Strangest/Most Bizarre Movies of All-Time? (New Entry 12-27)

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"Pin" 1988

The plot follows a brother and sister, Leon and Ursula, whose father uses ventriloquism and an anatomical dummy as a learning tool for his children. What he doesn't count on, however, is Leon taking this act too seriously and believing that the dummy really is alive.

Really strange.

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Jacob's Ladder (1990, directed by: Adrian Lyne - Fatal Attraction, Flashdance)

IMDb plots:A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him.

New York postal worker Jacob Singer is trying to keep his frayed life from unraveling. His days are increasingly being invaded by flashbacks to his first marriage, his now-dead son, and his tour of duty in Vietnam. Athough his new wife tries to help Jacob keep his grip on sanity, the line between reality and delusion is steadily growing more and more uncertain.

On October 6, 1971, in Vietnam, the American soldier Jacob Singer is wounded by a bayonet during an attack to his platoon. He wakes up in a New York subway while going home late at night after working overtime in the post office. He is divorced from Sarah, lives with his colleague and lover Jezebel in a small Brooklyn apartment and misses his young son Gabe, who died in an accident for which Jacob feels responsible. During the next days, Jacob is chased by demons and finds the army conspiracy against him, while having strange visions during different moments of his life.


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Rats: A Night of Terror (198?, directed by: Bruno Mattei - Hell of the Living Dead)

IMDb plots: One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers above in the wastelands. A group of scavangers on bikes come across a town infested with flesh eating rats, and soon the gore is spilling everywhere!

In the year 2230, 215 years after a nuclear war destroyed the surface of the world, a group of 11 nomatic motorcyclist scavangers arrive in a deserted town searching for food and water, when they are set upon by thousands of flesh-eating, mutant rats. Armed with various assault weapons, flame-throwers, and other sharp objects, the group must co-operate with each other to fight the increasing number of murderous rodents in order to survive the long night.


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Masters of Horror: Pelts (2006, directed by: Dario Argento - Suspiria, Deep Red, Tenebre)

IMDb plot: A sleazy, desperate fur trader who haunts a local strip club, gets his hands on some priceless raccoon furs that might be more than just priceless but cursed.

Sleazy fur trader Jake Feldman will do anything for quality skin. When Jake crosses paths with fur trapper Jameson offering raccoon pelts caught at the sight of an ancient burial place, Jake jumps at the chance to cash in by stealing them in order to win the heart of a stripper named Shanna. But little does Jake know is that the raccoon pelts are cursed and will bring bloody revenge against anyone who touches them.

Pelts, is an erotic tale about stolen raccoon pelts that violently turn against those that covet them.


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Naked Lunch (1991, directed by: David Cronenberg - The Dead Zone, Videodrome, Rabid)

IMDb plots: After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.

Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who accidentally shoots his wife, whose typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in an Islamic port called Interzone.

Exterminator Bill Lee finds himself following his wife into an addiction to the bug powder he uses. After accidentally killing her, he descends into a hallucinatory existence in which he imagines himself a secret agent answering to a series of bizarre creatures. He channels his energies into writing "reports" on his delusional mission, while trying to break his addiction.


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Sleepaway Camp (1983, directed by: Robert Hiltzik)

IMDb plot: After a horrible boating accident kills her family, Angela, a shy and sullen young girl, moves in with her eccentric aunt Martha, alongside her protective cousin Ricky. One summer, Martha sends the kids to Camp Arawak. Soon after their arrival, a series of bizarre and increasingly violent accidents begins to claim the lives of various campers. Who is the twisted individual behind these murders? The disclosure of the murderer's identity is the most shocking climax in the history of American cinema.


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The Last Supper (1995, directed by: Stacy Title - Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror)

IMDb plots: A group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering right wing pundits for their political beliefs.

