# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/41 "2003-10-31T05:16:10Z")
_Liquid Sky_ _Even Cowgirls Get the Blues_ _Killer Clowns from Outer Space_ I’m sure there’s more. Heck even _Blue Velvet_ was fairly weird for it’s time. _Ring_ is pretty weird and scary. ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/42 "2003-10-31T05:35:54Z")
The Twin Peaks movie. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/43 "2003-10-31T05:46:11Z")
**El Topo** , for SURE. It’s like **Eraserhead** but WEIRDER. Some of the others mentioned - **Memento, Pi, Trainspotting, Requiem for a Dream** - they’re not good party movies. You have to pay attention to them. **Putney Swope** gets another vote from me. So does **Eating Raoul**. The Monkees movie **Head** is actually pretty weird. You can’t forget **200 Motels** or **The Wall** for a good group “HUH?” Oh and if you want something really awkward to stare at that will keep everyone’s attention for a long time, try **Caligula** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/44 "2003-10-31T06:15:26Z")
First thing I thought of, **Teenage Caveman** by the guy who directed **Kids** and **Bully**. I caught this one on HBO one late, very bizarre night The plot? Let’s see… it’s a post-apocalyptic future where mankind has reverted to tribal society. Some kids rebel and strike it off on their own. Eventually they make it to a big city (I think it’s LA), where the movie quickly degenerates into mutants, drugs, and sex. Lots of gratuitous sex. “I squirted!” comes to mind. It’s a can’t miss Halloween movie. [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283043/) ---
**Author:** ![the\_duke\_69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@the\_duke\_69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_duke_69)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/45 "2003-10-31T06:17:51Z")
Hotel hell. “would you like to learn the finner arts of smoking meats?” ---
**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, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/46 "2003-10-31T06:23:57Z")
> [@](#): > > The most bizarre thing about Orgazmo is that it’s rated NC-17 for no apparent reason Lets see. We have a mormon missionary in porno films with a stunt cock that jumps in. We have a man with a dildo on his head that’s also a millionaire inventor. We have a ray that gives people orgasms. We have hamster(?) style kung fu. I’ve managed to block out most of the end of the movie but I remember it being fairly weird as well. These are just the things that I fuzzily remember after seeing the movie once years ago. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/47 "2003-10-31T06:37:36Z")
Yellow Submarine. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/48 "2003-10-31T06:44:13Z")
_Mulholland Drive_ and _Being John Malkovich_. Good movies, yet bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/49 "2003-10-31T07:02:34Z")
The Doom Generation Man Bites Dog Funny Games Streetfight Wizards Mystery Train plus several already mentioned (Donnie Darko, Eraserhead, BJM, etc.) ---
**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, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/50 "2003-10-31T07:13:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Darkhold \* > \*\*Lets see. We have a mormon missionary in porno films with a stunt cock that jumps in. > > We have a man with a dildo on his head that’s also a millionaire inventor. > > We have a ray that gives people orgasms. > > We have hamster(?) style kung fu. > \*\* I’d list the stuff in Boogie Nights (released in the same year) that would logically, if Orgazmo is somehow NC-17 worthy, earn it the exact same rating, but there’s too much. Suffice to say _the most bizarre thing about Orgazmo is that it is rated NC-17 for no apparent reason._ ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/51 "2003-10-31T07:55:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KingLupid \* > \*\*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 > > \*\* That is a _great_ list. I’ll second all of these and add a few more; From the 80’s horror vault; _Re-Animator_ and _Society_ - If you like wierd, trashy horror movies (a. la. Evil Dead) you will love these two. From Japan, land of the Bizarre; _Visitor Q_ - Constantly keeps you on the back foot. The viewer has no idea what is going to happen or just how wierd it is going to get _Uzumaki_ - A fairly slow, plodding movie about spirals (seriously!). It isn’t until you get to the end you realise just how bizarre what you have seen is. _Tetsuo : The Iron Man, Tetsuo : Body Hammer, Electric Dragon 80000V_ - Short (approx 1 hr), experimental Japanese movies. Definitely scores 10/10 on my wierd-ometer. All 3 are near impossible to describe, you just have to see them A few more random thoughts _Crash_ - Sex and car crashes. You could actually pick pretty much any movie by David Lynch or David Cronenberg and be wierded out _Happiness_ - This always manges to freak out my friends if I ever show it to them. Not really bizarre, but definitely has a few WTF moments in it ---
**Author:** ![litost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@litost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/litost)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/52 "2003-10-31T08:36:36Z")
Seriously, what is bizzare about Eraserhead? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/53 "2003-10-31T15:09:11Z")
