Weird movies

That Twin Peaks movie (the Laura Palmer one) - when you have never watched Twin Peaks (like me) is a whole another level of weird!

The 2 main ones that spring to mind for me are Mudholland Drive and Southland Tales. Mudholland Drive really makes you think as what is really going on. It's really not easy to figure out! and I just remember Southland Tales being very uncoventional but good too and there's a great scene in it with Justin Timberlake and some nurses dancing to The Killers

2 more modern ones - The Lobster (Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz). Just read this:

I guess the film is meant to be some kind of statement on modern life but even so it's still very weird.

and The Art of Self-Defense (Jesse Eisenburg) is quite strange. It is the definition of off-beat.

A good subject! Just like art, weirdness is a pretty subjective term when it comes to movies. For some people 2001: Space Odyssey is a pretty straightforward SciFi experience, for others it's straight out incomprehensible.

Eraserhead mentioned by cthulhu is a really good one - I initially feared I'd be disgusted by some plot elements I read beforehand, but in the end it turned out to be kinda a satisfying conclusion. David Lynch really stirred up some s*** back then and he is definitely one unique artist! From the other movies so far I only watched Dune (another of my favorites) and Blue Velvet which I both liked a lot. Really would like to watch Mulholland Drive too, @riko !

My top 1 favorite weird movie may be The End of Evangelion, which is the conclusion to the Neon Genesis Evangelion show. What a crazy and shocking rollercoaster ride, but if you dig into the story and and plethora of fan interpretations it will really grow on you. I think the famous Third Impact scene completely blew my mind and still does everytime I watched it. (Heavy spoilers in the clip below)



I too enjoy the weirdness of some of Takeshi Kitano's movies, such as Kikujiro, Boiling Point or Sonatine. Absolutely stunning scenes with even greater music by star composer Joe Hisaishi.



Also one of the weirdest films I've ever watched must be Angel's Egg. It's so unique and abstract I cannot even give it a rating which would be just unfair. It's pretty much a plethora of biblical references, steampunk imagery and dreamlike / feverdreamish apparitions.

A few that popped in my head

-Motorama (1991) 

- Jacob's Ladder (1990)

- Naked Lunch (1991)



Never noticed they were so close together.

More to come later.

Cthulhu - that's great you went to a David Cronenberg Experience. That must have been very interesting

Have you guys ever seen his film Videodrome? I remember that being strange too. I think there was a bit where the main guy finds a videotape down the side of his sofa and then sticks it in a slot in his stomach. I might be misrembering but something like that!

This probably doesn't really count but as part of my film studies course we watched an art film called Wavelength and it was a 45 minute film (seemed like 2 hours!) of a camera slowly zooming in on a photo on a wall of an apartment. I remember maybe halfway through - a couple of people (who you couldn't see) came into the apartment and had a brief conversation about the Beatles and it seemed like the most exciting thing ever! My friend wanted to leave but I forced him to stay so we could find out what happened at the end. From memory i think it zooms in on the photo of the sea and then you just hear some waves.

I don't agree with this :

Literally no one ever talks about Wavelength - for good reason

I absolutely love Videodrome, it's the best Cronenberg movie in my opinion.

My Videodrome DVD (slipcase):



Me with the Mugwump:

Cthulhu - Great pics Have to say I need to re-watch Viideodrome now I am older. I don't think I appreciated it at the time. Really like that faux-video tape box