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.
Eric SG: thanks for the obsession! Fantastic Planet belongs in the queue, and so in it goes! The Story of Ricky is definitely something we plan to take a look at in the future, as well.
Also, a request sent in via email: “I suggest ‘Twin Peaks’ be reviewed. Never has cable television been this confused. Is it a comedy, a drama, a horror, a soap opera even? All this mixed with classic David Lynch weirdness, It definitely deserves at least a mention.”
Yes, although it’s not a movie we have to address ‘Twin Peaks’ at some point, so into the queue it goes.
Society(1989)-sick, disturbing satire
Heavy Traffic(1973)-brilliant animation from Bashki
Vampire’s Kiss(1989)-funny, dark comedy with Nic Cage
Motorama(1990)-strange, off-beat road movie
Observe and Report(2009)-best movie of 2000’s
“May” (2002) and “Harold And Maude”
J.S.: Your first suggestion, Society, is added.
Br: same goes for May.
Also, received via email: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
Updated queue:Suicide Club; O Lucky Man! (next week); Trash Humpers (DVD release is imminent, but this will probably be pushed back while we wait for it); 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]; Necromentia; 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; “Zombie Jesus” (if we can locate it); 3 Dev Adam; Fantastic Planet; “Twin Peaks” (TV series); Society; May; and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
Found your website after watching Ink (2009) to see what other viewers thought of it. Quite a spectrum out there however enjoyed your site and reviews, plus you allowing others to write reviews of movies while you sort, not sure if you watch them in order, through the huge queue that you have listed. In any case thought I would make one recommendation for a movie that should be added to you queue of movies – Triangle (2009) directed by Christopher Smith.
I do believe this movie can be considered as your combined def. of weird that “of a mysteriously strange and usually frightening nature.”
Great work with the site and look forward to watching and reading about more “weird” movies in the future.
Suspiria – Italian horror film about witchcraft
Shiva: thank you for the compliments.
1st, we have already reviewed Triangle: short answer, yes its weird, but I didn’t select it for inclusion on the List.
2nd, I do generally try to watch the movies in the queue in order, with occasional deviations due to availability. We also try to sprinkle in as many recent releases as possible, and occasionally I review movies that no one has suggested. Alfred, Eric and Pamela generally review what they want to, which sometimes coincides with items in the queue and sometimes doesn’t.
Patrick: Suspiria is already in queue at position #29.
You should add in–
Little Otik: Czechoslovakian fairy tale filmed with lots of stop motion and some creepy sexual innuendos.
The Man Who Fell to Earth: Sci fi film starring David Bowie.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer: Not SUPER weird, but pretty weird and has a great orgy scene at the end.
Devil’s Backbone and El Orfanato: Both by Guillermo del Toro but a bit weirder than Pan’s Labyrinth (Devil’s Backbone is better than Orfanato).
Death to Smoochy: Dark comedy starring Robin Williams and Edward Norton.
Bubba Ho-Tep: Movie exploring the premise of an aging Elvis Presley stuck in a nursing home which is being haunted by a mummy.
Sita Sings the Blues: Not WEIRD really, but very unique and a wonderful animated film telling Sita’s story from the Ramayana.
WIthnail and I: British comedy that manages to be off-beat and insightful. Homosexual subtext.
Brick: Modern day film noir that takes place in a highschool of all places. FIlmed beautifully and great dialogue.
Oh sorry, I didn’t realize someone had already suggested Perfume.
Elise: Many people have suggested Little Otik, but you are the first to make it your top priority. Into the queue it goes. The others are all good choices, and you’ll be happy to know that Perfume is already in the queue. [EDIT: I see you noticed that while I was composing my response.]
For t.v. you could possibly include Superjail! It’s an animated Adult Swim show with mind-blowingly detailed animation that begs to be re-watched. The episodes tend to start off relatively normal and then descend into psychedelic chaos and ultra-violence.
Elise: not a bad suggestion, but I only take one recommendation at a time from a single reader. Otherwise, the queue would be at least twice as long as it is now! Feel free to return and make another suggestion after someone else has had a turn.
That’s cool, I understand. 🙂 I think I may have gotten overly excited because I absolutely love weird/thought-provoking movies and think this project is wonderfully ambitious. In a few years you could have THE definite list of weird movies on the net and only have to worry about updating it for new releases. Good luck with it!
