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; The Adventures of Mark Twain; The Adventures of Picasso; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Air Doll; Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams; Allegro Non Troppo; Amazon Women on the Moon; Amelie; Amanece, que no es poco; The American Astronaut; Angelus; Anguish [Angustia]; The Annunciation; Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters; Arrebato; At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul; The Atrocity Exhibition; Audition; Avida; The Baby; Bad Taste; Barbarella; Battle in Heaven; Beauty and the Beast (1978); Black Cat, White Cat; Black Devil Doll ; Bliss; Bloodsucking Freaks; Blood Tea and Red Strings; Blue (1993, Jarman); Blue Velvet; The Bothersome Man; The Boxer’s Omen [aka Mo]; A Boy and His Dog; Brain Damage; Brain Dead (1990, d. Adam Simon); The Brave Little Toaster; The Bride of Frank; Britannia Hospital; “Broken Glass”; Bubba Ho-Tep; Buddy Boy (1999); Buffalo ’66; Buffet Froid; Bunny & the Bull; Cafe Flesh; Candy (1968); Careful; The Cars That Ate Paris; Cat Soup; Celine and Julie Go Boating; The Cell; “Charleston Parade”; Charly: Dias de Sangre; Un Chien Andalou; Chingsao the Clown; Christmas on Mars; Chronopolis; La cicatrice intérieure</em.; 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; Daisies; Dark City; Dead Ringers; Decasia; Dellamorte Dellamore [AKA Cemetery Man]; Dogville; The Doom Generation; Dororo; The Double Life of Veronique; The Drifting Classroom; Drowning by Numbers; Even Dwarves Started Small; Evil Ed; Eyes Wide Shut; The Fall; The Falls; Fando y Lis; Fantastic Planet; Fast, Cheap and Out of Control; Felidae; Fellini Satyricon; Fido; The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. II (for Lucifer Rising, among others); 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; 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; Inmortel; Innocence (2004); I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse; Jack and the Beanstalk (1974, Japan); Johnny Suede; Julien Donkey-boy; Kairo [AKA Pulse]; Killdozer; Killer Condom; Labyrinth; 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; Lust in the Dust; The Magic Christian; Marquis; Master of the Flying Guillotine; May; Me and You and Everyone We Know; Meet the Feebles; Meet the Hollowheads; Mermaid in a Manhole; Metropia; Midnight Skater; Moebius (1996);p 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 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; 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’s Lover; 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; The Signal; Sir Henry at Rawlinson End; Skeletons; Slacker; SLC Punk; Sleepaway Camp ; A Snake of June; Society (official review); Spermula; Spirited Away; Strings; Stroszek; Suicide Club (re-review); Sweet Movie; Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song; Symbol; The Tale of the Floating World; Tales from the Quadead Zone; Tampopo; The Taste of Tea; Teeth; The Ten; Themroc; This Filthy Earth; Three Crowns of the Sailor; Thundercrack!;Titicut Follies; Der Todersking; Tokyo Gore Police; Tommy; Tourist Trap (1979); The Trial [Le procès] (1962); The Triplets of Belleville; “Turkish Star Wars” [Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam]; 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]; Zachariah; “Zombie Jesus” (if we can locate it).
Robo-Geisha by Noboro Igushi and Fantastic Planet by Rene Laloux
Also- I know Videodrome is on the list already… Highly recommend it for review
Cletus: Fantastic Planet is already in the queue but I can add Robo-Geisha.
I suggest “I (heart) Huckabees”:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356721/
you’ve gotta review these films, 100% bizarre – Chronopolis (1983), Bloody Fragments On White Walls-aka-Lucky Sky Diamond (1990), Tamala 2010 (2003), Vase De Noces-aka- Wedding Trough (1975), We Are The Strange (2007), Electric Dragon 80,000 V (2001), Freak Orlando (1981), Tales From The Gimli Hospital (1988), Dandy Dust (1998), Casual Relations (1973), a few short films thrown in – – Frank Grow’s ” Red & Rosy (1989), Prometheus’ Garden (2008), The Grandmother (1970), and an animated short by Phil Mulloy – Intolerance (2000) …..
