What is the strangest movie you've ever watched?

[The Zanti Regent]

I saw "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T" on Cable tonight, it's the first time I've seen this movie in over 40 years and it still is the strangest movie I've ever seen. It stars Peter Lind Hayes as the good guy ( a plumber) who defeats an evil piano teacher (played by Hans Conried). It was written by Dr. Seuss and it is much more interesting than the recent spate of psuedo-Seuss movies (Grinch, Cat in the Hat)...

[pfitz59]

1. "Eraserhead" by David Lynch.

Eeeeeeeew!

[calimary]

3. OMG - I was gonna say a David Lynch movie, too! "Wild at Heart"

A bizarro movie if ever there was one. I actually threw up my hands and walked out of that one after awhile.

Strange guy, that David Lynch. I went to a junket for him for that movie. The press kit was strange, too. And for his bio, they had a whole page - essentially blank. What it said was DAVID LYNCH at the top. And then a couple of lines down, it said "Eagle scout. Missoula, Montana." And that was it. Everybody else's bio in the movie had their background, their filmography, where they were born, their family, quotes about the film, quotes about them in the film, and more. I never understood "Twin Peaks" either.

on edit -

By the way, "5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" is one of my all-time favorite movies. I LOVE that movie. I love everything about that movie. The songs, the sets, the actors, the costumes, the Terwilliger beanies with the hands on the top of them, the choreography - Eugene Loring, the choreographer, was dean of the School of Dance in the UC Irvine Art Department when I was there. Just a kick-ass, trippy fantasy binge. Hans Conried was BRILLIANT! BEYOND brilliant. You're totally correct - it is MUCH better, by far, than the Grinch movie or "The Cat in the Hat." And MUCH nicer to look at. VERY quotable, too - my husband and I routinely look at each other after looking at something odd, and say "is it atomic? YES! VERY atomic!"

Now that you mention it, I think I'll get my VHS copy out and enjoy it some more. Is it available on DVD?

[Melodybe]

4. Weirdest, hmm kind of hard to pin down what is weird

so if we are talking about something that I just am not smart enough to understand, it would have to be Eraserhead. If we are talking about gross, the Fly is pretty yucky. If we are talking about just plain out there it is almost a 2 way tie b/tw Eraserhead and Naked Luch. I should probably read Naked Lunch I'm sure I would enjoy the movie more.

[Kamika]

25. what is eraserhead about?

tpoic

[Enraged_Ape]

29. Ya got me

A guy with a really weird haircut gets his girlfriend pregnant, and they give birth to something that looks like a limbless sheep fetus. In the meantime, a woman with fibrous tumors on her cheeks sings to him from the radiator in his apartment. Hijinks ensue.

[Richardo]

38. It's like the sound of one hand clapping...

There's NO answer to that question....

[jonnyblitz]

32. LOL. Eraserhead is the first one I thought of also.

I wouldn't know where to begin to explain why I chose this one. I still liked it.

[Richardo]

37. Man, if it's not Eraserhead, I don't want to know what could be more weird

:scared:

[XanaDUer]

2. Eraserhead.

Good movie.

[Lostmessage]

5. That's one odd movie

.

[lagniappe]

6. Eraserhead. n/m

[Kool Kitty]

8. Another vote here for "Eraserhead".

[CanuckAmok]

7. "The Saragaso Manuscript"

The poster says "Jerry Garcia's Favourite Movie", if that gives you an idea....

[lucidmadman]

9. The Holy Mountain...

...by Alejando Jodorowski. It's even weirder than his El Topo though that's pretty weird too.

[everdene]

10. Mondo Cane

[Enraged_Ape]

30. Mondo Cane at least won an Academy Award

for best song.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

11. Eraserhead

but "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T" was awesome. They showed it to us in an assembly when I was in elementary school. That was over 30 years ago but it's a vivid memory.

