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. Also, the days of these suggestions may be numbered as we get closer to the completion of the List.
1Day; The 4th Man; 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″; 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; Anguish [Angustia]; Anna and the Wolves; 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; Baby of Macon; Bad Lieutenant; Bad Taste; Bad Timing (AKA Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession); Battle in Heaven; Beauty and the Beast (1978); The Beguiled; Belladonna of Sadness; Berberian Sound Studio; Bernie (1996) (depending on availability); Bhoner; Bibliotheque Pascal; The Big Crime Wave [AKA Crime Wave]; Big Fish; 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; Brothers of the Head; “The Brothers Quay Collection”; Bruce Lee vs. Gay Power; Bubble Bath; Buddy Boy (1999); Buffet Froid; Burnt Offerings; La Cabina [AKA The Telephone Box]; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Cafe Flesh; Calimari Union; Calamari Wrestler; Candy (1968); Cannibal! the Musical; Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death; Casshern; Catch-22; The Cat in the Hat; Celestial Wives Of Meadow Mari; Celine and Julie Go Boating; The Cement Garden; Chappaqua; Charly: Dias de Sangre; Che strano chiamarsi Federico [How Strange to Be Named Federico]; Christ the Movie; The Chumscrubber; La cicatrice intérieure; Citizen Dog; City of Pirates; City of Women; Color of Pomegranates; Coming Apart; Confessions; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; Cool World; 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); Decoder; 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; Einstein’s Brain [AKA Relics: Einstein’s Brain]; Electric Dragon 80,000 V; Electric Dreams; The Element of Crime; Emperor Tomato Ketchup; Encounters at the End of the World; Endgame (2000); The End of August at the Hotel Ozone; The End of Evangelion; Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend; Evil Ed; Excision; Executive Koala; The Face of Another; The Falls; Fateful Findings; Fatty Drives the Bus; 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; Fish Story; Flaming Creatures; Following; The Fool and the Flying Ship; The Fountain; Four Rooms; The Fox Family; Frankehooker; Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster; Freeway; Frequencies [AKA XVO: The Manual]; Frontier; Funeral Parade of Roses; Future War; Gahjini; Galaxy of Terror; Gandu; Genius Party; Gerry; “Ghosts Before Breakfast “; The Giant Claw; The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai; “God Hates Cartoons”; The Godmonster of Indian Flats; Golem (1980) (depending on availability); Goodbye 20th Century; Gorod Zero; Green Snake; Grendel Grendel Grendel; Grimm Love; Gwen le Livre de Sable; Haggard; Hair Extensions; Hands of God (2005, d. Alyson Levy); Hanger; “Hansel and Gretel” (T. Burton, 1983); Hanzo the Razor; Happiness; Happy End (Czech, depending on availability); Hard Candy; “Harpya”; Heartbeeps; Helter Skelter (2012); Hentai Kamen; 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); Hysteria; I Am Here Now; I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle; Ichi the Killer; Idaho Transfer; The Idiots; If…; I [Heart] Huckabees; I Married a Strange Person; I’m Not There; Impolex; In a Glass Cage; “Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome,” Incubus; I Never Left the White Room; L’Inferno; 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 Through the Past; 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; Kin-Dza-Dza; 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 Wave; Last Year in Marienbad; Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural; Let the Right One In; LFO; Liquid Sky (re-review); Litan; Little Deaths; Little Murders; Live Freaky! Die Freaky!; The Living and the Dead; Lo; The Loved One; Love Me If You Dare; Lucia (2013); Lucky; Mad Detective; Magdalena Viraga; The Magic Toyshop; The Magus; Man Facing Southeast; The Manipulator; Marebito; Marketa Lazarova; Marutirtha Hinglaj; Matador; “Max Headroom” (TV); 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; Le Météore; Metropia; Mickey One; The Midnight After; Midnight Ballad for Ghost Theater; Midori; “The Mighty Boosh” (TV show); The Million Dollar Hotel; Mind Game; The Mirror [Zerkalo]; Moebius (1996); Mom (1986); Monday (depending on availability); Mondo Trasho; Monobloc; Mon Oncle; “The Monster of Nix”; Motel Hell; “Mouse Soup”; Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium; Murder Party; Mutant Aliens; Myra Breckenridge; The Mysterians; The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians; Mystery Men; Mystics in Bali; Naboer [Next Door]; Nails; Neighbors; Neji-shiki [AKA Screwed]; Never Belongs To Me; The Neverending Story; Nick the Feature Film; The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz; Nitwit; Noroi; No Smoking; Nuit Noire; Om Dar-B-Dar; One Eyed Monster; One Point O; “One Soldier”; Onibaba; Only God Forgives; On the Silver Globe; Open Your Eyes; Operation: Endgame; Organ; Le Orme [AKA Footprints on the Moon]; The Outskirts; Overdrawn at the Memory Bank; Overturn; Palindromes; Paperhouse; Parents; Passages From Finnegans Wake; The Passion of Darkly Noon; Pastoral Hide and Seek; Perfect Blue; Perfect Sense (2011); Period Piece; Phase IV; Philosophy of a Knife; Pierrot Le Fou; Pink Narcissus; The Pit; Plague Dogs; The Point; Pola X; Porcile [AKA Pigpen]; Portrait of Jennie; Possession (official re-review); Post Tenebras Lux; Poultrygeist; “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; “Rabbits”; Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure; 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; Rows; 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; Shock! Shock! Shock!; The Shout; Sh! The Octopus; The Signal; Silver Heads; 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; Something Weird; Something Wild; Sonatine; Space Is the Place (official re-review); Space Thang; A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness; Spermula; Sphere; The Spirit; Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds; Spirits of the Dead; Spookies; “Star Maidens” (TV show); Static; Strange Circus; Strangers in Paradise; Suddenly Last Summer; Suicide Club (re-review); Survive Style 5+; Surviving Life: Theory and Practice; Svidd neger (depending on availability); Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song; Symbol; Tag (2015); 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; Three Caballeros; Three… Extremes; Thriller: A Cruel Picture; Throw Away Your Books Rally in the Streets; Thundercrack!; THX 1138; Tierra; Time Masters; Titicut Follies; 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]; Turn in Your Grave; The Twonky; Uncle Meat; Underground; Until the End of the World; Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer; Uzumaki [AKA Spiral] (official re-review); Vakvagany; Vase de Noces; Vegas in Space; Vermillion Souls; Versus; Vigasiosexploitation; Village of the Damned (1960); 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; Werckmeister Harmonies; Where the Dead Go to Die; White Tiger; Wicked City (1992 live-action version); “Wild Palms”; Wild Tigers I Have Known; Wings of Desire; Wise Blood ; Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies; Without Warning; A Woman’s Face (1940); Womb; Wool 100%; A Writer of Ghost Stories; W.R.-Mysteries of the Organism; You Never Can Tell (1951); Youth Without Youth; Zachariah.
That’s a pretty great list of films under consideration. Of the one’s I’ve seen, the “no-brainer” selections seem to be (The Big) Crime Wave, Emperor Tomato Ketchup, I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse, Mind Game, Nuit Noire, and Survive Style 5+
Also dearly love Bibliotheque Pascal, Feherlofia, and Celine and Julie Go Boating.
Have long wanted to see On the Silver Globe.
I would love to nominate “Gory Gory Hallelujah” for inclusion. In my humble opinion, a Christian flesh-eating zombie musical directed by the Von Piglet Sisters is just what the 366 list needs to feel good about itself. I was lucky enough to catch this one in the theater; I also have it on DVD, a gift from the Von Piglet Sisters themselves that I will treasure always. Other possibilities for inclusion: “Female Trouble,” “Fatty Girl Goes to New York,” (why, why, WHY does Miris toss carrots during the wedding scene?), “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” “Chopper Chicks in Zombietown,” and the classic gay biker film from 1971, “Pink Angels.” (I now apologize if any of these films have already been reviewed and rejected. There is so much to see and do on this website, I haven’t had time to assimilate it all).