When Pete, one of five friends who share an Iowa house, invites Zack, a man who gave him a lift home in for supper, the night turns suddenly sour when Zack irrationally attacks Pete, but is killed by the other friends. After this episode, the friends suggest that, having ridden the world of one bad person, they should continue to do the same thing every Sunday night at supper.

A group of five graduate student roommates in Iowa fall into a descent that leads to murder after an accidental meeting leads them to search out extremists in the local community.
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well Ghostbusters II was strange when i first saw it but now i understand that dang movie :lol: . another wierd one is Jason X, which i found wierd because of there being technology that can heal the people so what is the point of killing them? another wierd one is Tuck Everlasting and To Kill A Mockingbird since i thought Scout was a guy until she was in the dress :o , that's actually how i looked :P . any that's got sex or crude humor of the like is bizare too. and finaly The Wild wasn't bizare but a head scratcher. i put that on since it was the strangest G film i ever saw with the whole Squirl being in love with the Girafe and having them go to the wild for the last third unlike Madagascar where they were there for almost the whole fim.
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Street Trash (1987, directed by: J. Michael Muro)

IMDb plot: When a liquor store owner finds a case of "Viper" in his cellar, he decides to sell it to the local hobos at one dollar a bottle, unaware of its true properties. The drinks causes its consumers to melt, very messily. Two homeless lads find themselves up against the effects of the toxic brew, as well as going head to head with "Bronson" a Vietnam vet with sociopathic tendencies, and the owner of the junkyard they live in.


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Pink Floyd's The Wall (1982, directed by: Alan Parker - Fame, Midnight Express, Evita)

IMDb plots: A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

The movie tells the story of rock singer "Pink" who is sitting in his hotel room in Los Angeles, burnt out from the music business and only able to perform on stage with the help of drugs. The film begins in Pink's youth where he is crushed by the love of his mother. Several years later he is punished by the teachers in school because he is starting to write poems. Slowly he begins to build a wall around himself to be protected from the world outside. The film shows all this in massive and epic pictures until the very end where he tears down the wall and breaks free.

Relationships, drug abuse, sex, childhood, WWII and fascism.


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Rock & Roll Frankenstein (1999, directed by: Brian O'Hara - The Prince of Porn)

IMDb plot: Music agent Bernie Stein, his scientist nephew Frankie, and a drugged out roadie named Iggy team to create a superstar by putting together the remains of dead rockers. All goes according to plan until a mishap leads Iggy to steal Liberace's private parts instead of those of Jim Morrison. The monster is brought to life and is on the road to rock 'n' roll success when the Liberace side of the monster begins to assert itself, with tragic results.


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Freaked (1993, directed by: Tom Stern and, Alex Winter - Fever, Acts of Charity)

IMDb plot: A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.

A company that produces a toxic chemical tries to improve its image via a popular spokesperson, Ricky Coogan. Ricky travels to South America to get a first-hand look at the chemical's effects and finds himself at a mutant freak farm. Elijah, who runs the farm, is only too happy to have new subjects on which to try his freak machine. The very chemical that Ricky is supposed to promote is the one responsible for creating the great variety of freaks.
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Ringing Bell also known as Chirin No Suzu

An anime movie from the 70s-80s about a lamb who's mother is killed by a wolf. In a fit of rage and revenge, he goes to kill the wolf. Unsuccessful he makes a deal with the wolf, train him as a apprentice to be a wolf or just eat him if things don't work out. The wolf ignores him for some time, but the lamb stalks him wherever he goes. The wolf ultimately decides to raise the lamb. The lamb grows up into a monstrous ram. He has the legs of a deer, the horns of a bull, and the heart of a wolf. Together they ravage the land. Killing where ever they go. The ram's last test brings him back to his home, where his mother was killed. And he has to decide whether he is wolf or sheep.
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I'm trying my best to stay away from animated movies with this list. Because take the film into the forum of animation and suddenly, anything is normal and nothing is bizarre.