Final Programme
Nice to see you again, Funky, I’ll always take your suggestions. Final Programme goes into queue.
And Elise, we believe we have THE definite list of weird movies on the Net right now! But I agree with the rest of what you said.
I didn’t say that final programme is necessarily good, it’s decent campy weirdness though. Saw it recently and had a “wtf” moment.
Nobody has suggested a Wes Anderson movie yet? Maybe we’re just so used to his shtick that it doesn’t seem so odd anymore. it’s not the overwhelming surreal imagery in some weird movies, but his movies definitely have their own off kilter look and feel. A penchant for odd/surreal dialogue and plots that are weird/surreal vignettes when taken as a whole.
I think I suggested Gozu and Kwaidan quite a long time ago so I’m excited to see that they’re right around the corner!
Not much to say but you’re really doing a great service with this site.
Okay, so Guy Maddin is a fixture among lovers of weird cinema & he has 2 movies already on the LIST (deservedly so), but I have to say that his film Careful “out-weirds” them both easily. In fact, I would definately put it in my top 10. Such dreamlike photography puts you in a trance. You have to include this on this list eventually. Good night.
I would suggest Dusan Makavejev’s “Sweet Movie”, which is by far one of the strangest movies i have ever seen. I feel like at least one other person would have suggested it, but I will do so anyway.
263: You might see Gozu as early as next week.
Eric: I will be honored to review Careful. We would have gotten to it anyway, but now it will appear sooner.
Dan: I too am a bit surprised no one suggested Sweet Movie earlier. Into the queue it goes.
I would just like to know how/why movies like the Coen bros’ “A Serious Man” made
the list and “Holy Mountain” (probably THE weirdest movie ever made) is nowhere to be found? Lol
A Serious Man made the list first because it was reviewed first. It was reviewed when it was still playing in theaters. We don’t review from weirdest first to least weird last, but mix them up. The Holy Mountain is currently in the review queue, at position 50. But I’m tempted to hold off and make it review #366, just so people will keep reading until the bitter end!
Thanks 366 and all as I found great suggestions and it reminded me great old films 🙂
Here you go some suggestion by style:
–Animated–
Les triplettes de Belleville (2003) – just ace!!
Coraline (2009)- if you liked Nightmare before Christmas you’ll love this awesome movie
Hauru no ugoku shiro = Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
–Korean Vengeance trilogy– ### TERRIFIC ###
Simpathy for Mr.Vengeance (2002)
Old Boy (2003)
Simphaty for Lady Vengeance (2005)
–Dogme 95 manifest films –> check in wiki for style details 🙂
They are all weird as main author are Lars Von Triers whom style I adore plus anybody willing to respect the manifest codes and rules.
I highly suggest:
# Dogme #1: The Celebration
# Dogme #2: The Idiots (great weirdness)
# Dogme #3: Mifune’s Last Song
# Dogme #4: The King Is Alive
# Dogme #12: Italian for beginners
–Other various region top list movies– (my humble opinion still)
13 Tzameti by Gela Babluani = just stunning better if introduced w/o knowing anything about the history so that it becames even more shocking 🙂
Thirst (2009) Korean – based on Emil Zola novel this film is so weird
Kynodontas (2009) = DogTooth
Obviously all Michael Haneke films starting from the original Funny Games to Benny’s video and all the others (he builds up tension like no one else and the endings are totally unexpected)
Address Unknown (2001) another beautiful Korean movie for the story, the character and the obvious weirdness
Naked by Mike Leigh – although the name suggest a porn this is not it apart from some rough scenes.
Happy go Lucky by Hal Hartley and also his other movies are awesome n weirdness.
Other I can suggest are: He was a quiet man (2007) – Identity (2003) – No such Thing (2001) – Sex and Lucia – Y tu mama tambien – Chucking Express
Sorry I let the passion move me too far and long in this suggestion 🙂
Enjoy the weirdness and I’ll continue pick up new ideas from above comments.
Btw can you please advise where your updated watch/review list can be found?
Cheers!
sorry I found the list already (first time here lol) and I am going to drink it all :))
No problem, gnosoz, I am sure you found Coraline, Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Thirst, and Sex and Lucia already here. All good movies, but we marked none of them higher than Borderline Weird! However, I will add The Triplets of Bellville into the queue for you, as its something we’ve wanted to check out.
