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The List Thus Far

Here is an alphabetical listing of all the movies (so far) that have been certified as among the 366 weirdest ever made, along with links to films reviewed in capsule form only.

(Note that the numbers that appear beside the original entries don’t indicate any sort of rank, but refer solely to order of publication).

THE LIST OF 366 (67 certified weird)

Altered States (1980) – Ken Russell’s visionary tale of genetic regression under the influence of magic

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 1/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies mushrooms may be the greatest “trip” movie ever made

Archangel (1990) – Surreal, nearly silent meditation on forgetfulness set in an icy Russian city just after World War I

Barton Fink (1991) – A leftist Hollywood screenwriter endures a case of writer’s block that turns into a living nightmare on the eve of WWII

The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961) – Dadaist narration courtesy of the eccentric Coleman Francis makes this tale of a nuclear blast turning Tor Johnson into a ravaging desert “beast” weird indeed

Begotten (1991) – Legendary experimental film, featuring God disemboweling himself and other metaphysical atrocities

Being John Malkovich (1999) – You can enter the head of the titular actor through this weird metaphysical comedy, the screenwriting debut of bizarre movie titan Charlie Kaufman

Blood Diner (1987) – Severely outofwhack horrorcomedy with (possibly unconscious) fascist undertones

Branded to Kill (1967) – Suzuki’s surreal, scrambled yakuza thriller about a ricesniffing hitman famously got him fired by the studio who financed it

Bronson (2008) – Overwhelmingly stylized biopic of Charlie Bronson (born Michael Peterson), the self mythologizing celebrity who prides himself on being Britain’s most violent prisoner

Carnival of Souls (1962) – Lowbudget creepfest is a minor miracle on film

The City of Lost Children [ La cité des enfants perdus ] (1995) – Visionary steampunk fairytale from Jeunet & Caro

A Clockwork Orange (1971) – Kubrick weirds it up in this disturbing moral fable

Cowards Bend the Knee, or, the Blue Hands (2003) – Typically surreal modern silent from the inimitable Guy Maddin mixing melodrama, Greek tragedy, psychosexual guilt, and hockey highlights

The Dark Backward (1991) – The world’s worst comic nearly becomes an overnight success when he grows a third arm out of his back in this grotesque show business satire

Delicatessen (1991) – Jeunet & Caro’s first film is a bizarre but oddly sweet black comedy involving cannibalism in postapocalyptic Paris

Dillinger is Dead (1969) – Nearly forgotten late 1960s avantgarde alienation piece about a gasmask designer who spends an evening puttering about his apartment

Donnie Darko (2001) Angsty, apocalyptic, fantastical drama about a screwedup teen is an irresistibly lovable mess

Don’t Look Now (1973) Classic psychological horror with a weird twist

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 2/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Elevator Movie (2004) – Surreal and minimalist independent feature about two people trapped in an elevator for months; wellscripted and weird as hell but very amateur

El Topo (1970) – Mystical and surreal Spaghetti Western from Alejandro Jodorowsky

Eraserhead (1977) – The ultimate nightmare experience, about horror at procreation and loathing for one’s own offspring

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) – Jim Carrey unexpectedly shines as he fights against a memoryerasing procedure he impulsively undertook; a weird crowdpleaser

Evil Dead II (1987) – The frenetic, fantastic and crowdpleasing movie about a man trapped in a cabin menaced by evil spirits, mixing equal parts horror and absurd slapstick comedy

Eyes Without a Face [ Le Yeux sans Visage ] (1965) Georges Franjou’s influential, poetic horror film

Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005) – Selection of surreal, interwoven sketches from three Japanese directors is uneven, as you would expect, but contains some of the weirdest sequences you’re likely to come across

Gothic (1986) – Hallucinatory excess from Ken Russell, about the night Mary Shelley conceived “Frankenstein”

Gozu (2003) – Erotically charged, hallucinatory Takashi Miike horror/yakuza mashup

Greaser’s Palace (1972) – A zootsuited Jesus visits a Western town to enact a series of absurd parables

Gummo (1997) – Indisputably weird but ceaselessly unpleasant portrait of hopeless white trash

House [ Hausu ] (1977) – The weirdest haunted house movie ever made; no one forgets the scene where the piano eats the girl

Help! Help! The Globolinks [ Hilfe! Hilfe! Die Globolinks ] (1969) – The world’s only psychedelic children’s opera about an alien invasion

The Horrors of Spider Island [ Ein Toter hing im Netz ] (1960) A bad misogynist fever dream involving poorly dubbed buxom women, and some spiders, on an island

I Can See You (2008) – This “psychedelic campfire tale” is slow to start, but climaxes in a 20 minute freakout

I’m A Cyborg, But That’s OK [ Saibogujiman Kwenchana ] (2006) – Romantic comedy set in a mental asylum is likely to remain the weirdest example of its genre

Ink (2009) – Visually impressive lowbudget fantasy about a mysterious figure who snatches a sleeping girl into a world of dreams

INLAND EMPIRE (2006) – This story of Laura Dern trapped in a nightmare while filming a cursed script is perhaps David Lynch’s weirdest movie

Jacob’s Ladder (1990) – bigbudget cult mindtrip movie with unforgettable demonic hallucinations

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 3/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Johnny Got His Gun (1971) – Antiwar classic about a limbless, blind and deaf casualty of the first World War, trapped inside his own head where he lives out a mixture of dreams and fantasies

Kung Fu Hustle (2004) – totally offit’srocker kung fu comedy/fantasy that became a smash international hit

Kwaidan (1964) – old Japanese ghost stories turned into Expressionist art

The Lair of the White Worm (1988) – Ken Russell’s ultrafun, tongueincheek horror movie filled with phallic symbols and impaled nuns

Malpertuis (1972) – Harry Kümel’s big weird dark house tale was confusing and a flop despite the presence of Orson Welles, but drips with surreal atmosphere nonetheless

Maniac (1934) – Resurrection of the dead, an orangutanman rapist and edible cat eyeballs all feature heavily in this deranged exploitation movie that seems to have been directed by an actual maniac

The Milky Way [La Voie Lactee ] (1969) – A dry and cerebral, but very weird, story by surrealist master Luis Buñuel about two tramps meet various Biblical characters and embodiments of Catholic heresies while traveling on a pilgrimage