Red, White and Zero (1967) aka The White Bus (original title)
An impassive young girl is taken from her suicidal London life, back to her home in North England on a bizarre bus trip. Seen through the poetic eye of the camera, this is a commentary of doomed British morbidity. Director: Lindsay Anderson
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061181/
Unless I missed it, it looks like there’s no Tsai Ming-liang films in the suggested movies listings. They could all be contenders, but I’d suggest The Hole (1998) http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-hole Why? An unexplained virus affecting people of Taiwan with cockroach-like symptoms forces the government to call for evacuation. Some people don’t evacuate, however, and when a hole is created and left in the the floor of one tenant’s apartment in an attempt to fix a leak, tensions arise with the neighbor below — and a blossoming love develops, as represented by song and dance interludes in this impossibly wet, apocalyptic vision of the near future.
Actually, B., Tsai Ming-liang’s Journey to the West is in the queue (and we are still considering The Wayward Cloud). I can add The Hole but considering the length of the queue anything that far down is going to be a while.
And I didn’t forget Andrew’s suggestion either (at the bottom of the previous page), Wishmaster 2 is going in the queue too.
I vaguely remember you commenting once that you were hoping to find a legitimately weird documentary. Perhaps F Is for Fake is that documentary? It certainly goes about being a documentary in a weird way.
But we did find a legitimately weird documentary: Sans Soleil. Still, we could put someone on the case of Welles’ prankish F for Fake someday.
Human nature directed by Michel gondry and written by Charlie kaufman is perfect for this list. I’m deathly surprised it’s not on here already.
Ah yes, the “other” Charlie Kaufman movie. You’re right, we should take a look at it. I’ll add it to the queue.
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Fantastic, beautifully designed site. My #1 choice would be the astonishingly ahead-of-its-time 1977 black comedy ANDY WARHOL’S BAD, but it’s almost impossible to see a decent & uncut print. It’s sad when a 1.33 squashed laserdisc from 1987 is your best viewing option. Any DVD’s you’d find are bootlegged 4×3 garbage. So next nominations: 1) ALICE, SWEET ALICE, a 1976 regional horror thriller that’s one of the few American films to capture the Giallo vibe, even while set in dreary overcast early 60’s Paterson, NJ. A truly eccentric, disturbing little classic CRAMMED with weirdness. Laced with a sizable vein of camp histrionics that do nothing to lessen the creepiness. And just shuddering at 8-year-old debuting supporting actress Brooke Shields’ mom reading this effed-up script & bellowing “SIGN ‘ER UP!” is a special thrill all its own. The American DVD looks like crap but there’s a great uncut UK one from 88 Films. 2) BRIMSTONE & TREACLE (1982), a twisted Dennis Potter piece taped for English TV then banned by the BBC. Remade with imaginative & stylish panache with a perfect tiny cast, including an excellent pre-nose-job Sting in the lead. 3) BUTCHER BAKER NIGHTMARE MAKER aka Night Warning (1982). One of the strangest & most delicious freaks from the post-HALLOWEEN slasher boom, it’s firmly in the BABY JANE Psycho-Biddy genre and the amazing Susan Tyrrell is the Queen of Batshit as eccentric Aunt Cheryl, raising orphaned nubile teen nephew Jimmy McNichol (!) with wacky good humor until they’re sucked into a bloody, homoerotic (!!) vortex of madness & murder. Perky young Julia Duffy’s semi-nudity as Jimmy’s GF is the most tasteful element in it. From AIP Beach movie & I Love Lucy director Bill Asher. Code Red finally put out a great DVD. P.S. I’ve been collecting salacious & macabre original film posters since age 3 and recently converted my pushing-4K hoard into WestgateGallery.com, a movie-art webstore featuring items from many on your list from all over the world. I’d love to offer your readers 25% off any 1st order, no exclusions or expiration and would be honored & grateful to be added to your esteemed list of links! Here’s a piece from artblog LATaco about the gallery show I had last summer: http://www.lataco.com/westgate-gallery/ Thanks very much! Christian, Poster Concierge
Actually, out of those, I will add Andy Warhol’s Bad. By the time we get to it years from now, it may well be available.
We won’t put commercial sites in the blogroll except under very special circumstances, but http://westgategallery.com/ looks like a nice site for rare cult movie and XXX posters. Anytime you make a comment on an article you can get another free backlink.
