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.
Here’s the review queue of reader suggestions that have yet to be reviewed, in alphabetical order. You can always see this list ordered according to intended order of publication in the weekly “What’s in the Pipeline” column (published on Sundays).
1 (2009); 1Day; 3 Dev Adam; 3 Women; The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao; 8 1/2; 200 Motels; 2001: A Space Odyssey; 2012 Aficionado DVD Zine Issue #0; The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T; Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd; The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; Air Doll; Allegro Non Troppo; Amelie; Amanece, que no es poco; The American Astronaut; Angelus; Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters; Arrebato; At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul; The Atrocity Exhibition; Barbarella; Beauty and the Beast (1978); Black Cat, White Cat; Black Devil Doll ; Bloodsucking Freaks; Blood Tea and Red Strings; Blue Velvet; The Boxer’s Omen [aka Mo]; A Boy and His Dog; Brain Dead (1990, d. Adam Simon); 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; Cat Soup; Celine and Julie Go Boating; The Cell; “Charleston Parade”; Un Chien Andalou; Chingsao the Clown; Christmas on Mars; Cinema 16: European Short Films; Clean, Shaven; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs; Color of Pomegranates; Conspirators of Pleasure; The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover; Crimewave; Cutie Honey; Dark Crystal; Daisies; Dark City; Dead Leaves; Dead Ringers; Dellamorte Dellamore [AKA Cemetery Man]; Dogville; The Doom Generation; Dororo; The Drifting Classroom; Drowning by Numbers; Even Dwarves Started Small; Eyes Wide Shut; 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; The Fountain; “Foutaises” (short); The Fox Family; “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life;” Freaked; From Beyond; Fudge 44; Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Gahjini; Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque); Garden State (official review); Glen or Glenda?; Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell; La Grande Bouffe; Grendel Grendel Grendel; The Guatemalan Handshake; Head; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Hell Comes to Frogtown; The Holy Mountain; Horror Express; The Hour-glass Sanatorium [Saanatorium pod klepsidra]; 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); Jack and the Beanstalk (1974, Japan); “Jam” (TV, UK, 2000), Johnny Suede; Julien Donkey-boy; Kairo [AKA Pulse]; The Last Days of Planet Earth; The Last Sunset; Leolo; Liquid Sky (re-review); Little Otik; Lost Highway; Love Me If You Dare; Lovers on the Bridge; Lunacy [Sílení]; Lust in the Dust; The Magic Christian; The Man Who Fell to Earth; Marquis; Master of the Flying Guillotine; May; Meet the Hollowheads; Midnight Skater; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Mulholland Drive; Multiple Maniacs; My Dinner with Andre; Natural Born Killers; The Neverending Story; Nightdreams; Night of the Hunter; The Nines; The Ninth Configuration; Noroi; Northfork; No Smoking; Nothing (2003); Nuit Noire; One Eyed Monster; On the Silver Globe; Orpheus; The Ossuary; Paprika; Parents; The Peanut Butter Solution; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Persona; Phantasm IV; 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; Reflections of Evil; Robot Monster; The Room; Rubin & Ed; Run Lola Run; The Saddest Music in the World; Safe; Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom; The Saragossa Manuscript; Save the Green Planet; A Scanner Darkly; Schizopolis; Screamplay; The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb; Seom [The Isle]; A Serbian Film (if ever released on DVD, which seems questionable at this point); Session 9; The Seventh Seal; Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; The Shape of Things; Sheitan; Shock Treatment; Slacker; A Snake of June; Society (official review); Songs From The Second Floor; Strings; Sublime; Sweet Movie; Symbol; The Tale of the Floating World; Tales from the Quadead Zone; 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] The Trial [Le procès] (1962); The Triplets of Belleville; Tuvalu; “Twin Peaks” (TV series); Twister (1989); Uncle Meat; Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (official review); Vera; Vermillion Souls; Videodrome; The War Zone; Weekend; Weirdsville; What Dreams May Come; Wicked City (1992 live-action version); Wild Zero; Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; Wool 100%; Yesterday Was a Lie; Yokai Monsters, Vol. 1: Spook Warfare [AKA Big Monster War]; Zardoz; “Zombie Jesus” (if we can locate it).
Don’t know if any of these are weird enough to make The List proper, but I think they’re worth a look . . . well, the first two, anyway . . .
MURDER PARTY –may just fall squarely in the “quirky horror” category — but I think it’s off-beat enough to be worth your time.