Besides, I almost think if I do, then any Disney animated movie could immediately be added and then counted as bizarre for little reasons. Little reasons that might miss the whole point of the movie.
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Cool World is half animated and I only saw the title saying strangest movie, not strangest live action movie. So I just figured everything was fair game. Ringing Bell is the strangest movie I've ever seen
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Siren wrote:Cool World is half animated and I only saw the title saying strangest movie, not strangest live action movie. So I just figured everything was fair game. Ringing Bell is the strangest movie I've ever seen
Well my last response was a way of cutting down on requests for movies I haven't seen yet.

I just choose not to add many animated movies because of that above mentioned fact.

Cool World and Pink Floyd's The Wall are both animation / live-action combinations. But they both begin as live action movies and use animation in a very bizarre way - the animation heightens the bizarreness of both movies. So they were added because their use of animation was bizarre - and they were bizarre both with and without their animation.

Although it should probably also be mentioned, thanks Mr. Toad, that this is in no way a truly definitive list. I don't go out of my way to watch bizarre movies. At least not since I was a kid. I usually seek the movies you find above because I heard they were really important movies (Naked Lunch) or really good movies (PF's The Wall) or I saw them as a kid (Mother's Day, Freaked). Or because I bought the DVD after really responding to the plot elements (Society, Motel Hell).

So I haven't seen every really weird movie. And I might forget some. Or, #11 or 22 or whatever might be more bizarre than something that came before it.
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I am a little surprised you have not posted The Beatles Yellow Submarine
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Well I just said in my last post that I'm trying to stay away from strictly-animated movies. And your recommendation is a sore spot for me. I started watching it, liked it a lot, but up and for whatever reason had to abandon the viewing. It was a VHS, in good condition, and now, well it's not in good condition anymore. I want to get the DVD sometime. Depending on who released it and how much it costs. But I spent my DVD money already. The rest is goin' to bills, bills, bills.

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Hollywood Video rents it in the Special Interest section
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one strange movie i saw was on earlier on Cartoon Network. it was called Re-Animated. that movie was bizare beyond all reason. like a boy go to a theme park called Golly World ( a spoof of Disney World) and gets hit by a train and gets a brain transplant and gets mr Appleday's, a famous cartoonist( an obvious spoof of Disney himself), and starts seeing cartoons like Golly, Dolly, a penguin, a porcupine, a pickle, and an aligator. they start making his life a disaster. if it wasn't strange enough he has an adopted sister who is an alien that his mom found while doing astronaut stuff and the dad is an imbicile. then mr appleday's son wants to get the kids brain by doing so obviously but noone ever seems to try to stop him. it's like everyone is Deaf, stupid, or both. on a strange meter it gets an 11.
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Not one of the weirdest ever maybe, but the strangest movie I own on DVD is Romeo Is Bleeding, which was photographed by Dariusz Wolski, who did all three POTC films.

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I also thought that these films were pretty bizarre -

the Coen Brothers' Barton Fink:

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Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World -

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and Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover -

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Lazario, have you ever seen (or heard of) Hard Rock Zombies?

This has:
1. a family that preys on travelers
2. townsfolk that banned Rock & Roll to stop the band from playing, and then realized that they accidentally banned ALL Rock & Roll in their town
3. an 80's Hair Band that gets killed and then brought back to life because one of them found "music to raise the dead" in an old book... When they come out of their graves, they are wearing zombie makeup that makes them look kind of like KISS, and they do the robot...
4. Hitler!
5. A werewolf grandma that stabs her victims
6. two dwarfs, including one who is a pile of disfigured latex.

This was basically the movie shown on the screen during American Drive-In, and the producers decided to finish it and release it as it's own movie.

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I know you didn't want animation, but there is a movie called Cat Soup that is exceedingly strange...

