A look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons…

Trailers of new release movies are generally available on the official site links.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

0s & 1s (2011): The-times-we-live-in satire about a young man who loses his laptop, and therefore his entire life.  The experimental part is that the story is told entirely through screenshots viewed on a computer screen, via the social networking sites, online video game chats, and video sharing services that make up the mass of the protagonist’s life.  Premiering this week at hipster hangout reRun theater in NYC; future playdates seem unlikely.   0s and 1s official site.

The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman (2010): Heavily stylized Chinese action comedy about a mythical blade that is melted down and made into a kitchen knife, and passes down through three different owners. Could this be a slight stirring in the crazy corpse of the Hong Kong New Wave we detect? No official site.

IN DEVELOPMENT:

Alps (2011):  Giorgos Lanthimos already has his followup to his Certified Weird surprise hit Dogtooth in the can, and he’s in the final stages of preparing it for Cannes.  The story involves people who fill in as doubles for departed loved ones to help with the grieving (or denial) process, and Lanthimos promised the LA Times that this movie will be “darker and funnier” than Dogtooth.  You can be sure we’ll be on it when it comes out.

NEW ON DVD:

Sharktopus (2010):  Because it’s a meager week for weird DVD releases, and because Mega Piranha turned out to be “better” than we expected, we’ll highlight this SyFy backed, Roger Corman produced marine nonsense as our default weird release of the week. The poster suggests it’s about an eight-tentacled shark who climbs up on land to attack bikini babes; don’t blame us if it bites. Buy Sharktopus.

NEW ON BLU-RAY:

Sharktopus (2010): See description in DVD above. Buy Sharktopus [Blu-ray].

FREE (LEGITIMATE RELEASE) MOVIES ON YOUTUBE:

Bluebeard (1944):  Poverty Row expressionist Edgar G. Ulmer‘s take on the French serial killer legend stars John Carradine as a model-strangling artist.  Watch Bluebeard free on YouTube.

What are you looking forward to? If you have any weird movie leads that I have overlooked, feel free to leave them in the COMMENTS section.