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.
Oh yeah, and I almost missed Sunspotbaby’s yellowbrickroad up there… added that too.
I see that you already listed cat soup but seriously go on YouTube it’s absolutely free it will literally captivate you. music videos of dye fantasy and the shrine an argument byFleet foxes ain’t bad either Pls and Ty. Btw love this site
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.
1Day; 3 Women; The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao; 8 1/2 Women; The 10th Victim; 2001: A Space Odyssey; 11:14; “2012 Aficionado DVD Zine Issue #0″; The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T; Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd; “The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes”; The Adventures of Mark Twain; The Adventures of Picasso; “Afraid So” from “The Films of Jay Rosenblatt, Vol. 2”; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Air Doll; Akira; Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams; “Alicia” (1994); Alien Alibi; Allegro Non Troppo; All That Jazz; Alphaville; Amazon Women on the Moon; Amanece, que no es poco; “Analog”; Anatomy of Hell; L’Ange; Angel in the Flesh: The Confidential Report on Mr. Dennis Duggan AKA The King of Super 8 (if it’s ever released); Angelus; Angst; Anguish [Angustia]; The Annunciation; La antena; The Appointment (1981); Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters; Arrebato; Ascension; The Atrocity Exhibition; Audition; Avida; Bad Taste; Bad Timing (AKA Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession); Battle in Heaven; Beauty and the Beast (1978); Berberian Sound Studio; Bernie (1996) (depending on availability); The Beyond; Bhoner; Bibliotheque Pascal; Big Man Japan (official review); Big River Man; Big Time; “The Big Shave”; Birth of the Overfiend; Black Cat, White Cat; Black Devil Doll; Blind Beast; Bliss; Blue (1993, Jarman); Blue Velvet; The Bothersome Man; The Boxer’s Omen [aka Mo]; Boxing Helena; Brain Damage; Brain Dead (1990, d. Adam Simon); Brand Upon the Brain!; The Brave Little Toaster; Breakfast of Champions; Brick; Britannia Hospital; “Broken Glass”; “The Brothers Quay Collection”; Bruce Lee vs. Gay Power; Bubba Ho-Tep; Buddy Boy (1999); Buffalo ’66; Buffet Froid; Burnt Offerings; La Cabina [AKA The Telephone Box]; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Cafe Flesh; Calamari Wrestler; Candy (1968); The Cars That Ate Paris; The Cat in the Hat; “Cat Soup”; Celestial Wives Of Meadow Mari; Celine and Julie Go Boating; The Cell; The Cement Garden; Chappaqua; “Charleston Parade”; Charly: Dias de Sangre; Christmas on Mars; Christ the Movie; La cicatrice intérieure; Citizen Dog; City of Pirates; City of Women; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs; Color of Pomegranates; Confessions; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; Conspirators of Pleasure; The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover; Coonskin; Crash (Cronenberg); La Cravate; Creating Rem Lezar; Creatures of Destiny; Crimewave; Criminal Lovers; Cube; Cutie Honey; Dance With The Devil; Dante’s Inferno (2007); Dark Arc; The Dark Side of the Heart; Dark Waters; Daughter of Horror; Daymaker; Day of the Wacko; Death by Hanging; Death Powder (1986); Decasia; The Devils; Diamond Flash; Dirty Duck; A Dog Called Pain; La Dolce Vita; The Doom Generation; The Double Life of Veronique; The Drifting Classroom; Drowning by Numbers; Drunken Wu Tang; Dumplings; The Earl Sessions; Edward II; Electric Dragon 80,000 V; The Element of Crime; Evil Ed; Executive Koala; Eyes Wide Shut; The Fall; The Falls; Fando y Lis; Faust: Love of the Damned; Fear X; Feherlofia; Felidae; Fido; A Field in England; Fiend Without a Face; Finisterrae; Flaming Creatures; The