One scene has a pig ferrryman reach around, pull off a hunk of his own flesh, and offer it to his 2 cat passengers.
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here's one strange movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. :P
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Ghost World will never make this list. Although I agree, it is a tad bit bizarre in places. But it's meant to be satirical. And it is. The ending, the 3 minute ending, is the only moment in the movie truly bizarre enough to make the quality of the other entries on the list.

littlefuzzy wrote:Lazario, have you ever seen (or heard of) Hard Rock Zombies?

This has:
1. a family that preys on travelers
2. townsfolk that banned Rock & Roll to stop the band from playing, and then realized that they accidentally banned ALL Rock & Roll in their town
3. an 80's Hair Band that gets killed and then brought back to life because one of them found "music to raise the dead" in an old book... When they come out of their graves, they are wearing zombie makeup that makes them look kind of like KISS, and they do the robot...
4. Hitler!
5. A werewolf grandma that stabs her victims
6. two dwarfs, including one who is a pile of disfigured latex.

This was basically the movie shown on the screen during American Drive-In, and the producers decided to finish it and release it as it's own movie.
Sounds familiar. Haven't seen it though. I might have a section later of other Member's Selections for all of your additions. In which, animated movies might make an appearence.



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Barbarella (1968, directed by: Roger Vadim - Night Games, La Curée)

IMDb plots: In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Duran-Duran. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.

After an in-flight anti-gravity striptease, Barbarella, a 41st century astronaut, lands on the planet Lythion and sets out to find the evil Durand Durand in the city of Sogo, where a new sin is invented every hour. There, she encounters such objects as the Exessive Machine, a genuine sex organ on which an accomplished artist of the keyboard, in this case, Durand Durand himself, can drive a victim to death by pleasure, a lesbian queen who, in her dream chamber, can make her fantasies take form, and a group of ladies smoking a giant hookah which, via a poor victim struggling in its glass globe, dispenses Essance of Man. You can't help but be impressed by the special effects crew and the various ways that were found to tear off what few clothes our heroine seemed to possess.

The year is 40,000. Peacefully floating around in zero-gravity Barbarella is suddenly interrupted by a call from the President of Earth. A young scientist, Durand Durand, is threatening the ancient universal peace and Barbarella is the chosen one to find him and save the world. During her mission, Barbarella never finds herself in a situation where it isn't possible to lose at least part of her already minimal dressing.


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Troll 2 (1990, directed by: Claudio Fragasso - Monster Dog, Zombi 3, Zombi 4, Zombi 5, Scalps)

IMDb plots: A young child is terrified to discover that a planned family trip is to be haunted by vile man-eating monsters out of his worst nightmare. His attempt to save his beloved family is assisted by the spectre of his deceased grandfather.

The Waits family are tired of the food in their normal town, so they trade houses to live in a wonderful half empty town. Oh, Elliot it will be wonderful! Soon the Goblins are trying to get them to eat their food with green stuff on it, and the final showdown is at hand. Nilbog will never be the same!

Joshua's family takes a trip to Nilbog, which, unbeknownst to them, is the kingdom of the goblins, as told to young Joshua by his Grandfather, Seth, who just happens to be dead. Now it's up to Josh, magical time stopping Grandpa Seth, and a double decker bologna sandwich to save the family from the evil Goblin Queen, who uses everything from magical rocks to an ear of corn, to destroy Josh's family.

Young Johnathan is shocked to find that the bedtime stories he was told by his deceased grandfather, the infamous Grampa Seth, of evil goblins who turn people into living vegetables in order to eat them, is about to come to terrifying reality on a family trip to the town of Nilbog. With the assistance of the Troll master, Creedence Leonore Gielgud, the trolls wish to feed Johnathan's family evil food.


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The Virgin Suicides (1999, directed by: Sophia Coppola - Marie Antoinette, Lost in Translation)

IMDb plots: A group of male friends become obsessed with a group of mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents after one of them commits suicide.

The lives of an eclectic group of men who live in an affluent American suburb in the '70s are forever changed by their obsession with five doomed sisters.