Naked Lunch (1991) – David Cronenberg’s adaptation of the unadaptable William S. Burroughs novel features film’s scariest typewriters

Nostalghia (1983) – Andrei Tarkovsky’s slow, beautiful, dreamlike spiritual parable about a homesick Russian poet in Italy

O Lucky Man! (1973) – Sprawling satire with Malcolm McDowell, Kafkaesque interrogations, a halfman half hog, and breastfeeding

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) – Guillermo del Toro’s beautiful fairytale; a girl completes quests at a faun’s behest, while her “real” world Fascist stepfather is a monster beyond all fantasy

Phantasm (1979) – Crazy, nightmarish, obstinately illogical drivein horror flick about a kid and a sinister funeral home, featuring the terrifying “Tall Man”

Pi (1998) – amazing black and white photography and a pulsing electronica soundtrack drive this intellectual thriller about a mad math genius seeking a mystical number

The Reflecting Skin (1990) – Uneven but sometimes powerful flick teeming with symbolism about a kid who thinks his widow neighbor is a vampire, among other strangenesses

Repulsion (1965) Disturbing Roman Polanski peek inside Catherine Deneuve’s disintegrating mind

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – Even without its bizarre cult following, this naughty musical bmovie spoof would have earned a place on the list

Santa Sangre (1989) – Psychedelic slasher film about a man raised in a circus who acts as the hands for his armless mother

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 4/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies The Science of Sleep (2006) – The melancholy love life of a man who can’t distinguish dreams from reality

A Serious Man (2009) – The Coen brothers’ retelling of the Book of Job as an absurdist comedy is mystifying and brilliant in equal parts

Silent Hill (2006) – Sloppy scripting and apocalyptic imagery combine to create a truly weird experience

Stalker (1979) : Andrei Tarkovsky’s slow, mystifying, beautiful science fiction parable about three men’s journey to a room which can grant there innermost wishes

Steppenwolf (1974) – The psychedelic effects in this faithful adaptation of Herman Hesse’s novel have dated badly

Synecdoche, New York (2008) – Charlie Kaufman working without a net in this absurdist, recursive, and dreamlike story of a sadsack theater director who builds a replica of New York City inside a warehouse

Taxidermia (2006) – A penis ejaculating fire is the takehome image from this surreal and twisted Hungarian generational epic; barf bags recommended

Tideland (2005) – Terry Gilliam’s dark and controversial riff on Alice in Wonderland

Time Bandits (1981) – Timetraveling, thieving dwarfs feature heavily in this weird kiddie film mixing fantasy, comedy and theology

Tromeo & Juliet (1996) – The creators of The Toxic Avenger remake the Bard’s tale as an obscene punk epic, with predictably bizarre results

Waking Life (2001) – The story of a young man who finds he’s dreaming and can’t wake up, with serious philosophical monologues and dialogues interspersed, painstakingly animated by over thirty artists in differing styles

The Wicker Man (1973) – Horrifying and intelligent tale of a devout detective’s search for a missing girl on a Scottish island where the residents have adopted an ancient pagan religion

You, the Living [ Du Levande ] (2007) – 50 bittersweet, absurdist sketches on the crushing mundanity of everyday life

LIST CANDIDATES (movies that didn’t make it on a first pass, but may get a second chance)

$9.99 (2008) – A series of interwoven absurdist stories, featuring a dour chainsmoking angel, brought to you via Claymation

964 Pinocchio (1991) – A cybernetic male sexslave is cast adrift in a weird world in this underground Japanese cyberpunk film

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) – Artdeco bmovie has fascinating production design and campy acting from star Vincent Price, but is it weird enough?

Adaptation (2002) – Great twisty script, but in the end, may be too intellectual to be weird

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 5/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Alice [Neco Z Alenky ] (1988) – Jan Svankmejer’s uncanny, ultracreepy puppet version of “Alice in Wonderland”

Alice in Wonderland (1951) – Animated version of the nonsense classic is pretty good, but is it too Disneyfied to be weird?

Antichrist (2009) – Despite some lapses in taste, Lars von Trier’s controversial, extreme and despairing take on horror is one of his spookiest and most mysterious efforts

Bad Boy Bubby (1993) – Relentlessly offbeat character study of a man who was locked in a basement until age 40, then unleashed on modern Australia

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) – Nic Cage unloosed, iguanas, and an ambiguous ending give this crazy thriller some weird cred

The Black Cat (1934) – The best of the Boris Karloff/Bela Lugosi teamups is an Expressionist horror masterpiece about Satanism and vengeance. By Alfred Eaker.

The Black Cat (1934) – Alternate “official” review by 366weirdmovies

The Box (2009) – An adaptation of Richard Matheson’s ethical scifi fable gets weirded up by Richard Kelly

Calvaire (2004) – strange, surreal, and excessive Belgian horror about a lounge singer stranded in a remote town full of perverted and sadistic men

Cure (1997) – Pretty weird Japanese twist in the serial killer/police procedural genre

Dark Country (2009) – noirthriller mix about a honeymooning couple who run over a man in the desert

Dead Man (1995) – Jim Jarmusch’s antiWestern is hypnotic, dreamlike and strange, but is it one of the weirdest of all time?

Dr. Caligari (1989) – This popsurrealist work by a hardcore porn director suffers from bad acting, but it is weird as hell; likely to make the list on a second pass

Frownland (2007) – Painfully emotionally intense character study of a loser whose social anxiety disorder ironically turns him into loathsome company

Girl Slaves of Morgana le Fay [ Morgane et ses Nymphes ] (1971) – A fairy tale for lesbian sex fetishists

Hansel and Gretel (2007) – Korean adaptation of the fairytale switches the roles of the children and adults; it’s a beautifully made movie but perhaps too predictable in the end

House of 1,000 Corpses (2003) – Rob Zombie’s cruel and selfindulgent Texas Chainsaw Massacre tribute is weird but not much fun

Kontroll (2003) – Comedy and thriller elements mix with dream sequences and obscure symbolism in this tale of a professional ticket collector and a platform pusher, shot entirely in the Budapest subway system

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 6/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Kung Fu Arts [ Hou Fu Ma ] (1980) – A Chinese princess marries “Sida, the French Monkey Star” in this zany chopsocky

The Limits of Control (2009) – Jim Jamursch’s ultraminimalist antithriller about a Lone Man on an ambiguous assassination mission is an experiment in plotlessness

