For me it was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Requiem for a Dream......You????
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pretty much every old school disney movie. alice in wonderland, peter pan. they were magical and awesome, but extremely trippy.
As some may be able to tell from my avatar I love weird movies, so asking me what is the weirdest movie will probably get a different reaction to others. I didn't find Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive or Inland Empire remotely weird, though legions of others no doubt would.
I'd say the weirdest film I've ever seen was Patch Adams, because I have no idea how it got made it was so damn awful. Same could be said for most Robin Williams films though.
I'll just say Evil Dead 2 because I saw it for the first time last week and I love just how cracked out the movie was!
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Inland Empire
dhyce
I didn't find Mulholland Drive or Lost Highway too strange but really, you must admit, certain aspects at the very least of Inland Empire were bizarre. It was highly unconventional and to say otherwise borders on pretentious.
I don't agree, of course it is my favourite movie of all time, so you'll be hardpressed to find me say a negative word against it. :P
I don't agree, of course it is my favourite movie of all time, so you'll be hardpressed to find me say a negative word against it. :P
Cactus_Matt
Well then, perhaps I am simply uneducated on the borderline psychotic surrealistic directors who make that film look normal.... in which case I require a list of names pronto! :P I think the subject matter of IE is very understandable, I find it to be about karma, hell on earth, samsara, the cycle of living ones past over until they repent and achieve enlightenment/nirvana. It had a very religious feeling to me, yet I could never understand the rabbit people, they represented something involving normalcy, or a perversion there of... it was rather vague to me. I'd like to say it's probably my second favorite film, and I deeply wish to know your idea of a truly weird movie... as they might give me a seizure which is always good fun.
El Topo for sure I mean just look at the tagline
"See the naked young Franciscans whipped with cactus. See the bandit leader disemboweled. See the priest ride into the sunset with a midget and her newborn baby. What it all means isn't exactly clear, but you won't forget it."
.... Lost Highway is also pretty up there.
You guys need to see some older movies - The Andalusian Dog is from the 30s and was the first film to display horrific violence on screen (a Masters of Horror episode is based off of it). The film itself is only 16 minutes long, but it's the most terrifying and sadistic 16 minutes of a film I've ever seen, especially for something so old. The most famous part is where a man is shaving another man's beard off and instead moves the razor up to the man's eye and slits it open, and all this fluid spills out. Pretty gross. Also, anything by David Cronenberg is pretty weird - Crash (1996) is where people get sexual thrills from car accidents, to the point of penetrating each other's horrific wounds during sex, surrounded by the smoking wrechage of the cars. Also, Cronenberg's film Dead Ringers (1988) is about insane identical twin gynecologists who become unstable and start to torture their patients. Of course, Cronenberg's 1983 film Videodrome is one of his most famous, and deals with a channel on television which only a few people can see that depicts actual tortures and killings on the broadcast. The scary thing is - it's the most popular channel on television, and then there's all this monster and alien stuff at the end. Great movies all of them, but not for the faint of heart. Eraserhead is pretty weird too.
The Life Aquatic. I watched it when I was young. Never really liked it. But I guess now I'm older, I could give it another try.
The eye cutting scene has been imprinted in my mind forever.You guys need to see some older movies - The Andalusian Dog is from the 30s and was the first film to display horrific violence on screen (a Masters of Horror episode is based off of it). The film itself is only 16 minutes long, but it's the most terrifying and sadistic 16 minutes of a film I've ever seen, especially for something so old. The most famous part is where a man is shaving another man's beard off and instead moves the razor up to the man's eye and slits it open, and all this fluid spills out. Pretty gross. Also, anything by David Cronenberg is pretty weird - Crash (1996) is where people get sexual thrills from car accidents, to the point of penetrating each other's horrific wounds during sex, surrounded by the smoking wrechage of the cars. Also, Cronenberg's film Dead Ringers (1988) is about insane identical twin gynecologists who become unstable and start to torture their patients. Of course, Cronenberg's 1983 film Videodrome is one of his most famous, and deals with a channel on television which only a few people can see that depicts actual tortures and killings on the broadcast. The scary thing is - it's the most popular channel on television, and then there's all this monster and alien stuff at the end. Great movies all of them, but not for the faint of heart. Eraserhead is pretty weird too.
Hot-Tamale
How come everyone on here isn't saying Eraserhead? That movie is what would happen if your drugs did drugs. Crypto138
I didn't think Eraserhead was weird, I thought it was a brilliant character study on a young man's fears of raising a child. (Essentially director David Lynch's fears on the subject). One of my favourite films.
what about Dusk to Dawn?...especially if you didnt know anything about before hand...its running from the lawthen you getvampires=strange in my book
KDIDDY78
The guy with the magnum for crotch was the weirdest thing of that movie really. I think his name was sex machine lol.
There's a movie called "Funny Games", apparently a remake of a european movie.. Anyways, it was seriously weird. I mean SERIOUSLY freaky.
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