# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/141 "2019-05-12T22:53:41Z")
TCM aired a really bizarre Senegalese film called “Xala” a while back. > **[Xala (1975) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073915/)** > > Xala: Directed by Ousmane Sembene. With Thierno Leye, Myriam Niang, Seune Samb, Fatim Diagne. A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice. And here’s Roger Ebert’s opinion. (He rated “Pink Flamingos” zero stars, stating simply, "How do you rate a movie like this?) > **[Xala movie review & film summary (1976) | Roger Ebert](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/xala-1976)** > > The white members of the local chamber of commerce have been ordered out of office, and now African businessmen take their places. But one of the whites returns to place attache cases in front of each seat. The Africans open the cases and nod... ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/142 "2019-05-12T22:59:20Z")
Yet another bizarre movie I’ve seen that hasn’t been mentioned yet is a Greek film called “Dogtooth.” > **[Dogtooth (2009) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1379182/)** > > Dogtooth: Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. With Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis. A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner... > **[Dogtooth (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogtooth_(film))** > > Dogtooth (Greek: Κυνόδοντας; Kynodontas) is a 2009 Greek psychological drama film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Written by Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou, the film is about a husband and wife (Christos Stergioglou and Michelle Valley) who keep their children (Angeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni and Christos Passalis) ignorant of the world outside their property well into adulthood. > Dogtooth is Lanthimos's second feature film. It won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and wa... The movie is unrated, but would be NC-17 for explicit sexual content. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/143 "2019-05-13T00:13:45Z")
Third vote for _Liquid Sky_. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/144 "2019-05-13T00:22:27Z")
_The Human Centipede_ must be way up there but I’ve never seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/145 "2019-05-13T00:29:14Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Yet another bizarre movie I’ve seen that hasn’t been mentioned yet is a Greek film called “Dogtooth.” I mentioned \*Dogtooth \*earlier in this thread after Colibri mentioned _The Lobster_ by the same director: > [@Colibri](#): > > I suppose [The Lobster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lobster) qualifies as a general release movie, but I doubt it played a lot of multiplexes. With the premise being that single people have to find a partner within 45 days or they get turned into animals, it’s pretty strange, as are all of director Yorgos Lanthimos’s movies. > [@Tangent](#): > > _The Lobster_ and _Dogtooth_ (also by Lanthimos) were the first movies that came to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/146 "2019-05-13T00:33:12Z")
I watch a lot of weird movies and have seen a large number listed here and will be watching a number I haven’t seen. My top choices are already taken so I’m adding two that I quite enjoy a lot but don’t rise to top of the list for weirdness though both are weird. My choices “Man Bites Dog” and “Otis” both are dark comedies. Neither I believe are mainstream but Man Bites Dog may count as one. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/147 "2019-05-13T00:48:03Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I once showed this at one of my yearly Bad Film Festivals (THe theme that year was “Failed Cult Movies”). > > Only partway through the opening credits, my wife begged me to turn it off. She was outvoted, but five minutes later, everyone else voted to turn it off. > > Aside from people on this Board, I’m the only one I know who has watched it all the way through. > Yet the first time I saw it was on HBO. And they had it prominently available for rental at the video rental place I used for years. I think a lot of people saw it and don’t want to admit it. I own the soundtrack ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/148 "2019-05-13T21:57:42Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I mentioned \*Dogtooth \*earlier in this thread after Colibri mentioned _The Lobster_ by the same director: Sorry; too many weird movies to remember. I also saw “Liquid Sky”; I told my brother about it, and he told me that he saw it in a theater, and halfway through, the theater had to be cleared because there was a tornado warning, and they offered refunds and most people took them, including him and his friend. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/149 "2019-05-14T04:50:48Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Zardoz. A Methed-Up Fever Dream if I ever had one! Made me question everything Sean Connery ever did before or after. And, every thing David Lynch ever did. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/150 "2019-05-14T12:22:20Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > _The Human Centipede_ must be way up there but I’ve never seen it. Aside from the premise, the first film was a fairly conventional horror movie. The sequels, on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/151 "2019-05-14T12:33:31Z")
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The film class in college had the professor smugly showing this, and even the stoners in class were going Da Fuq??? Honorable mention to all the B, C and D movies that I had to project in the 1980’s. My personable belief is the Friday the 13th movies were all the same, with the reel going in different orders… ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/152 "2019-05-14T13:22:12Z")
When the Wind Blows - strange animated film about an elderly couple preparing for, experiencing, and eventually dying in a nuclear holocaust. Bizarre just because of its subject matter and simple, totally straightforward plot. There are zero twists or surprises, but it’s completely emotionally devastating by the end. ETA: If you haven’t seen it, it’s still worth watching even though I completely just spoiled it. 😉 . ---
**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 14, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/153 "2019-05-14T13:27:29Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > When the Wind Blows - strange animated film about an elderly couple preparing for, experiencing, and eventually dying in a nuclear holocaust. Bizarre just because of its subject matter and simple, totally straightforward plot. There are zero twists or surprises, but it’s completely emotionally devastating by the end. > > ETA: If you haven’t seen it, it’s still worth watching even though I completely just spoiled it. 😉 > . It was based on a graphic novel of the same name. Like many of the warnings of nuclear apocalypse that came out about the same time it’s devastating, and shows the outmoded thinking of many involved (in the case, the old couple, who think of war in terms of WWII). ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/154 "2019-05-14T14:08:01Z")
Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein is pretty far out. I haven’t seen it since 1991 or so but I thought it was crazy when I did see it. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/155 "2019-05-14T15:29:44Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein is pretty far out. I haven’t seen it since 1991 or so but I thought it was crazy when I did see it. It was great in 3D. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/156 "2019-05-15T18:06:19Z")
I can’t believe that Kevin Smith’s _[Tusk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusk_(2014_film))_, hasn’t been mentioned yet. Stars Justin Long as a podcaster that ultimately gets kidnapped and over time transformed into a walrus. 'Nuf said. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/157 "2019-05-15T22:06:51Z")
Last Year at Marienbad ---
**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 16, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/158 "2019-05-16T01:10:14Z")
> [@MortSahlFan](#): > > Last Year at Marienbad I mentioned this one back near the start of the thread, but it’s good to see that a.) somebody else saw it, and b.) thought it was weird. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/159 "2019-05-16T01:19:55Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > I was going to post this. You just like it because Groucho plays God. Typecasting. Such a curse. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616/160 "2019-05-18T03:11:49Z")
Just remembered this one - a totally bizarre German film called “71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance.” It was…intense, I guess. > **[71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109020/)** > > 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance: Directed by Michael Haneke. With Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl, Anne Bennent. 71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-you-ever-saw/833616.md?page=9)