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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.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021): A video technician investigates a sporadic series of eerie pirate broadcasts, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy.  Maybe a bit of a long-shot for “weird,” but it’s from Jacob Gentry (who directed the best segment of the triptych The Signal), and the Videodrome comparisons will be inevitable. Broadcast Signal Intrusion official site.

NEW RELEASES STREAMING ONLINE:

Lamb (2021): Read our review. A24’s Icelandic folk-(kind of) horror will screen online for one night only, Tuesday, October 26, at 9 PM EDT. There should be some slight bonus content. Note that, if a similar event A24 held for The Green Knight earlier this year is any indication, the film will show up on regular VOD channels soon afterwards at a cheaper price. Buy tickets to Lamb at A24’s website.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

Dune (1984): Read our review. David Lynch‘s least favorite of his own movies gets a deluxe limited edition release consisting of a 4K UHD and a standard Blu-ray, an additional Blu packed with extra features, two booklets and a fold-out poster, all in steelbook packaging. If you’re asking yourself, “didn’t they just rerelease this in a limited edition August?,” you’ve got a great memory; and you should know there is actually another 4K Ultra release scheduled for December. Buy Dune.

“Yokai Monsters Collection”: A three-Blu box from Arrow containing four movies about the Japanese folkloric monsters known as yokai: the trilogy 100 Monsters (1968), Spook Warfare (1968), and Along with Ghosts (1969), plus Takashi Miike‘s kid-friendly series tribute The Great Yokai War (2005). Buy “Yokai Monsters Collection”.

CANONICALLY WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

This section will no longer be updated regularly. Instead, we direct you to our new “Repertory Cinemas Near You” page. This week, we welcome back Oakland, CA’s New Parkway, who will celebrate Halloween with two screenings of the classic Nosferatu (1922), with a new live score performed by Sleepbomb. We’re also adding a new venue: Vancouver, B.C.’s Cinematheque, who will be featuring Eyes Without a Face [Les Yeux sans Visage] (1965) this upcoming Wednesday and Thursday, and Possession (1981) on Thursday (and wouldn’t that make an incredible double feature?) We will continue to mention exceptional events in this space from time to time.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: Be sure to join us tomorrow night at 10:15 ET for our second October Weird Watch Party, Phantasm (1979). It’s on Tubi, so no subscription required, but a free Kast account is. As always, look for the link here, on Facebook, and on Twitter around 15 minutes before showtime.

Next week Gregory J. Smalley will be taking a mysterious hiatus to work on a non-366 related project. This could lead to some minor wonkiness on the site and few-to-no social media updates. But don’t worry, Giles Edwards has you covered with a review of the made-on-a-dare microbudget horror Dementia: Part II (2018); then, Shane Wilson chips in (and chips away at the reader-suggested review queue) with a look at the crazy star-studded detective movie collaboration between Wim Wenders and U2’s Bono, The Million Dollar Hotel (2000). 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.

366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links.

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.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

Bergman Island (2021): A filmmaking couple vacation on Ingmar Bergman‘s home island of Fårö, looking for inspiration. Perhaps a long shot for weird; although it’s described as “dreamlike” and “lightly meta,” one gets the sense that it will be most rewarding to those with an intimate knowledge of both Bergman and director Mia Hansen-Løve. Bergman Island official site.

The Blazing World (2021): A phantasmagorical trip inside a suicidal young woman’s mind as she visits another dimension after the death of her twin. After debuting at Sundance’s “Midnight” section, it got a lot of praise for its visuals, and less for its story. No official site located.

Labyrinth of Cinema (2019): Read our Apocrypha Candidate review! Nobuhiko Obayashi‘s final film is an epic meta-exploration of Japanese cinema initiated by a time-traveler arriving in a goldfish-bowl spaceship. The U.S. debut is at the Metrograph in NYC this Wednesday (with screenings all week long), to be followed by scattered dates across the country through January. Labyrinth of Cinema U.S. distributor’s page.

IN DEVELOPMENT:

Zapper (202?): My Neighbor Wants Me Dead‘s Nick Gatsby is coming out with another zero-budget psychedelic feature. This one is a crime comedy Gatsby describes as “almost like Pulp Fiction on acid.” The teaser trailer below contains NSFW language and banana violence.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

The Green Knight (2021): Read our Apocrypha Candidate review. A weirder Arthurian epic than Excalibur, now on DVD, Blu-ray 4K ultra or VOD. Buy The Green Knight.

“He Came from the Swamp: The William Grefé Collection”: A la Severin’s “The Dungeon of Andy Milligan”, here’s another box set of strange-but-crappy films, this time from Arrow and “celebrating” Florida drive-in guru William Grefé. Grefé alternated between pumping out creature-features with giant sharks and jellyfish and drugsploitation pictures. The set contains most of his work—Sting of Death (1966), Death Curse of Tartu (1966), The Hooked Generation (1968), The Psychedelic Priest (1971), The Naked Zoo (1971), Mako: Jaws of Death (1976) and Whiskey Mountain (1977)—and a documentary about the auteur. Buy “He Came from the Swamp The William Grefé Collection”.

