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 and ever-growing ) 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); Bernie (depending on availability); 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]; 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; Coonskin; Crimewave; Cutie Honey; Dark Arc; Dark Waters; Daisies; Dark City; Decasia; Dellamorte Dellamore [AKA Cemetery Man]; Dogville; The Doom Generation; Dororo; The Double Life of Veronique; The Drifting Classroom; Drowning by Numbers; Electric Dragon 80,000 V; Even Dwarves Started Small; Evil Ed; Executive Koala; 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; Haggard; Hair Extensions; 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 [Heart] Huckabees; “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; 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; La Razon de Mi Vida; The Last Days of Planet Earth; The Last Sunset; Leolo; Liquid Sky (re-review); Litan; Little Otik; Lost Highway; Love Me If You Dare; Lovers on the Bridge; Lust in the Dust; Mad Detective; 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; 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; Revolver; Robo-Geisha; Robot Monster; The Room; Rubber’s Lover; Rubin & Ed; The Ruling Class; Run Lola Run; Russian Ark; The Saddest Music in the World; Safe; The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea; Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom; Santa Claus(1959); The Saragossa Manuscript; Save the Green Planet; A Scanner Darkly; Schizopolis; Schramm; 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; Strange Circus; Strings; Stroszek; Suicide Club (re-review); Svidd neger (depending on availability); Sweet Movie; Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song; Symbol; The Tale of the Floating World; Tales from the Quadead Zone; Tampopo; Tank Girl; The Taste of Tea; Teeth; The Ten; The Tenant; Themroc; Things; This Filthy Earth; Three Crowns of the Sailor; Thundercrack!; Time Masters; 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; Wicked City (1992 live-action version); Wild at Heart; Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; Wool 100%; Yesterday Was a Lie; Yokai Monsters, Vol. 1: Spook Warfare [AKA Big Monster War]; Zachariah; A Zed and Two Noughts; “Zombie Jesus” (if we can locate it).
Hi Nickholas, I remember you suggested The Dark Backward to us a couple of years ago. Glad to see you’re still following the project! As for your suggestions, both are worthwhile but I’m more interested in Time Masters (which is from the same guy who brought us Fantastic Planet). Of the two, I’ll put that one in the queue.
Forgive me if I’ve already suggested these, but DUNE (the David Lynch version) and TOMMY.
Hi s, we rejected Dune for the List (every David Lynch movie can’t make it!), and Tommy is still waiting its turn in the long queue (maybe it was you who originally suggested it).
Hard Candy, movie about a young girl who seduces a pedophile to kidnap him
Ralph: Based on the description, I’m not so sure Hard Candy is really weird… but since you are the second person to mention it, I guess that other people do. I’ll put it in queue.
I’m not sure what exactly your policy is on play adaptations, or film collections, for that matter, but I would whole-heartily suggest you check out the Beckett on Film series, since Beckett’s perplexedly absurd work is of quite great weird interest, and the array of diverse talent involved.
Especially Waiting For Godot. Personally, I would like to see at least one of these treasures eventually get on the list.
We’ve got absolutely nothing against adaptations. A true cinematic project usually has advantages over something that’s just a filmed play, however. We’ll be happy to take a look at Waiting for Godot.
Crash, the David crone berg flick about sex during, before, and after car crashes
Hi Kyle, Crash is one of Cronenberg‘s few weird movies we haven’t either covered or put in the queue yet—we’ll rectify that right away!
I’m not sure if these have been suggested but Behind the Green Door, Mulholland Drive, and La Dolce Vita
Hi John, that’s a challenging trio of suggestions. Mulholland Drive is the obvious choice of the three but it is already in the queue. Behind the Green Door is an interesting suggestion. There’s precedent for treating it seriously because one of my favorite reviewers, Danny Peary, elected to cover it in his “Cult Movies” book, and it is avant-garde for a porn movie (and made at a time when porn had pretensions to being just like regular movies). La Dolce Vita is one of my favorite movies, but it’s also one of Fellini’s less-weird efforts. Still, I think between Vita and Door I would rather cover Vita, because other Fellini movies will be making the List and it helps to put his entire career in context. So I will add it to the review queue. Thanks for the suggestions!
A gem that I discovered, digging thru the movie record store that is the internet, was a short done awhile back for a xmas special. Its called “The Junky’s Christmas”
William S. Burroughs narrator one of his short stories in a claymation produced by Coppola. You can find it on YouTube. But if you find it with its collections its even more of a gem. So, the collections are Interzone and Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales. Both a filled with tons of little jewels.
er i think i left a little out of that last message.. those collections are his stories from which the written version of that comes from.. Claymation was released on dvd
Oh.. several Jodorowsky are missing…
In order of weird least to most
The Rainbow Thief… his most recent film (besides the animation Kaena:The Prophecy) features Peter O’ Toole as a crook trying to find a pot of gold
The Tusk. another odd ball about an English girl and a Elephant born on the same day.. Not one of his best films but weird very rare
Fando y Lis. this should of been on here from day one. his first full length film.. prob 3rd under El Topo and Holy Mountain.. about a couple that go thru various strangeness. must see for fans. but, very hard to find.
