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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.
Did you have this one?
I Met the Walrus
Funky: no, but I’ve heard of it.
How about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? There are some pretty strange parts in that one as his memories are being erased
Perhaps HWY, by Jim Morrison. It is very slow to develope, but certainly one of the strangest films I have seen.
What about The Wall by Pink Floyd?
Leshii: we’re already set to cover Eternal Sunshine, look for a review in the coming weeks. Jim Morrison’s HWY would probably be a great one, as a novelty if nothing else, but it’s never had a legitimate release and probably never will. I’ll keep it in mind though. I have been expecting someone to nominate The Wall for a long time; that’s the one I’ll place into the review queue. It should be interesting to re-evaluate this movie that I loved as a teenager again as an adult.
I know it may not be a lofty or artistic movie, however “Escanaba In Da Moonlight” is defiantly weird. Written and directed by Jeff Daniels (yeah i know the guy from Dumb and Dumber) the movie is filled with Native American spirits that posses park rangers and moose testicle smoothies that increase hunting prowess. It probably wont make the list but it’s at least worth a review and an honorable mention.
Wycuff: sure, why not? There are all kinds if different way to be weird; a lot of the movies that will get picked aren’t lofty or artistic! I’ll place Escanaba In Da Moonlight in queue.
366, more Shorts for your consideration (if you don’t already have them):
HOW WINGS ARE ATTACHED TO THE BACKS OF ANGELS
Bendito Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&v=iDHfx9nde14“>Orgesticulanismus
“Behold, I am Funkadelic. I am not of your world.” Funkadelic, 1970
Funkadelic, you are seriously scooping us on these shorts!
Scooped as in you had them slated for the future posts or as in you didn’t have them already?
Some of each. But it’s no problem, your enthusiasm is a joy to behold!
how about a couple weird “bad” movies?
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LRIypcaIX4
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHVRxzvkJao
Sweet. I just found out it was available to stream on NetFlix. So you won’t have any trouble finding it.
Oh and thanks for the site! Its been fodder for entertainment for a few of my friends and I for the past year.
Funkadelic: Both those films are on our radar. I will put Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter in queue. We’ll also cover Dr. T. someday for sure, though personally I wouldn’t call it a “bad” movie.
Wycuff: Thanks! Has it been a year already?
Fair Warning, though it’s weird, J.C. Vampire Hunter really is BAD.
A more deserving entry in your queue is Dark City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSpowoKqSzc
Don’t worry, Funkadelic, Dark City will get its shot before all is said and done. I have seen that and know its got a chance to make the List, but I’m curious about JC Vampire Hunter after hearing about it for so many years.
I can’t help the enthusiasm in discovering this site. It fits my taste like an iridescent, window-to-another-world glove with elongated fingers.
Another short:Imagenes mentales de un hombre perdiendo la razon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxI9vjBPHxY
Features: Anyone suggested In The Mouth Of Madness yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PFcOeM_Usk
Weird story arc more than surreal visuals. Always love leaving a movie that makes you question reality.
Thank you for your compliment, Funkadelic. I almost feel that I should give you your own column!
No, no one has mentioned In the Mouth of Madness yet; it’s on the outer limits of our radar screen, though.
A couple older Japanese movies that BOTH deserve consideration:
Sho o suteyo machi e deyou (Throw Away Your Books,Go Out Into The Streets)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep6ultxRbj4
Bara no sôretsu (Funeral Parade Of Roses)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plmc-NzO00I
Soon you will have 366 movies of your own listed!
In an unusual move, I decided to reward Funkadelic for his numerous contributions to this thread by giving him his own post. It’s a little experiment, and I’m hoping this doesn’t set a precedent where everyone wants their own thread…
Hi!
I would like to suggest a weird one that me and my friends like to watch. The movie seemed to be an old post-apocalyptic James Bond just because Sean Connery is the main character of the film and he has a gun with him. The name of the film is ZARDOZ. And it has a 70’s peace and love esthetic with clear coulours. Well this movie is great!