The Machinist (2004) – Possibly predictable mindbender starring an emaciated Christian Bale

Meatball Machine (2005) – Japanese splatterpunk love story about alien parasites turning human hosts into bio engineered gladiators

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) – Macabre stopmotion animated cult favorite about the Pumpkin King of Halloweentown trying to reproduce Christmas in his own ghoulish style

Oldboy (2003) – Excellent, if extreme, Korean revenge drama could stand just a teaspoon more weirdness…

The Short Films of David Lynch (2002) – The short “The Grandmother” is a weird classic; the rest of this collection, less so

Singapore Sling (1990) – black and white film noir tribute with mucho sexual perversion and general weirdness

Six-String Samurai (1998) – Buddy Holly is a swordswinging rock n’ roller seeking to claim Elvis’ throne in an alternate postapocalyptic reality

Southland Tales (2006) – Crazy, nearincoherent apocalyptic epic; a famous flop from the creator of Donnie Darko

Spider (2002) – David Cronenberg turns inward for this story of a schizophrenic misremembering a family tragedy

Stay (2005) A visually impressive psychological thriller that puts a little spin on a tired twist–but is it enough to merit making the List?

Stingray Sam (2009) – It’s a six part musical/Western/scifi serial; need we say more to catch your interest?

Suicide Club (2002) – Japanese surrealism about an unexplained wave of suicides among Tokyo teens

Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981) – There’s little that’s ordinary in these magical realist tales based on the life of skidrow poet Charles Bukowski

Tokyo! (2008) Tryptich of weird tales set in the titular metropolis, from directors Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Joonho Bong

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997) – Guy Maddin’s color misfire has intriguing art design, at least

Visitor Q (2001) – Takashi Miike’s story about a mysterious visitor disrupted dysfunctional family dynamics breaks the lactation taboo

The Wayward Cloud (2005) – Taiwanese minimalism mixing porno shoots, a watermelon fetish, and musical

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 7/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies numbers

W the Movie (2008) – Underground, surrealist attack on the Bush presidency will not be confused with the Oliver Stone pic by anyone who sees it

Xtro (1983) – incoherent alien exploitation pic that’s fairly standard, up until when the dwarf clown hits the nanny on the head with a rubber hammer and uses her to incubate alien eggs

CAPSULES & GUEST REVIEWS

9 (2009) – Shane Acker’s intriguing short about ragdolls fighting robots in a postapocalyptic world suffers from extension to feature length

44 Inch Chest (2009) – London gangster drama and actor’s showpiece about four men who try to goad a cuckold into killing his wife’s lover; contains psychological fantasy scenes

Absurdistan (2008) – charming, unusual, almost silent romantic comedy about a sex strike by the women of an isolated Central Asian village

Across the Universe (2007) Julie Taymor’s Beatles fantasia has some ripe psychedelic moments, but not enough to make it consistently weird

The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005) Wacky Robert Rodriguez film about a kid’s dream world, coscripted by his then sevenyear old son Racer

A Journey into the Mind of P (2001) – Guest review of the documentary on reclusive writer Thomas Pynchon

À L’aventure (2009) : A levitating orgasm is the highlight of this otherwise dull and talky philosophical French sex flick

Alice (2009) – TV miniseries reimagining Wonderland as a dystopian kingdom is surprisingly entertaining

Alice in Wonderland (2010) – Tim Burton’s adaptation of the classic is visually impressive, but the generic fantasy plot means it’s for kids only

Angel Heart (1987) – Supernatural noir that’s well worth a watch, but not transcendentally weird

Annie Hall (1977) – Touchstone romantic comedy/relationship movie that was innovative in breaking the fourth wall, but not weird

Army of Darkness (1992) – The final (?) installment of the “Evil Dead” series is aimed at a more mainstream audience but is still of some interest

Automatons (2006) – A girl living with robots in an underground bunker is the lone survivor of her race in this grainy throwback to 1950s style scifi

Avatar (2009) – Just to remind us why we prefer weird movies to Hollywood formula movies, Alfred checks out James Cameron’s blockbuster and finds it wanting

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 8/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Baba Yaga (1973) – Former Baby Doll Carrol Baker is a lesbian witch in this weirdish erotic Eurosleaze

Bad Biology (2008) – Frank Henenlotter’s gleefully tasteless horror comedy about killer genitalia

Basket Case (1982) – Worthwhile gory shocker about a monster who fits inside a basket, but not so very weird, by our high standards

Batman Returns (1992) – Alfred Eaker argues Tim Burton’s sequel is the best (and weirdest) comic book movie ever made

Between Men (1935) – Melodramatic “B”western, part of Alfred Eaker’s survey of Sinister Cinema’s “Sinister Six Gun Collection”.

Beyond Re-Animator (2003) – The zippy third sequel to the grossout zombie horrorcomedy classic features more tasteless jokes and crazed carnage

Big Calibre (1935) – Exceedingly odd early bWestern featuring a bucktoothed hunchback who throws vials of acid

Big Man Japan [ Dai Nihonjin ] (2007) – A deadpan mockumentary about a middleaged, outoffashion superhero who battles bizarre monsters in modern Tokyo

Bitch Slap (2009) – A tongueincheek, “postmodern” tribute to Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! built entirely around the allure of cleavage

Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2008) – The new cult/bad movie phenomenon, a “romantic thriller” Birds ripoff built around a combination of the worst script, acting and special effects to make it to the big screen in some time

Blue Beard [ Barbe Bleue ] (2009) – A slow paced, nearly literal adaptation of the fairy tale about a French aristocrat murdering his child brides, with an enigmatic ending

Brainiac [ El barón del terror ] (1962) – Cheap, silly Mexihorror featuring a hairy monster with a twofoot brainsucking tongue that must be seen to be believed

Brewster McCloud (1970) – Bizarre, birdoriented Robert Altman cult satire about a boy who dreams of flying inside the Houston Astrodome

Bug (2006) – Ashley Judd is mesmerizing in this adaptation of a stage play about extreme paranoia

Burning Inside (2010) – overlong, extremely lowbudget tale of an amnesiac with buried secrets that borrows the look and feel of classic B&W weird films

Cat People (1982) – Strange, hypereroticized and occasionally surreal update of Val Lewton’s classic about a race of people who turn into panthers when sexually aroused

The Chair (2007) – Interesting Canadian indie horror film about possession that lacks true weirdness

