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May we share our bounty of autistic melodramas, apocalyptic apes, the last man on earth, surrrealist porn, psychedelic walls, stoner comedies, New Wave metafiction, slapstick social comedies, and free-to-watch indies with you?

THE ROOM (2003) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-the-room-2003/): "... all of this nonsensicality would have resulted in a forgettably awful movie if not for the odd screen presence of Wiseau, whose incongruous anti-charisma adds a layer of perverse fascination."

BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970) (http://366weirdmovies.com/beneath-the-planet-of-the-apes-1970/): "Nova and Brent go cave exploring and what do they find? An elongated and pointless rehash of the first movie."-AE

THE OMEGA MAN (1971) (http://366weirdmovies.com/the-omega-man-1971/): "For lovers of great trash (and it still goes perfect with late night cardboard pizza)."-AE

NIGHTDREAMS (1981) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-nightdreams-1981/): "The movie’s most memorable sequence, no doubt, is when Dorothy fellates a living rendition of a Cream of Wheat box while serenaded by a jazz version of 'Old Man River.'"

WONDERWALL (1968) (http://366weirdmovies.com/list-candidate-wonderwall-1968/): "In some ways, Wonderwall is the ultimate flower-power feature, with not much plot but lots of swirling colors and long-haired people being groovy."

DON PEYOTE (2014) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-don-peyote-2014/): " If it’s sheer trippiness you’re after, Peyote delvers in spades, with visions of aquatic goddesses, spontaneous folk-rock dance numbers, and guys in demonic bunny suits waiting around every bend. If it’s structured trippiness and insight into life’s great questions you seek, however, go somewhere else, because the all-over-the-cosmos plot has the attention span of an adult-onset ADD patient whose noshed too many shrooms."

TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS (1967) (http://366weirdmovies.com/list-candidate-trans-europ-express-1967/):"After a series of double crosses and betrayals which are nearly impossible to sort out, because the director keeps rewriting the script, it all ends in tragedy at 'Eve’s Witchcraft Cabaret,' a bondage-themed club with a naked girl chained to a rotating stage."

EASY STREET (1917) (http://366weirdmovies.com/chaplins-easy-street-1917/): "Some critics claims it’s [Chaplin's] most perfectly composed film, with shrewdly chosen ingredients of minimal pathos, well developed characterizations, the Tramp’s quintessential antagonist and his most frequent leading lady, balanced slapstick, drug addiction, attempted rape, domestic violence, mockery of status quo, with social and political satire thrown in as the cherry on top of the icing on top of the cake."-AE

A PUBLIC RANSOM (2014) (http://366weirdmovies.com/366-underground-a-public-ransom-2014/): "... a smart script and a functional cast can’t save a film if the director and photographer’s auteur vision is so painfully marred by an inability to hold a camera."-JH

May we report on lizardy blockbusters, mysterious skin, killer birds, and character actor Wallace Shawn?

GODZILLA (2014) (http://366weirdmovies.com/alfred-eaker-vs-the-summer-blockbusters-godzilla-2014/): "Edwards seems to have forgotten an unwritten lesson from the plethora of Godzilla sequels: apart from the original, the human occupants are an intrusion, especially when Godzilla is the protagonist."-AE

THE BIRDS (1963) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-the-birds-1963/): "How unsatisfying would it be if  it turned out the birds had gone mad from drinking water contaminated with waste from an experimental nuclear reactor? The heart of The Birds' horror is the incomprehensibility of the attack, which reflects the incomprehensibility of our own mortality."

MYSTERIOUS SKIN (2004) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-the-mysterious-skin-2004/): "Scenes with cornfed Kansas grotesques finding mutilated cattle with their genitals removed make the Midwest look a little Lynchian; but, other than a misty shot of a Fruit Loop shower and hallucinatory glimpses of an actual UFO, Akari makes very few departures from raw reality here."

The Wallace Shawn Interview (http://366weirdmovies.com/the-wallace-shawn-interview/): You might know Wallace Shawn from 1981′s My Dinner with Andre, which he wrote and starred in, from his small but memorable role in The Princess Bride, or as the voice of Rex the Dinosaur in the Toy Story series. We talked to him.

May we finish off this month's collection of avant-garde mistakes, dysfunctional families, and clueless transvestites?

GLEN OR GLENDA (1953) (http://366weirdmovies.com/170-glen-or-glenda-1953/): Certified weird! "... throw in Bela Lugosi as a one-man Greek chorus reciting fractured fairy tales, and include a fourteen-minute dream sequence mixing Freudian symbolism, bargain-basement Expressionism, bondage, and a guest appearance by the Devil and you achieve incomparable weirdness, the way only Ed Wood could serve it up—on a bed of angora."

TWISTER (1989) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-twister-1989/): "This shambolic mass of quivering quirk is for fans of the cast only—specifically, for fans of Crispin Glover, who, bullwhip in hand, is acting somewhere near the acme of his Crispin Glover-ishness here as a fey would-be artist."

WAY DOWN IN CHINATOWN (2013) (http://366weirdmovies.com/366-underground-way-down-in-chinatown/): "One could watch the film ironically, and see it as a parody of self-absorbed, pseudo-intellectual tripe that tries to pass itself off as deep and meaningful; but the film is so serious that even watching it ironically is exhausting and unsatisfying."-LRH