Japanese film "In the Realm of the Senses." Banned in a lot of countries.
78 -
Lord Brain
Apr 30, 2005 at 5:49 pm
"GUMMO" Once you see it you'll know why it should be added to the list. But it's not for the easily offended. I guarantee it will make your jaw drop.
79 -
Infidel
Apr 30, 2005 at 6:03 pm
HA! good call dude. Half those flicks are on my "What the hell" list
80 -
Lucien
Apr 30, 2005 at 6:09 pm
Have any of you actually read all these posts? How many of you have put the same movie in your posts as others have? This kind of redundancy and idiocracy towards the original topic is the reason that I have abandoned forums and message boards alltogether. If you simply are too lazy to actually read what others have written, then God save you and your small brains. READ, then reply.
Wow, you are going in the right direction with a few of those films, but the list really should read something like this :)
(1 being most bizarre)
TOP 10 bizar movies:
10) Old Boy
9) Audition
8) Tetsuo - The Body Hammer
7) Being John Malkovich
6) Pistol Opera
5) Pi
4) Survive Style 5+
3) City of the Lost Children
2) Electric Dragon 80000V
1) Visitor Q
yes, I think it's fairly safe to say that Japanese directors are f#cking crazy. Visitor Q and Electric Dragon are by far the weirdest films I have ever seen. Visitor Q is likely to offend pretty much everybody, but well worth watching provided you have an open mind and a strong stomach.
Also REALLY weird, but more of an artpiece than a normal movie: THE CREMASTER CYCLE. The Order (small excerpt) is out on video and that is simply insane.
82 -
samiam
Apr 30, 2005 at 6:17 pm
FYI, Total Recall was made from 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?' by Phillip K. Dick. His title should tell you it was weird already.
83 -
samiam
Apr 30, 2005 at 6:19 pm
Or was it 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale' ?
84 -
Mugwump
Apr 30, 2005 at 6:22 pm
My comments courtesy of Fark
Nice List! have seen roughly half of titles mentioned. Got one to add:
I am Curious Yellow - One of the first XXX films to make it to neighborhood theaters. There was no decernable plot.
Greaser's Palace and/or Putney Swope by Robert Downey Sr.
86 -
Ron
Apr 30, 2005 at 6:31 pm
Check out another Peter Weir film "The Last Wave." (with Richard Chamberlain). Way out there, but a very good flick.
87 -
godoggo
Apr 30, 2005 at 6:32 pm
Hey, what about the Andalusian Dog!?
88 -
t dog
Apr 30, 2005 at 6:32 pm
I think there has to be a dividing line between weird, sick, and stupid. weird I consider intresting. sick and and stupid are movies you finish watching and go " that was a f@#^$&* waste of time.
89 -
Legless_Marine
Apr 30, 2005 at 6:35 pm
Mulholland Drive, which I re-watched just last week, hardly deserves to be on this list. It is noteworth, however, as a vehicle for Jennifer Connelly's magnificent knockers.
In addition, any weird movie list that doesn include "Greaser's Palace" isn't worth it's salt.
90 -
el rick
Apr 30, 2005 at 6:36 pm
maybe it should be renamed "My Top Ten Bizarre Film List" -
Hell Comes Frog Town
Starring Rowdy Roddy Piper
circa 1980
Piper is on death row, but as one of the only surviving fertile men on the planet after the apocolypse, he is spared. In return for his life, his reproductive organs are now property of he government.
He is fitted with an exploding chastity belt. If he strays too far from his guards, it will explode. Also, if he gets out of line, his guards will trigger a shock to the belt by touching the controls on their earings (did I mention that the future government is run by stern, buff women).
The govenment sends Piper and his guards on a mission to Frog town to save and impregnate a group of the last fertile women from the mutant frog people.
Trust me, this is not a porn movie, it's just insanely bizzare.
92 -
Black Pete
Apr 30, 2005 at 6:52 pm
Like someone said... Alice by Jon Svankmeyer (or Svankmajer) is a truly bizarre remake of Alice. Definitely worth mentioning. Definitely not for small children.
For example... the white rabbit is an animated stuffed rabbit corpse that leaks sawdust, Wonderland is a decaying land with worn-down and dirty antiques, and most creatures are animated skeletons. Oh yeah, and jars of preserved eyeballs. That's only the beginning...
93 -
DeD-I
Apr 30, 2005 at 6:54 pm
What about "Crash", 1996 by David Cronenberg? or "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS"?
