64 movies entered our 2015 March Mad Movie Madness List Candidate tournament, and one movie has defeated all challengers. Our readers have chosen Beyond the Black Rainbow to be Certified Weird. Thanks to all who voted, and look for an official entry page for Rainbow soon!

You can see the full tournament results here.

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 on the official site links.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

Cheatin’ (2013): Bill Plympton‘s latest animated feature is about a woman who, with a magician’s help, takes the shape of her paramour’s ex-girlfriends. It’s getting a scattered release across the country (especially Plympton’s home state of Oregon) through May. Cheatin’ official site.

ONLINE RENTAL:

World of Tomorrow (2015): We don’t usually spotlight films that are available online only—much less short films that are available online only for the price of a feature and don’t offer us referral fees—but we’ll make an exception for Don Hertzfeldt‘s latest, because the trailer is very cool and the reviews are out of this world. Rent World of Tomorrow on Vimeo.

SCREENINGS – (New York City, Lincoln Center Film Society, Fri. Apr. 3 & Weds., Apr. 8):

Obscure Pleasures: The Films of Walerian Borowczyk: Borowczyk was a Polish-born French Surrealist painter and animator whose filmmaking drifted to the borders of pornography. Of the more than one dozen films (not including shorts) being screened in this retrospective, our picks would be 1975’s infamous and much-banned arthouse bestiality feature The Beast [La bête], and 1969’s tamer Goto, Island of Love, an absurd anti-totalitarian fable. Or, you could just take in one of his nunsploitation flicks like Beyond Convent Walls. Obscure Pleasures: The Films of Walerian Borowczyk at Lincoln Center.

NEW ON DVD:

Cries and Whispers (1972): Ingmar Bergman‘s portrait of a woman dying of cancer, and her emotionally-repressed sisters, comes to the Criterion Collection. Obviously a classic, but are its few moments of magical realism enough to call it weird? Buy Cries and Whispers (Criterion Collection).

Waxie Moon in Fallen Jewel (2011): A drag queen (who, based on the DVD cover, sometimes performs in mutton chops and an evening gown) seeks love in Seattle. I’ve never heard of Waxie Moon, but reviewers called it “Pink Flamingos meets Sex in the City” and “dazzlingly bizarre.” Buy Waxie Moon in Fallen Jewel.

NEW ON BLU-RAY:

Cries and Whispers (1972): See description in DVD above. Buy Cries and Whispers [Criterion Collection Blu-ray].

“The Dario Argento Collection:” Three movies: the gialli Cat O’Nine Tails and Deep Red, together with Inferno, the surreal sequel to Argento‘s Certified Weird Suspiria. All of the single-disc special features are included herein, so this 3-disc set from Blue Underground, which is currently priced in the range of a single new release, is a real bargain. Buy “The Dario Argento Collection” [Blu-ray].

“The Lucio Fulci Collection”: Three Italian gut-munchers from controversially “weird” horror “icon” Fulci: City of the Living Dead (the Gates of Hell open in a small New England town), The House by the Cemetery (mad doctor conducts experiments in small New England town), and The New York Ripper (maniac kills women in New York). A companion to the artier Dario Argento box set listed above. Buy “The Lucio Fulci Collection” [Blu-ray].

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.

Three weeks ago we started with 64 movies, and we’re down to the final two contestants in our March Mad Movie Madness List Candidate tournament. 1 seed Beyond the Black Rainbow will face off against 5 seed The Congress, with a spot on the List of the 366 Weirdest Movies of All Time at stake. (16 seed Southland Tales made a nice run all the way to the Freaky Final 4, but come on). The winner is up to you, the reader, to decide…

You can see the full bracket here.

Voting ends Monday, Apr. 6, at 11:59 U.S. Eastern Standard Time.

We started with 64 movies and we’re down to a mere four survivors in our March Mad Movie Madness List Candidate tournament, with a spot on the List of the 366 Weirdest Movies of All Time at stake. 16 seed Southland Tales continues its unlikely ride, but Beyond the Black Rainbow looked unbeatable in its last match-up. The eventual winner is up to you, the reader, to decide…

You can see the full bracket here.

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This round ends Thursday, Apr. 2, at 11:59 U.S. Eastern Standard Time.

Vote below! Once per day! No cheating, under penalty of forced attendance at a Bela Tarr film festival with no bathroom breaks!

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 on the official site links.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

White God (2014): A young Hungarian girl is forced to give up her beloved pet because of a citywide tax on half-breeds, and the castaway mutts rise up against their human masters. We sniff a political allegory. White God official site.

SCREENINGS – (Los Angeles, Cinefamily, Friday Mar. 27, Midnight):

Spider Baby (1967): Read the Certified Weird entry! In Los Angeles and looking to see a certified weird horror-comedy classic about a family of childlike cannibals, including a jailbait hottie who likes to “play spider” with avuncular visitors? Cinefamily has you covered at midnight. Also playing this week at this extremely weird venue: the restored version of the fantasy opera Tales of Hoffman (this Friday and all next week) and Sergei Parajanov‘s surreal classic The Color of Pomegranates (tomorrow, Saturday 28 only). Spider Baby at Cinefamily.

SCREENINGS – (New York City, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Thurs Apr. 2):

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981): Cinema bad-boy Walerian Borowczyk directed this sexy and surreal version of Dr. Jekyll as an orgy of perversion. It stars trash/art icon Udo Kier as the good doctor and contains explicit sex and graphic violence in  a high art setting. Newly restored (could we see a DVD release soon?) Hopefully this isn’t all some delayed April Fools’ joke. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne at Lincoln Center.

NEW ON DVD:

Another Girl Another Planet (1992): A sixty-minute experimental drama from Michael Almereyda, shot in “pixelvision” (a toy camera). The DVD includes two other shorts, Aliens and an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s The Rocking Horse Winner, plus a feature-length documentary on the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, all also shot in pixelvision. Buy Another Girl Another Planet.

Memory Lane (2012): A man kills himself over and over to visit the afterlife, where secrets about his fiancée‘s murder are gradually revealed. Super low-budget (I saw the figure $300 thrown about in all seriousness), but garnered halfway decent reviews for its mindbending scripting. Buy Memory Lane.

Revolution 666 (2015): We’ll just quote from the product synopsis here: “A popular radio DJ plays a long-lost ‘Fab Four’ song, inadvertently creating a flesh eating zombie in a walrus costume.” OK, you got our attention. Buy Revolution 666.

NEW ON BLU-RAY:

The Beyond (1981): Italian zombie-gore master Lucio Fulci’s most notorious exploitation film revolves around a woman who inherits a hotel that was built in a bad spot—over one of the seven gates to Hell. Grindhouse Releasing’s special edition includes an entire second Blu-ray full of extra features and a soundtrack CD. Buy The Beyond [Blu-ray].

FREE MOVIES ON SHOUT FACTORY TV:

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979): Read Alfred Eaker’s review. Werner Herzog‘s take on take on Bram Stoker’s vampire classic is the latest free offering from Shout’s streaming service, A note about these Shout offerings: when you watch them in a web browser (streamed in cooperation with Hulu), you see fewer ads; if you view them through Shout’s own Roku channel, on the other hand, there are a raft of interruptive commercials. Watch Nosferatu the Vampyre free on Shout TV.

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.