here Now; Ichi the Killer; ID; Idaho Transfer; 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; Junkie; Kárate a muerte en Torremolinos (depending on availability); Killdozer; Killer Nun; 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; Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural; Leolo; Let the Right One In; Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; Liquid Sky (re-review); Litan; Little Deaths; Live Freaky! Die Freaky!; Lo; Love Me If You Dare; Lovers on the Bridge; Lucia (2013); Lucky; Mad Detective; Man Facing Southeast; Marebito; Marutirtha Hinglaj; Master of the Flying Guillotine; Matador; Me and You and Everyone We Know; Mécanix; 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; 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; Night of the Hunter; Night of the Lepus; Night on the Galactic Express; The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz; The Ninth Configuration; Nitwit; Noroi; No Smoking; Nuit Noire; Nymphomaniac; Of Freaks and Men; Om Dar-B-Dar; One Eyed Monster; “One Soldier”; Only God Forgives; On the Silver Globe; Open Your Eyes; Organ; Orpheus; “The Ossuary”; Overdrawn at the Memory Bank; 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 Narcissus; The Pit; The Point; 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; Rubin & Ed; The Ruling Class (second review); 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; A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness; 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; Suddenly Last Summer; Suicide Club (re-review); Surviving Life: Theory and Practice; Svidd neger (depending on availability); Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song; Symbol; Takeshis’; Talk to Her; 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; Three… Extremes; 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]; The Twonky; Uncle Meat; Underground; Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer; Uzumaki [AKA Spiral] (official re-review); Vakvagany; Vase de Noces; 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; Where the Dead Go to Die; Wicked City (1992 live-action version); Wild at Heart; “Wild Palms”; 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.
Are you guys gonna review “Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome”? I didn’t see it mentioned in any of the Kenneth Anger articles.
Personally I think it’s Anger’s best film and possibly his weirdest/most extreme too.
Yes, we will review “Inauguration” at some point. (I’ll add it to the queue so it’s not forgotten).
It’s always good to hold something back—can’t do all the obvious choices up front.
I will also add Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer to the queue for fori.
Earth girls are easy (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsfU0I2Mqfs
Paula: I will add Earth Girls Are Easy to the review queue for you.
Talking Head (1992) is also a weird movie.
Hmm, another rare Mamoru Oshii movie, though this one is somewhat more common than Angel Egg. OK, I’ll put Talking Head into the queue.
Slither directed by James Gunn
Also, Cannibal the Musicial.
Hi,
apologies if you have it included and maybe i just missed it – for me, A Quiet Place in the Country, Dir: Elio Petri – is not just weird, it’s also one of the best films ever made. At first glance, it’s easy to mistake this for a confusion of satire and horror – look a lot closer and you will find much, much more. It’s an absolute masterpiece.
I was going to include J.Lee Thompson’s The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, which is fun but not nearly in the same league.
love the list!
JG
Brad, of those two I think Cannibal! the Musical is the better candidate. I’ll put that one in the queue.
Joe, A Quiet Place in the Country looks interesting – I hadn’t heard of it before. I’ll add it too.
James and The Giant Peach.
Ah, came here to suggest Paperhouse, but I see it’s already there. Looking forward to that one. Can’t believe how few people know about it.
Brad: We can look at James and the Giant Peach down the line.
Blue Yonder: I’m not surprised someone already thought of Paperhouse. After 36 pages of this I’m surprised when someone comes up with a new title.
I’d like to suggest two movies: First, and more importantly, “Marketa Lazarova” – a dense, fragmented, often hard-to-follow, always completely gorgeous Czech semi-historical ensemble masterpiece that follows two pagan families during the Christianization of the region.
Secondly, “Human Highway” – an utterly bizarre acid trip of a post-apocalyptic… comedy? directed by Neil Young under a pseudonym and starring himself and Devo. Even stranger than that sounds.
Melancholie der Engel
I found that one on YouTube with english subtitles . Its 2009 German movie
Sasha: We love Czech New Wave, but Marketa Lazarova was not a title I am familiar with. We’ll look out for it. We don’t accept consecutive suggestions from the same person as a way to cut down the queue, so come back later for Human Highway.
Tomasz: I didn’t watch the movie but I took down the link based on some of the YouTube and IMDB comments. If the comments are correct it doesn’t sound like it would be up our alley.
