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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I just found your site and I’m surprised that I haven’t seen any references to Singapore Sling. If I’ve missed it, I apologize, but that might be my favorite “weird” movie. It’s a Greek tribute to the American noir style of filmmaking, but all within the context of this universe where a mother and daughter live in a rotting mansion where they’ve trapped the stereotypical noir film detective and forced him to live out their endless obsessions. The dining scenes alone are grotesque and hilarious, and the whole film is beautifully shot and exceptionally well acted. Great, underrated film.
I don’t know if this has been suggested or not, but “Alice” or “Neco z Alenky” by Czechoslovakian director Jan Svankmajer is pretty damn weird. It’s his take on “Alice in Wonderland”, which is another semi weird film you might think about adding. It’s probably one of the most visually disturbing/surrealistic film’s I’ve ever seen and it has a pretty strong cult following.
A few others
-Mullholland Drive
-Vanilla Sky
-Memento
-Blue Velvet
-Waking Life
-A Scanner Darkly
-Welcome to the Dollhouse(disturbing as hell, if you don’t add it to the list you should at least watch it, it will totally mess with your brain)
-Ghost World
-Videodrome
-The original Stepford Wives(mondo creepy)
-Scanners
-The hand that Rocks the Cradle
-Manhunter
-Carrie
-Audition
-Freaks
-Suspiria
-Peeping Tom
-The Vanishing(ridiculously weird)
-Black Sunday
-The Game
-Diabolique
-The Black Cat
-Single White Female
-The Tenant
-Cat People
-The Changeling(1980)
-Black Christmas
-Vertigo
-The Meaning of Life
-Alice Sweet Alice (!!!!!!)
-Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the original)
-Shallow Grave
Woo. That was a longer list then I was expecting to make… sorry, I watch allot of movies…
hey, sorry, but “Requiem for a Dream” and “Trainspotting” are also worth watching on the weird scale…
oh, an Cube
You guys are really piling it on. Keep ‘em coming!
Brad: I will add Singapore Sling into the review list. Thank you, this was one I was not aware of.
Leslie Rae: I will add your first choice, Alice (Neco z Alenky) to the review queue. (I like this movie a lot and it’s one that I had in mind when starting the site, I just haven’t got to it yet). You listed too many others for me to comment on every one, but I will mention that Waking Life and Memento are already in the review queue, and we will definitely get to some of those others.
Hey, just watched Lost Highway and it made me recall a movie called “Dark Country”.
Definitely not as odd as Lost Highway but, still has an interesting twist.
Hi Holly: Dark Country looks interesting, especially because it’s a 2009 release that escaped our notice. I will put it in queue.
Necromania 2009
Hi dclxvi, the only “Necromania” I know of is the one by Ed Wood from 1971. If that’s the one you mean, I can take a look at it because it is certainly an oddity. If you mean another movie with that title you will have to point me in the right direction.
Napoleon Dynamite
Also, Ingmar Bergman made a bunch of weird movies:
Hour of The Wolf
Persona
Cries and whispers
The Silence
The Passion of Anna
Through a glass darkly
Autumn Sonata
Hour of the Wolf is the weirdest Bergman film, so if you have to pick just one to review, do that one.
Hi George:
Although I usually take someone’s first suggestion by default, in this case I’m going to skip over Napoleon Dynamite, which I’m not so sure about, and go straight to Hour of the Wolf, which is definitely something I planned to cover. The rest of the Bergman films will probably get covered too eventually—just wait a couple of years!
I didn’t see Mirror Mask mentioned anywhere here….Did I miss it,or did you?
Melissa,
Someone suggested MirrorMask but I took another of their suggestions instead. This time I will put MirrorMask in queue.
That makes the queue look like this: Greaser’s Palace (substituted for Institute Benjamenta), Waking Life, Survive Style 5+, The Dark Backward, The Short Films of David Lynch, Santa Sangre, Dead Man, Inland Empire, Monday (assuming I can find an English language version), The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Barton Fink, What? (Diary of Forbidden Dreams), Meatball Machine, Xtro, Basket Case, Suicide Club, O Lucky Man!, Trash Humpers (when/if released), Gozu, Tales of Ordinary Madness, The Wayward Cloud, Kwaidan, Six-String Samurai, Andy Warhol’s Trash, Altered States, Memento, Nightmare Before Christmas/Vincent/Frankenweenie, The Science of Sleep, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gothic, The Attic Expeditions, After Last Season, Getting Any?, Performance, Being John Malkovich, The Apple, Southland Tales, Arizona Dream, Spider (2002), Songs From The Second Floor, Singapore Sling, Alice [Neco z Alenky], Dark Country, Necromania (1971, Ed Wood), Hour of the Wolf, and MirrorMask. I promise we will start knocking these out come January!