I don’t know if there’s already some of these in your reviews but anyway:
– Breaking Point (1975) – Bo Vibenius going weird & x-rated, as stated on the poster, it’s a “pornografisk thriller”.
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072736/
– Asparagus (1979) – A short animated film featuring psychedelic asparaguses …
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140821/
– 1001 Nights (1998) – it’s a short based on the drawings of Yoshitaka Amano. It’s basically an animated painting.
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193688/
– Cat Soup (2001) – A short half-an-hour anime by Tatsuo Sato. Featuring two cats, god and a lot of weird and disturbing events.
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385586/
– Brain Dead (1990) – Not to be confused with the film by Peter Jackson. This one has a weird, nightmarish mood all over it.
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099173/
– Death Machine (1994) – Sci-Fi Horror with Brad Dourif as the bad guy. So over-the-top it’s weird-ish.
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109575/
– Persona (1966) – By Ingmar Bergman. Confusing and schizophrenic.
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060827/
– Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972) – First movie of the Hanzo trilogy. Hanzo is a japanese detective who uses his “attribute” to make female witnesses talk…
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068650/
– Bernie (1996) – This is cult. The story of a simpleton (Albert Dupontel) discovering the world outside his orphanage.
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115658/
– Die Reise ins Glück (AKA A Journey Into Bliss) (2004) – Can’t really describe this movie… It’s made by Wenzel Storch, who’s at the forefront of German psychedelism. It features talking animals among other things 🙂
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420116/
– Shock Corridor (1963) – Cult director Sam Fuller tells the story of a journalist investigating a murder inside a mental house.
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057495/
– Alphaville (1965) – Well, it’s Godard, making orwellian sci-fi.. so it’s definitely weird…
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058898/
– Garden of Love (2003) – When “so-bad-it’s-good”, “german-filmmaker”, “straight-to-dvd” and “gore” are in the same sentence, you know it’s going to be a fun ride 🙂
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0355473/
– Häxan (1922) – It’s a documentary about witchcraft.There’s two versions of it: the original silent and a version with narration by William S. Burrough and a soundtrack by french jazz musician Jean-Luc Ponty.
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013257/
– Din of Celestial Birds (2006) – A short film by E. Elias Merhige (Begotten). It’s about “the evolution of consciousness”. Intense.
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0872250/
– Freaked (1993) – Apparently only released a few years ago. This flick is not the typical 90s slapstick comedy.
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109838/
– Industrial Symphony No. 1 (1989) – David Lynch’s lesser known work. It’s a musical (orchestrated by Badalamenti, of course). I think there’s nothing more to say: Lynch, musical, Badalamenti…
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099844/
– Kondom des Grauens (AKA Killer Condom) (1996) – Well… It’s about a gay german inspector investigating the curious case of a condom killer in New-York (where they all speak German).
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116791/
– Meet the Applegates (1990) – The american dream lived by a mutant family… Weird…
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100129/
– Les Yeux sans Visage (1959) – Franju’s tale of a plastic surgeon trying to find a new face for his disfigured wife. I found it kinda creepy.
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053459/
– Ink (2009) – Low budget fantasy movie about a bunch of good guys creating dreams and the bad guys creating nightmares…
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071804/
i think i’ll stop here … 🙂
Felix: I have been waiting for someone to suggest Zardoz. I’ll put it in queue and I look forward to reviewing it!
Barry: We have already reviewed Les Yeux sans Visage and Ink (both made the List, in fact). There are some great suggestions on your list, some that were new to me and some that were already on our radar. As far as taking one of the suggestions for the queue, I’d love to see Breaking Point, but I’m not sure it’s available anywhere. So, going to the next suggestion, I see that there is a compilation called The Films of Suzan Pitt that includes “Asparagus,” so I’ll put that in the queue.
I’d like to recommend Santa Sangre. I saw it a very, very long time ago, but still have vivid memories of parts of it… Set in a mexican circus–main character is the son of the trapeze artist & the strongman (who is cheating w/the tattooed lady). Childhood trauma ensues. There is a bizarre/disturbing ‘funeral’ procession sequence when the circus elephant dies. Check it out.
