I just finished watching "Vampire's Kiss" featuring Nick Cage and it was a weird one. It got me thinking about other weird films I've watched recently like "Tokyo Gore Police" and "Machine Girl". I don't know why but I'm drawn to the weird ones lately.
Are you into weird movies? If so, what films would you recommend?
I'd say watch Betelgeuse it is in my opinion very weird
Predestination (Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook) is one movie I like that is weird.
Delicatessen is a movie I actually once woke up in the middle of the night to on the TV. So weird I was up for the rest of the night...
Also, Mr. Nobody (Jared Leto) A friend of mine actually went home halfway through the movie...
I think "Rubber" is top tier.
Also "Killer Clowns from Outer Space" has a soft spot in my heart.
"Pi" (1998) too.
Rubber is on my list. Might watch it tomorrow.
Donnie Darko
Any of Alejandro Jodorowsky's movies (I like The Holy Mountain, El Topo, and Santa Sangre.) Some of those Japanese cyberpunk movies like Tetsuo the Iron Man and Pinocchio 964. I really like Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Eraserhead by David Lynch.
If you like Tetsuo the Iron Man, you might like Tokyo Gore Police and The Machine Girl. Tokyo Gore Police is off-the-wall bonkers. ;D
Repo Man is an interesting mix of sci fi and teen angst
I love weird movies!
Repo The Genetic Opera
The Room
Memento
Dark City
If you want campy:
Attack of the southern fried zombies
Zombeavers
I know I have more, but that's off the top of my head.
Just saw "Dead Snow: Red vs Dead" is streaming free. Wouldn't say it's weird. It's just good old Nazi zombies vs Soviet zombies. Haha! Great movie for what it is. Might watch it again.
Anything by Christopher Mihm (?)
Weresquito: Nazi Hunter is probably his best film that I've seen. Pure send-up of, yet loving tribute to, old B- and C-movies, including studio-dubbed dialogue.
rare exports (2010) finland. hilarious and funny. and finnish weird.
and of course the weirdest weirdness - inland empire (2006) by lynch. i saw it already thrice, once in cinema, two times from disc. three hours of total weirdity.
Watched Gummo last night, wouldn't watch it again.
Quote from: Bråneu Excelsio on September 12, 2023, 04:40:43 PMWatched Gummo last night, wouldn't watch it again.
When I first met Vitxalmour Conductour (we worked at the same place), we started to get to know each other by loaning each other dvds of offbeat movies and then discussing them. One day he comes into work and says "Try to make it thru this one. This is one of the worst movies ever made." It was Gummo. Well, I watched it, and...I kind of liked it. I was almost afraid to admit it to him, since he seemed to think it was total trash. Well, he secretly liked it too. According to him, you can tell a lot about a person by how they react to Gummo. (?!) I'm still not sure what he meant by that, other than that anyone who likes it is probably a weirdo. (I guess we both are, we've introduced it to other people, and we're the only ones who've liked it.) (You think Gummo is bad, try making it thru "Kids".)
A couple of lousy ones I've watched lately..."Sharkansas Womens Prison Massacre" (starring Traci Lords) (terrible but somewhat entertaining), and "Werewolf Versus Yeti", a Paul Naschy Spanish film from the seventies. (The Yeti only appears in the last five minutes of the movie, and you practically can't even see it. I later read that the Yeti costume looked so bad, that they decided to film the battle scene in near total darkness so it wouldn't show.
Quote from: Iason Taiwos on September 14, 2023, 02:36:38 PMWell, he secretly liked it too. According to him, you can tell a lot about a person by how they react to Gummo. (?!) I'm still not sure what he meant by that, other than that anyone who likes it is probably a weirdo. (I guess we both are, we've introduced it to other people, and we're the only ones who've liked it.)
While watching Gummo there were 2 moments where I 1) looked away from the screen and 2) fast forwarded it 10 seconds,
haha I appreciate the fact that it exists but watching it once was enough, I think.
I think your friend meant that you can tell how open is a person to experience / watch bad/weird/awful things through a screen and consider it a human experience withouth discarding it as garbage?
How willing they are to know/watch the full spectrum of human emotions and experiences..
Learned a lot at college where some weird teacher put Irreversible to us, a bunch of 17-18years old students.
And tbh if I go to someones house and they're watching Gummo I could watch it again, but I wouldn't do it on my own.
I find your knowledge on weird movies pretty extent. I like that. Have you ever watched anything about El Santo? The mexican wrestler.
My favorite uncomfortable
and weird movies are Rubber and Pink Flamingos, even though they're pretty light hearted.
When I lived in Texas as a kid, we had some channel that would show old low budget horror movies...they'd show a bunch of the El Santo movies (very badly dubbed into English). So, yes, I've seen quite a few, but I couldn't even tell you the names of any of them now. (Well, a quick Google search tells me that El Santo was in 52 movies altogether.) (I do remember one where it was El Santo and two other wrestlers fighting vampire women...that was a good one.) (Apparently there was also a long running El Santo comic book series, which, as a comic book nerd, I'm very interested in!) Two Mexican horror films from the sixties I've always loved are "Brainiac" and "Wrestling Women Versus the Aztec Mummy". Absolutely wonderful, weird stuff.
Quote from: Bråneu Excelsio on September 14, 2023, 03:01:06 PMMy favorite uncomfortable and weird movies are Rubber and Pink Flamingos, even though they're pretty light hearted.
I saw Rubber not that long ago. I thought it was pretty good. Definitely better than I expected from the description.
Ashamed to admit, I've never seen Pink Flamingos, at least not that I recall. My favorite John Waters movie is "Desperate Living", and it's pretty bad...
https://youtube.com/@TheMummyAndTheMonkey?si=IpllKqpMhzI9xIH7
I'd like to take this opportunity to promote the YouTube channel of The Mummy and the Monkey. They are a couple of folks from Cleveland,Ohio,who do a live "horror host" show most Fridays. They show crappy old public domain horror movies, but add sound effects and whatnot (which actually makes some of these awful flicks watchable.) (They used to run a store in Cleveland called the Thrift Crypt. Vitx and I stumbled in there once during one of our adventures into Cleveland. Nice folks. Didn't realize they were horror hosts until we got back home.) (That's the Cjovani for you, always promoting Northeast Ohio!)
I looked the Wikipedia articles on a bunch of these movies, and... just wow.
Quote from: Iason Taiwos on September 14, 2023, 06:25:54 PMhttps://youtube.com/@TheMummyAndTheMonkey?si=IpllKqpMhzI9xIH7
I'd like to take this opportunity to promote the YouTube channel of The Mummy and the Monkey. They are a couple of folks from Cleveland,Ohio,who do a live "horror host" show most Fridays. They show crappy old public domain horror movies, but add sound effects and whatnot (which actually makes some of these awful flicks watchable.) (They used to run a store in Cleveland called the Thrift Crypt. Vitx and I stumbled in there once during one of our adventures into Cleveland. Nice folks. Didn't realize they were horror hosts until we got back home.) (That's the Cjovani for you, always promoting Northeast Ohio!)
That's the closest to a real life Elvira experience you can get. Subd!
Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on September 14, 2023, 06:29:24 PMI looked the Wikipedia articles on a bunch of these movies, and... just wow.
Yeah, words are way worse than images sometimes. In this case I'm not speaking for all of the movies but yes, big Wow.