What's the weirdest film you've seen yet?

[eliz.lanier]

For me it's probably Memento. The plot synopsis is basically this: a young man's wife is murdered and during the incident, he loses his ability to form long term memories. He forgets everything after a few moments, so, in a sense, he's constantly "thinking backwards" to try and sort out what's going on. He has tattoos all over his body to remind him of clues of who killed his wife and plans to get revenge.

The movie moves backwards in time throughout the color scenes and in black and white scenes moves chronologically. Makes it a bit hard to follow. Was a pretty good movie though.

Also, I thought Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Requiem for a Dream, A Clockwork Orange, and Waking Life were all odd- but in good ways.:)

[executioneer]

Neco z Alenky (Alice)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095715/

[ElPila666]

Terry Gilliam's Tideland as i remember is the last weirdy that i saw, i watched because of Jeff Bridges cuz i though that he gonna make a groovy character like in Big Lewonsky that he actually did but was in a short appearance, when his character gone i fell that i just have to keep dealing with the whole movie, that turns out to be weirderst one :(.

[liquidstatik]

tideland was alright, idk if it was the weirdest movie i'd seen. BUT THEN AGAIN, I can't think of the weirdest one ;_;

[executioneer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZedXzxAY5A srsly

[liquidstatik]

i'm d/ling that alice movie, it looks neat. :o

[executioneer]

svankmajer's "food" and "darkness/light/darkness" are both pretty funny and bizarre, too

edit: but they also both have w*eners in them, so nsfw i guess

[eliz.lanier]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZedXzxAY5A srsly

That is really weird. I get creeped out by moving dolls, don't know if I could watch the whole thing haha :eek

[Guitar Woman]

Spirited Away. What the fuck was that movie even about

[Grislygus]

Gozu would probably be around the top of the list, I guess

[eliz.lanier]

Spirited Away. What the fuck was that movie even about
Are you kidding? That movies one of my favorites haha

[Mockery]

I wouldn't say it's the weirdest, but it definitely qualifies as weird. It's a 6-minute short film called "Rubber Johnny" by Chris Cunningham. Bought it on DVD a while back and liked it a lot. Check it out here. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l48HTZUHfeQ) Much better to watch it on a big TV, but still this should give you the basic idea...

[Zomboid]

Yeah, rubber johnny was cool. I think there was an aphex twin music video to go with it too.

Edit: Oh, that's what you linked to :lol

[Fathom Zero]

Eye of the Beholder, good and weird.

[Pub Lover]

EotB was hardly weird, FZ. >:

[Fathom Zero]

The plot was weird. And creepy.

And besides, it's not "What's the weirdest film Pub Lover's seen yet?"

[liquidstatik]

Neco z Alenky (Alice)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095715/

this movie was gooooodd :o

[executioneer]

i've only seen the whole thing once, but i remember lots of it creeped the bejeezus outta me

[ItalianStereotype]

good call on both gozu and alice. I really like svankmajer's work; have you seen Faust, willie? as for gozu, if I were having sex with a girl and my dead yakuza brother grabbed my dick and pulled his way out of her snatch, that would probably rank UP THERE among my top weird moments.


ALSO, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Electric Dragon 80,000 V, Rubber's Lover, and Strange Circus to name a few!

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

eraserhead by David Lynch. Kind of hard to sit through, not unbearable. It makes you think a lot about life though.

[WhiteRat]

By far the weirdest movie I've seen has to be Gummo. The scene with the rednecks arm wrestling in the kitchen was pure gold. Also, the two brothers fist fighting was great, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummo

EDIT: Here's a delightful scene for you to feast your peepers on:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EP_nXPNJ8Fo&feature=related

[ElPila666]

I remember one that a saw back when i was i kid: Roadside Prophets with John Doe and beastie boys dude, i remeber it was a weird one too, a trippie one like Easy Ryder

Also the japanese are getting weirder: Beat Takeshi's Takeshis and Takashi Miike's Izo, i saw each one 3 times, the third time i didn't catch them either

[J. Tithonus Pednaud]

Weirdest movie ever? If we are talking commercial releases (theater releases) it has to be The Forbidden Zone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Uh-AFFDys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfAP4BCySOo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88tJX6Ru3ew

I love this film.

Pink Flamingos comes in a close second. That is saying a lot since Pink Flamingos featured full figured transvestite Divine graphically blowing her on screen son then eating fresh dog shit. Also, there is a sex scene involving a chicken.

