It’s available on Amazon and that’s well up on the weird shit-o-meter
Maybe I should add that to my collection of 1930’s French Erotica (by Mr. X no less)
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).
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.
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.
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 is up there.
Russ Meyer’s Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is in the running.
Tetsuo: Iron Man 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 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.
Is that the B&W movie with the really wild, crazy swing dancing sequence, with people dancing up walls and stuff?
How about Bluebeard? 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.”
I’ve aso got a VHS copy of Roman Polanski’s post-Rosemary’s Baby, pre-Chinatown oddity of 1972, Che?. 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.”
That’s the one! (My favourite part of the movie, too.)
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.
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.
I have that one as well, very interesting. Do you have the followup collection from the 40’s?
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.
Rex the Runt. (We don’t even have a DVD player yet, but we just had to buy this one.)
From amazon:
No, no, you have to get Female Touble! A better film than Pink Flamingos, but every bit as sick and trashy.
Another one:How to Undress In Front of Your Husband starring Mrs. John Barrymore!
Another Cannibal! fan here 
hmm, lets see, weird movies…
Razor Blade Smile, a low budget British film about a vampire hitwoman, basically, “La Femme Nikita” with fangs
Modern Vampires, “B-movie” style vampire film about a group of modern vampires in L.A.
Pale Blood, yep, another vampire film (i’m beginning to see a pattern here ), this one has a great twist ending
Sundown, the Vampire in retreat, 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,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
Transylvania 6-5000
and the last one, relatively recent, but a fun, offbeat film
Eight Legged Freaks Giant spiders attack Prosperity, Az, think Gremlins with a bit of Tremors the movie, not the stupid skiffy channel series
Thanks for the heads up, Larry Mudd, I shall definitely seek out Hellzapoppin’
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 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 Sci-fi musical from 1930!
The Kremlin Letter, 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, in my opinion, the defining version of that story!
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.)