I noticed someone suggested Jan Svankmajer’s ALICE, a great one! His film LITTLE OTIK is also excellent. I have two horror film suggestions, POSSESSION (1981 – with Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani) and IN MY SKIN (2002).
Goregirl: We love Svankmejer and eventually will get to all his stuff. It’s interesting that you should mention In My Skin—check out these pages next week and you may find that wish fulfilled. In the meantime I’ll add Possession to the review queue; that’s one that simply has to be covered.
Oh man, I love this website. A couple suggestions…
* Suspiria – in a weird way, this is like Carnival of Souls in that I think the end product is a lot weirder than the filmmaker (Dario Argento!) meant it to be. There are a lot of weird Italian horror movies that end up seeming kind of surreal (Pieces, The Beyond, Zombi 2) but Suspiria is the really notable one. (Someone else already mentioned this above but I’m not seeing it in your impressive queue.)
* Brain Damage – This movie has Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton and Bud Court and was directed by a long time Twilight Zone writer.
* Strange Behavior (alt. title is “Dead Kids”) – not quite as crazy as “Phantasm” but this movie definitely reminded me of that. Lots of weird little surrealisms and a plot that feels like a dream.
* The Limits of Control – Jim Jarmusch movie, which might be every bit as weird as “Dead Man”, though it’s definitely more subtle.
Also, it’s not a movie, but “The Kingdom” by Lars Von Trier is a mini-series that gets pretty weird in spots, especially all spots featuring master weirdo Udo Kier.
Nate, thanks for the love. I will add Suspiria into queue. We will also try to get to Limits of Control before year’s end (but no promises!) Your observation is correct that the Italians make some damn weird exploitation/horror movies, and we’ll certainly cover a lot of them in the upcoming year. As for “The Kingdom,” I think we may well cover some weird TV shows/mini-series along the way; it’s just that there’s so much ground to cover that TV got a little lost. Shows like “The Singing Detective,” “Twin Peaks” and “The Prisoner,” among others, are right up our alley. Thanks for the suggestions!
Hi there! I’d like to suggest a claymation animation “Mary and Max” by Adam Benjamin Elliot. I watched it yesterday and since then cannot forget its characters. I cannot say that it is much weird or else. But it tells a very touchy and strange story of the pay-pal friendship between a lonely little girl Mary living in Australia and a lonely and sick adult man living in New York. Still I think it deserves to be reviewed here.
Irene, for you we will put Mary and Max in queue. You’ve led us in the right direction before!
This may have already been suggested, but the movie Wild Zero is pretty great and pretty weird. Japanese garage band Guitar Wolf defends earth from an alien/zombie invasion.
Nope, Evan, you are the first to suggest Wild Zero, but it looks perfect for us! I’ll be happy to add it into the review queue.
Hey, Rev. I am glad to see “Dead Man” is in your queue. I don’t ever pick a favorite film (how could I?), but I often put together a top 5. “Dead Man” is phenomenal film, and I put it right up there with “Return of the Living Dead” and “Seven Samurai.”
You may not like it, but I think the film is tops.
Mofo, I suspect Dead Man will make the List—but I haven’t seen it since it was first released. I recall being impressed by it at the time. It’s similar to Jamursch’s latest, The Limits of Control, which I didn’t like, however.
["Rev" is a nickname I'm known under on an Internet message board, by the way.]
Hi, Happy New Year and new discoveries:)
At least myself have recently found a Russian “audacious and provocative debut film” titled “4″. The movie is directed by Ilya Khrjanovsky.
It seems to me this movie is right in your alley. The http://www.auteurs.com site compares it to such great films as L’Âge d’Or, Faust, The Night of the Hunter, Eraserhead, El Topo,An Andalusian Dog, Closely Watched Trains and some others.
http://www.theauteurs.com/films/49?launch_fb_connect=1
Doesn’t it sound provocative and fascinating to write a review?
Here it is on imdb with a lot of useers’s reviews! The movie’s script has been written by a Russian non-conformist and underground in Soviet times, quite a scandalous postmodern author Vladimir Sorokin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Sorokin
Bearing in mind the length of the list I will be patently waiting for its turn. But I think you will be rewarded when watching it!
