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I don't know what made me think of this, but... I think everyone here has seen at least 1 film that absolutely made them scratch their heads wondering what's going on until they flat-out gave up on it. And I don't just mean confusing. But what's happening is just so downright strange, that it was almost too... freaky to enjoy.

What in your opinion are the strangest, most confusing, mysterious, or bizarre films you've ever seen?


Some of mine:

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Meet the Feebles (1989, directed by: Peter Jackson - Lord of the Rings trilogy)

IMDb plot: Heidi the Hippo, the star of the Meet the Feebles Variety Hour discovers her husband Bletch, the Walrus, is cheating and with all the world waiting for the show the assorted co-stars must contend with their own problems. These include drug abuse, extortion, robbery, AIDS, and even murder. While this is happening the love between two of the stars is threatened by the devious Trevor the Rat, who wishes to exploit the young starlet.


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The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001, directed by: Takashi Miike - Masters of Horror: Imprint, Audition)

IMDb plot: The Katakuri family has just opened their guesthouse in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.


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Mother's Day (1980, directed by: Charles Kaufman - Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters)

IMDb plots: When you go into the woods today, you're in for a big surprise. When you go into the woods today, you're not going to believe your eyes. But it ain't no "teddy bear picnic". Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her son commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim wits and their Maniac Mommy and the question becomes, can any of them escape, alive?

Three women who were friends in college get together for a ten year reunion and decide to go camping in the woods. Unknown to them, two boys and thier mother who happen to live in those very same woods, like to abduct people, who happen to wander in thier neck of the woods, and torture them, just like they see on TV!

Join three friends Abbey, Jackie and Trina on a family day out with this bunch of misplaced and mismanaged woodland misfits. See them entertain their hosts with trepidation and anxiety; see their hosts do their utmost to accommodate their every need. See their lust and deranged depravity scale to new heights of inhuman devastation, and butchery. Bond with Mother and her extended family for the day and you'll be sure, by the morning, to be released, and wake up dead.


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The Tenant (1976, directed by: Roman Polanski - Rosemary's Baby)

IMDb plots: A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill himself.

Trelkovsky, a Polish file clerk in Paris, moves into a new apartment in the city. The previous tenant, Simone Choule, lies in a coma in a hospital after jumping out of her window. Trelkovsky's new neighbors are an assortment of old recluses and busybodies. While visiting the ex-tenant in the hospital, Trelkovski meets Stella, Simone's girlfriend. When Simone dies, Trelkovski obsesses over her and seems doomed to repeat her final act.


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Tommy (1975, directed by: Ken Russell - Altered States)

IMDb plots: Tommy is blind, deaf and dumb, but there is nothing wrong with him. As a small child, he accidentally witnessed the murder of his father by his stepfather. His mother and stepfather told him to forget everything he had seen and heard, and to never talk about it; but Tommy carried it to the extreme, turned inward, and stopped seeing, hearing or speaking at all. He suffered much while growing up, and finally found happiness in, of all things, playing pinball. When he became the world champion pinball player it brought his family fame and fortune. After being spontaneously healed, he began to teach others of his unique perspective on life, eventually becoming a religious cult figure.

Cpt. Walker's plane is shot down during World War 2 and he is presumed dead. Nora Walker meets Frank Hobbs while her son, Tommy is attending "Bernies Holiday Camp" and they are quick to get married. However, one day Cpt. Walker comes home. Tommy follows his silhouette and sees his murder through a mirror that captures his and his fathers soul. Nora and Frank tell Tommy that he didn't see it, hear it, and to never speak of it. This causes him to go Deaf, dumb and blind. They try a few cures, such as a preacher that believes Marilyn Monroe can heal, and a woman named Gypsie "The acid queen". They then give up, and to get out of the house they leave Tommy with the relatives. First up, Cousin Kevin who tortures him. Then Uncle Ernie, who rapes him. Then they decide to leave him by the mirror, which he curiously stares into almost all day. He sees himself beckoning him, and Tommy follows, straight to a junkyard where he finds a device that will change his life, a pinball machine. He becomes the world's greatest player, which makes his family rich. They go to see a doctor, that tells them they need to find some kind of shock to bring Tommy back into our world. The shock comes in the breaking of the mirror, that frees his soul. He believes that he is the new messiah, and a religious cult is formed around him.

