What is the weirdest movie you ever saw?

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The Million Dollar Hotel. My friend and I were perusing movies at the library and came across it and saw it had Mel Gibson in it. Thinking that we’ve never see a bad movie with Mel Gibson in it, we checked it out. Truly bizarre. We watched the whole thing only because we thought that surely, surely things would take a turn and start making sense. But that didn’t happen.
 
The movie From Dusk till Dawn (1996) was weird in a good way. It belongs to the genre of pulp vampire biker film, and I think that in itself describes its weirdness. It was directed by Robert Rodriguez and with a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino. Recommended for those who like this weird film genre.

OTOH, one of the weirdest worst movies I ever saw, and ever hope to see, was a mess called Raiders from Beneath the Sea (1964), about a group of thieves who concoct a ridiculous scheme to rob a bank. The plot was nonsensical and there was absolutely no character development. This black-and-white film gave the impression of a home movie with its awkward camera angles and jerky camera motion. A true disaster, not even good enough to become a cult classic.
 
Just a few nights ago, I saw a film called “The Magician” about a traveling group of magicians that are stopped at a village by the police captain.

The script on its own could have been just a simple farce, but it’s filmed in a very ominous way, that it seems like a horror film.

It’s by Ingmar Bergman. And I think he put in a bit of an homage to Fellini. It features a short bit of Fellinesque music towards the end.

Max Von Sydow is in it. It took a bit to figure out who he is, because he is disguised.

For campy type weird, when I was about 12 I saw a film called “Frankenstein Created Woman”. Dr. Frankenstein captures the soul of a man who was wrongfully executed and put it into the body of his distraught lover who had killed herself.

She then seeks revenge.

Peter Cushing is in it. I haven’t seen it in decades.
 
Como Agua Para Chocolate. It’s a film based on a Mexican novel that we watched in AP Spanish class.
 
InNomineDomini said:
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It’s been a long time since I saw it, but Crimen Ferpecto stands out in my mind. I don’t think I’d watch it today, for various reasons. 🙂

Also—and this may just be because I’m a Philistine—but I never “got” 2001: A Space Odyssey. My memory of the film is that it was pretty weird, and I’m sure my wife had the same impression.
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I don’t know about weird, but 2001 was certainly the dullest film I ever sat through in a theater. We didn’t walk out because I kept saying to myself, and to my wife, “This is Kubrick. He’s a good director. It’s got to get better. Give it another ten minutes.”

It never did get any better. The best I could say for it is that the abstract bit at the end, with the colored lights flashing past, was marginally less dull than the tedious non-story that we’d had to sit through until then.
 
Mary_Gail_36 said:
Just a few nights ago, I saw a film called “The Magician” about a traveling group of magicians that are stopped at a village by the police captain.
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According to IMDB: “Distantly inspired by G.K. Chesterton’s play “Magic” which was a favorite of Ingmar Bergman’s. He staged a theater production of that play in Swedish.”
 
meltzerboy said:
The movie From Dusk till Dawn (1996) was weird in a good way. It belongs to the genre of pulp vampire biker film, and I think that in itself describes its weirdness. It was directed by Robert Rodriguez and with a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino. Recommended for those who like this weird film genre.
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Ah, yes that was a weird one. For the first half of the movie, I thought it was one type of movie. Then everything went in a completely different direction. It was very unexpected when I was watching it back then. That was before I had internet access, so everything was “spoiler-free” in those days. 🙂
 
I remember thinking David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” was pretty strange, at the time. Haven’t seen it in decades however. (I did recently rewatch “Dune” though - and wow, when you were in the eighties you just didn’t realize just how eighties the soundtrack was.)
 
tomarin said:
I remember thinking David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” was pretty strange, at the time. Haven’t seen it in decades however. (I did recently rewatch “Dune” though - and wow, when you were in the eighties you just didn’t realize just how eighties the soundtrack was.)
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Never seen Dune (I’d like to), but certainly the eighties, looking back at it, was naively cheesy in all areas of the entertainment industry. 😃 I used to love Excalibur but when I watched it years later (after having invited others to sit and watch it with me, certain that they would wonder in delight, why they’d never seen it), was abysmal - the attempts at making fog look as if it wasn’t really being poured out from a fog-machine failed to grand proportions, and soft-focus was obviously the only camera effect available which they overdid not by a little. The Labyrinth was kind of odd too - this film, combined with electrocuting myself on an electric fence, probably ensured a complete rewiring of said-brain, thus resulting in disturbingly weird dreams from then on in.
 
I thought Purgatory was a pretty weird movie, not as weird as 2001: A Space Odessey - but weird.
 
Mary_Gail_36 said:
That’s one of my favorite movies. But I greatly dislike Pedro, and think Tita would have been better with Dr. Brown.
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I also thought Tita would have been better off with Dr. Brown. It was just, there were so many weird parts. I don’t know, maybe it is just the nbature of foreign films. There was the cowboy carryinging away a naked woman on horseback, the several pounds of salt coming with Tita as she was born, and Tita setting the whole ranch on fire in the end. I could follow the story, but, I still had a feeling of “What just happened?” in the end.
 
I think the weirdest movie was “Diner”. It was like a bunch of people sitting around talking. How weird is that?

Also, “Dark City”.
 
Going to make a correction to my weirdest movies post earlier. I have three new ones now…

Weirdest surrealist Mexican film? By far El Angel Exterminador. Weird movie about a group of rich Mexican socialites who get supernaturally trapped in this one room of a mansion. For some reason they can’t leave, and others can’t enter the house until all of them are somehow back into the exact same positions they were when they got inexplicably stuck. Very surrealist for sure.

Weirdest acclaimed international film? The Italian live-action Pinocchio. Just… So many things I can’t explain.

Also weird was Sailor Moon: Black Dream Hole, in which an extraterrestrial witch kidnaps children and traps them in dreams, not unlike the Matrix, with the intention of trapping everyone in her dream boxes so that they can live a perfectly happy though illusory life. It was entertaining.
 
Kurisu35712 said:
Going to make a correction to my weirdest movies post earlier. I have three new ones now…

Weirdest surrealist Mexican film? By far El Angel Exterminador. Weird movie about a group of rich Mexican socialites who get supernaturally trapped in this one room of a mansion. For some reason they can’t leave, and others can’t enter the house until all of them are somehow back into the exact same positions they were when they got inexplicably stuck. Very surrealist for sure.

Weirdest acclaimed international film? The Italian live-action Pinocchio. Just… So many things I can’t explain.

Also weird was Sailor Moon: Black Dream Hole, in which an extraterrestrial witch kidnaps children and traps them in dreams, not unlike the Matrix, with the intention of trapping everyone in her dream boxes so that they can live a perfectly happy though illusory life. It was entertaining.
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Which version, the 1970’s version with Nino Manfredi as Geppetto and Gina Lollobrigida as the Blue Fairy?

Or the more recent one with Roberto Benigni?

The actual fable of Pinocchio is a pretty dark read, not like the Disney Version.
 
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