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); 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; 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; Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia; 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; 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; La Distancia; 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 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; The Intruder (2004) [L’intrus]; 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); Jacky in the Kingdom of Women; 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; Newsboys: Down Under the Big Top; 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; Onirica: Field of Dogs; Only God Forgives; On the Silver Globe; Open Your Eyes; Operation: Endgame; Organ; Orlando; Le Orme [AKA Footprints on the Moon]; The Outskirts; Overdrawn at the Memory Bank; Overturn; Palindromes (re-review); 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; Shakespeare’s Plan 12 from Outer Space; The Shape of Things; Shinbone Alley; Shock! Shock! Shock!; The Shout; Sh! The Octopus; Siesta; 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; 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; The Thingy: Confessions of a Teenage Placenta; Three… Extremes; Thriller: A Cruel Picture; Throw Away Your Books Rally in the Streets; Thundercrack!; THX 1138; Tierra; Time Masters; Titicut Follies; Tokyo Decadence; Tomorrow Night; Totò che visse due volte; Tourist Trap (1979); Tout Va Bien; Toys; The Tracey Fragments; The Tune; “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); The Virgin Psychics; 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; Who Can Kill a Child?; “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.
“A Page of Madness” (1926) directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, is a masterpiece of expressionist silent cinema, filled with strikingly bizarre images.
katrina burrell: I can’t think of any movies that meet that description. You could try asking in the chat section of our other site, maybe someone there will have an idea: http://irememberthismovie.com/endless-chat/
jeff lebowski: Very cool! I don’t remember finding that site when I was doing my research before opening this one. https://sites.google.com/site/takatomon2000/wierd_movies is worth a visit. Remind me to add it to the sidebar.
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I didn’t find this in your list (maybe I missed it), but just in case I highly recommend “The Audition” from Japan… there are a couple more from there as well, but I can’t remember there names. I’ll add if/when I can find them. 😁
Michelle J, you missed it, but it’s not entirely your fault. I had not posted the updated version of the queue at the top of this new page before you made your suggestion. You’ll see that Audition is indeed already in the ridiculously-long to-be-reviewed queue.
It might be hard ot find. There is a cheaply made kids movie titled ” Earth Minus Zero. It is…..so strange Pat Morita, Flash Gordon….
William Merrill: Well, anything directed by Joey Travolta with a 2.4 IMDB rating is probably a little unusual. I can add Earth Minus Zero to the queue, but you can see how massive it is already.
How about Shakes the Clown (1991)?
Hi I was wondering if anyone can help me find this movie.. All I can remember is there was this girl who almost got her hair shaved by these boys and this other boy came and saved her.they become lovers but then he sleeps with her step sister and she becomes pregnant and the other girl will be holding her baby in the river.. That’s all I can remember someone help please
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I watched this movie when I was 7 with my best friend and we talk about it all the time and can’t figure out the name….
This guy has a white alien thing in his stomach and comes out and enters other bodies by sex killing them immediately. The man was bald, white, with glasses, and looked to be older late 30’s-50 maybe. Also the man hung skinned dogs in his basement.
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Addressing this week’s on-topic comments: Shakes the Clown could get a review.
The suggestion by Fred Hatt (top of page) of A Page of Madness is a great one, and something I thought was already in the queue, but I see is not. I’ll add it.
Hello. I am trying to remember a movie I saw years ago. I don’t remember many things and I know that’s not helpful.
So.. in this movie there was a man that was trapped in a room-maybe kidnapped and his family was in danger. I remember he was trying to communicate with his daughter or wife. The most important thing I remember is that at the end of the movie, It was saying that the movie has a second part, so we went at the DVD store to rent the second part.
Thank you very much for your help
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Spermicide (2014) , comes off like a more responsible ‘God Bless America’ (Bobcat Goldthwait), with weirdness more subtle in the acting than the plot . . .
Spermicide (2014)
Glen, a former sperm donor and recently diagnosed sociopath, takes his daughter on a murder spree of his sperm-donated offspring in the dark comedy, ‘Spermicide.’
