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 (very rough) 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 Adolescence of Utena; 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; Andy Warhol’s Bad; 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 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); Bone; Born of Fire; 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; Bruce Lee vs. Gay Power; Bubble Bath; Buddy Boy (1999); Buffet Froid; 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; Cheap Smokes; 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; 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 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; F for Fake; Fiend (1980); Fiend Without a Face; The Fifth Season; Finisterrae; Fish Story; Flaming Creatures; Following; The Fool and the Flying Ship; Four Rooms; 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; Gory Gory Hallelujah; The Great McGonagall; 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; Heat; Helter Skelter (2012); “Hen, His Wife” [AKA “His Wife is a Hen”]; Hentai Kamen; Hitler: A Film from Germany; The Hole; Homebodies (1974); “Hospital Brut”; Hotel (2001); House (1986); Hugo the Hippo; ‘Hukkunud Alpinisti’ hotell [Dead Mountaineers Hotel]; Human Highway; Human Nature; 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; A Journey Into Bliss; 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; 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; “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; Oh Dad, Poor Dad (Momma’s Hung You In the Closet & I’m Feeling So Sad); 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; Pierrot Le Fou; Pink Narcissus; The Pit; Plague Dogs; The Point; Pola X; Porcile [AKA Pigpen]; 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; “Red, White and Zero”; 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; 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; 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; Sonny Boy; 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; Subway (1985); 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; Symbiopsychotaxiplasm; Symbol; Tag (2015); Takeshis’; Talking Head; Talk to Her; Tammy and the T-Rex; Tampopo; 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… 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; “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.
The Neon Demon (2016)
Katie: we’ll tackle The Neon Demon as a new release review, probably soon.
Jacky au royaume des filles (2014)
Wonderwall (1968)
As you you might be aware, the animated trip Belladonna of Sadness just enjoyed a brief run at select theaters. I’m fresh from last night’s local screening and the experience was weirder than anticipated. I’ll leave it to the experts to assemble the descriptive prose but psychosexual mindf–k rendered in gorgeous visuals works for me. Strange and beautiful– and disturbing.
Orlando: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_(film)
Why it should be on the list: Based on an equally weird novel by Virginia Woolf, our hero/heroine is an immortal aristocrat who transforms half-way through the movie from a man into a woman, for no particular reason.
Indelible Image: This movie is beautifully shot, with amazing sets and period costumes, and as much as I want its central image to be the amazing frost fair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames_frost_fairs) on the river Thames, complete with ice-skating waiters, the moment that will probably stick with you the most is right at the end of the film, when a golden angel appears singing castrato-style to a funky modern backbeat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-qKKHOKlxo
Catching up, and trying to be slightly more selective given the length of the queue. I can be talked out of anything I decide to pass on if someone else wants to second the nomination.
Russa03: The Adjuster is a good movie but I don’t see a chance of it making the List, so I am going to pass on adding it to the queue.
Basie: I am also going to pass, at least initially, on Tokyo Decadence. Your comparison to Blue Velvet is good, but Velvet really makes the List on the strength of a single scene: Dean Stockwell’s “Candy-Colored Clown” karaoke number, what Lynch called “the eye of the duck” scene. If Decadence has one scene like that to hang its hat on we might reconsider.
Mark: We will surely look at Belladonna of Sadness again when the DVD/Blu-ray is released. In the meantime Alex Kittle did make a note about it in her Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage. I won’t add it to the queue because we’ll handle it as a new release instead.
wuzzyfuzzums: I will add Orlando, it’s one of the few titles left that I’m surprised more people haven’t mentioned.
I’m of course familiar with Lynch’s “building a duck” philosophy, and while in my heart I disagree with the notion that all films must conform to his methods and the notion that all films must be comparable in quality to Blue Velvet – yes, Tokyo Decadence certainly has a scene to measure up. Two sequences in the last act (one a simple stroll through the city paired noises, the other the surrealist finale) would, I think, qualify. There are a few “Hit me, Jeffrey” moments as well. It’s lurid, but it’s really quite good.
OK, your persistence pays off. I’ll put Tokyo Decadence into the queue.
