CHAT What is your favorite “strange” film?
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Grumphau
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12 Monkeys is one of my favorites too
Grumphau
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I'm not really one for the horror genre, but I did "enjoy" Hellraiser. The idea of the Cenobites and their dimension of sensuality was fascinating to me, but I felt like the later movies watered down the supernatural aspects too much - aka the origin of Pinhead just being some dude instead of something more akin to an "Angel of Suffering".
Grumphau
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My favorite weird movie was "Altered States" (1980).
It's about a university researcher who uses sensory isolation tanks to devolve into a prehistoric ape, and then other "hilarity" ensues.
It's incredibly strange. I used to show it at Terrible Movie parties that I used to host when I had time and friends (lol).
It's about a university researcher who uses sensory isolation tanks to devolve into a prehistoric ape, and then other "hilarity" ensues.
It's incredibly strange. I used to show it at Terrible Movie parties that I used to host when I had time and friends (lol).
Blacknarwhal
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...though also, in the vein of "bigger bad,' I also liked "Scarecrows." It's a 1988 film about a paramilitary group who robs an army base payroll. One of the group double-crosses them and runs off with most of the take. The rest chase him down to a crumbling farmhouse with scarecrows outside. The scarecrows are actually animated horrors hungry for blood, and the paramilitary thieves will do just fine.
You can actually watch the whole thing on YouTube, apparently. 1 hour 23 minutes.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Mj7qxt7-8
You can actually watch the whole thing on YouTube, apparently. 1 hour 23 minutes.
bartp40
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Profit of Doom
Dismember
Set next year. If we’re not careful, we tailgate the future.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
Profit of Doom
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And we definitely do not want to tailgate.
Greenspode
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The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane, staring a very young Jodie Foster as a child who lives alone, pretending her father is still alive by using the plan they developed before he died so that she would not be sent to live with her mother.
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And, one of my favorite movies Seeking a Friend For the End of the World, starring Steve Carell and Kiera Knightly. The crazy is strong when the world is about the end in a collision with a giant asteroid. I think this movie is hilarious, as well as quite touching in many ways.
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) ⭐ 7.0 | Drama, Horror, Mystery
1h 31m | PG
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And, one of my favorite movies Seeking a Friend For the End of the World, starring Steve Carell and Kiera Knightly. The crazy is strong when the world is about the end in a collision with a giant asteroid. I think this movie is hilarious, as well as quite touching in many ways.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) ⭐ 6.7 | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
1h 41m | R
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Greenspode
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Inspired by your post, I just watched this movie and loved it! Thank you for recommending! Do you know there is a sequel? About to watch it now.a must watch
From one of the acclaimed writers of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone comes a story that transcends both time and space...
A Man From Earth
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.
This is a movie to provoke deep thought and conversation and that dares to challenge mainstream beliefs. It is one of the most intensely engaging dramas that I have had the pleasure to see. Excellent ensemble performances created believably real characters, each with his or her own fallibilities, personal credo, and enthusiasms.
The movie is basically a conversation amongst college professors. So if you are looking for serial murders, chase scenes, or shoot-outs, you won't find it here. If you enjoy thought experiments and intelligent discourse, and appreciate what it means to accept your friends for who they are, see this.
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I love movie threads!
I'm am very much a consumer of non-fiction film and the printed word but once and awhile something is so offbeat and so different that one is almost compelled to take the plunge.
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is a 1992 psychological horror[3][4] film directed by David Lynch and written by Lynch and Robert Engels. It serves as a prequel to the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991), created by Mark Frost and Lynch, who were also executive producers. It revolves around the investigation into the murder of Teresa Banks (Pamela Gidley) and the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), a popular high school student in the fictional Washington town of Twin Peaks. Unlike the series, which was an uncanny blend of detective fiction, horror, the supernatural, offbeat humor, and soap opera tropes,[5][6][7] the film has a much darker, less humorous tone.[8]
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is a 1992 psychological horror[3][4] film directed by David Lynch and written by Lynch and Robert Engels. It serves as a prequel to the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991), created by Mark Frost and Lynch, who were also executive producers. It revolves around the investigation into the murder of Teresa Banks (Pamela Gidley) and the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), a popular high school student in the fictional Washington town of Twin Peaks. Unlike the series, which was an uncanny blend of detective fiction, horror, the supernatural, offbeat humor, and soap opera tropes,[5][6][7] the film has a much darker, less humorous tone.[8]
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Twin Peaks- Fire Walk With Me - Official Trailer
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1911user
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It's not a personal favorite, but Dogma (1999) probably belongs in this thread.
