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.
1Day; 8 1/2 Women; The 10th Victim; 11:14; 12 Monkeys; “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″; Air Doll; Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams; “Alicia” (1994); Alien Alibi; Allegro; Alphaville; Alucarda; 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; As Filhas do Fogo; The Assignment: The Witches Talisman; The Atrocity Exhibition; Audition; Avida; Babe 2: Pig in the City; 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); Bhoner; Bibliotheque Pascal; Big Man Japan (official review); Big River Man; Big Time; “The Big Shave”; Birth of the Overfiend; Black Devil Doll; Blind Beast; Bliss; Blood for Dracula; Blue (1993, Jarman); Born of Fire; The Boxer’s Omen [aka Mo]; Boxing Helena; Brain Dead (1990, d. Adam Simon); Brain Dead [AKA Dead-Alive]; Brand Upon the Brain!; The Brave Little Toaster; Breakfast of Champions; Brick; “The Brothers Quay Collection”; Bruce Lee vs. Gay Power; Buddy Boy (1999); Buffet Froid; Burnt Offerings; La Cabina [AKA The Telephone Box]; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Cafe Flesh; Calamari Wrestler; Candy (1968); Cannibal! the Musical; Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death; Casshern; The Cat in the Hat; Celestial Wives Of Meadow Mari; Celine and Julie Go Boating; The Cell; The Cement Garden; Chappaqua; Charly: Dias de Sangre; Che strano chiamarsi Federico [How Strange to Be Named Federico]; Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things; Christmas on Mars; Christ the Movie; The Chumscrubber; La cicatrice intérieure; Citizen Dog; City of Pirates; City of Women; Color of Pomegranates; Come and See; Confessions; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; Conspirators of Pleasure; Coonskin; Crank: High Voltage; Crash (Cronenberg); La Cravate; Creating Rem Lezar; Creatures of Destiny; Crimewave; Criminal Lovers; Cutie Honey; Dance With The Devil; Dandy Dust; 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 (second review); Detention; The Devils; The Devil’s Chair; Diamond Flash; Dirty Duck; A Dog Called Pain; Dolls (2002); The Doom Generation; The Double Life of Veronique; Dreams That Money Can Buy; The Drifting Classroom; Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam; Drowning by Numbers; Drunken Wu Tang [AKA Taoism Drunkard]; Dumplings; The Earl Sessions; Earth Girls Are Easy; Edward II; Eika Katappa; Electric Dragon 80,000 V; The Element of Crime; Emperor Tomato Ketchup; Encounters at the End of the World; Endgame (2000); The End of Evangelion; The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser; Evil Ed; Excision; Executive Koala; Eyes Wide Shut; The Face of Another; The Fall; The Falls; Fando y Lis; Faust: Love of the Damned; Fear X; Feherlofia; Felidae; Felix the Cat: The Movie; Fellini’s Cassanova; Fiend (1980); Fiend Without a Face; The Fifth Season; Finisterrae; Flaming Creatures; The Fool and the Flying Ship; The Fountain; Four Rooms; The Fox Family; Frankehooker; Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster; Freeway; Frontier; Funeral Parade of Roses; Gahjini; Galaxy of Terror; Gandu; Genius Party; Gerry; The Giant Claw; The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai; “God Hates Cartoons”; The Godmonster of Indian Flats; Goodbye 20th Century; Gorod Zero; Green Snake; Grendel Grendel Grendel; Grimm Love; Haggard; Hair Extensions; Hands of God (2005, d. Alyson Levy); Hanger; “Hansel and Gretel” (T. Burton, 1983); Happiness; Hard Candy; “Harpya”; Head (re-review); Heartbeeps; Heart of Glass; Heavenly Creatures; Hitler: A Film from Germany; Homebodies (1974); “Hospital Brut”; Hotel (2001); House (1986); Hugo the Hippo; ‘Hukkunud Alpinisti’ hotell [Dead Mountaineers Hotel]; Human Highway; The Hunger (1983); I Am Here Now; Ichi the Killer; ID; Idaho Transfer; The Idiots; If…; I [Heart] Huckabees; The Illustrated Man; I’m Not There; Impolex; In a Glass Cage; “Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome,” Incubus; I