Weird Movies

[bob]

I know this topic has come up before, but with the search function not working on the site...

WEIRD MOVIES!

[Rev. Powell]

I have a list: https://366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-list/

And a book coming out, maybe as soon as the end of the year, more likely next.

[bob]

I have a list: https://366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-list/

And a book coming out, maybe as soon as the end of the year, more likely next.

What makes a movie weird?

[Rev. Powell]

I have a list: https://366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-list/

And a book coming out, maybe as soon as the end of the year, more likely next.

What makes a movie weird?

https://366weirdmovies.com/about/

https://366weirdmovies.com/what-makes-a-weird-movie-weird/ (not by me)

Basically, a sense of "wrongness": that this shouldn't exist or shouldn't be happening. But I usually use the "grandma" test: I imagine my grandmother watching it and if she turns to me and mutters "that was weird," there you have it.

[indianasmith]

If you don't know what a weird movie is, watch the Japanese flick HELLDRIVER.

It is the single most bizarre film I have ever seen in my life.

[bob]

1 Black Moon
2 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
3 Eraserhead
4 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
5 Being John Malkovich
6 Blue Velvet
7 Mulholland Drive
8 Alice in Wonderland
9 Brand Upon the Brian
10 Brazil
11 Fantastic Planet
12 Valarie and Her Week of Wonders
13 Glen or Glenda
14 How to Get Ahead in Advertising
15 Jacob's Ladder
16 The Ruling Class
17 Solaris
18 Spirited Away
19 Videodrome
20 Persona
21 Under the Skin
22 A Clockwork Orange
23 Eyes Wide Shut
24 Donnie Darko
25 La Jetee
26 Birdman
27 8/12

[bob]

it looks like I posted before completed my thought above this

I was compiling a list of movies I've seen that I consider to be weird

[A_Dubya]

My favorite weird ones:

Birdman
A Clockwork Orange
Dogtooth
The Lobster
The Wicker Man
Napoleon Dynamite
Black Swan
The Devil In Miss Jones 3: A New Beginning

Ones I'm not so sure how I feel about:

Midsommar
Hereditary
The Invitation
Circle
Basket Case
Mulholland Drive
Synecdoche, New York

[pacman000]

But I usually use the "grandma" test: I imagine my grandmother watching it and if she turns to me and mutters "that was weird," there you have it.

So all the Pokémon movies are officially weird?

Kidding aside, I might suggest the 3rd Pokémon movie as a bit weird. Same basic format as all the other movies; the main characters of the TV show meet a rare Pokémon which is causing problems, but the exact problems in this movie are kinda out there.

In the town of Greenfield, research scientist Professor Spencer Hale conducts research on the elusive Unown. He and his assistant, Skyler, discover a site of ruins, but Hale is sucked into the dimension of the Unown.

His disappearance leaves his young daughter Molly alone, her mother having disappeared previously. Molly finds a box of tablets containing Unown images and begins assembling the letters, which summons the Unown themselves. The Unown use their powers to make Molly's wishes come true, transforming her manor house into a crystal-like palace which spreads across the town and cuts her off from the world. An illusionary Entei is created to represent Molly's father. Various people come to help sort out the Unown, including Professor Oak and Delia Ketchum (Ash's mother).

Meanwhile, Ash and his friends meet and befriend a trainer named Lisa. They come into Greenfield in the process and agree to join in the rescue mission to save young Molly. However, Entei kidnaps Delia, following Molly's request for a mother as well. Entei's powers hypnotize Delia into thinking she is Molly's mother. Ash, Misty, Brock and their Pokémon head out to the mansion to save Delia, communicating with Oak and Skyler thanks to a PokéGear device given to them by Lisa. Team Rocket try investigating the mansion, but Entei blasts them into the depths of the mansion. Molly watches Ash's Bulbasaur and Chikorita in action through a television and falls asleep, imagining herself being a Pokémon Trainer. Seeing Ash on TV, Delia snaps out of her trance; however, Entei creates a dream version of Molly as an adult and takes her to battle the three. Molly first fights Brock, but Molly's dreamed-up Pokémon are stronger than his; Molly then has a more friendly fight against Misty in an underwater battle.

Ash locates Molly and Delia, and implores Entei to return with his mother. Entei refuses, easily defeats Totodile and Cyndaquil, and tries killing Ash and Pikachu. Having witnessed the crisis on TV in Charicific Valley, Charizard rescues Ash and Pikachu. Entei engages Charizard in a duel and eventually tries to kill him. However, Molly thwarts Entei and tells him to stop fighting. Ash and his friends convince Molly to leave with them, Entei revealing he was created by the Unown to be her father.

The Unown suddenly lose control of their powers and start to seal the group in the mansion. Ash, Pikachu, Charizard, Misty, Brock, Delia, Molly and Team Rocket escape down to the hall where the Unown are. Pikachu and Charizard attempt to break the forcefield protecting the Unown, but they are unsuccessful—until they are joined by Entei, combining their powers to destroy the shield with Molly's support. Entei sacrifices himself and the Unown return to their dimension, reversing all of their effects on the world and returning Hale to the ruins where he originally vanished.

The group ventures outside, where Oak, Skyler, Lisa and others meet them. Team Rocket hides in the mansion upon seeing the police outside and declare that they will always have another opportunity to catch Pokémon. Charizard and Lisa depart from Ash's company, and Molly reunites with her father as well as with her long-lost mother.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_3:_The_Movie (This is from Wikipedia; you can copy it under the terms of the license listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License)

Honestly, the whole thing just gave me a headache, trying to figure out what was going on.

[Rev. Powell]

I did a poll in 2019 with about 10,000 total votes cast (people cast multiple votes through different rounds). The 25 most popular weird movies (in order) were:

Eraserhead
Holy Mountain, The
Suspiria
Chien Andalou, Un
Naked Lunch
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
2001: A Space Odyssey
Mulholland Drive
House [Hausu]
El Topo
Under the Skin
Possession
Spirited Away
Donnie Darko
Repo Man
Häxan [Witchcraft Through the Ages]
Wild at Heart
Repulsion
City of Lost Children, The [La cité des enfants perdus]
Akira
Barton Fink
INLAND EMPIRE
Pink Flamingos
Blue Velvet
Dogtooth [Kynodontas]

Complete results here: https://366weirdmovies.com/march-mad-movie-madness-tournament-recap-and-final-rankings/

[A_Dubya]

I want to check out The Holy Mountain. I've been warned that it's "not for beginners", which I don't consider myself to be when it comes to these odd films.

[Dr. Whom]

I want to check out The Holy Mountain. I've been warned that it's "not for beginners", which I don't consider myself to be when it comes to these odd films.

I found that less weird than either El Topo or Fando y Lis

For me, Holy Motors should definitely be on any list of weird movies.

[Olivia Bauer]

Being John Malkovich
The Holy Mountain
Hausu
Sorry to Bother You

Frankly, the last one on the list is the most tame.

[A_Dubya]

Waking Life - 2001


Movies like this are so fun. I felt like I was taking a journey right along with the main character. Got smoked out earlier and zoned out to this. It felt like a dream, where you just accept s**t for what it is. There could be like 50 things going on at once, yet you just roll with it. I've gotten better at lucid dreaming where I can control things or speak/think them into existence. It is fun indeed, as one of the dream characters stated. What a ride! 5 stars.

[The Burgomaster]