Please do not ask “what was that movie?” questions on this page. We set up an entire site here to answer those questions. This page is for suggesting movies to be reviewed.
Know a weird movie? Something strange that glued you to the screen with awe, amazement or reverence, while your more mundane minded friends left the room (or theater) in boredom, confusion or disgust? A movie whose omission from a list of the 366 weirdest movies of all time would offend you on a personal level? Something even I haven’t heard of or considered? There are potentially thousands of forgotten films, critically dismissed films, foreign or independent films that never got a proper release, or misplaced oddities hiding out there that may deserve a place at the table. One man can’t be expected to track them all down. Here is the place to mention those treasured curios that no one else seems to have even heard of. Nominate a movie in the suggestion box and I’ll move it up on my review queue, or at the very least, explain why I’m not going to review it.
NOTICE: The “Suggest of Weird Movie!” feature has become a victim of its own success. At the time of this update, we have about 250 reader suggestions (!) in queue. (More than that since I last updated the page)! Since we can only do 1 or maybe 2 reviews a week, be aware there may be a huge delay—currently, possibly over a year!—between the time you make a suggestion and the point at which it’s actually reviewed. I considered shutting down the suggestion box as of 2011, but I decided to let you keep your suggestions coming (if nothing else, it tells us what types of movies readers are interested in seeing reviews of). Just be aware that when you make a suggestion, it may not receive the promptest of attention. The best you can really hope for at this point is to bring something to our attention that we might have overlooked. (Also note that although we prioritize the earliest nominations later suggestions may get reviewed before earlier ones if they receive a re-release on DVD or Blu-ray, or interest us for our own inscrutable reasons).
If you can’t wait for one of our staff to review your movie, why not review it yourself and submit it to us via the contact form? We can’t swear we’ll publish every submission we receive, but we want reader participation and we are fairly liberal.
All serious suggestions will receive a response, as well as all most non-serious ones.
Kengo: Our weirdness standards are pretty high when we’re saying The Magic Christian isn’t really that weird a movie, aren’t they? OK, it’s in queue.
Dr. D: It took longer than I expected for anyone to suggest a Kusturica movie. I’ll add Black Cat, White Cat to the queue.
Kacper: I suspect your right about Dark City. Consider it enqueued.
Kengo again: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T it is!
mod f*ck explosion
sewer baby
abnormal: the sinema of nick zedd
the films of richard kern
the brown bunny
the hidden (jonas akerlund short)
the residents: the commercial dvd
otis
fade (michael t. weiss)
mad cowgirl
all fred frith animations
meeting people is easy
slaughtered vomit dolls
wild tigers i have known
tornado
Mar, I guess you think we’re not covering enough transgressive cinema around here… a fair enough criticism. Normally I would take the first suggestion off your list, but I’m a little frightened off of Mod F*ck Explosion by it’s unprintable title, but even more so by its 1.8 rating (!) on IMDB. Sewer Baby could be a possibility but I can’t find any evidence the film has been completed: it’s just a trailer and some raw footage as far as I can tell. That brings us to Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd, which is pretty doable. Zedd’s an important figure in that circle, and a short film compilation allows us to address his contributions succinctly. I’ll put that one in the queue.
(As far as I know Fred Frith is a musician: if by any chance you meant the animator David Firth, we do have a couple of his films here).
You do realise that this list will be infinite?
There are over a hundred years worth of weird movies out there already and more being made all the time.
Not that that’s a bad thing.
Todays suggestion…
‘Robot Monster’ (1953)
It has been called a bad movie but that is underestimating its power. It crashes right through bad and comes out the other side in some glorious mess of surreal incomprehensible weirdness. It’s in 3D, there are bubbles, dinosaurs and hints of inter-species sex. And the end of humanity… or was it all a dream?
And the scenes of Robot Monster himself, shambling randomly round the hills of some abandoned quarry in broad daylight achieve a quality of strangeness straight out of my childhood nightmares.