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014): Read our review. A re-release of the existing DVD/Blu-ray of the sequel to the canonically weird original. Buy Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.

CANONICALLY WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

This section will no longer be updated regularly. Instead, we direct you to our new “Repertory Cinemas Near You” page. This week, we’re happy to announce the addition of a major new venue, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. As it’s name implies, this impressive new edifice (it opened on September 30 of this year) is a museum with interactive exhibits from Hollywood history, but they also naturally host screenings of repertory fare, which will occasionally involve weird movies. This week they have Spirited Away (2001) on October 19 and Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) on the 21st in honor of Studio Ghibli Fest 2021. You can expect more Miyazaki there through November, and look forward to Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) on October 30. We will continue to mention exceptional events in this space from time to time.

FREE ONLINE WEIRD MOVIES:

Millennium Actress (2001): Read the Certified Weird entry! Satoshi Kon‘s sophomore picture—a mixed-up anime biopic of a fictional Japanese actress—turns up from time to time streaming on free services. Right now, it’s YouTube’s turn. With commercial interruptions. Watch Millennium Actress free on YouTube.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

You can still vote for our October 23 Weird Watch Party (Halloween edition), but it seems likely that the winner will be Phantasm (1979) on Tubi.tv. Make plans to join us two Saturdays from now at 10:15 PM ET!

In reviews next week, Jake Fredel investigates Walerian Borowczyk‘s final Love Rites (1987), while Gregory J. Smalley hopes the new Polish release Never Gonna Snow Again can live up to its promise. 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.

We’re ready to take suggestions and votes in the comments for our Weird Watch party, scheduled for Saturday, October 23 at 10:15 PM ET.

Nominations are open for movies on any of the three platforms we’ve used—Netflix, Prime or Tubi/Kast. When making your nomination, simply say “I think we should watch Weird Movie on Netflix” or “I propose Strange Movie on Tubi” or “How about Weird Movie 2: Electric Boogaloo on Prime?”

If you’d like to attend our watch party, then the important thing is to RSVP in the comments, where you can make a screening suggestion, or just say you plan to be there. As always, we’re looking for five likely attendees before officially scheduling.

When the party is set to begin we’ll announce it in three places:

• On this site (if you’ve signed up for regular email alerts via the sidebar you’ll also get a notice that way)
• On our Facebook page
• On Twitter

Make your nominations and/or RSVP in the comments below.

Angst (1983) is on Tubi,tv, so it will be free—no paid subscription required. We’ll be using Kast.tv to stream and chat, so be sure you have signed up for a free account there.

Here’s the link to join: https://s.kast.live/g/2iotsphmfoh

The show starts at 10:15 PM (ET).

See you soon!

366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links.

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.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

Lamb (2021): A dark modern folktale about a childless farming couple in Iceland. It won Cannes’ Un Certain Regard and was picked up by A24, marking it as a buzzworthy curio. Lamb page at A24.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

Fried Barry (2020): Read our (somewhat split) review! It’s the-man-who-fell-to-earth-in-South-Africa-and-then-got-really-high. Blu-ray or VOD. Buy Fried Barry.

Onibaba (1964): In feudal Japan, a woman and her daughter in-law eke out a living during a war and by scavenging from dead (and sometimes still living) warriors; the arrival of a young man in their deserted village, and the later arrival of a samurai wearing a demon mask, threatens their partnership. An eerie classic Japanese ghost story that’s in our reader-suggested queue, just upgraded by the Criterion Collection to Blu-ray in a new restoration. Buy Onibaba.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006): Read Alice Stoehr’s review. The story of a perfumer who murders, capped by a very strange orgy. This is the first North American Blu-ray release of the film. Buy Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.

Phantasm (1979)/Phantasm II (1988): Read the Canonically Weird entry for Phantasm! The first is a weird horror classic about an undertaker and his shiny balls of death; the sequel rehashes things ten years later. This Blu-ray double feature comes with its own phantastic poster. Buy Phantasm/Phantasm II.

CANONICALLY WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

This section will no longer be updated regularly. Instead, we direct you to our new “Repertory Cinemas Near You” page. This week, we finally added NYC’s IFC Center, who had been open for months but until this week were showing almost entirely new releases. In October they are back into weird movies in a big way with Persona (1966) and Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen] (1968), plus the return of weekend midnight shows with Mulholland Drive (2001); they also have Cure (1997) and, inspired by Titane, are screening Crash (1996). We will continue to mention exceptional events in this space from time to time.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: Please join us tomorrow night (Saturday the 8th) at 10:15 PM ET for October’s first Weird Watch Party, Angst (1983) on Tubi.tv. No subscription required, but a free Kast account is. Look for the link here, on Facebook, and on Twitter around 10 PM.

Next week will see Shane Wilson review Anita Ekberg’s turn as a morphine-addicted nun in 1979’s Killer Nun; later on, Gregory J. Smalley will check out Lamb (see above). 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.

Our next Weird Watch Party will be the Austrian serial killer film Angst (1983) on tubi.tv via Kast. Save the date of October 9 and the time of 10:15 PM (ET)!