Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons…

Trailers of new release movies are generally available at the official site links.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

Dave Made a Maze (2017): Dave builds a pillow fort in his living room and then gets lost inside its maze of booby-trapped corridors; his girlfriend assembles a team to go in and rescue him. The rare film to debut at the low-budget Slamdance festival and still earn a relatively wide release. Dave Made a Maze official site.

Lemon (2017): An unsuccessful, socially-inept jerk actor loses his blind girlfriend and finds a new interracial relationship in this indie comedy. Probably more in the quirky vein, but at least one critic called it “deeply weird.” Lemon official site.

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CERTIFIED WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). We won’t list all the screenings of this audience-participation classic separately. You can use this page to find a screening near you.

• Columbus, OH, 8/18-8/23 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). At Gateway Film Center.
• Columbus, OH, 8/23-8/24 – Suspiria (1977). At Gateway Film Center.
• New York City, 8/18 – Blue Velvet (1986). At Videology Bar & Cinema.
• New York City, 8/18 (midnight) – The Horrors of Spider Island [Ein Toter hing im Netz] (1960). At Spectacle Theater.
• New York City, 8/18 – 8/21 – Stalker (1979). At IFC Center.
• New York City, 8/18-8/24 – 3 Women (1977). At Film Society of Lincoln Center.
• New York City, 8/23-24 – Tekkonkinkreet (2006). With a live score by Rachika S. At Videology Bar & Cinema.
• Silver Spring, MD, 8/19 – Evil Dead II (1987). At AFI Silver Theater.
• Silver Spring, MD, 8/19, 21 & 24 – House [Hausu] (1977). At AFI Silver Theater.

What are you looking forward to? If you have any weird movie leads that I have overlooked, feel free to leave them in the COMMENTS section.

Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons…

Trailers of new release movies are generally available at the official site links.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

The Ghoul (2017): A police detective goes undercover as the patient of a suspicious psychotherapist while investigating a series of bizarre murders that leave victims in an undead state. You have to take notice of any psychological thriller that gets a good review in “The Fortean Times.” The Ghoul official site.

Planetarium (2016): A movie director seeks to exploit two psychic sisters (Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp) in between-the-wars Paris. Reviews suggest that it’s a mess, but perhaps a somewhat weird mess. Planetarium Facebook page.

IN DEVELOPMENT (completed):

Mother (2017): Paramount released the first trailer for Darren Aronofsky‘s Mother (starring Jennifer Lawrence) this past week. Anticipation is sky-high for this “psychological horror” movie, despite the fact that there have been few to no leaks about the plot. The trailer suggests weirdness is still a live possibility. It premieres at the Venice Film Festival in a couple of weeks, so we’ll know soon enough. Mother official Facebook page.

NEW ON DVD:

“Seijun Suzuki’s Taisho Trilogy”: Full of eroticism, ghosts, and mysterious widows, this set collects three surreal period films from Japanese maverick Seijun Suzuki: Zigeunerweisen (1980), Kageroza (1981), and Yumeji (1991). All set during the Taisho era (1912-1926), these three movies have never been released on Blu-ray before and have been long out-of-print on DVD. Buy “Seijun Suzuki’s Taisho Trilogy” [DVD/Blu-ray].

NEW ON BLU-RAY:

Re-Animator (1985): Stuart Gordon‘s influential 80s black comedy adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft‘s story about a couple of mad scientists raising the dead is an outrageous hoot and a seminal cult film. Arrow Video pulls out all the stops with this 2-Blu Limited Edition that includes the original cut and the much-longer “integral” version (it’s complicated), along with the commemorative booklet and reams of extras you’d expect. Buy Re-Animator [Limited Edition Blu-ray].

“Seijun Suzuki’s Taisho Trilogy”: See description in DVD above. Set includes three DVDs and three Blu-rays. Buy “Seijun Suzuki’s Taisho Trilogy” [DVD/Blu-ray].

CERTIFIED WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). We won’t list all the screenings of this audience-participation classic separately. You can use this page to find a screening near you.