Captain Walker is lost in World War II and presumed dead. His wife, Nora, soon thereafter gives birth to their son, Tommy. When Tommy is about ten years old, Nora gets remarried to scheming holiday camp worker, Frank Hobbs. When nora and Frank are about to comsummate their relationship, Captain Walker stops them. In the heat of passion, Frank kills Captain Walker, all of which is seen by Tommy. After which, he is blind, deaf and dumb. As Nora and Frank search for a way to give Tommy back his senses (including drugs, cultism, and medicine), Tommy searches for dreams of his lost father.

When Nora Walker gets pregnant, her beloved husband, the pilot Captain Walker, is considered missing in action in World War II when his plane crashes in a battle. Nora raises her son Tommy alone with the memories of his father. In 1951, she meets Franks Hobbs in a summer camp, is courted by him, ending in an affair. However, in the middle of a stormy night, the boy has a nightmare with his father and runs to her mother's bed, finding her naked with "uncle" Frank, becoming immediately deaf, dumb and blind. The years go by, and her mother lives with a complex of guilty of the psychological problem of her son. One night, Tommy finds a pinball machine in a junkyard, and his natural skills transform him in a champion, and when he supersedes and heals his problems, a legion of fans follows him, as if he were a new Messiah.


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Society (1989, directed by: Brian Yuzna - Return of the Living Dead 3, The Dentist)

IMDb plots: Bill is worried that he is 'different' to his sister and parents. They mix with other 'upper class' people while Bill is more down to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd. All is revealed when Bill returns home to find a party in full swing. Not for the weak of stomach.

The teenager Bill Whitney feels misfit with his parents and his sister Jenny Whitney. When his sister's boyfriend David Blanchard bugs his family, he shows the disturbing tapes to Bill showing incest and a weird society. When Blanchard dies in a car accident, Bill decides to investigate his family and finds a scary truth.


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Cool World (1992, directed by: Ralph Bakshi - Fritz the Cat, American Pop)

IMDb plot: A comic strip vamp seeks to seduce her cartoonist creator in order to cross over into the real world.

Jack Deebs is a cartoonist who is due to be released from jail. His comic book "Cool World" describes a zany world populated by "doodles" (cartoon characters) and "noids" (humanoids). What Jack didn't realize is that Cool World really does exist, and a "doodle" scientist has just perfected a machine which links Cool World with our world. Intrigued at seeing his creating come to life, Jack is nonetheless wary as he knows that not everything in Cool World is exactly friendly.


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Motel Hell (1980, directed by: Kevin Connor - The Land That Time Forgot, The People That Time Forgot)

IMDb plot: Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make Farmer Vincent's fritters.

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Well, Seed of Chucky is way-out-there. I don't know if I actually like this or not. I loved Bride of Chucky, which I think was a wonderful spoof horror movie. Seed is, perhaps, just a little to self-referential, which is odd, because I normally like stuff which breakes the fourth wall. Sometimes I can watch Seed and love it, but more often than not I feel that they went a little too far.

Not a film, but Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is something people either get or don't. Personally I love it. The concept is that this is a horror series written, directed and acted by Stephen King alike Garth Merenghi in the early 80's, but it was scrapped and never shown because it was "too scary". Now, 15 or so years later, bits have been found and restored and are shown for the 1st time ever, with talking head interviews from those involved.

You can view a whole episode of the series on YouTube (this episode features the terrifying moment Dirk is chased through the hospital basement by his own stapler)

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My vote is for Clockwork Orange. I had to read the book in my last year of highschool for an ISU and decided to watch the movie afterwards. I found the whole thing really interesting.. but you have to agree it's a weird and freeky movie. If I hadn't read the book first I think there woulda been a lot of head scratching going on.
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I have not seen many weird movies, unless you count any Tim Burton movie like Beetlejuice.
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I LOVE "Tommy". For me, it toes the line between amazing weird and absurd weird. I wrote my final paper for my Media Arts class on it, and it gave me a whole new perspective on the movie, and I actually appreciate Ken Russell's over-the-top technique.