That’s very nice of you. There was one other 80s film that at first glance seems the opposite of weird, since it’s from that most overplayed of post-ANIMAL HOUSE genres, the Sexually Preoccupied Raunchy Youth Comedy. But strip off the obnoxious Chess King/Contempo Casuals wardrobe and (amazeballs) chirpy matching New Wave soundtrack selects and discover its bizarrely poison heart which rivals Fassbinder & Solondz at their most brutally corrosive. It’s a catalog of bizarre sexual humiliations and casual betrayals bereft of all hope & compassion, stopping just short of depicting the teen suicide it surely would have had Cannon insisted it run 5 minutes longer. It is certainly the weirdest 80s teen “comedy” ever made & as riveting as the Menendez trial.
Of course I’m talking about THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN. Sorry.
“The Great McGonagall”, 1974. A psychedelic/slapstick biopic of William McGonagall of Dundee, Scotland, acclaimed as the worst poet in the history of the English language. Spike Milligan plays the man himself, while Peter Sellers plays his muse, Queen Victoria. The highlight of the movie is the poet and the queen reciting “The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay”, while Prince Albert plays a steam-powered pipe organ that also projects a pornographic slide show.
It’s out of print, unfortunately, but I found an old (possibly bootleg) VHS tape. Maybe you can keep it in mind, in case it ever gets the release that it deserves.
Sorry I’m late getting back to this thread. Also, sorry Christian, but I are not with you on The Last American Virgin‘s weirdness (I know of no truly weird teen sex comedies—maybe James Hong’s Teen Lust?)
Mike B: I can add The Great McGonagall to the queue and, as you suggest, worry about it if and when it gets a release.
A new trio of tries: HEAT (1972) — The Factory goes Hollywood in Paul Morrissey’s blisteringly funny send-up of SUNSET BLVD., which was until the million-dollar, non-Morrissey BAD (1977), the Andy Warhol production that most resembled a “real” movie. Mostly shot at the long-gone rock & roll icon, the Tropicana Motel on Santa Monica Blvd & La Cienega, where ex-child star Joe Dallesandro inflames the predatory loins of three rivetingly nightmarish ladies — irascible innkeeper Pat Ast, delusional divorcee/game-show panelist Sylvia Miles, and her wacked-out bratty daughter Andrea Feldman. Eerily ageless & peppered with unforgettable, inspired grotesquerie.
THE HONEYMOON KILLERS (1970) The sole directorial credit of Leonard Kastle is an astonishingly assured, wickedly witty doomed romance between 250-pound Alabama head nurse Martha Beck (a powerful Shirley Stoler) and her swindling gigolo Latin lover Ray Fernandez (an equally brilliant Tony LoBianco) that doesn’t skimp on the horror of their true-life crime spree preying on marriage-minded matrons met through lonely-hearts personal ads.
3. PRIVATE PARTS (1972) Long-before Howard Stern published his memoir, Paul Bartel made his feature debut with this “Nancy Drew In An Old Dark House” mystery/horror thriller, Sleazy 70’s style, as a pouty teen runaway hides out in Weird Aunt Martha’s L.A. Skid Row hotel, home to leather-freaks, peeping toms, blow-up-doll enthusiasts & a psychotic killer. Roger Corman rescued Bartel from career-oblivion when a mortified MGM shelved this after a legendary idiotic disaster preview with PG-rated monster movies packed with kids and their appalled parents.
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I can add Heat to the queue. We already reviewed Private Parts (years ago).
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Just saw this trailer and knew it had to have a home here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrK1f4TsQfM
Swiss Army Man, a film with Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe. Dano stars as a man stranded on a deserted island and hopeless, until he runs into Radcliffe…’s corpse. He finds not only is Daniel not quite dead, but he’s also a multipurpose tool, like a machine gun, grappling hook launcher, speedboat, etc.
Can’t wait to see this one, I’ve watched the trailer a few times. Looks pleasantly odd.
