I’ve seen some odd movies in my time but now I am on the hunt for even more bizarre ones. Movies like Delicatessen – The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover — Pink Flamingoes — Boxing Helena. Can’t think of the few other ones I’ve seen. Anyone have any suggestions for the most bizarre flick they’ve seen?
Hands down the most bizarre film I’ve seen is Un chien andalou. It was written by Salvador Dali (yes that Salvador Dali) and Luis Bunuel to have no plot, and I think they succeeded, although I don’t think anyone can make it throught the eyeball scene unnerved.
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Straight to Hell a gangster-western set in Spain with a largely UK cast, directed by the guy who brought us Repo Man (another good candidate for this thread). Check out this cast:
Dennis Hopper
Courtney Love
Elvis Costello
Joe Strummer
Sy Richardson
Shane MacGowan (!!!)
Dick Rude
Jim Jarmusch
Grace Jones
Needless to say, the soundtrack kicks ass.
If you want random…check out:
Head- The movie made by the Monkees.
Meet the Feebles- Haven’t seen THAT one, but it is odd, or so I’ve been told. A satire on the muppets, but a sad one, involving drugs, and sex, and a machine gun wielding hippo. A Peter Jackson film.
Good luck in your search. Godspeed.
I can’t remember the title at all, but perhaps some kind Doper can help me out?..this was a film from about 10-15 years back whose plot had entirely to do with an obsessional, half-cracked dentist motorbiking around some extremely poor 3rd-world area to perform much-needed dentistry work. I seem to recall he had a female sidekick; & that the climactic sequence had him nearly falling into the clutches of a wily femme fatale…he escapes, & in the process of his escaping he knocks over a container which turns out to contain (gasp!) tooth-rotting candies!
I think it was Daniel Day-Lewis in the main role. It was not a milestone of the cinema, but it was certainly, um, different. Somehow I ended up seeing it with my mom at the local art cinema.
Eraserhead. David Lynch. 'Nuff said.
Blue Velvet
Clockwork Orange
Death Race 2000
Shallow Grave
Killing Zoe
Heavenly Creatures
The Crying Game
Natural Born Killers
I know of a lot more but they aren’t coming to mind at the moment.
(BTW - I LOVE bizarre movies!)
Try the movie “Two Idiots in Hollywood”. I’ve seen it several years back on VHS and it’s truly bizarre. It’s a weird comdey from the early to mid 80’s. Two guys get caught up in the idea of moving to Hollywood and they have very strange adventures on the way. One guy gets busted in California for a cute lil’ scenario in which he is accused of a S&M Homosexual bondage mishap. I don’t remember too much other than in court they flash to two dogs humping. It’s absolutely lame and semi-amatuerish but I admit, I laughed here and there. Imagine “Dumb and Dumber” with an edge. Stars some actors that went on to do minor roles in films and TV. I believe the prosecuter in the courtroom turned out to be “Red” (the father) in “That 70’s Show”.
Three bizarre films that I really enjoyed (or maybe I’m bizarre and the films are banal?)
The Mole (El Topo) (Alejandro Jodorowski)
The Devils (Ken Russell)
3 Women (Robert Altman)
The first one that comes to mind is “Clockwork Orange”. The latest one that comes to mind is “The Corndog Man”. If you haven’t seen this one check it out.
I second Un chien andalou and suggest Birii za Kiddo no Atarashi Yoake (The New Morning of Billy The Kid) directed by Naoto Yamakawa. Athough it was quite popular in Japan when it was released in 1986, I have been surprized at the lack of attention it has gotten in this country. Among the characters featured in this apocalyptic Seven Samurai style western are the TV series COMBAT! and a personification of the Japanese Teen-pop magazine POPEYE. (Represented by androgynous twins in sailor suits.
Hmmm, not sure if these two really would be considered bizarre. Lots of descripters come to mind, but, hey, I’ll throw them in for your consideration. First is “I Spit on Your Grave”. Yeah, saw it once, about 15 years ago, and it’s as bad(as in hard to watch) as the title implies. Second, “Motel Hell”. Old ‘b’ movie from, I think, the early 70’s, starring Rory Calhoun, who, if memory serves me correctly, was a cowboy in the old westerns of the 60’s. Watch 'em if you’ve got a strong stomach.
“The Gods Must be Crazy”
Found the title: Eversmile, New Jersey (1989). Yes, definitely a weird film. I’m sure that people who liked My Left Foot (released at nearly the same time) were left scratching their heads at what he was doing in the other film. --N
[ul]
[li]Videodrome[/li][li]Dead Ringers[/li][li]Naked Lunch[/li][li]Crash[/li][li]eXistenz[/li](yes, I like Cronenberg)
[li]Eraserhead[/li][li]Tetsuo: Iron Man[/li][li]Pi[/li][li]Lair of the White Worm (heck, any Ken Russell flick qualifies)[/li][li]Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas[/li][li]Faust (Jan Svankmajer)[/li][li]City of Lost Children[/li][li]A Boy and His Dog (definitely not a children’s flick)[/li][li]Many more that I can’t think of right now…[/li][/ul]
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Let’s see here, used to know a lot of these, back in my younger days:
Blue Velvet
Desperate Living
Tropic of Cancer
Henry and June
Crimes of Passion
Anguish
Amazon Women on the Moon
Mike’s Mondo Video
Two Moon July
The Road to Wellville
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Brazil
The Lathe of Heaven
Lolita (the Stanley Kubrick version)
Until the End of the World
Caligua
Admittedly, some of these aren’t as bizarre as the others, and some of them aren’t that great of films (Tropic of Cancer is a pisspoor adaption of Henry Miller’s book), but the general public’s reaction to them has been that they can’t handle the films.
Ah, Amazon Women on the Moon! Son of Kentucky Fried Movie.
TV Anchor: “I’m not wearing any pants. Film at eleven.”
Magical Mystery Tour
200 Motels
Both are bizarre and my two favorite movies.
The Red Balloon.
“The Kingdom”
By the guy who gave you “Breaking the Waves” and the Dogma manifesto.
Is it enough to say Udo Kier (Dracula of Andy Warhol’s Dracula and Dr. Frankenstein of Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein, two other movies that should be mentioned here) playing a new-born babe is NOT the strangest thing in this movie?
It was made for Danish television but it’s available at most video stores. Rent it. The blurb on the box (“ER on acid”) doesn’t do it justice. Rent it. Trust me.