Reccomendations?

[Rev. Powell]

Sorry I got here late, most of the best recommendations have already been given out.

The movies you mention suggest your especially looking for surreal/neo-surreal movies with a strong sci-fi or fantastic element.  I'd second PI, POSSESSION, FORBIDDEN ZONE, TITUS, JACOB'S LADDER.  I do think you'd like THE REFLECTING SKIN, too bad you can't play VHS.  Hopefully it will come out on DVD.   

Here's a few more off the top of my head: DELICATESSEN (future cannibals), CITY OF LOST CHILDREN (steampunk fairy tale), A SCANNER DARKLY (animated, from the same Phillip K. Dick story as Cronenberg's SCANNERS). 

You didn't mention exactly which Gilliam movies you'd seen, but I'd suggest BRAZIL (a must), 12 MONKEYS, TIME BANDITS, ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, and maybe TIDELAND. 

You might want to check my review list of weird movies:  http://366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-list/.  You also might look at the suggestions people have made, they mention a lot of movies in the same vein:  http://366weirdmovies.com/suggest-a-weird-movie/.

[Rev. Powell]

Let me add A BOY AND HIS DOG, if you haven't seen it yet.

[Rev. Powell]

Dangit!  And you might like DONNIE DARKO too...

That's it.  No more suggestions for you, no matter how perfect I think they may be.

[ghouck]

Rev, I've seen all the TG movies you mentioned except Tideland. Donnie Darko: I have to say that's easily in my top 10 favorite movies. I'll check out DELICATESSEN and CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, and DEFINATELY check out A Scanner Darkly.

Bummer that Netflix has virtually nothing by Philip K. Dick

[Mofo Rising]

Sorry, Philip K. Dick wasn't a filmmaker, but a science fiction writer. I recommended him because I think you might appreciate his unique approach to unstable realities.

However, many movies have been made of his books. Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Total Recall, Screamers... Some of those are better than the others, a lot better. The original stories are still the best.

[Doggett]

Gvozdi (nails)

Visions of Suffering

[Joe the Destroyer]

Gothic
Infection (J-horror, and pretty out there)
Existenz, although I'm not really into this movie, it's still nice
Nightmare Detective (also J-horror)
Horror
Unspeakable (zero budget, but great film regardless)
Repo Man
Dumplings

[AndyC]

If you like Cronenberg, you might want to look into another of Canada's acclaimed filmmaking weirdos, Atom Egoyan. The Adjuster is one of his films that I really enjoyed, and he received quite a bit of recognition for Exotica, although I've not yet seen it.

Alan Moyle's Weirdsville is another good one. It has the benefit of being bizarre but funny as hell.

And I assume you've seen Cube. If not, see it, but beware of the sequels. They have their good points, but overall, they detract from the original.

[ghouck]

Thanks all, Mofo: I saw most of those, pretty close to what I'm looking for. Joe: Which 'Unspeakable'? Netflix says there are movies of that name made in 2000, 2002, and 2007. Repo Man is a damn good movie, a must-see IMO. I'll check out the rest of those. Cube sounds very intriguing. Thanks.

[Kester Pelagius]

ghouck,

Lots of great recommends so far.  However if you're looking for just strange cinema try...

Christmas on Mars
Black Candles
Girl Slaves of Morgana le Fay


If you want slightly weird in your horror....

Feast (2005) 
Ravenous
Naked Fear
Ruins (2008)
One Eyed Monster 
Killer p***y: Sexual Parasite

If you want strange visions of future Dystopias...

Metropolis (still the best after all these years)
1984 (meh)

Should you get tired of the above and want to relax with some slightly weird softporn sleaze try...

Killer Eye
Killer Tongue
Killer Condom
Killers Eroticus :vomit:

[Mofo Rising]

If you like Cronenberg, you might want to look into another of Canada's acclaimed filmmaking weirdos, Atom Egoyan. The Adjuster is one of his films that I really enjoyed, and he received quite a bit of recognition for Exotica, although I've not yet seen it.

Atom Egoyan is a really good filmmaker. He is also the man responsible for the absolute saddest movie I have ever seen. Not sad in the sense that it is bad, but sad in the sense that is a never-ending well of misery. The Sweet Hereafter is a film about the after-effects of a small-town community who just watched all their children die in a bus accident. It also features Ian Holm's best performance. I am not an actor, but I can't imagine approaching the level of despair he evokes in that film. Seriously, that movie is tough. I'd watch Requiem for a Dream ten times before I could psych myself up for The Sweet Hereafter again.

Less depressing, I think you should check out The Signal. The cover makes it look like another crappy J-Horror rip off, but is the funniest, most disturbing horror movie I have seen in recent times.

[dean]

Jodorwosky has some crazy stuff like Holy Mountain, all worth a look.

I'm pretty much going to second most of Mofo's suggestions, though some don't necessarily fit the films you used as comparison, but they're great films nonetheless!

Satoshi Kon does some crazy psychological anime, Perfect Blue and Paprika two of my favourites.

12 Monkeys and Brazil are two of my favourite Gilliam Films and very much worth a look if you haven't already, though you probably have.

The Signal is a silly horror film, very low budget but has some great moments of comedy and horror in it all in the one.

Scanner Darkly and City of Lost Children get some very strong nods of agreement from me too.

'Bad Boy Bubby' is one Australian film which I'll highly recommend.  Very crazy film and reminds me somewhat of Eraserhead in some ways.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106341/

If you haven't seen them, get into some of the David Lynch shorts, which I enjoyed most of them very muchly.  His short 'Cowboy meets a Frenchman' makes me think he should get into more comedy, hilarious stuff.

Jan Svankmajer's Lunacy is a great study of madness, and cow tongues getting freaky...  Lots o' booby too which is nice.    [note, booby may or may not always be female...]

Films by Cocteau tend to have a fantastic surreal quality, and are quite classy at times so if you want to impress someone with a weird film may as well be one of his: makes you seem respectful.

I have more on the tip of my tongue but it seems to be dinner time according to my grumbling stomach.

[Monster Jungle X-Ray]

Less depressing, I think you should check out The Signal. The cover makes it look like another crappy J-Horror rip off, but is the funniest, most disturbing horror movie I have seen in recent times.

I saw The Signal recently and was pleasantly surprised, the tone of the film was interesting given that the three acts were made by different directors. It had some problems here and there but was an good virus/apocalypse film. Also it is the rare horror film that is shot in my home town of Atlanta. In the film the city is called Terminus which is a homage to the original name for Atlanta as it was the end of the railroad lines back then.

Pontypool was another good zombie/virus flick. It has a creeping sense of dread about it as the characters are confined to a radio station reporting on the plague while the outside world falls apart. Sort of like Orsen Welles War of the Worlds radio broadcast if he was reporting Night of the Living Dead instead. It has some very Cronenbergesque/Burroughsian ideas about how the virus is spread that are different for the genre.

[RCMerchant]

I give my highest recomendations to COMBAT SHOCK. Do'nt watch this with children or yer Mom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfUIA4uF8q4

Basket Case-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uQj7j8yG6A

Brain Damage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfVcaNp2Ayw
In this film-Zacherle provides the voice for the killer-eh-turd?-monster! Wonderful.

Henry-


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMklAzo9zlU


Manson (1972)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm9cjrwBIdM

[Frogger]

Cube sounds very intriguing. Thanks.

Cube was good, Cube 2 was a bit... well crap. However Cube Zero turned out to be an amazing film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kc6aH2nl98&feature=related