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Started by JaseSF, January 27, 2012, 02:27:02 PM

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#15
January 31, 2012, 08:12:15 PM


Another Corman classic which kind of fits here, would make a good companion film of sorts with Wild in the Streets too...
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Rev. Powell

#17
February 01, 2012, 10:38:03 AM
Quote from: crackers on February 01, 2012, 10:06:25 AM

I love these movies, but they are weird.

Why "but"?  Shouldn't that say "because"?   :smile:
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crackers

#18
February 01, 2012, 11:53:52 AM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 01, 2012, 10:38:03 AM
Quote from: crackers on February 01, 2012, 10:06:25 AM

I love these movies, but they are weird.

Why "but"?  Shouldn't that say "because"?   :smile:

Haha!! Very true.  :bouncegiggle:

alandhopewell

#19
February 01, 2012, 01:22:38 PM
     A strange film based on a strange Keith Laumer novel....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbOneIfKf8c
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     The choice is simple; refuse to create, and refuse to grow, or build, with care and love.

voltron

#20
February 01, 2012, 07:09:52 PM
A couple very obvious picks would be Eraserhead and Naked Lunch. Sorry I couldn't think of any more obscure ones at the moment.
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Flick James

#21
February 01, 2012, 07:58:58 PM
Quote from: voltron on February 01, 2012, 07:09:52 PM
A couple very obvious picks would be Eraserhead and Naked Lunch. Sorry I couldn't think of any more obscure ones at the moment.

Both are quite bizarre. I don't know that I would classify them as bad movies though, except in the purely subjective sense. I think both of the films are decidedly good.
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Raffine

#22
February 02, 2012, 08:11:51 AM
Dwain Esper's MANIAC (1934) is still my favorite weird bad movie.

TCM recently ran something called POSSESSION (1981) that was absolutely INSANE. It starred Sam Neill as a guy who's wife was (or maybe wasn't?) having an affair (or something?) with a crazed German. She is so traumatized she sneaks away to a dilapidated apartment and finds (?) or gives birth to (?) a tentacled monster that lays around sighing. She has sex with the thing and she kills everybody who comes to the apartment, with everybody screaming and the top of their lungs and blood flying everywhere.  As a matter of fact all the characters are constantly screaming at each other at the top of their lungs and/or beating the crap out of each other, so the cast walks around in a bloody mess for most of the time.

This one apparently won a bunch of awards at Cannes, including 'Best Actress' for the screaming lady. I'm guessing lots and lots of cocaine was consumed before the vote.
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Rev. Powell

#23
February 02, 2012, 10:12:59 AM
Quote from: Raffine on February 02, 2012, 08:11:51 AM
Dwain Esper's MANIAC (1934) is still my favorite weird bad movie.

TCM recently ran something called POSSESSION (1981) that was absolutely INSANE. It starred Sam Neill as a guy who's wife was (or maybe wasn't?) having an affair (or something?) with a crazed German. She is so traumatized she sneaks away to a dilapidated apartment and finds (?) or gives birth to (?) a tentacled monster that lays around sighing. She has sex with the thing and she kills everybody who comes to the apartment, with everybody screaming and the top of their lungs and blood flying everywhere.  As a matter of fact all the characters are constantly screaming at each other at the top of their lungs and/or beating the crap out of each other, so the cast walks around in a bloody mess for most of the time.

This one apparently won a bunch of awards at Cannes, including 'Best Actress' for the screaming lady. I'm guessing lots and lots of cocaine was consumed before the vote.

The "screaming lady" was Isabelle Adjani.  She was nominated for 2 Academy Awards (not for POSSESSION) and won 5 Cesars in her career.  When she won Best Actress at Cannes she was actually in 2 movies that screened there, so she didn't win for POSSESSION alone. 

Personally I remember not linking POSSESSION but I really need to see it again.
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

Raffine

#24
February 02, 2012, 10:33:21 AM
QuoteThe "screaming lady" was Isabelle Adjani.  She was nominated for 2 Academy Awards (not for POSSESSION) and won 5 Cesars in her career.  When she won Best Actress at Cannes she was actually in 2 movies that screened there, so she didn't win for POSSESSION alone.

She reminds me of a 'prettier' version of Sandy Dennis, another great actress who could scream bloody murder when the need arose.

If you're an Andy Milligan fan there's no hope for you.

alandhopewell

#25
February 02, 2012, 01:26:25 PM
If it's true what they say, that GOD created us in His image, then why should we not love creating, and why should we not continue to do so, as carefully and ethically as we can, on whatever scale we're capable of?

     The choice is simple; refuse to create, and refuse to grow, or build, with care and love.

tracy

#26
February 02, 2012, 01:32:06 PM
Quote from: JaseSF on January 31, 2012, 08:12:15 PM


Another Corman classic which kind of fits here, would make a good companion film of sorts with Wild in the Streets too...
That movie just messed with my head. :bouncegiggle:
Yes,I'm fine....as long as I don't look too closely.

major jay

#27
February 02, 2012, 03:33:22 PM
THE SHOUT
I saw this on TCM about a year ago, and I didn't get it.
It's well made, but I couldn't figure out what was going on.

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66Crush

#28
February 08, 2012, 11:56:03 AM
Hugo Pool. It's from the 90's and stars Alyssa Milano and Robert Downey Jr. It's considered a good movie because it won all of these independent film awards. It's weird and surreal and very serious, but I just find the whole thing uncomfortably funny.

RCMerchant

#29
February 09, 2012, 05:56:19 AM
ALUCARDA (1975)-No-it's not about vampires...it's about satanic possession. And Lesbians. And nuns dressed like mummies in bloody rags. And blood filled coffins. And decapitations. And just a lot of weird imagry. And screaming...lotsa lotsa screaming.

I re-watched it with my 17 year old son and my brother recently-neither had seen it before. My son's comment-"This is too weird. It makes me feel like a perv."  :bouncegiggle:



PSYCHED BY THE 4-D WITCH (1972)

Rubber monster masks,booga-bogga plastic dime store vampire teeth,satanism,, goofy psychadelic effects,and absolutly NO plot or storyline that any sane person could follow.

I like the rubber Vampira mask,though...



Looks like they got they're props from the mail order section of Famous Monsters mag...





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Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
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