Other ones I'm fond of include:

Eraserhead
Freaks
Phantom of the Paradise
Any short film by The Brothers Quay
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (I'm kind of reluctant to include this here, because I feel there's a lot going on, more than just simple "weirdness")
Any movie by John Waters
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2099net wrote:Well, Seed of Chucky is way-out-there. I don't know if I actually like this or not. I loved Bride of Chucky, which I think was a wonderful spoof horror movie. Seed is, perhaps, just a little to self-referential, which is odd, because I normally like stuff which breakes the fourth wall. Sometimes I can watch Seed and love it, but more often than not I feel that they went a little too far.
I really was almost about to mention that film... but I've never seen it. I was going to mention it just based off of the plot I heard - which was, without exception, the dang weirdest plot I've ever heard in my entire life. I basically thought- it this even a movie? Could it even be? Jennifer Tilly is a person, herself, in the movie - as herself: the actress, and Tiffany the Doll as well? And did Tiffany, the Doll, get plastic-plastic surgery to reverse all the burning/scarring from the motorhome explosion / baked in the oven scene in Bride? And Chucky, even though he said "I always come back...," shouldn't come back. He was basically dead in Bride. But, whatever. If there's a way to make it funny and weird, writer Don Mancini will do it. But Bride was a very coherent and absolutely genius film. And hilarious. I guess the writer must have felt a certain freedom and taken it to extremes. So, I'd love to include it, but I don't think I should - until I see it. But I kind of don't want to see it. Not after I heard there was a... Doll Sperm Scene. That's just too icky for me.
Princess Stitch wrote:My vote is for Clockwork Orange.
Didn't finish watching that one... too bizarre!


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A Clockwork Orange (1971, directed by: Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining)

IMDb plots: In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for the police to find. He agrees to try "aversion therapy" to shorten his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but the rest of his gang members are still after him.

In the not-too-distant future, a charming young sociopath named Alex, leads a nihilistic lifestyle of 'ultraviolence' which comes to a head when he is jailed for murder and volunteers for an experimental brainwashing treatment to reform criminals in exchange for a shorter prison sentence.

Alex, a teenage hooligan in a near-future Britain, gets jailed by the police. There he volunteers as guinea pig for a new aversion therapy proposed by the government to make room in prisons for political prisoners. "Cured" of his hooliganism and released, he is rejected by his friends and relatives. Eventually nearly dying, he becomes a major embarrassment for the government, who arrange to cure him of his cure. A pivotal moment is when he and his gang break into an author's home: the book he is writing (called "A Clockwork Orange") is a plea against the use of aversion therapy, on the grounds that it turns people into Clockwork Oranges (Ourang is Malay for "Man"): they are not being good from choice (sentiments later echoed by the prison chaplain). The film reflects this: many bad scenes in a Clockwork Orange are accompanied by jolly music; if we are to experience them as we should, we have to do it consciously, by realising they are bad, and not because the director tells us so through the use of music and images.

Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped teddy-boy hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has his own way of having a good time. He has it at the tragic expense of others. Alex's journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shook vision of Anthony Burgess's novel. Unforgettable images, startling musical counterpoints, the fascinating language used by Alex and his pals - Kubrick shapes them into a shattering whole. Hugely controversial when first released, A Clockwork Orange won the New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director honors and earned four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The power of its art is such that it still entices, shocks, and holds us in its grasp.

Alex, a violent juvenile in the near future, is caught after a number of brutal rapes and murders. While imprisoned, he submits to a controversial experiment to make criminals ill at the mildest suggestion of violence or conflict. Now Alex's victims want to welcome him back into society with the same enthusiasm Alex had always exhibited when performing his crimes.


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The Church (1989, directed by: Michele Soavi - Cemetery Man / Dellamorte Dellamore)

IMDb plots: An old Gothic cathedral, built over a mass grave, develops strange powers which trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.

A church is built during medieval times on top of a pile of dead bodies that were considered possessed. Hundreds of years later a young librarian unleashes the evil within, by removing a rock in the catacombs. Series of events occur meanwhile, everybody just does not seem to be the same. Father Gus is the only one not possessed, he must save the city from becoming a pandemonium, he must find the ancient secret of the church so it can crumble to pieces.


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Being John Malkovich (1999, directed by: Spike Jonze - Adaptation., Where the Wild Things Are)

IMDb plots: Craig, a puppeteer, takes a filing job in a low-ceilinged office in Manhattan. Although married to the slightly askew Lotte, he hits on a colleague, the sexually frank Maxine. She's bored but snaps awake when he finds a portal leading inside John Malkovich: for 15 minutes you see, hear, and feel whatever JM is doing, then you fall out by the New Jersey Turnpike. Maxine makes it commercial, selling trips for $200; also, she's more interested in Lotte than in Craig, but only when Lotte is inside JM. JM finds out what's going on and tries to stop it, but Craig sees the portal as his road to Maxine and to success as a puppeteer. Meanwhile, Lotte discovers others interested in the portal.

A puppeteer discovers a door in his office that allows him to enter the mind and life of John Malkovich for 15 minutes. The puppeteer then tries to turn the portal into a small business.

