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).
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; Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams; 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 Bothersome Man; 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; The Falls; 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?; The Godmonster of Indian Flats; 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]; I Am Here Now; 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]; Killer Condom; 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; Mr. Nobody; 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; Nuit Noire; One Eyed Monster; On the Silver Globe; Orpheus; The Ossuary; Parents; Perfect Blue; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Persona; Phantasm IV; Piano Tuner of Earthquakes; Picnic at Hanging Rock; The Pillow Book; Pink Flamingos; The Pit; Portrait of Jennie; “Premium” (if it can be found);Primer; Private Parts (1972); Prospero’s Books; The Quiet; Rampo Noir; Rat Pfink a Boo Boo; The Real McCoy; Reflections of Evil; Repo Man; Robot Monster; The Room; Rubber; 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; “Serial Experiments: Lain” (TV show); Session 9; The Seventh Seal; Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; The Shape of Things; Sheitan; Shock Treatment; The Shout; Sir Henry at Rawlinson End; Slacker; Sleepaway Camp ; A Snake of June; Society (official review); Spermula; 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; Titicut Follies; Der Todersking; 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).
I know a short clip of good humour is included on the DVD feature “A Tribute to our Friend Joe Ranft.” It’s avalible on the new Toy Story 2 DVD and hear on youtube. It was talked about in some detail in the book Two Guys Named Joe. You might be able to get access through Cal arts, whom i believe own the rights to it, and still own a copy. All of the other Burton shorts are avalible on the internet, except Hansel and Gretel, ifamously unavalible. I saw it at the Tim Burton retrospective at the MOMA, and personally consider it his second greatest work after Vincent. Interestingly Joe Ranft worked with Tim on Luau, Hansel and Gretel, and according to rumour Vincent.
This film is a little hard to get.
Moebius (1996): An argentine movie about an underground train that disappear into space/time.
Moebius does look hard to find, but it also looks worth the effort. I’ll put it in the queue and hope a decent copy can be located by the time it comes around for review.
Skeletons (2010). Just watched… what a weird gem!
Alvaro: For some reason we missed the release of Skeletons last year; it sounds like it should have been a contender for one of the weirdest movies of 2010. We should really rectify that, so let’s put Skeletons in the queue where it belongs, and maybe we’ll even jump it ahead in line.
Hello friends! I come here with two suggestions, knowing fair well you only take one at a time. My first suggestion is a short film, Bruce Bickford’s Prometheus’ Garden. A claymation creepfest constructed by a Frank Zappa collaborator. Honestly, I did not enjoy it much. I found it tedious for much of it’s short running time. However, I can’t deny it’s astounding weirdness. I just want it kept in mind or on your radar screen, if you will.
What I do want to suggest and put into queue is a blaxploitation film that completely blew my mind today. Blaxploitation…weird you say? I know, I know…but I’ve never quite seen a blaxploitation picture like this. Melvin van Peeble’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. I can’t put my finger on it, but there’s something that is very hallucinatory and off with this film. While watching it I was thinking of a mash-up of an urban Easy Rider, Greaser’s Palace and Rambo. Yep, you read that right. Important, revolutionary, interesting, and most of all…really weird! Trust me.
And a sidenote here…the weird movie queue has grown into a beautiful beast, but know this…my personal queue has developed into a current list of 504 films to watch or re-watch. It’s a great to be a cinephile. The mainstream be damned! Cheers!
Eric, I swear you have stolen my personal list of candidates sometime, because nearly every film you mention is something that was already on my private list. So it is with Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, arguable the first and easily the weirdest of the blaxploitation genre. I’ll happily add it to the queue.
Ha, ha…I assure you no thievery has taken place. I think you had mentioned that before when I suggested Clean, Shaven. I guess i’m a fairly good judge about what constitutes as weird around here. I just think it’s cool that I have an outlet in 366weirdmovies to profess my love for such odd films. Here I can declare something like Glen or Glenda? as a fantastic piece of cinema (and mean it) without someone laughing hysterically or giving me a puzzled look…or wondering if Seth Rogen is in that one?
The Brave Little Toaster, as weird as this might sound this dark little film was produced for disney by Hyperion Pictures in 1987, and was written and directed by two kings of the weird, Jerry Rees and Joe Ranft, whom it’s nice to see has already been mentioned a few times. The film features mental illness, conspiracy theorys, mutilation, suicide, murder, terrifing nightmares, dessicration, fatalism and the nature of mortality, all done in a children;s film about talking appliances. This little trailer done by a fan on youtube should help. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLIGnLKvjy8
i’ve been following this blog a few months and think it’s invaluable. if i think of a film to suggest it’s usually already thought of, but i have remembered this swedish surreal comedy today called The Adventures of Picasso which i’m sure you will like.
looking forward to Themroc and lots of other reviews!
