In addition to a few already mentioned, I’d add these:
Louis Malle’s **Black Moon[b/] No story or plot, just very impressive visual images (especially the final one, where the best unicorn in film history suckles at the woman’s breast).
Practically anything by Bunuel. “Un Chien Andalou” was probably untoppable, but all his things were wierd, especially such things as El (sexual obsession), Simon of the Desert (religion), and The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie (dinner).
Not a movie, but one of the wierdest TV episodes ever was “Reality Takes a Holiday” from the series Eerie, Indiana. The entire show was wierd, but this topped them all – the main character, Marshall Teller, is transported into a parallel world where he is an actor in a TV series called Eerie, Indiana. BTW, the episode was written by Vance Degeneris, Ellen’s brother.
Yep, that’s exactly what I did. I hadn’t even had the chance to remove the shrink-wrap from my VHS version when I ordered the DVDs from Scarecrow. Be aware that the DVD transfers are mediocre but, of course, the content rocks!
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Strange as it may seem, Cube was a huge hit in France.
While it appears the OP wanted to (oh! oh! flashback coming up) compare and contrast two movies, this thread has predictably become a listing of weird flicks.
Which should include Liquid Sky, to which I, without prior knowledge of its content, took a woman I was truly interested in to on our first date (mid 1980s).
Small aside for film buffs - the female lead and the male lead were played by the same person (a woman, IIRC).
SPOILER ALERT! Go away now if you want to experience the film first-hand.
Spoiler alert heeded?
Story: outer space alien junkies in need of their fix have found the apartment building where the “heroine” lives. She’s a much abused and thoroughly desenitized disco denizen during techno-boogie time. Manhattan disco culture mandates that she is used as a sex object by various low-lifes. Space junkies have found that the naturally-occurring neurotransmitters that bind with opiate receptors (endorphins and/or enkephalins, I forget which) satisfy their need for heroin.
Our lead disco babe is getting laid so much that the space junkies have been able to identify her crib as a place where a lot of the right neurotransmitters are released, and they possess the technology to beam someone up at their point of orgasm to harvest the opiate-like neurotransmitters present in the body at this moment. So they’ve parked their spaceship on the roof of disco-babe’s building and are getting a fix whenever she gets laid. Understand that disco-babe both hates the low-life that is screwing her and is desensitized to a point that she never achieves orgasm. So she has the experience of seeing the hated screwers vaporize right when they’re gettin’ off.
Disco-babe has an epiphany when yet another guy vaporizes as he humps, and this gives us the most memorable scene from the film. Now that she knows what she can/has to do, she marches on back to the disco-battleground to the martial chant of, “I kill with my c***, I kill with my c***,…”
How could I forget to mention Gummo? Got that one too. A very weird film. The scary thing is that I know people who claim to have met people like those depicted in it.
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B) BEATLE: I have to figure how to bold, anyway yeah, but it’s cool, I’ve enjoyed the way it’s gone, In fact did you see I joined in? I did, didn’t I?
III) I’ve been a member of the Hawaii International Film Festival for the past few years, here’s some relatively new odd films.
“The Goddess of 1967” This Japanese guy and a cute blind Aussie gal end up driving across Australia to … Anyway I was blown away and wierded out. There’s this rape scene with a really shocking ending that left you feeling well … positive, great visuals to see if you’re high
“Last Night” a group of people cope with the ending of the world which everybody knows exactly when it will occur, kind of film school but a good film to leave you with an odd taste in your mouth for the next few days
“Buffalo '66” a cold Buffalo winter day beings with a psycho kidnapping by the poor guy that CANNOT find a place to pee.
sign, have I gona ahead and polluted mine own post, Dost mine fingers deceive me??? Alas tis true, tis true, eh…
The basic gist of it is that Alex, a natural, organic animal is subject to mechanistic manipulation, making him act in a clockwork fashion despite being vey different in nature than a machine. There are a lot more implications of the title (Like perhaps Alex was a clockwork orange even before his treatment, having been programmed by society, but in that case, is not every “orange,” then, a clockwork orange?), but that is the most prominent.
My addition to the list of wierd movies is very different than clockwork orange and probably all the rest of the suggestions so far. I’m talking about Toys with Robin Williams. It’s very wierd, quite cheesy, and thoroughly entertaining. I used to watch that movie a lot in my mid-teens. Don’t ask me why, because I don’t know.
Harold and Maude is definitely a top quality film, but I don’t know if I’d say it’s really that wierd. There’s a lot of wierd characters, though.
Unfortunately, I have not seen most of the films mentioned so far (it is unfortunate only for the purposes of this thread). I have my own nomination, which I’m sure someone will tell me had deep hidden meanings, but here goes. It is Magnolia with Tom Cruise. It is on two cassettes and the video store only gave us the first part. We could not figure out what was going on and our only clue that it wasn’t the ending was that there were no credits. When we found out that there was another part that renewed our hope that it would clear up everything. Our hope continued up until the point where giant bullfrogs started falling from the sky.
There are several movies which I do not know the name of which deserve mention, but I have long since forgotten the names of. However, beware of any movie with Mia Farra in it.
Someone mentioned “Head” starring the Monkees. I caught part of this on TV a weeks ago and I can definately say it is the least sensical, most bizarre, strangest thing I have ever seen. The writers must have been on the greatest acid trip ever. The entire movie consists of strange disjointed scenes and seemingly random musical interludes. It’s worth watching just for its strangeness.
Speaking of RHPS, has anyone seen the sequel, “Shock Treatment”? It shares much of the original; some of the same cast, characters (Brad & Janet), locale, writer (O’Brien), style of songs (singable), etc., but was a gigantic box-office flop.
I should dig out Eating Raoul. Funny, funny movie (although not “weird”). I hope the tape hasn’t deteriorated much. (It’s so old it has “The Safety Dance” and “99 Luftballons” on the end of it.)
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The movie is called Picnic at Hanging Rock and is directed by Peter Weir.
My weird movie list would include
Ones I liked
Meet the Feebles (the muppet show written by Hunter S Thompson)
The Navigator a Journey Across Time (nobody realizes that time travel occured betwenn the dark ages and the present)
The Year my Voice Broke and it’s sequel Flirting.
Brazil/Time Bandits/12 Monkeys/Baron Von Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
Fargo/Raising Arizona/Hudsucker Proxy (Cohen Brothers)(different by most standards)
The Duel Eary Steven Speilberg flick with one character.
City of Lost Children (haunting is the best description)
Ones I didn’t like
Natural Born Killers
Eraser Head
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Nashville
Days of Heaven
(I think with these you need to be under the in fluence of some sort of drug to enjoy)
MAGNOLIA was really really wierd. I still can’t figure out what it wuz all about…could someone enlighten me.
Also Tanny and the teenage TREX is another really reallly wierd movie in which these wierdo scientists put a dudes brain in a TREX robot body. Its really really wierd. Don’t watch it!
Well The Drawing Of The Three hinges on the idea of finding a door that leads to inside somebody’s mind. You are in a room with a window in front of you where you see what they see. Moving to front near the window lets you take over their motor functions and senses. It’s even possible to come through a second door into their world physically and bring them back into your world.
And my title page says it was first published in 1989.
I don’t know how much the movie follows that, since I haven’t seen it, but from the trailers, the whole concept seems to be lifted from Stephen King.
I started to watch it but didn’t have time to finish. I really liked what I saw, but it was definitely weird and hard to follow.