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Saw this the first time many years ago. Very deranged movie for the stoner crowd. Aussie humor on acid.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrFYgItIhN0

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.

Eraserhead

The Tin Drum

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.

El Topo

Naked Lunch 

Midsommar

The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear

The Lighthouse

The Favourite (2018)

 

The City of Lost Children (La Cité des Enfants Perdus) 1995

 

 

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.

I've just revisited a couple of weird ones, free on the Tubi app:

 Basket Case

The Lair of the White Worm

Parents

Saragosa Manuscript.

Saw it dosed, back in the day.

It has permanently warped my brain.

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

videodrome

Small Apartments

 

How To Get Ahead In Advertising (1989)

 

The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)

>>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.

Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders. 

 

Mystery Train by Jim Jarmusch. OK anything by Jim Jarmusch.

 

Fitzcaraldo by Werner Herzog. 

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

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. 

metropolis 

 

>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. 

the man who fell to earth

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.

Toxic Avenger

The Seventh Sign

Jacob's Ladder

The Lighthouse was pretty intense...and very well done.

200 Motels was unwatchable. Too much chaos and no plot and terrible drunkin' BS. Waste of time and film.

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Gummo

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?

Crumb

 

>Worst movie ever..

I'll nominate "Die, Mommie, Die"

Bubba Ho-Tep

Oldboy

Its a Korean film.   Like a Tarantino film on steroids. 

@Joe buck

 

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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.

Un Chien Andalou

Funky Forest

On the Silver Globe

Weekend

The Holy Mountain

Eating Raol

The Forbidden Zone

The Saragossa Manuscript

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus... really all of Terry Gilliam's movies are pretty weird, in a good way smiley

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.

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.

Little Murders with Alan Arkin and Eliot Gould.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mGGu2Hs5lU

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

 

Titicut Follies

1967 ‧ Documentary/History

 

More disturbing than weird. 

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/

>> Scanners

In that vein, but not Cronenberg:

Altered States

I'm throwing out a disturbing TV scene

 

American Horror Freakshow

 

the carnival freak orgy scene

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.

I always thought Brazil was pretty strange. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas had it's moments.    But Freaks take the prize.

You clearly haven't seen Gummo.

Ateix has an odd affinity for art from the early '60s.

Big Fan

Shows how weird a football fan can be

Granted it's John Waters...

Pecker - I find this movie hilarious.