# Strangest Movie You Ever Saw? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 7, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616 "2019-05-07T14:50:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/121 "2019-05-09T21:39:57Z")
> [@TimfromNapa](#): > > I think Magical Mystery Tour was just plain bad. I find _MMT_ immensely enjoyable. Ringo on the bus with his aunt, Jolly Jimmey, etc. It even has a bit with Victor Spinetti. Throw in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band doing _Death Cab For Cutie_ and you’ve got a show. (Which leads to a sort of intersection with the Monty Python universe.) You just have to roll with the whole silliness of it all. There are good bad films and bad bad films. _MMT_ is a good bad (shortish) film. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/122 "2019-05-09T22:06:15Z")
Nothing but trouble. I mean, Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase? I questioned my sobriety which ironically was questionable at the time. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/123 "2019-05-10T11:14:22Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Eraserhead. Yep, this was my first thought. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/124 "2019-05-10T11:32:56Z")
Just thought I’d point out that I went to see _Eraserhead_ in a snowstorm. It was only playing the one night, and I didn’t want to miss it. When I told friends (who were familiar with the film) about this later, they decided that I was insane. I never really thought of **Fantastic Planet** as all that strange, which probably tells you more about me than the film. If you thought it was strange, you should check out a later animated science fiction film by the same director, Rene Laloux. It’s **Gandahar** , released in the US as **Light Years**. If that pedigree isn’t enough weird for you, the American version was re-dubbed (not simply captioned, as _Fantastic Planet_ was), with a script by Isaac Asimov (!!). Christopher Plummer does one of the voices. Plummer had already shown he would shill for science fiction when he played The ERmperor of the Universe in _Star Crash_. By the time he played General Chang in _Star Trek VI_. ---
**Author:** ![edspellman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@edspellman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edspellman)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/125 "2019-05-10T17:08:52Z")
My vote for two good weird movies: Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the Eighth Dimension,(a bizarre mashup of sci-fi/comic book style weird as a beard plot with a great cast especially a completely bonkers John Lithgow as villain) and Liquid Sky (about punk/New Wave denizens, plus sex, death, endorphins, and aliens—definitely YMMV but I loved that New Wave milieu and the clanking/dissonant sound track, though some I’m sure would call the whole thing migraine inducing…) My vote for bad weird movies, The Lobster, others have mentioned here and the less said the better, the mental equivalent of fingernails on a blackboard. And 200 Motels, a completely mishmashed Frank Zappa concert movie, with too many WTF moments that go nowhere yet are not wild or funny enough to justify them (and I’m a Zappa fan, too). ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/126 "2019-05-10T17:25:27Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Chilean, and also writer of some of Moebius most hallucinogenic comics (Moebius as in “Jean Giraud doing weird”, not as in the mathematician). Jodorowsky was born in Chile, true, but hasn’t lived there, I think, since 1953, when he moved to France. _El Topo_ was filmed and produced in Mexico, where Jodorowsky lived for several decades from about 1960 on. He moved back to France in 1990, where he has lived since. While he was born and grew up there, I don’t think you could really call him a Chilean director since his film career came after he left. The only other Jodorowsky movie I have seen is _The Holy Mountain_, which is nearly as strange as _El Topo._ Being both weird and never commercials successes (and often disturbing) Jodorowsky’s movies are generally hard to find. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/127 "2019-05-10T22:52:49Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > . . . Jodorowsky’s movies are generally hard to find. It took me forever to find [Santa Sangre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Sangre). Alas, it was not worth the wait. Maybe I would have felt differently if I hadn’t heard [such good things about it](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-santa-sangre-1989). ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/128 "2019-05-10T23:04:38Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > It took me forever to find [Santa Sangre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Sangre). > > Alas, it was not worth the wait. Maybe I would have felt differently if I hadn’t heard [such good things about it](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-santa-sangre-1989). You should’ve searched this message board first. That way you would’ve found out [what the movie was really like.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3076304&postcount=164) ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/129 "2019-05-10T23:53:27Z")
