Strangest movie you have ever seen

What movie left you saying "WTF" more than any other movie?

I think "Adaptation" was one for me.

On edit: I forgot one I just saw "The Village", and "Requiem for a Dream"

Same writer as your choice. It's also one of my all time favorites.

I think I would say 'Magnolia'.

-chef-

Incredible film; I never get tired of watching the Jason Robards "regret" scene. Fabulous acting, too; even Henry Gibson was perfect for his part..

Loved it, but man it was wierd.

So I am told anyway-
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maybe it's the Tim Robbins thing that does it to me. ;)

Good in an odd way, but so... weird.

That movie WILL fuck you up psychologically.

:)

That whole last season was way beyond weird.

Of course if you are talking about something else, you may feel free to ignore me

for an hour and a half, or however long it was. And I don't mean that in a good way. I loved Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks first season, but after watching Wild at Heart, I began to have serious doubts about the coherency of any of his movies. I'm afraid to watch Blue Velvet now for fear that it's just as dumb as Wild at Heart.

... intellectually I *knew* that the movie was getting weirder and weirder... but I couldn't pull myself away from it. I was hooked in some perverse way. I was David Lynch's crackwhore!

I used to work for True Detective and I say this with authority: You have a real tabloid flair!

I thought Adaptation was cool because it worked on so many levels. It's weird, but deliberate.

WTF in a bad way? I'd have to say "Lost in Translation" ab-so-lute waste of time.

Not necessarily bad, just WEIRD.

Both are weird in a worth while way.

It gave me a headache. I liked it though.

I don't like to work so hard when I go to the movies

It was certainly strange, but I think most of the writing was just filler and fluff. Kind of like The Matrix. *duck* :P

Though I liked the Matrix too. In Matrix you have a real world virtual world.

In Pi, like Hitchhiker's, you can know the ultimate question or the ultimate answer, but not both; it fries your brain.

but I didn't think it was strange, just beautiful to look at.

Walked away in frustration half way through it. Could not stand the passivity of Bill Murray's character.

hypnotized me. I found it fascinating.

Strangest, bar none.

"El Topo" was a mindfuck, too.

Sante Sangre almost has a cohesive plot though...and imo it makes it a better film than Holy Mountain.

Holy Mountain is one twisted film though. Great fun too...:)

Completely weirded me out.

I tried to watch it too many times, and finally gave up.

It completely weirded me out.

also, 'Last House on the Left'. Saw that one at the drive-in with a g/f back in the 70's. We thought we were going to see a couple of Japanese monster flicks then in between this one came on......... scared the shit out of us. Two late teen/early twenties chicks watching this movies in an almost deserted drive-in was too much.........................

Eraserhead just chimed but I can't say why.

Mullholland Drive put the zap right on my head. Masterpiece.

makes you sit there and say WTF???? :)

still scratching my head on that one...

too funny. :P

that's my buddies favorite movie.

I think Annette Benning was in it.

Especially the scene with the drill...

I believe it was the same writer/producer or something.

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Not something you forget easily.

My runner-up is Age of Consent, in which James Mason portrays the same artist Sam Neill played in Sirens. It's not Mason or the very young Helen Mirren (as Mason's model/love interest) who make it strange. It's a comic subplot involving a hapless Australian, and that's as much as I want to tell you...

I wanted a shower and a round of psychotherapy after that one.

but it was some George Lucs flick about a futuristic dictatorship where the soldiers are robots, whose duties extend as far as a set budget allows for things like...oh, chasing the "bad guy" as he attempts to escape.

Thanks. I couldn't remember it...BTW: Did that have Robert Duvall in it?

Not a bad flick really, sort of 1984ish

About a freak show, with real freaks as the actors. Freakin' freaky!

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almost immediately

I know there are others, just can't think of them right now.

It's a really beautiful movie but jesus, it is strange.

Weird, yeah!!!

Sick, possibly!

...don't leeeeeave me, Pootie!

for sure. I liked it though.

like "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" is made to be a "so bad it's funny" film on purpose.

It's just not the same thing.

(wow, that quote just fit into the amount of characters allowed in the subject line!!)

Love that movie.

"Hey, what's that watermelon for?"
"I'll tell you later."

You never know what it might be attached to.

Along with "WTF" it's also one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

http://www.thegline.com/dvd-of-the-week/2002/09-30-2002.htm

It's even funnier if you know the pop culture trends that are being parodied.

Its Japanese title, Gyakufunsha no Kazoku, means "Retro Blast Off Family."

Liv Ullman and Bibi Andersson merge, but that's only one of the strange goings on.