In this movie you see the lives of a family and friends go down the drain day by day. The Lisbon sisters/family seem to have it all until one of the sisters commits suicide. Their parents become tolerably strict until Lux ruins that for herself and her sisters. They are soon taken out of school, not able to communicate with the opposite sex, and soon take a wrong turn which turns fatal.

In 1974, in Michigan, the lives of a group of teenage boys are affected by the suicide of five girls from the Lisbon family. Cecilia (13), Lux (14), Bonnie (15), Mary (16), and Therese (17) move with their mathematics teacher father Mr. Lisbon and their possessive housewife mother Mrs. Lisbon to a calm suburb house. Their beauties attract the attention of a group of boys that meet in the house on the other side to watch the girls. When Cecilia commits suicide, the girls stay at home for a period, returning to school later. When the handsome football player Trip Fontaine seduces Lux and spends the night outside with her, Mrs. Lisbon locks the girls at home, leading them to commit massive suicide.


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Nothing but Trouble (1991, directed by: Dan Aykroyd)

IMDb plot: A businessman finds he and his friends the prisoners of a sadistic judge and his equally odd family in the backwoods of a bizarre mansion.

A financier meets a spurned lover and agrees to take her to a business meeting. On the way there, they run a stop sign in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. They are arrested and taken to the local court. But all is not as it seems: the courthouse and the "prison" are a maze of zany booby- traps and deadly contraptions. The antics of the captured couple as they try to escape from the mad judge and his bizarre family make up the rest of this unusual film.


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The Poseidon Adventure (1972, directed by: Ronald Neame - Meteor, The Chalk Garden)

IMDb plot: A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape, when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea.

A passenger ship, on her way to the scrap yard is pushed to her limits by the new owners to save on the dismantling fees. A tidal wave hits her, flipping her over so that all the internal rooms are upside down. A priest takes a mixed band of survivors on a journey through the bowels of the ship in an attempt to survive.

At midnight on New Years Eve the S.S. Poseidon is struck by a 90' tidal wave and is capsized. The Reverend Frank Scott leads nine Survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen headed to Israel to see their grandson; A New York detective and his ex-prostitute wife, Mike and Linda Rogo on their second honeymoon to Italy; A young brother and sister, Robin and Susan Shelby going to meet their parents in Greece; A haberdasher James Martin; a pop singer Nonnie Parry, and a waiter from the ship Acres. They travel from the grand ballroom struggling through, steam, fire and rising water in the up-side-down ship to reach the bottom (the propeller shaft), now the top.
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Anyone ever seen the movie "Caligula"? STRANGE movie!

"Shortbus" is pretty strange as well, but it was actually a decent movie.
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Caligula (1979, directed by: Tinto Brass - Salon Kitty - and Bob Guccione)

IMDb plots: The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an appropriate end.

The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.


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Frailty (2001, directed by: Bill Paxton - The Greatest Game Ever Played)

IMDb plot: A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons."

Fenton Meeks, comes forth to tell the FBI that his brother Adam may be the serial killer who calls himself God's Hands, who the FBI has been searching for. The film uses flashbacks to show Meeks' childhood with a father who believed he was on a mission from God to destroy demons that inhabit human bodies. Fenton saw his dad as evil, while Adam saw him as a hero.


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The Thing (1982, directed by: John Carpenter - Halloween, The Fog, Escape from New York)

IMDb plots: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.

An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realises that an alien life-form with the ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don't know who may already have been taken over.