THE ITEM — this one is sadly no longer available on Netflix, so the odds of finding it might be slimmer, which is too bad, as it is definitely a weird one
Triloquist –finally, this one is probably bad enough to merit a BEWARE warning
Angyali Udvozlet – kind of a forgotten Hungarian movie portraying human history played entirely by children. It’s beautifully shot and interesting, although it was kind of hard to follow for me. There are lots of surreal scenes and the fact that all the actors are children make it weirder.
CapnNeurotic: We’ll give Murder Party (2007) a try. (Oh, and thanks for you kind words in the “about” page, too! Anyone who likes Tideland can’t be all bad!)
Kay: Angyali üdvözlet is known in English as The Annunciation, and it’s actually available on DVD! I will put it in the queue.
Do you know any websites that let you watch the annunciation or buy it online?
The Annunciation is not common, but it’s not impossible to find a copy either. You can buy Region 1 copies from Amazon, and there’s a Region 0 DVD available at amazon.co.uk.
I’ve got two, both japanese: Uzumaki and the suicide club
You’re too late, Francisco. Uzumaki has already been covered here, and Suicide Club here. But, I’ve never seen personally seen either of them and I need to them an “official” look, so I will take a look at Suicide Club it even though we already have a placeholder review.
How about Nowhere? I didn’t see it on the list and it is a very strange movie indeed.
I’m going to cut and pate my last response about Nowhere, which was just brought up a few weeks ago.
I already reviewed Nowhere. I gave it a very bad review, but to be honest I have been doubting myself since; it stuck with me and I’m not convinced it’s as terrible as I originally thought, though I still don’t think it’s one of the 366 chosen ones. I gave it a chance to be re-evaluated in the reader’s choice poll but it wasn’t chosen. But I should give Akari another chance or two.
Now, this part is new: we’re going to review Araki’s latest, Kaboom, when we get the chance. It seems very similar to Nowhere thematically and stylistically, and I’m hoping to like it better. We’re also going to review The Doom Generation down the line. I do think Araki may land at least one of his films on the List of 366, I’m just not sure which one yet.
It’s heartwarming to find out there are so many weird movies out there.
How about Evil Dead 2?
Mr Riami and Mr Coen pour on the delirium with so much energy and enthusiasm that watching it is like putting your head in a blender.
We agree with your suggestion: Evil Dead II
Battle royal
We considered it: Battle Royale review. Our bottom line decision: great movie, but not outstandingly weird.
The Forbidden Zone.
Hi again!
I’d like to suggest Funeral Parade of Roses, a late 60s japanese movie about lifes of transvestives.
B.T.: Forbidden Zone is already in the queue (see above). Kay: Funeral Parade of Roses is a good suggestion, I will add it.
Has anyone suggested Southland Tales yet?
I haven’t seen the whole movie yet, but what I have seen is certainly unlike all the other movies I have seen. I think it may be a comedy.
kengo: here’s our review — Southland Tales. It’s a Candidate for the List.
Just ran across this one after reading a quote someone left on a forum I’m on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroszek
Great suggestion MCD, I’m surprised no one has nominated Herzog‘s Stroszek before now. Consider it enqueued.
How is Primer not on the list
matt: Because you’re the first person to nominate it. I’ll put Primer in the review queue for you.
Most people miss one of the weirdest, and it happens to be a rock opera:
The Wall – Definitely a weird enough movie to be on this list. Trippy music by Pink Floyd along side disturbing imagery from political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe.
Surealist: The Wall is in queue (it’s alphabetized under Pink Floyd: The Wall). It’s currently number 8 in line, so it will be reviewed within a couple of months.
Definitely “Bad Taste” by Peter Jackson deserves to be on the list.
Bad Taste definitely deserves to be considered—I’ll put it in the queue.
I notice you’ve reviewed some Herzog films, and have added /Stroszek/ to the queue, but I don’t see mention of two of his best and (in their own way) weirdest films, his early Heart-of-Darkness duo with Klaus Kinski, /Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes/ and /Fitzcarraldo/.
I don’t know if they’re weird enough to make the list, but they are weird:
– Klaus Kinski. Weird.
– Germanophone conquistadors (/Aguirre/). Weird.
– Ant-eater playing the unbilled role of a sloth (/Augirre/). Weird.
– Krautrock soundtracks. Weird.
– Swarm of amphibious monkeys (/Aguirre/). Weird.
