I’ve seen A Clockwork Orange and several other very wierd and disturbing movie but having recently rewatched “A Boy and his Dog” for the fist time in 20 years (i’m 26) I am still as bothered by it now as I was when I first saw it. I don’t know what do you guys think? Which movie is wierder/more disturbing “A Boy and his Dog” or “A Clockwork Orange?”
I haven’t seen A Boy and his Dog so you’ll have to send me a copy 
Clockwork Orange is a GREAT movie. I don’t think it qualifies as a nominee for weirdest ever though. Any such conversation should start with David Lynch’s Eraserhead and go from there.
Maybe I should mention more about “A Boy and his Dog”. It stars Don Johnson loooong before Miami Vice. It was filmed in 73 or something like that. His co-star is his teacher and talking dog and takes place after WWIV. Anyway this movie really distrubed me, that ending, those painted faces shudder Here’s a link http://www.badmovies.org/movies/boyanddog/
I wonder, should I see eraserhead? hmmmm
The Bad Lieutenant was pretty fucked up… although it was “followable”.
*OT - Who in the hell would be the farm on Darryl Strawberry anyhow??? *
Clockwork Orange and A Boy and His Dog don’t even BEGIN to scratch the suface of weird. As I’ve noted elsewhere, I defy you to sit through the folowing evening’s entertainment:
** Freaks**
** The Forbidden Zone**
Eraserhead
I know that “The Cook, the Thief, His wife and Her Lover” was a pretty weird movie. Or maybe it was just dumb. Maybe both.
Although, I haven’t seen some of the ones mentioned here.
I would humbly submit Cronenberg’s The Brood.
BEING JOHN MALCOVICH
Started out bizarre and didn’t stop.
I’d say Clockwork was the more disturbing of the two. ABAHD at least made sense considering the circumstances.
Lisztomania, directed by Ken Russel and starring the Who’s Roger Daltrey as Franz Liszt.
No description I could offer here would do the movie full justice, but here are some highlights:
*A princess forces Liszt to wear a dress, then casts a spell on him that makes his penis grow to be ten feel long. She then attempts to circumcize him with a guillotine.
*During a solar eclipse Richard Wagner (Billy Nichols), who is secretly a vampire, attacks Liszt and steals some of his creative abilities by sucking his blood.
*After Liszt becomes a man of the cloth he is still hounded by groupies. After one of these young ladies (Little Nell of Rocky Horror Picture Show fame, in a brief topless scene) shows up at the Vatican the Pope (Ringo Starr) decides to send Liszt on a special mission. That mission takes him to…
*The ominous mountaintop castle of Richard Wagner. Lizt climbs up the wall and peeks in the window, only to see Wagner and Liszt’s own daughter preaching their anti-Semetic philosophy to a bunch of Wagner Youth in superhero outfits. Then they are treated to an interpretive dance version of Mein Kampf, which features a bevy of naked Aryan beauties.
I swear I am not making any of this up.
Phantasm was pretty f**ked-up, though it wasn’t weird in the David Lynch/Cronenberg sort of way.
“Spice World”… the biggest “WTFFF?!?” (What the flying-farting-fuck) movie EVER.
All I gotta say is, Fando y Lis.
If it’s bizarre you’re looking for, try El Topo by Alejandro Jodorowsky. (This is an OK film)
For more subtle weirdness, try 3 Women by Robert Altman. (This is a fine film)
I was afraid that we had to just pick between the two titles offered.
I’ve seen A Clockwork Orange, but not A Boy and His Dog. To me, A.C.O. was more irritating than disturbing. It was encouraging to see so many posters submitting other films, so I shall as well.
My #1 pick for a disturbing film…creeps me right out…not because its so far out, but because it is so plausible.
Anyone else seen GUMMO?
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Un Chien Andalou yet, directed by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. A surrealist painting trapped inside a movie.
Outside that, probably my favorite bizarre movie is The Kingdom (Riget). A Scandinavian TV show (in three parts, I’ve seen the first two, but to my knowledge the third movie hasn’t been released in the US yet; anyone know?) of a haunted hospital, often described as a cross between ER and Twin Peaks. Definitely worth watching.
Yeah, introduced this thread rather poorly. To qualify it I should say that it wierded me out. Those bizare faces gave me nightmares, something that other movies didn’t do.
That being said I think I’m too scared to see the others that have been mentioned here. A couple other movies that wierded me out were “Fearless Frank” Who knows what that director was on. And “The Pillow Book” but mainly because I saw it with my mother, a BIG no-no.
My mom also mentioned this Japanese movie which has this girl who cuts off his SO’s penis and carrys it around in her purse.
Ooh and this one really sucked. If you file-share what you download may have no relation to what you get. I got this file played it, felt chills run down my spine, stopped it and deleted faster then I ever did before. I didn’t see anything but did NOT like where it was going shudder
Back in college we had an “Easy A” course offered very term. My freshman year the first term was Foreign Films. And the very first time I indulged in the very illegal college habit of smoking “mary jane” that evening’s film was one produced/written/(and/or) directed by Salvador Dali (he of the melting clocks and other surrealistic paintings fame) “Hand of Gold”. So I am sitting there in the dark with my first buzz watching this movie and getting very confused. And I look around at my fellow classmates and everyone has the same slack jawed expression. Perhaps I missed the introduction by the professor-but I found the movie’s images disturbing and quite confusing. The second odd movie to mention was about the disappearance of a group of female students and one teacher in 1898(?) from a Picnic at Hanging Rock. I am unclear on the title although I have seen the film twice without benefit of mind-altering substances. Now maybe the second one just has subtext that one must Australian to grasp and comprehend, but it just left me thinking “WTFFF?” at the end. Or perhaps the movie just is too subtle for me.
EarserHead is good odd one. I liked it. But then I enjoy David Lynch’s work.
A.C.O. & A.B.A.H.D. were “eh, blech!” to me more than “WTF?”
Is Liztmania available on DVD or Video? It sounds bizarre!
I love The Kingdom too. My understanding is that plans to make the third series have been complicated by the death of Ernst Hugo Jaregard in between series. The question now is whether it will get made at all. Bummer
My own contribution is Serial Experiments: Lain. Animated Japanese surrealism that’s almost Lynchian in its weirdness.
Hodge
I wonder what is says of my tastes that I own almost all of these movies - with the exception of Lisztomania - which I’ve fingered more than once at the video store.