This movie seems like it would fit this site better than the majority of listings you have at this time. It is very bizarre and obscure. Filmed in early to mid 60’s: An aunt takes her young nephew on a Caribbean vacation with his dead uncle, who usually stays in a closet. I read the description in either a Lenard Maltin or “At the movies” compilation but cannot remember the title, but remember it received a favorable review. Because of the time period this one would not have made it to a television release. If you actually are really into weird movies, it would be worth your time to find it. I’m going to try, but lack the resources you probably have. Thank you for your consideration. Mike.
I’m afraid that description doesn’t ring any bells. Do let us know if you figure it out.
Oh Dad, Poor Dad (Momma’s Hung You In the Closet & I’m Feeling So Sad) – filmed 1965, released 1967.
Oh yeah, I know that one by title only, not by plot summary, lol. I’ll add it to the queue.
Thanks, just bought a copy on vhs for $50! Robert Morse & Jonathan Winters among others in 1965. Even if it’s not great, the weirdness factor makes it worth owning!
Bad Ronald – not in the list or queue, maybe it’s been presented before–to bazaar to have not been considered at least.
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
“Greaves creates a circular meta-documentary about a documentary, a documentary about a documentary, and a documentary documenting a documentary about a documentary. All of this is Greaves’s attempt to capture reality on film, using cameras in the right places at inopportune moments to discourage any short improvisations or unnatural events that might take place.”
Hardcore Henry
I expected a typical action movie with a new twist, what I got was a twisted action movie with a fucking song and dance number smack-dab in the middle.
Russ (very top of page): Thanks, you can’t imagine how relieved I am that you didn’t try to add to the list!
Michael George: To try to keep the queue down (it’s not working), we don’t take back-to-back suggestions from a single individual. If you come back again we’ll look at Bad Ronald.
Russa03: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm is worth a look.
Philip Stranger: I am skeptical about Hardcore Henry. I may end up seeing it but no promises for a review unless someone else wants to second your opinion that it’s a weird movie.
I’m not sure if you guys ever considered it, but I personally think Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 as a whole is a pretty strange movie. Maybe a little too talkie to be a certified weird film, but strange none the less. There is a bunch a strange and surreal occurrences in this film, and here are 8 reasons why it should make the list:
1. The over-saturated colors — This is Tarantino’s most vibrantly colored film. The crayon box coloring makes it look as if it’s a live action cartoon.
2. The mixture of various genres — This film pulls influences from a multitude of various genres such as 70’s grind house exploitation, Shaw Brothers kung fu, Italian horror, and spaghetti westerns upon several others; mixing styles all the way from Sergio Leone, to Brian De Palma. The fact that this film blends so many completely different genres so seamlessly to make a coherent film is weird on it’s own.
3. The infamous revenge siren — As tremendous of a fan I am of this film, I still don’t know what to call these episodes the Bride has throughout the movie. It’s where every time she first encounter’s and old foe, the screen goes red, and a strange ear-piercing siren emanates followed by the sharp blare of funky horns. It’s very strange, very abrupt, and in a way, kinda psychedelic.
4. Name bleeps — For no real reason throughout Vol. 1 and the a bit of Vol. 2, Every time the Bride’s name is spoken by one of the character’s, a loud BEEP sounds off over the spoken name, so that the audience is unable to hear it, making us wait in anticipation to finally hear what the Bride’s real name is.
5. The anime sequence — In Vol. 1, we are introduced to one of the Bride’s main foes O-Ren Ishii in a chapter called: “The Origin of O-Ren Ishii. The weird thing is for no apparent reason, the chapter is presented as a beautiful Japanese anime cartoon. There was no anime sequences before this point in the film, and the anime is never again revisited any other time throughout the entire 4-hour run time. Just a chapter randomly animated.
6. Bill — It’s very strange how throughout Vol. 1, Bill’s face is never revealed, always being filmed below the neck. By Vol. 2 his face is no longer a mystery, and whether it was a very surprising reveal for the second act or not, one can’t help but think it was a bit of a peculiar decision on Tarantino’s part.