Sam: I [heart] Huckabees goes in the queue.
Dan: A nice obscure selection. Chronopolis is already in our queue, and some of the others will definitely be reviewed. We do mention “The Grandmother” in our coverage of The Short Films of David Lynch. Some of the titles you mention have availability issues, but I will put Electric Dragon 80,000 V (2001) in queue.
I thought Fido was pretty interesting.
I did too, Vanessa. It’s already in the queue.
I suggest Santa Claus(1959).
I watched this the other day, and I would have to definitely say this is in the “so-bad-its-weird” category. To back up its supposed claim of weirdness, you can look no further than the plot:
It somehow involves an Alien Santa, Lucifer telling some demon to make the world’s children unhappy(and failing bombastically to do), and the wizard Merlin. Santa lives in a giant fortress on top of some clouds, where he plays a piano that queues masses of children from all around the world(who, weirdly enough, seem to be kidnapped and forced to serve this cheeky beardo’s deranged whim) who sing VERY, VERY terribly, dressed up in unmistakeably stereotypical costumes, while the camera cuts back to Santa giving the most disturbing, inappropriate laugh I have ever had the (dis?)pleasure of seeing.
What even bumps it more to me is that the movie, on however terribly crafted it was, and somewhat confusing, it was packed with moments of unintentional creepiness.
This is kitsch fed to a deranged, drug-addled failure, and then shot out of the intestines in order to make a cheap buck out of the whole ordeal. In other words, bad cinema at its most unintentionally weird and terrible.
Perfume: the story of a murderer 2006
Caleb: I can hardly believe it took almost 20 pages for someone to mention a K. Gordon Murray Mexican kiddie picture! Santa Claus (1959) goes in queue.
Stephanie: Perfume is already in our queue, we will get to it soon… I’d like to say “very soon” but I can’t promise.
Is “Sweet Movie” already suggested on the queue?
Yep, Sweet Movie is already up there.
Death Rally 2066, 1:32:13
Rated R-18 for strong violence and explicit sex scenes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZHUhLJ-2eo
Readers: this is called “Taporalli,” and it’s presented in what I believe is Finnish (with no subtitles). The movie is created with Legos (which sort of decreases the salacious appeal of those “explicit” sex scenes) and it has an 1980s B-movie style synth soundtrack. I don’t normally allow links to unauthorized movies on YouTube, but it seems the authors have allowed it to be freely downloaded from the official site. We won’t officially review it, at least not until there’s an Englsih subtitled version, but anyone who’s interested can follow the links.
I dot’t think that these are on the list:
1) Strange Circus
2) Love exposure
Director: Shion Sono
Not sure if it’s on the list:
– Mad Detective (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0969269/).
(http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mad_detective/)
Really liked this film.
ginanoelma: Neither of those movies are on the List, and I have been meaning to see Strange Circus for some time, so I will add it to the queue.
Shane: Mad Detective has somehow escaped my radar screen but the reviews look terrific! I’ll add it to the queue as well.
Please allow 10-12 months for processing.
un chien andalou? surreal movie experience. after all, dali was involved in the film making process
Andalou‘s already in queue, AnOreo. No way we would forget it.
“The Footage” and “2012” by Sándor Barics
Some what surprised Takashi Miike’s Vistor Q isn’t on the list.
I know the list is already inundated with David Lynch, and it’s certainly not his weirdest, or his best, but I still think Wild at Heart might deserve a place. It’s definitely a weird movie.
Hey, can we suggest a Saturday Short here? I’d like to recommend ‘Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared’ by This Is It. I’m not affiliated, just came across it in a ‘What the hell?’ thread on another forum I’m on.
http://vimeo.com/27003856
ponlur: The Footage looks like it’s in German without subtitles (which is a problem for review). 2012 is in English, but looks like it may not be completed/released yet? If you are involved with the film(s) then contact us using the contact form for more info.
