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.
Shabarish: thanks for that suggestion, The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2009 title we managed to miss. It’s only played a few horror-themed film festivals so far and hasn’t been released on DVD yet, but word is IFC has picked it up for distribution. I’ll put it in queue and by the time we get around to it I’m sure it will have a DVD release.
Just because I happen to be watching it right now – the original Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Complete with one of the scariest moments in movie history, the infamous boat ride.
Speak of the devil, MCD! I was just finishing up our review of your first suggestion, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, when this one came in. Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is an excellent recommendation that we had intended to cover anyway. In the queue it goes.
My husband reminded me of another one: Legend of the Eight Samurai (English dub of Satomi Hakkenden) I’ve only seen the dubbed version, but I doubt that the Japanese version is any less weird.
I’ll keep it in mind, MCD, but I don’t like to put two suggestions in a row into the queue from a single person — would you like me to replace Willie Wonka with Legend of the Eight Samurai, or wait and suggest it again later?
The Bride of Frank should be in the beware section I think.
I’ll wait until later 🙂
A great idea to tag the movies differently! And it seems to me none of the sites dealing in this or that way with the movies do this!
As you’re nearing to “Tales of Ordinary Madness (Storie di ordinaria follia)”, director:Marco Ferreri I recollected yet another wonderful and quite bizarre movie by this director “La grande bouffe” (1973)with Mastroianni, Piccoli, Noiret and Tognazzi playing themselves. I consider it’s a kind of a modern burlesque, a farce reminding me of the Luis Buñuel films, and is a perfect candidate for your the MUST list of movies.
I’m well aware of the length of your list. Yet I think that it offers to have a glimpse through your eyes and heart.
I suggest The Abulla Conundrums,
Hiroshima Twinkie & Nagasaki Ding-dong.
It is a duology of surreality in the vein of Un Chien Andalou.
Here are the links for your viewability:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srqLSNYXjhs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6-TFJ9HEsA
Jason: Is that a suggestion, or a dare? I will put Bride of Frank into the queue. It sounds appropriate for coverage here.
Irene: I’ve been waiting for someone to suggest La Grande Bouffe. I should have guessed it would be you.
C. Lee T.: Those would be appropriate for us to feature sometime in our Saturday Short category, and they are the sort of thing we’d like to include on the “Fringe Cinema 2010” DVD we hope to put out next year in conjunction with out 2010 Weird Movies Yearbook. Use the contact form if you have anything else that might be appropriate for us. In the meantime folks can check out the shorts at the links you supply.
One more (received via email from “Zombie”): “I would like to suggest ‘Uzumaki’ a Japanese horror film directed by Higuchinsky. Released in 2000. In this movie an entire town becomes obsessed with spirals. People keep dieing because they try to get ‘into’ the spiral, one example is when a student jumps down the center of a spiral staircase.”
Updating the queue: What? (Diary of Forbidden Dreams) (coming in two weeks); Meatball Machine (coming soon!); 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; 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; 964 Pinocchio; The Pillow Book; Final Flesh; Lunacy [Sílení]; Inmortel; Tetsuo; Dead Ringers; Kairo [AKA Pulse]; The Guatemalan Handshake; Dead Leaves; Frownland; The Seventh Seal; Taxidermia; Primer; Maniac (1934); Hausu; A Boy and His Dog; 200 Motels; Walkabout; Private Parts (1972); Possession; Saddest Music in the World; Mulholland Drive; The American Astronaut; Blood Tea and Red Strings; Malice in Wonderland; The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. II (for Lucifer Rising, among others); The Human Centipede (First Sequence); Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ; The Bride of Frank; La Grande Bouffe; and Uzumaki [Spiral].
I’ll second Uzumaki. I recently read one of the author’s short mangas, and it was truly a head-trip. I then read up on Uzumaki itself. I didn’t realize it had been made into a movie.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Funky: yes indeedy, Hedwig is one to cover here.
Even Dwarves Started Small – d: Werner Herzog
Yes, Gideon, that’s a perfect suggestion! Consider it added to the queue.