Charley Bowers: The Rediscovery of an American Comic Genius – Collection containing most of the nearly lost silent films of absurdist stopmotion animator and comedian Bowers

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 9/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Christmas Evil (1980) – Offbeat, low budget character study about a killer Santa that’s not as exploitative as future films exploring the same territory

Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000) – the long running series hits a new low in bad taste with this installment, but of course, that was what they were aiming at

City Ninja [ Tou Qing Ke ; AKA Ninja Holocaust ] (1985) – Another crazy ninja movie, but this time with steamy sex scenes

Cold Souls (2009) – Philosophical satire about soul removal and storage, starring Paul Giamatti as himself and a Russian soul mule

Comanche Station (1960) – Alfred Eaker’s review of the Budd Boetticher cult Western

Coming Soon (2008) Guest review of the Czech bestiality mockumentary

The Complete Metropolis (1927/2010) – Report on the restoration of Fritz Lang’s weird silent scifi classic

Coraline (2009) – Enjoyable animated children’s fantasy from the animator of A Nightmare Before Christmas

Courageous Avenger (1935) – Johnny Mack Brown Bwestern pits hero against a gang of gold thieves

Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) – Flop Roger Corman comedy memorable only for its ridiculous monster

The Cremator [ Spalovac Mrtvol ] (1969) – Review by Pamela de Graff. This Expressionist/Surrealist mix about a disturbed Czech cremator during the rise of Nazism has a good chance to make the final list.

Crowley [AKA Chemical Wedding ] (2008) – From the pen of Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson comes this confusing scifi/horror tale mixing Aleister Crowley with quantum physics

Cuban Rebel Girls (1959) : A strange, but not very entertaining, exploitation movie with Errol Flynn and his 14 year old girlfriend.

Cuban Story [AKA The Truth About Fidel Castro Revolution ] (1959) – an odd proCastro documentary, financed and drunkenly narrated by Errol Flynn. See Cuban Rebel Girls.

Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) – Disappointing, if watchable, sequel to the surprise existential scifi hit

Cube Zero (2004) – Even more disappointing than Cube 2 , as the series devolves into just another Bmovie

Danger: Diabolik (1968) – Campy, psychedelic comic book madness from Italian horror maestro Mario Bava

Deadgirl (2008) – Provocative horror about teenagers using a zombie as a sex slave

Dead Snow (2009) – Norway’s entry in the overthetop zombie slaughterfest genre involves Nazi zombies at a snowbound cabin

Death Note (2006) – Offbeat mystery/thriller from a popular Japanese magna featuring mystical catandmouse

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 10/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies games between vigilante who can kill with a stroke of the pen and the superdective who hunts him

Desperate Living (1977) – Alfred Eaker considers this third film in John Waters’ “Trasth Trilogy” a “descent into a surreal, kitsch abyss that few could imagine”

Destroy All Planets (1968) – Gamera the flying turtle fights off beehivethemed aliens in this representative fourth adventure, with fight footage from the three previous entries

Dogtooth [ Kynodontas ] (2009) Isolated children are raised in a bizarre estate where words mean just what the tyrannical father wants them to in this shocking Greek art film

Dracula (1931) – Guest review. Alfred Eaker argues that Dracula is more significant than modern critics acknowledge

Dracula (1992) – Francis Ford Coppola’s romantic take on the Dracula myth is so visually extravagant even Keanu Reeves can’t completely ruin it

Drag Me to Hell (2009) – A deweirdified, PG13 Evil Dead for the cineplexes?

The Dress (1995) – Dutch black comedy about a dress that brings bad luck to its various wearers

Dune (1984) David Lynch’s attempt to translate Frank Herbert’s complex, mystical scifi epic was an infamous flop

Eden Log (2007) – Mysterious French scifi about an amnesiac man trapped in a sewerlike maze

Edmond (2005) – William H. Macy wanders around in a subpar David Mamet script

Ed Wood (1994) – Tim Burton’s loveletter to the transvestite godfather of sobadit’sgood cinema

Elevator Movie (2004) – For posterity’s sake, here’s the original misguided capsule review for Elevator Movie , before it was promoted onto the List

Emperor of the North Pole (1973) – A cruel conductor kills trainhopping hobos in the archetypal battle between evil and slightlylessevil

Ex-Drummer (2007) – Weird, but tedious and unpleasant, tale of a writer joining a punk group of handicapped misfits to compete in a Eurotrash battle of the bands

Eye of the Devil (1966) – Occult thriller notably mainly as the acting debut of Sharon Tate, and for prefiguring the pagan revivalist premise that would be more memorably addressed in The Wicker Man (1973)

Feed (2005) – Grotesque thriller about obesity fetishes features women being fed to death

Female Trouble (1975) – Sprawling, trashy John Waters/Divine epic black comedy from the “crime is beauty” school

The Fifth Element (1997) – Luc Besson’s attempt to make a space opera/comedy goes so far over the top that it very nearly becomes weird

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 11/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Frankensteins Bloody Nightmare (2006) – A visually and aurally ingenious, surrealistically inspired remake of a trash horror in the style of Andy Milligan, which sadly suffers from having no story to tell

Freaks (1932) – Alfred Eaker provides background and a review of Tod Browning’s controversial, creepy classic

Funny Games (1997) – Unmotivated sadists break the fourth wall in this controversial exercise from Michael Haneke

Garden State (2004) – Quirky indie from “Scrubs”‘s Zach Braff about young adult returning home to face his crazy family after mom dies

Georges Méliès: Encore (DVD compilation 2010, original films 18961911) – Essential collection of early shorts from the inventor of the fantasy film

Getting Any? (1994) – Takeshi “Beat” Kitano’s surreal slapstick about a sexobsessed loser

Girly [AKA Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly ] (1970) – Arrested development in a bizarre British “family” of ritualistic murderers

Glen or Glenda (1953) – Alfred Eaker argues that Ed’s transvestite doc is his best (worst?) work and the holy grail for “naive surrealism”

God Told Me To (1975) – Larry Cohen’s wild bizarre genre pastiche mixes horror, science fiction and detective elements as a cop tries to find out why unrelated murderers all claim “God told me to do it”

The Good, the Bad, the Weird [Joheunnom Nabbeunnom Ishaghannom] (2008) : “Noodle Western” recasting the Leone classic in 1930s occupied Manchuria

Grace (2009) – A woman gives birth to an undead baby in this interesting indie shocker

Graveyard Alive: A Zombie Nurse in Love (2003) – Wellmeaning zomcom misfire

The Great K & A Train Robbery (1926) – Silent Tom Mix western

Growing Out (2009) – Lowbudget film about a man growing out of a basement squanders weird potential by focusing on romance

Habit (1996) – Interesting metaphorical take on the vampire myth from the viewpoint of an alcoholic Greenwich Village slacker

Happy Here and Now (2002) – Michael Almereyda’s surreal New Orleans based drama about a missing girl, Internet chat rooms and “softporn, directtodigital Internet film about a timetraveling Nicola Tesla.” Winner of our first review writing contest, by Pamela de Graff.

