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.
Kat: Thank you for the compliments, and thank you for posting your views on some of the individual movies.
And thanks for suggesting Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. I don’t know how I missed that one when I was compiling my secret list of candidates for the big List. But that’s why I put in the suggestion box! I’ll put it in the queue.
FredCN: Man, I love the enthusiasm and your list! But save some suggestions for later. I don’t take multiple suggestions from one poster in a row, but you can come back later and make another official suggestion.
I suggest “Dogville” and “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life” and “TALES OF TERROR”
I guess “Requiem for a dream” is a little weird too.
Roxana, Dogville is on our radar screen and I will add it into the queue. Thanks also for bringing the short (well, 23 minute) “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life” to our attention. And if you mean the 1962 Tales of Terror (as opposed to the 2005 straight-to-video movie of the same title), that could see a review, as I believe we have the unwatched DVD sitting around somewhere here at 366 World Headquarters. Requiem for a Dream will also get covered, eventually.
All the compliments in the world for this incredible site. I love what you guys are doing. I don’t have to mindlessly sift through IMDB for something worthwhile anymore.
These weird movies are one of the biggest inspirations for my music, so you’re contributing to my art indirectly. PERFECT!
I’d love to read a review about the first Tetsuo. I watched it and felt it in my cheeks and teeth for weeks on end.
Metal fetishism is a very descent ingredient for a weird movie. Cut a deep wound in your leg to insert a big piece of metal…mmmmm…
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As I anxiously await a viewing of Trash Humpers, I would like to recommend Harmony Korine’s Julien Donkey-boy. I don’t think anyone has mentioned this one yet & it is frickin’ weird. I like it more than Gummo which disturbed me on many various levels. Who would’ve thought eating spaghetti in a bathtub could turn my iron stomach, but it did. Julien Donkey-boy is at times equally disturbing, but has much more humor to it (albeit weird humor). Every scene Werner Herzog is in is absolutely priceless. A very strange man indeed! Korine’s direction and style is at times incredible. Avant-garde? Performance art? Garbage? A little of each I think. I’ve never heard his work described in this way before, but I see it as a twisted, modernized version of vaudevillism laid out on film. A little bit of everything thrown in your face. Sometimes to shock us and other times just to amuse. No matter what he lets us see it’s always compelling to watch. I read he was working on a film project many years ago where he went up to random strangers to pick a fight and got the crap beat out of him many times. I don’t think it is ever going to see the light of day, but I would love to have seen it. I will watch anything he ever releases. Anyway, digression aside, watch Julien donkey-boy as it is Korine’s finest/weirdest accomplishment to date.
Flamingopudding: Thanks for the compliments. A review of Tetsuo is coming up… before year’s end, at least.
Eric SG: We will put Julien Donkey-boy in queue, and that should finish up our Harmony Korine coverage, for the time being, at least. But I have to be honest: as much as I would love to watch that movie where random people beat on Harmony, I think I would take even greater satisfaction from starring in it!
Amelie is a beautiful and unique movie.
Nobody: I’m a little surprised you’re the first to mention Jean-Pierre Jeunet‘s Amelie. I will put it in the queue.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Freaky, oddly romantic, and a very out there ending.
Oh, another one since I see that Perfume is up there a few times. The Ten (2007). Might not be the weird you’re looking for but it’s worth watching.
“Seven Faces of Dr Lao” has a lot of weirdness in it. Not as weird as the book but still fun to watch. A goat-man bewitching Barbra Eden’s archetypal prim school teacher to a panting state of arousal is something you don’t usually see in a children’s picture. Then there’s the scene where the town wakes up – beautiful! And Tony Randall plays seven characters!
Kallisti: This thread has gotten much longer than I ever would have dreamed, so I can see how you could miss the fact that Perfume: The Story of a Murderer was already in queue. I’ll certainly give The Ten (2007) a shot; as a comedy based on the ten commandments, it’s at least offbeat, I would think.