Hola, 366 (I’m not Spanish). I just wanted to say that I appreciated your comments concerning the recent post on Holy Mountain. Ironically, I just watched El Topo. Maybe the Coens could remake Holy Mountain and eliminate the original all together. Anyway, I cannot tell you how much I’m loving your website. I’m trying to watch or re-watch films that are not already in your queue. I have a ton of films I would like to recommend, but will hold off until the time is right. I want this to be the perfect list and thus far it is turning out to be just that. I’m compiling a queue of my own and you will be seeing many recommendations from me in the future when I feel I have a worthy one. I’m going on 36 yrs. old and have been watching weird films for about half of that, so my credentials are good. Hey, maybe you could review Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain? Good night 366.
Thanks #366
Well if they did not pass the borderline then I must check carefully your actual selections in order to bring up better suggestions in future 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GSpx5OBIg [Mildly NSFW] Foutaises by Jeunet?
Sure its only 7 minutes…but still :O
FlamingoPudding: sure, we can weigh in with our opinion on that. It will have to wait its turn in line, though. The film’s not appropriate for a Saturday Short because of some brief nudity. Fans of Delicatessen will see familiar faces and styles in that one.
sweet. (hahaha…) by the way i really love what you guys are doing here, this is amazing 🙂
i will say that the lack of John Waters films on any of the lists is slightly shocking though.
If you don’t suggest any, you’ll just have to wait until we get to one on our own. Mr. Waters won’t be forgotten.
Mr. Megastar, Brad Pitt, has actually made some odd films that are really good…12 Monkeys and the popular Fight Club (both worthy considerations). However, since your rule is to take only one suggestion I would like to recommend the less seen and underrated Johnny Suede. Made before he was a star and also featuring the great Catherine Keener, it has a low key, offbeat charm to it that I love. I’ve watched it several times now and I like it more with each subsequent viewing. Brad Pitt plays the humoruous title character with such naive, child-like charm he becomes oddly appealing. It also teaches a valuable lesson: If you ever meet Nick Cave and he offers you chicken, do not eat it under any circumstances! This film also would make an excellent triple feature along with Barton Fink and Eraserhead (only due to the humongus hair theme).
EricSG: That is a great suggestion, as I only caught a bit of Johnny Suede once on HBO and was intrigued by what I saw. I’ve been meaning to get around to seeing the full movie again to see if it’s as thoroughly odd as it looks, and now you’ve given me an excuse.
I’ve never heard of that dvd my wrongs is on if you do tv shows on the site jam by chris morris is very surreal and full of very english dark humour.
Also im putting music together for an independent film called Ancona Street which should be out by next year and released on the web.
p.s. have you seen the turkish star wars.
Mark: that short film compilation DVD (containing “My Wrongs”) looks great. If you have Netflix you may want to rent it. We will look at TV shows on request so we’ll put “Jam” into queue: it looks like it’s only a total of six episodes, so it should be easily watchable in an evening. As far as Turkish Star Wars, I haven’t personally seen it, but I’ve heard good things. Unlicensed Turkish ripoffs of American hits are almost a subgenre of their own. We will be tackling 3 Dev Adam down the road.
And just to update the review queue:Suicide Club (hopefully next week); Gozu (next week); Trash Humpers (DVD release is imminent, but this will probably be pushed back while we wait for it); 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]; Necromentia; 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; 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); 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; “Zombie Jesus” (if we can locate it); 3 Dev Adam; Fantastic Planet; “Twin Peaks” (TV series); Society; May; The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; Little Otik; Final Programme; Careful; Sweet Movie; The Triplets of Belleville; “Foutaises” (short); Johnny Suede; and “Jam” (TV, UK, 2000).
jams worth the watch but you can only get it on dvd with the remixed episodes and pointless extras on nearly all chris morris dvds I love to review myself.
Being totally aware of the length of the list I still dare to suggest a wonderful “imaginary story, both cruel and childlike” titled “Le conte du monde flottant/ “The tale of the floating world” by Alain Escalle (visuals) and Cécile Le Prado, a kind of the animation. “The film was an official selection of the Grand Prix IMAGINA 2002 and the CÉSARS 2003 of French cinema. …An evocative and surrealistic view of Japan and the atomic bomb.” http://www.elsaproductions.com/tour/act1.html
Mark: I didn’t know that about the “Jam” DVD. I’ll do more research and look into options when it comes closer to time to review. In the meantime, however, you are invited to submit your own reader review of it if you like. Just use the contact form.
