Once again, apologies to everyone for cancelling the party without advance notice.
I’m looking for discussion of the best alternate date. Today would not be my preference but I will do it if others want to. Any day next week is fine, but I suggest starting no later than 10 P.M.
We could simply postpone the Enemy screening until next Saturday. In fact, if I get no responses or suggestions, that will be the default. Let me know your thoughts.
Our 7th Netflix party has been cancelled for tonight and will be rescheduled. Deepest apologies to anyone who waited up for the announcement.
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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 DEVELOPMENT (announced):
“Under the Skin” TV series (202?): Silver Reel outbid A24 for the rights to a TV series adaptation of the canonically weird movie Under the Skin. Tthe adaptation will be based on Michel Faber’s original novel, but will be “very respectful” of the film version. No writer or network/outlet has been named yet. Keep the black goo, or we’re out. Deadline breaks the story.
IN DEVELOPMENT (post-production):
Greatland (2020): A timely, low budget psychedelic satire pitching itself as “the most WTF film of 2020.” This teaser trailer currently has over 57,000 views and the film is due “in the second half of 2020.” Starring an (unrecognizable) Eric Roberts. We first mentioned this project back in March 2019, but it appears it’s been updated and overhauled on the fly to take current events into account. Greatland crowdfunding page at Seed & Spark.
Volition (July 2019): The “Best Feature” winner of the Philip K. Dick Film Festival is about a clairvoyant who foresees his own death. Plot details are being held tightly—we get it, psychological thrillers don’t need spoilers out there—but we were given a still to post. Volition official site.
NEW ON HOME VIDEO:
Gretel & Hansel (2020): Read our review. This witchy (and slightly weird) reinvented fairy tale debuts on DVD, Blu-ray or VOD. Buy Gretel & Hansel.
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: 366 Weird Movies’ 7th Netflix Party screening will feature dueling Jake Gyllenhaal‘s in Enemy. U.S. residents with Netflix should tune in this Saturday at 10:15 PM EST As usual, we’ll drop the link as usual 15 minutes before showtime here and on Facebook and Twitter.
We’ll also have reviews of a couple of deep indies available on VOD: the 2019 hippie immortality comedy Cant’ Kill This and the paranoid found-footage cellphone epic Murder Death Koreatown. Then, will cover the second installment of Seijun Suzuki‘s Taisho trilogy with the supernatural adultery of Kagero-za (1981). 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 this Saturday, May 9, 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, G. Smalley, will personally break any ties. Note that unlike our other polls, you can only vote once. Poll closes at midnight EST on Thursday, May 7. 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 announce it in three places:
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!
It’s a quarantine thing, but we do have a core group tuning in every week, so let’s see about week 7.
We’re asking for nominations for a movie to watch partly because we love making polls, but mainly as a means to gauge interest. If we get five suggestions from people planning to attend, then we’ll know it’s worth hosting.
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, or The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
We’ll set aside May 9 at 10:30 PM EST for this one. If you have feedback suggesting a different start time we’ll listen.
Just like previous weeks, we’ll open it up to reader suggestions until we get five or more candidates, then put up a poll to vote on which movie to screen. Only films in Netflix’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: Enemy (2013), 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.
To join, you’ll need a U.S. Netflix account, a Chrome-based browser (Brave works) and the Netflix Party extension.
Make your nominations in the comments below.