Weirdest films you've ever heard of or seen

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I have to say that Jodorowsky's work is awesome. "El Topo" is one of my all time favorites. I found it enlightening though, not weird but thats just me. I also heard that "El Topo" was John Lennon's favorite film, and he owned the rights for awhile. Jodorowsky's comic "The Incal" is also a masterpiece; it incorporates elements of the Major Arcanum of the Tarot into a Sci-Fi epic.

But my vote for weirdest film ever, is "Un Chien Andalou" (An Andalusian Dog) a 17-min short from 1921 by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. highlights include a woman's eye being slit with a razor, and pianos filled with dead donkeys.

edit: oh yeah both leads later commited suicide

David Cronenberg's version of The Fly is probably the weirdest/grossest movie I've ever seen.

Great film, though.

Lost Highway is one of my favorite "mainstream but weird" movies. All of David Lynch's movies are fantastic.

The wikipedia entry explains Lost Highway's concept pretty well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_highway

A similar kind of fantasy/reality duality is explored in Mulholland Drive, and to a lesser degree in Blue Velvet.

I thought Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas was weird. But very cool at the same time.

I lurved Fear and Loathing. Terry Gilliam all the way.

What I often do to find unusual movies is when I hear of one I haven't seen i'll look it up on imdb.com and then look through movies that are related or recommended for people who liked that movie. I fould El Topo that way and alot of Japanese horror and Felleni flicks. Start with any movie you liked really and then keep looking at related movies.

-Rae

Actually although I think Eraserhead and other Lynch ( i want to see inland empire) , and " Breaking the Waves" and "Altered States"and " Dancer in the Dark" and "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"amongst others ( "Under Satans sun" , " The Belly of an Architect"......) are def weird, I think the film that I found the most strange, and first time round the most disturbing , is " Dead Ringers" by Cronenburg , which surpasses even Rabid and the arche-frightening " The Brood", because it was so difficult to understand it.The first viewing I thought it was the worst misogyny. Wrong.

Just remembered a strange dutch womens film in which women in a clothes shop turn and attack a man who comes into the shop and kill him with hangers and stuff. That was frightening and odd.

PS: "Avalon". Anyone else seen it???

Hell yes. I actually liked that one a lot...probably won't watch it again anytime soon. But the soundtrack was awesome. Very interesting film.

Yep, the music was beautiful , and the polish voices in the original version. I spent some time on Youtube a couple of weeks ago watching clips of it. Reminding myself. It is def initely special.

I am not sure what is the wierdest, but "Prince of darkness" comes to mind, www.imdb.com/title/tt0093777 . If you have ever seen it you may recall the premises of the "anti-god" and "liquid satan"! But What really sticks in my mind are the short dream sequences some of the characters have that is a message from the future warning them about how they failed. Whereas everything else seemed "fake", that part seemed ironically "real", heh.

What, no Forbidden Zone?

Come on, any film that has Danny Elfman (the film was directed by his brother) as the Devil singing a parody of Minnie the Moocher has to be made of pure altered substances.

That is a very interesting observation. I think you're right. The rest of the film feels like a dream/nightmare/grotesque dance performance/stage set, but those "flashes" feel like they are happening.

PoD is one of my favourite horror films. I love the music, and the ants and worms and beetles, and the half empty tin of pet food crawling with maggots that a homeless person is eating mindlessly. The people collapsing into piles of insects, and the catatonic worshipping street people. The stupid humour, and the "should-be-dead" black guy advancing along a hallway laughing and crying. The sense of day and night.

And something about the idea of inviting horror in through a mirror, starting with a little make-up compact mirror and moving onto bigger ones. A weird mixture of appalling and funny and beautiful and horrific.

Mmmm. And the nuns almost floating through the cloisters near the beginning.

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Crash - the Andy Warhol film, not the more recent one of the same title. The Warhol Crash film was dire. Dreadful.

I also thought the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was dreadful.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force the movie.
Just plain weird.

Got quite a list here, though most won't reach my conscience instantly.

To name a few:
- Napoleon Dynamite (Hilariously weird).
- No Country For Old Men (Javier Bardem, brilliant).
- Anything by Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs).
- K-PAX (Not the best, and maybe more philosophical than weird).
- The Three Burials (Didn't get it, marked as weird).

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, set to open on Christmas Day.

Based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

A man is born as a 85-year-old man and ages backwards!

This movie will make weird look cool because David Fincher is the director.