Here’s the poll to vote in our latest weird Netflix watch party, scheduled for Saturday, August 22, 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 gets 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 Wednesday, August 19. You may vote for multiple movies, but not for every movie (because that would be pointless).

Now vote!

Last week, Amazon Prime; this week, we’re back to Netflix for our Weird Watch Party. We plan to alternate between the two services for the time being. Assuming there’s enough interest, our next Netflix party will be scheduled for Saturday, August 22 at 10:15 PM.

As always, we’ll be looking for five movie screening nominations from people who plan to attend. After we get the minimum five nominations and likely attendees, we’ll put up a poll.

The Canonically Weird movies on Netflix that we haven’t yet screened are Being John Malkovich (1999), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004),  Kung Fu Hustle (2004), The Lobster (2015), Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), A Serious Man (2009), Sin City (2005), Swiss Army Man (2016), and The Wicker Man (1973). Feel free to nominate any of these, or ignore them in favor of other selections. You can nominate something you nominated before, but not something we watched in a previous party: so no The Platform, April and the Extraordinary World, The Bad Batch, Skins [Pieles], Under the Skin, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Enemy, A Ghost Story, Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema, Between Worlds, Buster’s Mal Heart, The Aerial [La Antena], The Endless, or The Wicker Man (1973).

To join, you’ll need a U.S. Netflix account, a Chrome-based browser, and the Netflix Party extension.

Make your nominations in the comments below.

Our latest Amazon Prime Watch Party—She’s Allergic to Cats (2016)—starts in fifteen minutes.

You’ll need to be an Amazon Prime member in the US (we think) to participate.

There will be no pausing or rewinding except for technical reasons.

We are offering no technical support, so help each other out if needed.

Here is the link to join:   https://amz.onl/1L1956K

See you soon!

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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…

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

Spree (2020): An Uber driver livestreams his murder spree. A black comedy with a premise that’s been done before, and sounds offbeat at the most—but we did see this single recommendation from  Johnny Oleksinski at the “New York Post,” who advises “Check it out if you can, if weirdness is your thing.” Spree official FaceBook page.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

Diva (1981): Stylish French cult thriller about an opera-obsessed mailman and some swapped audio tapes. KL Studio Classics puts it out on Blu-ray with a ton of interviews and featurettes and a commentary track from film critic Simon Abrams. Buy Diva.

Gemini (1999): A doctor plans to marry an amnesiac woman during a plague, until his lost twin interferes. Mondo Macabro releases this Shinya Tsukamoto adaptation of an Edogawa Rampo short story on Blu-ray for the first time; a fine companion to Arrow’s “Buy Solid Metal Nightmares” boxset for Tsukamoto completists. Buy Gemini.

The Lady Kills (1971)/Pervertissima (1972): In the first flick in this Jean-Louis van Belle double feature, a lady kills; Mondo Macabro describes the curious and rare Pervertissima as “a bizarre – and possible unique – combination of mondo movie and mad scientist flick.” Two films, one Blu-ray. Buy The Lady Kills (1971)/Pervertissima (1972).

CANONICALLY WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

Independent theaters are cautiously starting to reopen across North America at diminished capacity, although the big chains remain shuttered. That said, we have one special online-only event and several Canadian venues to report on. We expect this section to continue to grow slowly throughout the summer, although we wouldn’t predict things to return to anywhere near normal until the fall, at the earliest. You’ll have to use your own judgment as to whether it’s safe to go to movie theaters at this time.

• Kitchener, ON
  • The Apollo – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), 8/15-16, 20
• New York City, NY
  • The Metrograph – Mind Game (2004) (online, members only), 8/14
• Vancouver, BC
  • The Rio
    • Mandy (2018), 8/15
    • Fight Club (1999), 8/19

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: This week’s weird Amazon Prime screening will be—by a whisker—She’s Allergic to Cats (2016). Please join us tomorrow (Saturday 15) at 10:15 PM ET for the screening. As usual, we’ll post the link to join around 10 PM here, on Facebook, and on Twitter.

As for reviews next week: Giles Edwards will definitely enlighten those of you who missed our second Amazon Prime party about the no-budget weirdness of My Neighbor Wants Me Dead (2019), which is about a man whose neighbor wants him dead. We’ll also be creeping out some advance reviews of films from Fantasia’s 2020 online festival—stay tuned for titles. 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 our latest Amazon Prime watch party, scheduled for Saturday, Aug 15, 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 gets 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 EST on Thursday, Aug 13. You may vote for multiple movies, but not for every movie (because that would be pointless).