The Wierd, The Orginal, The Shocking

[dwightfry]

I am a HUGE fan of strange, original, shocking, and or depressing movies. Movies that you experience... not just watch. I'm on on a quest to find more. Here are the lists that I have compiled from the posts. I will continue updating it so check in often.

If a movie was mentioned and isn't on this list then I probably didn't think the movie fit the list well enough.


Need to see list: ( I haven't seen these yet, watch at your own risk ;) )

Wild at Heart
Frailty
Audition
Dead ringes
secretary
fear and loathing in las vegas (I know, it's amazing that I haven't seen this yet)
the wicker man
1979 version of nosferatu
Original nosferatu
paris,texas
Frailty
Angel Heart
Videodrome
Believers
Existenz
Caught Up
Flatliners
The First Power
Scanners
2 Days In The Valley
Bound
Barton Fink
Blood Simple
Life is Beautiful
Sophies Choice
El Norte
City of Lost Children
May
Company of Wolves
Six-String Samuraie
Baron Munchausen
Cemetery Man
River's Edge
Gummo
David Lynch- 3 short movies
Focus
L.I.E. Long Island Express
Y tu mama Tambien
Brazil
Clean, Shaven
Julien Donkeyboy
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Deliverence
Spider
Nightbreed
Rabid
talk to her
grave of the fireflies
Delicatessen
pumpkin
Ash Wednesday
The Doom Generation
The Gift
May
birdy
Lilja 4-ever
Songs from the second floor
A Mighty Wind
Lost Highway
Solaris
Trilogy Of Terror





Movies I recommend:
( * = The best of the best IMO)
(^ = Just barely makes it on the list, still a great movies though)

*Requiem for a dream
Memento
Mulholland Drive
Eraserhead
Vanilla Sky
Magnolia
*SLC punk
Train Spotting
Seven
*12 monkeys
*being john malcovitch
*adaptation
dark city
*Donnie Darko
What to do in case of fire
Clockwork Orange
Fight Club
Stir Of Echoes
*The Others
Sixth Sense
13th Floor
*Arlington Road
^*Boondock Saints (My second favorite movie ever...but not that strange or anything)
*Falling Down
The Game
^Idle Hands
Suicide Kings
Pulp Fiction
Go
*The Big Lebowski
Army of Darkness
Salton Sea
Man who wasn't there
Twilight Zone Movie
Dead Zone
*Pi
*kids
*punch drunk love
Lord Of The Flies (original and the remake) (I loved the book)
Jaccob's ladder
*Storytelling
Spun
Amelie
BUG
*Run Lola, Run
Gummo
American Movie
1984
^Rocky Horror Picture Show
AMerican Phsyco


Please continue listing movies that you think would fit even if they have already been listed. The more people suggest the movie, the better it probably is.

[chalice]

You mentioned Eraserhead but all David Lynch's film apply.
Wild at Heart
Blue Velvet
The Elephant man.

Also
Terry Gilliam's Brazil and Time Bandits.
Twelve Monkeys is pretty warped.

Being John Malkevitch
Adaptation.

[dwightfry]

12 monkeys, The Elephant Man, Being John Malcovitch (SP?), and DEFINITLY Adaptation are all on my list. I've rented Brazil 3 times but never had time to watch it.

I've added Brazil, Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet to my 'gotta see' list. I am also thinking about going out and buying the DVD set of Twin Peaks. I haven't seen a single episode of it, my brother was obsessed for a while there, I am very curious.



Mulholland Drive is David Lynch also, if you haven't seen it, check it out. If you don't get it, don't worry, neither did I. You can watch it a second time and hope you catch on, or just go read enough reviews and you'll understand.

[FatRiff]

time bandits is great, its odd, funny, and the ending is perfect.

especially if you love movies in which the main characters are 6 midgets. :lol:

[qwertykeys]

Se7en - starring Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt.

[sickmonkey]

Twin Peaks is exellent m8 and you can get all the episodes if u look hard enough.Id reccommend 'Identity' if you have'nt already seen it,very strange,good directing,acting,plot ect.And you will NEVER guess the ending.Heres a few more:

Dark City.(weird)
Audition(shocking)
Vanilla Sky(weird)
Frailty(Damn good film,shocking)

[ck-uk]

With a few already mentioned ..i thought Dead ringes(Jereny Irons) and Jacobs Ladder(Tim Robbins) are a bit Fucked up and wierd.