– Filmed with stolen camera (/Aguirre/). Weird.
– Alliterative top-billing (Klaus Kinski and Claudia Cardinale, /Fitzcarraldo/). Weird.
– Opera on the Amazon (/Fitzcarraldo/). Weird.
– Originally co-starred Mick Jagger (/Fitzcarraldo/). Weird.
Whether they make this list or no, nobody’s time watching them will have been wasted.
Eric (what is it with weird movies and guys named Eric? We have two contributors named Eric):
I was actually a bit surprised no one had suggested Aguirre yet (at least, not as their top choice). I’ll put it in the queue. Fitzcarraldo would be an appropriate review somewhere down the line, too.
There are a couple of movies that you should add:
Audition: These japanese movie have a very pretty disturbing torture scene.
The movies of Ralph Bakshi: Specially “Wizards” and “Heavy Traffic”.
The Plague Dogs: An animated dark movie about two talking dogs that scape from an experiment centre. This movie is disturbing, and the last scene is amazing.
Angel’s Egg: Really weird anime film.
I just forget:
– Waterhip Down (1979)
– Perfect Blue (1997)
– Ghost in The Shell (1995)
– Genius Party (2007)
– The Idiots (1998)
– Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
– Irreversible (2002)
– Cutting Moments (1999)
– Slaughtered Vomit Dolls (2006)
– Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
– Night of The Lepus (1972)
– August Underground Mordum (2003)
– El Angel Exterminador (1962)
– Los Olvidados (1950)
– Woman in The Dunes (1964)
– Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
– Moebius (1996): An argentine movie about a underground train that disappear into space/time.
Wormhead: the unstated rule is you can only suggest one movie at a time, so I will take your first candidate–Audition—and put it in queue. I can’t comment on every title you mentioned but you should expect to see most of those pop up at some time on here.
I noticed that Tarsem Singh’s “The Cell” is already in the suggestion list. I’d like to nominate his subsequent movie, “The Fall“, as well. It doesn’t have as much bizarre visuals as “The Cell”, but it does show…
[spoilers]
… a burning tree giving birth to a man, who later vomits out live birds, which fly out of his mouth, since his stomach can no longer protect them. (Not weird enough?)
The movie also transitions into stop-motion animation at one point in order to show a surgical procedure, during which time the patient mixes dreams, memories, and imagination in a hallucinatory sequence of live-action jump cuts (mostly showing leg injury and horses).
Oh, nevermind. I decided to actually read the preceding 14 pages of comments, and I noticed that Funkadelic already suggested “The Fall”.
Warth: no problem. Funkadelic suggested dozens of movies, and I didn’t put them all in the review queue. I will add The Fall.
I noticed that you guys occasionally look into anime and TV shows. For those with the time and the inclination, there’s an incredibly slow anime series called “Serial Experiments: Lain” that has a number of mind-bending ideas about perception and reality. Similar to “ Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion “, SE: Lain eventually crawls to the point where thoughts converge with reality, and the protagonist contemplates whether or not she should “close the world, open the next” (marketing slogan attached to the franchise) – akin to resetting/rebooting everything.
Its slow pace might be a barrier to entry for many people, although it truly helps the mood of the series. Things don’t start picking up until about mid-way through the whole run, and at that point, events get increasingly strange (multiple versions of the main character manifest, and something attempting to be god spills out into the world). The gist is that, if you have worldwide control of people’s perceptions and memories, then you control reality (as defined by human senses).
It’s actually a more complicated precursor to “Paprika“, which you currently have in the suggestion list. They both deal with cross-linking human minds, an antagonist who attains god-like stature, and the whole world plummeting into weirdness when the subconscious begins to materialize into physical reality. Both ultimately philosophize on the effects of technology (Internet and virtual worlds) upon identity and social interactions.
How about “Me and You and Everyone We Know”?
Wormhead: OK, I’ll add Me and You and Everyone We Know to the queue as well.
If we’re only allowed to submit one film I’m torn between the most amazingly bizarre and the most bizarrely amazing film I’ve ever seen. I’ll go with the latter, because… yeah.
Visitor of a Museum, Konstantin Lopushansky
JeanRZEJ: You can suggest more than one film, just not back-to-back (some people list 10-20 titles at a time). Visitor of a Museum [Posetitel muzeya] (1989) may take some work to track down, but who knows? By the time we get that deep into the queue it could have a Ruscico region 1 release.
