Post Your Top 10 Bizarre Films.

POSTED BY: Crackers
UPDATED: Monday, March 27, 2006 21:55
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ZORPRIME01

Friday, March 24, 2006 7:03 PM

Thought you'd never ask!

1. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

2. Brazil

3. Fargo

4. Being John Malkovich

5. The Big Lebowski

6. Memento

7. The Hudsucker Proxy

8. Spirited Away

9. Big Fish

10. Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas

Yeah basically anything involving the Coen Brothers or Charlie Kaufman is going to be up there for me... I would've added more Coens actually, but didn't want it to be a Coen-only list. If you like 'em, definitely also check out:

Miller's Crossing
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Barton Fink

And I assume everybody's pretty much already seen the Tarantino films, or they'd be near the top of my list too.

If wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak.

DEADLYUNPREDICTABLEMIDGET

Friday, March 24, 2006 7:29 PM

1. Santa Sangre
2. Meet the Feebles
3. Natural Born Killers
4. The Cook, the Thief his Wife and her Lover
5. Tuvalu
6. Jan Svankmajer's Faust
7. Dark City
8. Baba Yaga (Black Magic)
9. Zardoz
10. Brazil

LEGOLAD

Friday, March 24, 2006 7:48 PM

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Hey Legolad.

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

Amelie, City of the lost Children and Edward Scissorhands.

I love Amélie and Edward Scissorhands too. Absolutely beautiful films. Like I said, I was trying to pick movies I l liked; glad to see other people like them too.

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Zorprime01 wrote:
6. Memento

Ah! Forgot about Memento. That should have been on my list. That was the movie that made me want to see Batman Begins; I couldn't believe they'd chosen the director of Memento to do it.

"We need a hood ornament."

SICKDUDE

Friday, March 24, 2006 11:16 PM

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Originally posted by Crackers:
'In The Mouth Of Madness', starring Sam Neil.

Yeah, great movie!

For guaranteed bizarre, obscure, and yet still good movies (okay, maybe not a money-back guarantee):
Sorcerer (1977)
The Beast
Repo Man
Cherry 2000
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
Spaced Invaders
You Never Can Tell (1951)

"It's a cow."

SIXSHOOTER

Saturday, March 25, 2006 12:49 AM

I can't believe no ones mentioned Guitar wolf: Wild Zero.

Greatest Alien, Pro-transsexual romance, Rock 'n' Roll, Zombie splatter, action movie I ever sawed.

As the weird hallucination of Guitar Wolf (yes, that's the man’s real name) himself so eloquently put it:

"ACE! Love has no borders, nationalities, or genders. JUST DO IT!!!!"

GIXXER

Saturday, March 25, 2006 1:35 AM

True Stories - I could watch this for hours. Wondrously rambling.

Tetsuo - could do with cropping a bit. Feels like you've been watching it for hours.

La Belle et La Bete. Cocteau could always kick Salvador "Athena Poster" Dali's ass for style.

Bride of Frankenstein. For Elsa Lanchester's hair, and the way she hissed. Much more inhuman than anyone else who ever pretended to be a monster.

Head - The Monkees

A Matter of Life and Death

Shadow of the Vampire - This is what you get when your leading man is childish, mischievous, and a bit of an all-round rascal.

The Singing Ringing Tree (I know it's cheating, but if you were ever looking for weirdness, and that troublesome midget Mal mentioned, look no further. Un-PC reference to the dwarf. Little bastard.)

H R Pufnstuf while I'm cheating.

And one dishonourable mention, because I'm still pissed off about the rubbish advertising Serenity got.

The Steve Martin Pink Panther. Absolutely wall to wall everywhere you look. Weird is the decision to make it at all. The original was mildly amusing but nothing to warrant the fuss. And Steve Martin... Just stop crapping over your reputation. I'd rather remember greatness than Father of the Bride 8 - Jason Returns.

G

GRINGO

Saturday, March 25, 2006 2:43 AM

Here are a few that have been mentioned:

Buckaroo Bonzai (all good, but John Lithgow as
Dr. Lizardo is priceless)

Brazil

Dark City

A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)

I don't know if these have been mentioned yet:

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb (Also a Kubrick
film with Peter Sellers & George C. Scott)

Insignificance (definitely a must see)

BILLYANKERS

Saturday, March 25, 2006 3:16 AM

1. Naked Lunch - Who's more bizarre than Wm. S. Burroughs?
2. Vampire's Kiss - Nicholas Cage eats a cockroach and thinks he's turning into a vampire
3. Clockwork Orange - Most bizarre costumes/makeup in film history
4. The City of Lost Children - Weirdest cast of characters ever
5. 200 Motels - Frank Zappa's commentary on Rock and Roll Road Tours starring Ringo Starr and Keith Moon
6. Videodrome - 100 things you can do with a video tape
7. Blue Velvet - Dennis Hopper says f**k in almost every sentence
8. Eraser Head - In Heaven there is no beer
9. Re-Animator - H.P. Lovecraft gone wild
10. and anything with Billy Bob Thornton

Honorable mentions..
The Cell
Jacob's Ladder
The Ring

DREAMS2

Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:52 AM

A Boy and His Dog - starting a young Don Johnson and his dog.

ORPHEUS

Saturday, March 25, 2006 8:42 AM

I could only think up eight.

Meet the Feebles - Peter Jackson's muppet parody. Bizarre on so many levels. Vulgar/violent beyond belief, definitely not for the kids.

Dead Alive (Braindead) - Also a Jackson film, this time it's his take on zombie films. Goriest. Film. Ever. Made.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Terry Gilliam's film about an old man reliving the tales of his youth. It's a fun flick, but it's...out there.

Evil Dead 2 - If Dead Alive is the goriest horror film ever, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2 is the best horror film ever. Disembodied hands try to kill people, demons possess people at random, deer heads inexplicably come to life and start laughing at Bruce Campbell. Genius.

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey - So, so, so much stranger than the first Bill and Ted film. They play Death at Battleship, visit Hell, visit Heaven, and build "Good robot uses" to fight the "Bad robot uses". Station!

The Happiness of the Katakuris - Weird-ass Japanese film by Takashi Miike. It's so hard to describe that you really have to see it to understand. Whenever the film does something that the filmmakers can't do live-action, it switches to claymation instead. Then zombies come to life and people sing about it. Goofy as hell.

Shaolin Soccer - Stephen Chow's soccer film. If you've heard of it, you know how goofy it is. Very, very, bizarre.

Orgazmo - Before South Park made them famous, Trey Parker and Matt Stone parodied the porn industry. They made the film like a bad porn movie, it's acted poorly on purpose, even though it's about porn and it's vulgar as all hell, there's not a bit of female nudity in the entire film. So very strange.

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