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NMFTM
August 2nd, 2010, 04:36 AM
Tonight I watched Immortal (http://www.heavymetalmagazinefanpage.com/moviesimmortal.html) and nothing else I've ever seen in the past can compare in the strangeness category.

I used to think A Scanner Darkly (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/scanner_darkly/) was sort of weird (even though it's probably my favorite movie). I had to read the book and then watch the movie several times before I completely understood everything that was happening.

But Immortal completely blew A Scanner Darkly out of the water. According to the reviewer from Heavy Metal he had to watch Immortal a few times to understand the story. But, I think once was enough. It had an interesting idea for a plot, but the story never really seemed to pick up and get interesting. Maybe I'm just not "with it" or artsy enough to have liked the film.

So, what's the strangest movie you've ever watched?

TriBlox6432
August 2nd, 2010, 04:42 AM
Helter Skelter. Strangest crap ever. And it's based on true stuff, the Charles Manson murders.

TheNerdAL
August 2nd, 2010, 04:47 AM
High School Musical :p

giddyup306
August 2nd, 2010, 04:47 AM
For some reason parts of Fire in the Sky were trippy, and the movie Dead End was just downright scary. Both pretty strange movies. Yellow Submarine maybe...

bug67
August 2nd, 2010, 05:08 AM
Without a doubt, John Water's, "Pink Flamingos." (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069089/)

"Naked Lunch" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/) is up there too but nowhere near Flamingos.

:popcorn:

VorDesigns
August 2nd, 2010, 05:12 AM
Without a doubt, John Water's, "Pink Flamingos." (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069089/)

"Naked Lunch" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/) is up there too but nowhere near Flamingos.

:popcorn:

I'd pick Eraser Head of PF but, for me it was What's the Matter with Helen.

amauk
August 2nd, 2010, 05:14 AM
Requiem For a Dream (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/) is pretty crazy

steve161
August 2nd, 2010, 05:16 AM
Seen both Eraserhead and Pink Flamingos. It is almost unfair to bring them up because they were so bizarre. There is a really old movie called Freaks which may come up to that. As a major release, off the top of my head, Jacob's Ladder.

Edit: Never seen What's the Matter with Helen or Requiem For a Dream. I like strange movies, will look into it. Eraserhead was so off the charts....

Cuddles McKitten
August 2nd, 2010, 05:55 AM
Blue Velvet (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/)

Bizarre to the max. This movie is what gave David Lynch his reputation.

amitabhishek
August 2nd, 2010, 06:36 AM
High School Musical :p

Twilight! :D

On a serious note I found 'Vanilla Sky' rather strange.

marshmallow1304
August 2nd, 2010, 07:49 AM
Eraserhead. I watched the first half about six months ago and just gave up and haven't bothered with it since.

Elephant's Dream (http://www.elephantsdream.org/) (short) is kind of odd as well, though pleasantly so.

YuiDaoren
August 2nd, 2010, 08:29 AM
Forbidden Zone (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080752/). Just plain bizzare.

Hells_Dark
August 2nd, 2010, 09:54 AM
Hum..
Visitor Q (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290329/) is quite weird..

Scarath
August 2nd, 2010, 10:02 AM
'Southland Tales'

Underrated because I dont think people 'got' it, however it is rather long for something with the Rock in it.

'Goodbye Dragon Inn'

Best weird movie ever, seriously.

drphilngood
August 2nd, 2010, 10:13 AM
The Human Centipede (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede_%28First_Sequence%29)
It was quite good but definitely the strangest that I can remember. o_0

Perfect Storm
August 2nd, 2010, 10:26 AM
A Mexican movie from 1970: El Topo
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067866/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceHH3QGXvNw

Highly recommendable and it will mess with your mind :KS


Or try 'Holy Mountain' (1973). That movie is psychedelic beyond everything I have seen. You can find the trailer on youtube (won't link as it contains a lot of stuff in violation with CoC.

Spike-X
August 2nd, 2010, 10:27 AM
Blue Velvet (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/)

Bizarre to the max. This movie is what gave David Lynch his reputation.
Speaking of Lynch, Mulholland Drive for me.

