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.
Nicolas (see response to first post on previous page): I confess I haven’t seen it, but by reputation My Dinner with Andre is not something I would ever have considered as falling into the “weird” category. But part of the purpose of the suggestion thread is to give me ideas I wouldn’t have thought of myself, so I’ll give it a try.
Irene: I will keep an eye out for Gainsbourg (2010). It looks like there is a French DVD out but no English translation yet. There is plenty of time for them to issue one before I get this far down the queue!
Nicolas again: We don’t take back-to-back suggestions from one person, but since you snuck one in right after Irene it’s OK. Linklater’s Slacker is now in queue and will get it’s chance to make the List!
Here’s the updated, alphabetized reader suggestion list (to see the order we hope to cover them in, , check out the latest “What’s in The Pipeline” column on the homepage, posted every Sunday):
1; 3 Dev Adam; 3 Women; 4; The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao; 8 1/2; 200 Motels; 2001: A Space Odyssey; The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T; Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd; The Addiction; The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; After Last Season; Air Doll; Allegro Non Troppo; Amelie; Amanece, que no es poco; The American Astronaut; Angelus; The Apple; Arizona Dream; Arrebato; At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul; The Atrocity Exhibition; The Attic Expeditions; Barbarella; Battle Royale; Black Cat, White Cat; Bloodsucking Freaks; Blood Tea and Red Strings; Blue Velvet; The Boxer’s Omen [aka Mo]; A Boy and His Dog; Brazil; The Bride of Frank; Britannia Hospital; “Broken Glass“; Bubba Ho-Tep; Buffalo ’66; Bunny & the Bull; Candy (1968); Careful; The Cars That Ate Paris; The Casserole Masters; Celine and Julie Go Boating; The Cell; “Un Chien Andalou”; Chingsao the Clown; Christmas on Mars; Cinema 16: European Short Films; Clean, Shaven; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs; Conspirators of Pleasure; Dark Crystal; Dead Leaves; Dead Ringers; Death Race 2000; Dellamorte Dellamore [AKA Cemetery Man]; Dogville; Dororo; Escanaba In Da Moonlight; Even Dwarves Started Small; Fando y Lis; Fantastic Planet; Fast, Cheap and Out of Control; Faust; Fellini Satyricon; The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. II (for Lucifer Rising, among others); The Films of Suzan Pitt; Final Flesh; Final Programme; Forbidden Zone; “Foutaises” (short); The Fox Family; “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life;” Freaked; Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque); Garden State (official review); Glen or Glenda?; La Grande Bouffe; The Guatemalan Handshake;Hausu; Haxan; Head; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Hell Comes to Frogtown; Hellzapoppin’; The Holy Mountain; The Hour-glass Sanatorium [Saanatorium pod klepsidra]; Hour of the Wolf; ID; “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); The Illustrated Man; Inferno; Inmortel; Innocence (2004); “Jam” (TV, UK, 2000), Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter; Johnny Suede; Julien Donkey-boy; Kairo [AKA Pulse]; The Last Sunset; Leolo; Liquid Sky (re-review); Little Otik; Lost Highway; Love Me If You Dare; Lunacy [Sílení]; Lust in the Dust; The Magic Christian; Maniac (1934); The Man Who Fell to Earth; Marquis; Master of the Flying Guillotine; May; Midnight Skater; MirrorMask; Mulholland Drive; My Dinner with Andre; Necromentia; Nightdreams; Night of the Hunter; The Nines; The Ninth Configuration; Ninja Scroll; Northfork; Nothing (2003); Orpheus; The Ossuary; Paprika; The Peanut Butter Solution; Performance; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Persona; Piano Tuner of Earthquakes; Picnic at Hanging Rock; The Pillow Book; Pink Flamingos; Pink Floyd: The Wall; Portrait of Jennie; Possession; Primer; Private Parts (1972); Prospero’s Books; The Quiet; Rampo Noir; Rat Pfink a Boo Boo; The Real McCoy; Robot Monster; The Room; Rubin & Ed; Run Lola Run; The Saddest Music in the World; Safe; Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom; A Scanner Darkly; Schizopolis; Seom [The Isle]; Session 9; The Seventh Seal; Sheitan; Shock Treatment; Singapore Sling; Slacker; Society (official review); Songs From The Second Floor; Strings; Sublime; Suspiria; Sweet Movie; Symbol; The Tale of the Floating World; Teeth; The Ten; Tetsuo; Themroc; This Filthy Earth; Three Crowns of the Sailor; Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets; Tokyo Gore Police; Toto the Hero [Toto le Héros];Trash Humpers; The Trial [Le procès] (1962); The Triplets of Belleville; Tuvalu; “Twin Peaks” (TV series); Twister (1989); Uzumaki [Spiral]; Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (official review); Vera; Videodrome; Weekend; Weirdsville; Wicked City (1992 live-action version); Wild Zero; Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ; Yesterday Was a Lie; Yokai Monsters, Vol. 1: Spook Warfare [AKA Big Monster War]; Zardoz; “Zombie Jesus” (if we can locate it).
