Suggest a Weird Movie!

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.

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  1. 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).

    Be aware that, given the number of titles here, there will be a long delay between suggesting a title and its eventual review.

    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; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Air Doll; Allegro Non Troppo; Amelie; Amanece, que no es poco; The American Astronaut; Angelus; The Annunciation; em>Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters; Arrebato; At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul; The Atrocity Exhibition; Audition; Bad Taste; 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 Arc; 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; The Fall; Fando y Lis; Fantastic Planet; Fast, Cheap and Out of Control; Fellini Satyricon; The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. II (for Lucifer Rising, among others); 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; Funeral Parade of Roses; Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Gahjini; Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque); Garden State (official review); Genius Party; Glen or Glenda?; Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell; Goodbye Uncle Tom; 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; The Idiots; “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; Marquis; Master of the Flying Guillotine; May; Me and You and Everyone We Know; Meet the Hollowheads; Mermaid in a Manhole; Midnight Skater; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Mulholland Drive; Multiple Maniacs; Murder Party; 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; Russian Ark; 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); “Serial Experiments: Lain” (TV show); 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); Strings; Stroszek; Sublime; Suicide Club (re-review); Sweet Movie; Symbol; The Tale of the Floating World; Tales from the Quadead Zone; Tampopo; 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; Visitor of a Museum [Posetitel muzeya]; The War Zone; Watership Down; Weekend; Weirdsville; What Dreams May Come; Wicked City (1992 live-action version); Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; Wool 100%; Yesterday Was a Lie; Yokai Monsters, Vol. 1: Spook Warfare [AKA Big Monster War]; “Zombie Jesus” (if we can locate it).

  2. upgrayedd: I haven’t seen Tampopo since it originally came out; I don’t recall it being that weird, but it’s worth another look.

    Tally Isham: I was a little surprised nobody had mentioned any Jacopetti/Prosperi films, or pretty much anything from the mondo genre, yet. I haven’t seen Goodbye Uncle Tom (few people have) but it certainly sounds like one of the weirdest mondo-type films. I’ll put it in queue.

    Wormhead: The Idiots isn’t in queue already? I’ll fix that right away.

  3. Ok, I stayed away as long as I possibly could…here’s what I need to suggest…Repo Man (1984). I know that Alex Cox recently released a long delayed “sequel” to this film, but I don’t want to see it. This film is a bonafide cult classic and it takes awhile, but once you make it to the end you realize how weird this film is. The sequel was unnecessary. Watch the original and weep for better times when movies could make little to no sense and be cool as hell.

  4. Eric, we were obviously raised on the same movies. I’m surprised nobody mentioned Repo Man yet, even though news of the “sequel” should have jogged people’s memories. Has the younger generation never even heard of it? If you were even mildly hip in the 1980s, you were on this movie like a groupie on Rick Springfield. I’ll put it in queue.

  5. Couldn’t find Der Todersking (1990) on the site. No budget strangeness from Nekromantik director Jörg Buttgereit. Anthology of stories regarding murder and suicide. Really quite haunting and wonderfully crafted. I guess its weirdness stems from the lack of motivation from the characters, who fulfill their nihilistic dreams.

  6. I don’t really understand what ‘Dogville’ is doing in the queue? I mean, it’s a great movie, one of my favorites, but what’s so weird about it apart from the minimal stage-like-set? Oh and Salo too, it was sickening and the violence was grotesque, yes, but weird? I don’t get that.

  7. Tally Isham: After Nekromantik, I’m leery of anything Jörg Buttgereit might come up with. Still, Der Todersking [The Death King] does sound like it clearly falls within the weird genre, so we’ll give it a go.

    Michiel: I haven’t seen Dogville, but it’s in queue because readers have suggested it (more than once). As far as Salo goes, I’m with you there, but once again it’s a film that people constantly bring up around here. Even if it doesn’t make the List I think readers will want an explanation why it was passed over.

  8. Weird is so subjective a word. observation of any one persons definition of the word, it seems, would produce infinite variables based on individual experience. But I like to argue and hate grammer… ?

  9. Since no one has mentioned it I feel I must; Titicut Follies (1967).

    This will honestly be the strangest but also most repulsive film you will ever watch and it will definitely change your view of humanity forever.

  10. GMetcalf: Titicut Follies certainly sounds like it could be one of the weirdest of all documentaries. It may be difficult to find a copy, but I’ll put it in queue now and worry about that later.