For some reason the imdb link has not shown up! I’m repeating it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445161/
Irene, that looks very worthwhile. I note that the IMDB voters have tagged it as “dada,” “postmodern,” “avant garde,” “Surrealism,” and “experimental,” which suggests to me that no one really has a clue what it’s about at all! And it is available in the U.S. I will add it to the queue.
As a Canadian, I think I need to mention “Nothing”. The Canadian Movie about Nothing.
Very very funny, and weird. If you can help it, try not to catch a trailer or any type of info… much more fun that way.
I have to reccommend “The Peanut Butter Solution”… I saw it as a child and was freaked out and I’ve seen it recently and it’s just as wierd… check it out!
Albert: thanks, I had not heard of Nothing (2003), I promise I will not look at a trailer or read a review before watching!
James: I will look for a copy of The Peanut Butter Solution. I’ve heard of this movie but I don’t think it ever got a DVD release. Fortunately I still have a VHS player.
Consider both of them placed in the review queue!
um…I just glanced over the list and did not see “Ninja Scroll”. This is an animated film. I do apologize, but I do not know the name of the producer off the top of my head. I think it’s Yosiaki, but dont hold me to it. :P This movie had me sitting wih my jaw dropped the whole time. I truly enjoyed it and i hope you do too! Oh! Also “House of a Thousand Courpses” and “The Devils Rejects”…awsome.
“Natural born Killers”-let me just toss that bad boy right in there!
If those are listed then I apologize!! :)
Thank you for your efforts in spreading the strange!!
*RebO***
Oops! “Fear and Loathing in LasVegas” I am a Hunter S. Thompson fan and think this moie is just the bees knees! Thank you for your time! Im really done now! :D
Train Spotting
Human Traffic
It’s All Gone Pete Tong
Spun
Hi Rebekah, I see you weren’t really done after all. That’s OK, I love the enthusiasm!
I will put Ninja Scroll into the review queue for you. as for your other choices, sorry, but we’ve already rejected House of 1,000 Corpses, though it is unquestionably weird and worth a look. Natural Born Killers and Fear and Loathing will definitely see a review at some point.
This site is fantastic. You’ve attracted an awesome group of followers who have greatly expanded my film knowledge. By way of illustration, I had come up with only two films, both very main-stream, that I found “weird” but worth viewing: 1) Last Tango in Paris; and, 2) Pulp Fiction.
Thank you very much for this site.
Thank you, blue! And I appreciate the shout out to the “followers”, who don’t get the credit they deserve.
I am not sure if you’re officially suggesting we review Last Tango in Paris or Pulp Fiction, but I think by exploring the site you’ll see we’re focusing on a much weirder plane! We could conceivably cover something like Pulp Fiction, because it’s probably of some interest to people who cruise this site, but it certainly wouldn’t make the List.
Hey there!
Fist of all, thanks for making this awesome site! It rocks:D
Don’t have a movie to suggest at the moment, but I do have a really cool site that helped me find many of my favorites :)
It’s http://www.oddfilms.com
Please consider to post it among your other links, it’s a really good site with cool categories like f.ex “Amnesia movies” and “Substance Abuse movies”!
Thanks for your time and take care!
How in the world could you not have a suggestion? Just pick any of the hundreds of movies oddfilms has covered that we haven’t.
We won’t post a link to oddfilms because they don’t have a links page of their own to link to us. Usually, links are reciprocal.
Phil F. wrote, on another post: “I was looking through your site and did a search. I noticed that ‘Perfume: The Story of a Murderer’ by Tom Tykwer never showed up. Dunno if it’s 366 material, but it’s one of the weirdest films I’ve ever seen. Highly recommended.”
Phil, we will certainly give Perfume a shot.
To update the review queue:
Survive Style 5+ (looking for a copy), The Dark Backward, The Short Films of David Lynch, Santa Sangre, Dead Man, Inland Empire, Monday (assuming I can find an English language version), The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Barton Fink, What? (Diary of Forbidden Dreams), Meatball Machine, Xtro, Basket Case, Suicide Club, O Lucky Man!, Trash Humpers (when/if released), Gozu, Tales of Ordinary Madness, The Wayward Cloud, Kwaidan, Six-String Samurai, Andy Warhol’s Trash, Altered States, Memento, Nightmare Before Christmas/Vincent/Frankenweenie, The Science of Sleep, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gothic, The Attic Expeditions, After Last Season, Getting Any?, Performance, Being John Malkovich, The Apple, Southland Tales, Arizona Dream, Spider (2002), Songs From The Second Floor, Singapore Sling, Alice [Neco z Alenky], Necromania (1971, Ed Wood), Hour of the Wolf, MirrorMask, Possession, Suspiria, Mary and Max, Wild Zero, 4, Nothing (2003), The Peanut Butter Solution, Ninja Scroll, and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.