Never Left the White Room; L’Inferno; Innocence (2004); In Search of the Titanic; Insidious (2010); In the Realm of the Senses; I Think We’re Alone Now; It’s Such a Beautiful Day; I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse; Jabberwocky; Jack and the Beanstalk (1974, Japan); Jigoku no Banken: Akai Megane [The Red Spectacles]; Johnny Aquarius; Journey to the West [Xi you]; Junkie; Kafka; Kárate a muerte en Torremolinos (depending on availability); The Keep; Killdozer; Killer Nun; Killer Condom; The Killing Room; King Lear (1987, Godard); Koyaanisqatsi; Krysar (AKA The Pied Piper of Hamelin); Kung Pow; Lakki… The Boy Who Could Fly (AKA Lakki… The Boy Who Grew Wings); The Last Days of Planet Earth; Last Life in the Universe; The Last Sunset; The Last Wave; Last Year in Marienbad; Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural; Let the Right One In; Liquid Sky (re-review); Litan; Little Deaths; Little Murders; Live Freaky! Die Freaky!; The Living and the Dead; Lo; Love Me If You Dare; Lovers on the Bridge; Lucia (2013); Lucky; Mad Detective; The Magic Toyshop; The Magus; Man Facing Southeast; The Manipulator; Marebito; Marketa Lazarova; Marutirtha Hinglaj; Master of the Flying Guillotine; Matador; Mazeppa; Me and You and Everyone We Know; Mécanix; Meet the Feebles; Meet the Hollowheads; Memento Mori; Memoirs of a Survivor; Mermaid in a Manhole; Messiah of Evil; Metropia; Mickey One; The Midnight After; Midnight Ballad for Ghost Theater; “The Mighty Boosh” (TV show); The Million Dollar Hotel; Mind Game; Moebius (1996); Mom (1986); Monday (depending on availability); Monobloc; Mon Oncle; “The Monster of Nix”; “Mouse Soup”; Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium; Multiple Maniacs; Murder Party; Mutant Aliens; Myra Breckenridge; The Mysterians; Mystics in Bali; Nails; Neighbors; Neji-shiki [AKA Screwed]; Never Belongs To Me; The Neverending Story; Nick the Feature Film; Night of the Lepus; Night on the Galactic Express; The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz; The Ninth Configuration; Nitwit; Noroi; No Smoking; Nuit Noire; Of Freaks and Men; Om Dar-B-Dar; One Eyed Monster; “One Soldier”; Only God Forgives; On the Silver Globe; Open Your Eyes; Operation: Endgame; Organ; Le Orme [AKA Footprints on the Moon]; Orpheus; “The Ossuary”; Overdrawn at the Memory Bank; Palindromes; Paperhouse; Parents; Passages From Finnegans Wake; The Passion of Darkly Noon; Pastoral Hide and Seek; Peeping Tom; Perfect Blue; Perfect Sense (2011); Period Piece; Phase IV; Philosophy of a Knife; Pierrot Le Fou; Pink Narcissus; The Pit; The Point; Pola X; Porcile [AKA Pigpen]; The Pornographers; Portrait of Jennie; Possession (official re-review); Post Tenebras Lux; Poultrygeist; Predestination (2014); “Premium” (if it can be found); The President’s Analyst; Príncipe Azul; “Prometheus’ Garden”; A Pure Formality; Quicksilver Highway; The Quiet Earth; A Quiet Place in the Country; R100; “Rabbits”; Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure; Rampo Noir; La Razon de Mi Vida; Reflections of Evil; Return of the Living Dead; Return to Oz (official review); Revolver; Riki-Oh: The Story of Riki; Rock n’ Roll High School; Roller Blade; 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; The Sea That Thinks; A Scanner Darkly; Schramm; Screamplay; The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb; The Shape of Things; Shinbone Alley; The Shining; The Shout; The Signal; Singapore Sling (official re-review); Sir Henry at Rawlinson End; Sitcom; Skeletons; Slaughterhouse Five; SLC Punk; 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 (official re-review); Space Thang; A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness; Spermula; Sphere; The Spirit; Spirited Away; Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds; Spirits of the Dead; Spookies; “Star Maidens” (TV show); Static; Strange Circus; Strangers in Paradise; Stroszek; Suddenly Last Summer; Suicide Club (re-review); Surviving Life: Theory and Practice; Svidd