Khakilang
August 2nd, 2010, 10:31 AM
Nightmare on Elm Street. Don't know why all the slashing on the kids when they sleep.

andymorton
August 2nd, 2010, 10:36 AM
I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind a few weeks ago. That was pretty strange. I enjoyed it though and it was great to see Jim Carrey in a serious role.
There's also a film called Crash (not the one from 2004). This is about a group of fetishists who get turned on by seeing car crashes. It was directed by David Cronenberg. That's probably the strangest film I've seen.

andy

schreber
August 2nd, 2010, 10:56 AM
Valhalla Rising (http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/valhallarising/) it's a uniquely strange film. Check out the trailer and you'll understand why.

chamber
August 2nd, 2010, 12:00 PM
Alluda Mazaaka was pretty weird, awesome but weird.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245704/

It features a scene where people fight on tractors and a horse does a slide underneath a truck like you would expect a motorbike to.

Macskeeball
August 2nd, 2010, 12:35 PM
The Last Mimzy. I didn't watch it until the end though.

Tristam Green
August 2nd, 2010, 01:17 PM
For some reason parts of Fire in the Sky were trippy, and the movie Dead End was just downright scary. Both pretty strange movies. Yellow Submarine maybe...

++, Fire in the Sky was weird and amazing, especially for a moderately-budgeted film.

Others in my set?

The Fountain
Lost Highway
Stay

wkhasintha
August 2nd, 2010, 02:17 PM
ummm...


Avatar (2009)

:P

Tristam Green
August 2nd, 2010, 02:23 PM
ummm...


Avatar (2009)

:P

Really? Clearly you've never seen a weird movie.

standingwave
August 2nd, 2010, 10:11 PM
Brazil (1985)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/Brazilposter.jpg

TeoBigusGeekus
August 2nd, 2010, 10:20 PM
Kin Dza Dza :welcomingly strange
Salo :vomitingly strange

forrestcupp
August 2nd, 2010, 10:33 PM
The Talented Mr. Ripley


High School Musical :p
You actually watched that?

johnb820
August 2nd, 2010, 11:09 PM
Gozu

TheNerdAL
August 2nd, 2010, 11:12 PM
You actually watched that?

Lol, no. I thought it would be funny. But I think the weirdest movie I seen was Dragon Wars.

FoundmyTux
August 3rd, 2010, 12:05 AM
Yesterday Was A Lie

http://www.heliconarts.com/yesterday/

Was it just a hallucination?

oldos2er
August 3rd, 2010, 12:09 AM
+1 for El Topo and Freaks. Also Shanks, and Head.

Brent0
August 3rd, 2010, 12:49 AM
+1 for Requiem For a Dream.
That movie was freaky. :shock:

Letrazzrot
August 3rd, 2010, 12:55 AM
Naked Lunch has already been mentioned, but there is also Meet the Feebles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_feebles) which will completely destroy the purity and innocence of childhood memories of The Muppets.

As a side note, the strangest television is by far the stuff on children's networks - was children oriented television that strange when I was younger?

mkendall
August 3rd, 2010, 06:38 AM
No love for Zardoz (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070948/)?

HappinessNow
August 3rd, 2010, 09:08 AM
The Human Centipede (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede_%28First_Sequence%29)
It was quite good but definitely the strangest that I can remember. o_0
This has to be the strangest trailer I have ever seen, I have no desire to watch the movie.

handy
August 3rd, 2010, 01:08 PM
Any of the Godzilla movies; Mothra (http://godzillavsmothramovieissues.typepad.com/) & the tiny singing twins all seemed really strange to me back when I saw the movies in the mid 1960s; they have stayed in my mind as the strangest films I have ever seen.

A Boy & His Dog, Brazil, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Slaughterhouse Five, Solaris, Steppenwolf, Teknolust, The Box, The Rapture, Vanilla Sky, What Dreams May Come, What the Bleep Do We Know, Zardoz & their ilk are all welcome in my mind - all but a few of them I hold in the highest regard.

yossell
August 3rd, 2010, 01:37 PM
Some good films mentioned here. I've not seen El Topo, but I hear it's great.