Then there's stuff like 'Pierrot le fou' and 'Weekend' that are pretty strange.

[OneBlueSky]

12. it's a tossup between . . .

"Pink Flamingos" and "El Topo" . . . anyone who has seen these will know what I mean . . .

[CrownPrinceBandar]

13. "Performance" by Nicholas Roeg...

wierd LSD trippy melodrama that ends in murder. Stars a young Mick Jagger.

"Dr T." is great. I'd only seen Seuss cartoons. Thought the madcap style of Seuss translated well to film in this instance. Other T. Geisel classics didn't fare so well.

[CanuckAmok]

14. Yeah, what the hell was THAT about...?

I'm still going to punch Roeg for that one.

[mykpart]

15. I was going to say Blair Witch Project,

but I fell asleep watching it, so I guess I can't say I saw the whole thing. Maybe it improved after I fell asleep.

[RebelOne]

28. I was thinking of that film, too.

Actually, I didn't think it made too much sense.

[pa28]

16. bring me the head of alfredo garcia

Man makes friend with severed head. Hilarity ensues.

[bowens43]

17. 'A Boy and His Dog'

[11 Bravo]

51. You beat me to it!

That was a genuinely quirky little flick. Don Johnson looked about 12 years old.

[non sociopath skin]

18. The Institute Benjamenta

directed by the Quay Brothers. These guys make David Lynch seem like the chair of the PTA.

I've never heard of them since. Probably metamorphosed into tree frogs.

The Skin

[DiverDave]

19. Fargo

nt

[Iverson]

20. The Sound of Music ... weeeeeeird!

Un Chien Andalou was also pretty weird.

[no_hypocrisy]

35. Weird because Trapp Family crossing mts in Austria into Nazi Germany

according to my Rand McNally map, not Switzerland.

[creativelcro]

21. Tetsuo, the Iron Man

Tokyo Fist

[Shanty Oilish]

22. The Loved One

I can't explain it, but Rod Steiger was in it and Liberace played a casket salesman.
Mondo Cane was pretty far out there too. For its time.

[arwalden]

23. Jacob's Ladder

[Rowdyboy]

24. King of Hearts

Genevieve Bujold's screen debut-a very offbeat little anti-war piece, set in WWI France where the inmates of an asylum take over a town after the locals flee in response to German troops drawing near.

[Loonman]

26. "Happiness"

Twisted.

[icymist]

27. Mars Attacks! Think of the neo-cons as the Martians!

That would help to explain a lot of the neo-cons way of thinking!

[terrya]

31. "Last Year at Marienbad"

This is one weird little movie. Don't even try to ask me what it's about, because I'm still not sure.

Terry

[GOPisEvil]

33. Dreams, by Kurosawa.

It's very interesting, but completely off the wall. I mean, Martin Scorcese as Vincent Van Gogh? :crazy:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0100998/

[arwalden]

34. Pink Flamingos

[terrya]

39. You're probably right on that...although "Female Trouble"...

is a very close second.

Terry

[arwalden]

40. Female Trouble Is One That I've Missed...

... am I actually MISSING anything? (Other than being able to say that I've seen it?)

-- Allen

[terrya]

42. A moment early in "Female Trouble"

When Divine's character is with her family at Christmas. She's unwrapping her presents and gets really upset. "I told you I wanted Cha Cha heels!", she screams at her parents.

"Female Trouble" is a strange film. But you just might want to rent it. :-)

Terry

[FunBobbyMucha]

36. Hitler's head in a jar.

I can't really claim this film to the list since I don't know the title, but a pal and I came in from a long night of drinking in the 80's and found an old B&W film (presumedly from the 50's, based on film stock, cinematography, and clothes) ending--we only saw two minutes of it, but were transfixed. A car is chasing another car down a twisting road, and the pursued car's occupants are screaming "Schnell!" Inside, in the back seat, two men flank a jar with Hitler's conscious, eyes-wide-open head. The car crashes and explodes, and "THE END" comes up. Have never seen it again, nor discovered what it was. Anyone have a clue?

