# What's the weirdest movie you own? (Spoilers inevitable) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464 "2004-04-11T16:38:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/21 "2004-04-11T18:57:15Z")
> [@Master Wang-Ka](#): > > \*Blood Freak, \* … still tryin’ to get a copy of this one on DVD; I understand Something Weird carries it. It’s available on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006FMBM/qid=1081709564/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/102-9721490-0059360?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846) and that’s well up on the weird shit-o-meter > [@Eve](#): > > the soft-porn Airy, Fairy Lillian Tries on Her New Corsets (1905). Maybe I should add that to my collection of 1930’s French Erotica (by Mr. X no less) ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/22 "2004-04-11T19:05:48Z")
Mine would probably be Six-String Samurai, a post-apocalyptic rock-n-roll movie with Buddy Holly rampaging across the wastelands of America with a samurai sword and a hollowbody guitar, taking on swordsmen, cannibals, gangs of evil bowlers, and Death himself (in the form of a heavy metal guitarist). The movie has minimal dialogue, and looks like a Japanese anime come to life and crossed with the Mad Max trilogy, completed by an amazing surf-guitar soundtrack by the Red Elvises. It is extremely low-budget, but lots of fun. My other contender for weirdest movie would be G-Men From Hell, based on the story by writer/artist Mike Allred in the comic book Grafik Muzik. It is about two corrupt G-Men (played by William Forsythe and Tate Donovan) who escape from hell and try to do good deeds on Earth to redeem their souls. Oh, and Robert Goulet plays the Devil. It is a kitschy low-budget pastiche of film noir cliches and retro campiness, and captures Allred’s quirky style perfectly. Allred and his wife/colorist Laura provide the only commentary, and the DVD also contains Astroesque, an even lower-budget film Allred himself directed, wrote, and starred in (and it ties into another comic he did, Red Rocket 7). ---
**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:** [April 11, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/23 "2004-04-11T19:23:55Z")
I’ve got _Freaks_, _Six String Samurai_, and _Tapeheads_ is in the mail. I also have _Dellamorte Dellamore_, released in America under the title _Cemetary Man_, except the copy I have is in Portugeuse and is called _Mi Novia es un Zombi_. It features Rupert Everett butching it up as a cemetary caretaker who tries without much success to keep the dead in their graves. Oh, and he’s also a serial killer on the side. My personal favorite, though, is a little film called _Straight to Hell_, which is basically what happens when you get a bunch of musicians and a bunch of drugs, take them out into the Spanish desert, and try to shoot a Western. Stars Joe Strummer, Courtney Love, Dennis Hopper, Elvis Costello, Zander Schloss, Grace Jones, Jim Jarmusch, and The Pogues. Among others. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/24 "2004-04-11T19:27:03Z")
I’m not even close to the world’s biggest film buff, but I own two movies that I’d put firmly in the _weird_ category: **The Mystery Of The Leaping Fish** (1916) with Douglas Fairbanks - about a private dick who busts a Chinese opium smuggling ring. All the people who use opium in the film are “hopheads”, who prove this by hopping up and down… and … **Pink Flamingos** (1972) with Divine. That’s about as far into weird as I’d care to venture. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/25 "2004-04-11T19:30:20Z")
I popped in to say _Forbidden Zone_, but I see that **leafrog** has beaten me to it. **Leafrog** , have you seen _Hellzapoppin_, the movie that informed much of the art direction of _Forbidden Zone_? I have that one too. Wierdest thing Martha Raye was ever involved in. I have a _lot_ of wierd movies, it’s hard to call any one of them objectively “wierdest.” Alejandro Jodorowski’s [_Holy Mountain_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071615/) is up there. Russ Meyer’s [_Beyond the Valley of the Dolls_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065466/) is in the running. [_Tetsuo: Iron Man_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096251/) is a little odd, the same way that having a red-hot coat-hanger jammed up your eurethra stings a bit. Tarkovsky’s [_The Mirror_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072443/) is a bit of a trip. Off the top of my head. I’ve got some shit that’s too obscure to really mention, but as far as “mainstream” wierd stuff goes, there ya go. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/26 "2004-04-11T19:55:09Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > I popped in to say _Forbidden Zone_, but I see that **leafrog** has beaten me to it. **Leafrog** , have you seen _Hellzapoppin_, the movie that informed much of the art direction of _Forbidden Zone_? I have that one too. Wierdest thing Martha Raye was ever involved in. Is that the B&W movie with the really wild, crazy swing dancing sequence, with people dancing up walls and stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/27 "2004-04-11T20:01:14Z")