Here's an interesting book alone these lines: Profoundly disturbing shocking movies that changed history / by Joe Bob Briggs.
Quote -"FYI, Total Recall was made from 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?' by Phillip K. Dick. His title should tell you it was weird already"
Ummm....I think you mean Blade Runner.
Abre los ojos was 20 times better then that crap-fest vanilla sky.
Some good, interesting (weird?) movies:
Brazil (1984 based)
Dark City
Memento
Delicatessan
97 -
ZwoJ
Apr 30, 2005 at 7:06 pm
Try Wenzel Storch's "Reise ins Bliss"
or Journey into Bliss.
Crazy German film - completely not politically correct and lots of piss. Enjoy.
98 -
LeeAnne
Apr 30, 2005 at 7:19 pm
My list would include:
Being John Malkovich,
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation
All screenplays by Charlie Kaufman
99 -
patrick767
Apr 30, 2005 at 7:20 pm
Interesting J, I didn't realize Philip K. Dick was the writer who's work Vanilla Sky was based on. I knew about Minority Report and previous to that, only knew Dick as a sci-fi author who was a mentor of sorts to at least 2 current fantasy/magic realism authors - Tim Powers and James Blaylock.
100 -
Brian Penney
Apr 30, 2005 at 7:35 pm
I saw this Russian film channel surfing one time, and it sucked me in big time. I wish I could remember the title - I'll look it up as soon as I can and repost. The film was basically about 3 guys trying to cross a field. Truly weird, but the cinematography was pretty cool.
It's Argentinian, and really good. Unfortunately, it was remade into the incredibly lame "Pax"
The Big Blue might not be strange enough for this list (Jean Reno as a deep diver), but the scene where they kidnap/liberate the dolphin was memorable.
I'm glad somebody mentioned Old Boy. That was just strange.
... ends with the old hand in the spaghetti trick.
105 -
nouveau_vache
Apr 30, 2005 at 8:00 pm
I saw the second half a weird film in the early 1990s, from Denmark I believe. The protagonist was a little guy reminiscent of Woody Allen, apparently trapped in an asylum of some sort. Cannonballs fell randomly from the sky. He lost his glasses, and was chased by a stuffed animal tied to his leg, wrestling it on the ground. Finally I think he hung himself. There was barely any dialogue. Does anyone know what film this was? It was truly bizarre!
106 -
infotropic
Apr 30, 2005 at 8:01 pm
I don't know, I think it's a pretty decent list. Any top 10 generally inspired a lot of people getting whiny. I htink it's pretty well established that Vanilla Sky is a remake. Just like a lot of American movies. Maybe just one rule though, the movie can't be a candidate for Mystery Science Theater 3000. The original choices all had a fairly wide release. One other thing, I always seem to like Philip K. Dick's titles better than the title they chose for the movie versions.
infotropic
Psst, don't tell anyone, but I'm a Moderate. [gasp]
107 -
loser
Apr 30, 2005 at 8:12 pm
That wasn't Jennifer Connely, that was Laura Harring. Bigger "knockers" but not as nice in the face.
And yes, the original list is pretty mild. There are many many movies out there that will make pretty much anyone go WTF!?!?
108 -
Eric Olsen
Apr 30, 2005 at 8:20 pm
did anyone see the Bowie tour in the late-'70s where he opened with a dada Dali short with the infamous sliced eyeball scene?
109 -
Mr. Obvious
Apr 30, 2005 at 8:23 pm
About half of those movies are quite clear, unless you are retarded. By the way, it is "its" and not "it's". That was a clue right there. Too bad, could've been a good list.
110 -
Anonymous
Apr 30, 2005 at 8:32 pm
Mr. Obvious = Grammar Nazi
111 -
Mr. Obvious
Apr 30, 2005 at 8:37 pm
Yes, I want to kill a race of people. Exactly.
112 -
Chris
Apr 30, 2005 at 8:39 pm
Mullholland Drive isn't even Lynch's strangest film. Clockwork Orange and Vanilla Sky? C'mon, you might as well put every serious SF film ever made on this list -> 2001? The Matrix? Soylent Green? Silent Running? The Man Who Fell To Earth?
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies
Putney Swope
The Happening
There are so many more which have been missed here...
Dave
114 -
you suck
Apr 30, 2005 at 8:49 pm
You people suck. You claim to be film critics and offer "the best of all time," but practically all of those are recent films. What about the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, one of the first and probably the best horror film out there? I bet you've never heard of it. You people sicken me.
