NOTE: A Serious Man has been promoted onto the List of 366 Best Weird Movies of all time after initially being placed in the “Borderline Weird” category. For reference, you can read the original borderline weird entry here.
“Even though you can’t figure anything out, you will be responsible for it on the midterm.”–dream dialogue from [...]
DIRECTED BY: Lloyd Kaufman
FEATURING: David Mattey, voice of Clyde Lewis, Heidi Sjursen, Paul Kyrmse
PLOT: An explosion inexplicably causes the Toxic Avenger to switch dimensions with his
evil Bizarro-world opposite, the Noxious Offender.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: None of the other Toxic Avenger movies made the List, so the fourth installment would have to do something [...]
DIRECTED BY: Luc Besson
FEATURING: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker
PLOT: 300 years in the future, an ex-special ops agent turned taxi driver must collect
four stones and discover the fifth element to stop the universe from being destroyed by evil, with the help of a scantily clad supreme being.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: [...]
SEAWEEDHEAD GREASER: Coo Coo. I wish I could put my arms around each and every one of them, and let them know that everything is going to be okay.
COO COO: Why don’t you, Sea?
SEAWEEDHEAD GREASER: I’m not bizarre enough.
COO COO: Who is?
–dialogue from Greaser’s Palace
DIRECTED BY: Robert Downey Sr.
FEATURING: Alan Arbus, Albert Henderson, Michael Sullivan, [...]
DIRECTED BY: Patrick Epino
FEATURING: Al No’mani, Scott McNairy, Rudy Ramos
PLOT: When he’s scarred in an assassination attempt on the eve of the Kuwait invasion,
a mute Saddam Hussein body double with no skills or interests beyond impersonating the Iraqi dictator loses his job and moves to Los Angeles to start his life over.
WHY IT WON’T [...]
Directed by Michael Langan, “Doxology” is an experimental head trip beginning and ending with verses from “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow” or “The Common Doxology”. This short contains floating carrots, dancing cars, and a tennis ball crashing into the moon. What more could you ask for?
Give Zach Galifianakis a late night show, and this is what you’ll get: sketch comedy that’s too absurd for TV. This is the first of seven episodes of Zach’s web series, “Between Two Ferns”. In it Zach interviews Michael Cera about acting in the comedy film Superbad (2007).
For more episodes of “Between Two [...]
DIRECTED BY: Stephen Chiodo
FEATURING: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon
PLOT: Aliens from outer space, who look exactly like circus clowns, land their
carnival-tent spacecraft near a rural town and begin abducting humans for unknown purposes.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Killer Klowns is actually a very conventional spoof with an unusual gimmick that’s [...]
NOTE: A Serious Man has been promoted from the “Borderline” category onto the List of the Weirdest movies of all time! This page is left up for archival purposes. Please view the full review for comments and expanded coverage!
DIRECTED BY: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
FEATURING: Michael Stubargh, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Fyvush Finkel
PLOT: A [...]
DIRECTED BY: Sophie Barthes
FEATURING: Paul Giamatti, Dina Korzun, David Strathairn
PLOT: Paul Giamatti (playing himself) feels burdened by his soul, so he utilizes the
services of a company that specializes in soul removal and storage; when he decides to reclaim it from its safe deposit box, he finds there’s a problem…
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: [...]