Nightdream from 1981. It’s a surrealist pornographic film. I’ve only seen a few scenes but it seems to be really interesting. If it’s already on here, then I’m sorry for wasting your time. I just came across this website yesterday and I am in love with it. Thanks for the interesting gather of films. I love the weird.
I don’t know if anyone has put this film in yet but trash humpers looks very surreal and I can’t see it till september.
kengo: Nope, not a bad thing at all. I’ll put Robot Monster in queue. It is one of the few classic “bad movies” I haven’t seen yet!
Andrew: I’ll bite the bullet and watch Nightdreams. Someone has to cover these weird porno movies! While your waiting for that review you can check out Dr. Caligari, a softcore outing from the same director.
Mark Tilechoes: Trash Humpers is in queue, but we won’t be reviewing it until it’s released on DVD.
I have two queries on OLD cult science fiction films:-
[The rest of this comment was moved to the new “What Was That Weird Movie?” page].
Alex, we’re starting to get enough of these requests that I made a new page for them. Check there for an answer. I don’t have one for you now but I, or someone else, may later.
Anytime characters completely become someone else within the film you are definately dealing with some weird subject matter (a la Lost Highway, Schizopolis, Seconds (1966) ). What I like about my recommendation, Robert Altman’s 3 Women, is that there is a unique spin on this theme. Three individual women, all distinctively different, meet and eventually their personalities merge and switch giving them new personas and directions in life. The structure and cinematography has a dreamlike bent to it and Altman admitted that it stemmed from a dream he had and then took liberties to the dream and sort of winged it in the filming process. Altman’s style and trademark over-lapping dialogue are in place but there is a pristine fragility to this picture that I have not seen in other Altman films (and I’ve seen many). The look of the film, the mysterious paintings in the empty swimming pool, the brittle and emotionally flawed characterizations of the 3 women, it all adds up to a beautifully weird film. I’ve only seen it once and it was many years ago, but it has stuck with me. Deceptively haunting.
Eric SG: We’re on the same wavelength, as 3 Women was already on my “to check out” list. I have a good feeling about it’s chances to make the List. In the queue.
Updated queue as of 6/13/2010: Trash Humpers (we’re waiting for the DVD release); Kwaidan; Six-String Samurai; Andy Warhol’s Trash; Altered States; Memento; Nightmare Before Christmas/Vincent/Frankenweenie; The Science of Sleep; The Attic Expeditions; After Last Season; Getting Any?; Performance; Being John Malkovich; The Apple; Southland Tales; Arizona Dream; Spider (2002); Songs From The Second Floor; Singapore Sling; Alice [Neco z Alenky]; Necromentia; Hour of the Wolf; MirrorMask; Possession; Suspiria; Mary and Max; Wild Zero; 4; Nothing (2003); The Peanut Butter Solution; Ninja Scroll; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Danger: Diabolik; Faust; Sublime; Battle Royale; Pink Floyd: The Wall; Escanaba In Da Moonlight; Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter; Zardoz; The Films of Suzan Pitt; Toto the Hero [Toto le Héros]; Paprika; The Holy Mountain; Brazil; The Casserole Masters; Dark Crystal; Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets; The Nines; 964 Pinocchio; The Pillow Book; Final Flesh; Lunacy [Sílení]; Inmortel; Tetsuo; Dead Ringers; Kairo [AKA Pulse]; The Guatemalan Handshake; Dead Leaves; The Seventh Seal; Primer; Maniac (1934); Hausu; A Boy and His Dog; 200 Motels; Walkabout; Private Parts (1972); Possession; Saddest Music in the World; Mulholland Drive; The American Astronaut; Blood Tea and Red Strings; The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. II (for Lucifer Rising, among others); Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ; The Bride of Frank; La Grande Bouffe; Uzumaki [Spiral]; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Even Dwarves Started Small; Bunny & the Bull; “I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney” (assuming I can find it); Cinema 16: European Short Films; Freaked; Session 9; Schizopolis; Strings; Dellamorte Dellamore [AKA Cemetery Man]; The Hour-glass Sanatorium [Saanatorium pod klepsidra]; The Addiction; Liquid Sky; The Quiet; Shock Treatment; Tuvalu; “Zombie Jesus” (if we can locate it); 3 Dev Adam; Fantastic Planet; “Twin Peaks” (TV series); Society; May; The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; Little Otik; Final Programme; Careful; Sweet Movie; The Triplets of Belleville; “Foutaises” (short); Johnny Suede; “Jam” (TV, UK, 2000), The Tale of the Floating World, Un Chien Andalou, Bloodsucking Freaks; Fellini Satyricon; Three Crowns of the Sailor; 8 1/2; Death Race 2000; Dororo; Lost Highway; Valerie and Her Week of Wonders; Dogville; and Julien Donkey-boy; Amelie; The Ten; The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao; 1; Fast, Cheap and Out of Control; Tokyo Gore Police; At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul; The Trial [Le procès) (1962); Marquis; Hell Comes to Frogtown; Hellzapoppin’; Seom [The Isle]; Allegro Non Troppo; Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Lust in the Dust; Celine and Julie Go Boating; “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life;” The Magic Christian; Black Cat, White Cat; The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T; Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd; Robot Monster; Nightdreams; and 3 Women.
I saw this short film on myspace 3 years ago. It’s called ” To Oblivion ” and I thought it was weird. Is it truly weird? That’s up to you guys. Great site by the way I visit it often! Thanks!
I also would like to suggest the short film “The Grandmother” by David Lynch Definitely weird.
Seth: We’ll check out “To Oblivion.” As for “The Grandmother,” you can read Eric Young’s take on it here.
holy mountain 70’s-ish
Rubin and Ed
Caty: The Holy Mountain‘s already in queue, but I can add Rubin & Ed.
I have a couple of movies that I would like to add to your list.
1. Teeth – Part dark comedy, part horror film. Becoming a young woman is tough, especially for Dawn who is “very different.”
2. This may have been mentioned before Eraserhead. Very weird movie from the 70s. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/
3. Psychopathia Sexualis is a low budget dramatization of Kraft-Ebing’s book on “sexual afflictions.” Despite its subject matter it is not that sexual but it is weird.
4. Birth – is a high budget weird film about a woman that is convinced that her dead husband has been reincarnated into the body of a young boy. It stars Nicole Kidman and Cameron Bright. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337876/
5. La jetee – A French scifi short film about the survivors of WW3 using experiments in time travel to the past and future to save themselves. It was all done in black and white still photos. (its on IFC this month.)
– Vera (Francisco Athié, 2003) – a beautiful metaphysical fantasy, that explores the afterlife, inspired by Mayan and Christian religions… (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274193/)
– Ri-Teun (Kim Byeong-woo, 2007) – mind-bending mix of fiction and reality, a commentary on filmmaking… (unfairly, no imdb entry, so… http://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_WRITTEN.php)
Mr. Worf: We’ll look into Teeth. Eraserhead is here. At least one and maybe more on your list will get covered eventually.
NGboo: Putting Vera in queue.
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) starring Mark McKinney and Isabella Rossellini, set during the Great Depression a Canadian beer heiress (Rossellini)sponsors a contest to find the saddest music in the world.
Chase: Someone got to Saddest Music before you, it’s already in queue (at position 70). Feel free to suggest another.
ok what about “Funny Games” (2007) written and directed by Michael Haneke? some might think it’s weird, i just thought it was stupid.
I don’t see mention of “Weirdsville” anywhere on your site. That movie came to mind after I found your site.
It stars Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley (weird guy in American Beauty) and Taryn Manning.
Movie has zombies, drugs and midgits in it. Can’t get much weirder than that.
One more of the Peter Greenaway chef-d’oeuvres is missing. It’s Prospero’s Books. Hope you’re keeping it somewhere in your private list to make it public one day.
Chase: OK, We’ll look into Funny Games. I did like Haneke’s The White Ribbon, though it was only very lightly weird.