Nina Barron (who just happens to be an old and dear friend), Sante Sangre is already in our review queue! I agree that it’s right up our alley, though. Feel free to suggest something else!
While I don’t think any of these qualify as weird by my standards, I love the following Jim Jarmusch flicks: Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law (Tom Waits!!), and Night on Earth.
Also, Toto le Héros is wonderful & has a cool Charles Trenet song on the soundtrack. Some might consider it strange, but not necessarily weird.
I was glad to see both Delicatessen & The City of Lost Children on your list already–I love them both quite a bit, especially Delicatessen.
Ummm… if you have some spare time, check out Gustafer Yellowgold’s Wide Wild World. It’s songs & video for kids, but the songs are actually good & the DVD is pretty interesting/somewhat strange. It was a very pleasant surprise for me after getting it for my then 2-3 year old.
Good to hear back from you & I’m glad I checked out your site, it’s very cool. Take care!!
Nina, I agree, those Jarmusch films aren’t weird, just offbeat. Dead Man and his latest (Limits of Control) are the two I can think of where he’s mined really weird territory.
I may take you up on Gustafer Yellowgold somehow; keep checking the site!
EDIT: Now that I reread the post, I see you did suggest one we are very interested in: Toto the Hero [Toto le Héros]. I’m going to add that one to the queue!
Speaking of the queue: Survive Style 5+ (looking for a copy, may get bumped due to no region 1 release); The Dark Backward (next week–this time, I swear!); The Short Films of David Lynch; Santa Sangre; Dead Man; Inland Empire; Monday (assuming I can find an English language version); The Abominable Dr. Phibes; Barton Fink; What? (Diary of Forbidden Dreams); Meatball Machine; Xtro; Basket Case; Suicide Club; O Lucky Man!; Trash Humpers (when/if released); Gozu; Tales of Ordinary Madness; The Wayward Cloud; Kwaidan; Six-String Samurai; Andy Warhol’s Trash; Altered States; Memento; Nightmare Before Christmas/Vincent/Frankenweenie; The Science of Sleep; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (possibly jumping in line to come out next week); Gothic; The Attic Expeditions; After Last Season; Getting Any?; Performance; Being John Malkovich; The Apple; Southland Tales; Arizona Dream; Spider (2002); Songs From The Second Floor; Singapore Sling; Alice [Neco z Alenky]; Necromania (1971, Ed Wood); Hour of the Wolf; MirrorMask; Possession; Suspiria; Mary and Max; Wild Zero; 4; Nothing (2003); The Peanut Butter Solution; Ninja Scroll; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Danger: Diabolik; Faust; Sublime; Battle Royale; Pink Floyd: The Wall;Escanaba In Da Moonlight; Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter; Zardoz; The Films of Suzan Pitt; and Toto the Hero [Toto le Héros].
Yes, Dead Man does get pretty weird. I haven’t yet seen Limits of Control, but it’s on my list to see. I’m a big Jarmusch fan. I, unfortunately, don’t have too much time for movies lately, which is a big shame.
Storytelling (Todd Solondz) has some odd, strange & disburing parts, but overall, not exactly weird. (I love Welcome to the Dollhouse, which is not weird, but one of my favorites.)
Any documentaries on the list? Brother’s Keeper and Crumb are 2 good ones, and each have some elements that are varying combinations of weird, unsettling, disturbing, sad, haunting.
No documentaries so far. It’s a hard category to qualify as “weird.” Crumb is a good possibility for a doc, though.
Might I suggest you take a look at “Paprika”, the most recent Satoshi Kon animated feature? Very trippy and also a good watch.
definitely, the Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorovsky
Marrisey: yes, you may suggest Paprika! In fact, you’re not the first. I’ll put it in the queue.
Vee: Yes, definitely The Holy Mountain (and again, you’re not the first!). I’ll put it in queue as well.
