Weirdest Movie You've Ever Seen?

[Darth Fanboy]

Shame of the Jungle by far, the original X Rated version and not the watered down one.

[Mayabird]

I saw David Lynch's Dune when I was around seven years old or so. I obviously hadn't read the books, and my mental architecture wasn't all that sophisticated yet, and the movie was entirely fueled by cocaine anyway. Similarly to the people here who watched weird movies while very sick, I just wasn't all that ready for it and experienced a total "WHAT THE FUCK?!?" the entire time, which was made even worse by not knowing the word 'fuck' then, so I didn't even have the words to describe what was going through my head.

It probably wouldn't be nearly as weird at my current age, but my memory of Alia still freaks me out so I'd really rather not. And I can only wonder how my younger brother feels about it because he saw it at the same time as I did.

[JME2]

I'm surprised no one's mentioned The End of Evangelion yet. Hideaki Anno's psychological mind-fuck tour de force, far surpassing the mind fucks of the television series and being at times too incomprehensible for it's own good.

[White Haven]

Though not as weird as most of these (and I've seen a good few, including Eraserhead and Gummo), I gotta give my vote to End of Evangelion...

Because I watched it with a 41 degree fever and as such had no concept of time, space, or logic. It's already kind of weird when you're fully conscious, but combine it with waking feverdreams...

I'm surprised no one's mentioned The End of Evangelion yet. Hideaki Anno's psychological mind-fuck tour de force, far surpassing the mind fucks of the television series and being at times too incomprehensible for it's own good.

Ahem.

[Patrick Degan]

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein 3D (a.k.a. Flesh For Frankenstein) (1973) has to rank up there with the seriously deranged. In this one, Baron vonFrankenstein (Udo Kier) is determined to create an erotically-active pair of perfect Serbians to breed his new obedient Master Race —and also keep his wife/sister (some decided blurring of the lines there) sexually satisfied since his experiments leave him no time to do her but plenty of time to fuck his New Eve before she's even reanimated. Lots of gore, too —at one point, the Baron is busy with his inanimate love doll, not only porking the corpse but also delightfully mixing his hands in her guts, declaring to his servant Otto that "To understand death, you must fuck life in ze gall bladder". Things go horribly wrong at the end, as you might expect, since the Baron, in addition to being pure evil, is also staggeringly incompetent. Just about everybody in this film gets disemboweled, including the good Baron —who is able to gasp out a minute-long death soliloquy even after being skewered by a pike. The last scene of the movie has the Baron's two creepy children preparing to take up Daddy's experiments with the last survivor, who's still hanging by his wrists in the laboratory now scattered all over with the bodies of the late cast.

And yes, I saw this film at the old Pitt Theatre in New Orleans —and in 3D.

[The Yosemite Bear]

god, I forgot about that one, maybe it was a repressed memory, but yeah I saw it too Degan....

[Ford Prefect]

I'm surprised no one's mentioned The End of Evangelion yet. Hideaki Anno's psychological mind-fuck tour de force, far surpassing the mind fucks of the television series and being at times too incomprehensible for it's own good.

Honestly, End of Evangelion is only really 'weird' the first time. Like the series, End had a very simple theme, and it was just wrapped up in a lot of meaningless self-indulgence. I think it's actually quite clever, because lots of people think its more complex than it is in reality. Even the visual symbolism is pretty straightforward after you've seen it once or twice, so for me the second half lost a lot of its appeal (the first half is still one of the bossest mecha battles put on screen, so it makes up for the weakness of the latter half).

Now the audio commentary for End of Evangelion? That's honest to God strange. Has Amanda Winn Lee been eating hash brownies? I think this is the case.

[JME2]

Though not as weird as most of these (and I've seen a good few, including Eraserhead and Gummo), I gotta give my vote to End of Evangelion...

Because I watched it with a 41 degree fever and as such had no concept of time, space, or logic. It's already kind of weird when you're fully conscious, but combine it with waking feverdreams...

I'm surprised no one's mentioned The End of Evangelion yet. Hideaki Anno's psychological mind-fuck tour de force, far surpassing the mind fucks of the television series and being at times too incomprehensible for it's own good.

Ahem.

My bad; sorry...

[Oskuro]

Casshern. Although it has its fair share of awesome.

[YT300000]

For me, it's eXistenZ by David Cronenberg. What was strange/unsettling about this movie was mostly how familiar I found it. The logic, the jumpy presentation, the visuals and everything else was exactly like in one of my dreams. It not only looked the same, but felt exactly the same, as if Cronenberg had a window into my brain, and put a camera up to it. Characters disappeared and subplots changed with the same sort of cognitive dissonance.