Part of the promotional campaign included handing out barf bags.

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Up until I saw those clips, I would have said Pink Floyd's The Wall, and, to a slightly lesser extent, Jacob's Ladder.

[liquidstatik]

By far the weirdest movie I've seen has to be Gummo. The scene with the rednecks arm wrestling in the kitchen was pure gold. Also, the two brothers fist fighting was great, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummo

i liked this movie tooooo, better than KIDS by far ;<

[JediScum]

Pink Flamingos comes in a close second. That is saying a lot since Pink Flamingos featured full figured transvestite Divine graphically blowing her on screen son then eating fresh dog shit. Also, there is a sex scene involving a chicken.

I am not argueing with any "place rating" for that. I had heard about for years but never saw it until...

Myself and a married couple, with their 3 year old watched together. NONE OF US knew what we were in for. I think all of us were stone silent until the chicken scene, when 3 yr old asks "what's he doing?".

There was no baby talk. It was "If I knew, sir, I would definitely tell you".


Which was a much better reaction than MY parents covering my eyes and forcing me to not look when they thought it would be a good idea to bring a 3 year old Jediscum to see "The Exorcist" on the silver screen.

Pardon.... i'm tending to ramble

[liquidstatik]

jediscums ur real name?

[eliz.lanier]

Which was a much better reaction than MY parents covering my eyes and forcing me to not look when they thought it would be a good idea to bring a 3 year old Jediscum to see "The Exorcist" on the silver screen.

Haha your parents be crazy :lol

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Gummo is definitely up there. Has anyone seen Bully?

[Captain B O'Hare]

Danny Elfmans Forbidden Zone. Its got the Little guy from Love Boat in it as the King......REALLY thats weird in it self. if you want a F'ed up movie this is it. Its funny tho i watch it when i drink alone...

[Dr. Octogonopus]

Manos: The Hands of Fate. I first saw it on MST3K, and it started my love for crappy, low-budget movies.
I still can't understand what the hell they're talking about in the movie, though. I assume I was born with too much stupid.

[Fat_Hippo]

The Big Lebowski...hmm, maybe I just haven't watched enough movies yet, but that's the one that springs to mind.

[Madface]

Gummo is definitely up there. Has anyone seen Bully?

I saw the part when Nick Stahl died and some other random scenes. It was pretty weird for an American film from what I saw. I personally thing Natural Born Killers is pretty up there.

[ElPila666]

I like Bully too, the scene where the Leonardo Dicaprio look alike dude and the fat guy goes to the arcades on acid and they play a game that looks like a Mortal Kombat ripoff, I wonder if that game really exists, it remainds Tattoo Assasins

[Pentegarn]

The Big Lebowski...hmm, maybe I just haven't watched enough movies yet, but that's the one that springs to mind.

I thought Big Lebowski was weird too, I loved it though.

I also thoguht 12 Monkeys was pretty odd, hard to keep up with at times because of the way they bounce around between the future and past. I liked that one as well.

Fight Club was weird too I thought. Again, I liked this movie regardless.

Guess I like weird movies.

[Xydexx]

One of my all time favorite weird movies is Terry Gilliam's Brazil (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/). Gilliam's original version, not the "Love Conquers All" hatchet job version. I've got the Criterion collection, which has both, so I had the unfortunate opportunity to watch the latter for comparison. Ye gods, they've destroyed my favorite movie. >:

Barton Fink is also delightfully twisted.

[Tadao]

Someone redid Brazil? What did they do, make it more realistic? You guys know that Time Bandits, Brazil, and Baron Mun(sommthing) are supposed to relflect 3 stages in life, eh?

[Xydexx]

Someone redid Brazil? What did they do, make it more realistic?Producer Sid Sheinberg wanted it to have this big happy Hollywood ending where everything turns out okay and literally butchered the film (it's painfully obvious where stuff was spliced together toward the end of the film) in order to get it. The original ending was much darker, and Terry Gilliam was furious with the changes and didn't want to be associated with the new version at all.

[Tadao]

Heartbeeps was weird, and sexy!
Blue Velvet was strange as well.

[Zomboid]

Why the fuck is this guy venturing out into the other forums now?

[Tadao]

He's my new friend. We're gonna make Centaurs together.

[Xydexx]

Why the fuck is this guy venturing out into the other forums now?
Whoa, dude, no reason to get all bent out of shape. It's not like I microwaved your pets or something. Jeez.

