# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/21 "2001-03-24T14:10:29Z")
[Greaser’s Palace](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068659) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/22 "2001-03-24T14:31:28Z")
Interestingly, I have _ **A Boy and His Dog** _, _ **A Clockwork Orange** _, _ **The Kingdom** _, _ **Freaks** _, _ **The Forbidden Zone** _, and _ **Greaser’s Palace** _ in my collection. I don’t think the first two are particularly weird or disturbing, really. _ **The Kingdom** _ starts out very slowly, but my jaw was hanging open and I was on the edge of my chair (literally, in both cases) for the last scene. The last shot of the last scene was “Oh, my gawd! Oh! Oh! When is _ **The Kingdom II** _ coming out?” (Still haven’t seen it.) I can’t think about Sweden or Denmark without thinking of Stig shouting, “Danish scum!” _ **Freaks** _: The pinheads are disturbing to me for some reason. They just creep me out. But I didn’t find the film itself weird or disturbing. For a long time I thought _ **The Forbidden Zone** _ was the weirdest film I’ve ever seen (it also happens to be one of my favourite films). But now I’ll have to say _ **Greaser’s Palace** _ is the weirdest. ( **TubaDiva** made me get rid of my “ **Bingo Gas Station Motel Cheeseburger With A Side Of Airplane Noise And You’ll Be Gary, Indiana** ” signature.) I keep waiting for a poster to register as **Ugly Ol’ Hiney Ho** and for her to come say hello. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/23 "2001-03-24T15:14:51Z")
How 'bout the Who’s Tommy? Although I must admit I haven’t seen most of the movies listed thus far, surely a woman swimming in a pool of chocolate sauce gushing from the television qualifies this movie to be one of the most bizarre ever. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/24 "2001-03-24T15:15:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Grok \* > \*\*BEING JOHN MALCOVICH > > Started out bizarre and didn’t stop. > \*\* Does anybody besides me think the concept for this movie was, well, stolen from Stephen King’s “The Drawing of the Three” (book 2 of the Dark Tower)? To be fair, I haven’t seen the movie, but the whole idea seems like a rip off. ---
**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, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/25 "2001-03-24T15:22:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eonwe \* > \*\* > How 'bout the Who’s Tommy? Although I must admit I haven’t seen most of the movies listed thus far, surely a woman swimming in a pool of chocolate sauce gushing from the television qualifies this movie to be one of the most bizarre ever. \*\* If you think _Tommy_ was weird then it’s only because you haven’t seen _Lisztomania_ (which has the same director and a similar cast). It makes _Tommy_ look like a Merchant-Ivory production. I believe _Lisztomania_ was actually marketed as being a movie that “Out Tommy-s _Tommy_”. ---
**Author:** ![Pyrrho12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@Pyrrho12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyrrho12)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/26 "2001-03-24T15:23:53Z")
Just to mention, **A Boy and his Dog** can be seen on the web at [http://tesla.liketelevision.com](http://tesla.liketelevision.com) . **301, 302** is a Korean movie that disturbed me when I saw it. If you enjoyed ABahD, you really should try to see this one… I would also like to reccomend **The Castle** , a film based on a story by Franz Kafka. ---
**Author:** ![BuzzDoctor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BuzzDoctor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuzzDoctor)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/27 "2001-03-24T15:41:09Z")
A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite movies, although I never got the title, maybe if I’d read the book … Anyway, Eraserhead is the first movie to come to mind in the ‘Weird’ category. But I’m surprised noone has mentioned David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’. Whats even more disturbing, according to a review was that Dennis Hopper, while urging to be cast as the part of the most sleazy, depraved villians of this or most any movies, exclaimed “I _AM_ Frank!” As a side-note I have the screenplay to this and several movies in .txt format - email [buzzdoctor@yahoo.com](mailto:buzzdoctor@yahoo.com) and I’ll send it to you. Peace Buzz Out ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/28 "2001-03-24T15:47:54Z")
I’ve never seen it, but I’ve heard that the Jack Nicholson written, The Monkey’s starring **Heads** is pretty damn weird. And another movie that’s really weird is a French film called **The City of Lost Children**. You can rent it on DVD and therefore have it translated. That’s a very surreal movie. The plot outline is a mad scientist kidnaps children to steal their dreams because he thinks it might slow his aging process. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/29 "2001-03-24T16:54:02Z")