I just saw Bunny & The Bull tonight. It’s a mixture of the movie Amélie and the tv show “The Mighty Boosh” with a dash of “The Science of Sleep”. If you do not know what I am talking about in either of my references than that would truly be WEIRD.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1251725/
xo I STARR ox
How about ~
I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney ( Directed by Ben Affleck )
Infinity Starr: Bunny & the Bull looks very appropriate, I will add it into the queue. (As an aside, your youtube channel freaks me out a little—I mean that as a compliment, of course).
Eric: I was assuming you were chiming in late with an April Fools joke, but I see that such a short film does actually exist! I promise to look for it: I’m assuming Ben doesn’t want it to be found…
i don’t know if anyonessuggested it but dead mans shoes by shane meadows is a great film also my wrongs #8245–8249 is an amazingly surreal short comedy well worth checking out.
Mr. Tilechoes: Dead Man’s Shoes may be a great film, but the description makes it sound like a fairly conventional low budget thriller. On the other hand, your suggestion of the short “My Wrongs #8245–8249” strikes us as a great idea, because it’s available on a cool little DVD called Cinema 16: European Short Films that also includes Jan Svankmejer’s “Jabberwocky” and Run Wrake’s beautiful “Rabbit” (already reviewed here). We’ll put the compilation DVD in queue and examine all the noteworthy shorts together!
“Freaked”, starring Alex Winter, is the first movie I thought of when I came across this site. It’s the weirdest movie I’ve ever seen, aside from “Pink Flamingos”, starring the notorious drag queen Divine. Both are worth watching- two of the best movies ever, for sure.
Sydney, several people have mentioned Freaked, and it is definitely something we want to cover. I’ll put it into the queue.
Finally, a website for the whole family!
1) Being John Malkovich – John Cusack plays a long haired puppeteer who takes a job on floor 7 1/2, only to discover a door which leads to the mind of actor John Malkovich for 15 minutes before dumping you on the side of the New Jersey turnpike. Yeah.
2) Session 9 – A group of workers are hired to clean up an abandoned sanitarium, and tensions run high due to home troubles, fear of the dark, missing people, and a reel of audio-tape that contains footage of a patient with multiple personalities.
3) Murder Party – A horror movie that relies on bizarre choices to excel. And they do.
4) Freaks (not Freaked)- Group of Circus performers (played by real circus freaks) seek vengeance when one of their own is hurt. (B&W)
5) Bartleby – Crispin Glover (whom I’m sure deserves a PLAQUE on this website) plays Bartleby, an awkward employee who slowly starts to stop working, staring into space, and saying only “I’d prefer not to”. An adaptation of Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener. The soundtrack is buoyed by weird instrumentals.
6) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Robin Williams as a flying, detatchable head (ie. the King of the Moon), Oliver Reed as Vulcan, the tea-drinking God of Fire/War, a harpsicord fashioned to stick spears into caged slaves who have to sing the proper notes, and a protaganist that may or may not be insane. Directed by favourite Terry Gilliam.
7) Brazil – Another Terry Gilliam film, this comedic adaptation of George Orwell’s “1984” contains saran-wrap plastic surgery, occasional bombings (taken very non-chalantly), and Robert DeNiro as an illegal air-conditioner repairman/vigalante.
8) Jan Svankmejer’s “Alice” – A 1970’s version of Alice in Wonderland. I think. I, for one, missed the parts in the story where: Alice finds jars of jam filled with tacks, Alice battles stuffed animal corpses, the white rabbit continually feeds on sawdust or else fall empty and die, AND every line Alice says is followed by a closeup shot of her lips saying “Alice said”.
9) Mirrormask – Jim Henson’s “Alice in Wonderland-esque” telling of a Young girl, book-eating, human-faced cats, singing robots, alternate dimensions, and cowardly jugglers.
Just like Bible Camp.
10) Trainspotting – Ewan McGregor stars in this …comedy? about a group of heroin addicts in Scotland. Dead babies crawling and spinning their heads on ceilings, a dive into “the worst toilet in Scotland” (a feces-covered toilet which is thankfully shown as a beautiful, clear sea after Ewan crawls in), and a lovely visit to the park (to quietly shoot dogs with BB guns) make this movie both insightful AND weird.