Ok, I’ve said this before, but I mean it this time (honest!)…I’m going to lay one more golden nugget on you and then I’m gonna stay away from the suggestion box for awhile. As you’ve said, the queue has grown “imposing”. For as many films as I’ve suggested thus far my very first, Fantastic Planet, is still some 70+ films down the line. So my vow is to stay away until Halloween, at which time I will suggest THE weirdest horror film I have ever seen. Which surprisingly has not been covered or found it’s way into that massive queue (thus far). So until then I leave you with this…
Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell (1968). Asian sci-fi B-film which I was lucky enough to see a few years back on Turner Classic Movies. Bizarre film…nuff said.
Good suggestion. I saw Goke years ago on VHS and I have been waiting for it to be released on DVD ever since the format was invented! That Turner Classic Movies showing was promising; at least the film isn’t lost. Maybe it will actually have a DVD release by the time I make it this far into the queue.
GOKE has long been rumored to get a Criterion release… might actually be something to that, now that HAUSU is out.
Color of Pomegranates!
Good suggestion Wycuff! I’ll add to the queue.
I’d just like to point out that, courtesy of LoveFilm, last week I watched “Goke: Bodysnatcher From Hell” on DVD. I wouldn’t recommend it, except to people who watch weird movies just because they’re weird, irrespective of whether they’re good or enjoyable in any way, but anyone who feels that they should own it on disc obviously can.
I remember being fairly impressed by Goke when I watched it as a younger man, about 20 years ago: the weirdness was intoxicating to me then, and the vividness of the color compositions stayed with me. I might feel different about it watching it now, but the fact that the memory of the movie stayed with me for this long says something for Goke. It looks to me like the disc you watched was a region 2 PAL Japanese release, which won’t play on my player here in the US, but it’s nice to know the movie’s still available in other countries.
LoveFilm looks to be the British equivalent of Netflix.
Oops! I completely forgot that DVDs differ from one country to another. By the way, I wonder who decreed that Europe needed a crummy old Japanese space vampire movie but America didn’t? Maybe it’s on some ancient blacklist because of the anti-Vietnam War propaganda.
If it’s 20 years since you saw the film, I suspect that you’re remembering a tiny handful of admittedly very weird scenes where freaky alien stuff happens, and forgetting how dull the rest of it is. The small cast, almost all of whom play incredibly unpleasant and very irritating characters, spend far more time pointlessly and annoyingly bickering than attempting to do anything the slightest bit useful or interesting, and seem to be doing a pretty good job of wiping themselves out even before the alien invaders show up (all one of them).
In fact, I bet you an unspecified (and purely hypothetical) sum that if you do get a chance to see the film on DVD, you’ll find that every single thing you remember being good about it is in the trailer.
Tell you what, though. The LoveFilm computer often chooses to send me multiple films on similar themes, so lately I’ve had a cluster of movies involving some form of possession. In the same envelope as “Goke” I got the surprisingly similar yet infinitely more entertaining (and in my opinion significantly weirder) “Horror Express”.
That’s the one where a bunch of people are stuck on a train in Siberia in 1906 with a deep-frozen prehistoric ape-man that turns out to be a mind-sucking extraterrestrial which is then mistaken for (and may actually be) the Antichrist. And why not? I’ll worship anything that can make Telly Savalas’ eyes bleed as a punishment for overacting. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, telepathic space gorillas, amateur brain surgery, mad monks and Cossack zombies: what’s not to like?
I hereby nominate “Horror Express” for the list! (And I’ve just checked – this one you can certainly get on region 1 DVD.) In fact, since you’ve got a pretty long still-to-review list and I’ve almost certainly seen the film much more recently than you have, I’ll submit an interim review myself if that would be useful.
Oh well, must go; my latest rentals have arrived: “Blood On Satan’s Claw” and “Starcrash”. Who says I’m insufficiently eclectic?
