Strangest movie you have ever seen

[nytemare]

What movie left you saying "WTF" more than any other movie?

I think "Adaptation" was one for me.

On edit: I forgot one I just saw "The Village", and "Requiem for a Dream"

[tridim]

1. I'll go with Being John Malkovich

Same writer as your choice. It's also one of my all time favorites.

[nytemare]

2. Yeah that was weird n/t

[chefgirl]

4. Both good choices

I think I would say 'Magnolia'.

-chef-

[Xipe Totec]

14. Yea, I liked Magnolia n/t

[enigmatic]

64. I LOVE Magnolia!!

Incredible film; I never get tired of watching the Jason Robards "regret" scene. Fabulous acting, too; even Henry Gibson was perfect for his part..

[LeftCoast]

86. This was the first movie I thought of.

Loved it, but man it was wierd.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

87. I love "Being John Malkovich". Great movie. n/t

[Rambis]

165. Midget Western's and psychedelics don't mix

So I am told anyway-
The Terror on Tiny town
An evil gunslinging midget comes to terrorize the good little people of Tiny Town. The townspeople organize to defeat him, and zany antics ensue



http://history.acusd.edu/gen/filmnotes/terroroftinytown.html

[CornField]

3. Jacob's Ladder

[AwakeAtLast]

108. And yet I could watch that movie again and again,

maybe it's the Tim Robbins thing that does it to me. ;)

[greyfox]

161. Yep.... that was weird

Good in an odd way, but so... weird.

[WindRavenX]

5. The End of Evangelion

That movie WILL fuck you up psychologically.

[nytemare]

Cool, I will have to rent it.

:)

[yellowdogintexas]

28. as in the last of Neon Genesis Evangelion?

That whole last season was way beyond weird.

Of course if you are talking about something else, you may feel free to ignore me

[arwalden]

6. Wild At Heart ... Jacob's Ladder

[BurtWorm]

126. Watching Wild at Heart was like watching David Lynch masturbate

for an hour and a half, or however long it was. And I don't mean that in a good way. I loved Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks first season, but after watching Wild at Heart, I began to have serious doubts about the coherency of any of his movies. I'm afraid to watch Blue Velvet now for fear that it's just as dumb as Wild at Heart.

[arwalden]

131. But I Couldn't Stop Watching... I Was Rubbernecking A Roadside Collision

... intellectually I *knew* that the movie was getting weirder and weirder... but I couldn't pull myself away from it. I was hooked in some perverse way. I was David Lynch's crackwhore!

[BurtWorm]

143. You ought to write headlines for Detective magazines!

I used to work for True Detective and I say this with authority: You have a real tabloid flair!

[Xipe Totec]

7. WTF in a good way, or a bad way?

I thought Adaptation was cool because it worked on so many levels. It's weird, but deliberate.

WTF in a bad way? I'd have to say "Lost in Translation" ab-so-lute waste of time.

[nytemare]

11. "WTF" as in damn that was kooky weird

Not necessarily bad, just WEIRD.

[Xipe Totec]

21. How about Pi, then, or Memento?

Both are weird in a worth while way.

[Cursive_Knives512]

27. Momento!

It gave me a headache. I liked it though.

[yellowdogintexas]

31. me too, practically a migraine

I don't like to work so hard when I go to the movies

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

88. Another strange, but good movie. n/t

[tridim]

30. I didn't like Pi

It was certainly strange, but I think most of the writing was just filler and fluff. Kind of like The Matrix. *duck* :P

[Xipe Totec]

46. Like the Matrix? Nah! More like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Though I liked the Matrix too. In Matrix you have a real world virtual world.

In Pi, like Hitchhiker's, you can know the ultimate question or the ultimate answer, but not both; it fries your brain.

[nytemare]

49. They are supposed to make a movie version of Hitchhiker

[tridim]

13. I loved Lost in Translation

but I didn't think it was strange, just beautiful to look at.

[Xipe Totec]

29. I guess it lost too much in translation for my taste

Walked away in frustration half way through it. Could not stand the passivity of Bill Murray's character.

[Bouncy Ball]

97. Lost in Translation

hypnotized me. I found it fascinating.

[htuttle]

8. Eraserhead

Strangest, bar none.

[NightTrain]

43. Absolutely!

"El Topo" was a mindfuck, too.

[Khephra]

122. Holy Mountain is the better film from Jodorowsky, imo

[chenGOD]

157. Holy Mountain is great...

Sante Sangre almost has a cohesive plot though...and imo it makes it a better film than Holy Mountain.

