# Seen any Wierd Movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2002, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264 "2002-12-08T05:10:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/21 "2002-12-08T14:59:24Z")
Roman Polanski’s _The Tenant_ Bob Rafelson’s _Head_, starring the Monkees(!) Scorcese’s _After Hours_ and/or _The King of Comedy_ _Miracle Mile_ Donald Cammel/Nic Roeg’s _Performance_ Some of these may be hard to find, but deep weirdness is assured. ---
**Author:** ![New\_Improved\_Scott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@New\_Improved\_Scott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Improved_Scott)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/22 "2002-12-08T15:27:43Z")
I would throw in these two gems that messed with my mind a little: House of Yes - starring Parker Posey The Spanish Prisonner - by David Mamet ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/23 "2002-12-08T15:58:38Z")
How about _Heist_. I liked it because you never know when someone is faking or lying. And you don’t know who is on who’s side. As for movies with strange endings: The Others. I didn’t like the movie at first, but the ending was very good and fits into the Vanilla Sky/Sixth Sense type. You could go back interperet many parts of the movie differently after you see the ending(like the husband, the ghost, etc.) Also how about Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now (I think someone already mentioned it.) You go into both of them thinking you’ll see another war movie, but they have much deeper meanings. > [@](#): > > Un Chien Andalou After I saw Un Chien Andalou, I spent a bit thinking about it, analyzing what it meant. Then I threw up all over myself. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/24 "2002-12-08T16:21:27Z")
Anything by **Pedro Almodovar**. **The Bad Lieutenant. \*\* I second the already mentioned The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and \*\* Run Lola Run**. No one’s mentioned **American Beauty** yet? ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/25 "2002-12-08T17:26:25Z")
**American Beauty** , I would have to add that one. **ExisTenZ** of course, too. **Altered States** , too. Anything by Todd Solodz especially. And no one’s mentioned **The Sweet Hereafter** yet? **Dark City** was flawed, but it did have a lot of food for thought. I’m still digesting **Bowling for Columbine** , but maybe documentaries are outside the scope of this thread? The real mind-shifts I’ve had have mostly been induced by anime-series – especially **Neon Genesis Evangelion** and **Serial Experiments Lain**. Again, probably outside the scope of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/26 "2002-12-08T20:15:03Z")
Louis Malle’s **Black Moon** ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/27 "2002-12-08T20:16:57Z")
Finishing off my Top 10 1. Repo Man 2. The Ring 3. Liquid Sky ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/28 "2002-12-08T20:17:17Z")
**Tetsuo: The Iron Man** , 1992, directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. Weird and disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/29 "2002-12-08T20:22:20Z")
But not as weird and disturbing as Tetsuo II ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/30 "2002-12-08T20:31:17Z")
**Arizona Dream** , a 3 hour surreal comedy starring Johnny Depp and Jerry Lewis. **Cemetery Man** , a surreal zombie movie starring Rupert Everett. **O Lucky Man** , Malcolm McDowel as a coffee salesman traveling thru several loosely connected dream worlds. With a cool 70s rock band as a Greek chorus. **Santa Sangre** , a very surreal take on the slasher flick with circus imagery and dead people turning into swans. **For Y’ur Height Only** , a Philipino midget spy movie- quite possibly the funniest thing ever filmed. **Wild Zero** , Japanese punk rockers vs. zombies and aliens, along with a touching love story. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/31 "2002-12-08T20:31:57Z")
For a change of pace, you could try some weird quirky comedies that are “cult classics” and require repeated viewings to absorb every odd detail. Two examples that I’ve seen recently are: [Buckaroo Banzai](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JKEX/ref=nosim/portraitartis-20) and [Rustler’s Rhapsody](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6300214613/ref=nosim/portraitartis-20). A favorite line from Buckaroo Banzai—“I’ve been ionized but I’m OK now.” (And John Lithgow’s performance is _fantastic._) “Rustler’s Rhapsody” has a hilarious and unexpected performance by Andy Griffith, and the line about “_confident_ heterosexual” is pretty damned funny. Both these films are outside of the norm, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/32 "2002-12-08T20:32:09Z")
_Solaris_ I liked the film, but the experience was hampered by a companion who had a bad attitude about the whole movie before we even stepped into the theatre, and would not shut up about how “crappy” the film was. I got very irritated with him very fast. The film was good. I was a tad disapointed with the lack of action you expect to see from James Cameron, but oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/33 "2002-12-08T20:36:25Z")
To add: _Donnie Darko_. _Ghost World_. _Taxi Driver_ _The Virgin Suicides_ BTW, you should also see the original _Solaris_ ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/34 "2002-12-08T22:09:35Z")
I’m going to try not to double any of the suggestions above, and not even mention those of which I didn’t like 🙂 Happiness Lulu on the Bridge the Linguine Incident Double Happiness Love and a .45 Titus (the 1999 version) Life In The Fast Lane Skeletons in the Closet (horror, sort of) Doom Generation/ Nowhere (the second is somewhat less disturbing) ---
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/35 "2002-12-09T00:23:54Z")
_Koyaanisqatsi_ _Lost Highway_ ---
**Author:** ![quarx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/50afbb/32.png) [@quarx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quarx)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/36 "2002-12-09T01:37:45Z")
Two words: Ken Russell. I don’t know much about this director, but I don’t envy his shrink. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/37 "2002-12-09T02:34:21Z")
**The City of Lost Children** : A 1994 French film about a man who kidnaps children in order to steal their dreams, because his lack of dreams is making him old. Has Siamese Twins, four or five clones, a midget wife, a brain in a jar, some orphans, and a circus strongman. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/38 "2002-12-09T02:45:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tapioca Dextrin \* > \*\*But not as weird and disturbing as Tetsuo II \*\* Ew, I didn’t know there was a sequel. I am both intrigued and apprehensive. There are a number of good films listed in this thread. I think I’ll print this out for the next time I hit the video store. ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/39 "2002-12-09T02:58:20Z")
Shinya Tsukamoto, the same guy who made **Tetsuo** and **Tetsuo II** (which I found somewhat dissapointing) also made the movie **Tokyo Fist**. His other movies are harder to find, but **Gemini** , based on an Edogawa Rampo story, is quite good- a man is replaced by his doppelganger. The lead actress, set designer and costumer for **Tetsuo** , Kei Fujiwara, made the movie **Organ** , which was very interesting. It was a really disturbing movie involving Yakuza harvesting people’s organs and a screwed up family that runs the racket. one of the most notable sequences involves a naked woman turning into a moth. Very disturbing, and you can definitely see the influence of Tsukamoto. ---
**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264/40 "2002-12-09T03:30:19Z")
[Forbidden Zone](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0080752) was pretty damn weird. Hervé Villechaize as the king of an underground kingdom? Oingo Boingo’s Danny Elfman as Satan? The movie also featured simulated sex, musical scenes and really fake looking monster mutilations (i.e., mutilating really fake looking monsters). This movie is not only really bizarre, it also shows the beginning of Oingo Boingo and the beginning of Elfman’s very successful career as film composer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-any-wierd-movies/141264.md?page=3)