Another David Lynch not yet mentioned I think:

Inland Empire

stranger than Eraserhead even. But Mullholland Drive and Lost Highway are my favourites.

wkhasintha
August 3rd, 2010, 02:27 PM
Really? Clearly you've never seen a weird movie.

was just kidding, actually "weirds/strange" are relative terms . I have watched Psychological thrillers like Mulholland dr, Lost Highway and SciFi flick "Cube" trilogy can be put in to that category.

samalex
August 3rd, 2010, 02:48 PM
I can't name just one, so here's a few:
- Clockwork Orange
- RHPS
- City of the Lost Children
- Dark City
- Pi

I like abstract movies like these with odd plots/settings.

Sam

ticopelp
August 3rd, 2010, 04:21 PM
Some good films mentioned here. I've not seen El Topo, but I hear it's great.

El Topo is okay... Holy Mountain is much better, IMO. And I think Fando y Lis is weirder than both of them.

To add to the list...

Uzumaki
Videodrome (Cronenberg's most surreal by far IMO)
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Altered States
Lair of the White Worm
Gothic
The Happiness of the Katakuris

I'd be hard-pressed to name the single weirdest movie I've ever seen.

theraje
August 3rd, 2010, 04:25 PM
I've been thinking about a good way to respond to this thread, and here is what I came up with:

Napoleon Dynamite.

Not the movie itself, so much as why in the world people thought it was so good. I felt like taking a hammer and driving a nail into my head to see how long it would take for me to pass out that movie was so boring.

ticopelp
August 3rd, 2010, 04:27 PM
I've been thinking about a good way to respond to this thread, and here is what I came up with:

Napoleon Dynamite.

Not the movie itself, so much as why in the world people thought it was so good. I felt like taking a hammer and driving a nail into my head to see how long it would take for me to pass out that movie was so boring.

Surely you can do better than that. Coming up with a contrived excuse to gripe about a movie you didn't like doesn't really address the topic.

samigina
August 3rd, 2010, 04:31 PM
+1 For Jodorowski movies (Santa Sangre, Holy Montain, EL Topo), but the strangest for me was Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Vampire_Hunter)....

ticopelp
August 3rd, 2010, 04:33 PM
+1 For Jodorowski movies (Santa Sangre, Holy Montain, EL Topo), but the strangest for me was Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Vampire_Hunter)....

I wish Santa Sangre was out on DVD here. I'd love to see it.

Oh, and I forgot to add Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetery Man).

theraje
August 3rd, 2010, 04:33 PM
Surely you can do better than that. Coming up with a contrived excuse to gripe about a movie you didn't like doesn't really address the topic.

Heh, fair enough. :)

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is pretty bizarre. Not really a "strange" bizarre... but more like a "wtf" bizarre. :P

ticopelp
August 3rd, 2010, 04:35 PM
Heh, fair enough. :)

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is pretty bizarre. Not really a "strange" bizarre... but more like a "wtf" bizarre. :P

I'll agree with that one. :) Terry Gilliam makes some wonderfully strange movies. His strangest is probably Tideland, so much so I hesitate to recommend it.

samalex
August 3rd, 2010, 05:01 PM
I'll agree with that one. :) Terry Gilliam makes some wonderfully strange movies. His strangest is probably Tideland, so much so I hesitate to recommend it.

Mentioning Terry Gilliam reminded me of Time Bandits, which is probably in my top 5 fave movies. Not strange per say, but it definitely has an atypical plot -- Boy travels through time with a bunch of midgets being chased by God trying to recover his map of all the holes in the universe.

Sam

RiceMonster
August 3rd, 2010, 05:03 PM
I think that would be Fear and Loathing is Las Vegas.


I remember it ending, and all I could think was "What the hell just happened?"

ticopelp
August 3rd, 2010, 05:30 PM
Mentioning Terry Gilliam reminded me of Time Bandits, which is probably in my top 5 fave movies. Not strange per say, but it definitely has an atypical plot -- Boy travels through time with a bunch of midgets being chased by God trying to recover his map of all the holes in the universe.

Agreed, a very fun flick. My favorite Gilliam is probably The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

ornages
August 3rd, 2010, 05:32 PM
I totally agree on Eraser Head and Brazil.
To add a new one, I found Ken Park (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209077/) surprising in every scene.

Frogs Hair
August 3rd, 2010, 05:48 PM
Naked Lunch

UKBB
August 3rd, 2010, 05:48 PM
Videodrome or Zardoz, take your pick.

