Weirdest Movies I've Ever Seen
Submitted by jenhowel on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:19
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- Secretary (Weird in a good way. I had already read about the whole plot, and still things in the movie surprised me. It was weirdly intimate and distant at the same time. A whole other normal world was created in this film. I'm still thinking about it.)
- A Crack in the Floor (weird, and not in a good way, this movie attempts to be some sort of cross between "Witness", "Friday the 13th" and "Deliverance" with a few stylistic touches of "Urban Legend" and "Blair Witch Project" thrown in for bad measure. A truly horrible movie, the low point of which is Gary Busey's inexplicable cameo as a hick suggesting that a girl use a chicken wing as a suppository. Her farts, he assures her boyfriend, will smell like southern fried chicken. Greeeeeat.)
- Monkey Shines (a quadriplegic is given a monkey to assist him with daily tasks. The monkey subsequently picks up on his rage psychically and begins killing people on his behalf. 'Nuff said.)
- The Night of a Thousand Cats (psycho man flies around in a helicopter collecting women whose head he will later place in jars, aided by his chess-playing assistant Dorgo. The bodies of the women are thrown into a pit which contains.... a thousand cats, who at movie's end storm the mansion eating everything in their path.)
- The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (cannibalism happens all the time, you know.)
- 8 1/2 Women (making this the Peter Greenaway section)
- Phantasm and its sequels (jawas, killer metallic flying balls, fingers which bleed yellow and turn into killer flies.)
- Apartment Zero (but not weird in a good way.)
- The Advocate (making this the Colin Firth section. A movie about a guy who defends animals in court. And about some other stuff I never really figured out that involved him sleeping with a gypsy woman and this maid too, who looked at his morning erection and declared "Waste not, want not." Yeah...)
- Dead-Alive (though I am now be-numbed to its weirdness after repeat viewings, a movie where a guy keeps his zombified mother in the basement and which contains the line, "I kick ass for the Lord" definitely qualifies.)
- Xanadu (if you've seen it, you know what I mean.)
- Angels and Insects (entomology and incest. How'd they pitch that?)
- Purple Rain (apart from being a vehicle for Prince's music, what is UP with this movie?)
- Gleaming the Cube (just saw this. Skateboarders save the world from Asians who are, damn... I forgot what their nefarious activities were...)
- Solarbabies (In the future kids will rollerskate around in search of a magical ball which emits light and high-pitched tones.)
- The Company of Wolves (Red Riding Hood on absinthe.)
- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (and Ebert wrote it!)
- Bloodhook (a fisherman is driven mad by the combined sound of cricket chirping and rock music. Kills a bunch of co-eds at a muskie fishing competition. Movie takes place in my home state. Yay.)
- HOUSE 2: THE SECOND STORY - So someone dies and I inherit this house only to discover there's a treasure buried in my great-great-grandfather's grave which I dig up only to discover my grandfather's still-alive immortal body, who comes home with me and tells me to protect his treasure, when a caveman comes out of the alternate universe in the chimney and steals it at which point I go into the alternate universe bringing back with me a baby dinosaur bird thing and a baby caterpillar dog thing... Oh, you get the picture.
We watched Boxing Helena this weekend and I think I would have to put that at the top of my weirdest movie list. I haven't seen any of the movies you list, though, so I can't really compare it to those. But, it was a very weird and disturbing movie.
The strangest movie I've seen is Lost Highway. I'm still trying to figure that movie out.
David Lynch has many weird movies. Especially Eraserhead, that movie freaked me out.
Jen you desperately need to watch The Forbidden Zone (1980). I promise you it will zoom to the top of your weird list. And it's really entertaining. :-)
I used the watch the Forbiden Zone in high school as a VHS cult classic! It is super weird and best watched with beer in hand. Not EVERYONE knows that Oingo Boingo made a movie...What's his name? Danny Elfman is all about making music for movies and TV now and must be a billionare!
I've seen a few movies on your list and I agree that they were weird. I do however own Xanadu AND the movie's soundtrack. I thought it was great. I guess I like those old low budget movies. As for "Secretary", that is on my netflix list and waiting to come to my home. I love James Spader and thought it would be interesting.
I read the summary of house 2. That sounds like it would be funny as hell. I have a couple recommendations for you...
Uzumaki- Basically about a Japanese town where people start dying in a fashion always relating to Spirals [A guy steps into a washing machine and gets his body twisted into a spiral... a kid falls down a spiral stair case.... a girls hair turns into a giant bunch of spirals then twists around a lamppost hanging her.. etc. etc. etc.]
Pink Floyd- The Wall [I guess it depends on how you view it, the story itself is simply about a crazy rock singer hiding from society, the visuals suggest that his life is filled with naked gas mask wearing men and women, flowers having sex then killing each other, screaming bricks, hammers rallying in the streets, kids being sent into a meat grinder then killing their teacher so on and so forth Oh, and Floyd fans, I am aware that they are metaphors, they are still weird.]
Tommy [Another rock opera with a simple story but screwed up visuals. Basically about a kid who sees his father killed and then is told that he 'didn't see it, hear it, and is never going to speak of it again' and therefore he goes deaf, dumb and blind. Then he gets sent to marilyn monroe worshipers, a whore house owner that puts him in an iron maiden of drug needles containing LSD, all for the sake of healing, then he somehow sees himself in a mirror and follows himself to a junkyard and finds a pinball machine, becomes the greatest pinball player, gets thrown through a mirror, can see hear and speak again, thinks hes new messiah, worshippers then rebel against him]
Darkstar- [Darkstar is basically about Hippies in space. They go around their usual duties on the spaceship darkstar when some weird alien comes on [which is basically just a giant balloon] they make the alien their pet, then accidently pop it. Later a bomb decides it's god, says 'Let there be light' then explodes, then space hippie #2 grabs a piece of the ship and goes surfing through space before he dies]
Moulin Rouge [More Rock Operas that make sense but don't at the same time! Moulin Rouge is basically a tragedy-romance-comedy-rock opera. The plot concerns a writer ending up at the Moulin Rouge in france and then falls in love with their star Courtesan, who is dying, and is also under the watch of a Duke. The first 15 minutes can suggest how weird it is: Narcoleptic Argentinians falling through ceilings, a bastardized version of the hills are alive with electrical objects bursting when it's sung, green fairies dragging people away, so on and so forth]
Audition- [People call this an artistic and terrifying horror film. I call it a trap. Watch the first hour and you first get the impression your watching a drama. Then the audition scene suggests comedy. Then we're back to drama. Now it's a romantic drama. Now it's a romantic and tragic drama. Then the severed tongue of a bar owner starts flopping on the floor and crippled ballet teachers masturbate, then it all goes to hell.]
_Here are some other movies that are at the top of my weird list...
Blue Velvet - Dennis Hopper plays a helium huffing hate monger that rapes women
Eraserhead - David Lynch classic!
The Brood - Lady has scarred past and start having asexual children that kill when she gets mad
The Shining - I'm sure everyone has seen this one. What's up with the person in a bear outfit giving a blowjob towards the end of the movie!?
Event Horizon - pretty creepy space sci-fi
City of Lost Children - Man kidnaps kids and tries to steal their dreams because he can't have one.
Holloween III - Has nothing to do with any other Halloween movie! Have a happy halloween, silver shamrock...eee-aaawww-eeen-awww-eeent-awww...
_I'll post more as they come to me.