# Strangest Movie you've ever stumbled across **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859 "2005-07-17T04:52:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/81 "2005-07-18T21:05:34Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > **The Forbidden Zone** was pretty strange. I absolutely loved it! Ah, the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo! > > **Greaser’s Palace** is even weirder, but isn’t as much fun. It has some great lines – and especially names – though. > > **Nekromantik** and **Nekromantik II** are a couple of the most disturbing films I’ve seen. > > **Gummo** is very strange. I first stumbled across it on cable at a friend’s house. > > And yes, I do own all of those films on DVD. Have you seen Julien Donkey Boy yet? It’s seriously messed up AND has Werner Herzog. Same writer and director as Gummo (who also helped write Kids) ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/82 "2005-07-18T21:07:10Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > **The Forbidden Zone** was pretty strange. I absolutely loved it! Ah, the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo! > > **Greaser’s Palace** is even weirder, but isn’t as much fun. It has some great lines – and especially names – though. > > **Nekromantik** and **Nekromantik II** are a couple of the most disturbing films I’ve seen. > > **Gummo** is very strange. I first stumbled across it on cable at a friend’s house. > > And yes, I do own all of those films on DVD. Hit reply too soon. As for forbidden Zone, have you seen any of Richard Elfman’s other movies? The only other one i really likd was Shrunken Heads. a great bizarre one. Nothing like a flying zombified head molesting his former girlfriend (who is a willing participant). ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/83 "2005-07-18T21:10:39Z")
What? No one ever saw[_Repo Man_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/)? ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/84 "2005-07-18T21:11:33Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > I’m a little surprised that nobody has mentioned [Rubin and Ed](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102817/) with Crispin Clover and Howard Hesseman. My cat can eat a whole watermelon! > > George Probabvly because no one outside of Utah will have seen it. Only folks into Indie films in Salt Lake have ever seen or heard of it. i liked it a lot myself. I also enjoyed Plan 10 from outer space. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/85 "2005-07-18T21:18:57Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > Hit reply too soon. > > As for forbidden Zone, have you seen any of Richard Elfman’s other movies? The only other one i really likd was Shrunken Heads. a great bizarre one. Nothing like a flying zombified head molesting his former girlfriend (who is a willing participant). And the hero’s wise teacher Mr Sumatra used to be in the Ton Ton Macoot (spelling almost certainly wrong), the secret police who served Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalie. They had a nice record of kidnapping, murder, torture etc. Shrunken Heads was one of a series of films in which the head of the production company decided to use Roger Corman’s method of coming up with a title, then a poster based on that title, then a script based on the poster. The only other film in the series I can recall OTTOMH is Head Of The Family. Head Of The Family- (while weird, I did not stumble across it) People in town think that the wealthy and reclusive Stackpoles are triplets. What they don’t know is that there is another, unseen brother who leads the family. Or that the Stackpoles are really one person split into four parts. Wheeler has greatly enhanced senses, and the inteligence of a subpar chimp. Eldon (I think that was his name) has great strength and endurance, and the inteligence of a subpar chimp. Edwina has big boobs, a nice butt, etc and the inteligence of a subpar chimp. The unseen leader of the family has shriveled arms and legs, a tiny body, a three-feet high skull and is a supergenius. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/86 "2005-07-18T22:23:59Z")
[Equinox](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067055/combined). Fantasy writer Fritz Leiber had a supporting role and Ed Begley Jr was the camera assistant! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/87 "2005-07-18T22:28:24Z")
[Paperhouse](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098061/): an odd British thriller. Charlotte Burke was very entertaining. A pity this was her only role. The whole movie had a creepy feel to it. Still not available in the US on DVD. I had to get the R4 version. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/88 "2005-07-18T22:33:28Z")
[Norman Loves Rose](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084419/). I caught this late on HBO one night. I had a brief infactuation with Carol Kane at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/89 "2005-07-18T22:42:59Z")
