View Full Version : What's the weirdest movie ever?
space lizard
11-09-2007, 10:19 AM
I watched Naked Lunch last night. I had no idea what it was going to be about and was quite unprepared. At the begining when the giant cockroach comes out of the showbox and starts talking from an orrifice beneath its wings I was sitting there like Homer Simpson watching 2 horses dancing in the moonlight on the show Twin Peaks, when he says out loud 'brilliant' but internally he's thinking 'I have no idea what this is about'. - Luckily I quickly realised it was a film about drug use as it relates to artistic endeavour and just went with the thing. I have to say it is the strangest movie I have seen.
did the nerd thing and watched the director talking about it afterwards, He said "you cant make these flims anymore, the audience today is mentaly to narrow. Besides which, when it comes to nudity you can't show a naked man unless he's being slashed or garrotted or hung on a meat hook".
- The censors are fucking wierd. Anyone got any recommendations to top Naked Lunch?
illuminotti
11-09-2007, 10:21 AM
I've read the book,
that was strange enough without having to watch the film!!
chattanova
11-09-2007, 10:33 AM
I haven't seen 'Naked Lunch' yet, but I've seen 'Society' and I think it belongs in the same category.
It's years since I saw it, and I didn't understand a SH*T ,maybe I would understand more of it now...
Anyway as far as I remember the acting sucks,
and the plot:
-People in town are in some kind of society that melts their bodies into each other and change position of their body parts.-
No doubt the weirdest Iv'e seen.
http://img26.picoodle.com/img/img26/9/9/11/f_519DDFP6GRLm_3cbe36f.jpg
hagbard_celine
11-09-2007, 11:13 AM
Being John Malkovich is very weird! But I did enjoy it enormously.
teslafire
11-09-2007, 11:21 AM
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is pretty weird.
The fact that it was penned by Roger Ebert is even weirder.
1 2 free
11-09-2007, 12:34 PM
It would be tough to top Holy Mountain.
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
phoebe
11-09-2007, 12:55 PM
The Lost Highway
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DMWMCbQxEsE
father ted
11-09-2007, 01:04 PM
Heaps of 80's movies.
rossus
11-09-2007, 01:55 PM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/
long time ago i watched this one.
it's so weird i had to stop looking before i was in the half of the movie. :p
chattanova
11-09-2007, 03:19 PM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/
long time ago i watched this one.
it's so weird i had to stop looking before i was in the half of the movie. :p
Yes, The movie is going backwards and its the most violent/disturbing movie I ever seen.
Did you see the scene with the extingusiher ? If so be happy:rolleyes:
winstonsmith
11-09-2007, 04:17 PM
Eraserhead is extremely surreal/weird, but good nonetheless... Anybody a fan?
eternal_spirit
11-09-2007, 04:27 PM
Basket Case :eek:
eternal_spirit
11-09-2007, 04:30 PM
Jacob's ladder weird too. Jacob's ladder represents the masonic degrees. But this film is more about Miltary and mind control shit during and after Vietnam I think.
winstonsmith
11-09-2007, 04:40 PM
Jacob's Ladder is a brilliant and underrated film. One of my favourites actually.
mountain
11-09-2007, 04:40 PM
I've seen a few weird movies, especially with reptilian themes.
Decoys which are about these attractive blonde girls who seduce guys in colleges and then drain their energy while having sex with them. Later, it was revealed that they were some sort of alien reptilian creatures, a dying race.
Also, in From Dusk til Dawn, you have actress Salma Hayek, dancing with a python and then shapeshifting into a lizard vampire. Also interesting about his film was at the end, where the vampire's lair is shown to be hiding an enormous Aztec pyramid.
raffles
11-09-2007, 04:47 PM
Eraserhead is extremely surreal/weird, but good nonetheless... Anybody a fan?
Eraserhead is very weird, i turned it off after about 20mins
eternal_spirit
11-09-2007, 04:51 PM
...I haven't seen 'Naked Lunch' yet, but I've seen 'Society' and I think it belongs in the same category.
It's years since I saw it, and I didn't understand a SH*T ,maybe I would understand more of it now...
