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I really liked Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway film) for the sheer mind bending aspect.

Barton Fink is more main stream but Tony Shalhoub (Ben Geisler, producer) performance is worth the watch. Mayhew character is based on William Faulkner in his Hollywood days.

Any more?

lawyertood · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject:

Tod Browning's Freaks (1932)

Repo Man was pretty cool

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

'And now the Screaming Starts'. (British, Horror, ghost story. Has a very awful scene in where a peasant virgin is brutally raped by a drunken Lord. Latter then chops peasant husband's hand off with an axe for attempting to cross his master).

'The Pusher' (Danish, subtitles) - about a heroin dealer.

Xerxes · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:01 am Post subject:

Ouu, just remembered Clock Work Orange deserves a special place on this thread. There was this one really graphic rape scene, and I was wondering then that that was an actress doing that rape scene. Freaky. Off the wall how the gang used all these Russian words like Devotchka (sp?) for chicks, and stuff. I read the book after that too and the book was even better.

keithinkorea · Joined: 17 Mar 2004

Two classic strange movies are 'Withnail and I' and also 'How to get a head in advertising'. if only Richard E Grant went back to starring in decent films, I lost almost all respect after he did that 'Spice Girls' thing Twisted Evil

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Frank Zappa's wonderful '200 Motels' is certainly on the strangest films I've ever seen. Fans of unusual cinema should check this very strange piece out.

A strong contender is a revolting movie called 'Blood Diner' about a couple of guys who open a vegetarian restaurand that serves human flesh. I't pretty damn sick.

Honourable mentions go to 'Bad Taste' great work from Peter Jackson, it is by far his best film. Probably the most tasteless films are any of the less commercial ventures of the legendary John Waters, especially if they feature the revolting excrement munching 'Divine' character.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Doesn't get much freakier (or interesting) as David Lynch's Eraserhead.

Xerxes · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:38 am Post subject:

The title of thread was "...best funkiest..." If you found some of the mentions to be repulsive, please say so, so that I don't go lookin' for it. In that category is Faces of Death but don't even go there. The documentary is about real deaths on film. Makes you lose lunch faster than a fart during muff dive.

Satori · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all

Sling Blade, Fire Walk With Me...

merlot · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:46 am Post subject:

Slacker

My Dinner with Andre

Mindwalk

chotaerang · Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Location: In the gym

Five Corners (1988). The actors in the film are well-known, but I've never met anyone else who's seen or remembers this great movie.

visitor q · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 3:49 am Post subject:

Visitor Q.

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

"Beyond the Mat" was an off-the-wall (literally) documentary on the seamier side (not that there's really a respectable side...) of professional wrestling, focusing on the hellish casualties on a personal level. The camera focused on Mick Foley's horrified five-year-old daughter witnessing her father get his head split open by five consecutive "chair shots" (by "the Rock") and then closed-in on the emergency surgery required to repair his blood-soaked head...) More surreal were the segments on crippled but unstoppable Terry Funk and the degradation of cokehead "Jake the Snake" Roberts and his poignant, shattered relationship with his grown daughter...

ChimpumCallao · Joined: 17 May 2005 Location: your mom

i saw this indie movie with Isabella Rosselina about 7 years ago called "Zelly and me." anyone heard of it? It was really beautiful and sad as hell.

and its not so off the beaten track but Hedwig rocked.

Njord · Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Location: South Korea

Pi

Kitchen Stories (Psalmer från köket) in Swedish and Norwegian. It's about a Swedish scientific observer who watches and records a cranky old single Norwegian man's kitchen habits. They develop a friendship which damages the scientific results of the study.

Zyzyfer · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject:

I don't remember the name, but the weirdest movies tend to be Japanese, so whatever. It was this one movie about some wrestling guru whose daughter gets abducted or something so this TV producer can host some sort of variety fight show with the father as his contestant. Wrestling guru has to get to the bottom of things and has more than a few completely beeped up fights. Oh, I almost forgot...they turn his daughter into a mermaid, too. That's about all I managed to figure out from the plot.

The movie is sincerely one of the most beeped up things I've ever witnessed.