Billy: I guess we really can’t pass on a movie with a title like Weirdsville. Into the queue it goes.
Irene: Good guess on Prospero’s Books, it is on my private list. It’s out-of-print in the US right now, but if I put it in queue there’s a good chance it will be back in print by the time we get to it!
Dario Argento’s Inferno (much weirder than the previously mentioned Suspiria IMO)
Henenlotter’s Brain Damage (I’ve seen a few mentions of Henenlotter flicks, but this is brilliantly weird and twisted)
What about Garden State? Not sure if I see that anywhere either.
Wow
Weirdsville AND Garden State both not on your list of the weirdest movies ever??
Two of my favorite movies ever, too
Garden State is written, directed, and starring Zach Braff (Guy from Scrubs – talk about weird enough) and Natalie Portman is in it.
Shatzik: I’ve meant to check out Inferno for years. The conventional wisdom is that its weirder than Suspiria but not nearly as involving. I’ll add it to the queue.
Billy: Honestly, although Garden State has a very good reputation, you’re the first person I’ve ever heard suggest it’s a “weird” movie. We’ll check it out!
My last recommendation (3 Women) leads me right to the path of another 2 women, Alma & Elizabeth, in Bergman’s Persona (1967). Full of angst, repression, jealousy, and other joyous emotions, it is a bit of a downer of a film, but thought-provoking as well. I should also mention confusion when recommending it; with merging personalities and such going on. It provides the viewer with more questions than answers, that’s for sure. A few hyper-weird montages take place with quick flashes of images (almost subliminal)…an erect penis, a tarantula, a man in a skeleton costume, crucified hands, etc. Oh, and the B&W cinematography is pristine and the direction masterful. Definately worth a look-see.
Eric SG: Persona has been mentioned a couple of times and it’s on my personal list to check out as well. Into the queue it goes!
i must suggest i movie i not mentioned in my long list above
The Real McCoy (1999) from director Pekka Lehto
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189041/
“Rock musician Andy McCoy, formerly of Hanoi Rocks, takes us on a “trip” through his mind, memories and imagination. ”
i don’t know how i could forget it because this movie changed my life and is on my top 5 list of all movies i like the most
but almost impossible to get a copy of i think:(
spass: I will provisionally put The Real McCoy (1999) in the queue. I will have plenty of time to see if I can locate a copy before the time comes to actually review it.
Rat Pfink a Boo-Boo…Makes the Adam West TV series it is obviously paying homage to slightly sophisticated (“Holy Shakespeare, Batman!”). Should at least get some extra points for one of the weirdest titles in movie history and the story behind it. Even more points for the goofy and hilarious poses they strike on their motorcycle when they are off to fight crime. Very bad, but weird enough movie to qualify, I think.
I suggest the french movie themroc, it’s about a man who decides to live as a caveman in urban life. I haven’t seen it myself yet but it looks great.
here is a clip of the man creating his own hole http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOCObfWSzRQ
Suggestion for today…
Candy (1968)
Cheesy sleazy patchy fun, with a bit of hit and miss satire and no discernible plot, but it does have McPhisto! – Richard Burton at his best.
Hollywood was good in the sixties.
Eric SG: I believe it’s inhumane to force anyone to watch a Ray Dennis Steckler movie, however unintentionally weird it might be. I’ll take one for the team, though, and put Rat Pfink a Boo Boo in queue.
a fan: Themroc is right up our alley, I’ll add it to the queue. Oh, and I like your handle.
kengo: I haven’t seen it yet but, Candy is a good possibility. We do need to review more honking mad big budget projects that no studio would have greenlit in any decade but the 1960s.
Hi,
Another nice particular one is a german movie called “run lola run”
Pink Flamingos (1972)
I saw some have already mentioned it, definitely worth a try. Weird straight through.
