CHAT What is your favorite “strange” film?

Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow

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Always enjoyed The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension

Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.
 
Gitche Gumee Kid

Gitche Gumee Kid

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Zardoz​






Zardoz is a 1974 science fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling. It depicts a post-apocalyptic world (which Boorman says, in the audio commentary, is matriarchal) where barbarians (the "Brutals") worship "Zardoz", a stone god with the power to grant either death or eternal life, and who—in the opening scene—declares: "The gun is good! The penis is evil!". In this future dystopia, while the Brutals live in a wasteland, their overlords (the "Eternals") luxuriate in the Vortex, apparently as self-satisfied landed gentry. The Eternals created Zardoz to control the Brutals, inciting them to mass murder. However, Zed (Sean Connery) refuses to accept the status quo and his place among the oppressed, embarking on a journey that explores the theme of genetic engineering and exposes the devastating truth about the corrupt society he lives in.

Boorman decided to make the film after his abortive attempt at dramatising The Lord of the Rings. Burt Reynolds was originally given the role, but he pulled out due to illness. Sean Connery, in an attempt to reinvent himself after portraying James Bond, signed on.[5] It was shot entirely in County Wicklow, in the east of Ireland, and used locations at the Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, Hollybrook Hall (now Brennanstown Riding School) in Kilmacanogue, and Luggala mountain for the dramatic wasteland sequences.[

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Macgyver

Macgyver

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This was given to me by a weird Aussie customer at work.

I couldn't get through it.

Bad Boy Bubby
Not Rated 1993 ‧ Drama/Comedy ‧ 1h 54m


After being kept a prisoner in his own home for 35 years, a man (Nicholas Hope) accidentally kills his parents and escapes into the real world.
Release date: April 26, 2005 (USA)
Director: Rolf de Heer
Budget: 800,000 AUD
Box office: 808,789 AUD

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Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

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Of those three, id only consider “Hellraiser” to be”strange.” The other two are straight horror films. Not really what I was looking for in This thread.
 
Loretta Van Riet

Loretta Van Riet

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I almost forgot: "Inside Daisy Clover"(1965). For me, one of the strangest films I ever saw as a "youth".

Natalie Wood plays a teenaged tomboy who gets "discovered" by Hollywood.

Why does Ruth Gordon always play" weird old lady roles"?
Christopher Plummer plays the handsome (but sleasy) studio Boss.
Robert Redford plays the Studio Male Lead Star with a twist.
 
Macgyver

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Dennis Olson said:
Of those three, id only consider “Hellraiser” to be”strange.” The other two are straight horror films. Not really what I was looking for in This thread.
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The shining is more of a suspense/ thriller flick. Only 2 people die in it. One axe kill and Nicolson freezing to death.
 
Doomer Doug

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A Boy and his dog circa 1975 with Don Johnson BEFORE he did Miami Vice. Do you love your dog with mustard or ketchup, Deñis ;)
 
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2ndAmendican

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Bad Times at the El Royale

Six strangers, (Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny and Lewis Pullman) each with their own secrets, meet at the El Royale hotel of Lake Tahoe. Taking place over one night, alliances are made and secrets are revealed.
 
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tanstaafl

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Loretta Van Riet said:
I almost forgot: "Inside Daisy Clover" (1965).
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Your "Daisy" reminded me of "Violet and Daisy" (2011). It's about two young girls (Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan) who are contract killers (with one hit of them dressed as nuns). I haven't been able to decide if it's supposed to ironic humor or what, but it definitely qualifies as "strange."
 
cimarron

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Freaks, 1932. Produced by Tod Browning.
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Freaks (1932) - IMDb

Freaks: Directed by Tod Browning. With Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates. A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
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Freakiest movie I've ever seen. no pun intended
 
mzkitty

mzkitty

I give up.
Blacknarwhal said:
But weird it assuredly was. Take a street punk and subject him to bizarre mind control techniques then watch how the center falls apart.
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Yes, weird it assuredly was. I could not believe some people sat around hatching that. It never should have entered people's consciousness, let alone try to make money off of it. I think it was a big flop anyway, but that's beside the point. At least nobody in the big movie houses booked it.

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bartp40

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Naked Lunch (1991)​

Legendary director David Cronenberg told EW in 1992, "I find that the more monster-y you go, the less provocative the creature is," which holds true in his interpretation of William S. Burroughs' seminal classic Naked Lunch and of the author himself. After Bill Lee (Peter Weller), an exterminator by profession, accidentally kills his wife (Judy Davis), he journeys to the Interzone, where "exterminating rational thought" becomes an important step in understanding the hallucinatory world to which he has brought his own subconscious of guilt and self-loathing. And that's before getting to the part about the giant beetles who talk through their sphincters, the beetles that turn into typewriters Lee works on, giant bugs which are sliced apart in an open market to become a black powder, and everyday caterpillars, just to name a few. (Mugwumps, however, are clearly not bugs, even though they still go "squish.")
 
Bridey Rose

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"Moonrise Kingdom is a 2012 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson and starring Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Tilda Swinton, and Jacob Schwartzman. Largely set on the fictional island of New Penzance somewhere off the coast of New England, it tells the story of an orphan boy (Jared Gilman) who escapes from a scouting camp to unite with his pen pal and love interest, a girl with aggressive tendencies (Kara Hayward). Feeling alienated from their guardians and shunned by their peers, the lovers abscond to an isolated beach. Meanwhile, the island's police captain (Willis) organizes a search party of scouts and family members to locate the runaways." [From Wikipedia]

Very quirky and heart-warming and entirely without zombies or decapitations.
 
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Blacknarwhal

Blacknarwhal

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mzkitty said:
Yes, weird it assuredly was. I could not believe some people sat around hatching that. It never should have entered people's consciousness, let alone try to make money off of it. I think it was a big flop anyway, but that's beside the point. At least nobody in the big movie houses booked it.

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I've often enjoyed the theatrical device of the "bigger bad," where a comparatively minor evil like Alex and his hoodlums run into a much bigger evil like the Ludovico mind control system. But Clockwork Orange was just so disjointed, weird, and atrocity-for-atrocity's-sake that it just didn't land well. Personally, I like a bigger bad where, say, bank robbers hide out in a haunted house laden with booby traps.
 
bartp40

bartp40

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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover​


English gangster Albert Spica has taken over the high-class Le Hollandais restaurant, which is managed by French chef Richard Boarst. Spica makes nightly appearances at the restaurant with his retinue of thugs. His oafish behavior causes frequent confrontations with the staff and his own customers, whose patronage he loses but whose money he seems not to miss.

Forced to accompany Spica is his reluctant yet elegant wife, Georgina, who soon catches the eye of a quiet regular at the restaurant: bookshop owner Michael. Under her husband's nose, with the help of the restaurant staff, Georgina carries on an affair with Michael. Ultimately Spica learns of the affair, forcing Georgina to hide out at Michael's book depository. Boarst sends food to Georgina through his young employee Pup, a boy sopranowho sings while working. Spica tortures the boy before finding the bookstore's location written in a book the boy is carrying. Spica's men storm Michael's bookshop while Georgina is visiting the boy in hospital. They torture Michael to death by force-feeding him pages from his books. Georgina discovers his body when she returns.

Overcome with rage and grief, she begs Boarst to cook Michael's body, and he eventually complies. Together with all the people that Spica wronged throughout the film, Georgina confronts her husband finally at the restaurant and forces him at gunpoint to eat a mouthful of Michael's cooked body. Spica obeys, gagging. Georgina then shoots him in the head, calling him a cannibal.

(Nearly lost the future wife over that one!)
 
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