La Cravate (aka The Severed Heads)
AJ’s first film.. A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.. RAW explicit er.. its AJ’s first nuff said.
And the Theater Stuff.. There are two that I’m listing together here
Melodrama Sacramentral and Teatro Sin Fin (aka Endless Theatre)
Wanna know why/where AJ has been. after leaving Mexico and relocating to Paris and the whole Dune fiasco (ugh, tears for tears AJ and young Giger doing Dune, the bloody movie shouldnt of even been made without, er sry soapbox).. So, yea the dude has been doing Theater in Paris for a longtime since. These two films/documentaries/er theater shorts, something show live footage of a lot of that work. SUPER weird.
So, thats AJ. someone needs to go light a fire under him so he can finish “Sons of El Topo.” I have been waiting since 05 to see this guy. And there is also, I do believe a doc coming out about the Dune fiasco (cry again). hehe.. hope that helps. amazing site again. keep up he goood work.. love the amazon link page
Good suggestions quirkdee. First off, I’ll mention that even though we haven’t covered it yet, Fando y Lis is in the review queue. Second, I’ll say that many of the movies you mention are shorts… and while we don’t rule out considering shorts for the List, they have a tougher time making it than features. Nonetheless, out of all your suggestions the one I’m going to take this time is La Cravate, because you say it’s the weirdest (and I believe you), and it’s a longer short (although run times are listed inconsistently—I’ve seen anything from 20 to 40 minutes)! Also, it is no longer that hard to find since it was released as part of the Jodoworsky box set! As far as Sons of El Topo, I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you. There doesn’t seem to be any movement on the project, and Alejandro is in his 80s now. Maybe one of his real sons could complete it?
Has anyone suggested Alex Proyas’ Spirits of the Air Gremlins of the Clouds?
Morgan: no, no one has suggested Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds. It looks to me like Proyas’ first film may never have been released on DVD. We can put it in queue and hope a copy turns up, however.
There’s some available at All Clues No Solutions, where many, many oddball films come from. Another that might interest the community is the Edward Woodard film The Appointment (1981). It starts off and ends in a very bizarre manner.
Norway of life (Jens Lien, 2006) : maybe not weird enough to make the list, but a nice little oddity with a unique atmosphere, and an acute condemnation of the “display-window-lifestyle” that rules in some Scandinavian towns. (Not sure I made myself clear with that sentence…)
I’m surprised Alain Resnais’ Last Year in Marienbad is still not on the queue, since it has been mentioned several times on the site (if i remember correctly). Not available in Region 1 ? From the same director, “Providence” is also a great weird movie about a writer who mixes up reality and fiction on the novel he writes.
I have heard it said that Mario Bava’s “Inferno” is a sort-of remake of “Last Year At Marienbad”. Certainly they share a similar anti-logic. Anyway, just saying.
Ok, my bad, “Norway of life” is on the queue, under the name “The Bothersome Man”. We French have an annoying tendency to translate foreign titles on English to make them look like American movies
Hi again dwarfoscar, you’re right about both The Bothersome Man and Last Year in Marienbad. We passed over Marienbad because it was out-of-print in the U.S., then somehow didn’t get to it when it was re-released. We’ll put it in the queue immediately.
Just saw three that might qualify: Alphaville, Palindromes, and Putney Swope.
I agree, ubermolch, any of those three might make it. I will put Alphaville in queue.
You must see Savages. Don’t be put off by its Merchant/Ivory parentage; this was quite early in their career and one of the main brains behind it was the late weird Michael O’Donoghue, the famed Mr. Mike of National Lampoon and Saturday Night Live fame. Worth seeing at least once.
Great suggestion, Brian. I was wondering if anyone would ever mention Savages, James (Remains of the Day) Ivory’s early Buñuelesque movie about savages who follow a rolling croquet ball to an English estate and then gradually adopt upper-class manners. It’s one of those movies that’s been on my “I must check this out someday” list for decades now. I’ll add it at the end of the queue, so now it will be merely years before I see it!
I suggest: “Totò che visse due volte” (the weirdest), “lo zio di brooklyn” e “il ritorno di Cagliostro” (with Robert Englund), by italian directors Ciprì e Maresco.
Hi Luca, thanks for using the suggestion thread!
I’m sure these three are all great weird movies, but there’s an issue with all or them. None of them are available on Region 1 DVD, and although two of them are on Region 2, it looks like neither come with English subtitles. I’m a bit surprised by the absence of Cagliostro, because Englund does have a big following in the States. I am going to put these on a special watch-list I keep for unreleased movies. However, if we have any English/Italian speakers who would like to volunteer to do a reader review on any or all of these (including you Luca), please get in contact with us!
I can’t see it there and think that John Maringouin’s documentary(?), Big River Man is definitely worth a shout – horse-eating Slovenian alcoholic loses mind whilst trying to swim the length of the amazon. Even if it’s not weird enough it’s a must-see.
Also, perhaps, Die Blechtrommel/The Tin Drum?
Excellent website! just stumbled upon it for the first time this evening. Will be spreading the word. Thanks a lot.