Like Bobcat Goldthwait’s ‘God Bless America’, but more responsible, is one of a few aspects that makes this flick weird to me . . .
OK, Parker/PKWST, I’ll put Spermicide at the end of the queue.
I didn’t see any postings about the work of Karel Zeman. I just watched two of his films and they are great and unique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKXKZ0AfvS0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HRePnztweE
I was sort of surprised no one suggested a Karel Zeman movie myself. I’ll add his version of The Fabulous Baron Munchausen to the queue.
Hi I am. Looking for a Japanese Chinese movie where there are many kids that are forced to play kind of game whit braced around.there neck that can explode whenever there want they have guns and everything does sombody mow there are 2 survivors at the end it was in the jungle or somthing like that
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There was this movie I saw a long time ago on tv and all I remember is that this group of models, one is black one is Asian and some are white I think. One is blonde and they think that they are going for a photoshoot. This has to have come out in the early 2000s. But really someone is out to kill them off one by one and the black girl dies from pooping too much. And the audience soon finds out that the quiet blonde girl is the killer and at the end she takes off her wig and is in a gun battle with another model?? Can someone help? I think that’s the best I can do .
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This movie was seen when I was very young. In beginning of movie, 3 escape prisoners board a ship in boat graveyard. From a room a black ooze comes out and screams are heard . Some escape, and the ooze goes over the side of the ship. On land, people start to disappear. I believe at end it’s destroyed in a huge tank by fire.
I hate to be rude, but are you guys trolling this page? This is the third time tonight I have had to explain that these questions do not belong here and you should be asking at http://irememberthismovie.com/what-was-that-movie/.
I’d like to make two suggestions.
L’Annulaire (The Ring Finger) (2005)
“Iris finds a new job working in a preservation lab where she gradually enters into a troubled relationship with her boss.” – IMDb
A movie I keep thinking about and wanting to re-watch. May or may not be weird, but I found it interestingly told and ambiguous.
Malice@Doll (2004)
“A sex bot named Malice is attacked by a creature with tentacles. After it has its way with the bot it destroys it, but Malice comes back to life with the ability to spread life to other bots like a disease.” – IMDb
Has a cyberpunk/erotic Pinocchio story feeling. Always considered it to be both delightfully odd and much better than it ought to be.
Sauna (2008):
As a 25-year war between Russia and Sweden concludes, two brothers who are part of an effort to outline new border accords become undone by their actions, vengeful ghosts and their mistreatment of a young woman during their journey.
Matt: I’ll put your first one, The Ring Finger, into the queue.
Parker: I’ll add Sauna to the queue.
The Hourglass Sanatorium
https://vimeo.com/96148201
Aeon Flux (Serial TV 1991-1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVvWqPlKCkQ
Company of Wolves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARC93pDUGbQ
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89GwcopHFOY
Orlando
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYA7vCkKFls
ONE POINT ZERO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw3V_VnRoaA
Cremaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xWtS9HsP4U
Adam’s Apples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8kbfBLOIVE
Wild palms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJMPCGo42cE
Most of those have already been reviewed or are already in the queue above. Adam’s Apples, however, is a new title I can add to the queue.
Fight Club still isn’t on the review queue?!
Surprisingly, no. You might want to make it your entry in our latest Blu-ray giveaway contest. I will add it to the queue in any case.
Do you have “The Man Who Fell to Earth” & “Dark Star”?
I saw these as a double feature. Talk about bizarre!
Hey guys, “The Wailing” is definitely worth a look.
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer (2010)
‘The Infernal Comedy’ is a stage-play for a Baroque-Orchestra, two Sopranos and one actor. It is based on the real-life story of Jack Unterweger, a convicted murderer, acclaimed imprisoned poet, pardoned and celebrated author and journalist, notorious womanizer, and prime example of reintegration, who gradually was suspected of killing a growing number of prostitutes in Vienna, Graz, Prague and Los Angeles, later vanished from Vienna, fled into the U.S, got arrested in Miami, transferred to Austria, accused and finally committed suicide after being convicted of homicide in eleven cases. ‘If you wear this name, women will love you or hate you – call you a liar or pervert – but they will never leave you alone.’
