My husband and I are into weird movies. Now, if you guys can help us with some strangeness, we’d really appreciate it. Please give us a title and a short synopsis. Here are 2 movies that I thought were very weird, yet I loved them.
Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things.
A Manhattan acting troupe rows to an island graveyard, digs up a dead guy named Wilbur and attempts to bring him back to life. Mayhem, slapstick and strangness ensue.
Please give me the name of this movie: Rutger Hower and Jennifer Jason Leigh star in this medieval romp through the days of the plague. Rutger takes over Jennifer’s castle. She developes a case of the Stockholm syndrom.
Lost Highway
Doom Generation
Natural Born Killers
Drunks
A lot more, which I cannot think of at the moment. Your Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh flick would be Flesh & Blood. Rutger seems to have this fixation with sci-fi movies.
I just checked the Internet Movie Database. I think the movie you’re looking for Is called “Flesh & Blood” (1985).
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A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble’s son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate. [\QUOTE]
I love bad fantasy like Hawk the Slayer. Now that was a cool movie. I especially liked how the elf could jump in one direction, shift backwards in mid-flight and fire a dozen arrows all at one time.
I particularly liked Killer Condom as mentioned earlier. It is a movie about Italians living in New York City speaking only German. The main character is a gay cop (who is rumored to be hung real well ;)) who is attacked by an alien condom who bites off one of his testicles. It gets weirder and better the whole time.
I was going to say Flesh and Blood also but someone beat me to it. I liked the early germ warfare.
Eating Raoul: In this black comedy, Paul & Mary Bland decide to finance their restaurant by using a sex ad to lure “swingers” to their apartment and kill them. Complications ensue when burglar Raoul discovers their activities and demands a piece of the action.
“And Paul, would pick up a new frying pan? I’m a little squeamish about cooking with the one we’re using to kill people with.”
Clerks: This deadpan cinema verite shows a day in the life of a convenience store clerk in all its mundane minutia.
“You’ve blown 37 guys? … Try not to blow anyone on your way to the car!”
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: No synopsis could possibly do this movie justice.
“I don’t like men with too many muscles.”
Anything directed by John Waters. Skip him, though, if you don’t like to be grossed out.
Amazon Women on the Moon: A series of sketches, tenuously connected by scenes from a parody of a bad SF movie.
“Every seven minutes, a black person is born without soul.”
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
I’ll second Singledad on John Waters—especially the earlier, weirder ones, like “Multiple Maniacs,” “Mondo Trasho,” “Pink Flamingos,” and my own favorite, “Female Trouble.”
For real surrealism, try “Un Chien Andalo” (1929), by Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel. I won’t even TRY to describe it; it’s Dada at its best and worst at the same time.
Then there’s “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1920), a great German film, which was one of the first to experiment with Expressionism. People who partake assure me it’s even better after smoking reefer.
And almost any of the Dietrich/von Sternberg films of the early '30s, which concentrate so hard (and so effectively) on art direction, lighting and costuming that they almost entirely ignore plot.
What, no one’s thought to mention Naked Lunch yet? Now there’s serious surrealism for you. Just hope you don’t mind lots of viscous body fluids and large insects.
JMCJ
“Y’know, I would invite y’all to go feltch a dead goat, but that would be abuse of a perfectly good dead goat and an insult to all those who engage in that practice for fun.” -weirddave, set to maximum flame
Well, Dali & Bunuel’s Andalusian Dog certainly set the bar high for wacked-out trippy film.
I suppose most of Bunuel is pretty damn good, but I particularly recommend The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
I also loved Orson Welles’ 1971 Documentary of Dali. Butchered cows, tin foil heads and painting in a glass bubble were never this much fun.
concrete, I recommend The Naked Lunch to you - it’s a bit better than Fear & Loathing. Warns you of the many dangers of ingesting roach powder.
Another great one, albeit subtle, is Bergman’s Persona. One woman is emotionally devoured by another - harsh.
Jacob’s Ladder & Altered States were fantastic.
I forget the name, but I saw this early Spanish film (The Hunt?) about a group of guys who go out into the desert to hunt rabbits and end up killing each other. Very weird and almost unwatchable at times.
The Japanese Tetsuo films are pretty damn wierd too, unfortunately they’re also pretty damn bad.
Yet to be reconciled with the reality of the dark for a moment, I go on wandering from dream to dream.
The Toolbox Murders
A Friday the 13th type of film but even more awful. Not tastefully or artfully done. But you have to wonder about the werido that made it.
The Stuff (I think)
A parody of “The Blob” about a batch of yogurt gone mad. Again, what kind of weirdo…
“It’s not death I fear so much as leaving something so beautiful as life.”
For serious surrealism, no one can beat director Alejandro Jodorowsky. Fando Y Lis is the strangest movie I’ve ever seen; I watched it on DVD listening to Jodorowsky’s commentary, and I still didn’t understand half of it. His other movies are supposed to be even stranger. If it’s wierdness you’re looking for, look him up.
Delicatessen - cousin of Soylent Green. French film in which guy moves into apartment building, falls in love with butcher’s daughter. Butcher’s daughter’s family has other plans for him, however - bring on the A-1!
L’Année dernière à Marienbad - another French film, in which a man tries to convince a woman that they had an affair the year before. She doesn’t remember any of it. Truly bizarre all around.
Le grand bleu - another French film (do I detect a pattern here?) about a man who falls in love with a dolphin. The film isn’t so weird overall, but the idea - yup, they really does swim off into the sunset together - is kind of strange.
Just some of the long-term effects of drinking too much red wine.
For serious surrealism, no one can beat director Alejandro Jodorowsky. Fando Y Lis is the strangest movie I’ve ever seen; I watched it on DVD listening to Jodorowsky’s commentary, and I still didn’t understand half of it. His other movies are supposed to be even stranger. If it’s wierdness you’re looking for, look him up.
Delicatessen - cousin of Soylent Green. French film in which guy moves into apartment building, falls in love with butcher’s daughter. Butcher’s daughter’s family has other plans for him, however - bring on the A-1!
L’année dernière à Marienbad - another French film, in which a man tries to convince a woman that they had an affair the year before. She doesn’t remember any of it. Maybe they didn’t really have an affair. Truly bizarre all around.
Le grand bleu - another French film (is there a pattern emerging here?) about a man who falls in love with a dolphin. The film isn’t so weird overall, but the idea - yup, they really do swim off into the sunset together - is kind of strange.
These films demonstrate just a few of the long-term effects of drinking too much red wine.