Caligari is a fine film - I have it on DVD, but if you check the title of this article it's 'bizarre films' not horror films, and Caligari isn't nearly as bizarre as most of those mentioned here.
The film may be fine, Dave; the doc's a weenie nonetheless.
119 -
Chris
Apr 30, 2005 at 9:19 pm
What's about "Manos" Hands of Fate, and the crazy inn-keeper, Torgo?!
120 -
matt
Apr 30, 2005 at 9:47 pm
How about Altered States??
121 -
Lufi
Apr 30, 2005 at 9:52 pm
What? No Slaughterhouse 5? Granted, it's not as effed up as some of these movies mentioned here...I'd describe it at a flashback-within-a-flashback- within-a-flashback-within-a-flashback-within-a-flashback -within-a-flashback-within-a-dude on an alien planet kind of movie. Or something. I dunno. It had a dog and a porn star and World War II, also.
122 -
godoggo
Apr 30, 2005 at 10:03 pm
"did anyone see the Bowie tour in the late-'70s where he opened with a dada Dali short with the infamous sliced eyeball scene?"
Well not me anyway, but I mentioned the title above: "The Andalusian Dog," or "Un Chien Andalou," which was a collaboration between Dali and Luis Bunuel. Eraserhead always struck me as a longer, and better crafted version of it, but it's still cool and belongs on the list.
123 -
Nick Jones
Apr 30, 2005 at 10:25 pm
Bloodsucking Freaks. Definitely not a film to see with your girlfriend.
124 -
Angel Of Death
Apr 30, 2005 at 10:35 pm
People, note that it is stated that the list is from his personal collection.
BTW, what about:
1. The Vampire Lesbians Of Sodom
2. They Saved Hitlers Brain
3. Highway To Hell (with the demonic cop, I state that because they were several movies by that name)
4. American Flatulators
5. Hick Trek
Of course, Kevin Smith is not spared.
Check out "Vulgar". The cast of "Clerks" in a movie that is ignored by many. The rape of Vulgar the Clown is worth it.
And Kevin's other "opus", "Drawing Flies". The cast of "Vulgar" in diapers is a hoot.
125 -
jd
Apr 30, 2005 at 10:37 pm
Last Year at Marienbad
Belle du Jour
Satyricon
Juliet of the Spirits
Some Warhol films
Article comments
— go to most recent comments76 - Rich
No Peter Greenaway?
Especially The Cook the Thief
His Wife & Her Lover which may have been the strangest movie I have
ever seen.
77 - drredhook
Japanese film "In the Realm of the Senses." Banned in a lot of countries.
78 - Lord Brain
"GUMMO" Once you see it you'll know why it should be added to the list. But it's not for the easily offended. I guarantee it will make your jaw drop.
79 - Infidel
HA! good call dude. Half those flicks are on my "What the hell" list
80 - Lucien
Have any of you actually read all these posts? How many of you have put the same movie in your posts as others have? This kind of redundancy and idiocracy towards the original topic is the reason that I have abandoned forums and message boards alltogether. If you simply are too lazy to actually read what others have written, then God save you and your small brains. READ, then reply.
81 - Lynxxx
Wow, you are going in the right direction with a few of those films, but the list really should read something like this :)
(1 being most bizarre)
TOP 10 bizar movies:
10) Old Boy
9) Audition
8) Tetsuo - The Body Hammer
7) Being John Malkovich
6) Pistol Opera
5) Pi
4) Survive Style 5+
3) City of the Lost Children
2) Electric Dragon 80000V
1) Visitor Q
yes, I think it's fairly safe to say that Japanese directors are f#cking crazy. Visitor Q and Electric Dragon are by far the weirdest films I have ever seen. Visitor Q is likely to offend pretty much everybody, but well worth watching provided you have an open mind and a strong stomach.
Also REALLY weird, but more of an artpiece than a normal movie: THE CREMASTER CYCLE. The Order (small excerpt) is out on video and that is simply insane.
82 - samiam
FYI, Total Recall was made from 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?' by Phillip K. Dick. His title should tell you it was weird already.
83 - samiam
Or was it 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale' ?
84 - Mugwump
My comments courtesy of Fark
Nice List! have seen roughly half of titles mentioned. Got one to add:
I am Curious Yellow - One of the first XXX films to make it to neighborhood theaters. There was no decernable plot.