Saw it in the Library at the University of Alabama - even on a 13" TV/VCR combo, it oozed oddness, and it really jangled me for a few days

thanks for the reminder ;)

But that made for an interesting return of GOPtard Bruce Willis. Since then, his latest achievement was shaving his head to where he looked like a freshly circumcised penis, heading to Iraq to "play the Blues" on a harmonica for the troops.

See Carlin, Geo. on why white celebrities shouldn't be taking the stage at the House of Blues...

Starring David Bowie as an Alien.

I said WTF all through the whole damn movie.

Just awful!!!!!!!!!!

A genuine Bomb if there ever was one!

How'd I wind up seeing this turkey? A friend recommended it. I'll have to carefully consider all of his future film advice.

Carol Kane as a mousy office worker who accidentally kills one of her co-workers and goes off on a killing spree, bringing the bodies home to her basement. You don't want to know more. I wish I didn't.

What was the line about the penis being bad and guns being good?

Some WEIRD shit in that movie :)

is at his absolute HOTTEST!!!

:loveya:

It doesn't get much weirder than that. A close second is "Brazil."

...and was traumatized for months. Not seen it since. Not going to see it again. EVER.

Saw it when it came out in the late '70s. It was the most, um... disturbing movie I've seen before, or since. It very seriously creeped me out, and I know I'll have more nightmares if I see it again. ("Prince of Darkness" gave me nightmares, too.)

It was an interesting story, but I have to control the dosage (I watch it every 12-18 months) otherwise the nightmares get a bit out of control.

that has to be at the top of my "wtf?" list for sure.

somewhat mitigated by the subject matter. The WTF factor was kind of PART of the whole heroin bit, IMO anyway.

But then again, "Eraserhead" is in my top 5 favorims, so....

Eye of the Beholder staring Ashley Judd and Ewan McGreggor (and k.d. lang)

and I've seen Momento,Gummo,Requiem...,Eraserhead,Clockwork Orange and every other damn film mentioned so far.

Trust me on this :)

Along with Brazil, Tetsuo: Iron Man was the strangest film I've ever seen. As I was not exactly straight while seeing it, what I remember of it was a Japanese man slowly turning into a metal beast after watching some lady get hit by a car. His transformation is extremely scary and as odd as the concept is, you couldn't help but empathize with both the man and his wife. It appeared to be an extremely layered and nuanced film. Of course, in my state, I didn't understand the bulk of it :)

of course, just about anything by Cronenberg elicits many a WTF.

It's the ultimate WTF movie.

Read this review:

http://www.opuszine.com/movies/review.html?reviewID=199

If that doesn't convince you read these reviews:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0079509/usercomments

I saw it at a deserted fishing motel in Seiku Wa (almost the end of the universe) in the dead of Winter. Creeped me out --big time.

That was a strange-ass movie!

Forgetting, that is...

The Wall???

For shame!

Not as WTF as many, but I was still sitting there for the whole movie wondering how much more fucked up it could get :)

That was the one with J-ho in it, right?

AND it creeped the hell out of me. Ug ug ug. I was so damn scared and movies don't normally truly scare me. I actually bought it on DVD I liked it so much and I am NOT a fan of J-Lo either.

but it was hell of creepy.

cocaine dealing rodeo clowns!!

I want to... just haven't got around to it.

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Both are GREAT movies!

Just totally lost interest.

I love that movie! In fact I watched it again, just this past Sunday. It's strange, but in a very deliberate, funny way. I show that movie to everyone who lets me, and I'm the only one who seems to appreciate it. It's nice to know there's others who agree.

"If you were me, you'd be good looking"<--- dialog doesn't get much better than that!

...The strangest movie for me, would have to be Eraserhead.

I'm a big fan of Lynch and strange movies but "Lost Highway" left me cold.

So why can't I think of any of them?

Definitely strange, but good.

A very disturbing flick about an emotionally disturbed and physicaly repulsive teen who lives in a hellish household with bizzare, mentally ill family members.
Filmed in Dogme fashion.

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point in my life vanity films fell from grace.

from like, early 90's

wtf....

just too bizarre for words.

Truly a must see!

"The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover"

Saw it in college and kept saying WTF throughout but great flick.

Another one has "betrayed" in the title. Italian film about a man rejected by his wife so he takes an electric carving knife and hacks off his penis on screen. Oh God, awful stuff.

Its a good thing I was watching it at the drive-in with my girlfriend!!
It didn't bother me that it wasn't a great movie :pals:

There've been more. BV was stupid, JL was un-nerving.

just wacky....

That movie is trippy as all hell.

Rp

Both are very strange films.

Whenever I see it, I feel queasy, and it puts me in a strange mood that can last for days.

Regardless of what one thinks about Polanski's personal life, he is undeniably a master filmmaker.

So very Jean-Pierre Junet.