Shorts
– The Junky’s Christmas – by William S. Burroughs (who also reads it), and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The tale of Danny the Car-Wipe, searching for scag on Christmas day. His travels lead him (amongst other places), to a limb-filled suitcase, fellow users, pushers, and ultimately, to the “Immaculate Fix”. Claymation, B&W
– Jan Svankmejer’s “Darkness, Light, Darkness” – 10 minutes of seeing a large person being assembled peice by peice in a tiny room, starting with the hands. Weird. Claymation, B&W
TV Shows
-Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
-Captain Star
-Duckman
-The Head
-I’m with Busey
Thanks, I’m not sure if you have any of these on the list, I skimmed it, but this site is great! I own about a thousand dvds, mostly horror, and this is MY kind of genre. Very glad the Dark Backward made it on, most people’ve never seen it!
-Jack Mort,
The Pusher
Hi Jack Mort,
That’s a nice long list. Being John Malkovich, Brazil, Alice, and MirrorMask are all currently sitting in the review queue (which I will be updating momentarily). I will take your suggestion of Session 9 and add it to the queue. The other movies you mention all have a great chance to be reviewed eventually. As far as TV goes, we have enough on our hands with feature movies and shorts, but we do cover TV shows every now and again.
Here’s the new queue: Xtro (next week); 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; 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; 964 Pinocchio; The Pillow Book; Final Flesh; Lunacy [Sílení]; Inmortel; Tetsuo; Dead Ringers; Kairo [AKA Pulse]; The Guatemalan Handshake; Dead Leaves; Frownland; The Seventh Seal; Taxidermia; Primer; Maniac (1934); Hausu; A Boy and His Dog; 200 Motels; Walkabout; Private Parts (1972); Possession; Saddest Music in the World; Mulholland Drive; The American Astronaut; Blood Tea and Red Strings; Malice in Wonderland; The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. II (for Lucifer Rising, among others); The Human Centipede (First Sequence); Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ; The Bride of Frank; La Grande Bouffe; Uzumaki [Spiral]; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Even Dwarves Started Small; Bunny & the Bull; “I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney” (assuming I can find it); Cinema 16: European Short Films; Freaked; and Session 9.
Steven Soderbergh’s Schizopolis.
So strangely… funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoRWAJDEfj8&feature=related
John: Schizopolis it it! Consider it in queue.
I suggest “Singapore Sling”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI80TFsrEOQ
Simone, Singapore Sling is already in the queue (it’s 25th in line). Feel free to suggest another if you want.
Let me add Strings (2004), suggested by Teodor in a comment on another article.
Great site! lots of new stuff to look for now 🙂
If someone hasn’t suggested it already i’d add Dellamorte Dellamore (cemetery man) to the list, very unusual and interesting film with Rupert Everett. +1 for Hausu, super weird and loads of fun!
Dylan, you’re the second one to mention Dellamorte Dellamore, the first to officially suggest it. I will put it in queue, it’s definitely up our alley!
Seconding (or thirding? four-ingXD) Saanatorium pod klepsidra Hausu and Dellamorte Dellamore.
Unless I missed them around, I suggest
W.R. Mysteries of the Organism- Part a documentary about how cool orgasms are and part a declaration that revolution can’t be such with sexual revolution.
Sweet Movie- the story of two women, a captain that sails a boat with a huge Marx’s face full of candy in nostalgic revolution and the transit of a “miss world” as a commodity
Angst- A guy gets out of jail and starts feeling like killing again, he’ll soon prove how seriopusly insane he is!
Apartment Zero- A tale of identification and control. An uptight guy meets a cool one and he kinda falls for him and everything gets a bit too weird.
Schramm- Oh God, it hurts remembering XD
Britannia Hospital- crazy and funny criticism via the health system, including Dr. Millar with some serious strange deeds
Dead & Buried- Gary Sherman’s film about the town of Potter’s Bluff, where you might not want to be near
La campana del infierno- A twisted and resented guy has some evil plans, quite an ode to the uncanny
La Antena- Stylish silent film set in “the city with no voice” where Mr. TV holds a neat monopoly
Long Weeekend- A couple in a bad situation go camping and nature becomes a bit too scary.