85 - jaybird
Greaser's Palace and/or Putney Swope by Robert Downey Sr.
86 - Ron
Check out another Peter Weir film "The Last Wave." (with Richard Chamberlain). Way out there, but a very good flick.
87 - godoggo
Hey, what about the Andalusian Dog!?
88 - t dog
I think there has to be a dividing line between weird, sick, and stupid. weird I consider intresting. sick and and stupid are movies you finish watching and go " that was a f@#^$&* waste of time.
89 - Legless_Marine
Mulholland Drive, which I re-watched just last week, hardly deserves to be on this list. It is noteworth, however, as a vehicle for Jennifer Connelly's magnificent knockers.
In addition, any weird movie list that doesn include "Greaser's Palace" isn't worth it's salt.
90 - el rick
maybe it should be renamed "My Top Ten Bizarre Film List" -
91 - Jacqueline
#1 Bizzare Movie
Hell Comes Frog Town
Starring Rowdy Roddy Piper
circa 1980
Piper is on death row, but as one of the only surviving fertile men on the planet after the apocolypse, he is spared. In return for his life, his reproductive organs are now property of he government.
He is fitted with an exploding chastity belt. If he strays too far from his guards, it will explode. Also, if he gets out of line, his guards will trigger a shock to the belt by touching the controls on their earings (did I mention that the future government is run by stern, buff women).
The govenment sends Piper and his guards on a mission to Frog town to save and impregnate a group of the last fertile women from the mutant frog people.
Trust me, this is not a porn movie, it's just insanely bizzare.
92 - Black Pete
Like someone said... Alice by Jon Svankmeyer (or Svankmajer) is a truly bizarre remake of Alice. Definitely worth mentioning. Definitely not for small children.
For example... the white rabbit is an animated stuffed rabbit corpse that leaks sawdust, Wonderland is a decaying land with worn-down and dirty antiques, and most creatures are animated skeletons. Oh yeah, and jars of preserved eyeballs. That's only the beginning...
93 - DeD-I
What about "Crash", 1996 by David Cronenberg? or "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS"?
Here's an interesting book alone these lines: Profoundly disturbing shocking movies that changed history / by Joe Bob Briggs.
94 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Mondo Cane gets my vote.
95 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
or indeed SS Experiment Camp. or Japanese Hell.
96 - Pastor M
Quote -"FYI, Total Recall was made from 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?' by Phillip K. Dick. His title should tell you it was weird already"
Ummm....I think you mean Blade Runner.
Abre los ojos was 20 times better then that crap-fest vanilla sky.
Some good, interesting (weird?) movies:
Brazil (1984 based)
Dark City
Memento
Delicatessan
97 - ZwoJ
Try Wenzel Storch's "Reise ins Bliss"
or Journey into Bliss.
Crazy German film - completely not politically correct and lots of piss. Enjoy.
98 - LeeAnne
My list would include:
Being John Malkovich,
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation
All screenplays by Charlie Kaufman
99 - patrick767
Interesting J, I didn't realize Philip K. Dick was the writer who's work Vanilla Sky was based on. I knew about Minority Report and previous to that, only knew Dick as a sci-fi author who was a mentor of sorts to at least 2 current fantasy/magic realism authors - Tim Powers and James Blaylock.
100 - Brian Penney
I saw this Russian film channel surfing one time, and it sucked me in big time. I wish I could remember the title - I'll look it up as soon as I can and repost. The film was basically about 3 guys trying to cross a field. Truly weird, but the cinematography was pretty cool.
101 - Jon
This is an absolutely ridiculous list. You don't know from weird, man.
102 - CivilianCasualty
I loved "The Ninth Configuration", aka
"Twinklt, Twinkle, Killer Kane."
At times incomprehensible but wonderful.
103 - s_s_s
Another film you all might want to look at:
Hombre mirando al sudeste
(Man facing southeast)
IMDB link
It's Argentinian, and really good. Unfortunately, it was remade into the incredibly lame "Pax"
The Big Blue might not be strange enough for this list (Jean Reno as a deep diver), but the scene where they kidnap/liberate the dolphin was memorable.
I'm glad somebody mentioned Old Boy. That was just strange.
104 - Mitch
BAD by Andy Warhol
... ends with the old hand in the spaghetti trick.