“Jess”: The Brave Little Toaster is worth taking a flyer on. Kid’s movies can be pretty strange.
Ettin: The Adventures of Picasso (I gather its a wacky fictionalized biography of the artist) also sounds worth looking for. Both titles go into the queue.
There’s another bizarre argentinian movie, but it’s more difficult to get than “Moebius”. The film is “Charly: Dias de Sangre”. It’s really weird and bad!
Well, I’ll put it in queue, Wormhead, but no promises.
If you’re Argentinian, there is a movie I was curious about: La razón de mi vida (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y0xt7ct7D8). I’m hoping it will get subtitled and released over here, but who knows?
Yes, I’am argentinian, and I haven’t seen “La razon de mi vida” yet, but I want to see that.
I just saw that miss the Stephen King’s movie “Cat’s Eye”
I would like to suggest Gay N**gers From Outer Space.
Yes, that is a real movie. This movie is an unbelievable mixture of BAD, and WEIRD. Just to show how weird this film is, I’ll show the plot description:
The film tells the story of a group of intergalactic homosexual black men from the planet “Anus” who discover the presence of female creatures on planet Earth. Using guns which shoot deadly rays, they proceed to eliminate females one by one from Earth, which ensures them the ecstatic gratitude of the previously oppressed male population. Before leaving the planet, they leave behind a “Gay Ambassador” to educate the Earthlings about their new way of life. Gayn**gers from Outer Space begins as a black-and-white film, but later turns to color. According to Lindberg, this was a “dramatic special effect” to illustrate “the world being freed from vicious women.”
Also, there is a part where the Gay N**gers, when they conquer Earth, stick their hands into a giant a***ole to decide who will be the “Gay Ambassador”, which for some reason, turns him into a handsome white man.
Weird enough for you?
OK, here’s where I get to reject some suggestions, which is something a rarely do.
I don’t find Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye weird enough to cover, even though although my idol Joe Bob Briggs proclaimed that the climactic cat/troll battle was “one of the finest special-effects sequences ever filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina.”
As for Gayn**gers From Outer Space, I’ve heard that it’s bad… really bad. Also, I’m pretty sure it’s never been released on home video, which is a major consideration for covering a film. And, finally, being a short film, it’s not as important to cover as a feature covering the same material would be. That gives me enough reason to reject the suggestion without having to mention that the title is unprintable in a family-oriented website like this one, as well as the fact that I’m not so sure I want the Google traffic those keywords would bring in!
“Dead Field”
http://vimeo.com/10122139
short retro-style animated thriller with girl, old man, and minefield.
That is weird, Caith. We’ll consider it as a “Saturday Short” (we have a lot of submissions right now) but anyone who wants to can check it out now.
Might I suggested the lovely film, Meet the Feebles. What a classic.
Andrew, I can’t keep track of all the suggestions anymore. I could have sworn Meet the Feebles was already in the queue, but I see it isn’t. I’ll rectify that.
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I have no idea what that is supposed to be, Gordon. No direct links to downloads, please. How do we know it’s not just spam, or a virus? If it’s a serious suggestion, please feel free to name the film and explain your recommendation.
The Adventures of Mark Twain is incredibly strange for a film geared towards a younger audience. Although it might not be the weirdest movie ever, I think it is important that this little known film gets some attention.
“Lets Grock”
Royce: I’ll add The Adventures of Mark Twain. If I recall correctly it’s a normal kid’s movie, but with one extraordinary weird and creepy scene in it. I thought it had been suggested already but I don’t see it in the queue.
Yes, the scene with the devil could be described as weird and creepy, but I find the plot/plot devices bizarre throughout the entire affair. Thanks for adding it.
fudge 44
Fudge 44 is already in the queue, but it will be a while before we get around to actually reviewing it.
Tourist trap (1979) Chuck Conners, mannequins, the supernatural, and a creepy wax museum in the middle of nowhere, makes no sense at all.
Blue Sunshine (1978) bad flashbacks during the disco era.
Magic (1978) Hannibal Lecter and his ventriloquist’s dummy ‘Fats’ as his best friend.
Demon Seed (1977) a super computer that wants to breed a superior race with his boss’s wife.
It didn’t pay to watch these films late at night under the age of 13… geeeez.
danlo215: Very well, we’ll give Tourist Trap (1979) a try, but if it makes a lick of sense we’ll be disappointed.
Eyes wide shut and Mullholland drive are strange.
sunbear: Eyes Wide Shut and Mulholland Drive are both already in the queue (see the post at the very top of the thread). Feel free to suggest something else, though..
From “bartel,” in a comment on a different post: “I don´t know if you already got it but THUNDERCRACK! and the brilliant Noir-Nightmare SINGAPORE SLING would also fit perfectly!”