Somebody, please tell me you’ve seen [Motorama](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104922/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTB8cT1tb3RvcmFtYXxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=20). This was a late-night, “What the hell is this?” kind of movie experience, and by the end, I was so bewildered that I had to find out more. It’s about a kid who goes on a road trip to escape his parents and win a strange game. And that’s missing the point completely. It takes place in some alternate reality, where all the characters use Monopoly money and the map of the country is completely unrelated to the US map you’re expecting to see as the protagonist drives from place to place. Nobody ever wonders how a ten-year-old is getting around in a red Mustang, and the movie is conscious of this fact, having the kid wear a fake mustache to fool adults in one scene. It works. This movie isn’t supposed to be funny, I think, but it doesn’t quite reach the “surrealist masterpiece” that it wants to be. Do yourself a favor and see it…I’ve never met anyone else who’s ever even heard of it!! ---
**Author:** ![Berserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Berserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berserker)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/90 "2005-07-18T23:08:50Z")
I can’t think of anything stranger than “The City of Lost Children.” I cant even begin to describe the insanity. It’s from the same director of Delicatessen and Amelie. ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/91 "2005-07-19T00:12:35Z")
[Videodrome](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/) [Crawlspace](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090881/) [Psychos in Love](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093800/) [Brotherhood of Death](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207359/) ---
**Author:** ![Devushka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@Devushka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Devushka)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/92 "2005-07-19T00:19:54Z")
[Meet the Feebles](http://www.ween.net/feebles/) Puppet porn plus a whole lot more. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![IUchem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/aca169/32.png) [@IUchem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IUchem)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/93 "2005-07-19T00:43:25Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > If there’s a stranger movie than **Pink Flamingos** , I don’t wanna see it. Amen ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/94 "2005-07-19T01:28:30Z")
> [@Sarah Woodruff](#): > > But the weird film I really want to see someday is \*Cannibal: The Musical \*, about Alferd Packer, as told by the Southparkians. That’s a creepy coincidence. I read your message about 10 seconds after I posted [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6380554&postcount=10) in the Bialystock and Bloom thread… ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/95 "2005-07-19T10:29:21Z")
The two Liz Taylor-Dick Burton Faust movies- CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE’S DOCTOR FAUSTUS and the modern bizarre comedy version with Peter Ustinov HAMMERSMITH IS OUT. And for a fun look at when 14 year olds get the vote… WILD IN THE STREETS. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/96 "2005-07-19T10:42:02Z")
purely awful- CANDY wondrous 1960s psychedelic camp THE LOVE INS (Tim Leary ripoff) and speaking of Tim Leary (who has cameo in this…) Bud Cort’s TED AND VENUS ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/97 "2005-07-19T14:35:56Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > _Forbidden Zone_ is on DVD? [Yep](http://www.fantoma.com/fantoma.html). 🙂 I had a bootleg copy I taped from cable back in the '80s, another bootleg from Revok, and a legit copy I bougt on eBay. I’m glad I finally got the DVD. Lots of good extras including footage from Mystic Knights performances. > [@buns3000](#): > > [Re: Liquid Sky] Cool. I thought I was the only one who’d seen this… > > As for forbidden Zone, have you seen any of Richard Elfman’s other movies? The only other one i really likd was Shrunken Heads. a great bizarre one. Nothing like a flying zombified head molesting his former girlfriend (who is a willing participant). _Liquid Sky_ is one of the classic cult films! I haven’t seen any of RE’s other films, unfortunately. > [@Devushka](#): > > [Meet the Feebles](http://www.ween.net/feebles/) > > Puppet porn plus a whole lot more. :eek: I’ve had this one in the collection for a while. I just watched it again a few weeks ago. It’s amazing the number of films people have mentioned that I have on my shelves! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/98 "2005-07-19T15:50:32Z")
**Breakfast of Champions** I’m told the movie makes more sense if you’re familiar with the book, but after the first twenty minutes or so, I just had to stop watching it. I could not figure out for the life of me what was supposedly going on there. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/99 "2005-07-19T16:13:13Z")
The mention of _The Man Who Fell To Earth_ (which I have on DVD) reminded me of [_The Last Days Of Man On Earth_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070289/) (which I have on VHS). Has anyone seen that one? ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859/100 "2005-07-19T16:40:26Z")
I would have to say pretty much anything that was shown on USA’s old Night Flight show, especially **Zardoz** as mentioned earlier, but the strangest of all would have to be **Fantastic Planet**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-movie-youve-ever-stumbled-across/312859.md?page=6)