How about [Bluebeard](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068294/)? Richard Burton plays the lead in a truly bizzare film. From the IMDB: “Richard Burton, starring as Baron von Sepper, an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that’s filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women. When confronted with this slight oddity, Bluebeard explains to Anne that he found an easier alternative to divorce when he grew bored with his previous wives. In order to avoid being Bluebeard’s next frozen bride, Anne must find a way to outwit her murderous hubby.” ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/28 "2004-04-11T20:21:54Z")
I’ve aso got a VHS copy of Roman Polanski’s post-_Rosemary’s Baby_, pre-_Chinatown_ oddity of 1972, [Che?](http://imdb.com/title/tt0070913/). About the sexual odyssey of a hippie chick within a seaside villa in Italy, starring Sydne Rome and Marcello Mastroianni. Contains two of my favorite credits: “Young Oaf in Car #1” and “Young Oaf in Car #2.” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/29 "2004-04-11T20:24:19Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Is that the B&W movie with the really wild, crazy swing dancing sequence, with people dancing up walls and stuff? That’s the one! (My favourite part of the movie, too.) ---
**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:** [April 11, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/30 "2004-04-11T20:45:51Z")
Geez, I have so many: Dwaine Espers _Maniac_ 1934 Classic movie with a mad scientist, a madder assistant, women fighting with syringes, poking out a cats eye and eating it, among other odd things. _Goldilocks and the Three Bares_ Goofie nudie cutie flick _Cremators_ Fire ball from space attacks the earth. _Nude on the Moon_ Title pretty much says it all. _Pieces_ Tagline: You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/31 "2004-04-11T21:13:12Z")
> [@nitroglycerin](#): > > The weirdest movie I own besides Freaks is Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels. Damn you. Why can’t they release _that_ movie on DVD? If I recall correctly, its copyright is about to expire here pretty soon; maybe the Zappa family will renew it and have it released on DVD. As it is, it’s only available on (horribly, horribly expensive) VHS. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/32 "2004-04-11T21:17:39Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > Maybe I should add that to my collection of 1930’s French Erotica (by Mr. X no less) I have that one as well, very interesting. Do you have the followup collection from the 40’s? ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/33 "2004-04-11T21:32:14Z")
For me, the wierdest film I own is definitely one of my animes. Probably _End of Evangelion_ (described by one critic, accurately, as “Like _2001_, _Fantasia_, and _Pulp Fiction_ in a cinematic blender”) or _Revolutionary Girl Utena_. I’ll go with _Utena_. It has no plot, just a series off disjointed, surreal images that have to be interpreted like a dream. It starts with one girl winning another in a duel, and ends with one of them transforming into a car. People turn into moths, blackboards shift around like tectonic plates, the sky rains roses, and the local radio program is hosted by shadows. ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/34 "2004-04-11T21:47:40Z")
[Rex the Runt](http://imdb.com/title/tt0135104/). (We don’t even have a DVD player yet, but we just had to buy this one.) From [amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000068QOF/102-8860031-8304965?v=glance): > [@](#): > > Discover the Joy of Rex. Join REX THE RUNT and his chums – the pert-bum-loving Wendy, Chuffy-chomping Bad Bob and our own little Hoover-hankering Vince – for bizarre Telly adventures with Easter Island stone-head aliens, singing sausages, a Sinister Secret Laboratory, the Go-Back-In-Time-A-Tron? and more! > > REX THE RUNT, the cult hit that originally aired on the BBC (from the company that brought you Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run), is an amazingly stupid and stupendously amusing romp that’ll challenge everything you thought you knew about plasticene dogs. Watch the first two seasons now, before Rex becomes a cult and tries to take your life savings. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/35 "2004-04-11T21:52:47Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > **Pink Flamingos** (1972) with Divine. That’s about as far into weird as I’d care to venture. No, no, you _have_ to get _Female Touble_! A better film than _Pink Flamingos_, but every bit as sick and trashy. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/36 "2004-04-11T21:56:54Z")
