Name the weirdest movie you have ever seen

[RiffRandell]

For me, it would be Liquid Sky. Aliens killing people when they have orgasms.

[FizzFuzz]

1. hadn't thought about that one in a long time

I'm thinking of Naked Lunch and Eraserhead

[Fridays Child]

2. Momento. It gave me a headache.

[LiberalVoice]

11. Momento kicks ASS!!!

:kick:

[sam sarrha]

40. the story of my life ... i have next ot no leniar memory

[neverborn]

65. Agreed!

[Forkboy]

92. One of the coolest friggin movies I've ever seen

Guy Pierce was fantastic!

[Gildor Inglorion]

3. "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet...

and I'm Feeling So Sad." Rosalind Russell as a widow who hauls her late husband's body around in a trailer. Robert Morse also stars as her son. Extremely weird.

[CanuckAmok]

4. The Saragaso Manuscript.

The poster includes the quote: "Jerry Garcia's favourite movie!"

Enough said.

[Tom Kitten]

88. A good one!

I saw the "Saragossa Manuscript in a theatre once, believe it or not! I like the way it tells a story (and then someone in that story tells a story )
Plus there are ghosts...good choice!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. It's a tie. Secretary and/or Pumpkin

Both are strange, odd points of view. MKJ

[m-jean03]

6. The Reflecting Skin

:scared: Weird, and scary!!!

[maggrwaggr]

73. Yeah, I was gonna nominate that one

weird weird movie.

[childslibrarian]

7. I agree with Liquid Sky

very wierd....

[LiberalVoice]

8. Donnie Darko!

Edit: I changed my mind.

[mithnanthy]

14. Cemetary Man.....

Really out there! Can't even begin to explain it.

[name not needed]

43. fuckass!

:)

[Forkboy]

93. They are re-releasing Donnie Darko

with about 20 minutes of extra footage this fall.It's playing in selected cities and then on to DVD.

Great movie...killer bunnies get me excited :D

[DBoon]

9. Wow! I thought of Liquid Sky as well

Sick minds think alike.

[hyphenate]

10. You're kidding, right?

I saw the title of the post, and that's the exact film I thought of as well. To me, Liquid Sky was basically nothing but a low cost porm film disguised as SF. Thank god I haven't seen it around in 20 years.

[tigereye]

56. that's a pretty good assessment

it suited the 80s? mood at the time.

[displacedtexan]

It's a toss up for me...

Either Pi or Joe Gould's Secret.

Both scared the shit out of me! I'm so glad my brain functions somewhat normally.

[TexasBushwhacker]

36. I LOVED PI !!!!

Yes it was wierd, but in a cool way.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

86. Pi still haunts me. *shudder*

when I think about that drill...

[DBoon]

12. Sante Sangre

with Cemetery Man a close second

[BigMcLargehuge]

55. Santa Sangre was definitely a weird one

[HEyHEY]

13. ..Begotten

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

15. Should I count movies that were on MST3K

There were a lot of weird movies on that show, in fact that was the whole premise. MKJ

[Champ]

16. Slaughter House

I haven't seen the others listed. Also "Dead Alive"(I think that's the name) was pretty strange and gross as well. I :puked: a good 1/3rd through that movie.

on edit: the movie is "Braindead" but aka as "Dead Alive"

[orthogonal]

17. Stan Brakhage or Kenny Anger

"Sirius Remembered" by Stan Brakhage, which records the decomposition of the filmmaker's dead dog. (Or his "Window Water Baby Moving", but that's more beautiful than weird.)

Kenny Anger's homoerotic paean to Hell's Angels-type bikers, "Scorpio Rising" -- or, better, yet, his homage to Aleister Crowley, "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome".

Or really anything by either is weird and well worth watching.

[No2W2004]

18. Any of the Dr. Phibes series

:crazy:

[tjwash]

19. Eraserhead

It totally bit, as well as being strange.

[TexasBushwhacker]

37. It was the first one that popped into my head too

but Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet were pretty weird too. David Lynch - the kind of weird! Oops, I forgot Boxing Helena, which was directed by David Lynch's daughter. Weirdness runs in the family.

[NightTrain]

52. That makes three of us!

:hi:

[ronzo]

71. Yep.

I was gonna pipe in. Way out there.

98. Eraserhead, YES. I've never been able to see it all the way through.

I always fall asleep, then have horrible dreams.

I've seen the beginning, the middle, and the end, but never in one sitting.

I think there is something "subliminable" going on in this film.

