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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):

King Knight (2021): A witch goes on a trippy walkabout after secrets from his past are revealed. A New Age satire from Richard Bates Jr. In theaters and simultaneously on video-on-demand. No official site located.

Strawberry Mansion (2021): Read our festival review. This Gondryesque dream flick was one of our weird favorites from last year’s Fantasia Fest; it’s in theaters on a limited basis this week, with VOD coming next week. Strawberry Mansion official site.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

Mogul Mowgli (2020): On the cusp of a career breakthrough, a Pakistani rapper (Riz Ahmed) is diagnosed with a degenerative disease, and spirals into a series of flashbacks and hallucinations. Strand releases this “surreal drama” from first time director Bassam Tariq on DVD, Blu-ray or VOD. Buy Mogul Mowgli.

Versus (2000): Read our review. This new release of the yazkuza/zombie mashup is a one-disc edition of Arrow’s 2020 doiuble-disc special edition, lacking only the longer “Ultimate” cut of the movie. Buy Versus.

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.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

We’re still looking for RSVPs and suggestions for our Feb. 26 Weird Watch Party—join the discussion here.

We’re also in the middle of a round of Apocrypha Promotion voting (if you haven’t cast a ballot yet) and of determining the winners of the 2021 Weirdcademy Awards (if you haven’t cast your daily ballot yet). It’s a very interactive period of the 366 season!

Next week, Rafael Moreira returns with a second look at Shinya Tsukamoto‘s erotic drama A Snake of June (2002), while Shane Wilson survives the post-apocalytpic flop Slipstream (1989) and Gregory J. Smalley catches The Stendahl Syndrome (1996). And we’re expecting to throw a surprise interview in there, too—but it’s not recorded yet, so you’ll have to wait and see. 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 project to re-rank the entire Canon of 366 Weird Movies continues, as we incorporate the newly promoted former-Apocrypha movies into a newly reordered list. (This all sounds more complicated than it really is.)

Last round, 60 voters cast ballots. All three of the promoted Apocrypha in this round outpaced the old Canonical entries they were pitted against. Now, let’s see how far the new arrivals can climb. We’ll pit the three former Apocrypha movies that got more votes than any Canonical movies against the seventeen next most popular Canonical movies based on this 2019 poll. (It’s getting more competitive for the newbies, but if we put fewer than 20 entries per poll at a time, this will take all year). We’ll repeat this procedure until no new arrival proves more popular than the remaining Canonical entries.

Here’s the next round. You may choose up to three movies you feel are the most deserving. We’ll leave the poll up until midnight, February 21.

We’re ready to take suggestions and votes in the comments for our next Weird Watch party, tentatively scheduled for Saturday, February 26 at 10:15 PM ET.

We could always change the regular time and date, as long as it’s in the evening: any day of the week, 9 PM or later start. If you can’t make it Saturdays and prefer a different time slot for the bi-weekly parties, let us know.

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.

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.

The Flesh (1991) is on Tubi, so no subscription required, but 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/tq9p68y6iq0

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):

A Night of Knowing Nothing (2022): A documentary by an Indian film student describing a uiversity strike, presented as a series of letters to her absent lover; consistently described by those who’ve seen it as “dreamlike.” Debuting at New York’s Museum of Modern Art this week, expanding to limited venues thereafter. A Night of Knowing Nothing official site.

IN DEVELOPMENT (pre-production):

Kafka (202?): A rare biopic we can get down for: Franz Kafka. It will be told through a series of vignettes including ” scenes from the future he envisioned.” Veteran Agnieszka Holland (The Secret Garden) will direct. More at Variety.

IN DEVELOPMENT (post-production):

Men (2022): A24 debuts its latest teaser-trailer to some buzz. We can tell almost nothing about the story—it’s got a vague, emotionally-wounded heroine haunted by mysterious events in the woods synopsis—but we do know Alex Garland (Annihilation) directs Jessie Buckley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things). That doesn’t mean it’s going to be weird, but it should be another quality A42 thinking horror—they rarely whiff. Men official site.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

Hiruko the Goblin (1991): A goblin from Hell beheads students as part of a fiendish invasion plan. Shinya Tsukamoto‘s second full-length feature was one of the loose titles Arrow did not acquire for their box set; Mondo Macrabo steps in to rectify the omission with this Blu-ray. Buy Hiruko the Goblin.

“Santo: El Enmascarado De Plata”: 8 Blu-ray set of movies starring the Mexican masked wrestler-cum-superhero Santo fighting (usually supernatural) foes; weird movie fans should be at least aware of the existence of this odd and extremely-specific subgenre. These discs are mastered from export versions, so they are all dubbed in English, and Santo and The Treasure of Dracula is missing nude scenes. Buy “Santo: El Enmascarado de Plata”.

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 ON TUBI.TV:

Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010): Read the Canonical entry! Panos Cosmatos‘s psychedelic debut is a movie we swear is perpetually on Tubi’s “leaving soon” list; maybe this time they mean it? Watch Beyond the Black Rainbow free on Tubi.tv.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

Lots of stuff going on the site right now. First off, for the first time ever we did not get the minimum requested number of RSVPs for our Weird Watch Party. We will still go ahead and schedule it (hell, if we canceled we’d probably just spend that same time watching a weird movie alone), but if the turnout to the actual screening is low, we’ll think about scrapping the feature—or maybe get into discussion about a time change. That said, tune in tomorrow night, Saturday Feb. 11, for our Valentine’s Day warm-up, Marco Ferreri‘s The Flesh (1991), at 10:15 PM ET, on Tubi (so no subscription required) via Kast.tv (free account required). As always, the link to join will drop here, on Facebook, and on Twitter around 10 PM.

Also, you can vote for this year’s Weirdcademy Awards once per day up until March 27. Big (though not prohibitive) favorites are already emerging in a couple of categories (Weirdest Picture and Weirdest Actress), but other races remain tight.

Speaking of the Weirdcademy Awards, we added a new page of “More Site-Specific Weird Stuff.” Currently, the only thing here is the full list of all Weirdcademy Awards winners by year going back to the Awards’ debut in 2010, but we do plan on slowly adding new content in there.

And speaking of voting on stuff, the latest round of our Apocrypha Promotion poll is still ongoing throughout this weekend, in case you haven’t voted yet.

And speaking of Apocrypha promotion, next week Shane Wilson complicates that field with a newly-approved candidate. You’ll have to wait to see what it is for sure, but keyword hints include “Eiffel Tower” and “lizard men.” Gregory J. Smalley follows up with a report on William Greaves’ 60s experiment Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968), which may not be quite as strange as its tongue-twisting title, but comes close. 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.