[MetroStars]

U will not get any wierder than Twin Peaks

[sickmonkey]

Jacobs ladder is fecked up,its very good though.

[shad0w]

Donnie Darko (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0246578)

[MetroStars]

How did i forget Donnie Darko, man that movie is gr8...

A movie i found rather strange and weird was a Clockwork Orange...

[Loomis]

Not to sound too mainstream, but I thought Fight Club had it's fair share of bizarre twists........although it may hit home with a few to many from NY, NY.

And If you haven't seen Dr. Strangelove, SEE IT!! Magnificently strange, as is EVERYTHING Kubrick has done....


btw, cudos to all those who truly appreciated the movie Adaptation! Too many have overlooked this film....

- Loomy

[neil1967]

the royal tenenbaums was quite interesting, also check out secretary,fear and loathing in las vegas and the wicker man, oh and werner herzogs 1979 version of nosferatu is good. to many good movies already mentioned and some i'll have to checkout myself :)

[neil1967]

just remembered, paris,texas.

[EoN]

Fight Club. Not the strangest but a great movie :lol:

[Busyman]

Frailty
Stir Of Echoes
Angel Heart
Videodrome
Halloween III: Season Of The Witch
Believers
Existenz
Hellraiser 2
Hellraiser Inferno
Jacob's Ladder
The Others
Sixth Sense
13th Floor
Arlington Road
Boondock Saints
Caught Up
Eyes Wide Shut
Falling Down
Flatliners
The First Power
The Game
Idle Hands
Imposter
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (remake)
Phantasm
Scanners
Suicide Kings
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Browne
2 Days In The Valley
Bound
Go
Cube
Cube 2: Hypercube
Creepshow
Creepshow 2
Tales From The Hood
just about any ep of The Outer Limits (current)

MORE?

[chrish123171]

Original:
1. Braveheart
2. The Crow
Those are the only movies I would need if I was on a deserted island. The Weird
1. Anything by the Coen brothers
2. Barton Fink
3. Blood Simple
4.O Brother Where Art Thou
5. The Big Lebowski
Ditto for the David Lynch movies.I've got Twin Peaks beat If you have never seen The Singing Detective Then buy it now it is one the stranest f**king shows I've ever seen.Red Dwarf is A comedy but also good The Sick
1. One movie the sickest movie I've ever seen : AUDITION in japanese, UNBELEIVABLE!
Depressing
1. Pay it forward
2.El Norte'
Life is Beautiful
3. Sophies Choice
4. Dead Man Walking
I could go on all day :blink:

[Locke the Superman]

Director's Cut edition of Army of Darkness is really shocking and depressing once you've seen it beginning to end.

[rottenchild]

Strange movies which f-ing rocked:

eXistenZ
City of Lost Children
Donnie Darko
May
Company of Wolves
Six-String Samuraie
Baron Munchausen
Cemetery Man
River's Edge
Salton Sea
A Clockwork Orange

Seriously, these movies are the best "strange" movies that I have ever seen.

[Yogi]

Gummo - Harmony Korine

David Lynch- 3 short movies

But, i'm a cheerleader!!

Beautifull Girls

The Real Cancun (watch it as cult......, it's depressing, though......)

Focus (with William h. Macey&Laura Dern)

More to follow......

:rolleyes: Yogi

[Yogi]

More:

L.I.E. Long Island Express

Man who wasn't there

Y tu mama Tambien

Trainspotting

Brazil

Clean, Shaven

Clockwork Orange (Classic!)

Memento

Being John Malkovich

Julien Donkeyboy

More to come........


:P Yogi

[Busyman]

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Deliverence
12 Monkeys
Twilight Zone Movie

everyone keep 'em coming

I'm downloadin' and using my Blockbuster free rentals on the ones I haven't seen.
;)
I will say that the most weird and strange one on these lists so far has to be

VIDEODROME weird as shit!!!! :huh:
but it's also made by David Cronenberg who made eXistenZ, Spider, Dead Ringers, Scanners, Crash (about a group of people who like having car accidents in an almost sexual way, has James Spader), Nightbreed, Rabid, The Fly, and Dead Zone.

So David Cronenberg also gets the WEIRD ASS DIRECTOR AWARD!!! :lol:
for his collection of strange but also entertaining movies.

