# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/61 "2003-10-31T23:06:03Z")
Akira Caligula Nearly any Terry Gilliam movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Fargo ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/62 "2003-10-31T23:08:58Z")
Ladies and Gentlemen…I give you: [Two Idiots in Hollywood](http://hometown.aol.co.uk/neelds/Twoidiots.htm) The MOST bizarre movie I’ve ever seen. Weird, but funny. ---
**Author:** ![jormundgondir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jormundgondir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jormundgondir)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/63 "2003-10-31T23:54:21Z")
some seconding of motions, but: Santo Sangre Man Bites Dog Un Chien Andalou Tetsuo: the Iron Man if kink is ok, then Cafe Flesh Day of the Locust anything by the Brothers Quay (street of crocodiles, boy howdy!) Svenkmayer-- Faust the 500 Fingers of Doctor T (dr seuss meets bizarroland) ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/64 "2003-10-31T23:58:46Z")
Ooh… I forgot: The Whoopie Boys. ---
**Author:** ![hanza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eb8c5e/32.png) [@hanza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hanza)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/65 "2003-11-01T00:23:22Z")
I have seen a lot of the movies on this list, and I would say that 2 stand out for me. Holy Mountain by Jodorowski takes the concept of bizarness to a whole new level. It also features some truly amazing, even beautiful imagery (the conquest of Mexico performed by toads and lizards is really something no-one should miss), and despite it’s completely bonkers, almost non-existant plot, it alwas keeps you 100 % engaged. My other pick would be Meet the Feebles. Tagline- “hell hath no fury like a hippo with a machine gun” This only hints at how deliciously weird, sick, twisted and hilarious this film is. Watch it. ---
**Author:** ![Babelon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f08c70/32.png) [@Babelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babelon)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/66 "2003-11-01T02:49:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DeVena \* > \*\*Brazil \*\* Amen. I saw that movie during a freshmen year Philosophy course. I think my professor was trying to connect it to Max Weber and bureaucracy, but I’m still scratching my head. Also, _Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome_. Perhaps it would have made more sense had I seen the first two, but I am not entirely convinced of this. ---
**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/67 "2003-11-01T03:55:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by the\_duke\_69 \* > \*\*Hotel hell. > \*\* **Motel Hell** **Greaser’s Palace** is very, very weird. Jesus in a zoot suit in the old west! A homosexual Herve Villechaize! Directed by Robert Downey, Sr.! **The Reflecting Skin** is great, but I wouldn’t say it’s too bizarre. **Institute Benjamenta** is a pretty strange film by the Brother’s Quay (those guys who made those weird puppet shorts on MTV in the early 90’s). Plus it’s got Alice Krige, a weird actress. **Breakfast of Champions** is comprehensible if you’ve read the Vonnegut novel. Unfortunately it’s also completely stupid if you’ve read the Vonnegut novel. If you want to read a WTF? adaption of a Vonnegut novel, check out **Slapstick (Of Another Kind)**, which is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. **The Dark Backward** is a pretty strange movie. It star’s Judd Nelson as a wannabe stand up comic who grows a third arm out of his back. It also has Bill Paxton having sex with some extrememly fat ladies. ---
**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/68 "2003-11-01T05:36:15Z")
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover Very bizzare but the ending makes the whole movie great. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/69 "2003-11-01T12:12:39Z")
Johnny Got His Gun. (1971) Timothy Bottom stars as the most badly wounded soldier of the First World War in this weird adaptation of Dalton Trumbo’s famous anti-war novel. Bottom is an American soldier who has lost both of his arms, his legs, and his entire face. He spends most of the movie lying on his back with some kind of bag over his face in a military hospital. The army assumes he is a vegetable and is keeping him alive for experimental reasons. But in reality, Bottoms is fully conscious, only unable to communicate because he lacks eyes, a mouth, limbs and ears. [http://www.losman.com/power.htm](http://www.losman.com/power.htm) ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/70 "2003-11-01T12:40:40Z")
Reefer Madness. (1936) The bulk of the film focuses on almost slapstick scenes of high school kids smoking pot and quickly going insane, playing “evil” jazz music, being committed, and going on a murder spree. [http://www.reefer-madness-movie.com/](http://www.reefer-madness-movie.com/) ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/71 "2003-11-01T15:53:51Z")
_Baxter_ is another fun, yet wierd one. The tagline is “Beware the dog that thinks.” The whole film is done from the perspective of a dog and is narrated by him. Cute and cuddly? Nuh-uh. This is one creepy pup. You will definitely look at your house pets differently. And, yeah, _Meet the Feebles_ is a great party movie. Go Peter Jackson! ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/72 "2003-11-01T15:58:03Z")
A Clockwork Orange. Watched it for the first time in years a few weeks ago. Totally bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/73 "2003-11-04T23:52:20Z")
“Manos; Hands of Fate” luckilly it only seems to be available in the MST3K’ed version the only film made by a _texas fertilizer salesman_ (Hal P. Warren) who was also the ?hero? of the film The Frank Zappa-esque “Master” Torgo, the “Master”'s monstrous servant, who you know he’s a monster because he has… BIG KNEES! (and an annoying theme song consisting of 4 notes repeated ad-infinitum) The Master’s wives, who are kept in stasis, until they are needed to wrestle while wearing diaphonous gowns (probably the reason this “movie” was made) even with the assistance of Joel and the Bots, it’s almost unwatchable, bad enough to cause brain aneurysms Thrill! to the horrible, muffled MONO sound and “music” Chills! caused by shooting the film with an 8MM Bell& Howell movie camera that could only record 30 seconds at a time _without sound_, forcing all the dialog to be added in post-“production” (Hal apparently did almost _all_ of the male voices in the film) Feel! your brain turn to mush, even with the insulating safety of Joel and the Bots you have no idea what a bad film is, until you’ve had the (mis)fortune to see Manos! ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/74 "2003-11-04T23:54:51Z")
> **["Manos" The Hands of Fate (1966) (part 1 of 7)](https://www.agonybooth.com/manos-the-hands-of-fate-1966-part-1-456)** > > This movie will make you pine for the technical prowess of Eegah or The Beast of Yucca Flats. read it if you dare… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547/75 "2003-11-05T02:17:09Z")
Realized i missed the Halloween deadline, but my vote would be Gummo. Reminiscent of Larry Clark movies, but more disturbing in every detail. If Requim for a Dream disturbs you so will Gummo. [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-movies-of-all-time/210547.md?page=3)