105 - nouveau_vache
I saw the second half a weird film in the early 1990s, from Denmark I believe. The protagonist was a little guy reminiscent of Woody Allen, apparently trapped in an asylum of some sort. Cannonballs fell randomly from the sky. He lost his glasses, and was chased by a stuffed animal tied to his leg, wrestling it on the ground. Finally I think he hung himself. There was barely any dialogue. Does anyone know what film this was? It was truly bizarre!
106 - infotropic
I don't know, I think it's a pretty decent list. Any top 10 generally inspired a lot of people getting whiny. I htink it's pretty well established that Vanilla Sky is a remake. Just like a lot of American movies. Maybe just one rule though, the movie can't be a candidate for Mystery Science Theater 3000. The original choices all had a fairly wide release. One other thing, I always seem to like Philip K. Dick's titles better than the title they chose for the movie versions.
infotropic
Psst, don't tell anyone, but I'm a Moderate. [gasp]
107 - loser
That wasn't Jennifer Connely, that was Laura Harring. Bigger "knockers" but not as nice in the face.
And yes, the original list is pretty mild. There are many many movies out there that will make pretty much anyone go WTF!?!?
108 - Eric Olsen
did anyone see the Bowie tour in the late-'70s where he opened with a dada Dali short with the infamous sliced eyeball scene?
109 - Mr. Obvious
About half of those movies are quite clear, unless you are retarded. By the way, it is "its" and not "it's". That was a clue right there. Too bad, could've been a good list.
110 - Anonymous
Mr. Obvious = Grammar Nazi
111 - Mr. Obvious
Yes, I want to kill a race of people. Exactly.
112 - Chris
Mullholland Drive isn't even Lynch's strangest film. Clockwork Orange and Vanilla Sky? C'mon, you might as well put every serious SF film ever made on this list -> 2001? The Matrix? Soylent Green? Silent Running? The Man Who Fell To Earth?
No mention yet of Liquid Sky or Careful?
The Entity (1981)?
113 - Dave Nalle
Carnival of Souls
Dementia 13
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies
Putney Swope
The Happening
There are so many more which have been missed here...
Dave
114 - you suck
You people suck. You claim to be film critics and offer "the best of all time," but practically all of those are recent films. What about the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, one of the first and probably the best horror film out there? I bet you've never heard of it. You people sicken me.
115 - Victor Plenty
Takes a suck to know a suck, "you suck." Dr. Caligari is a weenie.
116 - Kai
Some others:
Happiness
Rubin & Ed
Eversmile, New Jersey
Candy (1969)
Tampopo
Paranoia 1.0
117 - Dave Nalle
Caligari is a fine film - I have it on DVD, but if you check the title of this article it's 'bizarre films' not horror films, and Caligari isn't nearly as bizarre as most of those mentioned here.
Dave
118 - Victor Plenty
The film may be fine, Dave; the doc's a weenie nonetheless.
119 - Chris
What's about "Manos" Hands of Fate, and the crazy inn-keeper, Torgo?!
120 - matt
How about Altered States??
121 - Lufi
What? No Slaughterhouse 5? Granted, it's not as effed up as some of these movies mentioned here...I'd describe it at a flashback-within-a-flashback- within-a-flashback-within-a-flashback-within-a-flashback -within-a-flashback-within-a-dude on an alien planet kind of movie. Or something. I dunno. It had a dog and a porn star and World War II, also.
122 - godoggo
"did anyone see the Bowie tour in the late-'70s where he opened with a dada Dali short with the infamous sliced eyeball scene?"
Well not me anyway, but I mentioned the title above: "The Andalusian Dog," or "Un Chien Andalou," which was a collaboration between Dali and Luis Bunuel. Eraserhead always struck me as a longer, and better crafted version of it, but it's still cool and belongs on the list.
123 - Nick Jones
Bloodsucking Freaks. Definitely not a film to see with your girlfriend.
124 - Angel Of Death
People, note that it is stated that the list is from his personal collection.
BTW, what about:
1. The Vampire Lesbians Of Sodom
2. They Saved Hitlers Brain
3. Highway To Hell (with the demonic cop, I state that because they were several movies by that name)
4. American Flatulators
5. Hick Trek
Of course, Kevin Smith is not spared.
Check out "Vulgar". The cast of "Clerks" in a movie that is ignored by many. The rape of Vulgar the Clown is worth it.
And Kevin's other "opus", "Drawing Flies". The cast of "Vulgar" in diapers is a hoot.
125 - jd
Last Year at Marienbad
Belle du Jour
Satyricon
Juliet of the Spirits
Some Warhol films
should at least be mentioned.