[kalashnikov]

Pi
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
kids

[cocothemonkey]

many were already mentioned here but here's some:


talk to her

death to smoochy

*the most depressing movie.. EVER*

grave of the fireflies

punch drunk love

pumpkin




there's more but I can't think of them right now

[Busyman]

Lord Of The Flies (original and the remake)
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas

[Assultsniper]

Brazil is a perfect movie for you! definetivly the saddest and most procative movie ever you'l have to watch it at least 4 times to understand most of the movie! and the cube it may be sick it is depressing and Provocative though.

[chalice]

Assault Sniper, I'm forced to agree about Brazil.
Interestingly, on release it had all the hallmarks of an Alan Smithee film.
When Gilliam tried to release the full movie in American theatres it was butchered by the censors. The ending, which I consider essential (I won't spoil it) was changed to a somewhat happier conclusion.
Gilliam took out full page ads in The New York Times asking when his movie would be released.
The climax of events was Gilliam et al locking the doors of a New York cinema until the director's full vision was shown.

[ludd!te]

Try Delicatessen, bit of cannibalism in post-apocalyptic france.
Very weird and nasty, lashings of black humour.

Avalon: kind of a Polish version of The Matrix.

[dwightfry]

FANTASTIC feedback, thanks!!!! Feel free to continue, I'll continue updating the list as I go. If I didn't include a movie mentioned in my list either I had seen it and didn't care for it, or more likely, I didn't think it fit in the strange, original, shocking catagory...or I just missed it.

Need to see list:

Blue Velvet
Wild at Heart
Frailty
Audition
Dead ringes
Jacobs Ladder
secretary
fear and loathing in las vegas (I know, it's amazing that I haven't seen this yet)
the wicker man
1979 version of nosferatu
Original nosferatu
paris,texas
Frailty
Angel Heart
Videodrome
Believers
Existenz
Caught Up
Flatliners
The First Power
Scanners
2 Days In The Valley
Bound
Barton Fink
Blood Simple
Life is Beautiful
Sophies Choice
El Norte
City of Lost Children
May
Company of Wolves
Six-String Samuraie
Baron Munchausen
Cemetery Man
River's Edge
Gummo
David Lynch- 3 short movies
Focus
L.I.E. Long Island Express
Y tu mama Tambien
Brazil
Clean, Shaven
Julien Donkeyboy
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Deliverence
Spider
Nightbreed
Rabid
talk to her
grave of the fireflies
Delicatessen










Movies I recommend: ( * - The best of the best IMO)

*Requiem for a dream
Memento
Mulholland Drive
Eraserhead
Vanilla Sky
Magnolia
*SLC punk
Train Spotting
Seven
*12 monkeys
*being john malcovitch
*adaptation
dark city
*Donnie Darko
What to do in case of fire
Clockwork Orange
Fight Club
royal tenenbaums
Stir Of Echoes
*The Others
Sixth Sense
13th Floor
*Arlington Road
*Boondock Saints (My second favorite movie ever...but not that strange or anything)
*Falling Down
The Game
Idle Hands
Suicide Kings
Pulp Fiction
Go
O Brother Where Art Thou
*The Big Lebowski
Evil dead 1,2
Army of Darkness
Salton Sea
But, i'm a cheerleader
Man who wasn't there
Twilight Zone Movie
Dead Zone
*Pi
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
*kids (Still had it flaws, I wish I could have given the writer some advice before it was filmed)
*punch drunk love
pumpkin
Lord Of The Flies (original and the remake) (I loved the book)




is '*the most depressing movie.. EVER*' the movie title, or just a comment?

[Dapadipz]

now thats a LIST B)

[dwightfry]

Watched Jakob's ladder yesterday. It has definetly added to my recommendation list.

[spiderswims]

Original: Ash Wednesday
Boodock Saints
The Crow
The Doom Generation
The Gift
Island of Dr. moreau
Storytelling
May
Spun
12 Monkeys
UHF
Usual Suspects
Weird,Shocking, and Original yet not good: Freddy Got Fingered

[dwightfry]

I have put the list on the first post. I will update it often.

[internet.news]

Birdy (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086969)

[ahctlucabbuS]

Lots of good movies here, and a few crappy ones (Vanilla Sky comes to mind :rolleyes: )

Anyway, what about "Lilja 4-ever" (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Lilya4Ever-1121695/)? One damn good movie!

You can find it on bittorrent (http://www.browni.com/suprnova/list_news.html)

As for "jacobs ladder" I´ve been trying to download that film of kazaa for ages, but there are so few sources for it. Where did you get your copy Dwightfry?

edit: url

[ahctlucabbuS]

Oh and what about "Amelie" (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Amelie-1110972/) the french movie. Amazing movie, possibly one of the best films I´ve ever seen.

