# The Most Bizzare Movies Of All Time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 31, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547 "2003-10-31T00:01:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/1 "2003-10-31T00:01:19Z")
It’s halloween time, and I’m providing movies for a halloween party. So. Give me some of the most bizarre movies of all time. Lists are nice. It’d also be nice if you could accompany your choices with a little blurb explaining why the movies are strange. ---
**Author:** ![CakeOrDeath666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CakeOrDeath666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CakeOrDeath666)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/2 "2003-10-31T00:04:20Z")
Rocky Horror Picture Show - Do you really need an explanation? Hellraiser - So bad, SO not scary, it’s hysterical. Donnie Darko(a contribution from my little sister) - “They were obviously all on pills when it was made” ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/3 "2003-10-31T00:05:28Z")
Brazil ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/4 "2003-10-31T00:16:55Z")
For Halloween? Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things Evild Dead, and Evil Dead II Dead Alive Night of the Living Dead The Wolf Man Dracula (Lugosi) This Old House Anything by James Whale or Todd Browning Lon Chaney’s Phantom of the Opera –These are DEFINITELY not the most bizarre movies ever, but there the Halloweeniest. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/5 "2003-10-31T00:23:40Z")
I never said scary, or Halloweeniest. I just said bizarre. My friends aren’t easily scared, but we like movies that get under our skin, and make us go “What the fuck?” ---
**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:** [October 31, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/6 "2003-10-31T00:24:37Z")
Eraserhead. Hey, it’s David Lynch, fer cryin’ out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/7 "2003-10-31T00:26:20Z")
Elaborating - The Ring made most of my friends go “meh,” in terms of fear level, but Donnie Darko, late at night, made us very scared. ---
**Author:** ![Sanscour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@Sanscour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sanscour)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/8 "2003-10-31T00:26:22Z")
Just about any film by Stanley Kubrick can be classified as Bizarre, so you can take your pick from Full Metal Jacket, Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide shut and whatever else I’ve forgotten. But THE first movie that came to mind of a completely bizarre movie was Jacob’s Ladder. That movie is just STRANGE STRANGE STRANGE! For a more halloweenie bit, nothing says bizarre like Twilight Zone: The Movie. Sanscour ---
**Author:** ![KingLupid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/839c29/32.png) [@KingLupid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KingLupid)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/9 "2003-10-31T00:27:37Z")
Oh hell, this is my topic Naked Lunch Xistenz (or however the hell you spell it) They Live Videodrome Eraserhead Lost Highways Blue Velvet Being John Malkovich I 2nd Donnie Darko Pink Floyd: The Wall Man, there are just so many. This is my favorite type of movie. I call them WTF movies. Clever, I know. Anyway, now that I am trying, I can’t come up with anything. I will get back to you. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/10 "2003-10-31T00:35:03Z")
OK then. At the top of my list, by a long shot: Anything–anything at all–by Jan Svankmajer. Next: Anything–anything at all–by Dario Argento. Next: El Topo Greaser’s Palace Funny Games Audition Lord Love a Duck Salo Lost Highway Glitter (And BTW, my Halloween list was not about scary, it was mostly about camp Halloweeny.) ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/11 "2003-10-31T00:39:02Z")
Eating Raoul. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/12 "2003-10-31T00:45:49Z")
**Freaks** ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/13 "2003-10-31T00:53:00Z")
Any film involving Masked Mexican Wrestlers. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/14 "2003-10-31T00:53:39Z")
12 Monkeys (bizzare in a good way) ---
**Author:** ![cmason32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@cmason32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmason32)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/15 "2003-10-31T01:02:32Z")
Mulholland Drive Sex and Lucia Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Requiem of a Dream ---
**Author:** ![Frankenbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c0e974/32.png) [@Frankenbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankenbear)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/16 "2003-10-31T01:06:25Z")
_In The Mouth of Madness_. It’s about how a horror book affects the readers, making them violent and insane. _Event Horizon_. A spaceship disappears in a black hole then returns. Something happened to the crew. A rescue team went to recover the ship and discover what happened to the crew. Evil is alive and well on the ship. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/17 "2003-10-31T01:09:31Z")
**Pink Flamingos** and/or **Female Trouble**. Great showcase for early John Waters stock company: Divine, Edie Massey, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Cookie Mueller. **Chained for Life**. You liked the Hilton Sisters in Freaks? Catch them in this weird and very depressing autobiographical horro story. **The Terror of Tiny Town**. If you only see one all-midget musical western this year, make it this one! ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/18 "2003-10-31T01:12:58Z")
Memento. Definitely Memento. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/19 "2003-10-31T01:16:12Z")
Ditto on the choices for **Videodrome and Jacob’s Ladder**. Here’s one I think takes the cake: A movie I never saw - **Zachariah** - from 1971 starred Country Joe and the Fish as rock and roll stars - electric guitars and amps and it was set in the Old West. Strange huh? It also stars Don Johnson which makes me think twice before renting it. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/20 "2003-10-31T01:18:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KingLupid \* > Naked Lunch > Xistenz (or however the hell you spell it) > They Live > Videodrome > Eraserhead > Lost Highways > Blue Velvet > Being John Malkovich > I 2nd Donnie Darko > Pink Floyd: The Wall They Live is pretty straightforward, as is The Wall. Never saw Donnie Darko. You are absolutely correct on the remaining ones. But you forgot **Pi** , which, if you have not seen, you must. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547.md?page=2)