We had a healthy turnout for our Halloween Weird Watch Party despite not getting the requested number of RSVPs. Therefore, we are going to drop the request for RSVPs from now on and just ask for nominations. If watch party viewership drops below five attendees, we may either reinstate the RSVP process or scrap the screenings. But for right now we’ll stick to one Netflix and one Amazon Prime watch party per month.
We’re open to suggestions for different starting times, dates, or methods of propagating the watch link.
Our next Netflix Party will be scheduled for Nov. 14 at 10:15 PM. We’ll take nominations in the comments on this post up until next Sunday (Nov. 8), then put up a voting poll. Although there is no longer an RSVP requirement, please don’t nominate a film unless you intend to join us for the screening.
The Canonically Weird movies on Netflix that we haven’t yet screened yet are Being John Malkovich (1999), A Clockwork Orange (1971), 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), and Swiss Army Man (2016). 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, The Wicker Man (1973), Murder Party (2007), I Lost My Body (2019), I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020), or We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018).
To participate, you’ll need a U.S. Netflix account, a Chrome-based browser, and the Netflix Party extension.
Make your nominations in the comments below.
I’ll start off with House of 1,000 Corpses. I know I eviscerated it when I reviewed it in the site’s early days, but I’m ready to give it another shot. Plus it’s thematically similar to our last screening (TCM 2).
Cadaver
It’s Norwegian.
Reckon it’s time to wheel out the ol’ “Sin City” nomination again.
I nominate “Creep.”
Looking at what left and entered Netflix in November: Sin City (the one we want to see) is now gone (sorry, Giles, feel free to offer a repleacement). On the other hand, A Clockwork Orange is now on Netflix. The post text has been updated to reflect those changes.
Kung Fu Hustle because levity.
I’ll put forth a few nominations to help lengthen the list (and because I have difficulty making decisions). For levity, Safety Not Guaranteed and Castle of Cagliostro. Because it has Elijah Wood and looks interesting, I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore.
Sorry, didn’t include my name and email, previous post was me.