366 Weird Movies

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CAPSULE: HOUSE OF THE DEAD (2003)

DIRECTED BY: Uwe Boll
FEATURING: Jonathan Cherry, Ona Grauer, Clint Howard, Jurgen Prochnow
PLOT:  Teenagers go to the Isle of the Dead for the “rave of the century,” but ravenous

killing machines from somewhere within the zombie genus spoil the party.

WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST:  Uwe Boll’s weirdest idea is to periodically insert brief, totally unrelated clips [...]

CAPSULE: ARMY OF DARKNESS (1992)

DIRECTED BY:  Sam Raimi
FEATURING:  Bruce Campbell
PLOT:  Following the events of Evil Dead II, Ash finds himself flung backwards in time

into a medieval land, where his failure to retrieve the Book of the Dead enables evil forces to muster a massive army of stop-motion animated skeletons.

WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST:  Evil Dead II struggled mightily [...]

28. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975)

“You’ve seen all kinds of movies, but you’ve never seen anything like The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  The Rocky Horror Picture Show is wonderfully weird.  It’s fabulously freaky… The story is strange…  the scenery is smashing… the cast is completely crazy!”–ad copy from the extended 3 minute trailer

DIRECTED BY: Jim Sharman
FEATURING: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, [...]

23. THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM (1988)

“This fearful worm would often feed on cows and lamb and sheep,
And swallow little babes alive when they lay down to sleep,
So John set out and got the beast and cut it into halves,
And that soon stopped it eating babes and sheep and lambs and calves.”
–Lyrics to “The D’Ampton Worm” from Lair of [...]

CAPSULE: THE TOXIC AVENGER (1984)

DIRECTED BY: Lloyd Kaufman & Michael Herz
FEATURING: Mitchell Cohen
PLOT:  A nerdy teen janitor is tormented by his serial killer peers until he accidentally

falls into a vat of toxic waste and emerges as a mop-wielding, avenging mutant superhero.

WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST:  When a movie about a mutant janitor who fights transvestite thugs and, to [...]

14. BLOOD DINER (1987)

“I mean, I don’t know how to describe it.  But I just did.  It’s just an insane f***in’ movie with insane parts.  You’re watching it, it gives these curves that you didn’t see coming, until probably I just told you and showed you in the review.  But it’s just I don’t even know how else [...]