Strangest Movies
 

Picnic At Hanging Rock

Never did work out what happened in the end

Nothing - Vincenzo Natali (producer).


My favourite movie due to the total strangeness of it!

The Machinist with Christian Bale...psycho thriller, one of those you can only watch once because it'll be too predictable after that as it took all your emotions the first time :p

Clockwork Orange for starters...

About Picnic, check out the wiki entry on "The Secret of Hanging Rock."

Eraserhead (1977)

If I am not limited to one, let's also try Zardoz (1974).

The name comes from The Wizard of Oz.

If the sight of Sean Connery dressed in a skimpy flouro orange G-string with thigh-high leather boots don't freak you, the huge floating rock head with glowing eyes will!

I don't know what they were on when they wrote and directed that one!

Another will be any/ALL of the H.P. Lovecraft films, especially the Re-Animator series and that movie where a crazy guy traps people in a place and they have to kill each other to escape it. If I heard "Seven Nails Fails" one more time, I felt like throwing a brick through the TV set.

I also enjoyed A Clockwork Orange, in fact ALL of Kubrik's work too is pretty much 'out there on a limb'.

Then, there are my personal 'weird', but not totally 'strange' movies I like...Firestarter and The Langoliers (Stephen King), Jacob's Ladder, The SAW and Hostel series (I like my gore as well), Altered States with William Hurt, The original Lawnmower Man, Donnie Darko, Soylent Green....

Anyway, I'm pretty much 'strange movies R us' and I just like writers and producers with imagination leading to a totally unpredictable plot.

One of the strangest movies I've ever seen is a French animated film made in the 1970s called Fantastic Planet...Just look up the trailer on Youtube and you'll get an idea of how bizarre the movie is...

Even though it's strange/bizarre, it's definitely one of my favorites for animated films...

Yep, that's definitely strange.

Naked Lunch (1991)

I just watched a new movie on netflix called Rebirth that was fairly odd, but interesting, and actually horrifying at the end lol. probably not in the way you'd think though.

also..... Tusk.

oh and Perfume: Story of A Murderer

I got it from my library to watch - I thought it was wonderfully mysterious, and once I figured out what was really happening, I had to watch it a second time to bring all the pieces together. It was a great psychological study.

That's a great film. Watched it at least thrice. :smile:

Hello

OMG yes I was going to so put this one down. Watched it like 10 times now still do not freaking get the point of it. Is there a plot line to it I am missing?

Lynn:confused: so confused LOL

(Pink Floyd)The Wall. That movie was very strange.

donnie darko was a strange movie too.

You watched a movie 10 times ? :icon_eek: WOW !!

Here Are Two
 

Several others mentioned, "A Clockwork Orange." That is the first one I thought of too, but it fits in my "terrible category."

The first "strangest film" in the "excellent category" that came to mind is "Mystery Train" (1989). I first watched it in 1990 and absolutely loved it, or most of it, anyway. My best friend and I were flipping the TV channels one evening when we landed on "Mystery Train" just as it was about to start. My friend only liked/likes the simplest shoot-'em-up movies. He did not like most of the films I liked. He had the satellite "TV guide" that evening, so I asked him, "How many stars does this movie get?" He paused for a moment and said, "One." I thought, "Hmmm…" Normally, I would have stopped watching right then, but the beginning of this film intrigued me, so I kept watching. He got bored and left. It intrigued me more and more with every passing minute. I was really liking it. After a while I got suspicious and grabbed the TV Guide. "Mystery Train" had four out of four stars! When he came back later, I said, "I knew this movie was too good to have only one star!" He started laughing.

"Mystery Train" is a very, very slow-paced, almost action-less film (it is rated "R" for good reason in one short scene). It consists of three separate stories, but all of them take place in the same seedy hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, on the same night. They ever-so-slightly overlap. You have to pay close attention to notice some of the overlapping elements. The very moody, slow pace is what makes the film work for me. The very young Japanese man and woman (a couple) in the first story are a hoot, especially the woman. She is just a ton of fun.

" We are the strange " directed by M dot Strange

The Begotton is pretty weird too

hahahaha, your post made me laugh!:biggrin:

Pulp Fiction was a strange movie to me and this will sound terrible but the scene where that guy in the back seat gets his head blown off accidentally, omgosh I laugh so hard...(now I feel terrible for admitting that)..

I found the black humour of (Terry Gilliam's) Brazil amusing if bizarre.

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On my list, it is 'Predestination' by far!

At the end of the movie I was confused if I should be surprised, disgusted or thrilled.

Has anyone else seen John Dies At The End? Now THAT was a weird movie. (and this is coming from a person who enjoyed Salo and has watched Cannibal Holocaust and the Funny Games, all noted to be very controversal and/or weird films)

Loved John does at the end, it's based off of a book series. Can hol was pretty bad, met the director at a con and he seemed evil.

Tod Browning's 1932 movie, "FREAKS" ...

"We accept you, one of us! Gooble gobble! Gooble gobble!"

:icon_eek: Tideland :confused:

In the film's introduction Terry Gilliam says, there are pretty dark and weird things to see, but to keep in mind one thing and that is remember to laugh ...

Otherwise, this film is mostly unwatchable.

I don't know about others but I really find Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy weird.

Mother!

I was like "What the hell is going on?" Interesting movie though.

word.

:confused: :confused: :confused:

I just watched it, and how is this not the best movie of all time? All time.

Fight Club.

I do not want to spoil it, but you should watch it unprepared. (do not read anything, before, about it)

It is about fighting (amateur street boxing), with a twist, which could be used (in a way) for a spiritual understanding of what is happening here on earth.

Swiss Army Man
....weirdest film ever
....left the cinema feeling emotions that I never felt before

Hunger Games trilogy.. :confused:
The setting/world wasn't explained very well.. I mean how did that society came to be (in more detail) and what about the world at large? Is nothing happening outside of it or beyond the borders? The talkshows felt surreal. And then there were some weird costumes as well..

A nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy's dead.

No Idea if it's meant to be a horror movie or a comedy parody based on the earlier movies.

One that comes to mind is Mulholland Drive. Great movie, but definitely bizarre!

Altered States - Give it a try, it shows a different perspective about life.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man


The description is :

A "metal fetishist" driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.

lol