Truly strange films

A movie called "Funny Bones." With Jerry Lewis and Oliver Platt. It's from the director who made the very good "Hear My Song," but unlike that romp it's dark and....just odd.

In the department of Movies You Were Forced to Watch in a College Film Class: "Last Year in Marienbad."

Oh, and I think it was Nelson Muntz who pointed out the false advertising of "Naked Lunnch."

 

That is correct. Ha-ha!

 

Suggestions...

-The Russian WWII film Come and See will fuck you up for life. Surreal doesn't even begin to cover this one.

-Cache, a french film from the last couple years, is frightening on a level I've never witnessed in cinema. This film departs from traditional storytelling on an epic scale.

 

"The Passion of Darkly Noon"

Straight-to-video drama with Brendan Fraser, Ashley Judd and Viggo Mortensen.

Fraser is a religious freak who wakes up in the middle of nowhere after his parents have been killed.
He goes and stays with a slutty Judd, who nurses him back to health. Fraser falls for her, and his obsession turns wicked when Mortensen, Judd's mute lover, returns.

Some of the imagery in this movie is odd, and the plot is actually very good.
Definitely worth finding if you have a thing for Judd (who doesn't?).

 

"He goes and stays with a slutty Judd, who nurses him back to health. Fraser falls for her, and his obsession turns wicked when Mortensen, Judd's mute lover, returns."

Wow.
Nice precis, Bullrog. I'm off to NetFlix.

 

Oldboy

 

The original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. There were a few scenes that freaked me out as a child, but I liked the movie for some reason.

Sphere: Any cast that includes Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samual L. Jackson, Liev Schreiber, Queen Latifa and Huey Lewis (as a helicopter pilot) is a strange movie.

 

brazil

not the country, but one kooky flic

 

Good strange: 'Lair of the White Worm'
'The Wall'
'Time Bandits'
'The Meaning of Life'

Bad strange: 'Liquid Sky'

 

Forgot about that one. It definitely qualifies.

 

Time Bandits definitely qualifies.

 

Anything Todd Solondz has made qualifies for this list -- "Storytelling", "Palindromes", "Welcome to the Dollhouse"...he comes across as a really creepy guy. (He's made a few too many movies featuring characters who are pedophiles.) David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick made their share of odd movies, but they seemed a little more normal.