Your favourite off-beat, strange films

^ Creepy flying moneys. shudders

^^ Harold and Maude is one of my all-time favourite films, and I was on a massive Lynch kick some months ago. I watched Eraserhead again, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, all of Twin Peaks TV, Lost Highway. And I love Mullholland Drive, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet etc. Watching Eraserhead again was a film that spurred me into making this topic (I did a too similar one before, but I felt I started off too list heavy and wanted this to be more about other people's choices than my own). I've got many hundreds of weird and wonderful films that I love.

I like They Live too.

As For Lucifer Rising, which I've seen, the Bonby Beausoleil* soundtrack is one of my favourite albums in PA (the fact that it was made in prison by a convicted murderer involved with the Manson family might concern some, or for others somewhat add to the intrigue). Jimmy Page's version is cool too, but he had a falling out with Anger.

Another I'll mention is Tampopo and the Australian film Bliss (a sort of dark comedy).

EDIT: I mean Bobby Beausoleil. Funny typo as I had tried to correct it from my original typo which was Booby Beausoleil.

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^^ Similar to Friede's list on page one. I think it's awesome that you two share such similar tastes. I wish my partner and I had more in common (although we used to share the same love of art house film) and she being east Asian got me more into Asian film. My wife is the hardworking pragmatic engineer and I'm the lazy dreamer who she often tolerates (I can be insufferable). I'm hardly complaining. I think if it weren't for her I might be living on the streets as a drug addict instead of living in a nice house with a fairly comfortable lifestyle.

^ @Jean, you or your partner Friede mentioned Malpertuis somewhere months ago. It is also one of my favourite movies, and can be mentioned here, I guess.

^ Good to hear that. BTW, we both are Pisceans. We cannot have "normal" minds. So perhaps you had better see yours as "peculiar" rather than "flawed". 

Note: Astrology, my ass... But sadly it affects us, or at least, me. Just as any "dominant" cultural production, like Shakespeare's plays. Even if one is an illiterate person and has never ever read anything about Shakespeare, his/her view on life, death, love etc. are affected by his productions. At least, that is my point of view.

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^ Haha. Awesome post. Wouldn't it be nice to see some "Sub-Zero"s, "Scorpion"s in the streets? With all their masks and in a Mortal Kombat with Covid-19? On a second thought, AREN'T WE ALL LIKE THAT NOWADAYS? 

Hellraiser series is generally watchable, and I'm again with you about the first 2 movies being the best among them. [The 7th (Deader) and 8th (Hellworld) are also pretty cool.] I couldn't bear to watch the 10th movie, till the end. It was just horrible. A Hellraiser TV series could be cool indeed. I have a very faint memory about a news regarding such a plan, but I'm not sure.

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^ Yup, seen BM - Bandersnatch. It was as you said, but I prefer the "regular" Black Mirror episodes. 

^ Donnie Darko is awesome! I'm also with you about Los Cronocrimenes. And sometimes non-American fantasy/sci-fi stuff can be a breath of fresh air.

^ I like Braindead and Bad Taste.

Some other favourites of mine: The Reflecting Skin, La Planète sauvage, Donnie Darko, which I rewatched last night, and Los Cronocrímenes (Timecrimes). Timecrimes is not that well-known, but I find it to be such a satisfying time travel film. It has a rather surreal feel to it while also have a consistent internal logic, which means that there is method in any madness.

As for Guy Maddin, yep I know and like him, both as somebody into the strange, and as a Canadian. The first thing I saw of his (it was on late night Canadian TV) was Tales from the Gimli Hospital, which is his feature film debut.

For a short film, this is a favourite odd one of mine (a little twisted, one might say): Mompelaar (Mumbler): https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2013/10/26/mompelaar-mumbler/

Beautifully shot and deliciously absurd.

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The East German cult sci-fi movie, In the Dust of the Stars (1976), with music by Soft Machine.