Trebor, same here. I remember when the exorcist came out on hbo, and I had to walk about a mile and a half home after 11pm after watching it at a friends, I ran part of the way.
Filmed in Los Angeles in the fall of 1931, Freaks was given test screenings in January 1932 that received harsh reaction from audiences, who found the film too grotesque. In response to this, the 90-minute feature was significantly cut, and additional alternate footage was incorporated to help increase the running time. The final abridged cut of the film, released in February 1932, runs only 64 minutes; the original version no longer exists. Despite the cuts made to the film, Freaks still garnered notice due to the fact that its eponymous characters were portrayed by people who worked as sideshow performers and had real disabilities
Good call. How can you go wrong with Debbie Harry and James Woods?
Maybe the weirdest movie I've ever seen was "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and her Lover." We saw it in the theatre, and it was about 2/3 full. We were the only ones left by the time it ended. Everyone walked out.
Jarmusch and producer Jim Stark spoke to a couple of my college classes. I was busy editing footage during the couple days they spent on campus. Jarmusch would hang in the hallway and eyeball me from a distance. It was a little off putting, every time I looked up, he was staring in my direction.
Most of John Waters films are pretty weird: Female Trouble, Polyester, Cry Baby, etc. He's obviously trying to shock you, though, where some movies that aren't as over-the-top outrageous stick in my head longer, like Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King and Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World.
The specter of atomic warfare raises its head once again in this bizarre 1969 black comedy, directed by Richard Lester and hatched from the mind of twisted British comic Spike Milligan. England lays in ruins after World War III, and a number of dazed survivors try to carry on as if nothing is wrong, even when one woman (Rita Tushingham) announces that she is seventeen months pregnant, and others begin to mutate into parrots, wardrobes, and bed-sitting rooms. The often slapstick comedy provides a surreal foreground for the bleak, devastated settings, portions of which were filmed in actual, environmentally blasted industrial areas in Wales. The comedy duo of Dudley Moore and Peter Cook appear as hapless government officials, while Marty Feldman makes his screen debut in a film that could best be described as England's answer to Dr. Strangelove.
Flaming Creatures is a 1963 American experimental film directed by Jack Smith. The film shows performers dressed in elaborate drag for several disconnected scenes, including a lipstick commercial, an orgy, and an earthquake. It premiered April 29, 1963 at the Bleecker Street Cinema in New York City.
Because of its graphic depiction of sexuality, some venues refused to show Flaming Creatures, and in March 1964, police interrupted a screening and seized a print of the film.
Surprised no one's mentioned "Scanners". I like that one a lot. Some of the Urban scenes were shot in downtown Montreal a bit before I lived there, so I recognize some storefronts and cheap restaurants.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 03:53 am
I'm not a movie guy, but I
I'm not a movie guy, but from my view from the cheap seats I thought 12 Monkeys was weird.
I recall Repo Man being pretty weird too.
Harold & Maude is weird in it's own way, but that one is my kinda' weird.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 04:20 am
Eraserhead The Tin Drum
Eraserhead
The Tin Drum
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 05:24 am
the Tin Drum is insane.
the Tin Drum is insane.
when i was about 13 or 14 it would play all the time on hbo and i must have seen it a dozen times.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 05:25 am
El Topo
El Topo
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 05:35 am
Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 05:53 am
Midsommar
Midsommar
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 05:54 am
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 05:54 am
The Lighthous
The Lighthouse
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 05:55 am
The Favourite (2018)
The Favourite (2018)
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 06:48 am
The City of Lost Children (La Cité des Enfants Perdus) 1995
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 06:50 am
Trebor, same here. I remember
Trebor, same here. I remember when the exorcist came out on hbo, and I had to walk about a mile and a half home after 11pm after watching it at a friends, I ran part of the way.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 07:41 am
I've just revisited a couple
I've just revisited a couple of weird ones, free on the Tubi app:
Basket Case
The Lair of the White Worm
Parents
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 08:29 am
Saragosa Manuscript.
Saragosa Manuscript.
Saw it dosed, back in the day.
