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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):

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) (remastered): Read the Canonically Weird entry! Edgar Wright has remastered his millennial cult classic. We’re early reporting on this one (the show debuts in AMC theaters April 30), but it’s a light week, and we have actually heard of theaters selling out already. Entertainment Weekly has an interview with Wright about the project.

CANONICALLY WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

This week we have only a single canonically weird movie screening to highlight nationwide. More next week, for sure.

• Winchester, VA
  • Alamo Drafthouse – Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), 4/27

FREE ONLINE WEIRD MOVIES ON TUBI.TV:

Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (2013): Read the canonically weird entry! Whet your appetite for Sion Sono‘s upcoming Prisoners of the Ghostland with (another?) look at Sono’s ulraviolent, self-reflexive yakuza war film. Listed as “leaving soon.” Watch Why Don’t You Play in Hell? free on Tubi.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: It’s that time of year again, that major event in the film calendar. Yes, the Weirdcademy Awards are right around the corner, and as honorary members of the Academy of Weird Arts and Sciences you (yes, you!) have about 48 hours to get your votes in. The Weirdest Short race is still a contest, but David Firth‘s dark “Sox Six” has finally pulled ahead of the lighthearted early leader, Brian David Gilbert‘s “Earn $20K EVERY MONTH by being your own boss!” In the Feature contests, The Wolf House has a commanding (and perhaps insurmountable) lead for Weirdest Picture. For Weirdest Actor, Jean Dujardin’s portrayal of a man in midlife crisis in Deerskin is within striking distance of Tom Hardy‘s superbly odd take on Al Capone. Andrea Riseborough holds a slim lead in Weirdest Actress for her Possessor assassin, but Jessie Buckley isn’t ending her campaign for I’m Thinking of Ending Things. And Ending Things‘ pig scene is also the current favorite to win Weirdest Scene (followed by another pig-related scene from The Wolf House). Of course, your votes could still change any of these. Vote for Shorts here and Features here.

And we also need to remind you that our weird Amazon Prime party is scheduled for tomorrow, with 1989’s baffling microbudget horror Things our subject. Join us at 10:15 PM ET; as always, the link to join will appear here, on Facebook, or on Twitter around 10 PM ET. Should be a fun one.

We will have a busy week of content next week, starting with the official announcement of the 2020 Weirdcademy Awards on Sunday. Then, since there was no Summer Blockbuster season last year, Alfred Eaker wants to make up lost time by reviewing blockbusters from summers of yore (with your input, naturally). Giles Edwards reviews the upcoming surrealist feature film Country of Hotels and notches an interview with its creators, and Gregory J. Smalley weighs in on 2016’s cannibal art film Raw. Theaters may be slow right now, but we’ve got all the weirdness you need right 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.

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):

In the Earth: In the midst of a pandemic, two men find themselves lost in a deadly forest. Ben Wheatley‘s latest horror offering is, per Chris Evangelista of Slashfilm, “gross and weird and kind of wonderful.” We’ll surely review this one. In the Earth official site.

https://youtu.be/2YYnSJF0fcY

IN DEVELOPMENT:

The Toxic Avenger (202?): Troma sold the rights to its most famous franchise to Legendary Pictures. Now, we’re not the biggest fans of Toxie, but there is little doubt that this will be a downgrade for the popular series. Jacob Tremblay and Peter Dinklage have joined the cast, and Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore) will write and direct.  Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz will be involved on the production side, but I wouldn’t expect any jokes at the expense of blind characters or gratuitous boob shots from the company that brought us Godzilla vs. Kong and the upcoming Dune; expect to see it go PG-13 (at best) instead, in the vein of the “Toxic Avenger” Saturday morning cartoon series. How the weird have fallen! More at Variety.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

Shrunken Heads (1994): A voodoo priest reanimates the heads of three murdered children, who seek revenge on their killers. This Richard Elfman-helmed black comedy reaches Blu-ray for the first time, courtesy of Full Moon. Buy Shrunken Heads.

STREAMING:

Used and Borrowed Time (2020):An aging Jewish woman eats a magic pie and is transported to a past life when she was engaged in an interracial love affair in Jim Crow’s Alabama. It’s self-described as “avant-garde” and “surreal” and is over three hours long. Free on Amazon Prime (which treats it like a TV show and breaks it up into two episodes), Apple TV, and something called the Vyre Network; it will also debut theatrically at the Quad in NYC on May 7 (the awards-qualifying run). Used and Borrowed Time official website or watch on Amazon Prime.

FREE ONLINE SCREENINGS (April 20, 7 PM ET):

Amarcord (1973), with introduction by Michael A. McRobbie, free to the first 100 people to sign up, sponsored by Indiana University Cinema. Amarcord free virtual screening.