Kingsley
August 3rd, 2010, 06:21 PM
I watched Me and You and Everyone We Know (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_you_and_everyone_we_know) a couple of days ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQoJo81lujk

Shazaam
August 3rd, 2010, 06:58 PM
Plan 9 From Outer Space...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space

+2 for Zardoz.

conundrumx
August 3rd, 2010, 07:04 PM
Primer. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(movie))

yossell
August 3rd, 2010, 10:11 PM
El Topo is okay... Holy Mountain is much better, IMO. And I think Fando y Lis is weirder than both of them.


Not heard of those - I'll add them to the LoveFilm list.

The Element of Crime an old film by Lars von Trier, was an old fave: dark, ominous and disturbing.

Performance and The Man who fell to Earth by Nicholas Roeg, with Jagger and Bowie respectively, are also worth seeing.

BigCityCat
August 3rd, 2010, 10:16 PM
Videodrome

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

oh yeah and repo man.

benerivo
August 3rd, 2010, 10:32 PM
Gilliam has a few, and i think Jabberwocky is his strangest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8apNuRgWFWo

quinnten83
August 3rd, 2010, 10:33 PM
Speaking of Lynch, Mulholland Drive for me.

+1,
a serious mindf***.
but i think, circus of life, i forget the title by felini was also pretty out there.

samigina
August 3rd, 2010, 10:55 PM
I wish Santa Sangre was out on DVD here. I'd love to see it.

Oh, and I forgot to add Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetery Man).
Oh yeeeesss that was a great movie, I love it! Is the best B movie ever made...

David Andersson
August 3rd, 2010, 11:23 PM
"Palindromes" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362004/) by Todd Solondz. I had strange mood swings hours after seeing it, like no other film.

Also quite strange: "The Machinist" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/) by Brad Anderson.

handy
August 4th, 2010, 01:13 AM
...
Also quite strange: "The Machinist" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/) by Brad Anderson.

I didn't like the Machinist at all, it is one of the few films I did not finish, I turned it off & did something better with my time.

libssd
August 4th, 2010, 01:24 AM
"Strange" may be in the mind of the beholder. Certainly Gilliam's Brazil is odd, but it didn't strike me as strange in the way that either The White Ribbon (Das weisse Bande) or Memento did. Both films left me feeling very disturbed, for different reasons.

darkstarbyte
August 4th, 2010, 01:34 AM
Shutter Island.

handy
August 4th, 2010, 01:50 AM
Shutter Island.

I have only seen the first part of that movie whilst on a plane trip recently. I am organising to see the rest of it, from what I saw it looked like it was excellent.

DiCaprio, played Howard Hughes so well in Aviator, he really has the skills to do psychological weirdness at the highest level.

kajankow
August 4th, 2010, 01:54 AM
I don't know if anyone said this one but Paranormal Activities was weird/strange for me.

sidzen
August 4th, 2010, 02:27 AM
Vanilla Sky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Sky
And I like strange ones!

Legendary_Bibo
August 4th, 2010, 05:37 AM
Gozu. Honestly I don't have to read anything else in this board and I already know that Gozu tops everything.

johnb820
August 4th, 2010, 05:54 AM
Gozu. Honestly I don't have to read anything else in this board and I already know that Gozu tops everything.

Sounds like The Sentimental Engine Slayer (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1511489/) might make a run for its money. The guy who directed it has mentioned Gozu on more than one occasion as a big influence.

handy
August 4th, 2010, 06:09 AM
Gozu. Honestly I don't have to read anything else in this board and I already know that Gozu tops everything.

Personal strange is ultimately a very personal experience, not necessarily a shared strange experience though it certainly often is.

It is very difficult to be objective about our subjective.

I said that & you may quote me. ):P

linux18
August 4th, 2010, 06:26 AM
Any of that low budget crap on the sci-fi channel's sci-fi saturdayis weird, but kind of funny " OMG! its a black hole, and we have 36 hours to stop it" - yeah right

memento really messed up my mind

black dynamite was a cool weird

gnomeuser
August 4th, 2010, 07:49 AM
Titanic.. although that might have been because at the start of the movie my then girlfriend said "It's so sad when he dies" and I then spent 3 hours wondering how he was going to buy it.

handy
August 4th, 2010, 09:17 AM
Titanic.. although that might have been because at the start of the movie my then girlfriend said "It's so sad when he dies" and I then spent 3 hours wondering how he was going to buy it.

