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SUPER WEIRD FILMS

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09:52 / 13.12.02

If I may add something here. the movie SIX STRING SAMURI is pretty good. Deals with the idea that The Russians bombed the US. It then became an apocolypitic wasteland and all the survivors went to Las Vegas and elected Elvis as their king. Well Elvis has died and Las Vegas has been renamed Lost Vegas and they are looking for a new king. A guy named Buddy (If you have to ask which rock and roll icon this is supposed to represent then woe is you) is on his way to claim the throne. But following him is Death (represented by a heavy metal rocker that reminds me a little of Slash from G&R fame). Good movie if you like stuff that doesn't make the most sense in the world. Plus it has a good soundtrack too.

13:19 / 13.12.02

"Weekend" [Jean Luc Godard] is pretty damn weird. And extremely funny too. Especially if car crashes and cannibalism float your boat. Oh, and vivid account of sex invloving eggs. Not good, but definitely weird

13:47 / 13.12.02

WAX is great! The story starts with the narrator's grandmother I think, who tried to adapt turn of the century wirephoto (photos by telephone or telex) technology to communicate with the dead or something like that. In the present, the main character takes French leave from his job at Alamogordo to explore a cavern full of intelligent bees underneath an atomic testing site. I forget what happens after that (I haven't seen it in about 10 years), but it definitely gets strange. The filmmaker toured with his movie, and made it available via the internet, advertising on BBSes, newsgroups and email. I've got a copy, sadly in storage at somebody else's house far away.

15:48 / 13.12.02

I'd love a copy .. I only saw it once and obviously ya can't get it on video or anything.. really one of the most extrordinary things I've ever seen..

The Photographer in Blowup

16:02 / 13.12.02

Matrix is pretty mind-challeging, but no more than Dark City. Cube was rather good, for the idea if not for the final result. 12 Monkeys is beautifully weird and mind-blowing. Donnie Darkko is weird, strange and violent, a favourite of mine.

16:43 / 13.12.02

Dead Man, by Jim Jarmusch, with Johnny Depp.

I can't really describe it properly... it's sort of a western, filmed in b/w. Full of weird characters and with a script that resembles the (lack of) structure of a dream. Beautiful, very weird end, too.

17:42 / 13.12.02

Dead Man is one of my favourite films ever. And I only saw it a few weeks back. It's fantastic-fantastic, and I wish there'd be an R2 DVD release soon.

18:43 / 13.12.02

Forbidden Zone (1980) - first film by Richard Elfman, featuring Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrell and Danny Elfman (playing Satan). Fun and weird, but difficult to track down, alas.

19:43 / 13.12.02

'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ' by Jacques Demy. Musical, beautiful people, very bizarre but excellent, they sing all the way through.

19:46 / 13.12.02

Robert Bresson's 'Au hasard Balthazar' . head frying, might want to rent it though. And may i recommend Demy again to everyone, can't get those musical tunes out of my head.

03:06 / 14.12.02

There's obviously a very broad definition to 'super weird'. I love Dead Man like no other, but it's unconventional at best. Umbrellas of Cherbourg? Weird because they sing through it? When I was a kid we called that a musical.

10:33 / 14.12.02

Eraserhead,Naked Lunch,Kenneth Anger material, all great make your own mind up stuff.

Terribilis est locus iste

16:09 / 14.12.02

no videodrome, every line of every character is sung all the way through, no let up. This isn't what i'm used to in a Hollywood musical. It also is doing weird things because it combines documentary type conventions and shots of Cherbourg with blatant artificiality or fictional elements. As a result it is a surreal and very unusual film to me.

17:12 / 14.12.02

I agree--Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a great film--only a little weird, but definitely worth checking out.

Forbidden Zone!

"The Evil Queen said she's going to ream us with 20-inch cattleprods and I'm still waiting!"

17:36 / 14.12.02

I understand what you mean, Sean, and I've seen Cherbourg. To me, 'super wierd' means utterly incomprehensible, or close to it, like a look into an unfathomable mind. Cherbourg seems to me more like the musical taken to a logical extreme. But that's the great thing, the subjectivity of film and perception.

21:42 / 14.12.02

Here, from the Erotic Movies thread:
quote:Originally posted by Mazarine:
I have a hard time finding most pornography erotic. But then again, the last thing I saw was Edward Penishands, which was just comical.

Yes.

This is one of the strangest films ever to be made.

