An administrative announcement, just so the review above makes sense: we have completed the List of 366 Weird Movies, which henceforth will be referred to as “Canonically Weird,” or “the Canon.”

As previously announced, we will be continuing to honor other films, at a slower pace; once officially confirmed, these supplemental entries will be listed as “Apocryphally Weird,” or “the Apocrypha.”  Therefore, Umbilical World counts as an “Apocrypha Candidate.”

We’ll be using this terminology from now on. You can consider all former “List Candidates” to be converted to “Apocrypha Candidates” automatically. Now we return you to your regularly scheduled weirdness.

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):

Jobe’z World (2019): A middle-aged rollerblading drug dealer goes on the run on a long NYC night after a celebrity client suddenly dies. This no-budget post-millennial update of After Hours is playing in New York only, but hasn’t exactly won the local critics over. Jobe’z World official site.

IN DEVELOPMENT (completed):

“Weird City”: A dystopian class satire from Jordan “Get Out” Peele, with six episodes set in the titular locale. “Super weird,” says one trailer character. “That’s your opinion,” answers another. We’re hoping the first character is right. The cast features LeVar Burton, Ed O’Neill, Rosario Dawson, Michael Cera, Mark Hamill, and more. Debuting on YouTube Premium on February 13, so exposure may be limited. Busy Peele also has a new horror feature film, Us, opening the SWSX festival and hitting theaters soon after.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

An Evening with Beverly Luff Lin (2018): An unhappily married woman (Aubrey Plaza) attends a performance put on by a man from her past entitled “An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn.” Greasy Jim Hosking tries to make a romantic comedy, without sacrificing his absurdist tendencies. Now on DVD and Blu-ray. Buy An Evening with Beverly Luff Lin.

Let the Corpses Tan (2017): Gold thieves have a shootout with cops in Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani‘s latest, this time a tribute to Italian poliziotteschi films. It doesn’t look as strange as their earlier giallo-inspired work, but at least one mainstream reviewer found it “profoundly weird.” On DVD, Blu-ray, or VOD. Buy Let the Corpses Tan.

Silent Scream (1980): Read Pamela de Graff’s review. A late Barbara Steele slasher movie in what Pam dubbed the “Unusual ’80’s” horror genre. Upgraded to Blu-ray this week. Buy Silent Scream.

CERTIFIED WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). We won’t list all the screenings of this audience-participation classic separately. You can use this page to find a screening near you.

• Bloomington, IN, 1/11 – The Exterminating Angel [El àngel exterminador] (1962). At Indiana University Cinema.
• Los Angeles, CA, 1/17 – Walkabout (1971), with The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) (double feature), hosted by author Luc Roeg and cinematographer Tony Richmond. At the Egyptian Theater.
• New York City, NY, 1/11-1/12 (midnights) – Eraserhead (1977). At IFC Center.
• New York City, NY, 1/11-1/12 (midnights) – The Holy Mountain (1973). At IFC Center.
• New York City, NY, 1/11-1/12 (midnights) – Mandy (2018). At IFC Center.
• New York City, 1/17 – Branded to Kill (1967). At the Metrograph.
• Oakland, CA, 1/17 – Fight Club (1999). At the New Parkway Theater.
• Pittsburgh, PA, 1/11-1/17 – Inherent Vice (2014). At Row House Cinema.
• San Francisco, CA, 1/12 – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). At the Roxie.
• Toronto, Ont., Canada, 1/11 – After Hours (1985). At the Royal.
• Tuscon, AZ, 1/11-1/12 – Wild at Heart (1990). At the Loft.
• Tuscon, AZ, 1/16 – The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). At the Loft.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

As previously mentioned, our announcement of the week’s coming reviews will henceforth appear as part of the “Weird Horizon” column.

G. Smalley is aware he suggested he’d be taking a brief post-#366 vacation, but he still has some review commitments and leftover submissions to publish, so you’ll get a full slate of reviews next week. We’ll start with Shane Wilson‘s recap of “Mystery Science Theater, Season 12 (The Gauntlet).” Shane will also knock one out of the reader-suggestion queue with 1951’s reincarnated dog comedy You Never Can Tell. Finally, G. Smalley gives you the lowdown on David Firth‘s animated greatest hits remix, Umbilical World. After that, maybe there’s a brief vacation window before the Sundance/Slamdance slate hits on January 24—although we do still have a couple more reviews in the can, so these pages won’t be bare.

What are you looking forward to? If you have any weird movie leads that I have overlooked, feel free to leave them in the COMMENTS section.

I’d like a vacation.

For ten years now, I’ve tried to make sure that there’s been content on 366 Weird Movies every day. Even if someone else wrote it, I still had to format it, edit it, and introduce the embarrassing tpyos you’ve come to expect as part of the 366 Weird Movies experience. This means that I’ve usually done some work on the site every day for the past ten years, even if it was only an hour’s worth of editing. I have generally been able to take Thanksgivings and Christmases off, and work half-days or just a few hours on Christmas Eve. But I haven’t taken three consecutive days off in ten years.

I’d like a vacation. Even a three day one.

To answer the question everyone’s been asking for years now—yes, we’re going to keep going past #366. But you can expect a bit less content here in the coming year(s). With the 366 milestone achieved as of tomorrow, we’re going to be focusing more on new releases… but since older movies are always being re-released on home video, there will be a good sprinkling of vintage titles, too. And every now and then we’ll get a hankering to decrease that ridiculously-long reader-suggested review queue by one more title (although I expect it will continue to fill up faster than we can empty it, as long as we keep that suggestion page open).

This is a milestone, not a farewell, so I’m not going to get sentimental, except for a bit of personal revelation at the end. For one thing, I don’t have the time. I still have a review to write, then I have screeners I’ve committed to review, and then Sundance/Slamdance is upon us before you know it… I refer you to Alfred Eaker‘s fine not-farewell post, Reflecting on a Decade of 366 Weird Movies, for the sentimental stuff.

I echo his sentiments about every contributor listed in the sidebar, even the ones who got mad at me and stopped contributing because I said something silly or thoughtless. I’d like to thank each of you personally… although, let’s face it, that’s probably not going to happen. So all of you can fill in the blanks for yourselves: thank you, _____ _____, for your ____ contributions to 366 Weird Movies! Your writing was ____! _______ was my favorite; no one else would have come up with ______.

For readers, here’s what you can expect in a post-366 world in terms of recurring features:

• As previously announced, Alfred Eaker’s Fringe Cinema will now appear irregularly.
• “Weird Horizon” will continue indefinitely on Fridays.
• Cameron Jorgensen has agreed to continue curating Saturday Shorts for the foreseeable future.
• Sunday’s “What’s in the Pipeline” will disappear as a separate column, but we’ll announce upcoming reviews as part of “Weird Horizon” instead.
• Reviews will be published whenever they are submitted by our contributors. I personally plan to scale back to one capsule review a week, with the occasional longer article. We’ll see if I can restrain myself.
• We plan to continue publishing print and digital copies of the Yearbook annually, although we reserve the right to tinker with the format.

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