Also this swedish movie "Songs from the second floor" (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/SongsfromtheSecondFloor-1115333/) is also a great flick.

In case you haven´t watched any of these, they are highly recomended :)

[Busyman]

Is it weird though? (like May or Videodrome)

[ahctlucabbuS]

If you ask me Liya 4-ever is shocking
Amelie is original
and Songs from the second floor is pretty damn original/wierd.

[Busyman]

ok i'll dl them.
thanks ;) man

[Is_this_name_taken_already]

:angry: How can you not have Monty Python and the Holy Grail and UHF on that list. Those two are clasics

[metaleed]

u want weird, try Best of Show, Spinal Tap, and A Mighty Wind....those guys are funny, strange, and weird....awesome movies

[dwightfry]

First off, I just watched a movie called Bug. It starts with a kid squishing a bug which causes a huge chain of reactions between a bunch of strangers. Very good movie.

@Barky: I rented Jacob's ladder.

@is_this_name... : UHF and Monty Python are GREAT movies, but I don't think they fit the list. The same goes for Best of Show, and This is Spinal Tap. They are original, but not the type of original that I'm looking for....I don't really know how to explain it.


I have also added 'Run Lola, Run' to the list. If you liked 'Amelie', try 'Run Lola, Run' ;)

[Busyman]

Solaris has a weird mood.

I don't know how I forgot this one.....

LOST HIGHWAY

(the scene with Robert Blake (the wife killer) and the cell phone is eerie as shit!!!)

[dwightfry]

I watched Gummo yesterday, I am putting in on the list, but only as a work of art, not as an entertaining movie.

I also added American Movie. It is a amature documentory about an amature film maker making a film.

[opivykid]

Like someone has already said, "Se7en" is amazing. Definitly one of the best movies ever.
EDIT = *Also, can someone give me a good sig2dat thing for Brazil, and Lord Of The Flies (book and/or the movie)"?

[Dalegas]

-1984

Already posted but, great!
-Being John Malkovich
-City of Lost Children
-Twin Peaks.

[ZLOsiris]

dont know if it was mentioned but AMerican Phsyco was pretty good with a few good twists/

[Busyman]

Trilogy Of Terror (the original) ;)

The African doll story beats Chucky hands down!!!

[paulncarole]

:unsure: Has anyone seen "Laserhawk"? It`s cheesy, corny, low budget, the actors suck and the story is... how should I say this??? "Choppy" Even though I`ve mentioned all these negative things about it... I liked it, aliens seeding earth millions of years ago to come to eat our asses in the now. Something about that that makes me think......[QUOTE]Save the Brain Forest

[ahctlucabbuS]

"Save the brain forest" :lol:

Sounds like a classic to me :P

[dwightfry]

Added Trilogy of Terror and laserhawk to my 'Must see' list

Added 1984 to recomendation list.

[Gutter]

The Salton Sea is a great flick! :D



sorry if it&#39;s been mentioned <_<

[jii_m]

Faces Of Death (http://www.facesofdeath.com/) :wacko:
Ichi The Killer (http://www.ichi-the-killer.com) :x

[Marius24]

u want strange :huh: i would recommend :wub: The Fimbles :wub: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/fimbles/) sure it isnt a film but it still rocks :lol:


watch away :beerchug:

[Mr. Mulder]

The New Dragon Gate Inn, a very strange film. For those of you in the UK who watch Outthere on Channel 5, The New Dragon Gate Inn is usually where they get all there violent sword play clips from ;)

Big Brother&#39;s also very strange, why anyone would want to watch that crap is beyond me :huh:

[ahctlucabbuS]

Originally posted by Marius24@11 August 2003 - 20:03
u want strange :huh: i would recommend :wub: The Fimbles :wub: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/fimbles/) sure it isnt a film but it still rocks :lol:


watch away :beerchug:

Jingle jungle monkey
Jingle juggle do
once you had three
bananas-
now you´ve only two

:beerchug:

[Busyman]

The Stuff


weird yogurt that kills ya

[ahctlucabbuS]

"Jacobs ladder" was mentioned in this thread.. It is currently at suprnova.org for those who haven´t seen it yet. I saw it yesterday, and it´s a good movie.

[Busyman]

Hellraiser Inferno had alot in common with Jacob&#39;s Ladder

[Busyman]

New updated list. If I missed some please add more.

