# The most bizarre flicks. Suggestions please. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 30, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591 "2001-09-30T04:17:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Whitedove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Whitedove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whitedove)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/1 "2001-09-30T04:17:36Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Eyed\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Green\_Eyed\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Eyed_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/2 "2001-09-30T04:45:56Z")
Hands down the most bizarre film I’ve seen is [_Un chien andalou_](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0020530). 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. GES ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/3 "2001-09-30T04:56:05Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/4 "2001-09-30T05:13:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ndorward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@ndorward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ndorward)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/5 "2001-09-30T05:34:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/6 "2001-09-30T05:34:43Z")
Eraserhead. David Lynch. 'Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/7 "2001-09-30T05:39:24Z")
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!) ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/8 "2001-09-30T05:41:35Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/9 "2001-09-30T05:44:13Z")
Three bizarre films that I really enjoyed (or maybe I’m bizarre and the films are banal?) [The Mole (El Topo)](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067866) (Alejandro Jodorowski) [The Devils](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0066993) (Ken Russell) [3 Women](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0075612) (Robert Altman) ---
**Author:** ![portajon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@portajon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/portajon)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/10 "2001-09-30T05:49:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![custard\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@custard\_dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/custard_dragon)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/11 "2001-09-30T05:50:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![NaSultainne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NaSultainne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NaSultainne)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/12 "2001-09-30T05:51:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![portajon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@portajon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/portajon)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/13 "2001-09-30T05:51:23Z")
“The Gods Must be Crazy” ---
**Author:** ![ndorward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@ndorward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ndorward)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/14 "2001-09-30T05:53:26Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/15 "2001-09-30T05:53:52Z")
[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] Hodge ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/16 "2001-09-30T06:03:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/17 "2001-09-30T06:12:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > **Amazon Women on the Moon** Ah, Amazon Women on the Moon! Son of Kentucky Fried Movie. **TV Anchor:** “I’m not wearing any pants. Film at eleven.” ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/18 "2001-09-30T06:29:55Z")
Magical Mystery Tour 200 Motels Both are bizarre and my two favorite movies. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/19 "2001-09-30T06:39:02Z")
_The Red Balloon_. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591/20 "2001-09-30T06:50:29Z")
“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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-flicks-suggestions-please/84591.md?page=2)