Horror Express is a great suggestion, I’ll add it to the queue.
Hello again! I have a fantastic suggestion. I recently had the chance to watch If… by Lindsey Anderson, and I was amazed by the combination of black and white with color, almost breaking it into a surrealistic, dreamlike world. Also, it features the first role by Malcolm McDowell. I believe that this movie definitely should have a look at.
Caleb, glad to see you made it back. I was wondering why no one had mentioned If… yet, although both the movie’s unofficial sequels—O Lucky Man! (which made the List) and Britannia Hospital had been nominated. Thank you for correcting that oversight, I’ll add If… to the queue.
the shape of things, have you guys seen it yet?
Noa, I don’t remember if you were the one who suggested it originally. It is in the queue, but I just counted and there were 199 movies suggested before it! I had no idea that the queue had gotten that far out of control; I may have to shut it down for a while. I will try to move The Shape of Things up on the priority list, though.
I`d like to suggest Fur farm….i think the most unpleasant thing to watch exising…….3guys1hammer..coming after it
I’m not sure what you mean, Zelenc. I can’t find a movie with that title. Is it a documentary on fur farming? We wouldn’t be interested in that, though I’m sure it’s disturbing.
Yes, it is a documentary, just youtube it..couldnt go even through the trailer 🙁 …. it`s really disturbing. The 3 guys and a hammer is a real video not a movie…. Earthlings is a good movie too.
Kinda like mondo films
and …..there is another only for sick people….:D…and overweirdones…”Philosophy of a Knife”
Sorry Zelenc, I’m not convinced any of those films are weird, just disturbing. There are weird mondo films out there, though, and I don’t think even the obvious one has ever been nominated.
My favourite yule tide recipe is The Casserole Masters.
It just wouldn’t be Christmas in my house without those drugged up, inaudible lunatics ranting at me about things that I’m probably way too sober to understand.
Already suggested, Potato Salad Stallion. They’re 22nd in line (!) but may be reviewed sooner due to easy availability.
I strongly recommend Nuit Noire (2005): An incredible piece of pure surrealism.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758442/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRgfUnFnndQ
Review: http://twitchfilm.com/reviews/2007/07/nuit-noire-black-night-review.php
Sounds like a great suggestion, Anonymous Coward. It’s even available on DVD! I’ll put it in the queue.
Here’s a couple that you seem to have overlooked:
SCREAMPLAY (1984)- A bizarre, expressionistic satire on Hollywood
SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO (2007)- Takashi Miike’s insane take on the spaghetti western
FANDO Y LIS (1968)- The bizarrely perverse exploits of Fando and his poor crippled girlfriend Lis on their journey to find the city of tar
LITTLE OTIK (2000)- The husband of a woman who can’t conceive digs up a tree stump, which somewhat resembles a child after some minor alteration, and gives it to his wife. She becomes obsessed with it and eventually, the stump comes to life with a bit of an appetite.
RUBBER’S LOVER (1996)- Scientist, attempting to induce psychic abilities in people get the results they’re looking for by strapping a fellow (unwilling) scientist down, shooting him full of either, and blasting incredibly loud sounds in his face. Needless to say, the unwilling scientist is not happy, and with his newly acquired power, shit goes down.
PERIOD PIECE (2006)- A trailer park epic from the modern day filth master Giuseppe Andrews.
DARK STAR (1974) Dan O’Bannon and John Carpenter team up for this truly odd sci-fi outing.
ELEMENT OF CRIME (1984)- A cop takes a surreal journey into a post apocalyptic Europe on the trail of a serial killer.
Il CASANOVA DE FREDERICO FELLINI (1976)- Fellini does Casanova, insanity ensues.
KILLER CONDOM (1997)- The name says it all.
THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF TOM THUMB (1993)- Stop motion at it’s finest. The Bolex Brothers take the old fairy tale and set it in a world of shadowy figures, evil technology, and crucified Santas.
PRIVATE PARTS (1972)- A young woman moves into a new apartment only to find that her landlord has got a few peculiar kinks.
HEAVY TRAFFIC (1973)- Ralph Bakshi’s animated satire on life in the big city is quite the insane li’l ride. Not for the Politically Correct
COONSKIN (1975)- A companion piece to Heavy Traffic which focuses more on the Black side of city living. Like Heavy Traffic perhaps even more so, people who are offended politically incorrect humor will definitely want to stay away.
