Post Your Top 10 Bizarre Films.

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CRACKERS

Friday, March 24, 2006 7:58 AM

Seeing there has been the thread of 10 best flics of recent I thought I would run a 'Bizarre' list just to see what kind of responses I would get.

Here's mine:

1. Brazil (By Terry Gilliam)

2. Bad Taste (by Peter Jackson)

3. How I Won The War - Michael Crawford & John Lennon

4. The Million Dollar Hotel - Mel Gibson

5. Toys - Robin Williams

6. The Singing Detective - Rob't Downey Jnr. & Mel Gibson

7. The Royal Tenenbaums - Gene Hackman, Angelica Houston

8. Dead Awake - Stephen Baldwin

9. The Fisher King - Jeff Bridges & Robin Williams

10. Donnie Darko - Jake Gyllenhaal
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SOME OTHERS I CONSIDERED:

Metropolis,
Conspiracy Theory,
Who is Cletis Tout,
Big Fish,
Pumkin.
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CRACKERS

Friday, March 24, 2006 8:19 AM

JACQUI
Friday, March 24, 2006 - 14:59
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don't know if I have ten... but...

MAY. - Without a doubt, one of the freakiest pieces of work I have ever seen. I love it.

GOD'S LONELY MAN - Slightly off center and *very* disturbing. Packs an emotional wallop.

Donnie Darko makes it, Lawn Dogs... I'm drawing a blank on "bizarre" movies.

But, yeah, MAY is just weird.

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"He's hurting a woman, he really *is* a bad guy... and I wouldn't call him a gentleman."
- Kyle, 9, watching 'Serenity'.

ADAMWANKENOBI

Friday, March 24, 2006 8:37 AM

Vanilla Sky

LEGOLAD

Friday, March 24, 2006 9:49 AM

Okay, interesting idea for a thread. How about I try to limit this to bizarre films that I actually liked, otherwise this would be a long and painful list...

Amélie (fantastically imaginative and quirky, in terms of visuals and content)

Spirited Away (likewise)

Edward Scissorhands (he has scissors... for hands)

Mirrormask (it's difficult to get more surreal than this)

The Man Who Wasn't There (a somber masterpiece, somewhat disturbing, with an utterly odd and constantly compelling protagonist)

Fantasia (um... I don't know about anyone else, but I thought it was pretty trippy... hippoes in tutus one moment, horsemen of the apocalypse the next)

City of Lost Children (another one by the director of Amélie... this one was almost too bizarre for my tastes -- and that's saying something -- but it has some great and twisted moments)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( ... you've seen it, right?)

Solaris (the Russian original, not the American remake... good luck getting through this movie -- seriously, you probably won't make it. I have yet to find a film with a slower pace than this, but if you can make it to the end, man, does it mess with your mind)

Wallace and Gromit (any and all of them; the shorts and the movie are all wonderfully wacky and inventive... and the penguin remains one of the all-time great villains in cinema history, of course )

"We need a hood ornament.'

LEGOLAD

Friday, March 24, 2006 9:49 AM

Hmm... I just noticed that only three of the ten on my list were made in America. How about that.

"We need a hood ornament.'

CRACKERS

Friday, March 24, 2006 11:59 AM

Another one I just thought of which should be in the top ten - 'In The Mouth Of Madness', starring Sam Neil.

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REGINAROADIE

Friday, March 24, 2006 12:42 PM

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but MULHOLLAND DRIVE.

That is without a doubt one of the most fucked up and bizarre movies ever created. David Lynch has always been a fucked up filmmmaker, but this flick takes it to the extreme.

"NO HAI ES BANDAI. There is...no...band, and yet...we hear a band."

Oh and also FIGHT CLUB. The twist in that movie, in my opinion, is a far better twist than in ISXTH SENSE or anything else for that matter. It's such a "whaaaaa?' twist and it actually works with it instead if just leaving you with it. And the ending with all the buildings exploding was just perfect.

"You met me at a very strange time in my life."

