The master of weird films is Alejandro Jodorowsky.
El Topo
The Holy Mountain
Santa Sangre

I dare anyone find a weirder film than The Holy Mountain, a film in which the director claims every actor and crew member had to drop acid while shooting in order to make it work the way he wanted it! I won't spoil it but it includes people bleeding birds instead of blood, feces being turned into gold my a zen master-type guy, an old man taking one of his eyes out to give it to a 10 year old hooker as a symbolic way of telling her she should leave her line of work, and, GET THIS: an actual sex machine where people have to shove a metal rod in to give the machine an orgasm! There's even more weird imagery in this film that is supposed to be a surrealist criticism on world religions and trying to explore the meaning of life. It's probably the most pretentious film ever made but there's none like it.

Also check out...

Takeshi Miikes;

Audition
Izo
Dead or Alive 1, 2
Fudoh
Visitor Q

and so many more...

JustErin said:

I never noticed actually, I'm too busy being annoyed w/ that face of hers

I just watched Pi. I highly recommend it, especially if you liked Primer.

purplewisdom said:

I rented Audition once, and ended up not watching it. I thought I might get to scared and chickened out.

This one was disturbing...

minneapolisgenius said:

Audition is the only one I've seen. It's creepy throughout, but doesn't go overboard until the end. I think you can handle it.

minneapolisgenius said:

His mom was hot.

sextonseven said:

Apparently he thought so too.

minneapolisgenius said:

OMG I love this movie



It was hilarious at the end after those folks got nixed that they had one of those hippie love moments of joy and lafter (As if the carnage hadn't even taken place).


And the fake boobs!!!

OMG, I love this movie

sextonseven said:

Maybe one day I'll give it a try. Although, I'm not sure if I want to know wht you mean by "overboard".

Imago said:

I know it's just pure insanity! Yeah, how at the end they do a follow-up on everyone's lives in the aftermath. Even people in the movie that you had already forgotten about and didn't care what happened to them anyway.


Seriously though, when I first saw it, it REALLY scared me when Z-Man turned "bad" all of the sudden. I didn't know it was going to turn out like that, but then it made the weird beginning all make sense. I actually had nightmares.

Yes. I love it. I want to buy it.

minneapolisgenius said:

I bought the DVD the day it was released.

The soundtrack is cool too, but there's a different singer on the album from the actress in the movie.

minneapolisgenius said:

It's bizarre.

sextonseven said:

I'm jealous. I always say I'm going to buy certain movies, cds, etc. but I never get around to it.

minneapolisgenius said:

I always buy the films, but never get around to watching them.

But I have watched my Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls DVD. More than once. That's a classic.

Hey sexton, u hip to this film "Eye of the Devil" with Sharon Tate? Not that it's a "crazy" film perse, but I dig it. Sharon was so beautiful in that film. She just had that...something.

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Freaky Incestuous Movie.

purplewisdom said:

Ahh the memories...

blackguitaristz said:

I haven't seen any of Sharon Tate's films. I'd be interested in seeing it because of Sharon's legacy.

sextonseven said:

Please see that one and "The Fearless Vampire Killers". That movie is brilliant, I think. But I love Roman Polanski.

Another film that would fit in this category is the 70's flick "Sisters". And Roman Polanski's "The Tenant".

blackguitaristz said:

The last Polanski film I saw was Bitter Moon with Kristin Scott Thomas. There was some freaky stuff in there for a mainstream movie.

sextonseven said:

I agree.

purplewisdom said:

Never heard of it, but sounds interesting. Where is Jodorowsky from? Recent filmmakers from the Eastern Bloc and Russia make some of craziest ass movies!

Jodorowsky was gonna make Dune with Giger designing... but it all fell through. Before Lynch.

ufoclub said:

I remember reading about that.

minneapolisgenius said:

OMG, I loooooved the follow-ups


I'm like, ... oh yeah, that motherfucker WAS in the movie, wasn't he???

Imago said:

I know, I actually burst out laughing as I realized that they were just going to keep going on with them.

minneapolisgenius said:

I HAVE to by that movie, cause I'm laughing my arse off right now thinking of it.


It's one of those movies you have playing in your livingroom if you're throwing a party. So all the drunk bastards if they're tired of making idol conversations can sit down and pee themselves laughing while watching it

Imago said:

I have to buy it as well.

And it was sad when I first saw it because I was laughing so hard at the end, and had been watching it w/ my mom, and she had gone to bed already by the time it was over. I had no one to share my laughter with at the ridiculousness of it all.