The scene where Jude Law assembled a pistol from his still-living lunch was a particular stand-out.

[AMT]

I saw David Lynch's Dune when I was around seven years old or so. I obviously hadn't read the books, and my mental architecture wasn't all that sophisticated yet, and the movie was entirely fueled by cocaine anyway. Similarly to the people here who watched weird movies while very sick, I just wasn't all that ready for it and experienced a total "WHAT THE FUCK?!?" the entire time, which was made even worse by not knowing the word 'fuck' then, so I didn't even have the words to describe what was going through my head.

It probably wouldn't be nearly as weird at my current age, but my memory of Alia still freaks me out so I'd really rather not. And I can only wonder how my younger brother feels about it because he saw it at the same time as I did.

I had a similar experience, watching it on some cable tv when i was but a little kid. Except that instead of huh? i went wow. i loved the visuals and stuff.
didnt even realize what it was until HS tho, when i picked up Dune at my school library.
until i saw the movie again a few years after that i always thought patrick stewart played duncan idaho for some reason tho.

[Jim Raynor]

I'm surprised no one's mentioned The End of Evangelion yet. Hideaki Anno's psychological mind-fuck tour de force, far surpassing the mind fucks of the television series and being at times too incomprehensible for it's own good.

Honestly, End of Evangelion is only really 'weird' the first time. Like the series, End had a very simple theme, and it was just wrapped up in a lot of meaningless self-indulgence. I think it's actually quite clever, because lots of people think its more complex than it is in reality. Even the visual symbolism is pretty straightforward after you've seen it once or twice, so for me the second half lost a lot of its appeal (the first half is still one of the bossest mecha battles put on screen, so it makes up for the weakness of the latter half).

Now the audio commentary for End of Evangelion? That's honest to God strange. Has Amanda Winn Lee been eating hash brownies? I think this is the case.

I don't believe the movie deserves to be called less weird because someone has watched it multiple times, or scoured the internet and other non-movie sources to find the writer's intent. The basic concepts are strange, as is everyone exploding into tang or giant naked Rei's decomposing body parts littering the landscape.

I think there's a reason Evangelion has nearly no standing in mainstream pop culture despite the fanboying it gets in geek circles.

[The Yosemite Bear]

though I think Warhol and Kubrik deserve a lifetime achievement award posthaustumusly for wierd movies, add in Tim Burton too.

[charlemagne]

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein 3D (a.k.a. Flesh For Frankenstein) (1973)

Oh man, I got this plus Andy Warhol's Dracula as a double-feature DVD for free when purchasing some other DVDs years ago, I've never watched it, though. Maybe I should

As of relatively recent watchings, the weirdest movie I can think of is Donnie Darko. I don't mean weird in a good way, though - I hated it. I don't want to read tons of stuff on weird websites to make some kind of sense of a movie.

[Big Orange]

I've mentioned eXistenZ in the other movie thread, but Zardoz was as well, I mean look at this trailer:



The writer and director must've been on something.

[The_Saint]

Oddly I've never found things like Zardoz "weird" but amusing (probably why some of my frineds treat my movie nights like a leper convention). I found the "Blair Witch Project" weird in that I could never see in it whatever everyone who raved on about it apparently could.

Depending on your definition of weird "Avalon", "Stalker" and the previously mentioned Solaris are somewhat... odd as a friend recently described them. Have a few other oddities I'll have to dig up out of the VHS history pile.

[The Yosemite Bear]

I've never seen it, but allegedly there's a 48 hour long Andy Warhol "Art Film" (soft core porn) featuring Nico, the Velvet Underground, David and Angela Bowie, and Bob Dylan......

[CaptainChewbacca]

In the Mouth of Madness is a weird fucking movie. Its so weird Sam Neill goes crazy while in it.

[NDR-113]

My votes would probably go with Casino Royale(1967) or Barton Fink(1991). Oh, or maybe I Heart Huckabees(2004). Dustin Hoffman has been in some peculiar stuff lately.

[Lord Pounder]

I remember watching Old Boy, think it was over in Keevan's, that movie left me feeling pretty weirded out.

[Styphon]

This is rather tricky... I mean, I've seen a lot of really bad movies with high levels of WTF content (Deadly Friend for one, Zardoz might be another, though it's so bad it's awesome). The absolute weirdest is probably some film that confused the living daylights out of me for a week or two and was then completely forgotten. I think Being John Malkovich deserves at least an honorable mention though. On the one hand, it has the considerable handicap of actually being good... on the other hand... there's this