Fountain; Four Rooms; The Fox Family; Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster; “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life”; Fudge 44; Funeral Parade of Roses; Gahjini; Galaxy of Terror; Genius Party; Gerry; The Giant Claw; The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai; Glen or Glenda?; The Godmonster of Indian Flats; Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell; Goodbye 20th Century; Goodbye Uncle Tom; Gorod Zero; Green Snake; Grendel Grendel Grendel; Haggard; Hair Extensions; Hanger; Happiness; Hard Candy; “Harpya”; Head; Heartbeeps; Heart of Glass; Heavenly Creatures; Homebodies (1974); Hugo the Hippo; I Am Here Now; Ichi the Killer; ID; The Idiots; If…; I [Heart] Huckabees; The Illustrated Man; Incubus; I Never Left the White Room; In a Glass Cage; L’Inferno; Innocence (2004); In Search of the Titanic; Insidious (2010); In the Mouth of Madness; I Think We’re Alone Now; I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse; Jack and the Beanstalk (1974, Japan); Johnny Aquarius; Killer Joe; Killer Nun; Killdozer; Killer Condom; King Lear (1987, Godard); Koyaanisqatsi; Krysar (AKA The Pied Piper of Hamelin); Kung Pow; La Razon de Mi Vida; The Last Days of Planet Earth; Last Life in the Universe; The Last Sunset; Last Year in Marienbad; Leolo; Let the Right One In; Liquid Sky (re-review); Litan; Little Deaths; Lo; Love Me If You Dare; Lovers on the Bridge; Lucky; Mad Detective; Man Facing Southeast; Marebito; Marutirtha Hinglaj; Master of the Flying Guillotine; Me and You and Everyone We Know; Meet the Feebles; Meet the Hollowheads; Memento Mori; Mermaid in a Manhole; Metropia; Midnight Skater; “The Mighty Boosh” (TV show); The Million Dollar Hotel; Mind Game; Moebius (1996); Mom (1986); Monday (depending on availability); Monobloc; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Mood Indigo; Mr. Nobody; Multiple Maniacs; Murder Party; Mutant Aliens; My Dinner with Andre; The Mysterians; Mystics in Bali; Nails; Natural Born Killers; The Neverending Story; “Next Floor”; Nick the Feature Film; Night Across The Street; Nightdreams; Night of the Hunter; Night on the Galactic Express; The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz; The Ninth Configuration; Nitwit; Noroi; Northfork; No Smoking; Nuit Noire; Of Freaks and Men; One Eyed Monster; “One Soldier”; Only God Forgives; On the Silver Globe; Organ; Orpheus; “The Ossuary”; Paperhouse; Parents; The Passion of Darkly Noon; Peeping Tom; Perfect Blue; Period Piece; Phantasm IV; Phantom of the Paradise; Phase IV; Piano Tuner of Earthquakes; Picnic at Hanging Rock; Pierrot Le Fou; Pink Flamingos; Pink Narcissus; The Pit; Point Blank (1967); Pola X; Porcile [AKA Pigpen]; The Pornographers; Portrait of Jennie; Possession (official re-review); “Premium” (if it can be found); “Prometheus’ Garden”; A Pure Formality; The Quiet Earth; Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure; Rampo Noir; The Real McCoy; Reflections in a Golden Eye; Reflections of Evil; Return to Oz (official review); Revolver; Riki-Oh: The Story of Riki; Robot Monster; Rock n’ Roll High School; Roller Blade; The Room; Rubin & Ed; The Ruling Class; Run Lola Run; Russian Ark; Safe; The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea; Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom; Santa Claus (1959); The Saragossa Manuscript (official review); Savages; Save the Green Planet; A Scanner Darkly; Schramm; Screamplay; The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb; “Serial Experiments: Lain” (TV show); The Shape of Things; The Shining; The Shout; The Signal; Singapore Sling (official review); The Singing Ringing Tree; Sir Henry at Rawlinson End; Sitcom; Skeletons; SLC Punk; Sleepaway Camp; The Slit [AKA