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"I think one of the greatest things about modern America is the computerization of medical records. As a volunteer sheriff, I can look up anyone's psychiatric records and their surgical histories. Yeast infections. There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably...because we're down river...from that old bread factory."

Dwight - The Office - 209 - E-mail SurveillanceI

V

Friday, March 24, 2006 12:49 PM

Ok...I got some gems here

1.) EL TOPO- The Weirdest Western ever made.

2.) VISITOR Q- It's no really a movie, but an experience in unpleasntness.

3.) ERASERHEAD- If there was a monarchy for bizzare films, this is the king.

4.) WHAT IS IT?- And to that king, a Jester of sorts...by George McFly himself, Crispin Glover

5.) TALKING HEAD- Is it a movie, or a movie about a movie that is a movie within itself?

6.) SUICIDE CLUB- Horror doesn't always have to be a freak in a suit with an axe...

7.) AUDITION- Ditto.

8.) CUBE- This one just keeps hitting you in the brain.

9.) PI- Who knew advanced mathmatics could be dangerous and scary?

10.) BEING JOHN MALKOVICH- I still don't get why people don't get this film.

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OTMA

Friday, March 24, 2006 3:45 PM

In no particular order
1: Twilight of the Cockroaches - Live action/animated. Starring anthropomorphized roaches.
2: Toxic Avenger - Weird toxic mutant horror/revenge film.
3: Delicatessen - Romance, apartment living, and cannibalism.
4: The Foreigner - Strange, punk rock influenced indie film about a spy out in the cold. Stars include Debbie Harry and The Cramps. Shot in 1970's NYC, right where punk was happening.
5: Videodrome - Cronenberg techno-organic horror, also with Debbie Harry.
6: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai - Lots of big stars before they were big. A hero who is a rocket scientist, a brain surgeon AND a rock star. A car that drives through a mountain. Cult classic supreme.
7: Tetsuo: The Iron Man - More techno-organic horror. A man morphs into a bizarre machine hybrid. low budget and weird.
8: Six String Samurai - Post apocalyptic samurai rock and roll western.
9: Attack/Return of the Killer Tomatoes - OK, cheating a bit, but the 80's sequel deserves mention too. Killer Tomatoes. Really.
10: Death Race 2000 - A killer cross country auto race with TV coverage and points scored for running down bystanders. Predates reality TV by decades. Some Fox exec probably wishes they could put it in their lineup.
I could think of more, maybe stranger, but these ones I thought of first.

THESOMNAMBULIST

Friday, March 24, 2006 4:17 PM

Hey Legolad.

Three of your bizarre films are amoung my top ten favourite films.

Amelie, City of the lost Children and Edward Scissorhands.

City of the Lost Children Being my favourite. I hadn't really considered it being bizarre before.

As for my list of weird ones...

1•The Freezer - Japanese flick set in an apartment where a raped woman takes vengence by feezing her attackers in her freezers.

2•A Zed and Two Noughts Peter Greenaways first major film. Very strange. Amputees, animals, Jim Davidson, time lapse films of rotting animal carcases and nudity.

3•Any Ken Russell film but of course these are also crap.

4•Baby of Macon Peter Greenaway again. Kinda over indulging in his perversions with this one. Not my cup of tea.

5•Buckaroo Bonzai and the Hong Kong Cavaleers Across the eigth Dimension Wacky but hip ! Great fun film. Good call OTMA

6•Most Cronenberg Films The Brood,Crash,Naked Lunch etc

7•Beetlejuice Totally bananas but follows a beautiful twisted logic

8•The Idiots Daft and not in a good way. Just perverse.

9Lost Highway Strange and sinister: Metamorphosis, road rage, Mulitple identities and non linear plot.

10 O Lucky Man Extremely weird. Maybe as a consequence of 70's trippy direction. Arthur Lowe in multiple roles, overaged breast feeding, pigs with Men's heads on em, or Human heads with pigs bodies and the list goes on.

Extra Mention to UROSOKIDJI legend of the Overfiend.... Er just plain nutts!!!!! Wasn't expecting that.

The
Somnambulist

www.cirqus.com

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