Truly strange films

John Waters' repulsive "Pink Flamingos" is about as bizarre as it gets

 

"Mr. Mike's Mondo Video."

Even though the part where Root Boy Slim did "Boogie Til Ya Puke" before an audience of blow-up dolls was pretty funny.

 

True that. Metropolis is a stunning (and weird) movie. So is The Passion Of Joan Of Ark, shot and paced in a way you'd never see in a modern film, but influential nonetheless. Carl Dreyer was a genius director.

Anything directed by David Kronenberg is usually going to be weird. The Fly is probably far and away his most mainstream effort. Early John Waters movies are an obvious choice too.

Others that jump to mind ...

Last House On The Left
Zardoz (weird and terrible)
Reform School Girls (weird, terrible and funny)
Suspiria
Peeping Tom
Altered States
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Myra Breckenridge

 

Snowdogs.

 

I loved 'Altered States' when I was a teen. I tried to watch it as an adult and didn't enjoy it.
'Suspiria' is strange.

 

I think that I shall have...some new generals...for a bit...

 

Don't touch it! It's evil!

 

American Psycho - serial killers shouldn't be that funny.
Glen or Glenda- ed wood, especially notable for the random chick wrasslin' scene
The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T- live action film by dr suess
Call of Clthulu- modern day silent film based on lovecraft's work.
Another Life- I had to do research on the internet to figure out what happened in this true life drama. the movie uses some odd storytelling devices that were quite jarring in an otherwise normal movie.

 

Is 'Call of Cthulhu' any good? I saw the trailer online and wasn't impressed.
I read Lovecraft when I was a kid, but the movie attempts I've seen — 'Dagon' and 'Beyond the Wall of Sleep' — haven't been good.

 

I thought it was, but then again, I'm a big silent film buff. The set pieces are very surreal, the actors are more than decent and the script is fairly well paced. The only bad thing i have to say about it is that the clthulu are designed in a way that makes them incredibly funny. Since everything else is pretty good, the cheesiness shocks you out of belief.

 

Giving this a bump because I finally watched the copy of Memento (via Netlix) I've been lugging around in my computer bag for a few weeks ... I had no idea where it was going, and I liked the idea that the most serious twist (from my perspective) wasn't at the end, but was somewhere in the middle.

 

I don't think I've muttered "What. The. Fuck?" more times during a movie than I have during Happiness -- and I saw Eternal Sunshine in the theatre. That movie nearly ruins every other movie Dylan Baker is in for me; I keep waiting for his characters in other movies to pull out a Tiger Beat magazine and start masturbating.