United Trash; “Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions”; A Snake of June; Snow White and Russian Red; Society (official review); Something Weird; Space Is the Place (re-review); Space Thang; Spermula; Sphere; The Spirit; Spirited Away; Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds; Spirits of the Dead; “Star Maidens” (TV show); Static; Strange Circus; Stroszek; Suicide Club (re-review); Surviving Life: Theory and Practice; Svidd neger (depending on availability); Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song; Symbol; Tales from the Quadead Zone; Tampopo; Tank Girl; Tasher Desh; The Taste of Tea; Teeth; Teknolust; The Tenant; La Teta y La Luna; That Deadwood Feeling; Themroc; They Came Back; Things; This Filthy Earth; Thriller: A Cruel Picture; Thundercrack!; THX 1138; Time Masters; Titicut Follies; Der Todersking; Tourist Trap (1979); Tout Va Bien; Troll 2; “Turkish Star Wars” [Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam]; Twister (1989); Uncle Meat; Underground; Uzumaki [AKA Spiral] (official re-review); Vakvagany; Vanishing Waves; Vase de Noces; Vera; Vermillion Souls; Versus; Vigasiosexploitation; Visions of Suffering; Visitor of a Museum [Posetitel muzeya]; Waiting for Godot; The War Zone; Watership Down; Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees; We Are the Strange; Welcome to the Dollhouse; Wicked City (1992 live-action version); Wild at Heart; Wild Tigers I Have Known; A Woman’s Face (1940); Womb; Wool 100%; W.R.-Mysteries of the Organism; Yellowbrickroad; Yesterday Was a Lie; Yokai Monsters, Vol. 1: Spook Warfare [AKA Big Monster War]; Zachariah; A Zed and Two Noughts.
Some good ones in that bunch. Have seen a majority of the films on the certified list as well as a scattering of these and must say that, for me, Death Powder holds the #1 spot for sure. Absolute pure weird.
These aren’t suggestions. I went through your list and, though many are great suggestions, would vote for these~minus my own suggestions, of course:
3 Women; 7 Faces of Dr. Lao; The 10th Victim; 2001: A Space Odyssey; The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T; The Adventures of Mark Twain; Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams; Amazon Women on the Moon; Black Devil Doll; Blue Velvet; The Bothersome Man; Boxing Helena; Breakfast of Champions; Candy (1968); The Cars That Ate Paris; The Devils; La Dolce Vita; The Doom Generation; The Fall; The Giant Claw; Glen or Glenda?; Head; If…; In the Mouth of Madness; Mr. Nobody; The Ninth Configuration; One Eyed Monster; Parents; The Passion of Darkly Noon; Phantom of the Paradise; Phase IV; Picnic at Hanging Rock; Pink Flamingos; The Quiet Earth; Robot Monster; A Scanner Darkly; The Shout; Spirited Away; Spirits of the Dead; Tank Girl; Teeth; The Tenant; Titicut Follies; Zachariah
You all are doing great work=}
I saw this movie when i was a child and have thought of it often but cant ever remember the name or actors in it. It was a 1970’s maybe 1980’s movie about a woman driving a car by a cliff (I think), she was in a fatal accident, a near death experience. While she is “dead” she see’s people in a tunnel surrounded by a white light. She doesn’t recognize the people until she goes to a relatives house and see’s a picture of a soldier who is deceased and she remembers him from the tunnel.
Check out “Príncipe Azul” by Jorge Polaco
Here’s the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0CBbO_i97I
MystMoonstruck: some of the ones you list will make the List, some won’t—I ain’t sayin’ which is which.
Lisa: you want this page.
Wormhead: Very weird looking movie. We’ll keep an eye out for Príncipe Azul. Obviously there is a surreal movie movement in Argentina. I just wish the movies made it up north faster!