  11. Not sure if it is already mentioned. It hasnt appeared in the search.
    The movie is “Premium”, a short, not that short, shot in 1971 and directed by Ed Ruscha. I saw it in an exhibition on Food in Auckland a year and a half ago, and it is one of those weird movies you cannot forget. it is also funny. The vigilant at the exhibition thougth it was hilarious. To me was just weird, yet mesmerising. It is a movie about fetiche tI would say, and reminded me of Conspirators of pleasure, in a way.
    The Imdb link hasnt much info about it, but there is a bit in this link
    http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/34655/ed-ruschas-rare-early-films-visit-new-york/

  12. Alright then, are ‘Mr. Nobody’ by Jaco Van Dormael and ‘Stalker’ by Andrei Tarkovsky already in the queue?

  13. the shout. alan bates stars as an aboriginal warlock who wants to destroy a musicians life and take his wife for his own pleasures. 1978 very creepy atmospheric cool piece of film

  14. RUBBER. A sentinent tire goes on a killing spree. That’s all you need to know…
    Now available on Video-On-Demand and starts theatrical screenings on April 1.

    1. Yeah… I took note of Rubber when I was checking out the lineup of film festivals last year for movies to keep an eye on. We’ll be on it!

  15. The movie is “PREMIUM, a short, not that short, shot in 1971 and directed by Ed Ruscha. I saw it in an exhibition on Food in Auckland a year and a half ago, and it is one of those weird movies you cannot forget. it is also funny. The vigilant at the exhibition thought it was hilarious. To me was just weird, yet mesmerising. It is a movie about fetish iI would say, and reminded me of Conspirators of pleasure, in a way.
    The Imdb link hasnt much info about it, but there is a bit in this link
    http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/34655/ed-ruschas-rare-early-films-visit-new-york/

  16. GitanillaOZ: We’ll do our best to find a copy of “Premium,” but even the article you linked called it “rare.” It may prove a challenge to find a copy.

  17. “Martyrs” One of the craziest movies I have seen. I have suggested this movie to many people, and everyone that has watched it has been left shocked. They hardly know what to say other than just, “wow…”. It is put together very well, but has so much going on that it seems like a couple movies put into one. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Be warned though… it is gorey, scary, and shocking.

  18. “Sleepaway Camp” . I know, I know, this is a very old movie but that shouldn’t take away from the fact that it is WEIRD. It is an old horror movie of teenagers going to camp. There is one girl that is calm, strange, yet shy. In the end she is randomly the murderer… with her head placed on a males body because all of a sudden she is male. It’s just wacky.

  19. The Pit (1981). An utterly bizarre 80s horror film about the creepiest 12 year old you’ve ever seen getting abused by everyone he knows in a small town, then becoming the caretakerfor a pit full of prehistoric carnivorous ape men who he discovers in the woods. Adequately filmed and shot, this movie could have easily been a run of the mill thriller/monster flick, but the lovably inept script, bizzaro psycho-sexual overtones, and simultaneously over-the-top yet dead-on acting by the entire cast make this one a truly weird movie.

  20. Kscott: Pam De Graff reviewed Martyrs for us and wasn’t shocked, but then again, she’s pretty damn jaded. Sleepaway Camp, on the other hand, is a title no one has suggested yet, and while I beg to differ that a 1983 movie qualifies as “very old” (that would make me ancient, I guess), I will put it in queue for you!

    Patrick: I will put The Pit in queue, and hope I find it as weird as you did!

    1. Sleepaway Camp isn’t weird, I wouldn’t bother. It’s just a standard 80s slasher with a surprise ending.

  21. It’s a gentle kind of weird, as opposed to a violent or twisted kind of weird, but the Japanese film 夢 (Yume) aka “Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams” is pretty weird (as well as being pretty and weird by themselves!)

    The dead soldiers marching through the tunnel,the intense and claustrophobic blizzard (replete with Japanese siren demoness) the “red Tokyo” sequence with the nuclear plant meltdown, the one-horned demon, all are pretty damned weird, and even the gentler aspects (the doll in the peach orchard, the incredibly beautiful Van Gogh episode, the fox procession) are weird.

    the movie made a lasting, resonant impact on me. What does everyone else think? Weird enough?

  22. Thanks for the response.

    In the middle of the night I was reminded of the one of the weirdest movies I’ve ever seen, by one of the most consistently weird filmmakers still allowed (barely) to make films, Peter Greenaway.

    The movie I’m thinking of is “Prospero’s Books”. It’s so weird you can’t even buy it anymore…I don’t even think it made it to DVD. I remember watching it with my mother, and thinking how much it made me feel as if I were in a drug-induced altered state. Lots of nudity, of all sorts of bodies, is, of course, a plus, as is Sir John Gielgud. Of the many Shakespeare adaptations I’ve seen on film, “Prospero’s Books” is by far the weirdest.