Kengo: The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao is a very appropriate movie to consider, I’ll put it in queue.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408060/
tranqilo: I’ve been interested in checking out something of Pater Sparrow’s. I’ll put 1 in queue.
Love your site, great resource! I really liked
Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control by Errol Morris
Big cats, robotics, and naked mole rats…fascinating stuff.
There is a movie called “Tokyo Gore Police” (Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu) which is the wierdest movie i ever seen!!! 😀
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183732/
Buzzkill: It’s going to be hard for a documentary to qualify as weird, but if anyone can do it Errol Morris can. I’ll put Fast, Cheap and Out of Control into queue.
Very Serious Sam: One of those Japanese splatterpunk/bioweaponry flicks may make the List. Tokyo Gore Police could be the one, but until we get to it you may want to check out our review of Meatball Machine.
Updating the current state of the suggestion queue for your convenience:The Wayward Cloud (next week); Trash Humpers (DVD release is imminent, but this will be pushed back while we wait for it); 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; “Jam” (TV, UK, 2000), The Tale of the Floating World, Un Chien Andalou, Bloodsucking Freaks; Fellini Satyricon; Three Crowns of the Sailor; 8 1/2; Death Race 2000; Dororo; Lost Highway; Valerie and Her Week of Wonders; Dogville; and Julien Donkey-boy; Amelie; The Ten; The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao; 1; Fast, Cheap and Out of Control; and Tokyo Gore Police.
I sensed some animosity towards my last suggestion (Julien Donkey-boy). I know now that you have some deep seated hatred towards Harmony Korine. So, I apologize for dragging another one of his fims into the queue. I agree with you…he is an insufferable little manchild. However, I do find his films to be fascinating train-wrecks and they are undeniably weird, which is what this site is all about.
Ironically, Tokyo! was another movie I had considered suggesting. Now, I don’t have to. Thanks for the review. What I will suggest is At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul(1963). Brazil’s first horror film & the debut of writer-director-star Jose Mojica Marin’s Coffin Joe persona. Other Coffin Joe movies were made, but this is the only one I have seen. Really, I don’t even know if I want to see any others. This movie is sadistic and shockingly graphic for the time period. It is unflinching in its brutal depictions of violence. This does not make the film certified weird however. What does is the eerie atmosphere that looms throughout the duration of the picture. Surrealistic touches that hint upon Bunuel (albeit more evil). The ending catapults it into the weird netherworld with weird psychedelic camera tricks & believe me, they are a sight to behold for a black & white film. It’s definately worth a look, but take heed in that violence warning. 1963!?!
Eric SG: My personal dislike of Harmony’s style and public persona doesn’t prevent me from recognizing his importance. I will promote entries on the List that I personally don’t like if they are important films in the genre. And I would have checked out all of Korine’s work anyway, so your suggestion only makes us get to him faster.
At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul is definitely up our alley, so we’re clearly thinking along the same lines. I will put it in queue. I can almost guarantee at least one Coffin Joe film will make the List, whether it be Midnight or something else.
Orson Welles’ “The Trial” is a great weird movie which does a great job in mirroring the irrational world of a nightmare. It is based on the novel of the same name by Franz Kafka. I’m also surprised no Kung Fu movies are on the list. I understand many of them are borderline weird, and sometimes have no point other than entertaining, but here are some of my favorite ones deserving recognition:
“One Armed Boxer” and “Master of the Flying Guillotine”- Jimmy Wang Yu. These two films are complete with chicken beheading, a man who can withstand multiple blows to his most personal parts, a girl who fights by ripping off clothing, an Indian man who could challenge Mr. Fantastic to a game of Frisbee and win, and a shaolin monk/assassin who can blow himself up into a ball. These might just be borderline weird but their worth a look since (like many kung fu movies) they can be found for free online.
“Fantasy Mission Force” is also quite weird. It’s hard to explain the weird parts, but it is a kung fu movie set in world war 2, so you can guess.