Snowpiercer
Born of Fire (1987), which Mondo Macabro released on DVD a few years back. I think of it as sort of a surreal, Islamic version of The Exorcist, although that’s not very accurate, really. For me, it’s a pure pleasure to watch this parade of decidedly odd, inspired imagery. And it’s certainly one of the strangest feature films I’ve ever seen.
Tron: I think we can get a review of Snowpiercer out (even though it’s not out in the U.S. yet).
Gary Messick: Sounds interesting, and has the Mondo Macabro seal of approval. I’ll add Born of Fire to the queue.
I thing you may like it. http://www.fearnet.com/shorts/perfect-drug
Thanks haui. I’m going to take that as a recommendation for readers to go watch the short film on fearnet.com, rather than as something we’d consider for the List. It’s a quite professional (and weird) little movie, but it appears to be a fearnet.com exclusive.
Wings of Desire.
Here is a short list of some wierd films.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of call, New Orleans
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Spider
Enemy
A field in England
Sightseers
Wristcutters: A Love Story
The Bothersome Man
House (Ding Dong, You’re Dead.)
“Journey to the West”, Chinese auteur Stephen Chows’ newest film.
Sorry for posting lots…just so enthusiastic about these “weird” films.
Brad: I can add Wings of Desire to the queue. Journey to the West is already on the radar as a new release. Obviously we can’t complain about your suggestions, it’s fans like you who give us a reason to exist!
Matt:
Bad Lieutenant: Port of call, New Orleans
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Spider
Enemy
A field in England
Sightseers – good film, but not so very weird, especially next to Wheatley’s other movies
Wristcutters: A Love Story
The Bothersome Man
That leaves only
House [AKA Ding Dong, You’re Dead] (1986)
as a possible review candidate. I will add it to the queue.
Hi. A short film called El Elegante: https://vimeo.com/98499115
Okay, I think I might finally have one that hasn’t been done yet: “The Living and the Dead”, 2006. It’s about a schizophrenic young man who attempts to look after his ailing mother. I’m not entirely sure if it fits into your parameters of “weird film”, but it does get sort of surreal at times, and I’ve always enjoyed your reviews, so if you have the time, maybe you could look at it?
How’s “the Grand Budapest Hotel” looking, worthy of being in the queue?
Nightmare
Okay, I viewed this movie in the mid 80s but it was released in the mid to latter 60s. It was a British movie and seemed to be called “The Boy with Two Left Shoes”. He was a misfit who began to hang out in a little hip dive, possibly in Liverpool. He is in love with a girl but the leader of pack in his little hang out is a Gay guy who seduces him. That encounter(s) confuses him and leads to a stranger encounter when the young man is given a party in honor of his engagement to the girl. I have searched for this movie which was aired on an off the wall channel in pre-cable days. The cast seemed to be all British with unrecognizable names and a strange though interesting plot. Does snyone kmow about this movie?
Playing catch-up on responses:
Vince: I passed the short along to our shorts guy. In the meantime readers can follow that link and can also watch “Fits and Starts,” a very surreal Vince Di Meglio short we already featured.
BlueYonder: The Living and the Dead looks up our alley, I’ll add it to the queue.
Brad: I liked The Grand Budapest Hotel but it’s not what I would consider weird.
Venominus: Please be more specific (e.g. year of release). There are probably a dozen movies simply titled Nightmare.
Gen Gen: wrong thread, this is for suggesting movies for review. I suggest you try our sister site, http://irememberthismovie.com.
In the Realm of the Senses. Someone needs to cover In the Realm of the Senses. I’d do it, but I don’t think I could watch it again to do it justice.
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye’ Done?, Aguirre, the Wrath of God,
Fitzcarraldo, The Wild Blue Yonder – all by Werner Herzog worth a look.
Gates of Heaven, The Thin Blue Line, Tabloid, A Brief History of Time, Mr. Death: The Rise & Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. – by Errol Morris (although technically documentaries)
When the Wind Blows (1986) – Jimmy Murakami
Shinbone Alley
A few more oddities:
Mr Stitch – Roger Aviary, Rudger Hauer… great modern take on the Frankenstein story.
Visitors – Godfrey Reggio, stunning new film from the Qatsi team
Jabberwocky, Terry Gilliam’s first post python feature
Naked, Mike Leigh
Man from Earth, Jerome Bixby, great little story about a man who claims to be 14,000 years old
Mary and Max, Adam Elliot, quirky little claymation from down under
Enjoy
Oh yes…
Big Man Japan, Hitoshi Matsumoto, truly weird even by Japanese standards.