I saw “This must be the place” (with Sean Penn as a decaying old Gothic rockstar) yesterday, and i can say there is a fair amount of weirdness in it. I really loved that film and its always low-key and quiet craziness. Don’t miss it when it crosses the Atlantic.
Hi Rory, we noted Big River Man when it first came out and even linked the (since removed) trailer, but we never prioritized reviewing it. If you vouch for its weirdness we can give it a spin down the road. (The Tin Drum is a good suggestion, too).
dwarfoscar: Looks like This Must Be the Place is scheduled to be released in the US in Dec. 2011. I’ll add it to the queue and we’ll be sure to take a look at it then (or, more likely, after it comes out on DVD).
Have you done Herzog’s two weirdest ones (that I’ve seen so far at least), “Heart of Glass” (filmed using actors under hypnosis) and “Wild Blue Yonder” (a super-random experiment that belongs in an 80’s arthouse, but was somehow released by Herzog in the 00’s)? I did a quick search for them, but didn’t find them anywhere.
Hi Jesse, nice to make your acquaintance. Excellent suggestions, Herzog is almost always worth checking out. I will put Heart of Glass in queue.
I suggest “Little Deaths”, 2011. Although i don’t think all three short films can be classified as weird, only the 3rd one.
Japanese anime classic Akira. I haven’t seen it on any list, but it is one of the strangest, in my opinion. Also, if there is an honorable mention for a series, I would suggest FLCL.
Donatien: Thank you for bringing Little Deaths to our attention. It hasn’t made it to the US yet; you’re the first person I’ve heard mentioning it, but I agree, it does look interesting. We’ll keep an eye out for a release.
Howard: Akira definitely deserves a review, I’ll put it in queue. As for “FLCL,” well, we’ll never say never, but if we open the door to anime series alongside feature films we’ll never be able to get though it all!
How about “The Quiet Earth” ??????
The Quiet Earth seems like a reasonable suggestion, I will enqueue it. But why so many question marks????
About the question marks:
I think I just like the way the look.
Ken Russell’s The Devils
Good one, lo-fi jr. The Devils will be far down in the queue, but I hope by the time we finally get to what may be Ken Russell’s craziest movie there will actually be a decent DVD release.
“Mutant Aliens” by Bill Plympton
Wormhead, it’s funny you should nominate a Bill Plympton movie, we’ve been wanting to cover something of his for a while now. I will put Mutant Aliens in queue, but (mild spoiler) he has a more recent release that we may be getting to first.
I let you another movie for the queue: “La Teta y La Luna” [The Breast and The Moon] (1994), a surrealistic spanish/french film by Bigas Luna.
Patrick Bokanowski’s “L’Ange (1982)”. Very atmospheric, wonderfully surreal, over the top artsy and charged with “Did I see this from my early childhood?” It reminded me alot of Piotr Kamler’s Chronopolis, which I see is still on the waiting list. A few clips orbit around YouTube. Might be worth looking at.
Morgan: L’Ange sounds like a serious contender for the List. It looks like it may be hard to track down (I’m not sure that it’s available on Region 1 DVD) but we can put it in the queue and see if it turns up buy the time we get to it.
Wormhead: La Teta y La Luna is even more obscure but it’s basically in the same position as L’Ange; I can add it to the queue now, look for it later,
Hi G. Smalley. How about “Bad Boy Bubby” (1993)? The story is reminiscent of that of “Dogtooth [Kynodontas]” (2009); only Rolf de Heer, the director of “Bad Boy Bubby”, seems just a little more determined to never leave your mind again.
Hi Thomas, we beat you to your suggestion: Bad Boy Bubby review. Truth is, we’re still on the fence about the film, but it’s definitely worth seeing.
Oops, I’m sorry. I’m new to your site, but it’s evident, that this is what I have been looking for all the time. Thank you for creating this.
No problem, Thomas, and I hope we can continue to live up to your expectations!
I added this last week but the comment got lost or somebody out there hates me…
“Finisterrae”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1794790/
Haven’t seen it myself but sounds a 366 worthy weird film.
Hi Shane, I checked our files and it seems we don’t hate you, so the comment must have gotten lost.
I will put Finisterrae in the queue, it seems someone has mentioned it before…
“The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”, Terry Gilliam. It’s a must see and conforms a pseudo-trilogy with “Time Bandits” and “Brazil”.
Hi
Are any of these Films on the list?
‘Aftermath’,’August underground’,’Nekromantik’,’Guts of a beauty’,’Wife to be sacrificed’,’killing melody’,’Horrors of malformed men’,’Wet and rope’,’Porn of the dead’,’Porn holocaust’,’mad foxes’,’Un chien andalucia’,’L’Âge d’or’,’The men behind the sun’,’Meshes of the afternoon,’,Pull my daisy’,’Bruce lee vs gay pride’,’The cheese mites’,’Splatter:naked blood’,’Guinea pig’,’Ebola syndrome i could go on forever!
Sorry if anybody else has brought these films up before but i have only just scanned the list and this site and will probably read it all at the weekend. hopefuly i have helped with the list? Thanx