neger (depending on availability); Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song; Symbol; Takeshis’; Talking Head; Talk to Her; Tammy and the T-Rex; Tampopo; Tank Girl; Tasher Desh; The Taste of Tea; Teknolust; The Tenant; Terror 2000; La Teta y La Luna; That Day; That Deadwood Feeling; Themroc; Theodore Rex; They Came Back; Things; This Filthy Earth; Three Caballeros; Three… Extremes; Thriller: A Cruel Picture; Throw Away Your Books Rally in the Streets; Thundercrack!; THX 1138; Tierra; Time Masters; Titicut Follies; Der Todersking; Tomorrow Night; Totò che visse due volte; Tourist Trap (1979); Tout Va Bien; Toys ; The Tracey Fragments; Troll 2; “Turkish Star Wars” [Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam]; The Twonky; Uncle Meat; Underground; Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer; Uzumaki [AKA Spiral] (official re-review); Vakvagany; Vase de Noces; Vegas in Space; Vermillion Souls; Versus; Vigasiosexploitation; Visions of Suffering; Visitor of a Museum [Posetitel muzeya]; Waiting for Godot; Waltz with Bashir; The War Zone; Wave Twisters; Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees; We Are the Strange; Welcome to the Dollhouse; Where the Dead Go to Die; White Tiger; Wicked City (1992 live-action version); Wild at Heart; “Wild Palms”; Wild Tigers I Have Known; Wings of Desire; Wise Blood ; Without Warning; A Woman’s Face (1940); Womb; Wool 100%; W.R.-Mysteries of the Organism; Yesterday Was a Lie; You Never Can Tell (1951); Zachariah; A Zed and Two Noughts
Hi Mr. Smalley.
First of all, I must congratulate you on the making (and maintenance) of such a wonderful site. It’s getting increasingly difficult to find movie criticism like this!
My suggestion is a 1928 german dadaist short called “Ghosts Before Breakfast”. I think it’s essential, considering that it might very well be one of the first surreal/dadaist experiments on film. This is particularly relevant when you remember that “Un Chien Andalou” was released one year later.
I’m looking for a weird movie it is one guy in the movie mostly there’s a neighbor girl to live in an apartment red curly really wild hair does a lot of crazy stuff in his apartment ironing board hit him in the head he sticks his head in a fish tank he leaves gets in a Volkswagen and drive somewhere looks like a junkyard and e-books a big chain up to his Volkswagen many other part is soaked to the wall looks like a concrete wall man tries to pull it off and he’s on the wall like he’s a bug both date both hands are on the wall pulling the chain please it to anyone its driving me crazy I need to know the name of this movie or the actor that played he may have been wearing a red curly wig but he was absolutely crazy in the movie and I’m living with something like mother saves the day or he saved the day I cannot remember
Silver Heads by yevgeny yufit[russian necrorealism movie 1998]
pigs made by kwnstadina kotzamanh [greek surreal short movie 2011/ new greek weird wave]
Walker (I) (2012)[short malaysian movie]
this movie is about a monk who walks
Sorry for the lateness of my reply, sometimes I can only get back to this page once a week.
Rafael Moreira: Thanks, and I can add Ghosts Before Breakfast into the queue. For those who can’t wait for a review it’s in the public domain and less than 7 minutes long, so you can look at it now if you like.
kathy caruso: wrong spot for that request, we recommend you ask here instead.
mi: I can add Silver Heads to the end of the queue for you.
Fathersday (2011) directed by astron 6
and Meet the Feebles (1989) directed by Peter Jackson
are two strange ones that you haven’t covered yet
Hi,
I would like to suggest ten films for your website.
– Perfect Blue (1997)
– Liquid Sky (1983)
– The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
– Wrong (2012)
– Doctor Faustus (1968)
– Play Misty for Me (1971)
– Dead Again (1991)
– The Cool World (1992)
– State Park (1988)
– The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988)
Thank you, bye.