[Rowdyboy]

20. The Block House -1973 stars Peter Sellers

http://movies.yahoo.com/mvc/dfrv?mid=1800038121&s=&rvid=255-8144&i=0&spl=&ys=xxC0Olsz2Z_zDFUn4oTQMQ--

Very odd, claustrophobic little piece about seven men trapped in a huge undergroound bunker for 6 years after D-Day. Gradually, madness picks them off.

Supposed based on a true story.

[Radical Activist]

21. koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance

Also one of my favorites. The whole trilogy is great.

[Forkboy]

94. Great great movies

not sure I consider them weird,but I love them anyways :)

[Harrumph]

22. 'Bad Taste'

"Bad Taste" was one of the strangest movies I've ever seen. It was the first movie directed by Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings).

:smoke:

[DS1]

29. It wasn't strange, it was hilarious!

:7

[Harrumph]

35. Okay....

let me clarify. It was the most hilariously strange movies I've seen. Better? :pals:

:smoke:

[kimchi]

23. The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover

messed with my mind.

[Catfight]

24. Requiem for a Dream

[neverborn]

66. AWESOME movie!

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. Natural Born Killers.

Gave me icky feelings for about a week and I was never able to think of Woody the bartender in the same light. :(

[neverborn]

67. AWESOME movie!

[Feanorcurufinwe]

26. Eraserhead. nt

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

51. Second that

I've seen a lot of weird movies but that one just left me going :wtf:

[Speck Tater]

27. Myra Breckenridge. (nt)

[CanuckAmok]

28. "Existenz" was pretty strange, too...

...but not unusually strange, for Cronenberg.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. Persona

Ingmar Bergman in the 1960s. Liv Ullman and Bibi Andersson (who looked a lot alike at the time) merge.

[zauberflote]

103. Agree

You beat me to it. Strange but magnificent. A kind of dream that dives deep into the mysteries of being human. One of the greatest films ever made.

[sundog]

31. A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)

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[Bluebear]

32. Punch Drunk Love

[SnohoDem]

33. Fando & Lis

Only movie I've seen by Jodorowsky, same guy that did Santa Sangre. His movies are just plain weird.




Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[redwitch]

34. The Forbidden Zone

w/ soundtrack by Oingo Boingo. But Liquid Sky is right up there! When hubby and I saw Liquid Sky at a local art cinema years ago, we were astonished at how many people walked out in a huff. We became rather giddy everytime someone stormed passed us muttering to themselves.

[Taverner]

38. Velvet Goldmine

Makes no sense 1/2 the way through

[tigereye]

57. thought it was just me watching it at 2 am....

I did like some aspects of it, though

[sam sarrha]

39. The Last Days of Man On Earth... and Dark star

[sam sarrha]

41. absolutely Music of the Spheres... frecch.. english subtitles

[CrownPrinceBandar]

42. Dark Star is so great..............

in a disturbing kind of way.

For me it was a Nicholas Roeg movie called "Performance." It starred a young Mick Jagger. "Love Camp" (or "Die Todesgöttin des Liebescamps") was pretty weird also. There were a couple of George Lazenby films in there that would qualify too.

"Performance" ------> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066214/

"Love Camp" ------> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083215/

[SmokingJacket]

44. Mondo Trasho

Early John Waters -- all about "shrimpers", I think. Hard to tell what it was about. Loved it anyway.

[The empressof all]

45. The Wicker Man

This is truely the strangest most disturbing movie I have ever seen.

I highly recommend it-if you like odd and disturbing

[CanuckAmok]

68. O-O-O-O-O-H CHRIST! N-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O!!!!!

Edward Woodward...would you like some pineapple with that baked ham?

[SarahB]

46. Clockwork Orange

[Khephra]

47. I make it a habit to seek out strange films, so I can't say I have a fave

But here's some that I really like:

Videodrome (and most pre-Videodrome work by Cronenberg)

The Holy Mountain/Santa Sangre (and most work by Jodorowsky)

Anything by the Quay Brothers and Svankmeyer

Zardoz (cheese by today's standards, but the message underneath it all...wow...)

Repo Man

Buckaroo Banzai

Most of Takashi Miike's films

Iron Man: Tetsuo

Much of Ken Russell's work

Dark City

Just about any John Waters film

[Kahuna]

48. Fight Club.

:puke: Gotta remember. I'm a grandmother. I don't think this movie was intended for grandmothers.

