“Braindead and Meet the Feebles…were wisely overlooked by the Academy…”– Peter Jackson, accepting his Best Picture Oscar for Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2004 DIRECTED BY: Peter Jackson FEATURING: Voices of Mark Hadlow, Donna Akersten, Peter Vere-Jones, Stuart Devenie, Bryan Sergent PLOT: A group of puppets, “the Feebles,” prepare for … Continue reading 297. MEET THE FEEBLES (1989)→
Fumer fait tousser 366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. Smoking Causes Coughing is currently available for VOD rental. DIRECTED BY: Quentin Dupieux FEATURING: Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Oulaya Amamra, Vincent Lacoste, voice of Alain Chabat PLOT: A Power Rangers-like group of heroes goes on a team building … Continue reading APOCRYPHA CANDIDATE: SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING (2022)→
This is the (unofficial) reordered ranking of the 366 Canon of weird movies, based on this 2019 poll (made just after the List was completed), combined with the results of a series of polls in 2022 that incorporated the first 20 Apocryphally Weird movies into this ranked list. 1. Eraserhead 2. Holy Mountain, The 3. … Continue reading THE REORDERED/RANKED LIST OF 366 WEIRD MOVIES→
DIRECTED BY: Gerard Damiano FEATURING: Al Goldstein, Luis de Jesus, Viju Krem, Gerard Damiano PLOT: A board room full of executives get into deep debt to a mobster named “Mr. Big,” so they decide to create a porno to earn the dough. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: After the shock of “puppet porn,” this … Continue reading CAPSULE: LET MY PUPPETS COME (1976)→
And your winner, and “official” Weirdest Movie of All Time is… We must say, readers showed tremendous taste and knowledge in voting throughout the entire tournament. We feared there might be significant recency bias towards films released in the late 2010s, but you guys really went for the deep cuts. There were some surprises—we didn’t … Continue reading MARCH MAD MOVIE MADNESS TOURNAMENT RECAP AND FINAL RANKINGS→
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