I’ll be honored even if only a couple make your list=} Weirdness is a varying degree and depends a lot on the viewer. Actually, I never found “Tank Girl” or “A Boy and His Dog” all that strange, but many think they’re bizarre~the same with a lot of other films. So, it’s interesting to see which ones will make the grade: being judged weird movies.
I wish that I had added “Savages” (1972), in which Susan Blakely made her film debut as a naked, dirt-daubed Mudperson=} It’s a reverse-Bunuel film, with a tribe of Mudpeople becoming ritzy upper-crusts in a mansion then reverting~all starting with a croquet ball rolling into their lives. I remembered this film when I saw “The Gods Must Be Crazy”, in which a glass soft-drink bottle affects a Bushmen tribe.
Gave the site a thorough scouring, but I didn’t see this gem mentioned anywhere: Jeon Kye-Soo’s 2006 horror musical Samgeori Geukjang (also known as Midnight Ballad for Ghost Theater, or, simply and more commonly, The Ghost Theater).
Nope, you are the first one to mention this film in the 4 years this site has been running, and I’ve never heard of it, either. Now that’s a rare movie! But the IMDB report looks encouraging so I’ll add it into the queue. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
This is so up my alley! Proud to say I’ve seen about 30% or more of these. Thanks for the incredible list.
Ive got 3 more suggestions to your growing list. Andy Warhol and Paul Morrisseys double whammy of “Dracula” and “Frankenstein”. These two gems star Udo Kier and Warhol “superstar” Joe Dallesandro (also in Black Moon). Surreal, campy, and lush with an internatiomal cast featuring amazingly bad accents and overdubs they are at turns funny, bloody, wacky and a little sexy. An emaciated pale sickly Kier lurching through darkened halls pining for the blood of a “troo weergen” while Dallesandro goes to work deflowering all the nubile teen girls while spouting wooden dialogue? Kier building a perfect man specimen out of dead body parts and raping a reanimated woman with bloody bandages? Makes RHPS look like a Disney movie. Perfectly classically weird!
Also worth a look is “Brimstone and Treacle” (1982) with musician Sting. A dark twisted tale of a mysterious lodger who ingratiates himself into the lives of a overprotective and stuffy couple caring for their physically handicapped nearly mute daughter. The strangers obsession with the daughter leads to strange and unexpected actions that are disturbing, and weird. Maybe not for the master list but interesting nonetheless.
Please do put “Black Moon” on the master list! Cant get much weirder than that; just wish it were easier to find. Ive luckily seen it four times and cant get enough even though the girl breastfeeding the old lady squicks me out.
Yes Michele, I agree that Black Moon belongs on the list. Good to know I am not alone in this.
I usually agree with the decisions on what go on the list and almost always understand the arguments even when I don’t agree, but Black Moon is an exception. It made the weirdest category, so I guess it is just not considered good enough? But I really like it, in particular the similarity to Lewis Caroll’s work.
I think it did have its chance when there was a community vote though and it didn’t make it. Could be because not enough people had seen it.
Hi Michele,
I am surprised that no one has nominated the Warhol/Morrisey versions of Frankenstein/Dracula yet. I think we’ll tackle Blood for Dracula first, as it’s generally the more popular of the two (although I personally remember preferring Flesh for Frankenstein).
As far as Black Moon goes, well, sometimes there are behind-the-scenes reasons (*cough* laziness *cough*) for a particular movie not making the List on the first go-around. Trust that as the project goes on, many more of the List Candidates will be promoted onto the List.
“Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events”: this adaptation of popular and strange young adult literature series successfully transform the books’ sensibility into a celluloid form. Grotesque imagery, self-aware yet moving story and a sense of dread and wonder – all that makes the movie a candidate for the List.
OK,Motyka, I’ll add Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events to the end of the long queue.
Although I never read the books, I did hear a great quote from them: “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.”