Holy Mountain is one twisted film though. Great fun too...:)

[corksean]

75. Totally

[KittyWampus]

83. Yeah, That'd Be It.

[mac56]

137. Another vote for "Eraserhead".

Completely weirded me out.

[Dora]

162. Another Eraserhead.

I tried to watch it too many times, and finally gave up.

[ChickMagic]

166. Ditto on Eraserhead!

It completely weirded me out.

[fluffernutter]

9. Clockwork Orange.

[tyedyeto]

110. yep, that one always gave me the creeps

also, 'Last House on the Left'. Saw that one at the drive-in with a g/f back in the 70's. We thought we were going to see a couple of Japanese monster flicks then in between this one came on......... scared the shit out of us. Two late teen/early twenties chicks watching this movies in an almost deserted drive-in was too much.........................

[McKenzie]

10. Eraserhead and Mullholland Drive

Eraserhead just chimed but I can't say why.

Mullholland Drive put the zap right on my head. Masterpiece.

[fluffernutter]

19. ah, yes, Mullholland Drive, good one.

[ET Awful]

71. Mulholland Drive, definitely . . . then again, ANY David Lynch film

makes you sit there and say WTF???? :)

[Dastard Stepchild]

12. Gummo..

still scratching my head on that one...

[jonnyblitz]

51. LOL. that is the one I was thinking of when I clicked on this thread.

too funny. :P

[Forkboy]

59. "stupid queer rabbit!"

that's my buddies favorite movie.

[bigwillq]

15. 'In dreams'

I think Annette Benning was in it.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

16. Pi

Especially the scene with the drill...

[nytemare]

20. LOL, I just put "Requiem for a Dream" on mine in edit

I believe it was the same writer/producer or something.

[Deja Q]

17. Head

[DBoon]

18. Sante Sangre

eom

[CBHagman]

53. Yes, Santa Sangre!

Not something you forget easily.

My runner-up is Age of Consent, in which James Mason portrays the same artist Sam Neill played in Sirens. It's not Mason or the very young Helen Mirren (as Mason's model/love interest) who make it strange. It's a comic subplot involving a hapless Australian, and that's as much as I want to tell you...

[Khephra]

123. See post #122

[bobo4u]

22. Memento--2001

Memento reviews

[sadinred]

23. Momentos. Really good. Hard to follow but so worth it! n/t

[TNDemo]

24. Blue Velvet.

I wanted a shower and a round of psychotherapy after that one.

[eauclaireliberal]

25. I forgot the name of it...

but it was some George Lucs flick about a futuristic dictatorship where the soldiers are robots, whose duties extend as far as a set budget allows for things like...oh, chasing the "bad guy" as he attempts to escape.

[nytemare]

32. THX 1138 n/t

[eauclaireliberal]

33. Yep! That's the one!

Thanks. I couldn't remember it...BTW: Did that have Robert Duvall in it?

[nytemare]

38. yup

Not a bad flick really, sort of 1984ish

[tridim]

36. Freaks

About a freak show, with real freaks as the actors. Freakin' freaky!

[frylock]

55. gooble-gobble

[Name removed]

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[yellowdogintexas]

26. Fellini's" Satyricon", "Zabriskie Point" come to mind

almost immediately

I know there are others, just can't think of them right now.

[Feathered Fish]

139. Yes, Satyricon

It's a really beautiful movie but jesus, it is strange.

[Mojambo]

34. Conspirators of Pleasure

http://tinyurl.com/6qy8l

Revered Czech animator Svankmajer's 1993 film is a virtually dialogue free exploration of the strange intimate workings of the lives of six common people. Through a disturbing mix of live action and the wondrous stop-motion animation that the director is famous for, the humdrum lives of a postwoman, shopkeeper, television presenter, detective, and two apartment dwellers are examined and intertwined while we see the elaborate processes these people go through to satisfy strange fetishes which involve food, animals, and everything in between in a way which is not all sexual to the observer.

[SmokingJacket]

35. Mondo Trasho

Weird, yeah!!!

Sick, possibly!

[AVESGA]

37. Pootie! Pootie!

...don't leeeeeave me, Pootie!

[NoSheep]

151. Tippitie on the peddisye!

[Amaya]

39. Clockwork Orange

for sure. I liked it though.

[Ruffhowse]

40. Buckaroo Banzai-Astronaut/Scientist/Rock-Stars for the win!!!!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

45. Nah. Buckaroo is fun, but it's made to be a "cool cult film" on purpose,

like "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" is made to be a "so bad it's funny" film on purpose.