It has permanently warped my brain.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 08:55 am
The OG of weird movies: Tod
The OG of weird movies: Tod Browning's Freaks
Filmed in Los Angeles in the fall of 1931, Freaks was given test screenings in January 1932 that received harsh reaction from audiences, who found the film too grotesque. In response to this, the 90-minute feature was significantly cut, and additional alternate footage was incorporated to help increase the running time. The final abridged cut of the film, released in February 1932, runs only 64 minutes; the original version no longer exists. Despite the cuts made to the film, Freaks still garnered notice due to the fact that its eponymous characters were portrayed by people who worked as sideshow performers and had real disabilities
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 09:01 am
videodrome
videodrome
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 09:26 am
Small Apartments
Small Apartments
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 09:31 am
How To Get Ahead In Advertising (1989)
The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 09:40 am
>>videodrome
>>videodrome
Good call. How can you go wrong with Debbie Harry and James Woods?
Maybe the weirdest movie I've ever seen was "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and her Lover." We saw it in the theatre, and it was about 2/3 full. We were the only ones left by the time it ended. Everyone walked out.
Boxing Helena is pretty strange.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 10:07 am
Wings of Desire by Wim
Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders.
Mystery Train by Jim Jarmusch. OK anything by Jim Jarmusch.
Fitzcaraldo by Werner Herzog.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 10:13 am
Wings of Desire by Wim
Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders.
https://youtu.be/OJ79h-wTehQ
Mystery Train by Jim Jarmusch. OK anything by Jim Jarmusch.
https://youtu.be/iMR-bR2y8vI
Fitzcaraldo by Werner Herzog.
https://youtu.be/ahrCYzk1bdc
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 10:16 am
Crash (1996), the one by
Crash (1996), the one by Cronenberg. That is one fucked up movie! It was t even allowed to be shown in England's porn theaters.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 10:19 am
metropolis
metropolis
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 10:35 am
>OK anything by Jim Jarmusch<
Dead Man isn't all that weird. Great movie
Night on Earth is another good Jarmusch film, IMO
Jarmusch and producer Jim Stark spoke to a couple of my college classes. I was busy editing footage during the couple days they spent on campus. Jarmusch would hang in the hallway and eyeball me from a distance. It was a little off putting, every time I looked up, he was staring in my direction.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 10:59 am
the man who fell to earth
the man who fell to earth
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 11:06 am
200 Motels was pretty weird.
200 Motels was pretty weird.
Speaking of Ringo Starr, the Magic Christian with Peter Sellers was good. Not as weird as some of the films listed above, but a trip for sure.
>>>>>metropolis
Saw that not too long ago on the big screen with a live pipe organ accompaniment.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 11:16 am
Toxic Avenger
Toxic Avenger
The Seventh Sign
Jacob's Ladder
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 11:20 am
The Lighthouse was pretty
The Lighthouse was pretty intense...and very well done.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 11:36 am
200 Motels was unwatchable.
200 Motels was unwatchable. Too much chaos and no plot and terrible drunkin' BS. Waste of time and film.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 11:55 am
Thanks for the tip on Woop
Thanks for the tip on Woop Woop. Really enjoyed it!!!
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 12:00 pm
Gummo
Gummo
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 12:04 pm
Worst movie ever - "Groupies"
Worst movie ever - "Groupies" ca. 1971.
I could find no redeeming social value or artistic merit. No humor. Bad shooting. Poor color. No plot. Boring people. Ugly groupies.
Did I forget anything?
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 12:14 pm
Amazon Women on the Moon
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V19nwwritRU
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 12:19 pm
Crumb
Crumb
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 12:23 pm
>Worst movie ever..
I'll nominate "Die, Mommie, Die"
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 12:23 pm
Bubba Ho-Tep
Bubba Ho-Tep
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 12:27 pm
Oldboy
Oldboy
Its a Korean film. Like a Tarantino film on steroids.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 01:56 pm
@Joe buck
@Joe buck
No problem. Woop Woop is a gem!
