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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:
The Cool Tenor (2023?): Fresh off his surreal music biopic Country Gold (review coming soon), prolific Oklahoma auteur Mickey Reece will reportedly work with his biggest budget for his next offering, The Cool Tenor. The brief description makes it sound like a thriller (with Reece’s usual comic touches) set in a “vaguely dystopian feature,” most likely with a jazz motif. Promising quote about the film: “People will have to get cool about some weird shit real quick for me to get into [A-list] festivals.” Read more at Variety.
NEW ON HOME VIDEO:
God Told Me To (1976): Read Pamela de Graff’s List Candidate review. Larry Cohen‘s gonzo mass serial killer thriller unexpectedly gets a deluxe release from Blue Underground, with a 4K Ultra HD disc and a Blu-ray, each hosting a throng of special features. Buy God Told Me To.
Requiem for a Village (1975): A graveyard caretaker sees bodies rising from the grave and recalls old stories from his village. A directorial effort from David Gladwell, Lindsay Anderson‘s preferred editor, this sounds like a discovery that would have fit in perfectly on the “All the Haunts Be Ours” folk horror box set. A short feature supplemented on Blu-ray with a number of Gladwell shorts. Buy Requiem for a Village.
CANONICALLY WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:
This section will no longer be updated regularly. Instead, we direct you to our new “Repertory Cinemas Near You” page. We will continue to mention exceptional events in this space from time to time, however. We are adding a new venue this week: Lexington, Kentucky’s Kentucky Theater, which is hosting a screening of Repo Man (1984) tonight.
FREE ONLINE WEIRD MOVIES ON TUBI.TV:
Enemy (2013): Read the Canonically weird entry! Professor Jake Gyllenhaal meets his exact double in a spider-haunted Toronto. Now listed as “leaving soon.” Watch Enemy free on Tubi.tv.
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:
A busy week at 366 kicks off with our latest Weird Watch Party, MFKZ (2017), on Netflix tomorrow. As always, the link to join will drop here, on Facebook, and on Twitter around 10 PM.
Meanwhile, Giles Edwards will continue his frequent-but-irregularly-scheduled dispatches from Fantasia Festival 2022; in fact, his next review, for Mickey Reece‘s Country Gold (see “In Development,” above), will be out soon. In between those, Gregory J. Smalley will try to fit in one from the reader-suggested review queue, the 2009 low-budget demon-summoning flick Lo. Next week will also see Alfred Eaker pop up from hibernation with a Summer blockbuster appreciation of Elvis. 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.