It's just not the same thing.

[fryguy]

103. Shut up, Big-booty, you coward. You are the weakest individual I ever know

(wow, that quote just fit into the amount of characters allowed in the subject line!!)

[TransitJohn]

154. "BIG BOO-TAY!! BIG BOO-TAY!!"

Love that movie.

"Hey, what's that watermelon for?"
"I'll tell you later."

[fryguy]

158. No, no, no, don't tug on that.

You never know what it might be attached to.

[eleny]

41. A Japanese film called "The Crazy Family"

Along with "WTF" it's also one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

http://www.thegline.com/dvd-of-the-week/2002/09-30-2002.htm

[Lydia Leftcoast]

106. I thought I was the only American who had seen that movie!

It's even funnier if you know the pop culture trends that are being parodied.

Its Japanese title, Gyakufunsha no Kazoku, means "Retro Blast Off Family."

[Lydia Leftcoast]

107. Ingmar Bergman's Persona

Liv Ullman and Bibi Andersson merge, but that's only one of the strange goings on.

[abbadon]

174. Oh, wow - it's been 20 years ...

Saw it in the Library at the University of Alabama - even on a 13" TV/VCR combo, it oozed oddness, and it really jangled me for a few days

thanks for the reminder ;)

[eauclaireliberal]

42. 12 Monkees was pretty fuckin' bizzare too...

But that made for an interesting return of GOPtard Bruce Willis. Since then, his latest achievement was shaving his head to where he looked like a freshly circumcised penis, heading to Iraq to "play the Blues" on a harmonica for the troops.

See Carlin, Geo. on why white celebrities shouldn't be taking the stage at the House of Blues...

[the Princess]

44. The Man Who Fell To Earth

Starring David Bowie as an Alien.

I said WTF all through the whole damn movie.

Just awful!!!!!!!!!!

[mcscajun]

47. "Office Killer"

A genuine Bomb if there ever was one!

How'd I wind up seeing this turkey? A friend recommended it. I'll have to carefully consider all of his future film advice.

Carol Kane as a mousy office worker who accidentally kills one of her co-workers and goes off on a killing spree, bringing the bodies home to her basement. You don't want to know more. I wish I didn't.

[HawkerHurricane]

48. Zardoz

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/zardoz/

[ET Awful]

74. LOL, Zardoz is definitely one of the weirdest I've ever seen :)

What was the line about the penis being bad and guns being good?

Some WEIRD shit in that movie :)

[ldf]

81. and sean connery

is at his absolute HOTTEST!!!

:loveya:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

50. "Eraserhead."

It doesn't get much weirder than that. A close second is "Brazil."

[kedrys]

54. Saw Eraserhead in college...

...and was traumatized for months. Not seen it since. Not going to see it again. EVER.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

63. Same reaction.

Saw it when it came out in the late '70s. It was the most, um... disturbing movie I've seen before, or since. It very seriously creeped me out, and I know I'll have more nightmares if I see it again. ("Prince of Darkness" gave me nightmares, too.)

[kedrys]

65. I sort of liked Prince of Darkness

It was an interesting story, but I have to control the dosage (I watch it every 12-18 months) otherwise the nightmares get a bit out of control.

[fluffernutter]

52. your "Requiem for a Dream" edit was right on.

that has to be at the top of my "wtf?" list for sure.

[nytemare]

67. Yeah, the cinematography was strange too.

[ET Awful]

72. It was a weird flick definitely, but the WTF factor was

somewhat mitigated by the subject matter. The WTF factor was kind of PART of the whole heroin bit, IMO anyway.

[chrisesq]

56. Naked Lunch

[enigmatic]

57. Any film made by Jean Rollin....

But then again, "Eraserhead" is in my top 5 favorims, so....

[CatBoreal]

58. Most recent....

Eye of the Beholder staring Ashley Judd and Ewan McGreggor (and k.d. lang)

[Forkboy]

60. None are stranger than Tetsuo:Iron Man

and I've seen Momento,Gummo,Requiem...,Eraserhead,Clockwork Orange and every other damn film mentioned so far.