Hardware (1990) – Postapocalyptic thriller about a robot run amok

Harold and Maude (1971) – Reader recommendation by Eric SG. Hal Ashby’s cult black comedy about a MayDecember romance between a suicidal teen and a geriatric life force 366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 12/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies

House [Hausu ] (1977) – Reader recommendation by Alex Little of FilmForager.com. The oddest little haunted house movie ever made is an experimental popsurrealist movie from Japan.

Heads of Control: The Gorul Baheu Brain Expedition (2006) – Very obscure and very weird feature told from the point of view of pharmaceutical molecules inside the brain of a madman

Heart of the Beholder (2005) – Documentary on a crusade against a video store for stocking The Last Temptation of Christ

Hell’s Hinges (1916) – Overwrought early silent western is an unsubtle lesson in Christian vengeance

Housekeeping (1987) – nonconformity sleeper about two orphaned girls raised by an eccentric aunt

House of the Dead (2003) – The film that introduced the world to Uwe Boll is exactly like being trapped inside a bad video game

The House with Laughing Windows [ La Casa dalle Finestre che Ridono ] (1976) – Atmospheric giallo about an art historian restoring a church painting that hides a wicked secret

The Human Centipede (First Segment) (2009) – Mad doctor makes a human centipede; a unique grossout premise but a predictable formula execution

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2009) – High fantasy about a monk who makes a deal with the devil, from Terry Gilliam

Inception (2010) – Enormously entertaining thriller about the theft of ideas through entering dreams, but not really all that weird

In My Skin [ Dans ma Peau ] (2002) – Disturbing, unflinching movie about a woman who begins devouring herself

In Old Santa Fe (1934) – “Singing Cowboy” movie featuring an early appearance by Gene Autry

Intacto (2001) – Moody magical realist thriller about a world where luck can be stolen and won in weird contests, featuring an elderly Max von Sydow

Jannie Totsiens (1970) – South African film archivist Trevor Moses describes the weird and allegorical South African variation on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest . To our knowledge, this is the only fulllength English language review of of this Afrikaans film available online!

Jesus and Her Gospel of Yes (2004) – Guest review of the lowbudget, avantgarde, performance artist retelling of the Gospel with Jesus as a woman

Johnny Guitar (1954) – Guest review of the feminist, camp western cult fave by Kevyn Knox

Just Tony (1922) – silent Tom Mix western starring the vengeful and anthropomorphic Tony the Wonder Horse

Karajan, or Beauty As I See It (2008) – documentary on the life of eccentric conductor Herbert von Karajan

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 13/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988 ) – truth in advertising; this offbeat alien invasion spoof delivers exactly what the title promises

King of Pluto (2004) – Underground documentary about oddball artist Mike Wrathell

Lady Vengeance (2005) – The conclusion of Park’s “Vengeance Trilogy” features lots of weird moments, but actually works better in its straightforward scenes

The Land of the Lost (2009) – Bizarre for a Hollywood blockbuster, but standard Will Ferrell comedy routines and grossout jokes aimed at middleschoolers undo the weirdness factor in this tale of a land of dinosaurs, apemen and sleestaks

The Last Trail (1926) Silent Tom Mix Bwestern

Life Blood (2009) – Squanders a weird premise—vampires are God’s avenging lesbian angels—to become an undistinguished Bmovie

Lifeforce (1985) – Tobe Hooper’s followup to Poltergeist is a little flick about gratuitously nude space vampires

Liquid Sky (1982) – New Wave scifi psychedelia about aliens who suck the brains of heroin and sex addicts

Little Ashes (2008) Biopic concerning a rumored collegiate love affair between Salvador Dalí and poet Federico García Lorca is thin on insights into fascinating men

Long Pants (1927) – An odd and dark silent comedy: a manchild gets the long pants that mark his transition to adulthood, and winds up fantasizing about murdering his fiancee

Loren Cass (2006) – Dull, pretentious punk tale of teen anomie that goes beyond the pale with unrelated live suicide footage

The Lovely Bones (2009) – A murdered girl watches her grieving family and unrepentant killer from a colorful, fantastic afterlife in Peter Jackson’s iffy adaptation of a bestselling novel

Love Object (2003) – Perverse horror about a man’s unhealthy relationship with his possessive blowup doll

Mahler (1974) – One of Ken Russell’s surrealist biographies of classical composers

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) – The weirdest Mad Max movie is good goofy fun

Malice in Wonderland (2009) – Alice adaptation set in an underworld of quirky London gangsters; better than its reputation suggests

Man Bites Dog [C'est arrivé près de chez vous] (1992) – Procvocative, sadistic, loveitorhateit Belgian black comedy about a serial killer followed around by a documentary crew

Mary and Max (2009) – Touching Claymation feature about the lifelong pen pal relationship between a socially inept Australian girl and an autistic, middle aged New Yorker

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 14/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Memento (2000) – Christopher Nolan’s brilliantly plotted thriller is engrossing and disorienting, but not weird

Micmacs (2009) – Typically whimsical JeanPierre Jeunet outing, this time involving a team of carnivalesque misfits who unite to fight arms dealers

The Miracle Rider (1935) – Western serial with scifi elements, starring cowboy icon Tom Mix

Moon (2009) – Thoughtful hard science fiction that flirts with weirdness in the opening reels

The Mothman Prophecies (2002) – Hokey but effective parapsychological horror story

Mr. Sadman (2009) – independent comedy about a mute Saddam Hussein impersonator restarting his life in Los Angeles

Mystery Ranch (1932) – Atmospheric Bwestern with Gothic influences

Mystery Ranch (1934) – Unrelated to the 1932 version, this oater involves a cityslicker who writes Western novels traveling out to the real West

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) Disappointing feature adaptation of the cult TV series, ripping on the colorful 1955 scifi feature This Island Earth

Nekromantik (1987) – Notorious, badly made necrophilia movie that’s more concerned with grossing out than weirding out it’s audience

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) – Predictably, this remake sucked, and it’s not weird to boot

Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated (2010) A team of animators tackle George Romeros’ zombie classic, using the original soundtrack but drawing or using puppets or baby dolls to illustrate the scenes

The Night Walker (1964) – Obscure William Castle thriller featuring Barbara Stanwyck suffering surreal nightmares. Guest review by Pamela de Graff.

