# The Best Wierdest Film **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436 "2008-09-20T14:56:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/41 "2008-09-21T00:57:54Z")
If you enjoy _Delicatessen_, then try _The City of Lost Children_ too. Another Jeunet movie with Dominique Pinon (the clown in Delicatessen) playing clones. Brilliantly filmed. Tim Burton’s _Big Fish_ was a charmer and has Ewen McGregor (whee!) from the OP’s _Moulin Rouge_. If you liked the [QUOTE=BrynSublime] Argentinian with a very deep and scratchy voice singing The Police’s “Roxanne” as a tango? A song from “The Sound of Music” and Nirvana in the same movie? I could go on and on… [/QUOTE] then it could be worthwhile for you to get _Lost in Translation_, just for the scene where The Sex Pistols’ _God Save the Queen_ is karaoke’d by a couple of Japanese guys. It had us pretty darn gape-mouthed when we watched it. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/42 "2008-09-21T01:08:14Z")
Videodrome Shaolin Soccer Liquid Sky ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/43 "2008-09-21T01:24:39Z")
Some weird films in my opinion are: [The Swimmer (1968)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063663/) [Castle Keep (1969)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064137/) [Vanishing Point (1971)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067927/) ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/44 "2008-09-21T01:34:38Z")
I still don’t understand it, but I’ll nominate **Donnie Darko**. I can’t explain it, but I love that film. ---
**Author:** ![vintageloveletter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vintageloveletter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vintageloveletter)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/45 "2008-09-21T01:49:55Z")
Be Kind Rewind Son of Rambow ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/46 "2008-09-21T01:52:49Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > Eraserhead. It’s not for everybody, but I thought it was great. mostly because it’s so damned weird. Most of David Lynch’s stuff can be called weird. I came in to say Mirrormask, but was beaten to it. I’ll nominate [Koyaanisqatsi](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/) and [this](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095715/) version of Alice in Wonderland. I love weird movies. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/47 "2008-09-21T05:36:35Z")
Since _ **Greaser’s Palace** _ has been seconded… [Bingo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFbsWkaG8eI) [Red Snapper](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BErqUrPaWS4) [Spitoonia](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moT2I1aM3F4) ---
**Author:** ![BrynSublime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@BrynSublime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrynSublime)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/48 "2008-09-21T05:40:44Z")
> [@maggenpye](#): > > Tim Burton’s _Big Fish_ was a charmer and has Ewen McGregor (whee!) from the OP’s _Moulin Rouge_. I adored **Big Fish** as well! Good call. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/49 "2008-09-21T05:46:41Z")
_ **El Topo** _ and _ **Liquid Sky** _ having both been mentioned already, I’ll second them both, and add the following: _ **Maniac** _ - not the 1980s Tom Savini splattacular, but a very weird, not entirely coherent little horror/exploitation gem from 1932. Mad science! Madder scientists! Black-cat-eyeball swallowing! Topless chick hypo-fights! Totally out-of-nowhere dialog and action! No particular ending!Whadda flick! _ **Witchcraft Through The Ages** _ - a most peculiar film, especially with the deadpan narration of Mr. William S. Burroughs… _ **Dr. Caligari** _ - not the older one, but an incredible bit of loony cinema from the 1990s with no discernable plot but iwhich is still frickin’ fascinating… _ **The Devils** _ - my favorite Ken Russell movie, an intense, brutal, probably blasphemous, and visually sumptuous accounting of a true story (as written up by Aldous Huxley in _The Devils Of Loudon_) about an Ursuline convent swept up in demonic-possession hysteria , the charismatic horndog priest who gets blamed for the whole thing (Oliver Reed when he was still one of the sexiest men in British film) and the repressed, hallucinating hunchbacked Mothern Superior (Vanessa Redgrave) who sets it all off by falling in love/lust/hate with him at first sight. Fucking incredible movie, and very very weird indeed. _ **Salo** _ - de Sade’s _120 Days of Sodom_ set in Italy near the end of WWII, as envisioned by Pasolini. It will sicken you, enthrall you, or do both at once - whichever way you react to it, you won’t end up saying “meh” at the end. _ **Der Todesking** _ - episodic, somewhat surrealistic avant-horror by Jorg Bluttgereit and Manfred Jelinski (the team behind the equally out-there _ **Nekromantic** _ _ **I** _ and _ **II** _) . Apparently, it’s all about a chain letter that triggers a week of bizarre suicides. Unless it _isn’t._ Music by John-Boy Walton (!) . _ **In A Glass Cage** _ - (yes, I’m a horror movie gourmand, however did you guess?:p) - slowly mounting suspense, unsavory themes and a completely over-the-edge concept make this Spanish shocker about a quadreplegic former concentration camp guard and his homosexual caregiver an unshakeable experience of true and intense cinematic _ooze_. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2008, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/50 "2008-09-21T06:06:36Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > [this](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095715/) version of Alice in Wonderland. Anything by [Jan Švankmajer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_%C5%A0vankmajer) is worth watching. Some folks claim that his films are subtle political allegories produced under the nose of a totalitarian regime, but me, I think he’s just plain nuts. My nomination would go the aptly titled [Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Vampire_Hunter). Do you really need to ask what it’s about?? ---
**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:** [September 21, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/51 "2008-09-21T06:08:47Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Since _ **Greaser’s Palace** _ has been seconded… > > [Bingo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFbsWkaG8eI) > [Red Snapper](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BErqUrPaWS4) > [Spitoonia](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moT2I1aM3F4) Whoops. I should have pointed out that these are clips from _Greaser’s Palace_ and not films unto themselves. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/52 "2008-09-21T08:55:50Z")
> [@BrynSublime](#): > > I adored **Big Fish** as well! Good call. I feel ridiculously happy about that.😃 In a similar vein then, [_“The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain”_](http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=amelie&x=0&y=0) as well as my previous choices, and_Delicatessen_ and\* Mirrormask\* as previous posters suggested. Also, see if you can get hold of [_The Secret of Roan Inish_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111112/) ---
**Author:** ![mks57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@mks57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mks57)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/53 "2008-09-21T16:11:42Z")
El Topo [Videodrome](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/) gets my vote for the weirdest movie of all time. An honorable mention goes to [eXistenZ](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/). ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/54 "2008-09-21T18:24:59Z")
I might as well join the others who think that [_Videodrome_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/) gets high marks for cinematic weirdness. If you look at the [_Videodrome Quotes_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/quotes), you’ll see what I mean. One quote they didn’t include was "… but when they removed the tumor, it was called ‘Videodrome’ ". ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/55 "2008-09-21T20:34:25Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > I might as well join the others who think that [_Videodrome_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/) gets high marks for cinematic weirdness. > If you look at the [_Videodrome Quotes_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/quotes), you’ll see what I mean. > One quote they didn’t include was "… but when they removed the tumor, it was called ‘Videodrome’ ". Agreed. One of the very best efforts from a consistently fascinating and thought-provoking filmmaker. David Cronenberg is a past master of the art and craft of intense horror and engrossing cinema while continually using the form to make some very profound statements about the ugliest, most disorienting aspects of human nature and existence. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/56 "2008-09-21T23:24:34Z")
I’ll cast the first entry for The American Astronaut. What a hoot. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/57 "2008-09-22T02:19:12Z")
[The Loved One](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059410/) ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/58 "2008-09-22T13:12:12Z")
[Sukiyaki Western Django](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukiyaki_Western:_Django), directed by Takashi Miike. How can you possibly go wrong with a movie that’s best described as spaghetti western meets samurai epic, filmed with an all-Japanese cast reading in John-Wayne-style phonetic English, plus the ultimate fanboy cameo by Quentin Tarantino? 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 22, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/59 "2008-09-22T15:03:48Z")
Since Cronenberg’s name has arisen- not his best, but the weirdest one I’ve seen - NAKED LUNCH. (How many posts till someone quotes The Simpsons?) ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436/60 "2008-09-22T15:29:33Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > [The Loved One](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059410/) Yup. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-wierdest-film/464436.md?page=4)