Okay, one more suggestion and then I’ll give it a rest for awhile as the queue is getting ridiculously long (and wonderfully weird). Buffalo ’66…which could be viewed as a vanity project from the egotistical Vincent Gallo, as he wrote, directed, starred and composed much of the film score. There are some great weird scenes within; Christina Ricci (when she was plump & cute) tap dancing in a bowling alley to the prog rock classic “Moonchild” by King Crimson, Ben Gazzara pantomiming a recorded old song to Ricci, and an over-the-top Anjelica Huston as a fanatical Buffalo Bills football fan who repeatedly watches a tape of one game where the kicker misses a field goal and loses the super bowl (which is a key plot point). Many other subtle weird touches permeate throughout the film. Overall a brilliant independent film and vastly underrated.
As you can figure out by now I love this website. I look forward to reading all the reviews and have discovered some excellent gems thanks to you guys (INK!!!). To put it simply, a cinephiles dream come true. Keep up the great work.
gnosoz: I will put Run Lola Run in the queue.
annie: The same goes for Pink Flamingos. There’s no way we could avoid dealing with that one.
Eric SG: Sure, we will review Buffalo ’66. Glad you enjoyed Ink, and I think you could possibly discover a hidden treasure in tomorrow’s review, too.
i’m suprised ‘the science of sleep’ wasn’t on the list. it’s a very weird movie.
sai: Hope you’ll be pleased to know that a review of The Science of Sleep will be coming soon, as it’s currently #6 in our reader-suggested review queue.
Yeah, I couldn’t stay away too long. Must be the OCD kicking in. Need…more…pills…Let’s recommend Godard’s Weekend (1968). Starts off normal enough, but eventually unfolds into weirdness and a keen sense of displaying societal ills, although somewhat metaphorically. Damn…that traffic jam! Amazing extended tracking shot panning the carnage below. This is one that took a long time for me to see and luckily caught it on TCM a few years ago. That channel plays a treasure trove of hard to find classics that otherwise slip into relative obscurity. You gotta look at their late night line-up schedule, but the pay off is great sometimes. Recently caught a Robert Downey double feature of Putney Swope & Greaser’s Palace!
Eric, I knew you wouldn’t stay away. Although I believe Godard has some weirder movies than Weekend we’d be happy to cover it. But I’m going to move it behind the next suggestion in queue so you won’t get back-to-back nominations.
Oh, sorry I didn’t realize I was the last to make a suggestion. I almost went with Alphaville as that is more weird, but I liked Weekend better as a film. The only other Godard I have seen is Breathless which is not weird at all.
I would like to suggest Northfork, directed by Michael Polish. I caught this while channel hopping a couple of years ago and it’s a film that has stuck in my mind ever since. Set in the 50’s it concerns a small town which is being evacuated in readiness for flooding for a dam. A few diehards refuse to leave, among them a priest who is nursing a dying boy and it’s the boy’s trips back and forth between two realities which make up some of the most haunting parts of the film.
Kat: Sure, I’ll put Northfork in queue. I will also review Valerie and Her Week of Wonders when it’s turn comes up: your reader review makes it sound fantastic!
Eric SG: Honestly, I was thinking of Breathless when I responded to you. I haven’t seen Weekend. There are also a couple of recent Godard movies in the Criterion Collection (e.g. Made in U.S.A.) which sound fairly weird. Weekend goes in queue behind Northfork.
How about The Room? Written and directed by and starring the ambiguously-accented Tommy Wiseau, this movie is a disastrous train wreck combining a boring story, ridiculous sets, terrible performances, gratuitous sex scenes, unlikable characters, unresolved subplots, and generally incompetent film-making into a confounding and gooey glob of strange.
Suggestion for today…
Glen or Glenda (1953)
Ed Wood at his finest. Makes ‘Plan 9 from Outer Space’ look stylish and coherent. Gloriously delirious.
BLAMbert: Everyone’s been talking about The Room, thanks for giving me an excuse to check it out for myself!
kengo: Alfred has already done a piece on Glen or Glenda, but I’ll put it in queue anyway so we can consider officially adding it to the List.
The Room is amazing. It’s so much fun. Watch it in a group.