Nine (2009) – Nonweird musical ostensibly based on the twisted love life of Federico Fellini while making 8 1/2

Ninja Champion (1985) – An exemplary Godfrey Ho cutnpaste mess, with newly shot ninja footage inserted into an already ridiculous old kung fu movie to produce something impossible to follow

Ninja Scroll (1993) – Sexy and ultraviolent, but this anime is basically a straightforward fantasy adventure

No Man’s Law (1927) Strange, silent oater featuring Oliver Hardy (of Laurel and Hardy) as a sleazy villain whose attempt to rape a pioneer woman is foiled by topbilled Rex the Wonder Horse!

Nowhere (1997) – Greg Araki’s feature about directionless young people stalked by a rubber suited monster goes exactly where the title says

ODDSAC (2010) – Nonnarrative, psychedelic feature length “visual album” for the “new weird America” band Animal Collective

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 15/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Ondine (2009) – NeilJordan’s “is she a mermaid, or isn’t she?” romantic fable is not as weird as it could have been

One Missed Call (2003) – Takashi Miike adds some surreal style points near the end, but it’s basically a talky and purposelessly confusing JHorror

Order of Chaos (2010) – Offbeat thriller about a passive attorney and the newcomer who throws his life out of whack

The Other (1972) – Creepy thriller set in the Great Depression about an evil twin

Parasomnia (2008) – A “sleeping beauty” falls under the spell of an evil mesmerist in this implausible directto DVD horror

Paris Je T’Aime (2006) – 18 short films sent in Paris dealing with the theme of love; one segment is weird, and a couple of others are extremely offbeat

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) – Alfred Eaker believes Carl Theodore Dreyer’s devastatingly emotional account of the martyrdom of Joan of Arc may just be the greatest movie ever made

The Passion of the Christ (2004) – Alfred Eaker’s title says it all: “the most reprehensible antiChristian film ever made”

The Perfect Sleep (2009) – Hyperbolic homage to film noir that’s heavy on atmosphere and low on sense

Phoebe in Wonderland (2008) – Indie flick with great acting from little Elle Fanning as a kid with psychological problems. Not weird, despite a few scenes unwisely staged in Wonderland

Pontypoool (2008) – Interesting spin on the zombie genre has the infection spread via language

Ponyo [ Gake no ue no Ponyo ] (2008) – Hayao Miyazaki’s Japanese variation on “The Little Mermaid” is enchanting, but is considered one of his lesser works

Powder (1995) – An albino teen with electromagnetic powers tries to fit in to redneck society

Prometheus Triumphant (2009) – This attempt to make a modern Gothic silent film is a wellintentioned failure

The Promise [ La Promesa ] (2004) – Nanny experiences religious visions and encounters a telepathic child

Repo! the Genetic Opera (2008) – An all singing, all the time scifi/horror hybrid about organ repossession

Riders of the Whistling Pines (1949) – Gene Autry ties to save an endangered forest using the miracle of DDT in the ecologically naive oater

Riders of the Whistling Skull (1937) – “The Three Mesquiteers” star in a genre mishmash adventure featuring Indian cults and mummies

S. Darko (2009) – Two words for this unsanctioned directtovide0 sequel to the classic Donnie Darko : “not worthy”

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 16/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Samurai Princess (2009) – Japanese splatterpunk fantasy about a woman who becomes a cyborg and takes on the souls of eleven raped virgins in a quest for revenge

Satan Hates You (2009) – Modern recreation of a Christian scare film, complete with drugs, sex, violence, demons, and redemption

Scars of Youth (2008) – Lowbudget tribute to Stalker has surprisingly accomplished visuals, but is undone by poor acting and not enough plot

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) – A Toronto slacker must defeat his new girlfriend’s seven evil exes in this video game styled cult pic

The Secret of Kells (2009) – Brilliantly animated story of the clash between early Christianity and paganism; every frame looks like a cross between classic Disney and an eighthcentury illustrated manuscript

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) – Wes Craven serves up a few memorable hallucinatory sequences in this interesting but uneven “serious” take on zombies

Sex and Lucia [Lucia y el Sexo] (2001) – Arty dirty movie with a metanarrative and nude Paz Vega

Shatter Dead (1994) Thoughtful Bmovie zombiefest where being a member of the living dead is just another lifestyle choice—and the dead are anxious to convert you to their way of thinking

The Shootist (1976) – John Wayne’s swan song

Shutter Island (2010) – Scorsese/DiCaprio psychological thriller that’s atmospheric and worth a peek, though not especially weird

The Shuttered Room (1967) – H.P. Lovecraft adaptation about—well, about a shuttered room, and the unspeakable horror that lies inside it

The Silent Scream (1980) – Protoslasher featuring cult icon Barbara Steele

Sky High (1922) – Silent Tom Mix western, mainly notable for its Grand Canyon scenery

Society (1989) – Reader recommendation by J.S. Roberts. A privileged teen uncovers weird, disturbing rites when he’s initiated into high society

Spiral (2007) – Psychothriller about an unhinged artist and his models

Splice (2010) – Genetic horror/parenthood allegory from Vincenzo Natali about the drawbacks of mixing human and animal DNA

Subject Two (2006) – the subject of a medical experiment must die over and over so that the doctor can perfect his faulty resurrection formula

Superman and the Mole Men (1951) – Dwarfs with an Electrolux vacuum cleaner threaten the Man of Steel

Surveillance (2008) – Jennifer Lynch’s long delayed second movie is a perverse cross between Natural Born 366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 17/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Killers and a CSI episode

The Swimmer (1968) – Burt Lancaster decides to “swim” his way home one afternoon via neighbors swimming pools, but finds himself impeded by allegory