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As a double feature. And I was on acid.

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Barely remember it.... somethin about an amputee chick in bed with 2 twins, cackling evilly....

That was the strangest - if you actually meant something like "most disturbing", then I would say A Clockwork Orange in a heartbeat.

Incidentally he's my all-time favourite director.

Steven Soderbergh's "Schizopolis" was nice and weird too.

"A Clockwork Orange" is the best movie ever made.

"Fight Club" really freaked me out because it was made in 2000 before 9/11.

To this day I have no idea what that movie is about.

The Ninth Gate
I was still trying to figure out that the heck was going on when the credits started. The ending is strange because there's no real resolution, it's like they got 3/4 of the way through the movie and everybody got bored and went home.

But I'll have to go with Eraserhead in first place. I just had to mention Svankmayer here as no one else has yet. Along with Jodorowsky's HOLY MOUNTAIN, FAUST is one of the few films that I think have the actual ability to magickally initiate the viewer into a higher form of consciousness.

Highly recommended!

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What makes this movie brilliant -- a masterpiece -- is the incredible manner in which Fuller takes this basic story of one man's overwhelming desire for fame and recognition and extrapolates it allegorically, creating a powerful parable that reveals this seat-squirming truth: if one man can be destroyed by an absorption into irrational thoughts, so can an entire society. Once you admit America is one big asylum, then it's hard to tell the sane from the crazy when we're all walking down that same symbolic corridor.
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i just saw this film a week ago...wierd...and i have been seeing that damn bunny in my dreams too.....ack!!!

"lost hiway" runs a close second....it took about 3 viewings to figure that one out....

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starring the Monkees and written by Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson before they worked together on 5 Easy Pieces. Rumor has it they wanted to do a sequel with the tagline 'From the folks who gave you HEAD'

That movie gave me a headache watching it just figuring out what actually I was watching! A lot of these other movies posted were good and different but Brazil was by far the strangest.

Okay - so the soundtrack is great & I've heard the musical is good as well. And I absolutely adore The Who. But, that movie creeped me the fuck out. :scared: From Roger Daltrey's Christ-like transformation to Tina Turner's trippy-ass appearance, I was definitely left thinking WTF????

What in the hell was Jane Fonda thinking????

I still loved the movie though, it's in my "b" movie collection!

Frog legs, anyone?

GOD, what a freaky movie! I mean, it starts out with twin gynecologists -- and gets freakier from there!

That movie creeped me out in a big way.

I also like most of Nicholson's movies, but I thought the end was very good.

James Spader, Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette.

People getting their sexual jollies from being in automobile accidents.

That was freaky!

All I remember is that the main character (a guy) went into a sensory deprivation tank and when he came out, he was supposedly in touch with his primal instincts. I think he then went on a killing spree like a wild animal. It was f**king bizarre.

And Jacob's Ladder. What a freak show that was.

Awesome flick. William Hurt and I think Blair Brown.

Cronenberg's movie should at least be in the running. Thinking about the gun made of bones gives me the creeps.

beat me by 3 min. Great minds think alike. ;)

Johnny Got His Gun - adopted from Trumbo's book is also incredibly wierd, in a mind-blowingly depressing sort of way. Every idiot who supported the war should be strapped in a chair and forced to watch it.

Cronenberg rules. Honorable mention to Videodrome.

I thought Tetsuo: The Iron Man was the strangest one, but this one takes the cake. It's a musical slaughterhouse with at least one scene with zombies that switches from live action to CLAYMATION with no warning.

Definitely takes the prize for feature films.

For short films, check out anything put out by the Church of the Subgenius. Those take the cake.

That was crazy.

About people in a medieval British village during the time of the Black Death who go on a quest to find protection based on a young boy's vision and end up in modern day Australia.

Neat movie but very bizarre.

is Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, an 60's Ukrainian flick. Medieval Carpathia meets LSD. Absolutely bizarre.

Peter Greenaway's multi-layered, multi-soundtracked take on "The Tempest"; I absolutely could not get through it the first two times I tried - then I put down the, uh, beer and it was absolutely mind-boggling (in a good way)

the second one is a live-action version of Dr. Seuss that completely blows away the Brian Grazer pseudo-hip, "updated" idiocy of "The Grinch" and "Cat in the Hat" - I had some friends who dropped acid before going in, and they didn't realize they were tripping until they left the theater

Besides that one, "Pi," "Freaks," and "Eraserhead" *have* to top my list, although many of Herzog's movies could appear there at any time - I wonder if the black-and-white has anything to do with it ...?

"Requiem for a Dream" was disturbing, but it wasn't strange to me, just terribly depressing and sad

you know the movie is way off the charts on the kooky scale.