OMFG! This list is as out of control as the original film poster collection that became westgategallery.com ! Perhaps you could institute a Challenge feature whereby readers might challenge the inclusion of movies one might strongly feel are nowhere near near Weird enough to merit their valuable position in the queue the time & writing talent that will have to be expended to cover them? The Comment fur may fly, but that in itself could be more interesting than certain titles which aspire to Weirdness but ooze the odor of Ordinary… While waiting for new reviews to post, I suggest shopping the psychotically slashed 50% OFF MEGA-SALE at my Salacious Macabre Vintage Wall Candy webstore. Please pardon the plug and help spare our tiny staff the judgments of those escort review sites! We’d really like to avoid returning to The Life. Thank you.
Woohoo! Thank you! I don’t even understand why I’m being so persistent, I think I just want someone else to watch this movie!
Rubin and Ed
“my cat can eat a whole watermelon”
Symbol (2009)
Japanese film about a man who awakes in a white room. Touching tiny cherub penises on the walls dispenses objects and tools for him in the room. Meanwhile, a washed up old Mexican wrestler is preparing for his last fight. How could these two stories possibly be connected????
Christian: no need for any such procedure, we already have a means to deal with such films—they’re suggestions only, so we can just pass them by.
Russ: Rubin and Ed is already a Candidate for the List.
Chas: Symbol is already in the queue, although we recently moved it to our “unavailable on DVD” holding pen since there is no official release with English-language subtitles available. It may be reviewed soon anyway.
Equinox, Deathdream, Who Could Kill A Child, Don’t Torture a Duckling, Devil Times Five, White Dog, The Other, David and Lisa,
I think you m might enjoy Shakespeare’s Plan 12 from Outer Space
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127278/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVwSZ4y1eYU
Christian: you’re no choosing these on the basis of their posters, are you? 😉 Okay, I’ll put Who Can Kill a Child in queue. (Pam de Graff reviewed The Other here.)
Rob: OK on Shakespeare’s Plan 12 from Outer Space, though I hope a better quality copy exists than that youtube upload.
Another Christian (probably in name only as well) suggested Who Can Kill A Child, for which Westgate Gallery DOES have 2 beautiful Italian original posters by the renowned Sandro Symeoni, currently available for 50% OFF LIST PRICES along with everything else at westgategallery.com, so thanks for inadvertently pointing that out. I concur heartily with Don’t Torture A Duckling & White Dog as well. If you’ve ever considered upgrading your movie-art collection, please shop us this weekend. If you don’t, someone’s going to back to hooking. (It won’t be me just yet — assistant and interns first, of course.)
Yeah the youtube one isn’t ideal, but it’s watchable at least. I hope it tickles your weird funny bone.
I watch this movie I can’t remember it
I thought of it when my aunt got crashed by a big red truck. Here’s the movie there’s teenagers going on a trip on the most beautiful day. There r
no cars anywhere but one big truck like a fire truck. The truck hongs on them for no reason and then they stop and say stop the person in the truck and he was a PERSON IN A BLUE BUNNY COSTUME!!!! And he takes them to a secret place and tortures them. I CANT REMEMBER THAT MOVIE!!!
Wrong place to ask Elyas, try using our sister site: http://irememberthismovie.com/what-was-that-movie/
movie where drunk people are forced to take safety inside a home bar and thet have to kill a monster outside but theyre drunk and when they do escape the “bar” it ends wh flames. What movie is this im like breaking my brain right now
Just like the person directly above you, you need to ask that question here: http://irememberthismovie.com/what-was-that-movie/.
Check out Grim Prairie Tales, it’s an odd little horror/western anthology.
Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla (2014)
A black comedy/drama about a lonely ice-cream van driver, Warren Thompson, and his unhealthy obsession with television soap starlet, Katey George…
Now it’s getting tough. Neon Minerva, I have seen Grim Prairie Tales, and I’ll have to vote no on reviewing it—sorry, it was memorable but it has no chance to make the top 366 weird movies.
I’m leaning against PKWST’s suggestion of Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla, too, although this is a closer call. The first user review I read on IMDB described it as like Bad Boy Bubby, but less surreal. Since BBB had about as little surrealism to it as any movie I would want to include on the List, I’m going to say “no” unless someone else seconds the recommendation.
The Tune, Bill Plympton’s first feature length movie.