• Los Angeles, 8/12 (midnight) – Pink Flamingos (1972). At the Vista.
• New York City, 8/11-8/16 – Stalker (1979). At IFC Center.
• New York City, 8/11 (midnight) – The Horrors of Spider Island [Ein Toter hing im Netz] (1960). At Spectacle Theater.
• New York City, 8/12 – Eraserhead (1977). At Film Society of Lincoln Center.
• New York City, 8/12 – The Face of Another (1966). At the Museum of Modern Art.
• New York City, 8/12 & 8/15 – Videodrome (1983). At the Museum of Modern Art.
• New York City, 8/12-8/13 – Mulholland Drive (2001). At Nitehawk Cinema.
• New York City, 8/13 – House [Hausu] (1977). At Film Society of Lincoln Center.
• Silver Spring, MD, 8/13 – Léolo (1992). At AFI Silver Theater.
• Silver Spring, MD, 8/16 – My Winnipeg (2007). At AFI Silver Theater.

BOOKS:

“The Holy Mountain” – A full-length appreciation of Alejandro Jodorowsky‘s mystical masterpiece by Latin American literature professor Alessandra Santos. We haven’t gotten out hands on it yet, but we do now this site’s review is cited in the bibliography.  Buy “The Holy Mountain (Cultographies)”.

What are you looking forward to? If you have any weird movie leads that I have overlooked, feel free to leave them in the COMMENTS section.

Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons…

Trailers of new release movies are generally available at the official site links.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

68 Kill: Bad-taste caper black comedy about a lowlife and his girlfriend who decides to steal cash from her sugar daddy. Reviews were generally impressed by its cult movie aspirations, although our own Giles Edwards was unimpressed (“it fails more often than not“). 68 Kill at Snowfort Pictures.

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NEW ON DVD:

Colossal (2016): An alcoholic woman (Anne Hathaway) discovers that the appearance of a giant monster in Seoul coincides perfectly with her blackouts in this absurd allegory. We missed it in theaters, but now is the perfect chance to get caught up. Buy Colossus.

NEW ON BLU-RAY:

Colossal (2016): See description in DVD above. Buy Colossus [Blu-ray].

CERTIFIED WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). We won’t list all the screenings of this audience-participation classic separately. You can use this page to find a screening near you.

• Columbus, OH, 8/4 (midnight)-8/5, 8/7 – Santa Sangre (1989). At Gateway Film Center.
• Columbus, OH, 8/5-8/9 – Bubba Ho-Tep (2002). At Gateway Film Center.
• Los Angeles, 8/4 (midnight) – Akira (1988). At Nuart Theater.
• Los Angeles, 8/5 – Night of the Hunter (1955) (double feature with Crossfire [1947], introduced by writer Preston Neal Jones). At the Aero Theater.
• Los Angeles, 8/5 (midnight) – El Topo (1970). Hosted by Ben Barenholtz (“the inventor of the midnight movie). At the Vista.
• Los Angeles, 8/6 – Barton Fink (1991). At Cinefamily.
• New York City, 8/4-8/10 – Stalker (1979). At IFC Center.
• New York City, 8/5 – Suspiria (1977). At the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
• New York City, 8/5 & 8/8 – Holy Motors (2012). At the Museum of Modern Art.
• New York City, 8/5 (midnight) – The Horrors of Spider Island [Ein Toter hing im Netz] (1960). At Spectacle Theater.
• New York City, 8/6 – Donnie Darko (2001). At the Museum of Modern Art.
• New York City, 8/10 – Eraserhead (1977).  At the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
• New York City, 8/10 – The Face of Another (1966). At the Museum of Modern Art.
• New York City, 8/10 – Weekend (1967). At Videology Bar & Cinema.

What are you looking forward to? If you have any weird movie leads that I have overlooked, feel free to leave them in the COMMENTS section.

It’s a somewhat funky week upcoming on 366 Weird Movies. Alfred Eaker starts us off with a castle-themed 1964 drive-in double feature of Horror Castle and Castle of the Living Dead. Giles Edwards is busy at the Fantasia Film Festival and will be bringing us his weekly check-in, plus a bonus review and interview (or two). Finally, G. Smalley brings in the promised funk with reviews of the blaxploitation parody/soft porn feature Black Devil Doll and, on a more positive note, Melvin Van Peebles’ extravagant 1971 experiment Sweet Sweetback’s  Baadasssss Song.