7. The fighting — Quentin Tarantino is known and beloved for his direction of ultra-violent, highly-stylized violence, but this one really takes the cake. This would also be the starting point of the over the top and cartoony violence that now makes an appearance in his more recent films. Examples include various scenarios such as: A Japanese schoolgirl wielding a mace and chain; The Bride lifting a man high into the air with the tip of her sword; The Yakuza flying up a wall; O-Ren losing the top of her head and living just long enough to deliver a cheesy one liner; and an 100 year old man standing on the tip of a sword, among several others.
8. The grave scene — You’d be delusional to tell me that the Bride breaking through a buried coffin with her bare fists, only to escape and dig 12 feet through dirt, only to rise to the surface like a zombie isn’t weird. What’s even more strange is the unneeded by comedic scene that follows with the Bride walking into a late night diner, caked with dirt, asking for a glass of water.
There are other examples such as unrealistic yet convincing character, the random strange humorous moments, the amazing, yet incohesive soundtrack that make this gem eligible for certified weirdness, but I guess in the end, that’s all up to you. In my opinion, it’s a hell of a lot weirder than Barton Fink.
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Sonny Boy (1989)
Just released on DVD this year!
Three weird things: David Carradine in drag, monkey tongue transplant, Paul L. Smith (Bluto from Altman’s Popeye) killing cops with an artillery piece.
Slue (Paul L. Smith) runs a clan of thieves that operate out of a junkyard in New Mexico. His wife is a transvestite named Pearl (David Carradine, who also wrote and sang the theme song, “Paint”). Weasel, one of Slue’s minions (Brad Dourif), murders a couple at a motel and steals their car, but he is unaware that there is baby in the back seat when he delivers it to Slue. Slue wants to kill the baby, but Pearl intervenes. They adopt the child and name him Sonny Boy. For some reason, they cut out his tongue. They also subject him to various tortures to toughen him up. They feed him live chickens. Eventually they turn him into a killer who rips his victims apart like a wild animal. Sonny Boy starts to go out on his own, which causes tension with the local community. The townsfolk finally get fed up and attack Slue’s junkyard, which he defends with his prized artillery piece. Most of the movie is from Sonny Boy’s point of few. with voice-over narration (which is a little weird, because his tongue was cut out before he learned to talk).
Sydney Lassick plays another of Slue’s minions, so along with Dourif that makes two people from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (both are excellent, by the way ). With a cast of familiar faces and not terrible production values, it is surprising that the film is so obscure. There are several flaws that prevent it from being “good” in a mainstream sense, but the strong weirdness factor certainly suggests it for the 366 list.
It’s on our “new release” list (naturally), but I’ll add it to the queue as well.
Ok, I cannot see any movies by the great Larry Cohen. I will suggest Q The Winged Serpent, or maybe God Told Me To, but these are just my personal favourites. And definitely promote Saragossa Manuscript up the list, that is a great film. Weird can be pretty subjective, so I am gonna think about this, see what percolates up from my repressed memories.
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Kinoeye: God Told Me To is still technically a List Candidate. I’m not sure any other Cohen titles would work. I like Q but don’t think of it as especially weird.
Larry Cohen’s Bone… That is movie worth considering.
I did finally get to see Zulawski’s On the Silver Globe. Uh, you’re gonna want to add this one to the shortlist…
Appreciate the tip, but we don’t have any lists that are short around here…
Didn’t mean to disrespect the process. You guys do a helluva job. It’s much appreciated.
OK, I’ll add Bone to the queue.
Russ: we don’t feel disrespected, just pointing out that once you’re committed to 366 movies, “shortlist” isn’t going to apply for a long time. Everyone will get their shot eventually. Once we get down to 100 or 50 slots left I think the arguments about what gets on may start to get interesting.
And Nick Gatsby, read this recommendation for Kill Bill.
Jabberwocky by Jan Svankmajer (https://vimeo.com/groups/35mmandrisdamburs/videos/20094637)
Lunch by Jan Svankmajer
Meat Love by Jan Svankmajer
Hen, His Wife (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYdaHaNRMKg)
Jenn, you can read our brief thoughts about “Jabberwocky” here and our review of the Svankmajer shorts collection here. Some of those other shorts also show up as extras on various Svankmajer feature releases. To be perfectly honest, while I love “Jabberwocky” in particular, I don’t foresee any Svankmajer shorts making the List, because the director is so well represented here with his more substantial feature films. Igor Kovalov, the director of “Hen, His Wife” (IMDB lists it as “His Wife is a Hen”) is another matter, as we have not looked at anything of his yet to my knowledge. I can add that to the end of the queue.