Trust me on this :)

[EOTE]

142. Agreed.

Along with Brazil, Tetsuo: Iron Man was the strangest film I've ever seen. As I was not exactly straight while seeing it, what I remember of it was a Japanese man slowly turning into a metal beast after watching some lady get hit by a car. His transformation is extremely scary and as odd as the concept is, you couldn't help but empathize with both the man and his wife. It appeared to be an extremely layered and nuanced film. Of course, in my state, I didn't understand the bulk of it :)

[frylock]

61. cronenberg's crash..

of course, just about anything by Cronenberg elicits many a WTF.

[TroubleMan]

62. Fantasy Mission Force is the weirdest movie ever...trust me

It's the ultimate WTF movie.

Read this review:

http://www.opuszine.com/movies/review.html?reviewID=199

If that doesn't convince you read these reviews:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0079509/usercomments

[The empressof all]

66. The Wicker Man

I saw it at a deserted fishing motel in Seiku Wa (almost the end of the universe) in the dead of Winter. Creeped me out --big time.

[LeftyMom]

121. I love that movie!

[nytemare]

68. Forgot "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

That was a strange-ass movie!

[Xipe Totec]

172. Ironic, isn't it?

Forgetting, that is...

[CatBoreal]

69. No one's mentioned....

The Wall???

For shame!

[CarbonDate]

70. Dangeresque 2

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail80.html

[ET Awful]

73. Very Bad Things

Not as WTF as many, but I was still sitting there for the whole movie wondering how much more fucked up it could get :)

[laheina]

76. The Cell.

That was the one with J-ho in it, right?

[nytemare]

77. Yep, that was an odd flick. n/t

[Bouncy Ball]

98. OMG I LOVED The Cell

AND it creeped the hell out of me. Ug ug ug. I was so damn scared and movies don't normally truly scare me. I actually bought it on DVD I liked it so much and I am NOT a fan of J-Lo either.

[laheina]

109. The visuals were pretty interesting,

but it was hell of creepy.

[frictionlessO]

78. Shakes the Clown!!

cocaine dealing rodeo clowns!!

[redqueen]

155. I still haven't seen that.

I want to... just haven't got around to it.

[frictionlessO]

167. get nice and drunk for it, trust me it greatly enhances the effect!

[Kire]

79. I have a feeling this one is going to

In the Realms of the Unreal

This innovative feature length documentary, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jessica YU and produced by Susan WEST, explores the parallel lives of legendary outsider artist Henry Darger. Reclusive janitor by day, visionary artist by night, Darger’s 15,000 page novel details the exploits of the Vivian Girls, seven angelic sisters who lead a rebellion against godless, child-enslaving men. Featuring the voices of Dakota FANNING (I AM SAM, CAT IN THE HAT) and Larry Pine (THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, THE ICE STORM), the music of Emmy-winning composer Jeff Beal and the work of a team of animators, this wholly original film tells the story of a hidden universe.

IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL explores outsider art from the inside. Eschewing expert opinion, it reflects the uniqueness of its subject, employing vivid animation and experimental elements to immerse us in Darger’s world and all its strange beauty. Brought to life on film, the works reverberate with universal themes: the search for meaning, control, connection, moral direction. Through Darger’s eyes, film reveals this odd man to be Everyman.

Darger lived a virtually friendless existence, but his imaginary life was as exciting and colorful as his real life was tedious. By day, he scrubbed floors, attended Mass, rummaged through garbage cans. By night, he ruled a world in which the forces of innocence and good fought a bloody battle against the forces of treachery and eveil. By juxtaposing Henry Darger’s parallel but opposite universes, the film shows how he forged magic out of the bleakest of lives, leaving a legacy that has inspired other artists around the world.

Darger moved through the world virtually unnoticed, and the ultimate meaning of his work remains an enigma. The film begins as a mystery, but ends as a celebration of the power of individual creativity. IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL captures the haunting imprint of an extraordinary, ordinary man.

IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL is a production of Diorama Films, LLC., and a presentation of ITVS.


http://www.realmsoftheunreal.com/

[BurtWorm]

127. Sounds very interesting to me.

:thumbsup:

[Guy Fawkes]

80. "Pi" or "Six String Samuria"...

Both are GREAT movies!

[Bouncy Ball]

99. I stopped watching "Pi" after about 15 minutes.

Just totally lost interest.

[messyca]

111. I thought I was the only who saw "Six String Samurai"!

I love that movie! In fact I watched it again, just this past Sunday. It's strange, but in a very deliberate, funny way. I show that movie to everyone who lets me, and I'm the only one who seems to appreciate it. It's nice to know there's others who agree.

"If you were me, you'd be good looking"<--- dialog doesn't get much better than that!

...The strangest movie for me, would have to be Eraserhead.

