Only 5 more movies to Certify Weird! You may attempt to guess the remaining titles in the comments if you wish.

A chill is in the air, egg nog is in the glass, and weird movie reviewers are typing through the sneezes as they bang out columns under the influence of NyQuil. It’s that time of year again! Next week, Alfred Eaker begins his countdown to Christmas with Rankin/Bass‘ “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Then, we continue cleaning out last year’s releases to make room for 2019, as Shane Wilson tackles the hallucinatory social media satire Like Me and G. Smalley takes a deeper look at Masaaki Yuasa‘s whimsically weird anime Night Is Short, Walk on Girl. Finally, it wouldn’t feel like the holidays without a little pious blasphemy and nunsploitation, and so it’s time—finally—for  Ken Russell‘s The Devils.

And now it’s time for our weekly survey of the weirdest search terms that brought users to the site. We always see a lot of bland movie searches that aren’t worth commenting on, but “that weird movie with the weird creatures ” is so generic that it becomes a little bit weird. Then there’s “old animated movie of conceited man becoming a swan trapped in a spinning,” which would be slightly odd even if it didn’t cut off suddenly. But there’s no question what the official Weirdest Search Term of the Week is: “60 old hairy p*ssies idea dead body on the rubber to men.” There’s so much strangeness packed into those 45 characters, but we’ll only comment on the fact that when you’re searching for geriatric necrophilia, there’s probably no need to be coy about using dirty words—just spell ’em out next time.

And finally, it’s time for our weekly cut n’ paste disclaimer regarding the reader-suggested review queue below: since we will definitely not be getting to all of these (although we will pick out the occasional title), you can consider this a list of “honorable mentions” for your own perusal and amusement. That out of the way, here’s how the ridiculously-long reader-suggested review queue now stands: Genius Party; The Idiots; “Premium” (depending on availability); Spermula; Killer Condom; Sir Henry at Rawlinson End; Moebius (1996); Adventures of Picasso; Charly: Dias de Sangre (depending on availability); Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE →

Only 6 more movies to Certify Weird! You may attempt to guess the remaining titles in the comments if you wish.

Next week, Alfred Eaker will be taking care of some academic business, which means a reprint column from him. As far as new material goes, though, we’ll bring you new release coverage as 2018 winds down: G. Smalley looks at the romantic comedy Relationtrip and the cannibal documentary Caniba, while Alex Kittle gives you the scoop on the Criterion Collection edition of David Byrne‘s True Stories.

We’re back to the point where we’re seeing plenty of search engine results in our logs; and yet, they are not as strange as we would like, making our survey of Weirdest Search Terms of the Week a confounding exercise. Maybe our standards are just too high? For example, something like “name of the film about an asian girl killed by a cow from the sky” would be a weird search to show up on a different site, but for us, it seems like a completely reasonable question. And “world of tomorrow the burden of other popes thoughts watch online” would be completely unexceptional, save for a single weirding typo. Out of a pretty ordinary batch, we’ll take “girl puts red nail polish on pad to conceal pregnancy goes into labor in bathroom and taken to hospital” as our official Weirdest Search Term of the Week. Hint to girls trying to conceal a pregnancy: don’t follow the advice in this movie. Put nail polish on a pad and you’ll only end up in the hospital.

And finally, it’s time for our weekly cut n’ paste disclaimer regarding the reader-suggested review queue below: since we will definitely not be getting to all of these (although we will pick out the occasional title), you can consider this a list of “honorable mentions” for your own perusal and amusement. That out of the way, here’s how the ridiculously-long reader-suggested review queue now stands: Genius Party; The Idiots; “Premium” (depending on availability); Spermula; Killer Condom; Sir Henry at Rawlinson End; Moebius (1996); Adventures of Picasso; Charly: Dias de Sangre (depending on availability); Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE →

Only 7 more movies to Certify Weird! You may attempt to guess the remaining titles in the comments if you wish.

Next week Alfred Eaker plans to look at Dennis Potter’s 1969 teleplay Son of Man, a controversial (at the time) retelling of the Passion. Then, Giles Edwards goes Japanese with Vampire Clay, the eerie story of, well, vampiric clay. G. Smalley brings you Apocalypsis, the psychedelic Christian conspiracy theory thriller you did not see coming, as well as a second look at the 1985 Soviet antiwar nightmare Come and See. Come and see us all next week! The countdown is in full swing.

Now’s the time when we bring you our survey of the weirdest search terms that brought visitors to the site this week, a feature we like to call “Weirdest Search Terms of the Week.” We’ll start off with the return of an old favorite: the ultra-mysterious “friends boring strangers,” which has been showing up on the list for years now (though it hadn’t been spotted for months). Next up, we’ll mention “movie with guy who cant take his glasses off because of eye lasers.” But for our official Weirdest Search Term of the Week, we’ll go with “woman pretends to be pregnant and eats men through vagina movie.” Not sure why she would have to pretend to be pregnant—unless it’s to hide the evidence?

And finally, it’s time for our weekly cut n’ paste disclaimer regarding the reader-suggested review queue below: since we will definitely not be getting to all of these (although we will pick out the occasional title), you can consider this a list of “honorable mentions” for your own perusal and amusement. That out of the way, here’s how the ridiculously-long reader-suggested review queue now stands: Genius Party; The Idiots; “Premium” (depending on availability); Spermula; Killer Condom; Sir Henry at Rawlinson End; Moebius (1996); Adventures of Picasso; Charly: Dias de Sangre (depending on availability); Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE →

Only 8 more movies left to Certify Weird! Feel free to leave your guesses on the remaining choices in the comments.

Next week, Alfred Eaker goes back to the theater to check out the impressionistic Vincent Van Gogh flick, At Eternity’s Gate. In honor of the first snowfall of the season, Giles Edwards will preview the German meta-mindbender Snowflake (due out on home video in two weeks). And G. Smalley reviews the new release of Asia Argento’s nutty, trashy pseduo-autobiography Scarlet Diva (2001), then takes a second pass at Luis Buñuel‘s swan song, That Obscure Object of Desire.

It’s time once more for our weekly survey of the weirdest search terms that brought people to the site this week. Weird search terms are pouring in once more, but we’re seeing more volume than bizarre quality. Weirdly conceived porn searches are always a fertile form of strange search, as we saw with “kinki bitch slap,” “sexy porn william balair phone number,” and “ok ru mom movie.com.” Among the searches for weird movies we’d like to track down and see someday were “movie where man starts growing grass on himself” and “weird movie about a depressed person and a glowing turtle.” This category is also where we saw our officially Weirdest Search Term of the Week, the disturbing “at end of the movie motorcycle bust into house and rapes lady.” We’ve heard of vehicular assault, but this is the first case of vehicular sexual assault we’ve encountered.

And finally, it’s time for our weekly cut n’ paste disclaimer regarding the reader-suggested review queue below: since we will definitely not be getting to all of these (although we will pick out the occasional title), you can consider this a list of “honorable mentions” for your own perusal and amusement. That out of the way, here’s how the ridiculously-long reader-suggested review queue now stands: Genius Party; The Idiots; “Premium” (depending on availability); Spermula; Killer Condom; Sir Henry at Rawlinson End; Moebius (1996); Adventures of Picasso; Charly: Dias de Sangre (depending on availability); Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE →