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Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs and Blu-rays (and hot off the server VODs), and on more distant horizons…
Trailers of new release movies are generally available at the official site links.
IN DEVELOPMENT (announced):
“Under the Skin” TV series (202?): Silver Reel outbid A24 for the rights to a TV series adaptation of the canonically weird movie Under the Skin. Tthe adaptation will be based on Michel Faber’s original novel, but will be “very respectful” of the film version. No writer or network/outlet has been named yet. Keep the black goo, or we’re out. Deadline breaks the story.
IN DEVELOPMENT (post-production):
Greatland (2020): A timely, low budget psychedelic satire pitching itself as “the most WTF film of 2020.” This teaser trailer currently has over 57,000 views and the film is due “in the second half of 2020.” Starring an (unrecognizable) Eric Roberts. We first mentioned this project back in March 2019, but it appears it’s been updated and overhauled on the fly to take current events into account. Greatland crowdfunding page at Seed & Spark.
Volition (July 2019): The “Best Feature” winner of the Philip K. Dick Film Festival is about a clairvoyant who foresees his own death. Plot details are being held tightly—we get it, psychological thrillers don’t need spoilers out there—but we were given a still to post. Volition official site.
NEW ON HOME VIDEO:
Gretel & Hansel (2020): Read our review. This witchy (and slightly weird) reinvented fairy tale debuts on DVD, Blu-ray or VOD. Buy Gretel & Hansel.
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: 366 Weird Movies’ 7th Netflix Party screening will feature dueling Jake Gyllenhaal‘s in Enemy. U.S. residents with Netflix should tune in this Saturday at 10:15 PM EST As usual, we’ll drop the link as usual 15 minutes before showtime here and on Facebook and Twitter.
We’ll also have reviews of a couple of deep indies available on VOD: the 2019 hippie immortality comedy Cant’ Kill This and the paranoid found-footage cellphone epic Murder Death Koreatown. Then, will cover the second installment of Seijun Suzuki‘s Taisho trilogy with the supernatural adultery of Kagero-za (1981). Onward and weirdward!
What are you looking forward to? If you have any weird movie leads that we have overlooked, feel free to leave them in the COMMENTS section.