[Suspicious]

49. You didn't like Fight Club?

I thought that movie was pure genius...(that's not to say I didn't find it necessary to look away during certain scenes)

edited for very, very poor spelling.

[Liberal Classic]

59. The only rule of Fight Club

Is not to go see Fight Club.

[CanuckAmok]

69. You are not your khakis.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.

We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the galaxy.

[terrya]

50. "Naked Lunch". It was just as strange as the Burroughs book. eom

[stavka]

53. I had forgotten that...

"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times" - STUPID Monkey!!

[Reciprocity]

54. Santa Claus Conquers The Martians

Santa Claus is kidnapped by Martians to provide joy and toys to the children of Mars when they become overly depressed. The Martians use the robot Torg to kidnap Santa, but Santa makes him into a toy.

[tigereye]

58. I saw that on TV once, it was really strange

Being John Malkovich
Memento - yuk, no narrative, made little sense
Cecil B Demented was pretty out there

[Mr. Blonde]

60. No Mulholland Drive

yet? I watched the movie and then had no idea what I had just seen. I had to get on other message boards to try for an explanation. David Lynch is one weird man, and I mean that mostly complimentary like.

[Beware the Beast Man]

61. HAH!

Before I clicked on the link, I wondered how many people would have picked "Liquid Sky." It definitely gets my vote.

[MontecitoDem]

62. everything by Maya Deren

saw her films in college (many moons ago) and just the thought of them still freaks me out. anyone seen these?

[The Zanti Regent]

63. Incubus

Any picture that has William Shatner speaking Esperanto has got to be bizarre!

[Mojambo]

64. Conspirators of Pleasure

I believe my comment on this film would be as follows...
"What the fuck!?"

http://www.illumin.co.uk/svank/films/pleasure/pleasure.html

[JayS]

70. Eversmile, New Jersey.

Dentist travels about on motorcycle with sidecar fighting a war on plaque.

[jmowreader]

72. Joe

Hippies and freepers.

[warrior1]

74. Gummo.

I couldn't make it past 15 minutes. Of what I saw I hated.

http://www.sover.net/~ozus/gummo.htm

[Maccagirl]

75. Brimstone and Treacle

An indie with Sting and Joan Plowright. I just didn't get it.

[Magrittes Pipe]

76. People think "Eraserhead" was weird?

Of course, I'm a big-time Lynch scholar, so it makes perfect sense to me. The only Lynch film I thought was weird was Dune -- as in "why did they have him direct this?"

Same thing with Waters, but Female Trouble was pretty damn strange. Pink Flamingos, or the later stuff, they don't throw me. But the twisted tale of Dawn Davenport is a bit bizarre, even for me. Although it DID teach me one of the most important lessons of life: "nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels."

[Reciprocity]

77. Killer Clowns From Outer Space.

It is literally about a group of killer clowns that fly down from outerspace to capture humans for food.

[Zomby Woof]

78. Parents

Cannibals in 1950's American suburbia, starring Randy Quaid - circa 1989.

[Reciprocity]

79. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

A gang of killer tomatoes try to take over the world.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

80. "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover". Highly disturbing

and violent. Not weird in a particularly good way. I didn't like it.

[justjones]

81. Boxing Helena (n/t)

[Reciprocity]

82. God I've watch a lot of piss poor movie's on this list. n/t

[pink-o]

83. You can't possibly go another minute on this threas...

without mentioning Fellini...

Sitting thru his films is like trying to find meaning in a modern painting or Bob Dylan's weird lyrics--there ain't none.

Even most linear...La Dolce Vita...goes off on too weird tangets. And forget Satyricon or 8 and 1/2.

As for Memento and Clockwork Orange...I love those films, albeit the latter is too disturbing for me to ever watch again. Great social statement, though.

[UGABrother]

100. Saw Satyricon last week..

Brazil (monty python guy doing a distopian sci-fi flick) is another movie that stands out in my mind for strangeness.

[timtom]

84. ERASERHEAD

No contest. Hands down.

[-..__...]

85. Andy Warhols "Dracula" and "Frankenstein".

[Chomskyite]

87. Ciaou Manhattan

Drugged up model wanders around naked and hallucinating for two hours . . . it's horrible, yet I could not look away!

[Fenris]

89. The Doom Generation

It's also my least favorite movie of all time.

[Wickerman]

90. Hard to pick one, so, Eating Raoul

lots of fun, low budget - poor Raoul.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0083869/

[Tom Kitten]

91. what? no Bunuel?

Well ok I like to watch weird films, excuse me if I indulge with more than one!