There’s a Japanese movie called “the virgin psychics ” by Sion Sono which is a romance/superhero film about erotic terrorism and finding true love. It is weird because it’s so bad and I frowned all the way through the end. It’s a little pornographic and repulsive
Although I haven’t seen it for many years Siesta is one that
I often think about and would fall into this category.
A great cast and compares with Jacob’s Ladder.
Grace Jones and Jody Foster–C’Mon.
Also, Comfort Of Strangers and I have to believe
somebody has said Bitter Moon.
Neon Minerva: Wasn’t The Tune already in the queue? No? I’ll add it, thanks for catching the oversight.
Jenn: Sion Sono is always dependably weird. I’ll add The Virgin Psychics to the review queue.
godeway: Siesta sounds like it’s in the right zone. As for Polanski’s Bitter Moon, I think people have suggested it before, but we passed on it. People always seem to suggest S&M themed movies even if they’re done in a conventional art-house style.
Bring Me The Head Of Alfedo Garcia (1974)
Sums up Sam Peckilnpah’s entire career in one film, and you get to watch the ever brilliant Warren Oates chatting it up with a decapitated head whilst on a bloody road trip through Mexico in the last third of the film. Not to mention Kris Kristofferson’s turn in a cameo as a biker/rapist.
*Peckinpah
Futureworld (1976) starring Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner
The Thingy: Confessions of a Teenage Placenta (2013)
i cant find this sci fi movie anywhere…I watched it a year ago on Netflix or hulu. The plot is these college students go to a house floating in a swamp and find it has a secret basement. Inside they find a machine that they don’t know what it is, they take it back and are followed by what they think are government agent, but are MIB type people, who are possibly future people. In a car chase with them the MIB car takes off like a spaceship and vanishes. Later on we learn about multiple alternative timeline, one on the other…. the film is really low budget but really weird. The device they found was a time machine….. Please help me identify this movie…it was made from 2000 to 2015….
I think I might know it. Did it have A LOT of musical numbers with back-up dancers & lip-synching in Hindi?
OK, time for a little cleanup on this thread…
James: Yes to Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974).
Pantlegssleeve: Sorry, I need more to sell me on Futureworld. I think I saw it, but I don’t remember it as vividly as Westworld, which I would not consider including on the List.
peter: I suppose we can’t pass on a title like The Thingy: Confessions of a Teenage Placenta.
Martin: please ask your question here: http://irememberthismovie.com/what-was-that-movie/. This thread is for suggestions for reviews.
I just remembered a movie from my childhood “Newsboys: Down Under the Big Top.” Quite possibly the weirdest Christian movie ever made, it features the titular band playing themselves as they attempt to find a new bassist and save the circus one of the band members inherited from his uncle. The offbeat redemption comedy features a harmless little person Mafia, an asshole clown who trolls the other performers, a fourth wall breaking remote control that can rewind reality, a discussion about various breakfast pastries, a human mirror ball, a rhyme for the word ointment that only works in Australia, and several musical numbers, two of them being real life music videos that may or may not actually be bedtime stories a Japanese woman is reading to her granddaughters.
Damn! I also forgot to recommend “Haunting Me” a Thai horror-comedy about 4 aging drag queens who run a boys dorm haunted by the ghosts of a beautiful but vengeful girl attempting to avenge her own murder, and a more annoying than frightening ghost of a boy who died in the bathroom while about to have sex with his boyfriend. The ending of the movie sees the queens join forces with the ghosts to battle an evil sorcerer that seems to come out of nowhere in the third act, wearing the most flamboyant battle costumes ever. It may still be on Netflix.
Um…, Jenn, is it? I’m trying to stay calm while I search for any sign that this really exists (please Capt Howdy let it be so) & is not a hoax you hilariously whipped up, It’s gotta be as cringeworthy & riveting as other works in what we at WestgateGallery.com, AnOriginalMovieArtWallCandyWebStore, refer to as the “Special Ed Studios” genre, a disturbing mini-category that includes CHINA CRY; the harshly DTV debacles “executive produced by” & starring future Soho bag-lady billionairheads Ashley & Mary-Kate when they were still in their yipping baby-orangutan-troll-doll phase; and Pat Robertson multicam sit”com” BIG BROTHER JAKE, about a ‘roided-out Christkiller nannying one or more pre-pubescent Jesus-freaks. Has anyone got an update on the tongues-talkin, purity-pledgin Newsboys, specifically tracking the algorithmic certainty of an incurable homosexuality outbreak within the band? Thanks!