[Fat_Hippo]

I get nervous when people get that specific...:eek

[Xydexx]

He's my new friend. We're gonna make Centaurs together.
Tease. :love

[HickMan]

http://www.utc.fr/%7Emacret/cine/realisateurs/boorman/photos/zardoz6.jpg
ZardOz takes the cake for me. It took so much out of me to actually finish it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kbGVIdA3dx0

[JediScum]

"Zardoz" is FUCKING AWESOME!!!! Thanks for reminding me, because I need to buy that,

I just hit the used DVD store and for 2 DOLLARS, I found "Bela Legosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla". I could not stop laughing. But I haven't watched it yet.

I also bought "Spiderman 3", just so I could see what the hell people are yelling about. I've heard it's bad, yes, but I haven't seen it yet.

[Roggs]

Weirdest movie I've ever seen is probably Six-String Samurai.

"Who are you?"
"Death."
"Cool."

[ElPila666]

Alejandro Jodorosky's El Topo, a mexican acid western from the late 60's

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I read a review for el topo on badmovies.org about a month ago. It looks crazy

[ElPila666]

I didn't know what Acid western was about so i checked that one, it turns to be a very strange movie but it disapointed me about the western stuff, i rather prefer a Clint Eastwood or a Franco Nero regular western

[darkvare]

i think the weirdest movie i've seen is harold and kumar go to white castle specially the weed bag scene

[liquidstatik]

you need to watch more movies :x

[Colonel Flagg]

Liquid Sky

[darkvare]

you need to watch more movies :x
i watch a lot but i think i just don't remember and i am lookng for harold and kumar in dvd and that makes me sad :( but now that i think more about it pan's labirinth was a lot weirder and cruel

[Girl Drink Drunk]

The American Astronaut.

[ElPila666]

The Butterfly Effect

[Pub Lover]

You know, the last half of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

I've seen way weirder, but the half an hour of Windows 95 screensaver in the middle always loses me.

[terrva]

Either Begotten (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101420/) or Holy Mountain (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071615/). I'd also say Eraserhead, but it would be too easy.

Oh yeah, i've been trying to get my hands on a copy of Crispin Glover's What Is It? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_is_It%3F) lately, but without success. I hope it'll be released on DVD some time or another.

[Geggy]

I agree with J. Pink flamingo is defintely on my list of films that make me go "what the fuck?"

[jared]

Ken Russell's Lisztomania is probably the weirdest feature I've ever seen in terms of content; someone mentioned Gozu, and that comes pretty close to dethroning Lisztomania. And either any Guy Maddin film or Pere Portabella's Cuadecuc-Vampir in terms of style.

[Kitsa]

Fantastic Planet was pretty bizarre. If you listen to the music too long you sort of space out and I'm not saying that's a good thing.

For me, far and above, it has to be Ebola Syndrome:

You just can't beat a guy who runs around raping dying ebola patients and masturbating into steaks.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Terror Firmer - really weird Troma movie that most people just find disgusting. If you look deeper into it it's actually one of the best movies ever made....period.

[Not You]

Buddy Boy

[Kitsa]

Terror Firmer - really weird Troma movie that most people just find disgusting. If you look deeper into it it's actually one of the best movies ever made....period.


Tromeo and Juliet was fairly weird, too. Didn't her pregnant stomach expand like Jiffy Pop and reveal delicious popcorn, or something? And rats. I think I had a nightmare like that when I first got pregnant.

[Kitsa]

someone mentioned Gozu, and that comes pretty close to dethroning Lisztomania.

Gozu reminded me a lot of a David Lynch movie. Maybe it was the weird gaijin woman reading off the cue cards that did it. Weirdly enough, after the shock in the beginning with the dog, I kind of got bored, and that's usually the sort of movie I'm into.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Tromeo and Juliet was fairly weird, too. Didn't her pregnant stomach expand like Jiffy Pop and reveal delicious popcorn, or something? And rats. I think I had a nightmare like that when I first got pregnant.


I still have to see Tromeo and Juliet. Is Lemmy in it too?

[Kitsa]

I don't remember Lemmy in T&J. I do remember him in that "public service message" about hermaphrodites that's on the "Cannibal! The Musical" bonus features.

LOVE Cannibal! The Musical, by the way.

[layla17]

Secret Garden.... it might not be that weird I just didn't like it.

[executioneer]

well there's a thread for movies you don't like go post it in there