What are some of your favorite movies that could be classified as bizarre, weird, strange, etc?


Here are my top 5


1. "Eraserhead"

2. "Magical Mystery Tour"

3. "Naked Lunch"

4. "Mulholland Drive"

5. "Forbidden Zone"

"Live Free or Die"

Oh, and "Zardoz". Can't forget about that Sean Connery classic.

Howard the Duck

A Clock Work Orange

Slaughter House 5

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Cool World

Toys

Brazil (or almost anything by Terry Gilliam)

Barbarella

Heavy Metal (both)

Donnie Darko

Blue Velvet (or almost anything by David Fincher)

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Moonrise Kingdom

Italian Spiderman

The Lobster

I can't say I've a single one of the movies thus far posted.

I defy anyone to watch Kung Fury and not say WTF every minute or so......

Anything by Cronenberg, especially

Videodrome


Anything by Takashi Miike, f.e.

Ichi the Killer


Anything by Takeshi Kitano, f.e.

Hana-Bi

Of those listed so far I've seen Mullholland Drive, Zardoz, A Clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, Blue Velvet.

I'll add a few mildly strange films of my own: El Laberinto del Fauno, Guantanamera, Spinal Tap, Chasseurs de Dragons.

Does "The Wall" count ?

Favourites?

"Delicatessen", and "Brazil".
The humor in Delicatessen is ... otherworldly, but strangely enjoyable (if extremely quirky); Brazil is much closer to "mainstream" in comparison - though still very far from it.


One of the biggest WTF films I ever saw (and I knew it was going to be real trash right from the start): The Calamari Wrestler (click that link only if you really, really mean it).

Honorable mentions: "The Meaning of Life" by Monty Python, which has a number of extremely gross scenes but at the same time has also very funny moments, with some distinct overlaps - a bit of an accomplishment, I'd say.

That's what i was wondering. I love it. But sure some people find it wierd, depressing.

Eraserhead is strange, Naked Lunch... is effed up. Talking bug typewriters? Strange butthole distortions? Shooting up roach poison?

Check check check. It has all of the above... and more!

The ending wasn't as straightforward as it seemed, either. I believe the entire end was a hallucination, in fact, probably as far back as before his wife died.

Mullholland is plain awesome, so is Donnie Darko. Blue Velvet was... wow. Crazy.

And then there's Lost Highway, probably the only movie I have ever seen and wasn't quite able to figure it out the first time I saw it. I love David Lynch films, btw.


Oh, and other strange films that are awesome are "Being John Malkovich" and "Adaptation." Adaptation is actually quite complicated in how it is structured and as to the true meaning of the film. But Charlie Kaufman writes awesome films, so it was to be expected.

Its been a while but...

Repo Man

for the kids:

Dragon Hunters aka Chasseurs de dragons (2008)

Trying hard to recall some that haven't been mentioned yet:

The earlier Cohen brothers movies.

Swiss Army Man.

Cry Baby (early Johnny Depp)

Titus Andronicus

Being John Malkovich

Eat the Rich

Does Rocky Horror Picture Show count?

A couple of German ones (Fritz Lang, Werner Herzog)

Immortal. "Weird" doesn't begin to describe it, but I'm not aware of a word strong enough to describe just how weird it was.

UHF?

I was wondering the same thing.

Nothing like trashing a theater with a rambunctious drinking crowd. Can't wait until October!

Not necessarily a favorite but definitely high on the 'weird' list.

Human Race