Ha. So true 🙂
Saw a movie possibly made in the 70’s. It was about Jesus who had returned to earth in our present time. It’s all I can remember and have researched it all over the Internet. It may have been a movie only shown in certain cities
I don’t know; I suggest you ask here.
‘Things’ (1989) – is fantastically weird. I can’t say more without spoiling things.
Things is already in the queue. By definition, you can’t say too much about this particular movie without spoiling Things.
“North”: Rob Reiner wanted to make his own “The Wizard of Oz”, a personal tale for all family, adjusted for 80s/90s generation. Well, he certainly made a movie. A movie that Roger Ebert famously hated, that blends racist stereotypes with confusing “jokes”, and that is really, really weird.
I just came to know of a film called ‘Sacred Evil’ released in 2006. It’s an Indian surreal movie that most Indians haven’t heard of. I discovered info about this hidden gem while doing a google search on an Indian actress. The movie ‘is about duality, exploring the premise that reality always has two sides.’ (Wikipedia) The plot is based on a true story from the case files of real-life Wiccan Ipsita Roy Chakraverti. I still know practically nothing about this movie except what Wikipaedia tells me (and it tells me a lot regarding plot, cast and crew, reception etc.) I shall be on the lookout for copies and if I find any I’ll let you know.
I’m going to rely on a technicality to keep North out of the queue. The last movie we officially added to the queue was Lemony Snickett, also suggested by Motyka, and we don’t allow back-to-bak suggestions from a single poster. (Now, if I’d been really keen on the North suggestion, I might bend the rule—but I’m just not convinced this movie, flop though it was, has much chance of making the List). However, Motyka, if you stick with it and remember to come back later and suggest it again, I will honor the suggestion.
Debaish: please do come back if you find something. Indian movies are very difficult for us to find out about. The Bollywood industry seems to be only interested in their domestic audience.
Sure thing, I’ll remember about North 🙂
I saw a movie when I was about 10 years old and for the life of me I can’t remember the name and it has forever been stuck with me. It was an anime movie with a girl who was born from a flowerlike pod and while everyone else was killed she wasn’t and a solider adopted her. A few years later she finds out that she has to save the world and she has this guy helping her. Well in the end she dies for her planet and the whole planet turns green with life and she is known forever. Please help me. I really want to watch it again but I can’t find it.
No Myra Breckenridge? Where else can you see Raquel Welch anally rape a man on screen, I ask you?
Sorry Emily, you should make that request here (or even better, here).
Garry: There is no joke I can think of about where you can see Ms. Welch do such a thing that would be fit to print on a family website, so I guess I will just have to accept your suggestion without an accompanying humorous comment. I will say that you may see some Myra Breckenridge coverage sooner than you might think given the length of that queue.
Andy (see post just below the queue listing) suggests Death Powder, a 1986 Japanese film that is not currently on DVD. I will add it to the queue and worry about finding a copy much later. Thanks Andy!
I would like to recommend “As Filhas do Fogo” which I recently watched. This is a really obscure Brazilian horror film that imo is deserving of much more recognition, in particular among weirdophiles. In my mind it is considerably more interesting than anything by Coffin Joe. It is similar to Don’t Look Now in that it slowly builds an unsettling atmosphere, giving only subtle clues to what is going on before a truly intense and shocking finale where everything is tied together without being explained away. Despite the slow build, it has managed to create a completely surreal world by the end and the last 10 minutes have to be seen to be believed. It went straight to my top 5 list of horror movies.
Dreamer, I will add As Filhas do Fogo, although I am not sure it’s ever been translated into English and released here.
Watch our new weird student short movie from Germany!
Studies on Hysteria
The naked truth about life, the universe and everything.
http://vimeo.com/79744382
I liked that; don’t know how “weird” it was, but it was clever, funny and professional-looking. SPOILER: The entire cast is nude for most of the film.
For some reason the movie Neighbors(1981)popped into my head. I haven’t seen it for years, but I recall it being much weirder than it was funny. This is an Ackroyd/Belushi effort light on laughs but heavy on paranoia and allusions to Nazism. I’d certainly recommend a look at it if only for its “interestingness.”