The Tall T (1957) : Budd Boetticher’s bleak, beautiful Western has a cult following

Ten Animated Films by Signe Baumane (2006) Weird and sexy (femaleoriented) shorts

Terror in a Texas Town (1958) – A man faces a gunfighter armed with a harpoon in this allegory of the Un American Activities Committee by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo

Terribly Happy (2008) – Offbeat, Coenesque tale of a Danish marshal reassigned to a small rural town full of dirty secrets

ThanksKilling (2008) – Tromastyle killer turkey comedy, made for a reported $3500

Thirst (1979) – Australian vampire tale about a lineal descendant of Elizabeth Bathory’s involvement in the commercial blood farming industry

Thirst [ Bawkji ] (2009) – Chanwook Park’s take on the vampire legend is arty and bloody, as expected, but surprisingly conventional at its heart

Three’s a Crowd (1927) – Guest review of Harry Langdon’s neglected silent classic

Tombstone Canyon (1932) – Creepy Bwestern featuring the villanous “Phantom Killer”

A Town Called Panic (2009) – The outright insanity of this picaresque children’s adventure appeals to weirder adults

The Toxic Avenger (1984) – Janitor nerd turns into mopwielding mutant superhero in this gory, goofy and offensive cult spoof

The Toxic Avenger, Part II (1989) – “Toxie” goes to Japan for more mayhem; the craziness remains, but the lighter tone makes this a moderately more pleasant entry in the series

The Toxic Avenger, Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989) – The producers scrape the bottom of the toxic waste barrel to come up with this third installment composed partially of extra footage from Part II

Trash [Andy Warhol's Trash ] (1970) Joe Dallessandro’s too stoned on junk to get an erection, but he sure meets a lot of weirdos in NYC in the late 60s, including his garbagecollecting transvestite roommate

Triangle (2009) – weirdness hits the high seas in this psychological mindbender about a single mom trapped on a notsoabandoned ocean liner

UHF (1989) – Despite the author/star’s name, “Weird Al”‘s TV and movie spoof is only mildly offbeat

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) – Dreamlike movie from the Czechoslovak New Wave about a girl transitioning into womanhood

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 18/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Visioneers (2008) – Corporate satire/black comedy about exploding people, starring Zach Galifianakis

Viy (1967) – Classic Gothic horror about a seminarian who must spend three nights praying over the corpse of a witch produced in the Soviet Union, underseen in the West

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968) – Roger Corman produced curiosity mixing footage of a Soviet space opera with scenes of Mamie van Doren sunbathing in a clamshell bra

Walkabout (1971) – Story of a pair of privileged Australian kids stranded in the Outback who are saved by an aborigine on his walkabout; beautiful, but not very weird

Watchmen (2009) – Weird by superhero movie standards, at least

What? [ Che? , AKA Diary of Forbidden Dreams ] (1972) – Roman Polanski’s absurdist sex comedy starring Marcello Mastroianni was a critical and box office flop, but could be a guilty pleasure for some

Where the Wild Things Are (2009) – Spike Jonze’s visionary retelling of the classic children’s book is a trip inside a kid’s psyche, not a movie for kids

The White Ribbon [ Das Weisse Band: Ein Deutsche Kindergeschichte ] (2009) – Serious dramatic meditation on the roots of Nazism, with ambiguous overtones

White Zombie (1932) – Atmospheric classic horror with traditional Haitian zombies, Bela Lugosi, and a silent film aesthetic

Wild, Wild Planet [ I Criminali della Galssia ] (1965) – Bad and bizarre Italian space opera from the demented mind of Antonio Margheriti

Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009) – Nonlinear true crime thriller about a biochemistry student/hooker/murderess

The Wizard of Oz (1939) – It may not be quite weird, but it’s the mustsee fantasy

The Wolf Man (1941)/ The Wolfman (2010) – Alfred Eaker compares and contrasts the two lycanthropic

Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) – Quirky indie romantic comedy/road movie set in a bleak afterlife reserved for suicides

Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) – This often overlooked Speilbergproduced kid’s adventure is worth seeing for its creepy, inventive and aheadoftheirtime hallucinatory effects

Zorg and Andy (2009) – Microbudgeted Bcomedy that may be worth a look (if you can find it) for the pig headed collegian and the penisy fertility statue

SHORTS

20015 (1994) Fairly successful attempt to recreate an LSD trip on a low budget

8-Bit Trip (2009) – Some of the most spectacular Legomation we’ve ever seen, accompanied by techno music

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 19/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies The Adventures of Mr. Coo #4 (2007) – seeing the previous three episodes will not help you make sense of this surreal flash animation

An Animated Short Film (2007) – An intensely creative animated film with an original piano score hiding humbly behind a generic title

“A Sharp Education” – 1950s newsreel of mom throwing knives at her daughters

At Land (1944) – Legendary experimental filmmaker Maya Deren’s short odyssey of a sea nymph’s unhappy visit to our dry world

Autumnir (2005) – Experimental, impressionistic montage of a German park in autumn

A Vodka Movie (2008) – Uncomfortably absurd, commissioned ad for Absolut Vodka, starring Zack Galafinkas and Tim & Eric

“Between Two Ferns: Episode 1″ The first installment Zack Galifiankis’ absurdist web talk show, with an uncomfortable Michael Cera as the interview victim

Bimbo’s Initiation (1931) – Another bizarre and surreal Flesicher Brother’s cartoon. “Wanna be a member?”

The Box Man (2002) – Very creepy, Kafkaesque stopmotion animation inspired by a Kobel Abe novel

Bulb (2008) – A simple change of a light bulb has far reaching effects in this wellmade experimental film

Children Purple (2007) – Experimental mix of film and animation over fastpaced beats

A Child’s Toy (2007) – Child’s Play meets Eraserhead in this creepy stopmotion animation

Cycles (2010) – Giant teddy bears stuck in mutating traffic patterns; oddly hypnotic

Crooked (Orcus) Rot (2008) – Experimental stopmotion animation filled with creepy imagery

Derealiser la Faille (2010) – Frightening, visually assured nonnarrative experimental film, remarkably made by a high school student

Doxology (2007) – an experimental head trip containing floating carrots, dancing cars, and a tennis ball crashing into the moon.