Oh and if you consider weird short films, then this worth seeing and feeling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv8EHo4ulEQ
“Inside” by Phillip Hirsch, 2006. it’s just 6 minutes long, but is awesome! the message is so vague it makes my skin all goosebumps..
Yes, Vee, we cover short films. See our “Saturday Shorts” archive. Our only issue with them is that we try to feature only shorts where we know the copyright holder approves of it being posted on YouTube or similar services.
Updating the current reader-suggested review queue:
Visitor Q (substituted for the currently unavailable in the US Survive Style 5+); The Short Films of David Lynch; Santa Sangre; Dead Man (next week); Inland Empire; Monday (assuming I can find an English language version); The Abominable Dr. Phibes; Barton Fink; What? (Diary of Forbidden Dreams); Meatball Machine; Xtro; Basket Case; Suicide Club; O Lucky Man!; Trash Humpers (when/if released); Gozu; Tales of Ordinary Madness; The Wayward Cloud; Kwaidan; Six-String Samurai; Andy Warhol’s Trash; Altered States; Memento; Nightmare Before Christmas/Vincent/Frankenweenie; The Science of Sleep; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (jumping in line to come out next week!); Gothic; The Attic Expeditions; After Last Season; Getting Any?; Performance; Being John Malkovich; The Apple; Southland Tales; Arizona Dream; Spider (2002); Songs From The Second Floor; Singapore Sling; Alice [Neco z Alenky]; Necromania (1971, Ed Wood); Hour of the Wolf; MirrorMask; Possession; Suspiria; Mary and Max; Wild Zero; 4; Nothing (2003); The Peanut Butter Solution; Ninja Scroll; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Danger: Diabolik; Faust; Sublime; Battle Royale; Pink Floyd: The Wall;Escanaba In Da Moonlight; Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter; Zardoz; The Films of Suzan Pitt; Toto the Hero [Toto le Héros]; Paprika; and The Holy Mountain.
Not seeing Brazil on the list struck me as a terrible injustice to weirdness and Terry Gilliam. It wasnt the first really strange movie I’ve seen but it left me with the desire to seek out more of it’s kind 🙂
You’re right, Kass, I will put Brazil in queue to rectify the situation. In the meantime we’ve already covered quite a bit of Terry Gilliam, who is a favorite round these parts.
“The Casserole Masters” may be the single weirdest film I’ve ever seen.
If you haven’t considered it, you should.
http://casserolemasters.blip.tv/
Roger… um… yeah, that looks weird. It’s not exactly a feature film, but I guess in the digital age we’d better catch up to online-only releases. Though I’m not fond of watching movies online, I’d be willing to give it a look down the line. In the meantime, anyone can watch the film by following the link you provided (looks like a legitimate online release).
What about the Jim Henson movies Dark Crystal and Labyrinth? Those were overflowing with weirdness.
Tripp: I will put Dark Crystal, which I haven’t seen, into the queue. As for Labyrinth, which I have seen, I wouldn’t say it was “overflowing” with weirdness, but it was weird for a kid’s movie. It’s odd enough to warrant a capsule review, which I will get to someday.
Try anything made by Shuji Terayama… One of the weirdest (and one of my favorite) directors of all time:
-Sho o suteyo machi e deyou (Throw Your Books, Rally in the Streets, 1971)
-Den-en ni shisu (Pastoral: To Die in the Country, 1974)
-Meikyu-tan (Labyrinth Tale, 1975)
-Les Fruits de la Passion (1981)
-Kusa-meikyu (Grass Labyrinth, 1983) – no wonder there are two movies with “labyrinth” in title. Terayama’s surreal & avant-garde works are quite labyrinthian…
-Saraba Hakobune (Farewell to the Ark, 1984) – inspired by 100 Years of Solitude, and I enjoyed it more than the book.
Some random (but not less important!) suggestions:
– Short movies of Patrick Bokanowski and his feature length L’Ange (1982)
– Dogura Magura (1988) by Toshio Matsumoto (beside this one, his short movies are almost the essence of weirdness, even when they don’t seem like one)
– Mécanix (2003), by Rémy M. Larochelle
– Izo (2004) by Takashi Miike (I see Gozu has already been mentioned, but I think Izo’s even weirder…)
– Nuit Noire (2005), by Olivier Smolders
– The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes (2005), or any of those quirky little stop-motion animations by the Quay Brothers
…and I’ll stop here.