Hmm Tally… I haven’t seen it, but Neighbors seems pretty marginal for a weird movie. I suppose almost all the obvious choices have been taken, though. Neighbors is in the queue.
An American Hippie in Israel, Night Train to Terror.
I don’t know what this movie is but it looks weird. What is it?
https://plus.google.com/104984840981312010560/posts/7ZDBMGTHLLS
That clip is from The Holy Mountain.
Greetings!
I keep watching this site for almost a year now and I can say that my preferences on movies are more cultured,peculiared and quaintly than ever,thanks to the great variety of sublime films that have been presented…
Yesterday I ‘ve watched a strange and nearly disturbing movie with the name:”Tras el cristal/In a glass cage”.I was pretty sure that I would find a review of the film here but I didnt found anything.
If you haven’t seen this,check it out.It sure worth a shot and I would like to read an extended critique about this film…
Thanks in advance…
…and sorry for my bad english…
No problems with your English, flegethon. If you look at the list of films above, you should find that In a Glass Cage is already in our review queue, though. But thanks for the compliments!
Hi,
I want to suggest: Nails from director Andrey Iskanov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIKSy7iLMg0
Any of Peter Jackson’s first movies from the 1980s through the early 90s like Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Braindead, or Heavenly Creatures
Also any of Ralph Bapshki’s work like Fritz the Cat, Wizards, Heavy Traffic, etc.
G’day good people.
Just a few suggestions I haven’t spotted on the lists so far… The Killing Room, Blueberry, Apartment Zero, Fight Club, Catch 22, Inbred, Shutter Island, The Navigators, The Europa Report, Crash, Lesbian Vampire Killers, A Fish Called Wanda, The Hunger, Coneheads, The Cars That Ate Paris, Hot Fuzz, Apocalypse Now.
Cheers All.
I somehow missed Ryan Marshall’s suggestion of An American Hippie in Israel and I will add that to the queue. He should also keep an eye out for his other suggestion, Night Train to Terror.
Name It: Good one, but Nails is already in the queue.
Cody: All of those Peter Jackson movies are already in the queue except for Brain Dead [AKA Dead Alive], which I will add. Also, among Bakshi’s work (which we’ll have to get to more of) Heavy Traffic is already a List Candidate.
Rooprecht: We did review Shutter Island, and Cronenberg’s Crash and The Cars That Ate Paris are already in queue, but the others are new suggestions. I’ll add your first suggestion, The Killing Room.
I’m a man of few words,,
….”LIQUID SKY”
Check out Don Dohler’s Fiend (1980)
wopper, we have a preliminary review of Liquid Sky up. I am putting a re-review on the back burner, hoping that the movie will be re-released on DVD.
Joe, I can add Fiend (1980) to the queue, it looks “good” (or at least “weird”).
Check out Rubik’s Cube Terror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvXDwOuvNLE
You’ll be disturbed to say the least… I hope 🙂
I’d suggest adding Strangers In Paradise, the 1984 Ulli Lommel version. It’s more camp than surreal, but worth checking out.
I’d also suggest bumping Last Year at Marienbad and Salo up on the priority list; they’re both on your radar already but are both classics in their own right and deserve a proper airing.
Strangers in Paradise (not to be confused with Stranger than Paradise) is a good suggestion; it looks to be out of print but we can still put it on our watchlist.
We won’t necessarily be moving anything forward in the queue, however, because we like to save at least a few of the more popular titles for the later rather than doing everything up front.
I didn’t see either of these on the list, but A Boxer’s Omen and Night of the Lepus are both pretty odd
Vinyan, by Fabrice du Welz.
Rufus Sewell and Emmanuelle Béart go crazy in the Thai jungle. Creepy and suffocating.
Not without similarities with the director’s previous effort, Calvaire.