**The Holy Mountain** was a pretty weird one. The guy with milk-squirting jaguars sticking out of his breasts is one image I won’t soon forget. btw, **brother rat** , the Japanese penis movie your mother mentioned is probably **Ai no Corrida** , which is finally being released in Japan after being banned here for 25 years. It was released in America as **In the Realm of the Senses**. –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goose)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/30 "2001-03-24T17:26:21Z")
Cube (The Cube?) freaked me out when I first saw it. ---
**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, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/31 "2001-03-24T17:36:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lamia \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Eonwe \* > > \*\* > > How 'bout the Who’s Tommy? Although I must admit I haven’t seen most of the movies listed thus far, surely a woman swimming in a pool of chocolate sauce gushing from the television qualifies this movie to be one of the most bizarre ever. \*\* > > If you think _Tommy_ was weird then it’s only because you haven’t seen _Lisztomania_ (which has the same director and a similar cast). It makes _Tommy_ look like a Merchant-Ivory production. I believe _Lisztomania_ was actually marketed as being a movie that “Out Tommy-s _Tommy_”. > \*\* Lamia, have you seen Russell’s take on **Salome’s Last Dance**? ---
**Author:** ![non-native](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@non-native](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/non-native)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/32 "2001-03-24T17:47:01Z")
I’m surprised no one has mention **Naked Lunch** yet. ---
**Author:** ![non-native](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@non-native](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/non-native)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/33 "2001-03-24T17:49:30Z")
MentionED, i mean. Bah. ---
**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, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/34 "2001-03-24T18:30:59Z")
Ken Russell is being mentioned a lot. Here’s my favourite: **Lair of the White Worm**. Asurdist, horror-comedy at its finest. Hodge ---
**Author:** ![BuzzDoctor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BuzzDoctor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuzzDoctor)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/35 "2001-03-24T21:40:58Z")
Naked Lunch! Damn! Forgot about that one. Nothing like shooting up a little bug poison … ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/36 "2001-03-24T21:50:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by non-native \* > \*\*I’m surprised no one has mention **Naked Lunch** yet. \*\* I can thing of at least two things wrong with that title. ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeremy_s_Evil_Twin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/37 "2001-03-24T22:52:56Z")
**The Doom Generation**. Teenage couple on the run. They pick up a drifter who masterbates to them having sex & licks the come off his hands. Every confrontation results in someone losing a body part. Every purchase they make totals $6.66. Blatant homophobic subtext. Widely cited as one of the worst movies of all time – yet another plus. 🙂 **Mystery Train**. Seen it several times, still have no idea what the hell is going on. **The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover**. More gross than weird. J.E.T. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/38 "2001-03-24T22:53:02Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m surprised no one has mention Naked Lunch yet. If you think the movie is weird, read the book! Although I already have _The Kingdom_ on VHS, today I ordered it on DVD. I also ordered _The Kingdom II_ on DVD. Both of these are out of print, but [Scarecrow Video](http://www.scarecrow.com/News/titles/title_00129.htm) in Seattle, WA has them. I liked _Cube_. It was good, so it only lasted a very short time in theatres. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/39 "2001-03-24T23:38:09Z")
Forgot to mention another weird one: **The Cell** with Jennifer Lopez. That is one messed up movie. I think that movie should win an Academy Award for best set design. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255/40 "2001-03-24T23:55:58Z")
**Being John Malkovich**. I haven’t read the Stephen King book, but I’m sure that BJM is an original. The writers always pull up some new trick when you’re least expecting it. And what about **Brazil**? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-movie-ever/59255.md?page=3)