Mad Cowgirl- Lots of violence, infectred meat-induced crazyness and kung fu fantasies
The Silver Globe- Crazy sociomystic sci-fi by Possession’s director
Morgiana- Over the top make up and hysteria and some crazy trips
Conspirators of Pleasure- Svankmajer shows us how people
transform things into elements to feed their fetishes. Weird.
Svidd Neger- a tale of Norwiegan Hillbilies with some cartoonish logic
The Cars that ate Paris- When Peter Weir did Weird
Ebola Syndrome- Extremely violent and crazy.
Thundercrack!- Part porn, part horror, wholy strange.
Trouble Every Day- Tindersticks’ music and Beatrice Dahlle as an oversexed cannibal
First, thank you for taking the time to make this list, this is amazing and I will definately be checking out and enjoying the ones I have never seen. You have most of the ones that I would list as first class weird already, or they are in que. A few more suggestions, the top ones are must see, the ones after the line…not certain if they qualify as ‘weird’ or not. I am not a good judge of that, things I think are normal many will call weird and some movies many call normal, I think are weird because there are other unexpected aspects to them that capture my attention.
The Addiction
The Hunger (1983)
12 Monkeys
A Company of Wolves
The Fountain
Robot Carnival (2 shorts on the DVD) – ‘Presence’ and ‘Clouds’
Fantastic Planet
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Spun
Requiem For a Dream
One Hour Photo
2001
American Psycho
Babel
Snatch
I Shot Andy Warhol
Somewhere in Time
The Usual Suspects
Blade Runner
Boogie Nights
The Doom Generation
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Apocalypse Now
Natural Born Killers
The Littlest Prince- orig. non animated
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Who’s Eating Gilbert Grape
I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Vernon, Florida
The Wrestler
Ma Via En Rose
But I’m a Cheerleader
The Mosquito Coast
Lord of the Flies
Watership Down
Buffalo 66
Vampire Hunter D
The Fall
Kalifornia
Serial Experiments Lain
Trainspotting
Fight Club
Cat People- orig b&w not 1982 remake
Tron
Mary Poppins
Reefer Madness
American Beauty
Basquiat
The Crying Game
oh and Liquid Sky too!
The Quiet
The Virgin Suicides
Wow, you guys have been busy! Fernet, I will put Saanatorium pod klepsidra [The hour-glass Sanatorium] in queue as no one has officially suggested it. Aegyptia, I will take your first suggestion of The Addiction (from the always original Abel Ferrara, 1995). And for Dylan, Liquid Sky. (And for Julie, The Quiet).
I wish I could comment on every movie you guys suggested, but you just bowled me over with the lengths of your lists. I love it!
Updating the queue as it now stands: Frownland (cutting in line to come out next week!); Basket Case (coming next week!); 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; 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; 964 Pinocchio; The Pillow Book; Final Flesh; Lunacy [Sílení]; Inmortel; Tetsuo; Dead Ringers; Kairo [AKA Pulse]; The Guatemalan Handshake; Dead Leaves; The Seventh Seal; Taxidermia; Primer; Maniac (1934); Hausu; A Boy and His Dog; 200 Motels; Walkabout; Private Parts (1972); Possession; Saddest Music in the World; Mulholland Drive; The American Astronaut; Blood Tea and Red Strings; Malice in Wonderland; The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. II (for Lucifer Rising, among others); The Human Centipede (First Sequence); Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ; The Bride of Frank; La Grande Bouffe; Uzumaki [Spiral]; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Even Dwarves Started Small; Bunny & the Bull; “I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney” (assuming I can find it); Cinema 16: European Short Films; Freaked; Session 9; Schizopolis; Strings; Dellamorte Dellamore [AKA Cemetery Man]; The Hour-glass Sanatorium [Saanatorium pod klepsidra]; The Addiction; Liquid Sky; and, for Julie, who snuck in a request while I was updating the others, The Quiet.
I’m surprised no one’s already suggested these (or maybe they have and I’ve missed it) but I am nominating Shock Treatment (the under-seen quasi-sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, featuring Dame Edna, non sequitur Coleridge references, and general wackiness, taking place in a town that’s turned into a tv station and all set to rockin’ musical numbers) and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (starring a pre-RoboCop Peter Weller as a rock star/adventurer/physicist who opens up a portal to another dimension, causing bad guy aliens Christopher Lloyd and John Lithgow to wreak havoc trying to pass through it; Jeff Goldblum also appears as a scientist named New Jersey who inexplicably only wears a cowboy costumes). These are both really awesome, and really weird, movies. I promise.
