Weird Movies that you like

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For some reason, I think weird movies are really cool.Many of these that I've listed are horror, but not all.These are the weird movies I like. What do you think of these if you've watched them, and what weird movies do you like?


-The Butterfly Effect-one of my favorites
-Donnie Darko
-Love Object
-Secret Window
-Hide and Seek
-Silent Hill- one of my favorites, love the game also
-Tideland
-Orphan
-Puppet Master
-Youth in Revolt- I like alot of Michael cera's movies

The Forbidden Zone. It's a great, weird little movie that had a great soundtrack by Oingo Boingo.

As a matter of fact, I was just talking to someone about Sin City and how much it grew on me. Walking out of the theater, I felt like I'd been given a physical beating - its so dark and brutal, it took me several days to decide whether I liked it or hated it. I only went because it was written by Frank Miller who wrote some great Batman stories for the comics - I didn't realize until later that it was produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez, who's a protege of Quentin Tarantino, who's 'fountain-of-blood' theatrics have never impressed me. Having seen Sin City several times now to absorb the nuances, I think its a great piece of cinematic art, comparable to Kubrick's work in Clockwork Orange. And the best job any director has ever done of bringing a comic book tale to life.

Rodriguez strikes me as much more creative in approach than Tarantino and just an all-around smarter filmmaker. Speaking of odd films, Rodriguez also did Planet Terror which is a hilarious dark sendup of 60s/70s low budget drive-in SF movies. The gory gross-out gags are a little over the top sometimes but if your sense of humor is sick enough, its full of giggles.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Although I was aware of his work, I'd never actually been to a Sondheim musical. I don't usually like film musicals much, but the comedy/horror and gothic cinematography of Sweeney Todd greatly impressed me.

I also don't like musicals, and would really like to see Sweeney Todd because a friend described the plot to me and it sounded really interesting. Johnny Depp seems to like picking unusual roles and movies, like Edward ScissorHands and playing the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland.

Various Tim Burton films such as the previously-mentioned Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride. Also films that feel similar to Burton's style such as James and the Giant Peach, 9 and Coraline. I haven't actually seen the latter two yet, but I have a feeling I'll enjoy them.

Weird movies I like that have nothing to do with Tim Burton:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Phantom of the Paradise
Tommy
Sister My Sister
Teeth
Willard (the remake with Crispin Glover)

little shop of horrors!

A few of my favorites...

"Brand Upon The Brain" by Guy Maddin- Guy returns to his childhood home, an orphanage/lighthouse where he remembers his boy hood crush on teen detective Wendy Hale who is investigating the strange goings on at the orphanage.

"The American Astronaut" by Cory McAbee Astronaut Sam is on a mission to exchange the embryo of a "real live girl" for "the boy who actually saw a woman's breast" and take him to Venus to be king of the planet of women. This is a black and white, rock and roll musical sci-fi western.

"theForbidden Zone". Frenchy Hurcules accidentally slips into the 6th dimension where she becomes the mistress of the horny midget king Fausto, much to the queens annoyance. Frenchy's friends squeezit, flash and gramps go to her rescue. This film has something to offend everyone.

"Playtime" by Jacques Tati M. Hulot tries to keep an appointment in an ultra modern Paris while tourists from America completely miss the real value of the city. This film is a constant stream of sight gags but often you have to look carefully for them. It is best to see Tati's two preceding films first to get a sense of what is going on. (M. Hulot's Holiday and Mon Oncle)

I dunno of you guys consider these movies weird but here you go:

--The Toxic Avenger (the original)
--James and the Giant Peach
--Monster X Strikes Back
--Bubble Boy
--Rock-a-Doodle

carnival of souls...

always felt it was about something real

m.

Sin City
Falling Down - We all go a little mad sometimes, and Michael Douglas shows this!
Inception - F**ks with your head like no other.
Memento

My parents insist that most of the movies that I like are "bizarre" and I suppose I agree.

Some of my favorites:

Clockwork Orange
Primer
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Science of Sleep
Stranger than Fiction
Fight Club
2001 A Space Odyssey
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Battle Royale
The City of Lost Children
Ichi the Killer
Dark City
Oldboy
Wristcutters: A Love Story

Pervirella
Grindhouse
Blueberry

the crying game [my all-time fave]
falling down
logan's run
the end
reanimator
dawn of the dead [1978 version]
freebie and the bean
incubus
the adding machine
all this and WW2 [great music]
made in heaven
the cage
a shot in the dark

too many others to list here

I love the Butterfly Effect and also Donnie Darko.

One weird film that I like is called Insignificance. It was out in the 80's and for most of the film the setting is a single hotel room. There are only 4 characters in the film and they are suppose to be Einstein, Marylin Monroe, Joe De Magio, and Richard Nixon.

Its got a funny scene in it where 'Marylin' explains the theory of relativity.