# Wierdest movie ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2001, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255 "2001-03-24T00:50:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/1 "2001-03-24T00:50:16Z")
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?” ---
**Author:** ![Epistaxis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Epistaxis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epistaxis)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/2 "2001-03-24T01:56:16Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/3 "2001-03-24T02:10:50Z")
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/](http://www.badmovies.org/movies/boyanddog/) I wonder, should I see eraserhead? hmmmm ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/4 "2001-03-24T02:41:03Z")
The Bad Lieutenant was pretty fucked up… although it was “followable”. \*OT - Who in the hell would be the farm on Darryl Strawberry anyhow??? \* ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/5 "2001-03-24T02:45:30Z")
**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** ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/6 "2001-03-24T02:48:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/7 "2001-03-24T03:06:33Z")
I would humbly submit Cronenberg’s [The Brood](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0078908). ---
**Author:** ![Grok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Grok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grok)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/8 "2001-03-24T03:13:57Z")
BEING JOHN MALCOVICH Started out bizarre and didn’t stop. ---
**Author:** ![ookpik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c68b51/32.png) [@ookpik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ookpik)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/9 "2001-03-24T04:41:01Z")
I’d say Clockwork was the more disturbing of the two. ABAHD at least made sense considering the circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/10 "2001-03-24T04:59:40Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/11 "2001-03-24T05:00:03Z")
**Phantasm** was pretty f\*\*ked-up, though it wasn’t weird in the David Lynch/Cronenberg sort of way. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/12 "2001-03-24T05:03:27Z")
“Spice World”… the biggest “WTFFF?!?” (What the flying-farting-fuck) movie EVER. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/13 "2001-03-24T05:07:24Z")
All I gotta say is, _Fando y Lis_. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/14 "2001-03-24T05:36:21Z")
If it’s bizarre you’re looking for, try [El Topo](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067866) by _Alejandro Jodorowsky_. (This is an OK film) For more subtle weirdness, try [3 Women](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0075612) by _Robert Altman_. (This is a fine film) ---
**Author:** ![Bboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@Bboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bboy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/15 "2001-03-24T06:47:14Z")
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**](http://www.flf.com/gummo/)? ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/16 "2001-03-24T07:37:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/17 "2001-03-24T07:47:35Z")
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_ ---
**Author:** ![ILovCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@ILovCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILovCoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/18 "2001-03-24T11:42:11Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/19 "2001-03-24T13:08:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cabbage \* > \*\*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. \*\* 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 ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/20 "2001-03-24T13:23:10Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255.md?page=2)