[**Two-Lane Blacktop**](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0067893/) - James Taylor (Sweey Baby James) and Dennis Wilson (the Beach Boy) drag race across America. [**Greaser’s Palace**](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0068659/) - Dr. Sidney Friedman (from MASH) as Jesus wearing a zoot suit in the old west. If you’re looking for something that will make you scratch your head and say “what the f\*\*k??”, then this is your ticket! ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/54 "2003-10-31T15:18:42Z")
Six String Samurai - American movie and my favorite for off the wall. A Buddy Holly lookalike travels across post-apocalypitc America to get to Vegas to compete in a battle of the bands. Along the way he has to deal with Death, Russians, cannibals, and killer bowlers. Battle Royale - Combine Stephen King’s “The Long Walk” and “Lord of the Flies”, give it a Japanese touch, and you end up with a great method of controlling juvenile deliquency. ---
**Author:** ![Stover9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Stover9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stover9)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/55 "2003-10-31T15:36:39Z")
Pink Flamingo’s and Eraserhead, as previously mentioned. However, Wed night I rented AMERICAN PSYCHO, and freaking loved it. Part brilliant, part terrible, part funny, part serious, mostly satire, COMPLETELY BIZARRE. God, everytime I see the work “bizarre” I think of that crap song How Bizarre by…whoever that was. I was actually interested in anyone’s Amer Psych theories if anyone wanted. . . ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/56 "2003-10-31T18:43:55Z")
Clockwork Orange Soylent Green ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/57 "2003-10-31T19:05:55Z")
I can’t believe no one has mentioned **Santa Sangre**. Rated NC-17 for spectral pubic hair and chopping of arms. ---
**Author:** ![FriendRob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@FriendRob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriendRob)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/58 "2003-10-31T19:46:54Z")
Blade Runner (Director’s cut, if you can find it) Picnic at Hanging Rock Liquid Sky (a must!) ---
**Author:** ![tomyoung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tomyoung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomyoung)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/59 "2003-10-31T20:23:00Z")
People have mentioned _El Topo_, also by Alejandro Jodorowski, which is at least as weird as _Santa Sangre_, but weirder still is his _The Holy Mountain_. Words cannot do this film justice. David Lynch, the _Tetsuo_ movies, all are weird, yes; but Jodorowski is on a level by himself, and _The Holy Mountain_ is his master work. From [http://www.popriot.com/archive/april%202001/riotrushes\_holymountain2.html](http://www.popriot.com/archive/april%202001/riotrushes_holymountain2.html) > [@](#): > > The Holy Mountain centres on the travails of a depraved thief. He befriends a malformed dwarf when, after the thief is almost crucified and stoned to death by a gang of violent children, they share a marijuana joint. The two friends descend within the city walls, where a warped Christian death cult has reached an epidemic scale. They join a circus show that specialises in re-enactments of the Spanish conquest of Mexico—performed by chameleons and toads. The beasts are dressed in Aztec and conquistador regalia, respectively, and they are blown up whilst they crawl at each other over a model of an Aztec city replete with miniature ziggurats. After the show the thief visits a tourist souvenir stand selling miniature statues of Christ. The stand is run by obese men dressed as Roman soldiers who offer—like some bizarre kind of donkey ride crossed with a fairground punch-bag—a chance for tourists to show off their ability to shoulder the burden of a large crucifix. The thief accepts the challenge. In return the Romans get him drunk and carry his body away to make a cast of him in Christ pose. > > When he awakes from his stupor he finds himself prone on a mound of loaves (note the Christian miracle symbolism) surrounded by hundreds of life-size Christs all in his own image. He demolishes them all except for one. He takes his Christ effigee to a church. On the way he acquires an entourage of apostles—local prostitutes who cannot console him when the priest throws him out. Such is his grief he eats the face of his mannequin and then sets it afloat on a cluster of balloons. That’s the first 15 minutes. It only gets better, as it includes one of my favorite quotes in cinema: “Your sacrifice completes my sanctuary of 10,000 testicles.” ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/60 "2003-10-31T22:40:02Z")
**KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park** -Bizarre even by KISS standards, although it may be difficult to track down a copy. The band is going to great lengths to make sure no one sees this anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547.md?page=4)