The recent “Look Who’s Back”.
Well, what do you know. I’d heard of the German comedy Look Who’s Back (the “who,” in case you don’t know, is Adolph Hitler) but did not realize that Netflix had acquired it and put it on their streaming service (they’re not exactly pushing it hard). Thanks for the suggestion Brad, we’ll have to check it out!
Some short films:
Lemniscata (Luis E. Froiz, 2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xhz6Zy_LFQ
A Man Is Lying On The Ground (Un Hombre Está Tumbado En El Suelo, Luis E. Froiz, 2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9LDmCYbUiI
At Hand With The Red Queen (Da Man Da Raíña Vermella, (Omar Rabuñal Varela & Miguel Corujo, 2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qD46ktL6L4
The Day Ana Stopped Being Ana And Kept Being Ana (O Día Que Ana Deixou De Ser Ana E Seguíu Sendo Ana, Paulo Fernández, 2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fli5VhZ3TIc
Évolution (directed by Lucille Hadzihalilovic) perhaps? It recently came out in the Netherlands and I went to see it yesterday. I have to admit that I didn’t think it was particularly good, but it is an enjoyable watch, and I certainly think it fits in your list.
A Journey into Bliss / Die Reise ins Glück ( Wenzel Storch, 2004)
Flawed, but totally f***ed up.
Subway – a weird french film from the early 80’s about people who live in the Paris Metro.
Good Morning Carlos, Gurcius Gewdner, 2016.
a review on severed Cinema:
This is one of those film experiences that will not soon be forgotten. Once in a while a film comes along and makes you say to yourself: “What the fuck am I watching!?” In this case, Good Morning Carlos is one of those films! I mean this in the most loving and favorable way because this Brazilian short, packs a big punch, full of meaning and undertones and squeezes it all in its 17 minute runtime. Director Gurcius Gewdner also has a sequel short called Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair, which needs financial backing for post-production, release and distribution, as well as other projects in the works.
Gewdner is a wild artist and has been involved in practically all aspects of filmmaking in years past, collaborating on a number of cult/underground projects. The man has a talent and wild flair for over-the-top filmmaking styles and pushes the envelope to visual extremes. Born in the eighties, Gewdner is known in Brazil for his offbeat work as a director, editor, musician and visual artist. Gewdner has made a name for himself in the last 15 years, not only directing, but in partnerships with other artists and directors, such as performing producing and editing duties for Peter Baiestorf (Zombio 1 and 2) and Ivan Cardoso’s filmography in the last 10 years.
Good Morning Carlos brings memories of the wild color scheme of the 80’s splatter classic Street Trash, with a myriad of vivacious vomit schemes and palates that assemble art. Maybe we have a new form of expression; call it vomit art and you can make a game out of counting how many times Carlos vomits, or guessing all the different colors of puke. Involved with Bulhorgia Productions, who also do these amazing limited Brazilian horror/exploitation tees, check out Bulhorgia Productions on Facebook.
Marcel Mars really brings this short to life, playing both Carlos and his doctor who are in a conflict which involves something greater than Carlos wanting to “shit out his turd.” Cinematographer Flavio C. Von Sperling also has a great hand in delivering the beautiful colorful backgrounds of the movie, which comes in extreme contrast with the excessive vomiting, but it works! The follow-up film Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair is supposed to explain what is going on with Carlos causing all this “innard” turmoil. I noticed during some of the screenings of Good Morning Carlos, custom vomit bags were given to theater goers and Good Morning Carlos was an official selection at Phil Anselmo’s Housecore Horror Festival, among others.
http://severed-cinema.com/g-reviews/good-morning-carlos-bulhogoria-productions
Catching up on this thread:
Chucketta Entertainment: I forwarded those links to the shorts department.