GEEK MAGGOT BINGO (1983)- The lowest of low budget. All sets are made of cardboard in Nick Zedd’s apartment, the story is ludicrous, and the acting? I’m not even gonna go there. But if weird is what you want, then here you go.
THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS (2004)- Asia (daughter of Dario) Argento directs this disturbing tale of a boy who is abused in every way possible by his white trash mom, bible thumping grandfater, and a succession of scumbags that his mom calls boyfriends.
NUTCRACKER FANTASY (1979)- An odd stop-motion adaptation of The Nutcracker Suite. The first five minuets of it may have been among the creepiest minutes of my childhood.
Great list, ShaneWreck! I will point out that Fando y Lis, Little Otik, and Private Parts have all been suggested before and are currently in the review queue. But you also mention several overlooked favorites, and some I had either not heard of or considered. In fact, Screamplay, your first suggestion, is new to us and sounds interesting, so I’m going to add that one to the review queue.
After I posted I took a closer look at the upcoming reviews and realized that those three were on your list. My bad. So here’s three more to replace them:
MY WINNIPEG (2007): Guy Madden finishes up his surreal “autobiographical” trilogy (consisting of COWARDS BEND THE KNEE, BRAND UPON THE BRAIN, and MY WINNIPEG) with what may be the most bizarre documentary I’ve ever seen. And it makes some of the autobiographical aspects of both COWARDS and BRAND much more clear, and although it’s a documentary it’s still a Guy Madden film full of insane imagery and Oedipus run amok.
REPO MAN (1984)- Alex Cox directs this oddball tale of a suburban punk who falls into the repo trade. He has run ins with a wide variety of strange and offbeat characters, not to mention government agencies and underground groups all looking for a car with a neutron bomb in it which disintegrates anyone who opens the trunk.
WILD IN THE STREETS (1968)- A politician manages to get the voting age down to fifteen which leads to a rock star being elected president. This new president proceeds to lock anyone over thirty in camps where they are force fed LSD. This is a great satire focusing it’s blade on both the hippie subculture and the mainstream culture they were rebelling against.
Hey! new suggestion!
The Temptation Of St. Tony, a quirky Estonian film. A country who’s film industry is just developing, so this was a nice surprise!
Great suggestion, Alvaro. We mentioned St. Tony back in September, when it got a very limited release on these shores, and we’ve been eagerly awaiting a U.S. DVD. Last we heard, it was scheduled for release on Jan 25, 2011, and you can be sure we’ll snap up a copy as soon as we get a chance.
Grendel Grendel Grendel was a fairly weird movie with Peter Ustinov as the voice of Grendel in a retelling of Beowulf.
DMT, I actually read the John Gardner novel on which Grendel Grendel Grendel was based, but I had no idea it had been made into a movie. I will put it in the queue. One caveat: it does not look like this one was ever released on DVD.
The Room
The Room‘s already in the queue, dianne, though it will be quite a while until we get to it.
Hello again! I was recently thinking to myself, and I thought, Eyes Wide Shut would be a great film to look into for the list. The film isn’t completely weird, but it is rather great, and the thing that sort of added the weirdness scale was the 20-minute long Masquerade-ball styled orgy(which I have to say, was pretty weird.) Considering your rules on the balance between greatness and weirdness, I think this movie would be great to check out.
Hello Caleb, I agree that Eyes Wide Shut is well worth checking out (as is everything Kubrick ever did), and I’ll put it in the queue.
Definatley check out Antichrist (2009), Taxidermia (2006), The Human Centipede (2009), and Cannibal Holocaust (1980). They’re incredibly weird, but be warned, they’re also incredibly grotesque.
Tori,
Coincidentally, as you were posting I was just finishing up the second review of Antichrist: you’ll be happy to know it made the List. The same goes for Taxidermia. We considered The Human Centipedean but rejected it as not really weird, just a derivative horror with a uniquely gross premise. That leaves us with Cannibal Holocaust, which has been suggested before, but which I’m not sold on. From everything I’ve heard it’s simply a shockfest with some reprehensible scenes of animal cruelty. I’m an old dude who’s seen more then enough depressing, amoral cult movies in my time, so if I’m going to review something along those lines it had better be extremely weird.
I’ll definitely check out out the reviews on Antichrist and Taxidermia. Sorry I had nothing new to bring to the table. Cannibal Holocaust is a hard movie to decide if it’s truly weird or just grossly shocking like The Human Centipede. I’m new to the sure so I don’t know if you have certain standards as to what makes a movie weird enough for the list. It has shocking scenes, legitimate animal cruelty ( D:), and what seemed like legitimate murder and rape. But is it really weird? Not really but I recommend a watch just for the heck of it.
Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987). Currently the whole movie is available on YouTube. Surprised I didn’t see it on any of the lists. Its definitely weird. Then again I’m new here and maybe I just didnt look hard enough. Its a Japanese anime / real people crossover thing. Similar to the later movie Joe’s Apartment (also somewhat weird) The plot concerns a society of cockroaches who live peacefully in the apartment of a bachelor named Seito until a woman moves in and the humans begin to exterminate the cockroaches. Theres a scene involving a wise talking turd from whom the cockroaches seek advice and a bug spray apocalypse at the end.
Tori: no need to apologize. Antichrist and Taxidermia obviously would have been good suggestions if they hadn’t already been covered. They have shocking scenes but they are not merely shocking; they’re infused with weirdness and surrealism. Shock tactics have always been part of surrealism since the slit eyeball and nudity in Un Chien Andalou. But shock cinema that’s pure exploitation, set in the real world, just isn’t the focus here. (Someone else can feel free to take the idea of 366 Disturbing Movies and franchise it; just send us royalties for the 366 concept).
Shyshark75: Twilight of the Cockroaches is a good suggestion. I saw it when it came out and it made an impression on me, but you seldom here anyone talk about it. I’ll put it in queue and I look forward to seeing it again.
I’m guessing that you already considered VIDEODROME, one of my favorite films.
Not weird enough??? Maybe the nightmare changes in reality ultimately make too much sense??? A lot of it seems to have come true after the last 25+ years.
This is a fun list to play with.
PS I love THE 5000 FINGERS OF DR T.
Amazing Dr Seuss insane plot, with mostly
great tunes.
theterror: Videodrome‘s still in the queue waiting to be reviewed. See the second post at the top of the thread for the list of suggestions readers have already made. There are hundreds of them now!
P.S. 5,000 Fingers is in queue too! But I like the lines you’re thinking along!
ya want weird?
Weekend, Help, The Giant Claw, Gamera the Guardian of the Universe, Hammersmith is Out, Savage Messiah (Russel’s), Zazu Dans Le Metro, Britannia Hospital, Lilo and Stitch, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Venom (w/Oliver Reed et al), The Hospital, A Private Function, Time Bandits, SSSSSSSS (w/Strother Martin), Devil In Miss Jones, Cemetery Man, Spontaneous Combustion, Throne of Blood, Daimajin, The Long Goodbye, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother, The Late Show, Lacombe, Lucien, International House, Flight of the Navigator, Macbeth (Polanski’s version), Hamlet (Nichol Williamson’s version), Mystery of Mamo, Slit Mouthed Woman, Q, God Told Me To, and (for now) last and best…The Ruling Class.
Chew on that for a while.
Well one that was just plain weird and didn’t explain itself at all was Doris Wishman’s 1969 movie “Indecent Desires” about a loser pervert who finds a doll in a garbage can and brings it home. Needless to say the guy gets amorous with the doll while imagining a secretary he sees everyday on his walks in the park. The said chick feels hands on her body when he romances the doll. This just made my eyes pop out, there is alot of nudity but no real sex, if you count making out with a doll sex. Pretty much all of Doris Wishman’s movies should be on this list. As mentioned above I can’t recommend enough “Forbidden Zone” when I watched that movie I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and still watch and quote from it til this day. Another hard to find gem not released on DVD is “American Scream”, you want weird, this movie has it in tones of red. It is not a normal slasher film, it takes a twist on the constant “teenager to grown up” theme that seems to play in most of these movies and turns it on it’s head. A less weirder movie is “The River’s Edge” with Keanu Reeves and Crispin Glover, if Crispin is in any movie you know your in for a surprise, not only that, Dennis Hopper plays a gun wielding, dope dealing nut who has a blow up doll for a wife who it talks to. Just a few suggestions, maybe they aren’t weird enough.
Another I forgot to mention is 1964’s “My Tale is Hot” with legendary burlesque dancer Candy Barr in it. It is about a sultan who is tempted by Satan to cheat on his wives with various women, this just takes the cake in weirdness. It is one of those nudie cutie features and in some parts it is downright boring. The weirdness factor is pretty high in this one though. Another is the 1911 Italian silent film based upon Dante’s “Inferno” called “L’Inferno” this one is on DVD and really a strange lost gem. Most of the costumes and demon conceptions came from the Illustrations of Gustave Dore and for a old movie their pretty good and very weird. Another movie that I hear mentioned alot but haven’t seen is 1955’s “Daughter of Horror”. Most of my friends who are into the same movies as me say it is a really downright bizarre movie and wonder how it was even made and released at that time.