Redd: Visitor Q isn’t in the review queue above because it’s already on the official list (Visitor Q Certified Weird entry).
Kevin: I expect the final List of 366 to be inundated with David Lynch, so why not add Wild at Heart to the queue?
MCD: It’s very cool to suggest Saturday Shorts here. Plus, people can follow the link to watch that deranged little kiddie music video right now.
How about some more Polanski?
The Tenant
Rosemary’s Baby
The Ninth Gate
All three of his “apartment” movies are pretty weird, but I would venture to say that The Tenant is the weirdest. And I’ve always felt like The Ninth Gate was underrated, and it’s definitely on the weird side of the Polanski spectrum.
Revolver (2005) outstandingly werid but great movie
Daniel wiram: Guy Ritchie’s Revolver was “outstandingly” weird? Well, we’ll have to check it out then (and judge for ourselves).
Kevin: I have a policy of not taking back-to-back suggestions from the same person (or else the queue would fill up even faster than it does), but I pretended Daniel posted before you so we could get in your suggestion of The Tenant—which is one we need to cover anyway.
Is “Uzumaki” (2000) already on the list?
And how about “The Guinea Pig: Mermaid in a Manhole”? [Nothing tops Japanese horror movies! ^^]
Uzumaki is neither on nor off the list. It’s a list candidate; we haven’t made a final decision yet. Here’s the review. Mermaid in a Manhole is in the review queue and will get its chance.
A Zed and Two Noughts.
When I think of the plot, the movie is a morbid reverse of Dead Ringers, littered with the trademark Peter Greenaway fetish for combining sublimely eloquent, and the destructively perverse. Plus, I think it might be both his greatest, and one of his weirdest films.
Litan (1982) should definitly be in the list
Caleb: Almost anything by Peter Greenaway is worth looking at, and A Zed and Two Noughts definitely meets that definition. In the queue it goes.
Shwan: Litan sounds great. Availability may be an issue as it doesn’t appear to be on DVD and I’m not even sure it exists with English subtitles, but we’ll see what we can do.
Dark Waters, Mario Baino
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109550/
I want to know if these films are already in the queue:
La Razon de Mi Vida (Argentina, 2008)
Fantastic Planet [La Plànete Sauvage] (France, 1973)
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea!
Vox: Dark Waters looks good. Putting in queue.
Wormhead: Fantastic Plant is in queue (see top post on this page). I can put La Razon de Mi Vida in queue. I have been patiently waiting for it to be subtitled and released on DVD. Someone from distributor Kino Red stopped by and gave a little bit of info on the film a year ago on this post: http://366weirdmovies.com/please-help-non-american-friends-a-list-of-obsure-foreign-to-us-films.
Mina: I think The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea is one of the all-time great titles, but I know next to nothing about the movie. I’ll trust you that it has weird potential and put it in queue.
Vibroboy and Bernie
Ries: At first, I thought you were inventing a weird movie title, Vibroboy and Bernie. But a little research suggests you’re talking about two French movies, the short Vibroboy (1994) and the feature Bernie (1996). Availability may be an issue with both (a quick search found no subtitled DVDs), but I will put Bernie in queue, as it looks like it’s gotten some very nice reviews.
How about The Ruling Class (Peter Medak, 1973) which features wierd shifts in tone, style, and point of view, as well as some astonishing showing off of his skills and techniques by Peter O’Toole?
Nightworld (1932 Hobart Henley), a deadly serious, highly disjointed musical from before they figured out the form?
Hatchet Man (1932 William Wellman) Edward G. Robinson playing a loveable Chinese assasin.
the movie Tank Girl is extremely weird
Mike: How is The Ruling Class not already in the queue? I’ll have to add it. (I’ll also have to remember your other two suggestions as we really need more movies from the 30s on the site).
Jayce: Same for Tank Girl, I’m surprised we made it this many pages without it getting in there.
