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“Covering everything from art-house surrealism to next-generation cult movies to B-movie atrocities and unclassifiable oddities, 366 Weird Movies has been publishing online since 2009. Here are our canonical choices of the 366 weirdest movies worthy of your eyeballs – and the day you should watch them on – in all-new capsule reviews, delivered with our usual combination of sly humor and series insight.” Available now from our publisher, Bear Manor Media (in hardback or paperback) or from Amazon, more options (including buying from us directly) to come. Vol. 1 covers movies selected for viewing on January 1st to June 30th; we’ll let you know when Volume 2 is ready.

It’s been whispered around these parts for a while, but, as I look over proofs, I finally feel like the time is finally ripe to make an official in-print announcement:

The Big Book, “The 366 Weird Movies Guide,” is coming. Yes, you’ll soon finally have a physical record of the 366 Weirdest Movies ever made to put on your bookshelf! Something physical and tangible, that will last long after this Internet site has dissipated into the ether.

We don’t have a firm date, except to say the book will arrive in the 2024 calendar year, courtesy of film publishing specialist Bear Manor Media.

The text of the “Guide” does not simply repeat the already published web content. Many of the reviews are entirely new, written by a different contributor than the one who wrote the original. In other cases, the entries are condensed and perfected versions of the originals, with the fat cut out to leave a punchier, more powerful statement about what makes that particular movie a weird classic.

The “Guide” will be available in two formats: either split into two volumes in sturdy hardcover, or in one convenient (if thick) softcover book. Copies will be available for purchase from major retailers, and a smaller number directly from us (I’ll even autograph those, upon request).

We would appreciate it if you would purchase it. It was years in the making.

We’ll drop more nuggets of info as the project develops.

After the book is published, I had originally considered radically revising and redesigning this website. The problem is, that’s a time-consuming process, and instead I would prefer to move on to my next major project: a work of fiction, although one with a weird movie spin. So, for the the time being, the website will remain as you see it before you, with new content and reviews (and Apocrypha!) continuing to accrue.

We also plan to continue Pod 366 for the foreseeable future, and to expand its scope and reach with more guests, platforms, and digital doo-dads (a theme song? A sponsor?)

So that’s where we’re at. The “366 Weird Movies Guide” is the culmination of a large and exhaustive process that has personally brought me much gratification. I hope it will bring readers a smaller, but not inconsiderable, amount of pleasure.

Thanks for indulging us wit this self-serving announcement, and see you tomorrow for the latest episode of Pod 366, where we’ll talk to some of the team behind the telepathic handkerchief horror-comedy Hanky Panky (2023).

366 Weird Movies will definitely earn royalties from purchases made through product links. That’s the whole frickin’ point.

The print version of the 2022 Yearbook is now live for purchase! You can click here to buy it (in the U.S.; in other countries you will want to search your local Amazon branch). We’re almost two weeks late in getting this out, but so it goes; we did complete it 5 days faster than last year.

2022’s Yearbook is shorter than past years, but longer than last year’s. (Hey, that rhymes!) We have succumbed to inflationary pressure and raised the price to a still remarkably cheap $6.99. And you can still get it before Christmas if you order now!

Other than possessing the quality of independent material existence in the physical world, the print version is nearly identical in content to the Kindle version. (A couple of the illustrative images are different, and Kindle offers some the ability to view the pictures in color.) This volume offers your first look at the top 10 weird movies of 2022 and a  transcript of our interview with the team behind All Jacked up and Full of Worms. And, hey, if we sell enough copies we can buy a six pack! Help a weirdo out, will you?

Next up: the Big Book containing all 366 Canonically Weird movies. There was a chance we could have gotten this out in 2022, but we struck out, so now it’s going to be 2023 or bust. And we will have some new changes and features coming with the New Year, some of which are hinted at in the Yearbook’s introduction, and some of which you’ll just have to wait for.

The past couple of years, we’ve released our annual Yearbook in time for Christmas shopping season.  (Our calendar year runs from November 2021 to November 2022—December is usually a light month for weird movies anyway.) This year, we’re a little behind schedule, though still slightly ahead of last year.

The print version should be ready for purchase sometime next week for late stocking-stuffers, but if you can’t wait, or prefer digital, here’s a link to buy our Kindle.

This year’s copy again focuses on our top weird movies of the year, with extensive-but-snappy (and occasionally snarky) supplemental listings covering all the year’s weird movie releases and re-releases that are fit to print.

You’ll also get:

• An advance peek at the top 10 weird movies of 2022, before the year is even over!
• A previously unprinted transcript of our interview with the gang behind All Jacked up and Full of Worms.
• Color illustrations (in the Kindle version) for readers that support it.
• And it’s free to Kindle Unlimited participants ($2.99 for those without the service).

All profits derived from your kind purchase will go towards paying our hosting costs. Any leftover monies will be wasted on our staff’s relentless and desperate pursuit of hedonistic excess, in a vain attempt to momentarily blunt the nagging feeling of purposeless and presentiment of doom that is the constant unwelcome companion of all thinking creatures. Enjoy!

The print version of the 2021 Yearbook is now live for purchase! You can click here to buy it (in the U.S.; in other countries you will want to search your local Amazon branch). We’re about a week or two later getting this out than we had planned, but so it goes.

2021’s Yearbook is shorter than ever (we cover as many movies as before, but in super-concentrated capsule form). The good news is that it’s cheaper than ever: it will set you back less than $4! And, if you have Amazon Prime, you can still get it before Christmas if you order now!

Other than possessing the quality of material existence in the physical world, this is identical in content to the Kindle version. The volume offers your first look at the top 10 weird movies of 2021, interviews with Man Under Table‘s Noel David Taylor and Undergods‘ Chino Moya, and an available-nowhere-else timeline of the real world releases of Hideaki Anno‘s Evangelion series. And, hey, if we sell enough copies we can buy a six pack! Help a weirdo out, will you?

Next up: the Big Book containing all 366 Canonically Weird movies. Coming in 2022 (probably) from a major publisher (maybe).