Cheers! 🙂
I have not seen the movie ‘The Nines” listed yet. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810988/ Also, the movie ‘Nothing”. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298482/
Both I thought to be at least worthy of a look for the list.
NGboo: thoise are some very refined and obscure suggestions–just what we were hoping for! Terayama’s Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets was something we hoped to eventually review, but never thought anyone would suggest, so thank you. I’ll put it into the queue. As for the rest of your suggestions, I’m sure you’ll see many of them tackled before we hit #366, so stay tuned!
Urushial: Nothing (2003) is already in our long reader-suggested review queue, but you are the first to suggest The Nines. Consider it added as well!
– Shozin Fukui’s cyberpunk horrors – 964 Pinnochio (1991) & Rubber’s Lover (1996)… Too bad these are the only feature lengths he made.
– 4 (Chetyre, 2005), by Ilya Khrjanovsky – brutal criticism of Russian modern society, with 4 as leitmotif (why four – don’t ask).
– La dernière voix (2002), Ascension (2002)& La belle bête (2006), by underrated Karim Hussain. I still haven’t watched his debut Subconscious Cruelty (1999), but I guess, according to the comments I’ve read, it’s quite weird as well.
– short animations by Raoul Servais – Sirene (1968), Harpya (1979), Papillons de nuit (1997) & Atraksion (2001) are the ones I watched. Great & surreal.
– Black Moon (1975), by Louis Malle – almost indescribable & strange fairy-tale (kind of).
– The Company of Wolves (1984), by Neil Jordan – an inspiring & nightmarish version of Little Red Riding Hood.
– Fade (2000), by Eugenio Mira – like Jeunet, Caro & Lynch combined.
– Fellini – Satyricon (1969) – it’s strange how nobody mentioned it already.
– Firecracker (2005), by Steve Balderson – the weirdest “based on true events” movie I’ve ever seen.
– Giorgino (1994), by Laurent Boutonnat – it has very unique aura.
– Hannah House (2002), by Chad & Max Smith – a wicked arthouse horror.
– Hotel (2004), by Jessica Hausner – with a thick, “Lynchian” atmosphere.
– The Juniper Tree (1990), by Nietzchka Keene – as the tagline says, “A Twisted Tale of Witchcraft and Mysticism”.
– Neji-Shiki (1998), by Teruo Ishi – it’s translated as Screwed – ‘nuf said.
– Rampo Jigoku (2005), by various directors, inspired by short stories of Edogawa Rampo.
– Rhinoceros Eyes (2003), by Aaron Woodley, David Cronenberg’s nephew, who’s weird as uncle, but in a different way.
– Sanatorium Pod Klepsydra (1973), by Wojciech Has – an unforgettable dreamlike trip.
– Sayat Nova (1968), by Sergei Parajanov – beautiful & poetic.
– Valerie A Týden Divů (1970), by Jaromil Jireš – a very surreal story about coming of age.
– Yume Jû-Ya (2006), by various directors – based upon Natsume Sôseki’s collection of short stories that revive his dreams.
Next time, I’ll list some anime suggestions. 🙂
NGboo: I will put 964 Pinocchio in queue. Remember, let someone else have a turn before you put in your next anime suggestions! I don’t like to take back-to-back nominations. Fortunately for you Urushial snuck in with The Nines after you made your last list.
Comments on some of the rest of your list: the Russian 4 is already in queue. I think The Company of Wolves is a very underrated and almost forgotten little gem; we’ll get to it. I myself am a little surprised no one had suggested any Fellini yet, but that’s OK; it gives us something to put near the end of the List. Those other suggestions are all fantastic leads, many of them new to me.