[Miami Liberal]

82. David Lynch's "Lost Highway"

I'm a big fan of Lynch and strange movies but "Lost Highway" left me cold.

[Left Is Write]

84. You know, I have seen some very strange movies.

So why can't I think of any of them?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

85. I saw that one recently...

Definitely strange, but good.

[fluffernutter]

89. how about "Eyes Wide Shut" another strange one.

[AVID]

90. barton fink and ricochet

[maveric]

91. Julien, Donkey Boy

A very disturbing flick about an emotionally disturbed and physicaly repulsive teen who lives in a hellish household with bizzare, mentally ill family members.
Filmed in Dogme fashion.

[kodi]

92. liquid sky

.

[amerikat]

105. I once saw a double bill......eraser head and liquid sky......at that

point in my life vanity films fell from grace.

[New Earth]

93. "The Bear"

from like, early 90's

wtf....

[donheld]

94. O Fantasma

just too bizarre for words.

[MissBrooks]

95. ORGAZMO!

Truly a must see!

[Bouncy Ball]

96. "A Clockwork Orange"

[Bouncy Ball]

100. Also

"The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover"

Saw it in college and kept saying WTF throughout but great flick.

Another one has "betrayed" in the title. Italian film about a man rejected by his wife so he takes an electric carving knife and hacks off his penis on screen. Oh God, awful stuff.

[HuskiesHowls]

101. Mondo Cane

Its a good thing I was watching it at the drive-in with my girlfriend!!
It didn't bother me that it wasn't a great movie :pals:

[steely]

102. Blue Velvet, Jacobs Ladder

There've been more. BV was stupid, JL was un-nerving.

[fryguy]

104. Mystery Train

just wacky....

[MessiahRp]

112. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

That movie is trippy as all hell.

Rp

[norml]

113. No one's mentioned Repulsion, or Un Chien Andalou.

Both are very strange films.

[VOX]

128. "Repulsion" is the creepiest film I've ever seen...

Whenever I see it, I feel queasy, and it puts me in a strange mood that can last for days.

Regardless of what one thinks about Polanski's personal life, he is undeniably a master filmmaker.

[GOPNotForMe]

114. "City of Lost Children" without a doubt

So very Jean-Pierre Junet.

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[Fleshdancer]

115. Pi. weird but good. very weird. n/t

[flamingyouth]

116. "Liquid Sky" and "Performance"

As a double feature. And I was on acid.

[Name removed]

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[ChairOne]

118. A Zed and Two Naughts....

Barely remember it.... somethin about an amputee chick in bed with 2 twins, cackling evilly....

That was the strangest - if you actually meant something like "most disturbing", then I would say A Clockwork Orange in a heartbeat.

[ghostsofgiants]

119. Just about anything by David Lynch

Incidentally he's my all-time favourite director.

Steven Soderbergh's "Schizopolis" was nice and weird too.

[keischin]

120. Eraserhead...

"A Clockwork Orange" is the best movie ever made.

"Fight Club" really freaked me out because it was made in 2000 before 9/11.

[LeftyMom]

124. Time Bandits

To this day I have no idea what that movie is about.

The Ninth Gate
I was still trying to figure out that the heck was going on when the credits started. The ending is strange because there's no real resolution, it's like they got 3/4 of the way through the movie and everybody got bored and went home.

[Khephra]

125. Jan Svankmajer's FAUST or ALICE comes in second

But I'll have to go with Eraserhead in first place. I just had to mention Svankmayer here as no one else has yet. Along with Jodorowsky's HOLY MOUNTAIN, FAUST is one of the few films that I think have the actual ability to magickally initiate the viewer into a higher form of consciousness.

[VOX]

129. Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor"...

Highly recommended!

http://www.culturecourt.com/Ajo/film/ShockC.htm
<snip>
What makes this movie brilliant -- a masterpiece -- is the incredible manner in which Fuller takes this basic story of one man's overwhelming desire for fame and recognition and extrapolates it allegorically, creating a powerful parable that reveals this seat-squirming truth: if one man can be destroyed by an absorption into irrational thoughts, so can an entire society. Once you admit America is one big asylum, then it's hard to tell the sane from the crazy when we're all walking down that same symbolic corridor.
<snip>

[rppper]

130. donnie darko.....veeeery strange.....

i just saw this film a week ago...wierd...and i have been seeing that damn bunny in my dreams too.....ack!!!