Few things stranger than Un Chien Andalou, L'Age d'Or, The Exterminating Angel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosis, or That Obscure Object of Desire...

The Maya Deren film that sticks in my mind is "Meshes of the Afternoon"...simply years ahead of its time, most haunting and unsettling

Anything by Ed Emschwiller (along the lines of Brakhage, James Broughton...)

Several Alexandro Jodoworosky films mentioned but El Topo is up there in terms of weirdness!

City of Women by Fellini is one of his later films and somewhat derivative but it's got some plenty surreal goings on in it, I smiled all the way through this one...

A Man is a Man But a Woman is a Woman...a neo-realist musical by Jean Luc Godard...

Providence by Alain Resnais...with John Gieguld, Dirk Bogarde...lots of weird flashbacks

Stroszek by Werner Herzog...Herzog's made in America film, more poignant than weird but it stars Bruno S.

Weirder low budget American fare...

Incubus...starring William Shatner, dialogue entirely in Esperanto!

Daughter of Horror (aka Dementia)...Weird 50s silent expressionistic thing narrated by Ed McMahon!

The Japanese Starman movies...(especially "Attack from Space" wher Starman helps earthlings fight off an invasion by a race of strangely Japanese looking space Nazis)

Wild Zero...2000 film starring Guitar Wolf, unfortunately this one diminishes after several viewings, but when I first saw it I thought Wow! But if you like zombie ufo punk rock movies, then you might like it! I still do...

Encounters of the Spooky Kind with Sammo Hung, the first kung fu/horror film, very entertaining!

Kekko Kamen...actually a few films about a Japanese superheroine who wears a cape and mask but nothing else, her weapon is her magic glowing....well, er, just do a search on her name if you want to find out more!

And of course just about all of the Mexican monster/horror/wrestling movies, including the films of Santo, the Wrestling Women, Ship of Monsters (a bona-fide classic!),and many of the K. Gordon Murray adaptations for US audiences (including kids, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters" is just about as weird as weird can get!)

Sorry for going on...

[Forkboy]

95. I've seen a jillion weird movies but only one can claim to be the weirdest

that would be Tetsuo:The Iron Man

it makes movies like Pi and Eraserhead seem like Hallmark Hall of Fame movies :)

[LowerManhattanite]

96. Harmony Korine's "Gummo"...

... a disturbing, nasty, "oooh, I'm gonna shock you viewers" vanity piece. How the lovely Chloe Sevigny stayed with him for as long as she did still awes me.

"Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trickbaby"—the sequel to Reese Witherspoon's original "Freeway" that is indescribably weird. Just when you think the movie can't top itself, it does in sickness and dementia. (Vincent Gallo's um...surprise at the end will actually make you gag...then laugh...then REALLY gag!)

A truly weird one I saw at 8 when I snuck into a Pam Grier movie with some friends. Missed the Pam Grier movie, but caught the second feature. It's title? "Welcome Home, Brother Charles". A classic Vietnam-vet returns home to a thankless public flick—excepth that this brotha was exposed to some sort of toxic agent that mutated "part" of him into a 12-foot long choking and killing machine. Yeah. THAT part. He gets back at everybody who wronged him. Racists in his past and an untrue girlfriend all meet their maker at the end of about I dunno...12 feet of...brown painted vacuum cleaner hose it looked like. I...kid...you...not. It was the LAST movie I ever snuck into.

There have been other cinematic freak shows...but none as weird as these I've seen.

Yeah. I'm scarred for life.

[BrotherBuzz]

97. Delicatessen

Saw and Cello duet on roof. Squeaking bed springs on third floor. Moo-can factory on second floor. Frog farm in basement. Something for everyone!

99. See These Movies!

"If" and "O Lucky Man!" both with Malcom McDowell, both completely insane.

"Spirited Away" - an animated film from Japan about a girl who stumbles into a land of spirits and must save her parents, who have been transformed into pigs.

"The Ramayan" an Anime version of the ancient Hindu story of Rama and the demon Ravana.

These are very weird movies, but you should see them if you ever get the chance.

[Heddi]

101. Brother From Another Planet, Eating Raoul, Wiseblood

But Wiseblood isn't "weird"---it's just not mainstream, and John Huston did a damn fine job of translating (imo) one of the best books out there to screen.

[sniffa]

102. Lost highway

and don't give me that shit about, "you didn't get it, that's aLL". it was terribLe. 2.5 hours of my Life that i wiLL never get back.