G, that’s a good list. Several are already in the queue and I’ll point out that Time Bandits has already been approved for the List. Since you say The Ruling Class is the best, and I’ve always wanted to see it, I’ll put that one in the queue.
Lostgemhunter: Some more good recs, and I’m a little surprised you’re the first person to mention the great Doris Wishman, the Ed Wood of sex movies. I have a feeling at least one of her bizarre little fables should make the List, so I’ll put Indecent Desires in queue.
Sorry to bombard you but I was going through my VHS and DVD collection, two movies I forgot to mention that are on DVD are “My Grandmother” a 1929 silent movie made by the Soviet Eccentric Society, a group of rebel Russians who were harassed by the authorities for making this film. It combines live action, stop motion animation, cartoon animation, art deco, fox trot dancing, and slap stick comedy in a satire on the bureaucratic state of Russia at the time. The eccentrics were a theater troupe who loved American culture of the time, tried to emulate it and would go to government approved plays and boo them or whistle at them. This movie is a must see for any weird movie fan and another one probably mentioned is the Flash Gordon parody “Flesh Gordon” and for a parody the effects are pretty good and there is alot of nudity it is really a strange one in my opinion.
That’s some really weird stuff there Lostgemhunter. I’m just glad we still have 294 spots left on the List so we can consider it all!
Don’t know if I missed it, but the 1955 film Dementia aka Daughter of Horror should be considered. Very Odd film, especially for it’s time. The plot follows a psychotic young woman’s nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night. It plays out like a fever dream of surreal encounters. And although the movie isn’t silent, there is no dialogue. Overall the movie has a strange feeling to it. Also, if you haven’t seen this make sure you get your hands on the version called ‘Dementia’. A few years after the film came out, some of the violence was cut and they added a narration and re-released it as “Daughter Of Horror’. Kino put out a nice dvd that has both versions on it, and both films are worth a watch actually. I favor the original version more, but the re-released cut adds a campy quality to it, and I guess in some ways a different expeirence. There’s a few more films I haven’t noticed, but will suggest them another time. Have fun and I love the site.
Philip, by this time, we’re running out of “obvious” suggestions that haven’t been already reviewed or aren’t already in the review queue, but you’ve uncovered one: Daughter of Horror [AKA Dementia]. I wanted to see this one since I first read about it in “Re:Search – Incredibly Strange Films” back in the 1980s, but it was hard to find a copy of it back then, and I never got around to seeing the film. I will put it in the queue and look forward to finally seeing it after all these years!
The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weeraseethakul)
La Prisonniere (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Last Year At Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
Definitely some really weird movies you should check out! Oh and I saw someone suggested Cannibal Holocaust. I don’t know if you can call it weird, but it’s DEFINITELY a movie worth checking out in my opinion!
Michiel: Interesting that I should point out that there were only a few “obvious” choices left, and then you would come and mention a couple of them (along with a couple I hadn’t considered). I will put The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie in queue, because it really is one of those we absolutely must cover.
Alright, I’m glad I could help you guys! Oh, and maybe this is another weird movie: ‘Death Bed: The Bed That Eats’. Haven’t seen it myself, but from what I have heard it’s not just a low-budget horrorflick: in fact, it’s a pretentious, arty farty, surrealistic movie.
REVIEWS: “Death Bed is one of the weirdest films ever made, and it’s great!” – Bruce Fletcher, SF Indiefest
“Downbeat and narcotic, Death Bedis the rather glorious result of one demented lotus eater’s wild stab at acid horror. It’s a trip, baby. Highly recommended..” – Sleazegrinder
“Just when you thought you’d seen it all – along comes Death Bed.”- Mondo-digital
“Death Bed earns its rightful place in the annals of 1970s midnight cult cinephilia along with such films as Eraserhead, Pink Flamingos,and El Topo”- Donato Totaro, Offscreen.com.
“Death Bed is a singular experience; and is one of the most surreal, creative, and imaginative films of the past 50 years.” – Sins of Cinema.
Michiel: Death Bed is “on our radar screen,” so to speak. In fact one of the writers just brought it up the other day… like you, I haven’t seen it but I’ve heard “good” things.