Oops! Sorry guys, I forgot to check up on this thread.
Peter, Fathers Day is covered here and Meet the Feebles is already in the queue above.
Claudia V, Perfect Blue and Liquid Sky are already in the queue, Wrong is reviewed here and Serpent and the Rainbow here. Of those others, I will add Cool World to the queue. Thanks for reading all!
I would like to suggest some weird movies:
A Trip to the Moon (1902 Short film)
Big Fish (2003)
Freaks (1932)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) [not any of the remakes]
Some more movies
The Thing (1982)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Creepshow (1982)
Troll (1986)
Dolls (1987)
9 (2009)
Jack Frost (1997)
Re-Animator (1985)
Din of Celestial Birds (2006)
Moon (2009)
Caligula (1979)
People Who Do Noise (2008)
Weird horror movies not on your list
*Village of the Damned (1960/1955)
*The Blood Waters of Dr. Z [AKA Zaat / Hydra / Attack of the Swamp Creatures / Legend of the Zaat Monster] (1971)
*Jack Frost (1998)
*Candyman (1992)
*The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
*My Name Is Bruce (2007)
*People Who Do Noise (2008) it’s a documentary but weird*
Interstellar (2014)
Nick: some of those are already in the queue, but surprisingly, not Big Fish, which I will add.
Mitch (are you two guys roommates?): I suppose I could add the classic original Village of the Damned (1960) into the queue.
I suggest the original ‘Basket Case’ movie (dir. Frank Henenlotter), and I didn’t see Tod Browning’s ‘Freaks’ in your list. Thanks for this terrific site!
Thanks Susan! You’re just a little late with your suggestions though.
Basket Case
Freaks
Freaks is still “alive” for the List.
I’d second One Point O (2004) and The Signal (2007). Both are my favorite weird sci-fi movies. Also Dark Mind (2006) is excellent.
Hello guys, I love your site. I’ve been visiting this place for about 3 years now, and for a weird film collector, this site is a blessing.
Here are some weird film suggestions.
W.R. Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
The Ninth Configuration (1980)
The Fourth Man/ De Vierde Man (1983)
The Boxer’s Omen/Mo (1983)
Bliss (1985)
Goodbye 20th Century/Zbogum na dvaesettiot vek! (1998)
Keep doing what you’re doing!
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Weird but good movie. Even weirder and better novel.
Christophe: I don’t think you can second any of those because I don’t think they’ve been firsted yet! I’ll put One Point O (2004) into the queue.
TheRealFolkBruce, you will find almost all of those titles already in the review queue (The Ninth Configuration is up first and should be reviewed before the end of June). The only exception is The 4th Man, which I had thought was in there but isn’t. I’ll add it.
Anton: read Andreas Stoehr’s thoughts on Perfume here.
I remember a movie that I saw on TV in the 1970’s or 1980’s. It was set in rural Britain, probably made in Britain as well, about a gang of teenagers. The leader is an ambitious son of a local witch who gives him god-like powers. But they abuse their powers, and she, being a good witch, finally has misgivings. She undoes the powers she had given them. I can’t remember the title of the movie.
Try asking here: http://irememberthismovie.com/what-was-that-movie/
Hi there, I LOVE that you’ve done this because I’m a weird movie aficionado.
I’m quite surprised that Tod Browning’s Freaks from 1932(?) isn’t on the list.
I know it’s weird enough.
Someone above suggested Freaks– sorry!!
Of course, I assume you know that Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster Cycle” is probably as weird as films get. Unfortunately, due to how he gets films financed (by selling props as artworks and only offering DVDs at prohibitively expensive rates), the Cremaster films can only be viewed through pirated means. Still, Cremaster 2 and Cremaster 3 would certainly qualify as “certifiably weird.”
http://www.cremaster.net/#
I see that John Waters’ Multiple Maniacs is on the list, but I think his first feature Mondo Trasho is even weirder. It has no live audio; just literally dozens of needle drops that stop and start like someone with ADD is playing with a radio. It features an amusingly shabby proto-Divine and other Dreamlanders in a series of…. vignettes? Is it a fairy tale? Religious allegory?? Anyways, worth a look (though it does begin with some animal cruelty).