An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120655/
An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120655/
Babs
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a must watch
From one of the acclaimed writers of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone comes a story that transcends both time and space...
A Man From Earth
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.
This is a movie to provoke deep thought and conversation and that dares to challenge mainstream beliefs. It is one of the most intensely engaging dramas that I have had the pleasure to see. Excellent ensemble performances created believably real characters, each with his or her own fallibilities, personal credo, and enthusiasms.
The movie is basically a conversation amongst college professors. So if you are looking for serial murders, chase scenes, or shoot-outs, you won't find it here. If you enjoy thought experiments and intelligent discourse, and appreciate what it means to accept your friends for who they are, see this.
Thanks! DH & I are sitting down to watch it now. Free on Youtube.
Intestinal Fortitude
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apparently there is (Look on the thread up above )
heelgeneral
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I thought I was the only one who liked that movie, and I was a bit shocked to see this post.
It seemed so far-fetched back in the mid-90's. Now half the kids I teach when I ask them what they got for Christmas tell me about the VR headsets they got.
Strange days are here indeed.
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
How 'bout an oldie but goodie?
Anyone here ever see / remember "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao"?
Probably not shown on TV anymore because someone thinks it's "Cultural Appropriation"...
(3:12) The Trailer says it all---
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOvqqD8kVw0d
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I most certainly remember it.
Pat Hogen
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I was overawed by this movie when I first saw it, clearly remember that the muse Apollonius could not lie;
- Apollonius of Tyana : Tomorrow will be like today, and the day after tomorrow will be like the day before yesterday. I see your remaining days as a tedious collection of hours full of useless vanities. You will think no new thoughts. You will forget what little you have known. Older you will become, but not wiser. Stiffer, but not more dignified. Childless you are, and childless you will remain. Of that suppleness you once commanded in your youth, of that strange simplicity which once attracted men to you, neither endures, nor shall you recapture them.
Mrs. Cassin : You're a mean, ugly man!
Apollonius of Tyana : Mirrors are often ugly and mean. When you die, you will be buried and forgotten, and that is all. And for all the good or evil, creation or destruction, your living might have accomplished, you might just as well never have lived at all. I'm sorry, but, you see, it is my curse to tell the absolute truth.
Doomer Doug
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The choice was feeding the girl to his mentally sensitive dog so they both could survive topside, or kill the dog and die in a sex orgy. Hence do you want ketchup or mustard on thevdog ot the girl. God I loved that movie.
1911user
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Another favorite that easily fits this strange thread.
Nomads - 1986 - with Pierce Brosnan and Leslie-Anne Down. (and Adam Ant, Mary Woronov, Alan Autry, Frank Doubleday...)
Summary: A French anthropologist specializing in nomadic groups moves to Los Angeles with his wife. He starts following a group of sinister street punks who seem to live and constantly move around in a black van. But they aren't what they seem.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091647/
It's on youtube in good quality. 1 hr 27 min, however this is an edited version as the full R-rated movie is 1 hr 32 min.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTxvtrn71aI
Nomads - 1986 - with Pierce Brosnan and Leslie-Anne Down. (and Adam Ant, Mary Woronov, Alan Autry, Frank Doubleday...)
Summary: A French anthropologist specializing in nomadic groups moves to Los Angeles with his wife. He starts following a group of sinister street punks who seem to live and constantly move around in a black van. But they aren't what they seem.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091647/
It's on youtube in good quality. 1 hr 27 min, however this is an edited version as the full R-rated movie is 1 hr 32 min.
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homepark
Resist
King of Hearts (1966) - IMDb
King of Hearts: Directed by Philippe de Broca. With Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Brialy, Geneviève Bujold, Adolfo Celi. During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.
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Around 1970, my boyfriend at the time and I went to one of those little art-house theaters to see an obscure film.
It was so awful and so evil, that to this day I will never describe it to anyone or even tell you the title.
Invocation of My Demon Brother?
mzkitty
I give up.
Not that one either. I should never have mentioned it. See, I just didn't want anybody to ever think about what was in that movie. As far as I'm concerned, humanity should never have seen it. I mean, even eye bleach wouldn't work.
homepark
Resist
I Remember (1973) - IMDb
I Remember: Directed by Federico Fellini. With Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noël, Ciccio Ingrassia. A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
www.imdb.com
homepark
Resist
Fellini Satyricon - Official Trailer | IMDb
A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.
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Probably the strangest of the 3!