Apologies to anyone who was expecting a link, but Kast ended their free streaming option, and even after signing up for a free trial we were unable to get their newly designed service to cooperate. We’re canceling this afternoon’s watch party. We may try rescheduling for a week from today, but unless we can find another free service we’ll be limited to options from Netflix or Amazon Prime. Again, apologies to anyone who was looking forward to A Cure for Wellness.

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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 (WIDE RELEASE):

Men: Alex Garland directs Jessie Buckley as a woman who seeks refuge from trauma at a quiet rural retreat, only to find even worse nightmares lurking in the woods. The latest smart, weird-ish genre offering from A24, solidly in their wheelhouse. Men official site.

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. We will continue to mention exceptional events in this space from time to time, however. Like this one:

• Saturday, 5/21, Memphis, TN: “Beware of Adults: the Strange & Wonderful Cautionary Tales of Roald Dahl” at Malco Summer Drive-In. This installment of the themed “Time Warp” drive-in series features three Dahl adaptations: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), The Witches (1990), and the seldom-screened Matilda (1996).  “Time Warp” series at Malco Summer Drive-In.

FREE (LEGITIMATE RELEASE) WEIRD MOVIES ON YOUTUBE:

Come and See (1985): Read the Canonical entry! A couple of weeks ago, Mosfilm put this Soviet classic up on YouTube; contemporary relevance aside, it’s perhaps the most intense (and one of the strangest) war films ever made. Watch Come and See free on YouTube.

Kyiv Frescoes (1966): This 14-minute short is composed of footage that Sergei Parajanov shot after Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, eventually intended to comprise a feature. Looking at the silent, surreal footage Parajanov submitted, which included a spinning seashell and a tormented man who rises from a bench to seemingly worship a nude woman before grabbing an axe, Soviet authorities immediately shelved the project. The footage was only rediscovered in the 1980s. Kino Now has put it up for free for a short time with a scholarly introduction and post-film discussion; there is a link to donate to the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre and Film Archive, a Ukrainian film preservation society. Watch Kyiv Frescoes free at Kino Now.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

Join us tomorrow at 4:00 PM ET (note the time change to the afternoon) for our next Weird Watch party, A Cure for Wellness (2107). If the Saturday matinee time slot proves popular, we may host more afternoon shows going forward. The movie’s on Tubi, and as always a free Kast.tv account is required for chatting and sunching. The link to join will drop here, on Facebook, and on Twitter around 3:45 PM.

Next week we’ll have a number of reviews up. From the reader-suggested review queue, Shane Wilson surveys the animated shipwreck that is In Search of the Titanic (2004). From the newly upgraded Blu-ray department, Giles Edwards sheds light on Harry Kümel‘s lesbian vampire opus Daughters of Darkness (1971). And, in new theatrical releases, Gregory J. Smalley is planning a trip to the cinema to check out Men (see trailer 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.

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 DEVELOPMENT (announced):

The Shrouds (202?): Crimes of the Future is not even on screens yet, but 79-year-old David Cronenberg isn’t wasting time getting his next project off the ground. It’s titled The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel is already attached, and the story concerns a man who develops a device to speak with the dead. Indiewire‘s Jeremy Mathai expands on the announcement in Variety.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

“Miklós Jancsó Collection”: Kino already released Jancsó’s best-known films, The Round-Up (1966) and The Red and the White (1967), on a 2-disc Blu ray set in April. This 4-disc edition adds the rarer films The Confrontation (1969), Winter Wind (1969), Red Psalm (1972) and Electra, My Love (1974). Buy “The Miklós Jancsó Collection.”

Sister Tempest (2020): Read Giles Edwards’ review. Already on DVD, Joe Badon‘s second low-budget surreal feature arrives on Blu-ray this week. Buy Sister Tempest.

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. We will continue to mention exceptional events in this space from time to time, however.

FREE ONLINE WEIRD MOVIES:

Big Man Japan (2007): Read the Apocryphally Weird entry. Hitoshi Matsumoto‘s particularly Japanese mockumentary about a cowardly and paunchy middle aged man protecting Tokyo from absurd kaiju (including one monster with a combover) disappeared from Tubi, but has returned, and will disappear once more (“leaving soon”). Watch Big Man Japan free on Tubi.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

The screening suggestion and discussion thread is still open for our next Weird Watch Party, scheduled for May 21 at 4:00 PM ET (that’s right, we’re experimenting with an afternoon matinee, to accommodate some readers unable to make the evening time slot.) Currently, A Cure for Wellness (2017) is the leader, but a single vote could change that. We’ll leave suggestions open through the weekend.

Next week, Giles Edwards reviews the queer (in all senses of the word) indie Playdurizm (2020), while Gregory J. Smalley weighs in on the second season of Nteflix’s weird hit “Russian Doll” (refresh yourself on the first season here). 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.

For our next Weird Watch Party, we’re going to test out an afternoon screening (in the U.S.) instead of a late night show. So we’ll plan on starting at 4 PM ET on May 21, and see how it goes.

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.

Nominations are open for movies on any of the three platforms we’ve used—Netflix, Prime or Tubi/Kast. When making your nomination, simply comment with “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?”

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.

Fatal Pulse(2013) is on Tubi. We’ll be using Kast.tv to stream and chat. Be sure you have signed up for a free account there.

Here’s the link to join: https://s.kast.live/g/5l4he16qguz

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

See you soon!