Dream #7 (2009) – David Lynch’s 42 second entry in the onedreamrush short film collection

Dream in Green (2007) – Gustafer Yellowgold’s acclaimed animated children’s music has fanciful storybook pictures for the kiddies and infectious melodies for adults

Elapse (2009) – Floria Sigismondi’s 42 second entry in the onedreamrush short film collection

The Fox and the Rabbit (2006) – Dreamlike music video from the indie band Xiu Xiu

Frankenweenie (1984) – Charming prefame Tim Burton Frankenstein parody about a boy who reanimates his dead dog 366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 20/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies

Gordon’s Surreal Senior Project Film #2 – Young Gordon shows some promise in this experiment with a self explanatory title

Green Porno – Fly (2008) – Representative episode from the Sundance Television series with Isabella Rossellini describing the mating habits of insects in a weird but scientifically accurate way

“Green Screen Cookies” (2009) – What’s in those psychedelic cookies Thu Tran is making for “Food Party”?

Halloween Trash (2007) – Something called Shaye St. John verbally abusing trickortreaters!

Harvie Krumpet (2003) – Eccentric Academy Award winning claymation about a character with Tourette’s Syndrome

Headlessness (2004) – Trippy “journey to the holy mountain” cartoon

The Heart of the World (2000) – Guy Maddin’s awardwinning short love letter to silent Soviet cinema

He Did and He Didn’t (1916) – Roscoe Arbuckle’s “humorous, expressionistic nightmare.”

Henri (2007) – The depressingly hilarious monologue of a housecat filled with ennui

Hesperus (2006) – Apocalyptic, Rotoscoped scifi tale with a unique visual sense

Hunger (1974) – This animated fable about greed and lust with constantly morphing images was nominated for “Best Short Film” in the 1975 Oscars

Italian Spiderman Trailer (2008) – Viral sensation is a hilarious sendup of a grindhouse genre that never was

It’s Intermission Time! (2007) – A trip to the drivein snack bar brings unexpected consequences in this zany parody of movie popcorn pitches

Kunbstbar (2002) – a wonderfully weird animated bar with Pablo Picasso on the menu

Lady Blue Shanghai (2010) – David Lynch was given relatively free reign to make this impressionistic “commercial” for Dior (a handbag features prominently)

Life and the Mirror (2007) – Short, surreal film from Julio Pereira.

Mariko Takahashi’s Fitness Video for Being Appraised as an “Ex-fat Girl” (2004) – Commercial director Nagi Noda’s notorious, prankishly surreal entry in a short film prepared for the 2004 Olympics

Meatball Machine: Reject of Death (2007) – Produced as an extra for the Meatball Machine DVD, this gory, absurd and politically incorrect music video is weirder and more interesting than the feature film

MUTO (2008) – This YouTube sensation shows meticulously photographed graffiti art crawling across the walls of urban eyesores in Buenos Aires

Nachtmahr: Geistergang (2008) Nightmarish amateur experimental short

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 21/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Nagasaki Ding-Dong (2008) – A nauseatingly surreal meal

One Pill (2009) – Atmospheric meditation on memory and forgetfulness

Orhesticulanismus (2008) – Mathieu Labaye’s animated tribute to his paralyzed father

Rabbit (2005) – Awardwinning, scary animated antigreed fable about a girl who finds a magical idol inside the body of a rabbit

Red Hot Drops (2005) – Weirdly drawn music video by animator/musician Chad Vangaalen

Right Place (2006) – Awardwinning short from Kosai Sekine about a Japanese clerk with obsessive compulsions

Royal Game (2007) – Two porcelainfaced beings play a mystical game of chess, accompanied by an original score for guitar and percussion

Salad Fingers – Cupboard (2007) – this representatively bizarre episode from David Firth’s weird animated web series sees Salad Fingers driven into his safety cupboard by unpleasant radio broadcasts

Singing Babies (unknown) – VHS relic: an unintentionally horrifying skit of singing babies that turns nightmarish as the sandman snatches the tots

The Sleep of Reason (2002) – There’s a strong Guy Maddin feel to this evocative short about a mental patient undergoing shock therapy

Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994) – This proofofconcept short for Sling Blade takes place inside the mental institution before Karl Childers’ release

Spacious Thoughts (2009) – Experimental animated music video from N.A.S.A., featuring the voices of Kool Keith and Tom Waits

The Stork (2001) – A bizarre image—babies as bombs—drives this overpopulation allegory

Sultana Meadows (2006) – Amatuer, but highly Lynchian, short film from Spike McKenzie

The Threatened One (1999) – Sexy animated take on Jorge Luis Borges’ melancholy love poem

To Oblivion (1993) – Low budget short film combining three H.P. Lovecraft dream stories

The Trip (2009) – Experimental music video incorporating public domain footage from LSD scare films; highly psychedelic

Three… or Apple? (2009) – Experimental, nearly silent tinted short from Serbia refers to Buñuel and the Biblical story of creation

Twelve Days of Black Mass (2009) – Another creepy Christmas short, this one featuring a spooky doll performing mysterious rituals accompanied by “Sesame Street” style graphics

366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-l… 22/28 11/28/2010 The List Thus Far – 366 Weird Movies Umo (2007) – A psychedelic, tribal music video from the avantgarde Japanese band OOIOO

The Unreal Rabbit’s Riddle (2010) – The surreal adventures of a stuffed rabbit

[user assumes risk] June 18, 2008 Remarkable performance piece set to electronic noise, for director John Hand’s band

Vincent (1982) – Impressive, expressionistic stopmotion animation debit by Tim Burton, about a 7year old boy who wants to be like Vincent Price

Wake Up (2010) – Clever and fun amateur piece by college students using simple techniques that proves you don’t need a budget to get in the weird spirit

We Were Once a Fairytale (2009) Odd little short film directed by Spike Jonze and starring Kanye West (playing himself) as an obnoxious drunk

X-Mess Detritus (2008) – A joyous, memento mori stopmotion animated Christmas short, from Voltaire

Fred and Barney for Bush Beer (1967) – Flintstones characters extol the virtues of binge drinking in this odd artifact of its times

Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (19971989) – innovative, satirical children’s cartoon that was notoriously killed off by a fundamentalist protest of a supposed drug reference

Tim and Eric Awesome Show Good Job!: H’amb – an ultrablack clip from the cult TV show, starring William Sanderson and Karen Black and involving murdersuicide and bargain lamb substitutes

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