In the midst of the Antartican snowfield, the scientists and workers of a small American research base are shocked when a helicopter begins to circle their camp, chasing and shooting at a dog. When the helicopter is destroyed and the passenger's are killed by accident, the dog is let into the base and the American's begin to wonder what has actually happened. The helicopter is discovered to be of Norweigan make, and probably linked to the Norweigan base not too far from their own. Helicopter pilot J.R MacReady offers to travel to the Norweigan base and find out what has happened. On arrival, he finds that the place has been totally destroyed. He also discovers a mangled body that looks as though it was once that of a person, which he brings back with him to study. It is only then that the clues begin to add up; the dog morphs horribly into a strange creature that attacks the researchers. They manage to fight it off, but the base's doctor has come to a conclusion: an alien with the power to transform and take the appearance of anybody else is amongst them. Who is infected already, and who can be trusted? J.R MacReady sets out to find the answers to exactly that.

Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that this task will be harder than they thought, as they don't know which members of the team have already been assimilated and their paranoia threatens to tear them apart.
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Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972, directed by: Bob Clark - A Christmas Story, Porky's, Black Christmas)

IMDb plot(s): Actors go to graveyard on remote island to act out necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh. / Six friends dig up a corpse named Orville. They use it in a satanic ritual to make the dead rise from their graves.


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How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989, directed by: Bruce Robinson - Withnail & I, Jennifer Eight)

IMDb plot: Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his relationship with his wife, his friends and his boss, but also his own body - graphically demonstrated when he grows a large stress-related boil on his shoulder. But when the boil grows eyes and a mouth and starts talking, Bagley really begins to think he's lost his mind. But has he?


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Seed of Chucky (2004, directed by: Don Mancini)

IMDb plots: Chucky and Tiffany return, resurrected by their son, and hit Hollywood. / The film introduces Glen, the orphan doll offspring of the irrepressible devilish-doll-come-to-life Chucky and his equally twisted bride Tiffany. When production starts on a movie detailing the urban legend of his parents' lethal exploits, Glen heads for Hollywood where he brings his bloodthirsty parents back from the dead. The family dynamics are far from perfect as Chucky and Tiffany go Hollywood and get rolling on a new spree of murderous mayhem; much to gentle Glen's horror. Chucky can't believe that his child doesn't want to walk in his murdering footsteps, and star-struck Tiffany can't believe that the movie will star her favorite actress, Jennifer Tilly, who soon becomes an unwitting hostess to this new family in more ways than one...


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Nekromantik (1987, directed by: Jörg Buttgereit - Schramm, Lexx)

IMDb plots: A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him. / A German freeway cleaner takes rotting bodies home to a lover who has a necrophelia fetish.

Rob and Betty, a couple of ordinary necrophiles, apparently don't mind if their dead sexual partners are not so fresh. Rob's job affords him the opportunity to bring home corpses and the odd body part; when he loses his job, he loses Betty, and Rob's life gets REALLY bizarre. / A middel-aged man, Robert Schmadtke, has a hobby of collecting body parts and conserving them in booze. One day he gets to take care of a rotting corpse. Instead of getting the corpse buried, he takes it home to his girlfriend and the fun begins...


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Safe (1995, directed by: Todd Haynes - Velvet Goldmine, Far from Heaven)

IMDb plots: Carol, a typical upper middle-class housewife, begins to complain of vague symptoms of illness. She "doesn't feel right," has unexplained headaches, congestion, a dry cough, nosebleeds, vomiting, and trouble breathing. She pulls back from the sexual advances of her husband and spends her nights alone by the TV or wandering around the outside of her well-protected home like an animal in a cage. Her family doctor treats her concerns dismissively and suggests a psychiatrist. An allergist tells her that she has Environmental Illness. Her body is rebelling against the overload that her immune system has to deal with, as she is continually exposed to all of the chemicals that we inhale, ingest, and absorb daily. The pollution in our air, pesticides on our food, and toxins in our water, are collectively overwhelming her defenses. The ubiquitous sprays, creams, and emollients used to beautify have become deadly poisons to her. In the hospital, Carol sees an infomercial for Wrenwood, a new-age retreat for those who are "environmentally ill," and leaves her husband and stepson to try and find salvation at this retreat: headed by a phony, grandstanding, "sensitive" individual named Peter Dunning.