Although not a Kung Fu movie the flick commonly known as “The Turkish Star Wars” would make a good addition.
I am very thankful that you included this updated queue, because reading all of these comments was getting a bit tiresome, especially when my suggestion-list consisted of over 40 titles, most of which are included within your post. Rather than spending the time right now to check my list against yours, I will offer one immediately that comes to mind that may blow many of these out of the water concerning weirdness factor:
Marquis (1989-directed by Henri Xhonneux) is incredibly bizarre. I’m happy that someone finally suggested Tokyo Gore Police to you as well, because that was an interesting flick. Strange Circus is another ero guro which is peculiar from a psychological standpoint (rather than a visual-feast of oddity like the aforementioned); and on a similar note, Anatomie de l’enfer (2004-directed by Catherine Breillat) is a philosophically dreamlike film about human sexuality (as are all her films, but usually from a more literal perspective), but it may not be what YOU would classify as weird. Midori is an anime film with ero guro elements, and there are quite a few Asian films that can be added to your list (oh, and I second Wild Zero), but I’ll wait a while before posting again — just make sure to check out Marquis if nothing more than the unique direction (which brings Meet the Feebles to mind, though more artistic and refined).
***Okay, I wanted to stop, but as a bonus, you may be interested in viewing the All Night Long (Katsuya Matsumura) series; I’ve watched the initial three, and though the first is a little bland, the sequels are exponentially disturbing, much more so than Visitor Q, but with similar depravity, minus the humour. Thanks for the listen, and I apologize for the length of this post. If interested, I may be available to assist in reviews if needed, as I’ve seen many of those listed, am a bit of a film nut and am presently building my own cinema blog.
Quick rehash:
Marquis
Anatomie de l’enfer
Midori
All Night Long (1-3)
(and) Meet the Feebles (if it hasn’t been reviewed as of yet)
Undead (2003-Spierig; campy Aussie fun)
Excuse the number of entries I submitted. There are currently so many awaiting review, and working on my site had me excited — plus, coming across your portal offered some needed inspiration; hopefully mine will eventually garner such popularity. Keep up the good work, and try to keep from becoming overwhelmed. I wish you luck.
The Holy Mountain
Oh crap, sorry for my last post I just saw Vee
February 4th, 2010 at 12:11 pm.
With the discovery of this website yesterday I actually found myself trying to think of weird movies while trying to fall asleep. I found it very difficult to think of many, but I did remember a very strange flick I saw when I was only 12 (5 years ago). My memory is very sketchy, but the movie is called “Hell Comes to Frogtown”, and it is weird.
Also, my inability to think of many weird movies (despite my love for all things weird) made my mind wander which is when things started getting really weird. I came to the realization that a website featuring only weird movies actually makes the weird normal. Therfore, the weirdest movie on this site would actually be a completely ordinary movie. That is why I suggest “Napolean Dynamite” a movie so normal it is weird. You can’t deny logic. I did not wan’t to suggest Napolean Dynamite but honestly I could not think of a more normal movie which in a strange way makes it weird.
Good day, and sorry for the parradox.
Royce: I’ll put Welles’ The Trial in queue. As for kung fu, don’t forget that we did approve of Kung Fu Hustle. But I will hint that at least one of the other kung fu movies you mentioned has a spot reserved on the List.
CXAReign-a: Marquis goes in the queue. And please drop us a line when your website is up and running.
Sam: Yeah, The Holy Mountain is already in queue, feel free to suggest something else.
Royce redux: OK, I’ll take your suggestion of Hell Comes to Frogtown as well. And you do have a point about the weird starting to seem normal. Since starting this site I’ve become pretty blasé about stuff that completely freaks other people out!
