# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/21 "2003-10-31T01:24:37Z")
Any Peter Greenaway film, though _Baby of Macon_ wins the prize for the most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen. It’s set (kind of) in the 17th century. Babies have stopped being born. When a woman does have a baby, all sorts of people–the Church, the wealthy, his sister–exploit the child for their own ends. But that summary is so much more rational and linear than the movie really is. _The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb_ is a very strange, very dark claymation film about a miniature human who faces government agents, evil scientists, and scary bugs. There’s very little dialogue. It’s mesmerizing and creepy. **lissener** beat me to it, but I also recommend Jan Svankmajer. He’s a Czech director whose films are a blend of live-action and puppetry. _Conspirators of Pleasure_ is a tremendously odd, quite entertaining, and surprisingly non-pornographic take on desire. _Faust_ is a wierd and dream-like retelling of the classic. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/22 "2003-10-31T01:34:50Z")
I’ll recommend “Breakfast of Champions.” My wife and I started watching it, and maybe half an hour in, with the plot being entirely incomprehensible, we gave up. That’s a pretty big “WTF?” factor, if you ask me. ---
**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, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/23 "2003-10-31T01:44:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by burundi \* > \*\*Any Peter Greenaway film, though _Baby of Macon_ wins the prize for the most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen. It’s set (kind of) in the 17th century. Babies have stopped being born. When a woman does have a baby, all sorts of people–the Church, the wealthy, his sister–exploit the child for their own ends. But that summary is so much more rational and linear than the movie really is. \*\* I love that movie. But Greenaway is too cerebral for a halloween party. I was focusing on bizarre imagery in a film, not bizarre plotz. I mean plots. SEcond Eve’s Tiny Town mention! Made me remember to recommend this: [The Valley of Gwangi](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0065163/)–hands down the best dinosaur-western ever made. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/24 "2003-10-31T01:50:07Z")
A lot of good films mentioned so far. But for bizzare Halloween films, you gotta get [Eyes Without A Face](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053459/). ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/25 "2003-10-31T02:05:46Z")
**Meet the Feebles**. I felt…enfeebled after seeing that film. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/26 "2003-10-31T02:12:00Z")
_The Loved One_: The motion picture with something to offend everyone! > **[The Loved One (1965) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059410/)** > > The Loved One: Directed by Tony Richardson. With Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer, Rod Steiger. Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery. ---
**Author:** ![godzillatemple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@godzillatemple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godzillatemple)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/27 "2003-10-31T02:14:28Z")
For the title alone, I would recommend “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.” Oh, yeah – that and “Plan 9 from Outer Space” (the definitive “so bad it’s good” schlocky movie) Barry ---
**Author:** ![Herge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Herge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Herge)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/28 "2003-10-31T02:17:55Z")
Already mentioned, but worth mentioning again: Eraserhead. This is the most compltely bizarre and surreal film I have ever seen, bar none. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/29 "2003-10-31T02:21:57Z")
Sweet Movie, directed by Dusan Makavejev (1974) Full of sexual & scatalogical absurdity plus radical politics. But not intellectually weighty I would say, unless you want it to be. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/30 "2003-10-31T03:38:26Z")
I second Svenkmeyer, Cronenberg, Lynch and Aranovsky. Also Time Bandits, Trainspotting, Meet the Feebles, Dead Alive (aka Braindead in some countries, both by Peter Jackson) Millenium (about time travelling future dwellers that steal bodies, stars Kris Kristofferson) Hedwig and the Angry Inch Metropolis Reefer Madness ---
**Author:** ![kalex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dfb087/32.png) [@kalex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kalex)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/31 "2003-10-31T03:48:20Z")
I saw this one many years ago on cable, I’m still tying to Figure It Out. The Reflecting Skin, starring a young Viggo Mortenson (reason enough!). His little brother thinks the girl next door is a vampire. Bad things happen. They explode a frog. And so on. ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/32 "2003-10-31T03:54:57Z")
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. The title alone is explanation enough. ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/33 "2003-10-31T03:55:18Z")
[Maniac](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000214GB/qid=1067572894/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/103-7081726-2012668?v=glance&s=dvd/) ---
**Author:** ![Fibber\_McGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a6a055/32.png) [@Fibber\_McGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibber_McGee)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/34 "2003-10-31T04:38:42Z")
There was this movie I saw a preview for on a DVD I rented (I can’t for the life of me remember what the DVD was and the name of the movie previewed was) but it seemed like some really far-out student art project type thing. It was filmed in grainy black and white and the preview just really freaked me out in a way few things ever have. Further investigation at the time revealed that the film was supposedly about, I think, God becoming human and getting murdered. Maybe. I’ve been intruiged to see the film because that preview just creeped me the hell out and sometimes you just wanna be creeped out, but now I’ve forgotten the name of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/35 "2003-10-31T04:55:52Z")
Unfortunatly all my ideas have already been covered (Donnie Darko, Brazil, etc) How about Cube? People are traped in a huge Cube that has trapped rooms that kills them one by one. Cube 2 Hypercube is even weirder and dumber (hey you didn’t say they had to be good movies) ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/36 "2003-10-31T05:02:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \ ***Chained for Life**. You liked the Hilton Sisters in Freaks? Catch them in this weird and very depressing autobiographical horro story. My first thought: “Paris and Nikki were in a remake of Freaks?” My second thought: “D’oh!..THOSE Hilton sisters…But ya gotta admit…” **[Nudist Colony of the Dead](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0102564/).** It’s a musical. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/37 "2003-10-31T05:10:02Z")
Ravenous. People get super strong from eating other people. But that’s another one that really sucks. Orgasmo, made by the creators of South Park. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/38 "2003-10-31T05:11:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DreadCthulhu \* > \*\*Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. The title alone is explanation enough. \*\* I saw this recently and agree with you wholeheartedly. This is one bizarre movie. Jesus Christ re: Lesbians - “Oh, God love them. They get so much done in a day, don’t you think?” ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/39 "2003-10-31T05:12:30Z")
Putney Swope ---
**Author:** ![Fibber\_McGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a6a055/32.png) [@Fibber\_McGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibber_McGee)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/40 "2003-10-31T05:13:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Darkhold \* > \*\*Ravenous. People get super strong from eating other people. But that’s another one that really sucks. > > Orgasmo, made by the creators of South Park. \*\* The most bizarre thing about Orgazmo is that it’s rated NC-17 for no apparent reason. I’d reccomend Cannibal: The Musical as a much more bizarre Trey and Matt film. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547.md?page=3)