Could have sworn I’ve suggested it before, maybe I just thought I did because its not in the queue.
Neil Young’s Journey Through the Past.
Wristcutters
Definitely strange, very weird, and extremely gripping.
Steve: we mention Cremaster here. We’ll keep a slot open for it, but Barney will probably never authorize a video or digital release.
Tally: We can provisionally add Mondo Trasho to the queue, but once again the fact that it hasn’t been released except on VHS is a stumbling block.
Brad: Neil Young’s Human Highway is in queue, maybe that’s the one you recommended? Anyway I suppose I can put Journey Through the Past in there too.
funduhmentalist: I liked Wristcutters but did not think it was quite weird enough for our list.
Smalley, I have to admit that I acquired Mondo Trasho with the aid of something that rhymes with schmorrent. Um… wink.
https://vimeo.com/127964747
This suggestion can’t possibly be a coincidence. Check back on the site tomorrow.
A Midnight Clear (1992) is a really weird war movie that isn’t on the list–as is Apocalypse Now (I’m not sure what that isn’t on the list). Lords of Salem, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Wrong Cops, and Death Race 2000 are also weird movies that I didn’t see on the list.
In my humble opinion, putting a bunch of horror movies or other genre films on this site would dilute its purpose. No matter how good they are or how many weird elements are in them, if it’s a genre movie it isn’t weird enough. That is why I object to “Vertigo” being on the list (wonderful film, but too much of a genre picture).
Max: I’m not sold on the idea that A Midnight Clear is a weird movie, someone else would have to second that suggestion. Apocalypse Now certainly has weird moments, though, and I think we should at least mention it. The other movies you mention were all considered and rejected (sorry, I’m too lazy to link them all right now, use the search function or look them up on this page-scroll down to “capsules and guest reviews” or search in-page).
Steve: Sorry, I can’t agree with a blanket rule against including “genre” pictures. I can’t even properly define what is or is not a genre movie. I wouldn’t want to exclude Tarkovsky’s great weird films because they are technically science fiction, for example. Weirdness is most important; as long as it is not conventional, we do not care about genre.
AN 80’s movie where a woman lived in a train car. But the movie wasn’t about her living in it. It was based on something else. For some reason I want to say it had the word moon in the title and thought the actress was Debra Winger, but I guess not.
Thanks in advance!
Two Jonathan Demme films I think would make great reviews, either “Stop Making Sense”, the Talking Heads concert film, or “Something Wild”.
Tai: try asking here: http://irememberthismovie.com/what-was-that-movie/
Brad: I could add Something Wild.
Shh The octopus 1937
(Review suggestion)
That’s an interesting suggestion, something I had not heard of before. Thanks, I’ll put it in the queue!
“Lost River” definitely deserves consideration. Excellent dreamlike portrayal of life in modern Detroit that definitely charts on weird imagination. Profound and haunting. Highly recommended!
Geez, I answered this one: where did my message disappear to? Steve, have no fear, I’m 99% certain we’ll get to Lost River before the year is out.
Son of the White Mare
Whilst “Watership Down” has been mentioned on this site, I’d like to nominate Rosen’s later animated effort “The Plague Dogs”, not so much for its content but the fact that this film was actually made (who greenlit a film about a pair of dogs going through hell, and then tried to sell it as an adventure film), as well as its exceedingly nihilistic and morbid tone (all for a story about talking dogs!)
For starters, the original novel is a sloppy, and rather naive, rant about animal testing and goes to great lengths about the scientists and journalists are horrible people and whatever. The film cuts all that and makes them more ambiguous, implying that they may actually be in the right for wanting to destroy the dogs.
surprised there is no ‘The Hourglass Sanatorium’, 1973 polish film. Martin Scorsese and Bjork love it. this movie is like what this site is about, come on
Steve M: Look above for your answer.
Skott: Good idea but Son of the White Mare is in the queue already, under it’s original title, Feherlofia.
Jamie: I can add Plague Dogs into the queue.
LLL: Hourglass Sanitorium is already a List Candidate. We’d like to wait a bit and see if it gets a DVD release here in the U.S. (it seems like a great Criterion Collection candidate). With 159 of 366 slots still remaining to be filled, we figure we can wait on it.