And even though the queue’s long enough and I don’t want to encourage this sort of thing, I’m going to add one suggestion I received by e-mail just because it’s so obscure and crazy-sounding: Things, a 1989 “Canuxploitation” Super 8 horror movie.
Drawing Restraint 9- Bjork and Whales and Japan and Stuff
Hair Extensions (Exte). From Sion Sono the director of the borderline weird ‘Suicide Club’, ‘Hair Extensions’ is a possibly weird film about a man obsessed with hair who, while working in a police morgue, discovers a woman’s body that continues to grow copious amounts of hair despite the fact that she is dead. This man (think Buffalo Bill from ‘Silence of the Lambs’ as portrayed by Bill Murray) cuts this haunted hair and donates it to beauty salons as Hair Extensions, the recipients of which have some mighty gruesome endings in store for them. It stars Chiaki Kuriyama from Kill Bill and Battle Royale as a hair stylist caught in the middle of all this hairy action.
You must include “Haggard”. I’m surprised it’s not already up here, and i’m excited to suggest it!
Quick rundown. First of all it’s made by the jackass guys, but its not a jackass movie. It has a real plot, and it is hilarious. IMDB it. I promise you will not be disappointed. If i could compare it’s comedy to anything, it would be Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It has a similar off the wall ridiculous comedy. It has my official seal of approval, which means absolutely nothing lol
Dr. Darkinbad: Drawing Restraint 9 is by Matthew Barney, who’s notorious for refusing to issue his movies on DVD. In retaliation, I’ve refused to review his movies. Well, not really… if I got the chance to attend a screening I would review it, or if he someday relents on his “no video reproductions” policy. As for now, Barney is in a holding pattern with us.
Chris: I can put Hair Extensions in queue.
JoE: I’m suspicious when you tell me the Jackass guys made a weird movie, but since it gets your official seal of approval I can put Haggard in queue. Which means that your seal actually does count for something.
Thanks! Yeah it’s not what you would expect from them
Svidd neger(2003) is weird norwegian movie you should check out.
Hi Thomas. Looking up Svidd neger on IMDB, it definitely looks like something we’d be interested in. Once again, there may be availability issues—it looks like it’s been released with English subs in Region 2 but I’m fairly sure there’s no Region 1 release. We’ll do what we can.
As much as you didn’t like Nekromantik…I can’t help but recommending Buttgereit’s Schramm (1994)…
Rebekah, I’ve got no problem with giving Jörg another chance and will gladly take a look at Schramm.
Here’s a strange Japanese film I still can’t quite describe, called ‘Executive Koala’, which is a corporate murder mystery, psychological thriller… with a man-sized koala as the protagonist.
Algus: How come, about 47% of the time people type the word “strange” followed by the word “film,” they put the word “Japanese” in the middle? OK, Executive Koala is equeued.
Rubber (2010)-directed by Quentin Depieux- truly one of the most bizarre movies I have ever seen, and I’ve seen over 70 of your current list fo certified strange!
Check it out!
I haven’t gotten around to seeing it yet personally, but Alex has already reviewed Rubber and declared it a candidate to make List.
I have a bit more obscure suggestion to give out this time:
Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin(1975)
Sure, its one thing to re-imagine the Uncle Remus’ stories, among other traditional African folk lore and stereotypes, into a satirical blaxploitation parody that switches back and forth between two paralleling plot lines switching between live-action and animation.
However, throw in some dazzling hallucination sequences, absurdly grotesque caricatures of classic depictions of African-Americans in pop-culture, a subterranean Mafia organization with a little clown hit-man, an obscenely hilarious “romance” scene involving Ms. America, and hell, even an excessively obese con-man posing as a negro messiah shooting at portraits of Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon while hoisted in mid-air, among other things that I shall not spoil, and you got one peculiarly odd curiosity of an animated film in your hands.
Here’s a link if you want some more information about the movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071361/
Kudos!
Actually, Caleb, I’m surprised to see we don’t already have a Ralph Bakshi movie in the review queue. Coonskin goes in to fill that void.
Until the End of the World starring William Hurt
Time Masters (1982)