Well, let me see:
* Danger Diabolik
* Vampyros Lesbos
* Two Undercover Angels
* Succubus (well anything by Jess Franco WEIRD)
* The Holy Mountain
* Zardoz
* Head (with The Monkees)
* The Castle of Fu Manchu
* Renegade
* Beetlejuice
* Meet the Feebles
* Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
* The American Astronaut
* Brazil
Are a few that come to mind that I dont seem to see on your site
Some good suggestions, Jules. Since I usually just take the first movie anyone suggests if it’s appropriate for the site, I’ll add Danger: Diabolik into the review queue. It looks like a lot of fun, and I’ve never seen it. As for your other suggestions: I’m sure we’ll cover something from Jess Franco at some point. The Holy Mountain, Zardoz, Head, Meet the Feebles, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Brazil will definitely be covered eventually. The others are maybes.
Santa Sangre (already in your queue)
Svankmayer’s Faust
Jan Svankmayer’s Faust
(Really any svankmayer movie will do)
The Cell
The Cell
KOYAANISQATSI
KOYAANISQATSI
Uzumaki
Uzumaki
The Fall
The Fall
Yellow Submarine
Yellow Submarine
Very good choices all. Funkadelic. I’ll add Faust into queue (and you’re right, all Svankmejer’s work is worth covering. Alice is already in queue as well).
Why no Fantastic Planet?
An animated short for you
Rabbit
Funkadelic, the answer to why no _____ is almost always the same. With 366 movies to pick and only 45 certified so far, there’s still plenty of room! Fantastic Planet won’t be forgotten…
As for Rabbit, you may notice I deleted your link. You should check the front page tomorrow to see why…
Greetings,
what about Old Boy?? Really good south korean movie!
nevermind, seems like you’ve already got it…. then what about Grimm Love or Sublime..??!!
Glad you liked Rabbit. Here’s another short for you:
The Additional Capabilities of the Snout
Spiderpig: I will put Sublime in queue.
Funkadelic: you’re not the first person to suggest the animated shorts of Ivan Maximov to us, so we’ll probably feature a short of his down the road.
ok, one more for ya’ then:
MUTO
Heres two surely are wierd one is Sick Girl and the other is Battle Royal
Also may i add another its called Midnight Meat Train , it has vinny jones in it.
im a sinner his name is spelt Vinnie Jones
maybe i should have made a list haha . im sure the moderator could but heres another The Bad Luitenant with Harvey Kietel Not Nicholas cages version this is wierd and sick
Funkadelic: you are on our wavelength with the shorts, that MUTO piece was one we had saved for the future!
Wee1man: I’m no so sure about Sick Girl (looks “sick” rather than weird). I’ll put Battle Royale in queue instead. Midnight Meat Train probably isn’t weird enough to get covered here, but Bad Lieutenant should get a shot for it’s one weird scene (Harvey Keitel’s monologue) and generally odd tone.
By the way, here’s the current review queue: Survive Style 5+ (looking for a copy), The Dark Backward (next week), The Short Films of David Lynch, Santa Sangre, Dead Man, Inland Empire, Monday (assuming I can find an English language version), The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Barton Fink, What? (Diary of Forbidden Dreams), Meatball Machine, Xtro, Basket Case, Suicide Club, O Lucky Man!, Trash Humpers (when/if released), Gozu, Tales of Ordinary Madness, The Wayward Cloud, Kwaidan, Six-String Samurai, Andy Warhol’s Trash, Altered States, Memento, Nightmare Before Christmas/Vincent/Frankenweenie, The Science of Sleep, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gothic, The Attic Expeditions, After Last Season, Getting Any?, Performance, Being John Malkovich, The Apple, Southland Tales, Arizona Dream, Spider (2002), Songs From The Second Floor, Singapore Sling, Alice [Neco z Alenky], Necromania (1971, Ed Wood), Hour of the Wolf, MirrorMask, Possession, Suspiria, Mary and Max, Wild Zero, 4, Nothing (2003), The Peanut Butter Solution, Ninja Scroll, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Danger: Diabolik, Faust, Sublime, and Battle Royale.