I’ve already written about Shock Treatment on my own site, but I’m not sure it’s fitting for your site (it’s a bit of a silly review).
Hi Alex,
Shock Treatment is an appropriate suggestion, if nothing else because it’s the sequel to a movie that’s already on the List. Your silly review would of course be fitting, because a silly review is fitting for a silly movie. We’ll give our own take on it when it’s turn comes in the queue Here it is for those who are curious: Film Forager’s Shock Treatment review. Have no fear about Buckaroo Banzai, we’ll get to it for sure.
The list is great! Yet one more the Veit Helmer movie TUVALU, not the least one.
Thank you for the reminder to get back to Veit Helmer and Tuvalu, Irene. It’s queued up!
i thnk a short called Zombie Jesus may be review worthy but i have not been able to find it anywhere
Chris, I will do my best to track that one down but no promises.
The Bed-Sitting Room. Sadly, it’s out of print, but you can watch it in installments on youtube.
Interesting… directed by Richard Lester and an IMDB reviewer calls it “The British El Topo!” Consider it in queue.
The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the strangest movies I’ve seen. I’m not sure if its on here, but i feel its one of the weirdest I’ve seen. Up with El Topo
Graham: The Holy Mountain is currently sitting in the review queue.
Speaking of which, here is the latest queue: 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; 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; 964 Pinocchio; The Pillow Book; Final Flesh; Lunacy [Sílení]; Inmortel; Tetsuo; Dead Ringers; Kairo [AKA Pulse]; The Guatemalan Handshake; Dead Leaves; The Seventh Seal; Taxidermia; Primer; Maniac (1934); Hausu; A Boy and His Dog; 200 Motels; Walkabout; Private Parts (1972); Possession; Saddest Music in the World; Mulholland Drive; The American Astronaut; Blood Tea and Red Strings; Malice in Wonderland; The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. II (for Lucifer Rising, among others); The Human Centipede (First Sequence); Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ; The Bride of Frank; La Grande Bouffe; Uzumaki [Spiral]; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Even Dwarves Started Small; Bunny & the Bull; “I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney” (assuming I can find it); Cinema 16: European Short Films; Freaked; Session 9; Schizopolis; Strings; Dellamorte Dellamore [AKA Cemetery Man]; The Hour-glass Sanatorium [Saanatorium pod klepsidra]; The Addiction; Liquid Sky; The Quiet; Shock Treatment; Tuvalu; and we’ll even take a stab at locating the hard-to-find short “Zombie Jesus.”
Actually the bed sitting room got a re-release on dvd last year.
How about the turkish film “3 Dev Adam” (1973). Involves an evil spiderman and his gang of misfits terrorizing the people of istanbul. The law can’t stop him so they call in captain america and el santo to sort him out. both weird & hilarious insanity ensues.
Not sure if its been mentioned but “The Singing Ringing Tree”. A surreal childrens fairytale from germany (1957).
Gerby, thanks for the encouraging report about The Bed Sitting Room.
Now, 3 Dev Adam is an interesting one, certainly worthy of coverage. That’s a film that can almost certainly never have an official DVD release, because it’s built entirely around copyright infringement—the Turk filmmakers didn’t even attempt to license the characters of Spiderman, Captain America and El Santo, the “3 Mighty Men” of the title. Due to those special circumstances I’ll put it in queue, even though we prefer to steer away from reviewing bootlegs.
The Singing Ringing Tree is on my personal list of movies to cover here, so don’t worry about that one.
where da holy mountin?
Spencer: The Holy Mountain is currently #51 in the review queue, meaning it will be a while before we get to it. Two other Jodorowsky movies were already accepted onto the List, so you can draw your own conclusions about The Holy Mountain‘s chances to be an official selection.
Qickly becoming obsessed with your site! I have to suggest 2 films for your already massive queue…Fantastic Planet (French animated headtrip with funky 70’s score and hallucinatory visuals) and Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Gory,but absurdly hilarious kung fu pic). Keep it up…I love this!