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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.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966): An insane man is obsessed with Karl Marx, gorillas, and his ex-wife’s love life. Some call this British ode to nonconformity a cult comedy. Buy Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment.

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976): Read our review. This mildly strange drama about a troubled boy’s stormy relationship with the sailor who woos his widowed mother has been missing from home video for a while; this Blu-ray from Scorpion, with a number of bonus features, remedies the situation. Buy The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea.

CANONICALLY WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

Independent theaters are slowly starting to reopen across the country at diminished capacity, although the big chains remain shuttered (and some are even considering bankruptcy). That said, we actually have another single national screening to announce this week. We expect this section to continue to grow slowly throughout the summer, although we wouldn’t expect 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.

• Kansas City, MO
  • Screenland (Armour) – Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)(6/19-21)

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: Our Netflix Party scheduled for next week (Saturday, June 27, at 10:15 PM ET) is now in the voting phase. We’re getting more votes cast than in previous weeks; we’ll see if the two weeks advance notice leads to increased attendance (although there are benefits to a small loyal group of viewers who show up every week and know each other). As of right now, it looks like we’ll be screening The Aerial [La Antena], unless one of the other candidates comes on strong next week.

As far as reviews go, next week Shane Wilson will cover the final installment of the “Time Warp” cult film doc series with Volume 3, “Comedy and Camp” (now’s a great time to refresh yourself about their introductory and horror/sci-fi entries). Then, Gregory J. Smalley will check out 2020 cult movie aspirant Vampire Burt’s Serenade and predict whether it will one day be featured in its own documentary. 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 weird Netflix watch party, scheduled for Saturday, June 27, at 10:15 PM EST. First order of business: voting on the movie to watch. If you plan on virtually attending, please vote for the movie we’ll be watching below.

There are two sets of instructions: one for the poll, and then the instructions for joining the Netflix Party.

POLL

Vote for which movie you’d like us to watch from the selections 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 Wednesday, June24. You may vote for multiple movies, but not for every movie (because that would be pointless).

NETFLIX PARTY

You must have a subscription to Netflix (U.S.) and a browser running Chrome. You must install the Netflix Party extension (from this site).

We will not provide tech support; you’re on your own.

When the party is set to begin we’ll try to 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

You will then receive the link to join the stream. Follow the instructions and be sure to have your Netflix Party extension active.

Once you join, you can customize your avatar and give yourself a screen name.

Now vote!

Direct link to poll

We’re going to go bi-weekly with our Netflix parties, at least temporarily, so this post will relate to a screening set for Saturday, June 27, at 10:15 PM. We’ll see if giving people a longer lead time will result in increased attendance. (Not that the dedicated core of rabid fans is a bad thing; smaller crowds have the advantage that everyone gets to know each other better).

The time is also negotiable. Some people prefer earlier screenings, some people (e.g., parents with children who need to be put to bed) prefer later. You can mention your preference in the comments.

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.

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, or Buster’s Mal Heart. Only films in Netflix’s U.S. catalog are eligible. We don’t have to watch a Canonically Weird movie together, but just for your convenience, we’re reasonably sure these are all the (previously unscreened by us) ones available on the service at the moment: 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), The Wicker Man (1973), and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). Feel free to nominate any of these, or ignore them in favor of other selections.

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 Netflix Party—Buster’s Mal Heart——starts in fifteen minutes.

Please install the Netflix Party extension if you haven’t already. You must have a U.S. Nextflix account (we think) and a Chrome-based browser (including Brave) 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://www.netflix.com/watch/80152442?npSessionId=928d2c013b198778&npServerId=s61

Be sure to click on the red Netflix Party 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.

NEW VIDEO ON DEMAND:

Vampire Burt’s Serenade (2020): A “raunchy vampire musical” starring Diva Zappa and ex-Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson. Supposedly in limited release, but you’re more likely to find it on Amazon Prime, YouTube, or Google Play.  Vampire Burt’s Serenade official Facebook page.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

“Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection”: Ah, Al. This set contains all 31 “masterpieces” from schlockmesiter Al Adamson spread across 14 Blu-rays and including, most notably for us, Dracula vs. Frankenstein and Carnival Magic, along with the doc Blood & Flesh – The Reel Life and Grisly Death of Al Adamson and a 126 -page booklet. We never dreamed this day would come. Now do an Andy Milligan set—we dare you! Buy “Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection”.

CANONICALLY WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

Independent theaters are slowly starting to reopen across the country at diminished capacity, although the big chains remain shuttered (and some are even considering bankruptcy). That said, we actually have one screening to announce this week. We expect this section to continue to grow slowly throughout the summer, although we wouldn’t expect things to return to anywhere near normal until the fall at the earliest.

• Louisville, KY
  • Village 8 – Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), 6/12-18

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: The winner of the Netflix Party poll is Buster’s Mal Heart (by a nose), so we’ll be screening that this Saturday (June 13) at 10:15 P.M. We’ll drop the link here and on our Facebook and Twitter pages shortly before the show begins. For next week’s reviews, Giles Edwards will consider this week’s Netflix Party runner-up The Aerial [La Antena], in a post that could generate momentum for the Argentine allegory for the next Netflix screening, while Gregory J. Smalley revisits another runner-up, Hitoshi Matsumoto‘s kaiju mockumentary Big Man Japan. 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.