Speaking of funky, it’s time for our survey of the weirdest search terms that brought people to the site this week, a feature we call “Weirdest Search Terms of the Week.” First off, we think it’s obvious that the guy who searched for “(((incest drama))) online” early in the week and the guy looking for “((incest film))) 1979 mubi” on the weekend are the same person. Right? Or is putting incest search terms inside multiple parentheses a thing now? (((Maybe he thinks it’s like whispering on the Internet?))) [Ed. Apparently “triple parenthesis” are a “thing”; see the comments section.] We also noted other perverts with bad spelling searching for “japanes house keeper with ownar lebens sex .com”. But we’ll give the official award for Weirdest Search Term of the Week to “sex parody hit femors movies.com,” which we like to think is a search for x-rated parodies of hit movies about femurs.

Here’s how our ridiculously-long reader-suggested review queue stands: Black Devil Doll (next week!); Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (next week!); Beauty and the Beast [Panna a Netvor] (1978); 1 Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE →

Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons…

Trailers of new release movies are generally available at the official site links.

IN THEATERS (WIDE RELEASE):

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017): Two space operatives investigate a mystery in a city that serves as a galactic cultural crossroads. Luc Besson‘s latest attempt to crack the U.S. blockbuster market has gotten mixed reviews, but also drawn some complaints/plaudits for its “trippiness.” Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets official site.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

The Girl Without Hands [Le Jeune Fille sans Mains] (2016): Animated version of the Grimm fairy tale about a girl who loses her hands to the Devil. Looking more like a series of overlapping art canvases than a traditional animated film, this one is drawing universal praise. The Girl Without Hands U.S. distributor site.

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Kuso (2017): It looks like a psychedelic cable access variety show set in the aftermath of an L.A. earthquake. The grotesque bodily fluid imagery mixed with narrative incomprehensibility inspired many a walkout during its not-quite-succès de scandale debut at Sundance. Kuso official site.

The Untamed (2016): Erotic Mexican horror about an unhappy marriage and some sort of creature in the woods. It made enough of a splash on the festival circuit to earn a limited release; we hope it’s not too tame. The Untamed official site.

NEW ON DVD:

Buster’s Mal Heart (2017): Read Alex Kittle’s review. A hermit ranting about “the Inversion” has a couple of other possible identities in this mindbender. Buy Buster’s Mal Heart.

Stalker (1979): Read the Certified Weird review! The Criterion Collection releases Andrei Tarkovsky‘s newly-restored, mesmerizingly ambiguous sci-fi feature; special features (mostly interviews) are on a second disc. Buy Stalker.

NEW ON BLU-RAY:

Buster’s Mal Heart (2017): See description in DVD above. Buy Buster’s Mal Heart [Blu-ray].

Stalker (1979): See description in DVD above. The movie and bonus content fit on one Blu-ray. Buy Stalker [Blu-ray].

CERTIFIED WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). We won’t list all the screenings of this audience-participation classic separately. You can use this page to find a screening near you.

• Columbus, OH, 7/26 – 7/28 – Blue Velvet (1986). At Gateway Film Center.
• Los Angeles, 7/21 –The Holy Mountain (1973). At Nuart Theater.
• Los Angeles, 7/21 – If…. (1968) &  Performance (1970) (double feature). At The Egyptian Theater.
• Los Angeles, 7/22 – Female Trouble (1974) (on a double bill with Heavy Traffic). At The Egyptian Theater.
• Los Angeles, 7/22 & 7/24 – Stalker (1979). At Cinefamily.
• Los Angeles, 7/27 – Pink Floyd the Wall (1982). At The Standard, Hollywood.
• New York City, 7/21 – Fantastic Planet [La Planète Sauvage] (1973). With new live electronic score by Adrianna “Gooddroid” Moschides. At Videology Bar & Cinema.
• New York City, 7/21-7/24 – Stalker (1979). At IFC Center.
• New York City, 7/23 – The Bed Sitting Room (1969). At the Museum of Modern Art.
• New York City, 7/23 & 7/26 – Rubin & Ed (1991). Also screening in this Trent Harris retrospective: The Beaver Trilogy on the 23rd and 26th, Welcome to the Rubber Room on the 23rd, and a Harris shorts compilation on the 22nd and 24th. At Spectacle Theater.
• Oakland, CA, 7/21 – Heavenly Creatures (1994). At The New Parkway Theater.

What are you looking forward to? If you have any weird movie leads that I have overlooked, feel free to leave them in the COMMENTS section.