A puppeteer discovers a hidden doorway in his office, which turns out to be a portal into John Malkovitch (the famous actor)'s mind. Upon entering the portal, one gets to be inside Malkovitch's mind for 15 odd minutes. As with any great discovery of this century, the ultimate question immediately arises : 'How can we make money out of this?' He and his co-worker promptly set out to exploit this discovery. It doesn't take long for things to go haywire.


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The Other (1972, directed by: Robert Mulligan - The Man in the Moon, Same Time Next Year)

IMDb plot: Down in the farmcountry of the US two twins are born. One of them turns out to be good, while the other becomes rather evil.

In the summer of 1935, 9-year-old twins Niles and Holland Perry live with their family on a Connecticut farm. Their loving grandmother Ada has taught them something called "the game." A number of accidents begin happening, and it seems to Niles that Holland is responsible. It is Ada who begins to see the truth, and she is the only one who can stop this macabre game of murder.


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Shivers / They Came from Within
(1975, directed by: David Cronenberg - Scanners, The Fly, A History of Violence)

IMDb plots: The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.

A scientist living in an apartment complex kills a girl and uses acid to destroy her internal organs, and then kills himself. While investigating, a doctor discovers that the scientist was doing experiments on the use of genetically engineered parasites as organ transplants. Soon, other people in the complex begin showing signs of carrying the parasites, spreading the things through wanton orgiastic abandon, and the complex begins suffering an attrition problem.

In the fancy Starliner compound in an island near Montréal, a mad scientist tests a parasite in the body of his mistress. He believes that human is an animal that thinks too much, and he develops a parasite to increase the violence and sexual desire of humankind. There is an outbreak in the condominium, with the dwellers becoming fierce zombies of sex.
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I would say Fido(I think that's the name), one where a society adopts zombies as slaves...really funny
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I dont think Tommy or Clockwork Orange really belong on this list. Clockwork Orange is rather staid compared to the book.

Springheel picked my #1 choice - Eraserhead
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SPIDERMAN 3 !!!!

I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone!!! :o
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Mr. Toad wrote:I dont think Tommy or Clockwork Orange really belong on this list. Clockwork Orange is rather staid compared to the book.
That's an interesting perspective to bring to this topic.

However, they're not being removed.

Don't think that I mean that there's anything wrong with them. But they are, in fact, incredibly bizarre and strange.

Mr. Toad wrote:Springheel picked my #1 choice - Eraserhead
My list isn't finished yet. All strange and bizarre films I encounter will find their way into it at some point. The common factor however... is that they are The Most Bizarre / Strangest Movies of All-Time.
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I wasnt asking you to remove them just discussing it.

You need to watch Eraserhead, you wont be able to think straight for a week.
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Well for me I've always found these ones confusing:

Hellraiser Inferno

El Chupacabra

I'll Always Know (or whatever it was called, the third part of the I Know What You Did Last Summer trilogy)


Thats it just off the top of my head, but I've seen Cool World before and it was really weird.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457572/
there's a link to some info of the movie I told

They actually did a movie of the chupacabras??!?!?!?!?!? :shock: ewwww
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Actually there's a second movie about a Chupacabra that is loose on a cruise ship.....but it made more sense than the first one I mentioned
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ohh humanity....

I hope you hadn't buyed it
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Pirates 3 is pretty weird in places.

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I always thought 2001 was pretty out there. The ending is very nonsensical, and there are whole websites devoted to explaining it to little effect.

Come to think of it, The Black Hole had a pretty weird ending.
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Lazario, my champion of the bizarre and twisted, or scratch your head and say 'why' movie is "Getting Into Heaven" from director Edward L. Montoro. This movie is both hilariously funny and dumb, and makes you wonder what were they thinking. It is available through Something Weird Video on DVD. Have you seen it?

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dvdjunkie wrote:Lazario, my champion of the bizarre and twisted, or scratch your head and say 'why' movie is "Getting Into Heaven" from director Edward L. Montoro. This movie is both hilariously funny and dumb, and makes you wonder what were they thinking. It is available through Something Weird Video on DVD. Have you seen it?
Unfortunately, no. The only Something Weird DVD I have is Henenlotter's Basket Case 20th Anniversary Edition.

Alright... I admit it... I'm not that crazy about anything made before 1967... It's like food with me. I just don't eat squash. Can't stand it. Oh yeah, I haven't heard of 'Heaven'. But I had heard of the movies you PM'ed me about from way back then. I've only seen the trailer for Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (a potential contender for this Report), which is a classic and everyone should look for it via YouTube.