Irene: I will put The Tale of the Floating World into queue for you, it’s definitely up our alley!
You should check svankmajer, Tim Burtons Alice can´t be weirder than his, no way 😀 And I think, some classics are missing, Jarman, la grande bouffe, chien andalous, some fellini or passolini, and maybe some german expressionist movie. What about machinist by the way?
so sorry for mentioning the germans 😀 I must have been blind. Did you see “von Morgen bis Mitternacht”? It is my favorite one.
Svankmejer’s Alice is in queue, and yes, it’s weirder (and better) than Tim Burton’s Alice (by a landslide). La Grande Bouffe is also in queue, so the first one you mention that isn’t scheduled yet is… Un Chien Andalou! I’m shocked it took so long for anyone to mention it!
And yes, I agree, there’s room for Jarman, Fellini, Passolini, the Expressionists, and the underrepresented (my avatar notwithstanding) Germans. It’s good to know there’s plenty of movies still out there, since there are so many remaining slots to fill.
I’m adding Un Chien Andalou into the queue.
Fantastic site you got here. After suffering through Human Centipede, I found this site looking for solace. I can’t stop reading about these insane little films we all love so dearly. My list of suggestions would be quite lengthy so I will make a few just for now.
Bloodsucking Freaks – This distorted my mind many years ago and let me realize what weird really was. This is a much more entertaining ripoff of H.G. Lewis’ Wizard of Gore.
Battlefield Baseball – Monster-fied zombie baseball team that will go to any means to win – very little baseball is played. Of the many chaotic Japanese films that exist, this one still blows my mind. A way over the top comedy that plays the same way Kung Fu Hustle does – only much wilder.
Zoo – Psudo-Documentary told through reenactments and voice-overs of the actual subjects. The subject – a clandestine group of men who LOVE horses. True, disturbing and extremely weird.
I’ll add more suggestions later but for diversity sake these three cover three distinct categories. I really love the site and can’t wait for your book/dvd already.
well, then maybe “Satiricon” or “Roma” from Fellini,Pasolinis “120 days of sodom” and Jarmans “The Garden” or “Caravaggio”- is cocteaus “orphée” weird enough? I feel a little stupid mentioning all the classics…
“Von morges bis Mitternacht” (Martin) is probably the most consequent expressionist film, it is pure paranoia in paper and carton 😀 and there is another great film from wiener, “Raskolnikow” a little bit in the caligari way.
i saw miyazaki is mentioned, all his film a kind of weird in my opinion, maybe “chihiro”?
What about “three unholy women” (Keita Amemiya,Takuji Suzuki,Keisuke Toyoshima)?Anyway- the Japanese (and korean)are great in weirdness- it is probably the influence of all of those traditionel ghost stories.
i also loved the surreal beauty of “the ring”, but maybe the story is too conventional.What about Kurosawa “dreams”?
I think movie is just the one and real medium for weirdness, it is somehow dreamlike. I spent most of my teen-years in cinema 😀 and I will surely take some suggestions from here.
Lee: OK, I’ll put Bloodsucking Freaks in queue. I agree that it’s something that can’t be ignored. Oh, and the 2009 Yearbook is already available, though there’s no associated DVD. We’re hoping to add that in 2010. Unless you mean the book with all 366 entries, that’s a way down the line…
Zosia: Satyricon is a good place to start on Fellini, though it’s just possible we might sneak a review of a different Fellini in first. I wouldn’t feel stupid for mentioning the classics. No one else did! And I agree you’re right about film being the best medium for weirdness. Cinema is inherently like a dream.
ADDITION: Irene accidentally posted a new suggestion on the wrong post. Here’s her suggestion:
“Cannot but mention a movie I’ve just watched- Les trois couronnes du matelot/Three Crowns of the Sailor, director Raúl Ruiz(1983)-a surreal postmodernist fantasy in which a sailor tells the stories of his wondering to a student who killed his teacher. A lot of mystic characters, events, Latin America ‘bordelieras’, beautiful ‘putas’, and when you see worms squeezed out of boils on a sailor’s chest, and later these worms metamorphosing into poisonous butterflies killing the birds who eat them, you understand that this movie is to be mentioned here. The movie was shot on Madeira, Portugal, by famous Sacha Vierny.”
Consider Three Crowns of the Sailor added into the queue, after Bloodsucking Freaks and Satyricon!