Anyway as far as I remember the acting sucks,
and the plot:
-People in town are in some kind of society that melts their bodies into each other and change position of their body parts.-
No doubt the weirdest Iv'e seen.
http://img26.picoodle.com/img/img26/9/9/11/f_519DDFP6GRLm_3cbe36f.jpg
.....
If that's the same Film that's some weirdo doo doo. The last half hour makes sense, but gross.
shodan
11-09-2007, 04:58 PM
Naked Lunch, Lost Highway, Mullholland Drive, Eraserhead! (a fan) all well spooky.
Society - cracking film, makes much more sense now than back then.
and those early Peter Jackson films like Braindead.
h1s_l0rdsh1p
11-09-2007, 09:19 PM
Debbie Does Dallas...
Really, I was 5, and it confused the hell out of me. Perhaps I she look for it again. Just not sure.
Jacobs ladder is awesome movie and naked lunch but the book is weirder ,
william burrows , bowie based some early work songs on his stuff as did tubeway army gary numan .Eraserhead is well weird
Fear and loathing in las vegas is cool film the lizard scene in the hotel not to mention s hunter thompson and his recent death , not sure when the moive was released but the lizard thing was well interesting :D
barbitone
11-09-2007, 10:57 PM
Naked Lunch is certainly on the top of my list for wierdness.....
But one movie hasn't been mentioned yet, which is "Wild Palms".
Anyone else seen this?
It's about 2 bloodlines\families that are competing for control of a holographic television network that has been invented....or something like that anyway. It's very tripy.
It's sort of in the form of a soap opera. In lots of episodes....
mountain
11-09-2007, 11:10 PM
Angels & Insects. This is about a scientist of insects marrying into an aristocratic English family (Patsy Kensit) during the 19th century. The whole family is blonde-haired, blue-eyed. He discovers that his wife is sleeping with her brother.
bicycle
11-09-2007, 11:11 PM
Debbie Does Dallas...
Really, I was 5, and it confused the hell out of me. Perhaps I she look for it again. Just not sure.
Does what in Dallas?:confused:
space lizard
11-09-2007, 11:15 PM
Brown Bunny
A Vincent Gallo movie about having a broken heart that will never heal. I loved the movie because is was so completely different from anything I've ever seen.
It told the strory of a man travelling in solitute across America, everywhere he visited that he used to hang out nobody remebers him. He keeps searching for his ex-girl friend but nobody has heard from her in 10 years.
There was barely any dialouge in the whole film. Then at the end she turns up in his hotel room one night and it turns into a really graphic porn film out of nowhere which was shocking. After the porn scene they start talking and he is crying, she is blaming him for leaving her at a party where she was drugged and raped and died of an overdose. Then the camera backs off and we see him crying alone and hating himself even more for mastubating about her again. A horrible end to a shocking movie, but the realism of it is quite unique.
siliconpsychosis
11-09-2007, 11:25 PM
The Time Bandits is a very weird, very amusing film, more so if you are about 10 years old and questioning orthodox Christian beliefs.
Gods Dwarven helpers manage to steal the map of the universe, and so they decide to become Time Bandits, travelling through Earths history plundering from the rich.
A boy from the present, with a fascination for history becomes their ally and joins their adventurers which includes stealing from Robin Hood and Napolean, and even sinking with the Titanic!
All the while both God and the devil also want the map.
In the end God couldnt care less about the boy and lets his parents die in a housefire. Nice.
smoking oceanus
11-09-2007, 11:33 PM
I heard that Gummo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is fucking weird as. I havent seen it but its a film that depics the side of America many choose to ignore.
Jackobs Labber was weird but very good.
space lizard
12-09-2007, 12:40 AM
Time Bandits, that was cool when I was a kid. I'll have to watch it again.
Also Dead Man with Johnny Dep was a little off beat, but not the weirdest film. Still good though.
One of my favorite films is called "The Last Detail" with Jack Nicolson and randy quiad. very slow moving and some great fun.
As regards Lost Highway and Mulholland drive, they are 2 movies I doubt the makers even know the meaning off. I watched the DVD extras of Mullholland Drive and David Lynch was asked what the hell the film is about and he could not answer. All he was able to say is "......well, its a kind of love story in a scense."