CANONICALLY WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

Only Alamo Drafthouses are having screenings this week; they also appear to be standardizing their offerings across all their locations now.

• Austin, TX
  • Alamo Drafthouse
    • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 4/17-19
    • Mulholland Drive (2001), 4/17
  • Corpus Christi, TX
    • • Alamo Drafthouse
        • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 4/16-18
        • Mulholland Drive (2001), 4/17, 19, 21
  • Denver, CO
    • Alamo Drafthouse
      • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 4/16-18
      • Mulholland Drive (2001), 4/16-18
  • Phoenix, AZ
    • Alamo Drafthouse
      • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 4/16-19, 21
      • Mulholland Drive (2001), 4/16-19, 21
  • Winchester, VA
    • Alamo Drafthouse
      • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 4/16-20, 22
      • Mulholland Drive (2001), 4/16, 19

   

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: There’s just one day left to vote for April 24th’s Amazon Weird Watch Party (vote here), and just over a week left to vote in the 12th Annual Weirdcademy Awards poll (shorts here, features here).

Next week, Giles Edwards takes a trip to the Dead End Drive-In (circa 1986), while Gregory J. Smalley braves an actual hard-top movie theater to check out In The Earth (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.

Here’s the poll to vote in March’s Amazon Prime Weird Watch Party, which will start on Saturday, Apr. 24 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 get 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 Saturday, Apr. 17. You may vote for multiple movies, but not for every movie (because that would be pointless).

Now vote!

April’s Netflix Watch Party—Five Elements Ninjas (1982)—starts in fifteen minutes.

Please install the Netflix Party extension (now officially called “teleparty”) if you haven’t already. You must have a U.S. Nextflix account and a Chrome-based browser to participate.

Here is the link to join: https://www.tele.pe/netflix/ad72841f6185a960?s=s163

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

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.

FILM FESTIVALS – Panic Fest (Apr. 8-18, Kansas City, KS & online):

A small, new-to-us festival; despite it’s title (and psychedelic logo featuring a cat with a third eye encased in a triangle), it has nothing to do with Alejandro Jodorowsky‘s “Panic movement,” but is rather a medium-sized horror and genre festival. We noted several weirdish offerings there seen at other festivals, including The Blazing World, Honeydew, and the much-anticipated Sion Sono/Nicolas Cage collab Prisoners of the Ghostlands. Kansas City-ites may want to check it out live; others can look for virtual tickets.

Panic Fest official site.

BOOKS:

“Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol”: If you’re interested in Seventies softcore sex kitten Kristel, this will be a must-order. But we’re more intrigued by one of the perks: a 4-DVD or Blu-ray set of rare Kristel features that includes 1975’s Playing with Fire, an Alain Robbe-Grillet-directed surreal erotic film about a fantasy whorehouse that to our knowledge has never been released before in the U.S. The box set (and possibly the individual films) will likely be offered for sale individually before the year is out, but if you’re interested in the whole shebang, now’s your chance to bundle them. The book is already funded via Indiegogo, so you can use your backer donation as a pre-order for a November delivery. “Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol” at Indiegogo.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache (2019): A Buddhist monk tells an atheist entrepreneur who’s seeing visions that he must locate a “dakini” meeting the titular description. Not much info on this one but it shows a clear Apichatpong Weerasethakul influence, plus it’s a rare Nepalese-Mexican-Singaporean co-production. In virtual theaters now. Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache official site.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

Hansel and Gretel (2007): Read Kat Doherty’s review. Media Blasters rereleases this Korean take on a European legend on Blu-ray; no special features advertised. Buy Hansel and Gretel.

CANONICALLY WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

Just a few screenings to report on this week.

• Memphis, TN
  • Malco Summer Drive-In – Vertigo (1958), with Psycho (1960) and Dial M for Murder (1954) (triple feature), 4/10
• Richmond, VA
  • The Byrd – Vertigo (1958), 4/13
• Tustin, CA
  • Mess Hall Drive-In – The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), 4/9

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: Tomorrow’s Weird Netflix Party is the Shaw Brothers’ 1982 chopsocky Five Elements Ninja. Join us at 10:15 PM EST; as always, the link to join will appear here, on Facebook, or on Twitter around 10 PM ET. Join us!

Furthermore, voting in the 2020 edition of the Weirdcademy Awards continues apace. You can vote once per day; shorts here, features here. Polls close April 25.

We should have two new reviews for you next week, on an underground movie theme. Giles Edwards will observe the antics of 5000 Space Aliens, while Gregory J. Smalley goes into the depths of the reader-suggested queue to sample the stop-motion delights of Prometheus’ Garden (completed in 2008). 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.