Jorn: I’m not sure about Evolution. Alex Kittle discussed it briefly as an honorable mention in her Fantastic Fest 2015 article. I’m not sure we will give it more coverage than that but it’s a possibility.
Russ: A Journey Into Bliss looks appropriate, I’ll add it to the queue.
Gary Simanton: Ditto with Luc Besson’s Subway (1985).
Gurcius Gewdner: I sent you an email.
I see that Koyaanisqatsi is in the queue but Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi aren’t. All three are quite weird.
Cheap Smokes.
A greek movie by Renos Haralambidis. It is pure poetry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhtUtgCBlg
Black Night directed by Olivier Smolders. It’s definitely weird without going overboard.
You guys are busy again.
Nick: I think we’ll deal with the Powaqqatsi/Naqoyqatsi issue when we get to Koyaanisqatsi. It may be possible to consider them as a unit.
Dalmee: OK on Cheap Smokes. In the meantime that looks like it may be a legit upload from the director with English subs, so folks can check it out on YouTube if they have a particular interest in independent Greek cinema.
Joel Stevens: Black Night is in the queue already under its French title, Nuit Noire.
Christopher Fox (near the top of the page): Gory Gory Hallelujah sounds like the feelgood hit of the Easter season, I’ll add it to the queue. We haven’t covered and rejected any of the others you mention; we reviewed Female Trouble and its still under consideration (trilogies are always a problem for us).
Hey guys!
I was looking through your website and I noticed that “Salò,” or “120 Days of Sodom,” by director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975) wasn’t on your list. Definitely one of the most disturbing movies I’ve ever seen. It’s a film adaptation of a pornographic novel by the Marquis de Sade, and it essentially chronicles the sexual exploitation of a cohort of adolescent naïfs. The film is a bit surreal in terms of how it’s shot. It makes for both a trippy and a traumatizing viewing experience.
Happy viewing!
Linda
The Criterion Salo disc is, in fact, at the very top of my Netflix queue as we speak, with a “very long wait” notation beside it. It’s been that way for weeks.
The Adolescence of Utena, a film retelling of the already strange Revolutionary Girl Utena anime series that features bizarre, castle -like schools, duels to possess a girl with a hole in her chest, and a climax where the titular character inexplicably gets turned into a car.
Check out Bruno Dumont’s “comedy”, Li’l Quinquin. Originally shown as a 4 episode miniseries on French TV, it’s now packaged as together as one 206 minute film. I find this quote from another review appropriate:
“…starts off like it might be France’s answer to Twin Peaks, then begins to feel like Robert Bresson was asked to make True Detective with the cast of Freaks.”
It’s weird, and it’s spectacular.
Jenn: OK on The Adolescence of Utena. Anime is a very competitive sub-category, though. Your average anime is pretty damn weird to the average western viewer, so we want only the very best and strangest.
Russ: We will definitely check out Lil’ Quinquin. I was aware of it but it had somehow slipped under our radar.
Victor D (near the top of the page) suggests Lindsay Anderson’s early short (45 min) film “Red, White and Zero,” which I will add into the overflowing queue.
The Adjuster (1991) by Atom Egoyan. Very subtle with it’s weirdness. The director said he wanted to make a film “about believable people doing believable things in an unbelievable way.”
Tokyo Decadence has somehow avoided the attentions of this site and its readers, or perhaps is just not weird enough (although I doubt that. It’s at least as weird as Blue Velvet) – it sure is graphic though. I also wrote this review of it on Fandor:
Sordid and bleak, Tokyo Decadence is the least arousing, least pornographic display of (entirely consensual) sexuality I have ever seen. In portraying the life of a young, timid woman during the course of her career as a BDSM prostitute, this movie is centered around sex (and later, drugs) nearly every second of its 110 minute run time. The first two acts are lurid, super-freaky sex (and I mean whipping, orgiastic, dog-collars-and-butt-stuff freaky) and the third is an increasingly intense drug trip and subsequent arrest for an attempted B&E. But for all its smuttiness, this is also a film rich in symbolism. Ryu Murakami stumbles here and there, and some of this movie is certainly lost in translation, but overall the cinematography is beautifully well done.