The worst “odd” movie I have ever stumbled across is Frankenstein Island
Stupidest thing you ever saw, but if you watch it, and then watch Attack of the Clones , you will laugh at Emperor Palpatine.
Of course I never stumble across classics like “Bad Taste” on tv. That would rock
so forgive me if I repeat.
“Hedwig and the Angry Inch” strange movie, great music. Strange that I liked the music at all but I found the songs compelling. A woman/man is telling her life history, how as a child he had to listen to music while lying in the stove, he is out sunbathing and an american soldier approaches thinking he is a pretty girl til he turns over. Soldier decides pretty boy is just as good. They have an affair for awhile soldier decides he must take the young man back to US but he can’t go as a man. So the soldier and the young man’s mother convince him he must sacrifice in order to get where he wants, the sacrifice being his penis. However the surgery is botched leaving him with only a 1 inch penis, the man then spends the rest of his life as a woman Hedwig, looking for someone to love the front of her. She teaches a young man to sing, they get discovered, the new young man then becomes famous using Hedwigs songs and she plays bowling alleys with her husband and thier band none of which speak English. She has groupies who wear foam hats to look like Hedwigs signature wigs and a lot of really cool costumes while she is retelling her story as part of her club act.
Just as a question is this really punk rock? It isn’t at all what I thought punk rock was. I tend to only listen to music from at least 30 years ago but I really liked this.
Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san. It’s a stream-of-conscious gay drugged-out samurai comedy troupe roadtrip movie, and that’s only about the first twenty minutes. It doesn’t have a train of thought so much as a trainwreck of thought, and every time you think it’s hit bottom, it begins to dig.
It took me forever to find the name of this stupid movie: Chuck & Buck.
Freakish, with an unexpected ending, but maybe that’s only because I stumbled onto the movie about 30 minutes in.
Maybe twenty years back, when I was a teenager, I stumbled across a very old, very creepy movie that I think qualifies. Problem is, I can’t remember the title. I thought it was something like “If This Keeps On” or “If This Goes On”, but IMdB doesn’t recognize either title. Black-and-white movie, from the 1930s. Essentially, the movie is about World War II, which hadn’t actually started yet of course. It’s a nightmare vision of the war, one we can all be thankful never came to pass, with the fighting lasting for decades, leading in the end to civilization as we would recognize it breaking down. Picture cars being stripped down for use as horse-drawn carriages because there is no such thing as gasoline any more, and may never be again. The most disturbing part was when an epidemic breaks out. Victims start to wander around aimlessly with a zombie-like look on their face, then after a while collapse and die. Since the wandering-around-aimlessly part only helped to spread the contagion, somebody got the idea to start shooting anyone who looked like they had it.
Very hokey, yet also very creepy :eek:
Anybody recognize this movie?
The strangest movie I’ve ever seen is Breakfast of Champions.
It was so strange that when it was over, the friend I was watching with asked what I thought, and I honestly couldn’t say if it was good or bad. All I could express was, “That was weird.”
I’m fairly sure that’s Things to Come.
This is always one of the first titles I think of when one of these threads crop up. That *and Gabriel Over the Whitehouse.
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I can’t even remember how I came across this site, but it made me laugh three times in about 15 minutes, so I thought I’d register and see what happens.
This topic has always provided me with an easy answer: a 1991 film called The Begotten. The ever-reliable IMDB has a great quote, “This is not entertainment, people. This is disentertainment.” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101420/
It struck me in the same way Eraserhead did - I sat in front of the TV thinking, “what the hell is this?” for the duration of the movie and when it was over my head hurt. But I have never forgotten it.
Anyhow, cheers people.