Updating the review queue: Visitor Q (substituted for the currently unavailable in the US Survive Style 5+); The Short Films of David Lynch (next week); Santa Sangre; Inland Empire (next week); Monday (assuming I can find an English language version); The Abominable Dr. Phibes; Barton Fink; What? (Diary of Forbidden Dreams); Meatball Machine; Xtro; Basket Case; Suicide Club; O Lucky Man!; Trash Humpers (when/if released); Gozu; Tales of Ordinary Madness; The Wayward Cloud; Kwaidan; Six-String Samurai; Andy Warhol’s Trash; Altered States; Memento; Nightmare Before Christmas/Vincent/Frankenweenie; The Science of Sleep; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (jumping in line to come out next week!); Gothic; The Attic Expeditions; After Last Season; Getting Any?; Performance; Being John Malkovich; The Apple; Southland Tales; Arizona Dream; Spider (2002); Songs From The Second Floor; Singapore Sling; Alice [Neco z Alenky]; Necromania (1971, Ed Wood); Hour of the Wolf; MirrorMask; Possession; Suspiria; Mary and Max; Wild Zero; 4; Nothing (2003); The Peanut Butter Solution; Ninja Scroll; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Danger: Diabolik; Faust; Sublime; Battle Royale; Pink Floyd: The Wall;Escanaba In Da Moonlight; Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter; Zardoz; The Films of Suzan Pitt; Toto the Hero [Toto le Héros]; Paprika; The Holy Mountain; Brazil; The Casserole Masters; Dark Crystal; Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets; The Nines; and 964 Pinocchio.
The Pillow Book (1996) very bizarre film
Peter Jackson’s Meet the Feebles, Dead Alive, Bad taste…
Jacob’s Ladder (1990) is a another weird one
La Planete Sauvage (1977)
Hi Lili,
Peter Greenaway’s The Pillow Book (1996)is an excellent suggestion, I’ll put it in the queue. Peter Jackson’s early works will definitely be covered at some point, as will La Planete Sauvage [Fantastic Planet].
You may be happy to know that we already certified Jacob’s Ladder (read our review) as one of the 366 Best Weird Films of all time.
Hi, i just wanted to recommend some Jan Svankmajer Films
he’s a surrealist animator from the czech republic
he has a ton of shorts
but his movies
lunacy
Alice(a remake of Alice in wonderland)
and
little otik
should all be appreciated for the beauty and strangeness of them
Nice, I just thought of Enki Bilal’s Inmortal (2004)
Suggestions are coming fast and furious!
First, via email I received this suggestion: “…one recent film I just bought & loved (with a trippy and hilariously excellent concept) is FINAL FLESH. Awesomely clever and surreal. ‘the deal is this: Vernon Chatman located a company, a pornography-production company, that uses its stable of professional humpers to turn any script that you send them into a dirty movie. They will say, aloud, whatever you wrote in your script. So Vernon did that; he sent them some scripts….'” OK, that oddity goes into the queue.
Newtonian Vibes: we already have Alice in queue, but we need to cover all of Svankmajer, so I will add Lunacy [Sílení] as well.
Lili: Inmortel looks interesting, I will add it too…
Hi, nice list! These will keep me busy for a long time!
I have a few suggestions to make (They do not seem to be on your list… yet!) :
From japan :
– most movies from Shinya Tsukamoto (I can’t belive nobody mentioned him yet!), starting with Tetsuo 1 & 2, Haze, Gemini, Tokyo Fist…
– some of Sabu’s movies (someone mentioned “Monday”, you should also take a look at “postman blues” or “Drive”)
– some of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s movies : you rejected “cure”, however you might want to check “Kairo” and “charisma”
– “Marebito”
From Europe :
– someone suggested “Immortal”, I’ll add the other Bilal’s movies “Tykho moon” and “Bunker Palace Hotel”
– “Who killed Jessie?” (“Kdo chce zabít Jessii?”) strange concept : a mix between a live movie and a comic book
– “Last year in Marienbad” (“L’année dernière à Marienbad”) by Alain Resnais : really weird narrative structure
– “Drowning by numbers”
That’s all I can think of for the moment…
Have fun!