What is the weirdest movie you ever saw?

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Mary_Gail_36 said:
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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The Benigni one. Part of the reason it was so weird was because we watched it dubbed in English, so Roberto’s voice did not match him at all. Other than that though, just the plot and dialogue were strange to me, although Disney Pinocchio was never one of my favorites to begin with.
 
Kurisu35712 said:
The Benigni one. Part of the reason it was so weird was because we watched it dubbed in English, so Roberto’s voice did not match him at all. Other than that though, just the plot and dialogue were strange to me, although Disney Pinocchio was never one of my favorites to begin with.
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I never could watch the Benigni one, and the dubbing annoyed me as well, I watched perhaps 45 seconds once.

The one with Gina Lolabrigida is pretty good, although it’s been about 30 years since I’ve seen it.
 
Texas chain saw massacre, never will I watch it again, makes my flesh crawl.
 
Cold Heaven.
A weird movie about the husband of an adulterous wife; the husband is killed but comes back to life and appears to become ill again whenever his wife considers going on with her affair. There’s some kind of religious event in the end, which no one seems able to figure out.
Just bizarre.

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I would say Dementia – a 1950’s art film with no dialogue about a young woman who wanders through a nightmarish world in which she may or may not have committed a murder.

The film was re-released under the title of Daughter of Horror with added narration apparently designed to help the viewer understand what was going on. Narration was done by The Tonight Show’s Ed McMahon.

The film is best known today for being the film showing in the theatre that The Blob attacks.
 
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. but it was intentionally experimental so I don’t know if it’s fair. It’s a 1920s film with a twist ending.

More fairly: , Millenniuma 1980s SF flick about a group of people and robots in the Doomed Future who are trying to save the human race by going back into time, knicking the people who are about to die in airplane crashes, and then shoving them into some portal to be fruitful and multiply elsewhere
 
Hi meltzerboy I really think Kingdom Of The Spiders was weird at the end of the movie the spiders spun spider webs that trapped the whole town
 
Potter said:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. but it was intentionally experimental so I don’t know if it’s fair. It’s a 1920s film with a twist ending.
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That was a silent wasn’t it? I remember vaguely seeing it at the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square one summer years ago. Visually still memorable as a classic of German expressionism.
 
Howl’s Moving Castle and (what I saw of) Spirited Away.

I haven’t seen a whole lot of weird live-action movies, but Strictly Ballroom comes to mind (not that I didn’t like it).
 
catholicmoviene said:
Howl’s Moving Castle and (what I saw of) Spirited Away.

I haven’t seen a whole lot of weird live-action movies, but Strictly Ballroom comes to mind (not that I didn’t like it).
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I would say (for me of course) the sense of wonder outweighed and intertwined with the sense of weird in those two films.
 
Godzilla: Final Wars is weird in the best way possible: it’s a ripoff of The Matrix, Star Wars, X-Men, Independence Day, and, of course, Godzilla. Everything’s so over-the-top that it’s hilarious, especially the main villain who’s basically the most entertaining bad guy you’ve never heard about. The terrible English voice acting (as well the few actual American actors) is the icing on the cake, despite its borderline anti-Christian content (it comes up with an unbiblical origin for the human race, and there’s a brief appearance by what can be inferred to be an assassin dressed as a priest.)
 
Definitely by far the weirdest movie I’ve ever seen is The Never-Ending Story. I saw that when I was a kid and it creeped me out. I just can’t even describe how weird that movie is.
 
Dark City was definitely a strange film, but I enjoyed its film noir atmosphere. It’s actually one of my favourite movies, but I would put it up there as one of the more bizarre ones I’ve seen.

The weirdest movie for me though was probably Donnie Darko. It’s about a troubled teenager who receives warnings and visions from a monstrous bunny named Frank about the end of the world. I just couldn’t get my head around this…monstrous bunny figure. That’s named Frank. :ehh: I can’t remember the rest of the movie very clearly as it was just a bizarre jumble of events. I could not make heads nor tails of it.

It’s supposed to be a cult classic, but I just can’t understand it. Maybe it’s supposed to be a strange coming-of-age story? Who knows.
 
adrift said:
The Loved One not only the weirdest but the most depressing.
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I’ve never seen that (although I read the novel by Evelyn Waugh many moons ago) but your post reminded me of a very perverse and yes creepy movie called “The Day of the Locust” with David Sutherland. It’s a strange sight to see Natalie Shafer who played Lovie Howell on “Gilligan’s Island” playing a bored brothel madame here. A very nihilistic film.
 
I thought "Apocalypse Now "was the strangest movie I had ever seen when I first saw it. But then I took a literature class in high school where the required text was Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”, on which the movie is based. The teacher paired the discussion of the book with an in-class showing and discussion of the movie. From that point on, I completely “got it” and now see that movie as the brilliant piece of work that it is.
 
When I was in my early teens I saw parts of the movie “Rhinoceros,” (1974). Bizarre.
 
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