_Brazil_ is always the first film that comes to mind when there’s talk of the weirdest movie ever. _The Cook, The Thief, et al_ is a very close second. Hours of my life that I’ll never get back. . . ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/130 "2019-05-11T00:29:17Z")
> [@mako88sb](#): > > That was going to be my choice. A friend of ours with unusual taste in movies convinced us to go saying he seen it before and how great it was. I managed to force myself to fall asleep so fortunately missed the real disgusting parts but what I saw was definitely the weirdest movie. I saw it on DVD, and in fact it was the second movie I got from Netflix. The extras included some professionally-shot footage of Waters & Co. making the movie; I wondered where it came from until a while back, when I found out that John Waters had a friend who worked for the PBS station in Baltimore, and at the time, that station had proposed a program about “local personalities.” The program never launched, but that was where it came from. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/131 "2019-05-11T01:02:14Z")
> [@campp](#): > > I’d like to mention **[The Loved One](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059410/)**. Rod Steiger and Liberace are both so over the top here. Recommended. This is it for me as well. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/132 "2019-05-11T01:29:31Z")
One not mentioned yet that really weirded me out when it suddenly ended. It was pretty weird before that too, just within more normal parameters. [The Bothersome Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bothersome_Man) It ended up being a completely different kind of film by ending that way than it would have been if it had ended in any way I was actually thinking it might go. Used to longer movies, its mere 95 minute run-time makes the ending seem to come way too soon. ---
**Author:** ![Grumpy\_Old\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbce88/32.png) [@Grumpy\_Old\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumpy_Old_Man)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/133 "2019-05-11T03:49:23Z")
Angels and Insects. (incest in the 1800s) Andelusian Dog (Salvadore Dali) Saragosa Manuscript (We counted stories within stories to level 9c) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/134 "2019-05-11T17:45:28Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > _Skidoo._ > > I mean, I always wanted to see Jackie Gleason trip out on acid… > > :eek: I was going to post this. You just like it because Groucho plays God. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/135 "2019-05-11T18:13:03Z")
There was a TV movie adaption of _The Singing Detective_ it was pretty weird, although the TV series was weirder. Come to think of it both movie versions of _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ were pretty weird too. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/136 "2019-05-12T15:46:50Z")
[QUOTE=furryman;21637064 Come to think of it both movie versions of _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ were pretty weird too.[/QUOTE] A non-existent 2nd version is by default weird. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/137 "2019-05-12T18:25:52Z")
YouTube has, in its entirety, [Dog Star Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb5Ko_sTwlc). Good Luck. Note: The link goes to the middle of the movie, I can’t get it to go to the start, but it doesn’t really matter. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/138 "2019-05-12T19:49:04Z")
[Sissy Boy Slap Party](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmusLsA-jG0) A short that’s very odd but funny. All of Guy Maddin’s output is likewise peculiar. [Here’s a trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09guxj1weq8) for one of his many features. He seems to have watched _The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari_ about 10,000 times and has never got over it. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/139 "2019-05-12T21:24:04Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > [**House**](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076162/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_3) > > No, not the American one. The Japanese one. I had to watch it twice b/c the first time through I kept saying to myself “I can’t believe this is actually happening.” > > (The link has a trailer right there. Tell me that ain’t some weird shit.) You nailed it, Divemaster. I’ve seen virtually every movie mentioned so far in this thread, but _ **Hausu** _ (1977) stands head and shoulders above all of them. I own a DVD copy and nobody, but nobody, I’ve shown it to has come up with a suggestion for a movie that is weirder. ---
**Author:** ![edspellman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@edspellman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edspellman)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/140 "2019-05-12T21:34:23Z")
I just watched Terry Gilliam’s The Man who Killed Don Quixote, definitely odd/off kilter, but not nearly as weird as Brazil (I’ll give Brazil another thumbs up, probably Gilliam’s best, and full of creepy dark humor.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616.md?page=8)