DIRECTED BY: Chano Urueta FEATURING: Abel Salazar PLOT: A smirking sorcerer is burnt alive by the Spanish Inquisition, only to return three hundred years later as a shapeshifting brain-eater to wreak his vengeance on the descendants of those who condemned him. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Brainiac‘s appeal, weird or otherwise, lies almost entirely … Continue reading CAPSULE: BRAINIAC [El barón del terror] (1962)
“And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.” —Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach” (quote originally intended to introduce Archangel) DIRECTED BY: Guy Maddin FEATURING: Kyle McCulloch, Kathy Marykuca PLOT: In 1919, one-legged Canadian airman Lt. John Boles finds his way to the Russian … Continue reading 10. ARCHANGEL (1990)
366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. “I proudly slam my flag in the sand that Saint Bernard is not for ‘them’— whoever ‘them’ is, but you and I know who ‘them’ are— and I don’t want ‘them’ seeing the film.” —Gabriel Bartalos DIRECTED BY: Gabriel Bartalos FEATURING: Jason Dugre … Continue reading 25*. SAINT BERNARD (2013)
This is the (unofficial) reordered ranking of the 366 Canon of weird movies, based on this 2019 poll (made just after the List was completed), combined with the results of a series of polls in 2022 that incorporated the first 20 Apocryphally Weird movies into this ranked list. 1. Eraserhead 2. Holy Mountain, The 3. … Continue reading THE REORDERED/RANKED LIST OF 366 WEIRD MOVIES
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. FILM FESTIVALS –(Sundance Film Festival, Online, … Continue reading WEIRD HORIZON FOR THE WEEK OF 1/14/2022