Ok, calm down, there’s no need to be a douche about it. Just because you don’t like Christianity doesn’t mean you have to be hostile.
Second yes, the movie does exist.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Under_the_Big_Top Satisfied.?
Wow, they just keep coming. That direct-to-video Christian boy-band circus movie sounds about as rare as they come, Jenn, but if it’s as weird as you make it sound, it’s worth tracking down. I’ll add it to the queue.
They’re a rock band, and I still find their music from the Era to be really good even though I’m agnostic (I’ll listen to music with messages I oppose if it’s good enough). I used to have it on VHS, but it’s so obscure I don’t know if they even printed DVDs. I think it’s So Bad It’s Good, but that’s just a personal opinion.
So sorry to offend you. How about we both pray that you develop a sense of humor.
“Onirica: Field of Dogs” – Lech Majewski’s latest (released in 2015) is an absorbing meditation of loss both personal and societal. A young man whose lover and friend died in a car crash that he himself survived gives up his study of symbolist art to work as a supermarket check out clerk. Meanwhile Poland itself has a series of floods and calamities. With a title like “Onirica” one expects (and gets) the dream imagery Majewski excels in. It’s hypnotic slow pace can remind one of Bergman and Tarkovsky so if those filmmakers test your patience, this might as well. However, for those who enjoy an unhurried fathoming the depths, this one will not disappoint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfw32a6E7BI
La distancia (2014) – “Three communicating telepathically in russian dwarfs gets from the prisoner task – to steal the title object, whatever it is. On their way they will meet guard-mutant traveling between dimensions, and the smoking barrel of recite a haiku in Japanese and loving in the chimney.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72GIfHCtXkI
Steve: we’ll definitely keep an eye out for “Onirica: Field of Dogs.” The trailer looks fantastic and I have been waiting for Majewski to produce a masterpiece.
Nobody: I’m pretty sure I mentioned “La Distancia” in one of my film festival rundowns. I’ll add it to the queue and if we see a copy anywhere we’ll grab it.
It took a couple of viewings, but Onirica turned out to be all that and then some.
The last 30 minutes were jaw-dropping level amazing.
L’intrus (2004) by Claire Denis
Possibly her most enigmatic film and it features the queen of weird Yekaterina Golubeva.
Of Freaks and Men
Aleksei Balabanov
Thanks Russ!
russa03, I can add L’intrus (2004) [The Intruder] to the queue.
Stephanie: Of Freaks and Men. You can vote for it in our reader-suggested poll starting this Wednesday.
“El Topo” (1970) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky.
This movie, like all of Jodorowsky’s films, is one that will catch you pretty off guard. The story follows the enterprises of a laconic gunman who wanders the desert on horseback with a naked child. After saving a group of Franciscan monks and a young woman from a gang of old-western style bandits, the story’s protagonist leaves the naked child behind with the monks, running away with the young woman who he had just saved. More Tarantino-esque violence ensues as the woman pressures him to kill “the great masters” who all live in various locations throughout the desert, promising that it is the only way that he can secure her affections. Let’s just say our “hero” wins the duals against the masters, but things don’t exactly turn out so hot for him.
After the woman he fought for leaves him for another lady, our protagonist is taken in by a group of deformed tunnel-dwellers who commission him to dig them to freedom, so that the cycle of incest that has cost them their health may be broken. To put it succinctly, things would’ve turned out a lot better for the people of the underground had they never tried to integrate with the townspeople in the village above – a reality that our protagonist quickly realizes as he witnesses the merciless slaughter of the people he endeavored to save. In an act of retribution, Jodorowsky’s master gunman kills everyone in the town before immolating himself in a scene reminiscent of the widely publicized protest of Thich Quang Duc of Viet Nam in 1963.
Violent, surreal, and always poetic, “El Topo” does not disappoint in terms of strangeness, nor in its ability to keep viewers engaged. I highly recommend looking into this film as a candidate for your list.