Samsara (2011) is probably the trippiest documentary on Netflix Instant. Definitely worth a watch and a spot on the list.
Journey to the West by Tsai Ming-liang
Oh my! Neglect this thread for a few days and look what happens.
Der Ubermolch: OK, I’ll add In the Realm of the Senses.
Trev: Check out our Werner Herzog coverage and our Errol Morris coverage. Several of those movies are already there (or are in the queue above). One that we have not covered yet is The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, so I’ll add that.
Brad: OK, Shinbone Alley could work.
Trev 2: Out of your second set I’ll add Jabberwocky. I liked Mary and Max but viewed it as not weird enough for the List. Big Man Japan has a reader review and is due for a re-review.
Ben: Samsara is an interesting case. I came very close to reviewing it here when it came out. It’s a beautiful movie, very much in the vein of Koyaanisqatsi (which is in the queue). I am going to pass on putting it in the queue right now, unless someone seconds the suggestion, precisely because it is so much in the same “wordless documentary” genre as Koyaanisqatsi. Meanwhile, for a similar “trippy” documentary on Netflix streaming you might be interested in The End of Time (which does have some narration, which some people will consider “pretentious”).
Brad 2: Ah, not Stephen Chow’s new movie. I’ll add Journey to the West [Xi you] (2013) to the queue now and worry about how to track it down later.
Cool!
Also, you should think about Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise (one of the most underrated musical movies ever) and John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China (such a subversive 80s blockbuster).
Ravenous
Two Thousand Maniacs
Motel Hell
Garbage Pail Kids Movie
Flight of the Navigator
Ben: We have an unofficial review of Phantom of the Paradise, and there is a Blu-ray coming out this summer which may give us an excuse to do an official review. Big Trouble is another one I came close to reviewing but kept passing over for other candidates.
Monelly: I’ll add Ravenous to the queue. Like Paradise, there’s a special edition of Motel Hell coming out this summer, so there’s a good chance we’ll cover that one soon.
The Return of the Living Dead
Outer Space – 1999 – by Peter Tscherkassky.
Watch it here. In the dark sometime between 1 and 3 am is best. Turn it up loud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rXvUbci8bA
Brad: OK, Return of the Living Dead goes in the queue.
Matt: That’s a classic bit of experimental filmmaking, isn’t it? It would make a good Saturday Short.
This girl was kidnapped and held captive by this crazy and weird guy. He takes her to his house and keeps her there as his wife (he’s messed up in the head so he thinks she’s his wife and that they’re happy together). Then over time she slowly falls in love with him (it’s a little more complicated).
I’m astonished that my favorite film “The Hour-Glass Sanatorium” (aka – The Sandglass) by Polish director Wojciech Has is not in your list. Take a look. BTW, some well thought out reviews for the various films on this site. I expected the slant to be more toward the sensational in its explication rather than in-depth so I’m pleasantly surprised.
Mr. Mobia – not only do we have an entry up on Hour-Glass Sanitorium, it links to your essay on the film! (I thought your name sounded familiar).
The main reason Sanitorium isn’t “officially” on the List yet is that I’m hoping for a better quality Region 1 DVD release in the coming years. I hate adding a movie and then finding the Criterion Collection issuing a deluxe version a few months later (which has happened before).
I would recommend a few extremely weird films:
Hitler:A Film from Germany, an amazing experimental film that is most notable for its 7+ hour runtime, but no minute of it is dull. It’s weird because it’s entirely filmed in a studio, it’s heavily inspired by Richard Wagner, it uses dolls and rear-screen projection to examine the period and ideology of Nazi Germany. Syberberg, the director, also directed other films with the same props and motifs as in Hitler, like Ludwig:Requiem for a Virgin King, Karl May and others, but in my opinion Hitler is the best.
Also, Jodorowsky’s new film “The Dance of Reality” is as weird as you would expect from the genious.
litplay: We’re aware of Hitler: A Film from Germany [AKA Our Hitler] and agree it needs to be considered for the List, 7+ hours long or not. Hopefully we’ll hit Dance of Reality when it comes to DVD, as well.
Can I suggest Never Belongs To Me (2006) by Gee Woong-nam? This is a film where a half man, half tiger and his brother who gets outfitted with a gun-penis goes on a quest to fight for sexual freedom. Oh, and the brother’s gun penis only works when he sees posters of ballerinas.
Easily rivals Takashi Miike in ridicoulous, transgressive imagery on a low budget.
OK, I’ll add it to the queue.
Tuvalu:
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