|
||||||
|
DIRECTED BY: Tom Tykwer FEATURING: Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood PLOT: An apprentice perfumer in pre-Revolutionary France sets out to make the perfect scent, a task that requires him to murder thirteen beautiful virgins. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Although its choice of protagonist—an orphaned serial killer with a superhuman . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER (2006) DIRECTED BY: Michael Goldbach FEATURING: Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Josh Lucas, Andie MacDowell, Ted Whittall PLOT: A teenage girl and her dad move to a small town populated with drug-addled teenagers and a mysterious serial killer. Feeling alienated and struggling to make friends, she sees a fellow intellectual outcast in her . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: DAYDREAM NATION (2010) DIRECTED BY: Brian Lupo FEATURING: Leada Ghareaghadje, Lindsay Coffelt, Donovan Vincent Kit, Amanda Rivera, Joe Hammernik PLOT: Four teenagers stranded in rural California are stalked by a serial killer called “M.O.N.” WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Simply put, it’s just not weird; instead, it’s a rehash of clichés from other, better horror . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: M.O.N. (2006) DIRECTED BY: Catherine Breillat FEATURING: Lola Créton, Dominique Thomas PLOT: A young girl from a poor family is married off to a local aristocrat with a blue beard and a reputation for murdering his brides. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Blue Beard‘s weirdness, while detectable, is mild; and, despite its tragedy and enigmatic . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: BLUE BEARD [BARBE BLEUE] (2009) AKA Holy Blood (literal translation) “My mother is dead. I had a terrible relationship with her. She had many problems with my father, and she never caressed me. So I didn’t have a mother who touched me.”–Alejandro Jodorowsky in La Constellation Jodorowsky DIRECTED BY: Alejandro Jodorowsky FEATURING: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Adan Jodorowsky, . . . → Read More: 52. SANTA SANGRE (1989) DIRECTED BY: Peter Jackson FEATURING: Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon PLOT: A murdered 14-year old girl watches her family search for her killer from the afterlife. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: There are a few weird visual elements in Susie’s pleasant and candy-colored Purgatory, but The Lovely . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE LOVELY BONES (2009) DIRECTED BY: Kiyoshi Kurosawa FEATURING: Kôji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara PLOT: A detective with a mentally ill wife seeks to solve a series of murders committed by ordinary people, each of whom has come into contact with a strange, amnesiac man. WHY IT’S ON THE BORDERLINE: There’s no doubt Cure is a weird one, what . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: CURE (1997) AKA It Happened in Your Neighborhood DIRECTED BY: Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde FEATURING: Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux PLOT: A documentary crew follows a serial killer around on his daily rounds, becoming more and more complicit in his crimes as he slowly charms them, and eventually finances completion of the film with the . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: MAN BITES DOG [C'est arrivé près de chez vous] (1992) |
|
|||||
|
366 Weird Movies is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. PRIVACY POLICY: Email addresses are required for posting comments, solely to verify your identity and to check against databases of known spammers. We will not send you any commercial emails or solicitations. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here. Copyright 2008-2012 366 Weird Movies. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. DO NOT REPRINT WITHOUT PERMISSION; except that, if accompanied by a link or url citation to the original, short excerpts of material may be quoted for purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. 
 Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
||||||
Recent Comments