Dogtooth
Oops ignore me please i didn’t see dogtooth on your letterboxd but I saw the post here now
You guys are going nuts.
Roland Mangan: Man Who Fell to Earth is a List Candidate (that may get another review when the remastered version comes out late this year), but I need to add Dark Star to the queue.
Brad: We covered The Wailing at Fantasia: good movie, but it won’t be getting a separate review.
Parker: The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer may interest Alfred, our resident opera fan. I’ll float it by him.
Jenn: No problem. We don’t have an official copy of the List on letterboxd, so anything you find there is compiled by fans like yourself. (I do have a personal page there, though).
Has the Coen brothers’ The Man Who Wasn’t There been suggested?
Hi: I suggested Casshern (2004) a while back, and I noticed that it shows up on the list in the comment section here, but not in the weekly “What’s in the Pipeline” posts. Just wanted to check if this is due to an oversight or if it’s just a site policy I wasn’t aware of – I think it seems like a list candidate at least, so I hate to see it get neglected!
Freaked (1993), with Randy Quaid and Alex Winter. I’m actually surprised it’s not on the list because it is the epitome of weird! I’m new to the list and I love the concept, but it’s missing this one!
Lee: I don’t think so. I can put The Man Who Wasn’t There in queue but it will be quite a while…
Andrew: I am going to have to go research that but I promise we’ll get it back into the pipeline list. Sometimes we have errors transferring hundreds of movies between two tracking systems. Sorry about that!
Sean: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we did cover Freaked… and passed on it.
i will leave a screenshot of my personal favorites. the more arrows the bbeter the movie is enjoy.
http://prntscr.com/cihslm
Since this site is willing to review extra-strange TV shows, you should definitely try Rick and Morty! It’s like a combination of Jimmy Neutron and Back to the Future without any status quo or ethical qualms. To give an idea of its weirdness, the episode riffing on Cronenberg is immediately followed by one riffing on Zardoz.
Hey there, new to site, have you ever talked about Alexeï Guerman works ? As “Hard to Be a God” [2013] or “Khrustalyov, My Car!” [1999] ; could be nice reviews i guess…
Thanks for your work here, nice ideas,
bye.
nikos: thanks for sharing, but we won’t put any of those in our queue unless you request a specific title for review.
Justin: We’ll cover TV shows occasionally, but we’ve got too much on our plates to review “Rick and Morty” now. I don’t watch it (not enough free time!), but I’ve heard good things.
Marchenoir: Giles Edwards is our big Alexeï German promoter, and he’s reviewed both those: check them out here.
“Bowl of Oatmeal” short film (1996, Dietmar Post)
Definitely not a “greatest weird movie of all time”, but its very existence demands more attention. File under: BEWARE
. . . Shuttered in his Manhattan apartment, a lonely man begins taking advice from his well-intentioned bowl of hot breakfast cereal. The oatmeal suggest a hobby, yet what could the man possibly be doing with 200 pounds of stolen raw meat?!
Trailer- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY5cqY4GCXw
A few come to mind:
Cast a Deadly Spell, a 1991 HBO film starring Fred Ward and Julianne Moore which is near slavishly faithful to 40s detective potboilers, save for the existence of magic in its universe and an appearance from everyone’s favorite elder God, Cthulu. So goddamn weird that I was angry at myself for never having seen it and angrier at the cult following it never got. It also has a sequel starring Dennis Hopper in Fred Ward’s role of Det. Lovecraft and directed by Paul Scrader. What the hell.
Seijun Suzuki’s Taisho trilogy – Zigeuenerweisen, Kagero-Za, and Yumeji – both eclipse his earlier studio work and were some of the most successful independent films in Japan. The story behind the first film – him touring it around the country in inflatable theaters – is enough to give pause, and the absurdist, supernatural, theatrical tone of the films crystallizes over the viewing of the trilogy as a whole. Remarkable filmmaking, and my biggest bone to pick with Criterion for not scooping up the rights. (kino’s box set left a lot to be desired.)
Adding We Are the Flesh from another post.