I don’t see Electric Dream (1984) anywhere in the queue .
The Wizard of Speed and Time (1989)
Tusk (2014)
A U.S. podcaster (Justin Long) ventures into the Canadian wilderness to interview an old man (Michael Parks) who has an extraordinary past, and the American learns the man has a dark secret involving a walrus.
I think what made the movie really weird was seeing Justin Long’s character inside of a walrus costume made of multiple pieces of skin. Thats an image that you don’t forget. I figured it was worth mentioning
I can add Electric Dreams and Wizard of Speed and Time into the queue.
Sorry, Andrew, but we passed on adding Tusk as one of the weirdest movies of all time, although I agree with you that the makeup was remarkable.
A few movies I didn’t see on here
Blade Runner
Horror Express
Damned! (that one movie that Murr from Impractical Jokers made)
http://www.trutv.com/shows/impractical-jokers/videos/damned-the-movie.html
A Midnight Clear
City of the Living Dead
Return of the Living Dead
The City of Lost Children
Motel Hell
Okay, there’s no Michael Haneke on the official review queue, and I’m not sure if anyone mentioned this in the comments of things to hopefully be added, but I option the film Funny Games, and I’d go with the American remake in 2008. I believe this WILL make the List before the initial 366 is up. Keyword in initial because I assume that when the 366 is up there naturally needs to be an additional list to extend beyond the 366 as far as new weirdest films are discovered, in the same way that there are five books in Douglas Adams’ Hitchihker’s Guide trilogy. But yeah, Funny Games. It’s gonna be on the list, has to be. Along with Punch-Drunk Love. But it’s weirder than that.
Renaissance (2006), probably not one of the weirdest films ever. Weird by “general standards”, but it’d make for a good review for the site.
Okay, I know you probably don’t need any more viewing suggestions and I believe someone else suggested this already, but Francis Coppola’s “Youth Without Youth” is quite possibly his weirdest film and ranks with the more bizarre parts of “The Conversation,” “Apocalypse Now” and “Rumble Fish.” I loved how unpredictable it was and the sheer pictorial beauty of the production. It’s all about time, language, culture, and identity displacement. Some things are familiar, such as division of a personality, and yes there is a romance at the center, but there are enough surprises to keep it weird.
Kin-dza-dza! (1986) – Soviet science-fiction absurdist-comedy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091341/
Black Moon (1975) – French fantasy absurdism
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072709/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Angel’s Egg (1985) – Japanese fantasy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208502/
Fruit of Paradise (1970) – Czechoslovak surrealism
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064781/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Geez guys, you sure are keeping me busy keeping track of your suggestions! I’m going to address them fairly briefly.
(By the way, if you really feel strongly about any of these, any of you are invited to submit a “reader recommendation.”)
Mick Bornson: Some of those do have reviews here (check this page for a complete review list) and some others are in the queue already. I’ll take your suggestion of Motel Hell, however.
clk: Our reviewer said “no” to Funny Games. I could still overrule her down the line, but I prefer to focus on watching new films first. Sorry.
And Brad, you actually talked me out of Renaissance when you said it wasn’t one of the weirdest films ever. 😉
Steve: I will add Youth Without Youth.
russa03: Please check back tomorrow. I am going to add Kin-Dza-Dza, though, because I have always wanted to see it and I see there is finally an English-language DVD out.
Following (1998) the Nolan movie is also another one that is pretty weird.
Happy End (1967) – Czechoslovak absurdist comedy. I’m going to try writing a reader recommendation for this as it is one of my favourite films and it’s so unique. The main attribute is all the footage is backwards but the story progress forwards. The main character describes his life but as he sees it in this reversed order: his death becomes his birth, prison life is school and so on. So many beautiful and bizarre scenes like the protagonist assembling his wife, a man flying through a several storey window from the ground, people producing food from their mouths and the conversations are all given new meaning.
Have a look a with the link, unfortunately the subtitles are very poor but you can get an idea of the film. A campaign must be started to get this a proper English-language DVD release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXXX2elMq8c