Wrath: “Serial Experiments: Lain” sounds interesting and you note some important influences which make it worth our time. It’s 13 episodes of about 25 minutes each, as I understand it.
As an aside, “Paprika” is cited as an influence on “Inception (specifically, Ellen Page’s character, Ariadne). I know you guys didn’t find Inception to be weird enough (with which I agree), but Paprika benefits from being an anime, allowing it to explore weird visuals in ways that Inception did not. Serial Experiments: Lain is similar, although its weirdness comes more from its narrative rather than its visuals (dead people continue to communicate with the living via their wireless version of the Internet, and everyone is exhorted to upload their consciousness and abandon their bodies [essentially a call to mass suicide, a minor plot point similar to “Suicide Club‘s”, main plot, which you guys found to be only borderline weird, hehe]).
“DARK ARC”–an extremely bizarre, psycho-surreal noir-ish Art Film directed by Dan Zukovic. (I just caught it on Netflix, as I am a fan of his equally strange first film “The Last Big Thing”). A decadent British “Viscount” ex-art critic and his escort/cosmetician cohort “Juxta” visually mindf**k an innocent graphic artist. Great twisted stuff.
David: I’ll add Dark Arc to the queue, it’s another I’d never heard of, which is always welcome.
“Russian Ark” is an interesting movie. It plays tricks with time and order but is perhaps artsy instead of weird. It is a period drama that takes place in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and consists of one very very very long take (96 min). It is super pretty and certainly unusual and dreamy. It is from 2002.
Side Note – My friends and I made a video inspired by it called “Little Strap” that can be found on youtube that consists of one non-linear shot.
I saw “Genius Party” and that was pretty weird. It’s a series of mind-blowing anime shorts, specially the short “Happy Machine”.
Jenn: I definitely think Russian Ark could qualify. I’ll put it in the queue.
Wormhead: No doubt Genius Party deserves a look as well. Also in the queue.
Hello,
I would like to suggest japanese movie called House (Hausu, 1977).
I am sorry, just found out you’ve already reviewed it!
Twice! 😉
There are two animated movies by Martin Rosen that should be on the list:
Watership Down: The tale of a group of rabbits that try to run away from their burrow, escaping from the human destruction. The scene when one of the rabbits describes how many of them have died asphyxiated in the hole is really disturbing.
The Plague Dogs: An animated dark movie about two talking dogs that scape from an experiment lab. This movie is very disturbing, and the last scene is just amazing.
Wormhead: I agree Rosen’s films are appropriate candidates. I will add Watership Down to the queue.
First time reader, first time poster, I love the site!
My suggestion is The Boxer’s Omen (AKA Mo) (1983). It’s an insane Thai horror/kickboxing movie which contains some of the most strikingly bizzare (and disgusting) images I’ve ever seen on film.
It always seems like It’s hard to find anyone that’s heard of this thing, but a few years ago it got a beautiful DVD release. I try to champion it whenever I can.
Hey did you review the australian movie Bad boy bubby by rolf de heer and also the movie Feed wich are two pretty sick movies that i havent seen in your list! Great idea of site by the way im having much fun looking out those links thankx
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Or the guinea pig movies especially mermaid in a man hole!
Kurdt: Good suggestion, but someone beat you to it: Mo is already in the review queue.
Mariko: Here you go: Bad Boy Bubby – Feed. As far as the Guinea Pig series goes, most of them sound sick/gross rather than weird, but Mermaid in a Manhole is the one title that has a good reputation as being a “real” movie—and a pretty weird one, too. I will add it to the queue.
Gibby Goo Bop: I have a new favorite song! (It’s by Captain Beefheart, just thought you’d like to know). As for your music video, I can almost believe you made it just for me. The melody reminds me of “Shipbuilding,” and the lyric “Curly never gave up on Moe” is an inspiration!
Seriously, you guys should check out Gibby’s Strife on Mars?—it’s damn weird.
Tampopo is a weirdo.
Goodbye Uncle Tom (Addio Zio Tom), anyone? 1971. Jaw-droppingly bizarre and offensive pseudo-documentary. The guys who did Mondo Cane go back in time (in a helicopter??) to interview people about slavery (at the time of slavery). A series of grotesque characters including slave owners, doctors and slaves are interviewed for the “doco”. The film ends with a scene in “present day” of a black guy murdering a white family in tripped-out slow motion. Needed to wash eyes/optical nerves after viewing.