"lost hiway" runs a close second....it took about 3 viewings to figure that one out....

http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1034561213113_2002/10/16/donniedarko,0.jpg

[DelawareValleyDem]

132. HEAD

starring the Monkees and written by Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson before they worked together on 5 Easy Pieces. Rumor has it they wanted to do a sequel with the tagline 'From the folks who gave you HEAD'

[Burma Jones]

133. There are two for me, Brazil and Eraserhead............n/t

[SCDem]

145. Brazil was the most bizarre movie I have ever seen

That movie gave me a headache watching it just figuring out what actually I was watching! A lot of these other movies posted were good and different but Brazil was by far the strangest.

[Jessica]

134. Tommy

Okay - so the soundtrack is great & I've heard the musical is good as well. And I absolutely adore The Who. But, that movie creeped me the fuck out. :scared: From Roger Daltrey's Christ-like transformation to Tina Turner's trippy-ass appearance, I was definitely left thinking WTF????

[Texasgal]

135. Barbarella

What in the hell was Jane Fonda thinking????

I still loved the movie though, it's in my "b" movie collection!

[MissMillie]

136. Magnolia

Frog legs, anyone?

[Bertha Venation]

138. DEAD RINGERS

GOD, what a freaky movie! I mean, it starts out with twin gynecologists -- and gets freakier from there!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

140. The Wicker Man

That movie creeped me out in a big way.

[Theres-a]

141. about schmidt

[nytemare]

168. I liked "About Scmidt"

I also like most of Nicholson's movies, but I thought the end was very good.

[jackelope72]

144. "Crash"

James Spader, Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette.

People getting their sexual jollies from being in automobile accidents.

[nytemare]

169. YES! I forgot that one!

That was freaky!

[Phillycat]

146. Help me remember the name of this movie!

All I remember is that the main character (a guy) went into a sensory deprivation tank and when he came out, he was supposedly in touch with his primal instincts. I think he then went on a killing spree like a wild animal. It was f**king bizarre.

And Jacob's Ladder. What a freak show that was.

[TransitJohn]

150. Altered States.

Awesome flick. William Hurt and I think Blair Brown.

[Phillycat]

152. That's it! Very good! :)

[DeaconBlues]

147. Existenz

Cronenberg's movie should at least be in the running. Thinking about the gun made of bones gives me the creeps.

[TransitJohn]

149. Ha

beat me by 3 min. Great minds think alike. ;)

[DeaconBlues]

156. Indeed they do

Johnny Got His Gun - adopted from Trumbo's book is also incredibly wierd, in a mind-blowingly depressing sort of way. Every idiot who supported the war should be strapped in a chair and forced to watch it.

[TransitJohn]

148. eXistenZ

Cronenberg rules. Honorable mention to Videodrome.

[redqueen]

153. 200 Motels, The Forbidden Zone, Liquid Sky, Eraserhead, 8 1/2

[semillama]

159. The Happiness of the Katakuris

I thought Tetsuo: The Iron Man was the strangest one, but this one takes the cake. It's a musical slaughterhouse with at least one scene with zombies that switches from live action to CLAYMATION with no warning.

Definitely takes the prize for feature films.

For short films, check out anything put out by the Church of the Subgenius. Those take the cake.

[Renew Deal]

160. Altered State

That was crazy.

[skygazer]

170. The Navigator

About people in a medieval British village during the time of the Black Death who go on a quest to find protection based on a young boy's vision and end up in modern day Australia.

Neat movie but very bizarre.

[u4ic]

171. BY FAR

is Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, an 60's Ukrainian flick. Medieval Carpathia meets LSD. Absolutely bizarre.

[abbadon]

173. "Prospero's Books" or "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T"

Peter Greenaway's multi-layered, multi-soundtracked take on "The Tempest"; I absolutely could not get through it the first two times I tried - then I put down the, uh, beer and it was absolutely mind-boggling (in a good way)

the second one is a live-action version of Dr. Seuss that completely blows away the Brian Grazer pseudo-hip, "updated" idiocy of "The Grinch" and "Cat in the Hat" - I had some friends who dropped acid before going in, and they didn't realize they were tripping until they left the theater

Besides that one, "Pi," "Freaks," and "Eraserhead" *have* to top my list, although many of Herzog's movies could appear there at any time - I wonder if the black-and-white has anything to do with it ...?

"Requiem for a Dream" was disturbing, but it wasn't strange to me, just terribly depressing and sad

[WMliberal]

175. "the Hunger" When David Bowie is the "normal guy"

you know the movie is way off the charts on the kooky scale.