As the title states, Netflix Watch Party #16—Murder Party (2007)—starts in fifteen minutes.

Please install the Netflix Party extension if you haven’t already. You must have a U.S. Nextflix account (we think) and a Chrome-based browser to participate.

There will be no pausing or rewinding except for technical reasons.

We are offering no technical support, so help each other out if needed.

Here is the link to join: https://www.netflix.com/watch/70077076?npSessionId=9b191e8a871e372d&npServerId=s90

Be sure to click on the red Netflix Party icon to sync up and join the chat room.

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Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs and Blu-rays (and hot off the server VODs), and on more distant horizons…

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

ONLINE RELEASES:

Love Express: The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk (2018): Documentary covering Borowczyk‘s career, from his early days as an art-house darling to the scandal caused by The Beast [La Bête] (1975), from which his critical reputation never recovered. Terry Gilliam and Neil Jordan are among those on hand to appreciate Borowczyk’s weird appeal. VOD only, as far as we can tell. Love Express: The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk official site.

Son of the White Mare [Fehérlófia] (1981): A divine white mare gives birth to a son, the Tree-Shaker, in this legendary, psychedelic Hungarian animation. The restored version debuted at festivals in 2019 and was intended for a triumphant tour of art house screens; unfortunately, Covid-19 has ruined those plans, and now it must debut online (with a single theatrical run at Minneapolis’ Trylon Cinema beginning Sept. 4). Son of the White Mare official site for rental information.

IN DEVELOPMENT (pre-production):

“Dead Ringers” (202?): Amazon has green-lit a gender-switched TV miniseries remake of David Cronenberg‘s canonically weird horror/drama about twin gynecologists going mad through a combination of love and barbiturate abuse. Rachel Weisz will take the lead role(s) and exec produce. Deadline dropped the details.

The Northman (202?): Robert Eggers next project will be a “Viking revenge movie” set in Iceland. He will once again work with Anya Taylor-Joy (from The Witch) and Willem Dafoe (from The Lighthouse); the newest cast member to be announced is Bjork (who will play a “Slav witch”). The Playlist breaks the news.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

Rubin and Ed (1991): Read the Canonically Weird entry! Sony finally releases Trent Harris‘ weirdo Crispin Glover comedy on Blu-ray (only) with no advertised special features. We should mention that Harris sells DVD copies exclusively, and gets no royalties from this Blu release, so keep that in mind if it’s important to you. Buy Rubin and Ed [Blu-ray].

CANONICALLY WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

Independent theaters are cautiously starting to reopen across North America at diminished capacity, and even the big chains are taking tentative steps towards restoration of normality. Special drive-in screenings and online-only events are becoming increasingly popular in the U.S. We expect this section to continue to grow slowly throughout the summer, although we wouldn’t predict things to return to anywhere near normal until the fall, at the earliest. You’ll have to use your own judgment as to whether it’s safe to go to movie theaters at this time.

• Bloomington, IN
  • Indiana University Cinema – Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), 8/21. Online, with a Q&A with Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Free with registration, begins at 7 PM ET.
• Kansas City, MO
  • Screenland (Armour) – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), 8/22-23, 25-26
• Kitchener, ON
  • The Apollo – Mandy (2018), 8/22, 26
• Joshua Tree, CA
  • Joshua Tree Lake RV & Campground
    • Psychomagic, A Healing Art (2019) with El Topo (1970) (drive-in double feature), 8/21
    • The Holy Mountain (1973) with Psychomagic, A Healing Art (2019) (drive-in double feature), 8/22
• Vancouver, BC
  • The Rio – Eraserhead (1977), 8/24

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: Tomorrow’s Weird Netflix Party will be the horror comedy Murder Party (the feature debut of director Jeremy Saulnier, who want on to acclaim with Blue Ruin and Green Room). Please join us at 10:15 PM ET for the screening. As usual, we’ll post the link to join around 10 PM here, on Facebook, and on Twitter.

Next week we’ll continue our remote coverage of Fantasia Festival 2020. In fact, look for a review of South Africa’s alien-possesses-a-heroin-addict oddity Fried Barry later today. We also promise you a first look at Nobuhiko Obayashi‘s final movie, the 3-hour opus Labyrinth of Cinema. As for the rest of the titles, well, you’ll just have to check back through the week. Onward and weirdward!

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

Here’s the poll to vote in our latest weird Netflix watch party, scheduled for Saturday, August 22, at 10:15 PM ET. If you plan on virtually attending, please vote for the movie we’ll be watching below. We’ll screen the movie that gets the most votes. Your host, Gregory J. Smalley, will personally break any ties. Note that unlike our other polls, you can only vote once. Poll closes at midnight ET on Wednesday, August 19. You may vote for multiple movies, but not for every movie (because that would be pointless).

Now vote!

Last week, Amazon Prime; this week, we’re back to Netflix for our Weird Watch Party. We plan to alternate between the two services for the time being. Assuming there’s enough interest, our next Netflix party will be scheduled for Saturday, August 22 at 10:15 PM.

As always, we’ll be looking for five movie screening nominations from people who plan to attend. After we get the minimum five nominations and likely attendees, we’ll put up a poll.

The Canonically Weird movies on Netflix that we haven’t yet screened are Being John Malkovich (1999), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004),  Kung Fu Hustle (2004), The Lobster (2015), Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), A Serious Man (2009), Sin City (2005), Swiss Army Man (2016), and The Wicker Man (1973). Feel free to nominate any of these, or ignore them in favor of other selections. You can nominate something you nominated before, but not something we watched in a previous party: so no The Platform, April and the Extraordinary World, The Bad Batch, Skins [Pieles], Under the Skin, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Enemy, A Ghost Story, Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema, Between Worlds, Buster’s Mal Heart, The Aerial [La Antena], The Endless, or The Wicker Man (1973).

To join, you’ll need a U.S. Netflix account, a Chrome-based browser, and the Netflix Party extension.

Make your nominations in the comments below.

Our latest Amazon Prime Watch Party—She’s Allergic to Cats (2016)—starts in fifteen minutes.

You’ll need to be an Amazon Prime member in the US (we think) to participate.

There will be no pausing or rewinding except for technical reasons.

We are offering no technical support, so help each other out if needed.

Here is the link to join:   https://amz.onl/1L1956K

See you soon!