    And of course I have to mention, in passing, “Belly of an Architect” and “The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover” Even if they don’t make the list, maybe Greenaway deserves some sort of “Consistency in Weirdness” merit badge. I mean, sheesh….the guy’s most mainstream film was “The Pillow Book”, and if you saw that you know just how weird *it* was!

    1. Len, as a fellow Greenaway fan you’ll be pleased to know both Prospero’s Books and The Thief, the Cook, His Wife and Her Lover are in the review queue (see top post). You’re also correct that Prospero never got a legitimate Region 1 DVD release, and even the VHS that’s available is a low-quality pan-and-scan number. This seems like the kind of title the Criterion Collection might jump on (let’s keep our fingers crossed).

  23. Oooh, on the subject of Greenaway I’d like to nominate either (or both) of his early films Vertical Features Remake (1976), The Falls (1980) which are available on DVD (these 2 titles are available on one disc as volume 2 of his early films.) A reviewer on IMDB summarises vertical features remake (which is 45 minutes long) as follows:

    “An examination by a group of rival academics to remake an incomplete and largely missing film allegedly made by Tulse Luper. The film in question is called Vertical Lists, or Vertical Features, which shows vertical objects like posts, poles, tree trunks etc in a domestic landscape. Each remake uses a differing structure of counting and musical technique to count the 121 (11×11) vertical objects that Tulse Luper allegedly planned for the project.” the falls is 3 hours long and summarised as follows:

    “The world has been affected by a mysterious occurrance known as the Violent Unknown Event or VUE. It has caused immortality and disability. Sufferers have learned new and peculiar languages. Some firmly believe in the responsibility of birds. In this 3-hour long film, 92 biographies are presented of sufferers whose surnames begin with the letters FALL. ”

    great stuff if you are in the right mood and very funny (in a dry english style).

  24. OK, lasopa. Since I’m allowed to pick between the two (though I think both eventually need to be considered for the List) I’ll put The Falls in queue (mainly due to the fact that it’s length makes it a “weightier” work, if not necessarily a better one).

  25. Not the most inventive but definately quite weird is “House of 1000 Corpses” by Rob Zombie. As well as its sequel “The Devils Rejects”. The Firefly family’s delusions and sense of self importance is eerie and a tad bit unsetteling. Maybe not the weirdest but definately strange.

  26. danigirl: One of my very earliest reviews was House of 1000 Corpses. While it is weird, I could only enjoy it in an “I can’t believe how bad this is!” way (which is a fine way to enjoy a movie). Though the filmmaking is improved and lots of people like its nasty grindhouse flavor, I didn’t find The Devil’s Rejects weird enough to consider.

  27. Wow, I’m glad I discovered this site. Really diggin’ the stuff here 😀

    I searched a little on your site but I didn’t see very much stuff from Andy Warhol .. how could you forget him? 😮

  28. Alex: would you like to suggest something from Warhol for me to put in the queue? Honestly I’m not so sure if any of the movies Andy directed should make it… though mentioning them might not be a bad idea. When it comes to movies he produced, that’s a different matter.

    1. Forget about Warhol .. I’ve got other suggestions! How about Killer Condom, Meet the Feebles, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and/or The Human Centipede? Even Carrie (1976) is a sort of “unique movie”.

  29. Buke: there’s more than one title missing on the List, so there’s plenty of room to consider Spermula, which despite it’s porno title is by all accounts a “serious” movie.

    1. Yes it’s a serious film indeed, L’amour est un fleuve en Russie is its alternative title..with “list” I was referring to your queue/and the list so far and the weird movies I’ve seen, and for me (for now) the only real omission was this title:)

  30. Alex: We’ve already covered Human Centipede and Trash Humpers (sorry, not really fans of either, though Humpers was weird enough that it can’t be totally dismissed). We have plans to cover some of the other titles you mentioned, but not Killer Condom—so that’s the suggestion of yours I’m going to add to the queue.

  31. Has The Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973) been suggested yet? It’s the most incompetent movie I’ve ever seen, but it’s completly off it’s rocker. You could take it as sort of an arthouse parody of drive-in monster movies or as a serious attempt that went way wrong, but either way it’s jaw dropping.

  32. Strange and appropriate you should mention Satshi Kon’s Perfect Blue, Wormhead. I am currently working (and behind schedule) on posting a review of his Paprika. Perfect Blue goes in the queue.