Frailty
Stir Of Echoes
Angel Heart
Videodrome
Halloween III: Season Of The Witch
Believers
Existenz
Hellraiser 2
Hellraiser Inferno
Jacob&#39;s Ladder
Basket Case
Cannibal Holocaust (haven&#39;t seen yet though)
Beast Within
The Others
Sixth Sense
13th Floor
Arlington Road
Boondock Saints
Caught Up
Eyes Wide Shut
Falling Down
Flatliners
The First Power
The Game
Idle Hands
Imposter
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (remake)
Phantasm
Scanners
Naked Lunch
Suicide Kings
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Browne
2 Days In The Valley
Bound
Go
Cube
Cube 2: Hypercube
Creepshow
Creepshow 2
Tales From The Hood
just about any ep of The Outer Limits (current)
Lost Highway
May
Faces Of The Death
Ichi The Killer
Ringu
Ringu 2
Dark Water
The Eye
Battle Royale
Surviving The Game
Trilogy Of Terror
1984

[Gutter]

don&#39;t forget Cabin Fever :ermm:

[Wolfmight]

Screamers

screaming robots from underground that multiplied from they&#39;re AI.
nice sci-fi.

[Busyman]

Originally posted by Wolfmight@2 October 2003 - 01:40
Screamers

screaming robots from underground that multiplied from they&#39;re AI.
nice sci-fi.
I forgot about that one with Peter Weller :D

[thedrocks16]

has anybody said idendity? that was a great movie.

[AngryChick]

Originally posted by MetroStars@24 July 2003 - 17:25
U will not get any wierder than Twin Peaks
lol no kidding&#33;&#33;


Baron Munchausen (sp?) is a great movie you have got to see it. Anything from Terry Gilliam is a must see movie (odd or not).


Ravenous needs to be on the list.

[fluff34567]

try 8MM, my little eye, and final destination 2 - first 2 pretty wierd/shocking and FD has some pretty explicit gore - ending quite good also.

[muchspl2]

real life
http://www.klboard.ath.cx/index.php?showtopic=69684

[Yogi]

Crna macka, beli macor

By Emir Kusturica.

Or
Black Cat, White Cat (1998) (USA)
Chat noir, chat blanc (1998) (France)
Schwarze Katze, weißer Kater (1998) (Germany)
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/05/29/01m.gif

Absolutely in my top 5 over the last few years.
It&#39;s a feast for the eyes, the imagination, etc, etc.
A must see beyond any doubt.


Plotsummary:
Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her. But none of the two care much for an arranged marriage: Zare is in love with Ida, Afrodita is waiting for the man of her dreams.

[YoRu]

Im not sure, but i think "Crying Freeman" would also match to your list.

A Few other weired movies:

Fletcher&#39;s Vision

Nirvana

Apocalypse Now

Knocking on Heavens Door (very good movie &#33; but hard to get , its a german movie)


ok not really my favourite movies , but all the good stuff was allready mentioned

[YoRu]

- :rolleyes: -

[Arioch]

Bad boy bubby is a good one&#33;&#33;


Though I couldn&#39;t find a copy on Kazaa :(

[Busyman]

Zu Warriors
The Legend Of Zu

very original

[Busyman]

add
Session 9 to the list---very weird. :o

[3RA1N1AC]

Originally posted by fluff34567@4 October 2003 - 00:41
try 8MM
i thought that was a ripoff of paul schrader&#39;s "Hardcore"? which is sadly not available on dvd because hollywood is gay.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079271/

[Falconetti]

I think u guys forgot to add "American Beauty" :D

[ghoulardi]

If you want TRUE hardcore , wierd, underground, depressing films go get all of Richard Kerns films. Start from there and learn of others of the same kind.

To those who mentioned CABIN FEVER you have obviously never seen a good movie. That had to be thee most horrible film I have ever seen. The advertising is the only reason It sounded so good. I gaurantee that they spent more money on advertising then they did on making it wich isnt even why I hated it. Some of my favorite movies of all time were made with a couple thousand dollars "EVIL DEAD 1 and 2" for example.

For those who mention Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Cheers to you&#33; That is on my top ten list. Go get "WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM" if you havent already. If you Love FEAR AND LOATHING then it is a must see because it is the original version. Staring Bill Muray and ofcourse the dad from everybody loves Raymond plays the part of the attorney, LOL, made back in the late 70s. It is a must.

STAYSICK&#33;
Ghoulardi