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 02:26 pm
Most of John Waters films are
Most of John Waters films are pretty weird: Female Trouble, Polyester, Cry Baby, etc. He's obviously trying to shock you, though, where some movies that aren't as over-the-top outrageous stick in my head longer, like Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King and Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 04:07 pm
Un Chien Andalou
Un Chien Andalou
Funky Forest
On the Silver Globe
Weekend
The Holy Mountain
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 04:35 pm
Eating Raol
Eating Raol
The Forbidden Zone
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 04:41 pm
The Saragossa Manuscript
The Saragossa Manuscript
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 04:44 pm
The Imaginarium of Doctor
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus... really all of Terry Gilliam's movies are pretty weird, in a good way
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 04:54 pm
Same with David Lynch, who's
Same with David Lynch, who's Eraserhead was already referenced. I still don't understand what's going on in Mulholland Drive.
Bob Dylan's Masked and Anonymous is a quirky film. It seems to be one of those you love it or you hate it films. I enjoyed it immensely.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 05:03 pm
The Bed Sitting Room
The Bed Sitting Room
The specter of atomic warfare raises its head once again in this bizarre 1969 black comedy, directed by Richard Lester and hatched from the mind of twisted British comic Spike Milligan. England lays in ruins after World War III, and a number of dazed survivors try to carry on as if nothing is wrong, even when one woman (Rita Tushingham) announces that she is seventeen months pregnant, and others begin to mutate into parrots, wardrobes, and bed-sitting rooms. The often slapstick comedy provides a surreal foreground for the bleak, devastated settings, portions of which were filmed in actual, environmentally blasted industrial areas in Wales. The comedy duo of Dudley Moore and Peter Cook appear as hapless government officials, while Marty Feldman makes his screen debut in a film that could best be described as England's answer to Dr. Strangelove.
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 05:36 pm
Little Murders with Alan
Little Murders with Alan Arkin and Eliot Gould.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mGGu2Hs5lU
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on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – 06:20 pm
Dennis Hopper's "The Last
Dennis Hopper's "The Last Movie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7038IZw_MQ
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on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 – 08:15 am
Flaming Creatures is a 1963
Flaming Creatures is a 1963 American experimental film directed by Jack Smith. The film shows performers dressed in elaborate drag for several disconnected scenes, including a lipstick commercial, an orgy, and an earthquake. It premiered April 29, 1963 at the Bleecker Street Cinema in New York City.
Because of its graphic depiction of sexuality, some venues refused to show Flaming Creatures, and in March 1964, police interrupted a screening and seized a print of the film.
Flaming Creatures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Creatures
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on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 – 08:32 am
Titicut Follies
1967 ‧ Documentary/History
More disturbing than weird.
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on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 – 11:34 am
Surprised no one's mentioned
Surprised no one's mentioned "Scanners". I like that one a lot. Some of the Urban scenes were shot in downtown Montreal a bit before I lived there, so I recognize some storefronts and cheap restaurants.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081455/
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on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 – 11:50 am
>> Scanners
>> Scanners
In that vein, but not Cronenberg:
Altered States
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on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 – 01:14 pm
I'm throwing out a disturbing
I'm throwing out a disturbing TV scene
American Horror Freakshow
the carnival freak orgy scene
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on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 – 03:24 pm
Junior the Chainsaw Kid
Junior the Chainsaw Kid
Was weird, but so bad i actually thought there was a possibility that with zero experience I too could be a Hollywood director.
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on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 – 06:38 pm
I always thought Brazil was
I always thought Brazil was pretty strange. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas had it's moments. But Freaks take the prize.
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on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 – 09:18 pm
You clearly haven't seen
You clearly haven't seen Gummo.
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on Thursday, April 30, 2020 – 12:36 am
Ateix has an odd affinity for
Ateix has an odd affinity for art from the early '60s.
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on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 – 01:49 pm
Big Fan
Big Fan
Shows how weird a football fan can be
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on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 – 02:35 pm
Granted it's John Waters...
Granted it's John Waters...
Pecker - I find this movie hilarious.