Holy Mountain – Alejandro Jodorowsky
suspiria – Dario Argento
8½ – Federico Fellini
Videodrome – David Cronenberg
Brazil – Terry Gilliam
12 Monkeys – Terry Gilliam
The Wall – Alan Parker
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Terry Gilliam
2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick
To be perfectly honest I don’t think my next recommendation, Death Race 2000, is really that weird of a movie. Maybe it is because I’ve seen it several times now (six? seven?) and it has lost the impact. The wacky premise is this: several contenders dressed in wild attire race cross-country in their modified death cars and the winner is determined by how many pedestrians they can run over & kill. Of course there is a scoring system (i.e., senior citizen kills result in a lot of points). To many people, upon first viewing, it should come off as pretty weird. To me, it’s just a fun movie to watch. David Carradine in full leather garb, cape, and a mask to hide his disfigurement…a young Sylvester Stallone honing his horrible acting chops…gratuitous nudity and violence…I mean come on! I love this movie. Campy? Absolutely. Weird? You be the judge.
One sidenote: There was an expensive Hollywood remake/rehash called Death Race that came out a year or two ago with that dude from The Transporter. I didn’t see and don’t want to because it shouldn’t exist. I’m sure it is sacrelige to Roger Corman/Paul Bartel’s original twisted vision.
David: A very good list. Holy Mountain, Suspiria, Brazil, and The Wall are all already in the queue and all the others will be considered. I’ll add 8 1/2, the first movie you suggested that isn’t already scheduled, into queue. Since the Criterion Collection recently released a new edition of the film, it might even skip ahead of some of the others.
Eric SG: Death Race 2000 is definitely something we’re interested in covering, so I’ll add it, too. Like you, I have no interest in the recent Hollywood remake.
Received via email from “Cthulhu”:
“I just thought I would suggest you a weird movie.
It’s called Dororo, and it’s about a guy, whose father traded his body parts to demons to get world domination.
He wants to kill his-well, body-partless son, but his wife takes the baby to a field and leaves him there.
A witch doctor-sorta guy finds the kid, and raises him.
As an adult, he must find and kill 48 demons to get his organs and limbs back…one at a time!
Here’s a link to it’s IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780503/
Tell me what do you think.
I hope you’ll find it interesting!”
Cthulhu: Sounds like an excellent choice, I’ll put Dororo in queue!
Holy Mountain
Its the weirdest movie of all time…
My list:
1 – Holy Mountain
2 – Lost Highway
3 – Naked Lunch
4 – Bubba Ho-Tep
5 – Memento
6 – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
7 – Paprika
8 – Primer
9 – Dark City
10 – 12 Monkeys
11 – Donnie Darko
12 – The Fountain
13 – Pi
14 – 2001
15 – Howls Moving Castle
16 – Shiiro
17 – Time Bandits
18 – Revolver
19 – Brazil
20 – Nightwatch
Good list, FredCN. Naked Lunch, Donnie Darko, Pi and Time Bandits all already made the cut, and there are still 308 slots open for those others! Several of them (including Holy Mountain) are already in the review queue. But surprisingly, no one has mentioned Lost Highway yet, so I’ll add it to the queue.
Bubba Ho-Tep
For those who haven’t seen it, spoiler alert.
Plot summary
A mummy appear at night from a river, goes to this old people retirement house and sucks the soul out of them from… their anus… The heroes are, a black JFK on a wheelchair and the decrepit incontinent Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell from Evil Dead).
Now tell me if this isn’t weird 🙂
Some Weird and Funny
– Monty Python’s Quest for the holy grail
– Monty Python’s Life of Brian
– Monty Python’s Meaning of Life
– Spaceballs
– Robin Hood Men in Tights
– Airplane!
– Beetlejuice
– Top Secret
– Hot Shots
– Naked Gun
Thank you for this site, I stumbled on it by happy accident a few days ago and I’m hooked. I’ve never seen so many of my favourite movies listed in one place or discussed so intelligently.
I would like to suggest a couple of movies for review. I haven’t spotted them listed yet, apologies if I’ve missed them.
The first is “Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders”, a magical female coming of age tale that reminded me of the work of the late, great Angela Carter.
The second is “Northfork”, a movie I happened on one afternoon while idly channel surfing. While government agents clear a town to make way for a reservoir, a young boy lies dying and creates a dream world in his mind to ease his passing.
Keep up the good work, and thanks again.