I’m adding Thundercrack! to the review queue.
SLC Punk!
please 🙂
Hmm… I’m not sure how weird SLC Punk is, but I’m a softie and since you said “please” I’ll add it to the queue.
The Attic Expeditions with Seth Green, its a total mind trip…
Funny story, engineerd2011. Last year we had server difficulties and lost a month’s worth of posts. All of the lost content has now been restored except for two reviews: the full text of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Attic Expeditions. Look for The Attic Expeditions review to reappear on the site next week.
Prospero’s Books, Peter Greenaway.
Avant-Garde with a capitol A
Angustia (1987) is pretty weird, saw that at the movies some years ago in a fim festival in New Zealand that played grindhouse and oddball movies on the big screen, it stars Micheal Lerner and Zelda Rubenstein (Poltergeist), I think it was called ‘Eyeball’ as well.
Buddy Boy (1999) is well worth a look. Very weird, very compelling, very memorable.
I don’t know if this has been suggested, but Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg is a fantastic, unconventional pessimistic view of Christianity. It only has 33 lines and two (possibly three) characters throughout the entire film. Animated in 1985 during Japan’s bubble boom. An important note for this film is that Christianity is not a popular religion in Japan, so the topic of the film is very odd. Gorgeous and ethereal choral and orchestral music by the acclaimed Kanno Yoshihiro and the art direction is by the art director of Final Fantasy, Yoshitaka Amano.
Jocko: Prospero’s Books is already in the queue so we’ll get to it.
danlo215: Angustia (1987) is available as Anguish. I’ll put it in queue.
Brian: Buddy Boy (1999) also sounds appropriate, so into the queue.
immaterial: As you might have guessed, Angel’s Egg (1987) has been suggested. We didn’t pass on reviewing it, but deferred covering it because it’s currently out-of-print, and we’re holding out hope that someone will release it someday. That reminds me that I need to publish our “most wanted” list of criminally out-of-print titles.
May I suggest “Bliss”(1986 Australia),starring Barry Otto? Based on the surrealist
novel of the same name(I can’t remember the author’s name….Peter something-he
also wrote “Oscar And Lucinda”,also a film),it tells a surreal and rather meandering story.
Also an Argentenian film named “Man Facing Southeast”,about a man who mysteriously
appears in a mental hospital where all the patients have already been accounted for.
Add these to the list of criminally out-of-print…………….
Todd: Sure, you may suggest Bliss, and a fine suggestion it is! The novelist’s name is Peter Carey. I’ll add it to the queue. Bliss is not on Region 1 DVD but it is on Region 2 and VHS so finding a copy is not too much of a hassle. Man Facing Southeast also sounds fascinating, and could be available in English in some form (there’s an all regions Spanish disc for sale online, but no word on subtitles). You can suggest that one again later if you like (no back-to-back nominations, to prevent one person from clogging up the queue).
La cicatrice intérieure / The Inner Scar (Philippe Garrel, 1972) and its spiritual successor, Finisterrae (Sergio Caballero Lecha, 2010) – the most surreal and weirdest movies I’ve seen this year, beside Estonian stop-motion animation Taevalaul/Bird Song (Mati Kütt, 2010)… 🙂
I want to suggest an intelligent beautiful poetic ‘weird’ movie: Avida (2006), Gustave de Kervern, Benoît Delépine. A surreal movie with black humour. Hope you enjoy it as much as i did! (unfortunately this movie is far underrated)!
NGBoo: Of course, you would suggest two wonderful looking weird movies, neither of which are available on Region 1 DVD! Well, I’ll put La cicatrice intérieure in queue anyway, and since it will be a while before we can get to it, maybe the availability will have changed by then. (Finisterrae is a 2010 release, so it still may be coming to Region 1 in the future—I will keep an eye out for it).
Donya: Avida sounds like a good one and it is available on DVD—I’ll enqueue it.
Someone suggested Frank Henenlotter’s Brain Damage. The suggestion was accidentally caught in the spam filter; I thought I approved it nonetheless, but I don’t see the comment showing up. I will add Brain Damage to the queue and apologize to the reader for losing his/her comment.
The Hungarian Movie “Taxidermia”…
Now this one is REALLY strange…
I like to call it a mash-up between Jeunet´s “Amelie” and Pasolini ´s “Salo”…
…at least a little bit…
Not sure if this one would count as weird or just plain silly but Amazon women on the moon (1987) might be worth a look.
bartel: We beat you to Taxidermia. We agree, way too weird to be left of the List!
roastphoenix: I agree, Amazon Women on the Moon is worth a look, I’ll add it to the queue.
Chronopolis (1983)
Blue by Derek Jarman