Given the unmanageable length of the queue, we will skip adding “Bowl of Oatmeal” since Parker says it’s “Definitely not a ‘greatest weird movie of all time’,” (careful how you phrase those things if you actually want us to consider them!) Still, anyone who’s intrigued by the challenge can track it down, and there’s always the “Reader Recommendation” option for you to review it yourself…
I will add Cast a Deadly Spell, however, which is a movie whose description has long intrigued me…
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that Dark City is not on this list.
I guess I like weird movies so I’ll throw out a few more names for consideration. I came up with these just looking through my collection.
Aria – the episode at the Madonna Inn is particularly funny.
Memento
Moulin Rogue
Dark Star
Big Trouble in Little China
Barberella
I have a reco for the Short’s list: Bobby Yeah (Robert Morgan, 2011). Morgan’s guy’s work is astonishing. So surreal, words can’t do it justice. It’s stop-motion animation that’s a little bit Cronenberg, a whole lotta Lynch, and absolutely your very worst nightmare. See it on YouTube.
Catching up:
Eric Marsh, you will notice that most of those titles are already considered here somewhere. Barbarella is on the List, Dark City is a List Candidate, and so on (try the search function for individual movies). Dark Star was just suggested and added to the queue in a comment above you (I haven’t updated that list yet).
Russ: We have featured a couple of Robert Morgan shorts, and we’ve been patiently waiting for him to either make a feature, or release a compilation DVD. I’ll add “Bobby Yeah” to the queue anyway, even though he has not officially released it that I can see.
I’m watching Cat Sick Blues atm, here is the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpVwmXDcQk4, not sure it does it justice. Definitely think it should be on your list, one odd movie so far.
Bradley: I’ll add it and we’ll keep an eye out.
Hello!
Okay, I might be using this incorrectly, or I might be suggesting something someone else has––in either case, I’ll be very embarrassed, but please forgive me! I just found this site and loved it so much I had to get involved, even if it was clumsily. So my suggestion is Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, which is a Karen Carpenter biopic made entirely with Barbie dolls (and spliced with a bit of Holocaust imagery, for good measure). Richard Carpenter successfully sued Todd Haynes to keep the movie banned years ago, but I managed to find a version on YouTube, probably about ten years ago? I watched it with my headphones in a Starbucks on my lunch break. My afternoon was rather grim as a result.
Hope that’s an interesting suggestion…
BTW, wonder if anyone has thought to do a 366 Weird Books site as a companion to this/means of helping people to keep all their entertainment weird af…
Yes, you are using this correctly.
I am not sure how to handle cases like “Superstar” where the movie will probably never be released in the form the director intended. I’ll add it into the queue but put off making a final decision.
If you want to start a 366 Weird Books site, we want a cut of the action! Or we might sue like Richard Carpenter. 😉
“Akher wahed fina” with unfortunate translation “The Last of Us”.
Beautifully shot movie with no dialogue follows single man traveling through northern Africa to Europe. Instead he ends up in the forest where weird, older man fights against wolves.
Right now the movie is screened at festivals (I’ve seen it at one), but by the time you can get to it it’ll probably (hopefully?) will have wider release.
There’s the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGU1DU8TTg
Thanks Piotrek, I missed this message from you but I’ll add “The Last of Us” to the queue.
Have you guys ever considered a side compendium, ie. a companion to the main Weird films list of stuff that definitely belongs in the main list (Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Deafula, Angel’s Egg, Celine and Julie Go Boating, just to name a few) but they either will probably never get a proper Region 1 release, or it just.hasn’t happened yet.
I’m talking about stuff that doesn’t qualify because of the availability requirements, but are still easy enough to view (YouTube , region-free DVD players, other other means).
Is the goal here to be as comprehensive as possible? If so, perhaps this idea may have some merit. Kinda like the Baseball Hall of Fame — they have the main Hall, and then they have these little side wings where they recognize players who are not in the Hall proper.
Just a thought (and as if you needed additional films to watch}.
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This old post meets your description. Encouragingly, about 3 of those have been released in the five years since that was published. We’ll probably do an update at some point.