But I do figure... there are already cults for those movies. They're self-establishing cult films. They take care of their own. So, I'll be the One-Man-Band (if need be) Cult Master of Ceremonies for slightly more modern films, such as Nothing but Trouble (1991) (which I'm almost conflicted about adding it to the list, but might be on it quite soon - I almost thought about a Weird Films Appreciation Thread... but I can't find PICTURES for this movie- oy!) and Troll 2 (1990). Because, frankly, they need Cults. They deserve Cults.



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The Beyond (aka- Seven Doors of Death, And You Will Live in Terror)
(1981, directed by: Lucio Fulci - Zombie, House by the Cemetery, The New York Ripper)

IMDb plots: A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.

The cellar of an old hotel is built on top of the door to the beyond. Bloody zombies roam there. A young woman who is heir of the hotel wants to restorate it. She is confronted with strange events. A painter has a lethal fall, the plumber vanishes and her friend breaks his neck. When she escapes to the hospital of a friendly doctor she doesn't know what a nightmare is waiting there...

The New Yorker Liza Merril inherits an old hotel in Louisiana, and invests her savings to reopen the place. While repairing the building, many people die, and local Dr. John McCabe feels close to Liza and tries to help her to solve the mystery of the hotel. Meanwhile, Emily, a blind woman, advises Liza to leave the place as soon as possible. Later they realize that the place is one gate of hell and has been opened, permitting the dead to walk on Earth.


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Pink Flamingos (1972, directed by: John Waters - Hairspray, Pecker, Cry Baby)

IMDb plots: A family of rednecks and a pair of swingers do battle with one another for the rights to the title "The Filthiest People Alive."

Sleaze queen Divine lives in a caravan with her mad hippie son Crackers and her 250-pound mother Mama Edie, trying to rest quietly on their laurels as 'the filthiest people alive'. But competition is brewing in the form of Connie and Raymond Marble, who sell heroin to schoolchildren and kidnap and impregnate female hitchhikers, selling the babies to lesbian couples. Finally, they challenge Divine directly, and battle commences...

The filthiest person alive, Divine, is using the codename Babs Johnson and living in a trailer in the woods with her retarded mother Edie, who loves eggs, her mad hippie son Crackers, and her mate Cotton. The envious couple Connie and Raymond Marble, who abduct and impregnate female hitchhikers to sell their babies to gay and lesbian couples, using the money to invest in heroin and sell in schools, hire Cookie to have sex with Crackers and spy on Divine to compete for the title of "the filthiest people alive". When the competition begins, Connie and Raymond Marble learn why Divine has this title.


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Raising Cain (1992, directed by: Brian De Palma - The Untouchables, Scarface)

IMDb plot: Jenny Nix, wife of eminent child psychologist Carter Nix, becomes increasingly concerned about her husband's seemingly obsessive concern over the upbringing of their daughter. Her own adulterous affair with an old flame, however, causes her to neglect her motherly duties until a spate of local kidnappings forces her to accept the possibility that he may be trying to recreate the twisted mind-control experiments of his discredited psychologist father.


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The Doom Generation (1995, directed by: Gregg Araki - Nowhere, Totally F***ed Up)

IMDb plot: Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickiemarts.


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Boxing Helena (1993, directed by: Jennifer Chambers Lynch - Surveillance)

IMDb plot: An obsessed doctor captures a former girlfriend, and cuts off her arms and legs.

A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but a horrific accident leaves her at his mercy. The plot is bizarre and perhaps sick at times, ending abruptly and with a twist.


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Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992, directed by: Anthony Hickox - Waxwork)

IMDb plots: The couple that survives the wax museum in "Waxwork" is followed by a dismembered hand, which kills the girl's father, for which she must stand trial (those lawyer types are shrewd, they weren't going for that dismembered-hand stuff). She and her boyfriend go to Sir Wilfred's house for clues, where they find a film he has prepared for them, pointing the way to his secret evil-thing-fighting stash. They grab the time machine compass thingy and go back in time to look for evidence that the girl is telling the truth, and get embroiled in different conflicts along the way.

Mark and Sarah survived the mayhem from the first movie only to have Sarah on trial for a murder committed by a dismembered hand. To find the proof that will clear her, the pair travel through time and space to dimensions full of historical, movie, and book characters. However, Mark's involvement in these other worlds may not be an accident.
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I'd say The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed up Zombies (1964). I still have no idea what all that dancing has to do with Zombies.
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