Name a strange, hopefully good, movie that youve seen. Please bring forth something off the wall and not the standard Clock Work Orange type. (but that is a good movie by the way)
I recently watched a movie I havent seen since I was a kid. I can hardly remember seeing it back then but once it got going I knew right away I had seen it before.
Phantom of the Paradise
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071994/
This is one wacky movie and most certainly not for everyone. Its written and directed by legend Brian De Palma and a great look at his early work. I usually hate musicals but this one is much much more. Its horror, Comedy and a thriller too with a nice intro by Rod "Twillight Zone" Serling. I dislike The Rocky Horro Picture Show, mainly because Ive had to sit through it with a bunch of stoners many times but if anyone out there likes Rocky Horror, waste no time in checking this one out. Its much better in my opinion. If you don't like campy, weird type movies don't bother.
Plot Summary for
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
"Rock Opera version of Phantom Of The Opera with elements of Faust. Record producer Swan steals both the music and the girl (Phoenix) from composer Leach. Disfigured Leach plans revenge on Swan and his rock palace, The Paradise, and becomes The Phantom. Leach signs _contract_ with Swan to complete rock opera based on the life of Faust for Phoenix. Double crossed by Swan who hires _heavy metal_ singer Beef. Leach destroys himself and Swan."
I think its worth seeing if but only to see Gerrit Graham play Beef. Awsomely funny!
Hard as ever and here to make you people believe...as long as there is one person to hold hope and dream...A GOD...will never die!
The terrible attempt of musicians trying to make horror...
Dee Snyder's Strangeland
I enjoyed it enough for a viewing or two, as well as the music videos that came after the movie in the good 'ol VHS days. Particularly, this is where I first heard Coal Chamber.
And the pairing of Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Truama films:
Alferd Packer: The Musical!
[Interrupting the trappers' gruesome song about the joys of killing animals]
George Noon: Oh, stop!
James Humphrey: That's sick!
Frenchy Cabazon: I agree! Nutter was singing in the wrong key
!
Preston Nutter: No I wasn't! It was Loutzenheiser! I was singing in E flat minor.
Frenchy Cabazon: The SONG'S in F sharp major!
Shannon Bell: I think they're the same thing. I mean, E flat is the relative major of F sharp.
Frenchy Cabazon: No it isn't! The relative minor is three half-tones DOWN from the major, not up!
George Noon: No, it's three down. Like A is the relative minor of C major.
O.D. Loutzenheiser: But isn't A sharp in C major?
Shannon Bell: Wait, are you singing mixolydian scales or something?
“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.” - Florence Nightingale
City of Lost Children
http://imdb.com/title/tt0112682/
The evil Krank and his henchmen have been made by a mad scientist. Krank's problem is that he is tormented by his inability to dream. He finds it necessary to try to steal the dreams of children, but since they fear him, he only gets their nightmares. When a circus strongman's little brother is kidnapped, the strongman (One) tracks him down and, with the help of some other eccentric characters, tries to put an end to the evil reign of Krank and his Cyclops army.
Now stop being so freaking nice, and buy a stun gun. - Krell
Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)First of Abrahams, Zucker & Zucker wacky movies. Makers of Airplane, Scary Moive, Hot Shots.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076257/
One of the famous lines from the movie is were a newscaster is sitting behind his desk and says:
"I am not wearing any pants! Film at eleven!"
I do remember that satire rock version of Phantom of the Opera Mel. Been 20 yrs since I have seen it.
Seems a lot of people here like strange movies. I still watch Kentucky Fried Movie every once in a while if only to Usci (how you spell?) big ass tits. Dont forget to give John Landis credit for direction!
Another weird one I saw recently thats pretty good (maybe a tad artsy farsty) with absolutly amazing cinematography. (The use of colors are wonderful)
Suspiria
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076786/
A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing from the school. She returns to her apartment where she is gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the young American is trying to settle in at the ballet school, but hears strange noises and is troubled by bizarre occurrences. She eventually discovers that the school is merely a front for a much more sinister organization.
Tagline: The Only Thing More Terrifying Than The Last 12 Minutes Of This Film Are The First 92.
Ive been having to do a lot of reading about far out films because it seems like Ive seen and downloaded everything good.
Hard as ever and here to make you people believe...as long as there is one person to hold hope and dream...A GOD...will never die!
You may have missed out on some strange shit not seeing the whole series of Masters of Horror.
The episode "Cigarrette Burns" comes to mind:
The episode represents ground visited by Carpenter in his overlooked IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, in the sense that it involves the impact a piece of art has on its audience. Here, the art in question is a film entitled LA FIN ABSOLUTE DU MONDE (The Absolute End of the World). We discover the strange history of this film when a guy named Kirby (Norman Reedus) is summoned by an eccentric millionare named Bellinger (the wonderful Udo Kier). Bellinger is a disturbed guy who will pay any price to track down a copy of the infamous film. Why is it infamous? Well, when it was first screened, it led to serious violence among its viewers. It was then lost for good. Or was it?
“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.” - Florence Nightingale
Twin Peaks: Fire walk with me
the weirdest movie ever....but I thought it was cool
"Essentially a prequel to David Lynch and Mark Frost's earlier tv series "Twin Peaks". The first half-hour or so concerns the investigation by FBI Agent Chet Desmond into the murder of waitress Teresa Banks. The film then cuts to one year later and follows the events during one week in the life of Laura Palmer, a story which was later to motivate much of the series. Contains a considerable amount of sex, drugs, violence, very loud music and inexplicable imagery"
Time bandits is another.....
"A young boy's wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness where they confront Evil."
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In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Capturing the friedmans. It's a documentary but it is unreal.
A family who used to film themselves and documented their whole life on camera in the 70's. The father and son get arrested and charged with child porn. The camera still rolls throughout.
You see a normal surburban family fall apart from the inside out, all documented by themselves, very poignient.
This film came about entirely by accident in the 1990's when a documentary film maker chanced upon them for a mundane documentary about city life. It was then they produced their home tapes and this film was made.
Just writing about it makes me want to watch it again.
I always liked, Blue Velvet. Strange indeed....mommy! Don't fuck'n look at me!
Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong
Tetsuo
http://imdb.com/title/tt0096251/
shot in black and white, best movie ever made...
it has a sequel too but in my opinion its not as good as the first one.
Rest in peace mother
16.1.2006
You will always be with me.
Originally Posted by Excrement_Cranium
That movie ROCKS!
Also I think House of 1000 Corpses is weird, but yet its my fav movie, go figure...lol
1) the devils rejects http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395584/ which was part 2 of House of 1000 Corpses but i tought part 2 was better.
2)orgazmo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124819/ no it's not a porn movie but it is really wierd and funny.
The third film in the Three Mothers trilogy is being made (Suspiria being the first, Inferno the second)
You should check out another film by Argento called Profondo rosso aka Deep Red. It has more inventive death scenes and great prog rock soundtrack by Goblin (who composed the soundtrack to Suspiria)
My strange movie is:
EL TOPO
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067866/
Its a very strange western with some extreme 60's era LSD influenced symbolism. It out lynches David Lynch.See the naked young Franciscans whipped with cactus. See the bandit leader disemboweled. See the priest ride into the sunset with a midget and her newborn baby. What it all means isn't exactly clear, but you won't forget it.
Dark Crystal was one of the wackiest, another one comes to mind but the name of it doesnt. Its like computer generated enemies with humans being in the scene with them, it lookes so fake and corny. Cant think of the title. Its stupid to say the least.
Tron with Jeff Bridges?
Logans Run was not so weird but it was cool....
I wonder if they are still going to do the remake
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In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
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