Dec @ 366 Weird Movies: DOGGIEWOGGIEZ!; WEEKEND; DJANGO KILL; more!

[Rev. Powell]

Santa's bringing you a big lump of weirdness for Xmas---does that mean you've been nice, or naughty?

DOGGIEWOGGIEZ! POOCHIEWOOCHIEZ! (2012): Certified Weird! "What makes the project especially funny, however, is its massive scope: with a barrage of canine clips covering everything from sex to the afterlife, the entirety of human existence is reflected back at us via man’s best friend, the parade of life is re-enacted as a parody performed by the Kennel Club."

WEEKEND (1967): Certified Weird! "It’s a deliciously nasty exercise, and Godard’s unrepentant cruelty in eviscerating those he hates is the thing that’s most appealing about this revenge fantasy wherein capitalist culture eventually eats itself."

DJANGO KILL... IF YOU LIVE, SHOOT! (1967): "An ambiguously dead cowboy antihero who shoots golden bullets fights Mr. Sorrow and his gang of gay fascist cowboys. How could we not at least consider it for a spot as one of the weirdest movies of all time?"

KING OF THORN (2009): "King of Thorn has everything a sci-fi anime fan could want: psychedelic visuals, non-stop action, a convoluted, mindbending sci-fi plot, and Japanese schoolgirls in ridiculously short skirts. "

HOUSE OF PLEASURES (2011): "...a sad dream gilded in glamor, and the tears it elicits are strange indeed."

THE DAY HE ARRIVES (2011): "The Day He Arrives never gets around to suggesting what it’s about (which isn’t necessarily a problem); it also never makes a case as to why we should care (which is a problem)."

The Films of Mark Robson and Val Lewton: "The higher quality of Robson’s work with Lewton strongly indicates that the producer was collaboratively engaged with his directors. Both Lewton and Robson benefited from that partnership. Unfortunately, after Lewton, Robson would never again be afforded such an opportunity."-AE

[Rev. Powell]

Ho, ho, huh?

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (2012): Certified Weird!  "'Once there was a Hushpuppy and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub' turns out to be a literal description of the plot in this ridiculously original fairy tale that resembles The Tree of Life set in a post-apocalyptic bayou."

THE DOUBLE HOUR (2010): "As Sonia drifts through a limbo, The Double Hour deftly, seamlessly crosses multiple genre boundaries, from mystery, to horror, to thriller, keeping us off balance and agitated."-PD

RESTLESS (2011): "Remaking Harold and Maude as a teen romance with a hot Maude and a ghost sidekick sounds like a bad idea, but Restless is even worse than you might imagine."

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BATHORY (2008):"... it is indicated that conspirators drugged the Countess with hallucinogenic mushrooms, and her Gypsy mystic soothsayer, a secret Hapsburg confederate, had Elizabeth so brainwashed with suspicious medicinal potions and metaphysical mumbo-jumbo that Bathory had no clear conception of reality."-PD

ROOM 237 (2012): " Five obsessed fans explain their intricate gnostic theories about the horror classic, from the nearly plausible (it's an allegory for the Holocaust) to the totally batty (it's Stanley Kubrick's guilt-ridden confession that he helped fake the moon landing)."

MODERN TIMES (1936): "Robbed of his much-needed cigarette, tightening nuts, tightening nuts, tightening nuts, victim of a mechanical salesman feeding him nuts, feeding him, feeding him nuts: Charlie loses it!"-AE