I have a strong suspicion that the hinted at kung fu movie is “Fantasy Mission Force”. I also have another movie to suggest through my brother’s suggestion. I have never actually seen it, but my brother speaks very highly of its weirdness. It is called “Vase de Noces” or the “Wedding Trough”. In it a man apparently has children with a pig. It is also said to have many random scenes such as a man making tea out of his feces. The movie itself might be hard to find because my brother certainly had trouble. He ended up buying it on an auction website for about 30 dollars. After that he had to spend another 20 dollars to get a dvd player that could play region 2 films. This is what he spends his scholarship money on……
Royce: I have a policy of not taking multiple suggestions from a single poster in a row, and I’m going to use that out to dodge Vase de Noces (also known as The Pig F***ing Movie). Aside from the improbability of obtaining a legal copy, the descriptions I’ve read make it sound vile, and it is still banned in some countries.
This is indeed the best movie resource on the interweb.
I have a lot of suggestions but one at a time so as not to get over-excited.
Hellzappopin (1941)
Humour must have been different 70 years ago ’cause it doesn’t seem that funny now, but there is a lot of weird here – post modern structuralist stuff where the characters physically interact with the projection of the film and the audience. Plus a bunch of absurdist running gags and what appears to be a trip to hell, with song and dance numbers.
Runs out of gas (and jokes) by the end, but not at like all like other movies. At least not until the Zucker Brothers came along.
my suggestions for weird movies…
Xich lo (1995)
“cyclo”
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Persona (1966)
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Alferd Packer: The Musical (1993)
Secretary (2002)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Katakuri-ke no kôfuku (2001)
“The Happiness of the Katakuris”
Don’t Look Now (1973)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
The Devils (1971)
La pianiste (2001)
“The Piano Teacher”
Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974)
“Arabian Nights”
Teorema (1968)
She’s So Lovely (1997)
Hwal (2005)
“The Bow”
Mysterious Skin (2004)
Seom (2000)
“The Isle”
Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (2003)
“Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring”
Samaria (2004)
“Samaritan Girl”
Ma vie en rose (1997)
Tommy (1975)
Bitter Moon (1992)
Gerry (2002)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Blowup (1966)
Bruno (2000)
Parasomnia (2008)
Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007)
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Jitsuroku Abe Sada (1975)
“A Woman Called Sada Abe”
Ai no korîda (1976)
“In the Realm of the Senses”
kengo: May we quote you on “best movie resource on the interweb”? At any rate, I’ve been interested in seeing Hellzapoppin’ for some time, so I’ll put it in queue and look forward to it.
spass: Knowing almost nothing about it ahead of time except for the fact that the cinematography was praised and it was banned in it’s native Vietnam, I’ll take your first suggestion of Cyclo [Xich lo] and put it in the queue. I will also point out that we already approved of Don’t Look Now and have plans to cover several others on your list down the line.
and now my official suggestion from my list above
Seom (2000)
“The Isle”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255589/
and now i saw your reply
cyclo is probably the best movie i ever seen
maybe not as weired as the isle but still hard to understand and with many different dimensions
spass: I will gladly switch Cyclo to Seom, since that’s your official suggestion. Seom does look weirder.
And todays suggestion is…
Allegro Non Troppo (1976)better than Fantasia and not afraid of sex. A bit uneven but the good bits are very good.
Recently I stumbled upon a Russian review of the “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus” (2006)-it was a Russian review and the titles was Russian-after reading a poem by Gershon Hepner-Arbus. I decided to read more about the character, and found the original title of the movie, then read about Arbus’s life and her career, the user reviews at IMDB, and decided to suggest the movie here. It’s up to you to decide whether it is weird enough for your attention.
kengo: Allegro Non Troppo is an appropriate nomination. I wouldn’t say it’s better than Fantasia but it’s a different take on a similar idea. In the queue it goes.
Irene: I also think that Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus can go in the queue. Arbus is an interesting character and the idea they come up with to fictionalize her life is offbeat, to say the least.
Several films come to mind. Hotel New Hampshire the saga of the Berry family, Lust in the Dust, a b western treasure hunt movie were the map is tattooed on the ass of two women (one is in real life a man), 13 ghosts, a horror movie.
Kool site. We were talking at work about strange movies at work and a goggle search led me here. Yea! One more movie to add might be The World According To Garp. A comedy.
I appreciate you putting the movie in the queue. I know how long it is. Actually, I know very little about Diane Arbus, but they say the movie has basically zero accuracy as to her life and is more a character study-that’s what is most valuable in it-and a unique portrayal of romance and personal and sexual freedom. Both Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr are great, but the voice of Downey Jr. is mesmerizing.
Keith Stone: Sounds to me like you’re a John Irving fan. I haven’t seen Hotel New Hampshire, and although I liked Garp a good bit, I didn’t find it weird. I think Paul Bartel’s Lust in the Dust, although probably not as good a movie as the other two, fits in with the “weird” theme best, so that’s the one I’ll add to the queue.
I seriously believe that the Holy Mountain deserves a spot on the most weird. And you might want to check out the Triplets of Belleville. It might not make the official weirdest movie, but you should check out the beautiful surrealistic imagery, plus it’s rather non-dialog plot. Love your site man, thanks.
Caleb: You’ll be happy to hear Holy Mountain and Triplets of Belleville are both already in the queue.
As I see Malice in Wonderland is coming this week for a review & Tim Burton’s blah version just got released on DVD, I’m reminded of a weird movie that is another variation/or similar parallels to the Lewis Carroll classic. However, I hate to suggest it as I have never seen the film and it is only available in the Region 2 format. It’s Jacques Rivette’s Celine & Julie Go Boating (1974?). For so long I have read excellent reviews of this movie and have wanted to see it for about 10 yrs. or so and have never been able to locate it unless I pay out the wazoo for a used VHS copy. I figure if I recommend it you’d have a good chance of locating a copy and at least share your take on it (you managed to get Begotten – another rarity I’m dying to see). Maybe Criterion or someone else will finally release it by the time it comes up on the queue. Have you seen this one already by any chance?
Each time I see some good movie, within the borderline of the site’s intent I’d like to share it with your readers. This time I’ve got two new suggestions: a wonderful short Kafkian movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”, director Peter Capaldi. It won Oscar in 1995 as Best Short Film, Live Action, and the Audience Award at Angers European First Film Festival(1994); the other one is Drawing Restraint 9 (2005), Matthew Barney both Director & writer, with Björk with a wonderful soundtrack! Surreal, colorful, minimalist. Some reviewers compare it to The Holly Mountain.
EricSG: Yeah, Celine and Julie Go Boating is one we absolutely have to check out, based on reputation if nothing else. I was unaware that it’s not available in Region 1 DVD right now. I will find a way to view it eventually. You’re right, it seems like an extremely good candidate for the Criterion Collection, who managed to finally put out a Region 1 version of Last Year in Marienbad (last year, in fact). I will put it in the queue right now and keep your fingers crossed that by the time we get to it, there will be a proper release!
Irene: Some else previously mentioned “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life” (not to be confused with Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life). It appears it has been released on a shorts compilation along with three or four other shorts, so I will put that in the queue and look at them all together.
Today’s suggestion…
‘The Magic Christian’ (1969), not really that weird a movie by late sixties/early seventies standards, with all the disjointed dreamlike narrative, broad satire and surreal imagery that seemed to be standard at the time, but has some good bits. Businessmen wading through sewerage for money, Dracula, Vietnam and Raquel Welch with a whip. And what looks like every able bodied actor in Europe doing a cameo.
Crna macka, beli macor (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118843/) – aka “Black Cat, White Cat” – Emir Kusturica’s joyously insane gangster-wedding-crime movie! 8/10 on IMDB, and worth it for the music alone!
DARK CITY (1998) this movie deserves to be near the top of the list when it comes to weird. i know use guys are going to love it.
Suggestion for today…
‘5000 fingers of Dr.T’ (1953)
Dr Seuss as writer, lyricist and inspiration for production design (though apparently he disowned it).
Musical fantasy with the power to frighten small children.