At any rate, at two minutes viewed, the weirdest movie and best enigma I ever saw.

[lucidmadman]

52. "THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN"

A classic...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

41. I'm going to have to say anything on the Sci Fi channel.

I don't know what's going on half the time, but no matter what it is, Skip can sit and watch it for hours. It doesn't matter if the movie is almost over or if it's even making sense. The guy loves Sci Fi, and I just don't understand it.
Duckie

43. Liquid Sky

Here's a review from
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/liquidsky/

"Few movies are specifically tailored for appeal to those on controlled substances, here's one film though. Heralded as a great work in science fiction and so on... ...well, my ass. There is no damn way this thing sits alongside Alien, Bladerunner, or The Thing. What you have is a great number of lifeless and disturbed people having sex with Margaret then dying. Aliens come to Earth looking for heroin but find that the chemicals produced by human brains during orgasm are even better. So they park their flying saucer, it's about two feet wide, on top Margaret's apartment and begin killing everyone who has sex with her. Then we have a barely understandable German scientist who is studying the aliens, at least he describes the plot to us. Throw in a crazy girlfriend and a few other weirdos to fill gaps. Margaret finally goes completely bonkers, it's difficult to find that special someone when everybody you sleep with dies, and gets vaporized. In addition, her face is always covered with smudged makeup, probably to disguise that the actress played Jimmy as well. My main problem with this movie wasn't that there are aliens. Nor that these aliens were after heroin or human brains. You just have all these dysfunctional relationships between the characters and nobody ever goes postal. Even talking to most of these people would be like getting beaten in the head with a sock full of quarters."

[Insider]

47. liquid sky, then dr. strangelove

then there was this obscure real-life 'mondo' video series at some guy's house... bizarre incidents caught on video?

[terrya]

44. One more: "Naked Lunch"

Can ANYONE explain what that was about. OR the book?

Thanks,
Terry

[bobthedrummer]

45. "El Topo"

by Alexandro Jorwakowski.
Really weird movie.

[TrogL]

46. Rules of Attraction

Watched it last night. A good quarter of the movie runs backwards. The rest of it makes little sense (at least to me, but I'm an Aspie). Near as I can make out, everybody's screwing everybody except for the person they actually want to screw.

[jimbo fett]

48. Ken Russell's "The Lair of the White Worm"

Bizarrely erotic.

[Hand]

49. Vaudeville Voices...

Shot in southeastern Ohio in 1972-73, as I recall. Very WEIRD mix of slightly funky contemporary Alice in Wonderland intercut with old archival footage of the Baltic Squadron rebellion in Russia, in 1921. Runs just under an hour.

You've probably never seen it; I only have because I made it while in film school down there. Heehee.



:smoke:

[ikojo]

50. The Monkees movie Head

Strange desconstruction of the whole Monkees phenomenon. I have heard that Head as a movie is respected by film buffs though.

[Wonco_the_Sane]

53. GATORBAIT

My old roommate and I used to have "Bad Beer, Bad Movie night". We'd try and find the worst movies we could and get a case of Beast Ice (or whatever nasty beer was on sale). We saw Lair of the White Worm too. :)

Sometime the movies were accidentally good! oh well

[Spirochete]

54. Lisztomania

as far as I can recall, it's second only to Eraserhead as the most bizarre movie I've seen.

[DS1]

55. Reflecting Skin (ladies - it's got Viggo in it)

Very strange movie with atomic bomb testing undertones

[CBHagman]

56. Easily "Santa Sangre"

And "Age of Consent" gets an honorable mention, though by no means as bizarre.

By the way, I saw "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" while I was at university. They ran it at the student union during final exams, and I must confess that there was a certain appropriateness to it. Students were making wisecracks at the screen and singing "Third floor dungeon" on the way out.