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.

Edited by Logan - December 30 2020 at 09:48

Oh and there is Begotten. What a nightmarish movie!

dwill123 wrote: Not quite a full movie (about 30 minutes) more like a short.

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Thry Live is creepy and very relevant today.

Really weird films that I really enjoy:

Liquid Sky (1982)

Pi (1998)

The Sacrifice (1986)

Moon (2009)

The Lobster (2015)

The Village (2004)

Cet Obscur Objet du Desir (1977)

The Party (1968)

Edited by BrufordFreak - December 30 2020 at 10:16

BrufordFreak wrote: ... Really weird films that I really enjoy: Cet Obscur Objet du Desir (1977) ...

Hi, 

Specially weird when Bunuel had to change the film several times because of the change of main actresses. I wish Fernando Rey had written about that experience ... but it was very much a Bunuel way to change things ... and Catherine Deneuve mentions it in her book, that when they did a scene, and somehow it didn't work, in the next day they would shoot the same scene with different dialogue and action ... !!!!!

Now, that is far out, extremely experimental, and, consequently, not surprising for Bunuel to still be able to make a film work ... despite anything!

Many strange films and I also liked Donnie Darko and Reflecting Skin.....

Edited by dr wu23 - December 31 2020 at 15:30

it is interesting to see what people call "weird". I would for example not call "Rashomon" (my favorite movie of all times) weird

MortSahlFan: Weird is so subjective as so alluded to. So indeed, anything that seems different what one is used to can seem weird. I expect that a lot of films that I like would seem weird to others. Your list doesn't strike me as weird (I won't say that I've seen all of them, but I have seen a lot of them -- many not for a very long time). Some films are going to seem more bizarre and surreal to me. A film like A Clockwork Orange is weird in its way and other films have their unusual moments (or scenarios). The Deer Hunter has a strangeness, and Ordet does for its fantasy qualities. Love M and I can see why you'd include it. Could also include The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari. And of course Fellini. Seem to recall without looking through it again that you mention La Dolce Vita (my mother was in the film in a scene but left on the cutting room floor). 8 and a Half and Satiricon are two I might well mention in a long list. And for those who like 8 and a Half, consider Greenaway's 8 and a Half Women (he has many oddities, and is a favourite filmmaker of mine).

Porcille is one that I love that could be called weird by some. So could something like The Man Who Fell to Earth. Something like Tetsuo may be more obviously weird, and a film like Funky Forest is deliberately bizarre (not a fave of mine -- too weird and icky for the sake of it I feel). Holy Motors and Gummo are a couple other favourite films that I would consider to be of the more bizarre quality (or The Bothersome Man, City of Lost Children, or On The Silver Globe as a sort of exercise in imagination)/And the modern faves of mine, Under the Skin and The Lobster. And various Lars von Trier could count.

Something I'd like to mention is Lindsay Anderson's If.. and O Lucky Man (which have dark comedy aspects, and then the third in that kind of Travis series was Britannia Hospital).

I'd love to curate a bizarre films festival -- mind you, I'd love to work on most any film festival. To some a film that depicts Jesus having a food fight at the last supper would be really weird.