See, it's like Edward Scissorhands, except instead of having blades for fingers, the poor uber-goth creature has giant penis hands. Rather spectacularly realistic penis-hands, given the budget they were probably working with.

Keep this one away from tripping people.

Also on the porn front, The Green Door is pretty damn weird. Marilyn Chambers checks out a young guy at a hotel cafe, gets abducted by him and his older buddy and taken to their weird sex cult, where she has sex with lots of people. Part circus, part 2001: A Space Odyssey, only with sex instead of rocketships and computers. Psychedelic climax scene, jungle drums, and a very Kubrickian White Room.

Mister Six, whom all the girls

13:32 / 17.12.02

Suggestion for everyone to rent, by the director of 'Day of the Beast' by Álex de la Iglesia, 'Acciones Mutantes' about a war on the beautiful. It's very fantastic and would appeal to the 'lither in all of us (get out of there).

Mister Six, whom all the girls

13:33 / 17.12.02

And Holy Mountain goes without saying, I'd think. Fando Y Lis as well... anything by Jodorowsky.

13:52 / 17.12.02

Weirdo porno seen on my first trip to the Scala in Kings X, London - (sadly now a pool hall) back in the early 90's: Cafe Flesh - a post-apocalyptic world where 99% have been sterlised by radiation and can't become sexually aroused. But they're still randy!! - and so force the other 1% to perform for them in sex clubs in pre-apocalypse/80s kitsch tableaux. Was very suprised to see hardcore footage on the big screen for the first time - a guy in a dog costume going down on a bored housewife, I recall. Had some sort of bizarro low budget SF plot going on as well, the details of which haven't stayed with me.

This was on a double bill with Liquid Sky. Basically - Smack addict aliens (invisible apart from their minature UFOs) steal chemicals from humans brains at the point of orgasm and/or heroin highs. This kicks off a murder hunt before the truth is revealed. And this occurs in the New York/New Romantic disco scene of the early 80's so the outfits kick ass in a scary big hair way!

The Scala was the best cinema ever.Sigh.

13:57 / 17.12.02

Cafe Flesh

Liqud Sky

14:51 / 17.12.02

Pulse is a Japanese movie that pretends to be a horror film, but is actually something else far stranger. Kind of like Ring meets On the Beach, with a bit of Hal Hartley plot mixed in. It's as if the ghosts from Ring take over the world, in a way. Has a haunted website in it.

I also just saw Lost Highway for the first time this weekend, and that, although it's mainly just Lynch being Lynch, is pretty damn weird. Robert Blake's eyebrowless face....

Click it. You know you want to.

16:00 / 17.12.02

speaking of lynch, eraserhead is one of the weirdest and greatest movies i've ever seen. a dark dream caught on tape. according to his official site lynch's working on a proper dvd release.

Pirate Ven Will Teach You To Lambada (The Forbidden Dance)

19:38 / 22.12.02

Just because most of the films that immediately leap to mind(Donnie Darko, Uzumaki, Lost Highway, etc... Edward Penishands didn't come to mind right away, but yes, very strange/amusing film... In a "Hah hah hah..he has penises...for HANDS......Fuck, I'm immature.." way) have been taken, I'll fall back on the 'ole anime crutch:

Serial Experiments Lain - If I were forced to describe the series without any spoilers... I suppose I'd say it's about a teenage girl who is searching for God on the Wired (a more advanced version of the Internet).
But there are really so many more layers to it than that.
Rather reality-warping.

End of Evangelion - Starts off your usual giant-robots-versus-aliens kind of anime, with plenty of teen angst abound... Then turns into something that defies all description.
Sort of like a religious fanatic's bad acid trip...only weirder.
Much weirder.

The Return Of Rothkoid

20:51 / 22.12.02

Grant: I'm there right NOW!

Creepy, creepy fucker.

10:35 / 23.12.02

I've always wanted to see 'Liquid Sky'. It sounds absolutely mental.

21:02 / 10.01.03

Because I finally decided to buy a copy and have just watched half of it (looong film), I've got to word up Wojciech Has' film translation of The Saragossa Manuscript. Manages to stay remarkably faithful to the source material, even if it does play up the comedy in favour of the schlock horror.

Weird in a very '60s, slightly arthousey way. Imagine Bergman and Leone teaming up to direct a mix of farce, religious/political satire and cheap psych horror while hepped up on goofballs. In Polish.

14:34 / 12.01.03

sounds like a hit.

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