Another one:_How to Undress In Front of Your Husband_ starring Mrs. John Barrymore! ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/37 "2004-04-11T22:06:17Z")
> [@Quixotic](#): > > Weird, huh? Well, let’s see - does [Cannibal! The Musical](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115819/) count, or are Parker and Stone too mainstream now? How about [Dark Star](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069945/)? Another Cannibal! fan here 😉 hmm, lets see, weird movies… [Razor Blade Smile](http://imdb.com/title/tt0159693/), a low budget British film about a vampire hitwoman, basically, “La Femme Nikita” with fangs [Modern Vampires](http://imdb.com/title/tt0120805/), “B-movie” style vampire film about a group of modern vampires in L.A. [Pale Blood](http://imdb.com/title/tt0100324/), yep, _another_ vampire film (i’m beginning to see a pattern here 😉 ), this one has a great twist ending [Sundown, the Vampire in retreat](http://imdb.com/title/tt0098412/), a great, offbeat horror-comedy-vampire-western film, with Bruce Campbell playing against typecasting as the nerdy Van Helsing, Jr [Killer Klowns from Outer Space](http://imdb.com/title/tt0095444/),clownlike aliens land in the boonies of a small southern town for a bite to eat… these two are on a double-sided DVD set [Elvira, Mistress of the Dark](http://imdb.com/title/tt0095088/) [Transylvania 6-5000](http://imdb.com/title/tt0090196/) and the last one, relatively recent, but a fun, offbeat film [Eight Legged Freaks](http://imdb.com/title/tt0271367/) Giant spiders attack Prosperity, Az, think Gremlins with a bit of Tremors the movie, not the stupid skiffy channel series ---
**Author:** ![leafrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@leafrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leafrog)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/38 "2004-04-11T22:08:40Z")
Thanks for the heads up, **Larry Mudd** , I shall definitely seek out _Hellzapoppin’_ ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/39 "2004-04-11T22:50:29Z")
[The Curse of Bigfoot](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0074365/combined) What makes this movie kinda weird is that it’s a patchwork of two (maybe three) different movies. It starts out with some bipedal monster skulking around a house, and presumably killing a dog. That’s the first piece of the patchwork. It turns out to be a film inside the movie, which is being shown to a skeptical class by a teacher/professor. It’s a film that ties in with the lecture about modern-day monsters. The professor then introduces a vistor who tells of his own experience with a “monster.” This brings in the third piece (the second being the class scene). This, the “core” movie appears to have been made in the 1960s, and is about the discovery of a mummy in a mountain cave (which comes to life and wreaks havoc, as reanimated mummies are wont to do). It appears to feature the guest lecturer, just some years younger. Just a guess is that someone made some short little home horror movie, then in the 1970s, when Bigfoot became an “in” thing, repackaged his home movie and retitled it to include “Bigfoot.” I’m not sure about the first part (the monster film being shown to the class) and where it fits in, whether it was part of the earlier footage or later. [The Apple](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0080380/combined) Singing by Joss Ackland and Vladek Sheybal, best known respectively as the evil South African who gloats “Diplomatic Immunity!” just before Danny Glover pops a cap into his brain in one of the “Lethal Weapon” movies, and “the doctor” from the cult classic Gerry/Sylvia Anderson series “UFO.” And a walk-on appearance by legendary Yma Sumac! [Just Imagine](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0021016/combined) Sci-fi musical from 1930! [The Kremlin Letter](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0065950/combined), a largely forgotten John Huston film about spies–featuring George Sanders in drag! I also have a copy of the Pat Boone vehicle [The Perils of Pauline](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0062117/combined), in my opinion, the _defining_ version of that story! ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464/40 "2004-04-11T23:26:54Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > [Sundown, the Vampire in retreat](http://imdb.com/title/tt0098412/), a great, offbeat horror-comedy-vampire-western film, with Bruce Campbell playing against typecasting as the nerdy Van Helsing, Jr I have never heard of this, but I’m a big Bruce Campbell mark. It sounds like a really fun Vertigo-style comic, the kind of thing Joe Landsdale would write! Is it any good? (And I obviously mean “good” in a “bad, but still watchable and kinda fun” kind of way.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-movie-you-own-spoilers-inevitable/239464.md?page=3)