Sorry for the late replies.
Salena, The Boxer’s Omen (AKA Mo) is already in the queue, but I can add the bunny horror Night of the Lepus.
Dwarf Oscar, I will add Vinyan to the queue and hope it’s not as controversial a movie as Calvaire (which divides even weird movie fans!)
I reviewed about 20 movies before giving up. It’s a good list to pick from. I highly recommend Autopsy. Seriously, it is a riot. I am not one for gore, but it is so funny it didn’t bother me too much.
Fellini’s Casanova(1977)
Essentially, it is Fellini’s Satryicon, except set in the time period of 18th Century Europe.
It is as abundant with fantastical baroque imagery and bawdry decadence as the aforementioned summary implies, with a perpetually pallid Donald Sutherland rambling through debauched adventures across the continental mainland.
Any question of this film’s weirdness can be directed to the scene where Sutherland performs a bizarre sex-change ritual with two women that involves a candlewax head dress, the female recipient’s soul being transferred from death (after sex) into the vessel of a newborn male infant while Sutherland sternly commands the second woman to raise her buttocks in a lewd manner as the occultic ceremony comes to a baffling climax.
Definitely agree with this one.
365, sorry I’m late getting back to you, but are you recommending Autopsy (2008), Autopsy (1975), or a different Autopsy? The 1975 giallo looks like it might be the weirdest.
Caleb, I can add Fellini’s Cassanova—I’ve been waiting for that one to get a “real” DVD release for a while (c’mon, Criterion!).
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108069/
Whoops just saw this was already in the queue.
I have a personal collection of over 1,500 movies. I have seen them all and many more. I have all my weird movies indexed as such. So I compared my list with the main list here and what I saw of the queue. These are all the weird movies I don’t see listed here:
After Hours (1985), Being There (1979), Big Fish (2003), Come and See (1985), Communion (1989), Dr. Strangelove (1964), Easy Rider (1969), Eating Raoul (1982), Edward Scissorhands (1990), eXistenZ (1999), Hairspray (1988), Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985), Polyester (1981), Requiem for a Dream (2000) , Scott Pilgrim vs the World (2010), Secretary (2002), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), Solaris (2002), Spun (2002), Take Shelter (2011), The Illusionist (2006), The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000), The Number 23 (2007), The Others (2001) , The President’s Analyst (1967), and Twelve Monkeys (1995).
Out of those, I would start with The President’s Analyst (1967). It’s an all time fave of mine and most definitively weird.
Movies in the queue that I agree to be weird:
A Scanner Darkly (2006), Alphaville (1965), Blue Velvet (1986), Metropia (2009), Mr. Nobody (2009), Pink Flamingos (1972), The Tenant (1976), and Underground (1995).
Mel Arkey, I will add The President’s Analyst to the queue (I’m a little surprised it’s not there already). We do have reviews of a couple of the others you mentioned: After Hours has a very short reader review (but will get an official look later), and we chose to pass on adding Scott Pilgrim to the List (although I sometimes wonder if that was a mistake).
I’m glad to hear that The President’s Analyst will be added to the queue. Have you seen it? If not, do ASAP, before The Phone Company bans it again.
I’m glad that Scott Pilgrim was at least considered. Sure it’s ‘weird’ but I agree that it may fall a little short of the weirdness we are used too. It’s hipster weird.
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure for example is most definitively weird, but I can see how it may not fit into some people’s ideas of what weird is. I guess it’s too “funny ha ha” weird to be ‘weird’.
Mel, I did see at least part of The President’s Analyst on TV many years ago; enough to make me want to sit down and watch the whole thing from the beginning. I’m looking forward to it.
The Visitor (1979), The Last Circus (2010), Talk to Her (2002), Primer (2004), The Exterminating Angel (1962), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Re-Animator (1985), Timecrimes (2007), Southland Tales (2006), Stay (2005), Spider (2002), Army of Darkness (1992).