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Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975, directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini - Accattone, The Gospel According to St. Matthew)

IMDb plots: 4 fascist libertines round up 9 teenages boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture. / Set in the Nazi-controlled, northern Italian state of Salo in 1944, four dignitaries round up sixteen perfect specimens of youth and take them together with guards, servants, and studs to a palace near Marzabotto. In addition, there are four middle-aged women- three of whom recount arousing stories whilst the fourth accompanies on the piano. The story is largely taken up with their recounting the stories of Dante and De Sade: the Circle of Manias, the Circle of Shit, and the Circle of Blood. Following this, the youths are executed whilst each libertine takes his turn as voyeur.


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Suicide Club / Suicide Circle (2002, directed by: Sion Sono - Strange Circus, Noriko's Dinner Table)

IMDb plots: In Tokyo, 54 high school girls commit a collective suicide, jumping in front of a subway train. This appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl singing group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer. Then he receives an e-mail from a young woman, The Bat, advising that there is an internet site where red dots, representing the number of people who've died, appear.


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The Toxic Avenger (1984, directed by: Lloyd Kaufman - Tromeo & Juliet, Terror Firmer, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead)

IMDb plots: This is the story of Melvin, the Tromaville Health Club mop boy, who inadvertently and naively trusts the hedonistic, contemptuous, and vain health club members, to the point of accidentally ending up in a vat of toxic waste. The devastating results then have a transmogrification effect, his alter ego is released, and the Toxic Avenger is born, to deadly and comical results. The local mop boy is now the local Superhero, the saviour of corruption, thuggish bullies, and indifference.

Melvin is a social misfit who works in the Tromaville Health Club. He is always suffering the abuse of two bullies and their respective girlfriends and the four are also murderers. But all the abuse is going to end when Melvin accidentally falls into some barrels with toxic material. Now he is "The Toxic Avenger" and soon he will be the hero of Tromaville and a menace to the corrupt mayor.
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With Toxic Avenger on there, Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD should be welcome as well. :lol: For that matter, there are a LOT of Troma videos that are pretty strange. Full Moon is another studio that makes freaky stuff: The Killer Bong (with Tommy Chong), Gingerdead Man (a killer is baked into cookie dough and comes back to get his revenge, the Puppet Master movies, The Creeps (midget horror icons: Dracula, Frankenstein, etc.) and so on...

Monkeybone is another half-animated piece like Roger Rabbit or Cool World. It is set in "Downtown", the realm of the subconscious...

Leonard Part 6 is considered to be a very bad movie by most people, I actually enjoy it. I don't know that it is "bad" per se, more that it's just incredibly silly. Leonard defeats killer vegans by throwing meat on them, and rides an ostrich out of an explosion. He drives a Porsche with a tank turret on it, for cryin' out loud!

My brother is particularly fond of "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension". It has some funky aliens, the title character is a brain surgeon/rock star/scientist/"Indiana Jones" -type adventurer, and it has John Lithgow!

Then, there is Howard the Duck, which is actually coming to DVD in March 2009! This is a messed up movie (in more ways than one.)

Super Mario Bros. is pretty strange in movie terms.

Kentucky Fried Movie is a great spoof movie.

Super Troopers is full of random stuff, like a syrup drinking contest, the "meow" game ("Meow what is going on here?") and more.

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny is pretty funny.

Weird Al's UHF is the epitome of weirdness.

Bad Taste is an early effort from Peter Jackson.

Brain Damage is a trippy horror flick.

I love House and House II: the Second Story. I'd say House II is the weirder of the two. It has a mummy grandpa, an Aztec temple in the fireplace, a pterodactyl baby puppet, and Cliff from Cheers as an electrician/adventurer, who keeps a sword in the bottom of his tool box.

Liquid Sky is a very strange experimental/horror film, although I didn't care for it that much. I haven't seen it in a long time, though.
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