Look at the column to your left. I originally alphabetized El Topo under “t” for “Topo”, following the usual rule of omitting articles during alphabetization, which may be why you didn’t see it when you went looking for it. With foreign titles, however, it’s always confusing, and people alphabetize both ways. I just recently decided to change to alphabetizing foreign titles with the article included because it seemed wrong to alphabetize L’Age d’Or under “a” rather than “l.”
heathers (1988)
maybe mood of mine was the reason of ‘weirdness’ perception, but a movie about youth death with a soundtrack containing ‘que sera sera’ definitely deserves a shot.
merve: I recommend Heathers as a hilarious teen satire, but sadly it’s not strange enough to challenge for a place among the weirdest films of all time.
neets (top of page): We could look at Jacky in the Kingdom of Women, though.
May I draw your attention to a film (/movie) already featured in your suggestion list: Palindromes. This film is a perculiar one. Though not visually or creatively/imaginatively weird, such as, say, The Holy Mountain, the plot is quite bizarre indeed. As far as I understand, it tells the story of a young child who dearly wishes to be a mother but is known to be infertile, though this role is played out by several different children (of different race and gender!) throughout the film. Then at the end this real
creepy guy gives a monologue about morals and pedophilia. I’ve recommended and therefore watched this film purely on how unsettling it is three times now and I still cant even work out if it’s a happy or a sad story. It might provide some salvation to people post-abortion/infertile but generally it’s just weird and deserves to be on your wonderful list.
G. Smalley – I don’t have a film to recommend at this time, but there’s a short that needs to be included here – John Dilworth’s The Dirdy Birdy (I didn’t see it in the Shorts list). It’s on YouTube.
Your plea has been noted, Cal. It’s always good to hear which titled people are excited about.
Russ: I’ll forward that suggestion to the shorts department.
I remember watching this space-horror animated movie
It’s about a women working in a space station they are fighting somekind of space creature that infects human
The space creature has appearances of all kinds of animals spider scorpion but in light shape
They were finding a cure for this angry space creature that it keeps attacking and infecting humans
The woman mention to her partner about the list of cure one of the cure is a little girl with cancer
In the very first part of the movie a man was infected and seems like everyone in the space station has a body protection body glove stick in the human body with can been take off while the space creature infecting it
Ask here please: http://irememberthismovie.com/what-was-that-movie/
Please add Koen mortier’s movie “ex drummer” to the list. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t be on there.
The weird things: walking on the ceiling, standing inside a vagina, dead people interviews.
TC (top of page): Wonderwall
Nick: Ex-drummer
We could always reconsider any of the films we pass over if enough people complain.
list all 70s movies that a black girls get eating by white peoples
also there is a movie from the 70s or 80s that these cute girls are at this big house . And the people are eating them one after the others one of the girls are black and get her beast cut off and eating.
this might be a duplicate post as i’m not sure if my first one went through because of noscript script blocking.
about 10 years ago, after frequenting the IMDB, i created a website that would catalogue all of the weirdest movies i’d seen up to then as the subject comes up often there.
i created my own categories and gave brief summaries, 1-5 ratings on a “weird-o-meter” scale and wherever possible, links to trailers or scenes.
the site isn’t what it used to be after google ported it to a new location, changed the formatting & backgrounds, and stopped supporting its page editor that actually works so i was no longer able to edit or update. it’s a little rough around the edges now, dated, and i’m sure a lot of links are dead now, but the weird movie central database is essentially intact still and has a lot of movies no-one’s mentioned here. stop by and give it a browse. i tried to make everything entertaining and to keep the reviews brief with few spoilers.
https://sites.google.com/site/takatomon2000/wierd_movies
When I was younger little my dad took me to see these movies one was a head of a man and the rest of him was a bird the other one was an older couple lived in this big house and they had guessed I don’t know if it gets broke down and went to the house but they had guests in their house and each morning one would come up missing come to find out the couple was serving them for breakfast to the other guests and one by one they would all come up missing one by one and they would serve them to the guests that were still alive can anybody tell me what that movie was called and there’s another movie where they can’t there I guess it was a gun in the shed locked up and would let him out can anybody tell me what that movie were called the movies were called please thank you very much I guess they were in the seventies maybe late sixties cuz I was born in 67 the end of 67