  33. Hi all, really loving this list, given me so much too get watching!
    as for things I can suggest;
    The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002) – 5 part slow moving art film by Matthew Barney which, when named after a muscle controlling the dropping of testicles, you know you’re in for something special!
    Survive Style 5+ (2004) – a series of 5 loosely linked plots by Japanese director Gen Sekiguchi, which are all pretty odd, my favourite of which is a businessman who is accidentally hypnotised permanently into thinking he’s a bird
    The Room (2003) – kind of can’t believe no one has suggested this. it’s not that anything particularly weird happens in this, it’s just the absolute wrongness of every stage of film making that makes this awful awful film something really quite special 🙂
    Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) – Amazingly crazy film by the equally amazingly crazy Werner Herzog (who was once shot by an air rifle mid-interview and completely ignored it because ‘it is not a significant bullet’. The film features dwarfs who have rebelled against their institution (also run by dwarves) and go on a rampage at one point crucifying a monkey.
    Actually, most things by Werner Herzog are pretty wierd, check him out!

  34. All good suggestions, Ed, but I can’t add any of them to the queue. The Room and Even Dwarfs Started Small are already there (see post at the very top). We’ve also considered Survive Style 5+ and Cremaster; the problem is, none of them have Region 1 DVD releases, so we’re keeping them in a “holding pen” hoping that they will be released eventually (I will probably get around to publishing that list sometime). I like the way you think, though, so feel free to suggest something else.

    Also, we have covered a couple of Werner Herzog films…

  35. Treasure of the 4 Crowns. Cheesy ’80s 3D + Virtually no plot = Fun Times!
    I Am Here Now…. That’s right, four ellipses. DIY metaphysical journey from a Las Vegas real estater. Deep….Hurting!

  36. Glenn F.: You took our challenge to nominate obscure titles quite seriously. Thank you! Of the two films you mention, I Am Here Now sounds weirder. It also sounds like it could be, as you say, “deep hurting;” from checking out the trailer, I’m thinking this may be something along the lines of a less-polished and coherent (!) After Last Season. I will put this thing in the queue.

  37. Though I am unable to confirm it’s existance I repeatadly have heard about a film called “Scared shitless” played straight as a film noir drama, the film is about a hard boiled detective living in a world where pooping is illegal, the detective is on the trail of an underground toilet factory. Him, a lost film from the 70’s deserves a deffinate mention. Vincent, Hansel and Gretel, Luau, and Doctor of Doom all deserve their place on this list. early TIm Burtons all of which I’ve seen. Joe Ranft’s short Good Humour is incredibly weird too. Onibaba deserves a mention two.

  38. Sir Henry at Rawlinson End is perhaps the strangest film ever made. Viv Stanshall was a true genius.

  39. Maxwell:

    I can confirm Scared Shitlessnon-existence, though Zeb Haradon might not want me to.

    I checked my attic and Him is not there, so that one’s out for reviewing unless someone finds a copy someday.

    We’ve already reviewed (and recommended) Vincent. I haven’t put a short film on the List yet, but at least one will make it eventually. I haven’t seen those other early short films of Tim Burton‘s—it strikes me that someone ought to put out a compilation, though the fact that they’re probably all owned by Disney means that we probably won’t see them released any time soon. I don’t think Joe Ranft’s Good Humor is available anywhere—IMDB doesn’t even include it in his filmography.

    Onibaba is a good suggestion, but since you say Sir Henry at Rawlinson End may be the strangest film ever made, we’ll have to take a look at that one. I’m going to add it to the end of the queue.

    Thanks for all the suggestions!

  40. A couple of movies i’d like to recommend:

    Den brysomme mannen (The bothersome man)
    Absurdist tale about a man who arrives in a city where emotions are either outlawed or nonexistent and death is just a slap on the wrist. Can be compared to works like Brave New World or Roy Anderssons two last movies.

    The Hour-Glass Sanatorium
    Surrealist parable about WWII set in a Sanatorium where time goes backwards. Highly uncoventional film, that doesn’t try to explain anything to the viewer. Described as “if the studios gave Terry Gilliam complete creative control he would have made something like
    this”.

    I can also recommend The Saragossa Manuscript (also by Wojeich Has), but I haven’t seen it yet. But from what I have heard about it, it may be Even stranger than The Hour-Sanatorium.

  41. Hi Tristano,

    The Hour-glass Sanitorium and Saragossa Manuscript are already in the review queue, but I believe you’re the first one to bring up The Bothersome Man. I hadn’t heard of it before so I’m thankful to you for bringing it to our attention and I’ll add it to the queue.

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