Imagine how uncomfortable he would have felt if she had of said it to he, who like all but the very few of us have no idea of our future destiny.

Though he probably would have shrugged it off as paranoia/anxiety on her behalf & happily carried on until the excrement hit the fan I suppose?

darkstarbyte
August 4th, 2010, 04:16 PM
I have only seen the first part of that movie whilst on a plane trip recently. I am organising to see the rest of it, from what I saw it looked like it was excellent.

DiCaprio, played Howard Hughes so well in Aviator, he really has the skills to do psychological weirdness at the highest level.

Its only strange if you see the ending, trust me.

aeiah
August 4th, 2010, 04:22 PM
pink flamingos (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069089/)

i wouldn't bother if i were you.

Spike-X
August 4th, 2010, 11:32 PM
As a side note, the strangest television is by far the stuff on children's networks - was children oriented television that strange when I was younger?

Are you familiar with the work of Sid and Marty Krofft?

reyfer
August 5th, 2010, 02:38 AM
Gozu, hands down

Also, IZO is pretty weird http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=10&ved=0CDkQtwIwCQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D1I2 k4r9YAMg&ei=thVaTPnhBoiLuAeJidHLCg&usg=AFQjCNEOl0pwhFGTryQDjlGd43W_acfnrA&sig2=TIXYLXp_2BVEIu7qYbqPtA

Austin25
August 5th, 2010, 05:45 AM
Dude, where's your car?
As for weirdest thing on tv ever, Bobobo-bo bo-bobo.

Shakz
August 5th, 2010, 11:37 AM
Well seem lotsa strange movies but a strange movie I liked....Lo is the first one to come to mind.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1047490/

So a strange movie that didnt suck? Lo gets my vote. Available for streaming on Netflix.

Also if your in the indi mood.... Ink is good too.

handy
August 5th, 2010, 02:27 PM
Its only strange if you see the ending, trust me.

I saw the entire movie "Shutter Island" today. I think it is the worst film Martin Scorsese has ever directed.

That's not to say the movie was a disaster in my eyes, it is that (imho) it is quite flawed & really stands out as such when compared to Martin's other superb movies.

Random_Dude
August 5th, 2010, 03:12 PM
The strangest movie I ever seen was definitely Symbol (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph1XwZxy84E&feature=related).

Has anyone seen it?

ve4cib
August 5th, 2010, 04:53 PM
I've seen a lot of pretty weird movies. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians definitely ranks up there on the WTF-Scale. Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtXnLtOHiTk)

In terms of just mind-bendingly weird and intellectually-challenging, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire are both pretty weird.

Mulholland Drive mostly makes sense until the last 20 minutes or so. It's weird, but you can follow most of it. Then it takes a sharp turn off the deep-end. Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFtqxpL1sG8)

Inland Empire is like spending two and a half hours of watching someone's dream, and just trying to fit the pieces together and make sense of it. Most of the movie is made up of disjointed scenes that, on their own, might make some degree of sense if you were exposed to some potent pharmaceuticals, but there's no coherent whole. And the scenes with people in rabbit costumes saying non-sequitors with a laugh track randomly inserted after some lines pretty much sums up how weird this movie really is. The Rabbit Scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gLAMIJbAMI)


Speaking of dream-like movies, Aegri Somnia: A Sick Man's Dreams is pretty strange. It's a much darker, nightmarish film than the others I've mentioned. Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ij6wcs7GlQ)

whoop
August 5th, 2010, 05:21 PM
Nice thread...

*Existenz.
*Funny Games.

Chronon
August 5th, 2010, 08:44 PM
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb

forrestcupp
August 5th, 2010, 09:17 PM
Imagine how uncomfortable he would have felt if she had of said it to he, who like all but the very few of us have no idea of our future destiny.

Though he probably would have shrugged it off as paranoia/anxiety on her behalf & happily carried on until the excrement hit the fan I suppose?

Kind of like Desmond and Charlie on Lost.

whoop
August 6th, 2010, 03:16 AM
I saw the entire movie "Shutter Island" today. I think it is the worst film Martin Scorsese has ever directed.

That's not to say the movie was a disaster in my eyes, it is that (imho) it is quite flawed & really stands out as such when compared to Martin's other superb movies.

I agree (that it sucks), calling it strange would be too much of a compliment if you ask me...