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~ Top 10 Weirdest Movies of all time.

November 18, 2007 by Bakkouz  
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Why would anyone want to watch a weird movie? because it is fun, and different. its these kind of movies that give you a distinct perspective on life, even if somewhat twisted and unusual. These are the sort of movies that leave you saying WTF and wondering what just happend as the credits roll. Ordered least to most weird.

10. Me and You and Everyone we Know

Me and You and Everyone We Know’ is a poetic and penetrating observation of how people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating and contemporary world. Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist and “Eldercab” driver who uses her fantastical artistic visions to draw her aspirations and objects of desire closer to her. Richard Swersey (John Hawkes), a newly single shoe salesman and father of two boys, is prepared for amazing things to happen. But when he meets the captivating Christine, he panics. Life is not so oblique for Richard’s six-year-old Robby, who is having a risqué Internet romance with a stranger, and his fourteen-year-old brother Peter who becomes the guinea pig for neighborhood girls — practicing for their future of romance and marriage.
Director: Miranda July [IMDB]

9. Donnie Darko

During the presidential election of 1988, a teenager named Donnie Darko sleepwalks out of his house one night, and sees a giant, demonic-looking rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds. He returns home the next morning to find that a jet engine has crashed through his bedroom. As he tries to figure out why he survived and tries to deal with people in his town, like the school bully, his conservative health teacher, and a self-help guru, Frank continues to turn up in Donnie’s mind, causing him to commit acts of vandalism and worse.
Director: Richard Kelly [IMDB]

8. A Clockwork Orange

Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped teddy-boy hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has his own way of having a good time. He has it at the tragic expense of others. Alex’s journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick’s future-shook vision of Anthony Burgess’s novel. Unforgettable images, startling musical counterpoints, the fascinating language used by Alex and his pals - Kubrick shapes them into a shattering whole. Hugely controversial when first released, A Clockwork Orange won the New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director honors and earned four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The power of its art is such that it still entices, shocks, and holds us in its grasp.
Director: Stanley Kubrick [IMDB]

7. Delicatessen

The story is centered on a microcosm of a post-apocalyptic society where food is so rare it’s invaluable and is used as currency. The story centers on an apartment building with a delicatessen on the ground floor. The owner of the eatery also owns the apartment building and he is in need of a new maintenance man since the original “mysteriously” disappeared. A former clown applies for the job and the butcher’s intent is to have him work for a little while and then serve him to quirky tenants who pay the butcher in, of course, grain. The clown and butcher’s daughter fall in love and she tries to foil her father’s plans by contacting the “troglodytes”, a grain eating sub-group of society who live entirely underground. The “trogs” are possibly the most sensible of the lot, as they see food as food and not money. This movie reflects a type of science fiction called la Nouvelle Vague.
Director: Marc Caro, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet [IMDB]

6. Pi

In Manhattan, behind six locks, lives Max Cohen, a mathematician and computer whiz. Since staring at the sun at age six, he’s had terrible headaches; plus, he can’t abide human contact except with an aging professor, and he’s obsessed with finding numeric patterns. His current obsession is the stock market; his theories bring him to the attention of Wall Street traders. He also keeps running into Lenny, a fast-talking Hasidic who fronts for a cabal that wants to rediscover long-lost mathematical mysteries in the Torah. Neither group is benign, and they pursue Max as his hallucinations and headaches worsen. Does nature offer any solutions? Can Max find them?
Director: Darren Aronofsky [IMDB]

5. Mulholland Drive

A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio.
Director: David Lynch [IMDB]

4. Drowning by Numbers

Tired of her husband’s philanderous ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is obscured. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother’s example, and the coroner becomes reluctantly duplicitous. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to 100.
Director: Peter Greenaway [IMDB]

3. Naked Lunch

Exterminator Bill Lee finds himself following his wife into an addiction to the bug powder he uses. After accidentally killing her, he descends into a hallucinatory existence in which he imagines himself a secret agent answering to a series of bizarre creatures. He channels his energies into writing “reports” on his delusional mission, while trying to break his addiction. The story loosely reflects events in the life of author Burroughs as he wrote the novel.
Director: David Cronenberg [IMDB]

2. The Idiots

A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society’s cult of an aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form of intelligence by living together in a community of “idiots”. Their main activity becomes going out into the world of “normal” people and pretending to be mentally retarded. They take advantage of this situation to create anarchy everywhere they go and try by every possible means to make people annoyed, disturbed, miserable, ridiculous, angered, and shocked. The films start as they recruit a new lost soul and introduced her to their megalomaniac leader.
Director: Lars von Trier [IMDB]

1. Brazil

In an Orwellian vision of the future, the populace are completely controlled by the state, but technology remains almost as it was in the 1970’s. Sam Lowry is a civil servant who one day spots a mistake in one of the pieces of paperwork passing through his office. The mistake leads to the arrest of an entirely innocent man, and although Lowry attempts to correct the error, it just gets bigger and bigger, sucking him in with it.
Director: Terry Gilliam [IMDB]

Notable others: Virtually every other film by David Lynch or David Cronenberg, eXistenZ, City of Lost Children, Requiem for a Dream, Repulsion, Memento, Begotten, Jacob’s Ladder, After Hours, Prospero’s Books, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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  2. chikapappi on Sun, 18th Nov 2007 10:17 am 

    MAN! I loved Donnie Darko - it is weird yes bas I loved it!

  3. Dave on Sun, 18th Nov 2007 4:27 pm 

    What? How did Memento not make this list?

  4. Bakkouz on Sun, 18th Nov 2007 4:31 pm 

    Dave: Memento is trippy for sure but not weird per se.

  5. hdtv on Sun, 18th Nov 2007 7:36 pm 

    Yea, I think Donny Darko is a great movie too. I have watched 2 or 3 times and would not mind watching again. I saw Mullholland as well but Donny Darko was much better.

  6. Malin on Sun, 18th Nov 2007 7:54 pm 

    I love Donnie Darko, one of the best movies I have seen, but Mulholland Drive I didn’t really get at all…

  7. Hal on Mon, 19th Nov 2007 9:12 am 

    What about Being John Malkovich? That movie weirded me out man. I really wanted to be John Malkovich.

  8. Bakkouz on Mon, 19th Nov 2007 9:33 am 

    Malkovich malkovich? malkovich malkovich malkovich!! malkovich? malkovich malkovich MALKOVICH!!

  9. chudez on Mon, 19th Nov 2007 10:25 am 

    “Being John Malkovich” wasn’t weird enough for you?

  10. BakaBox on Tue, 20th Nov 2007 10:05 am 

    All of the movies mentioned can be considered mainstream when compared with a lot of movies out there. All good movies, but not suited for a top 10 weird movies list.

  11. bobo on Tue, 20th Nov 2007 11:02 am 

    as BakaBox said.

    a weird list without Jodorowsky?

  12. Art on Tue, 20th Nov 2007 11:37 am 

    Come on, how could you forget Pink Floyds The Wall, or Tommy by the Who (Jack Nicholson sings for christ sakes)? And Naked Lunch, while I thought it was completly unintelligible and terrible, is definitly the weirdest of the bunch. At least you can follow Brazil if you pay close attention.

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  14. pacun on Tue, 20th Nov 2007 2:49 pm 

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tideland,

  15. Eric on Tue, 20th Nov 2007 6:54 pm 

    List doesnt seem weird to me… unconventional maybe.. weird? how about eraserhead directed by lynch.. a lot weirder than mulholland dr

  16. FranksFIlms on Tue, 20th Nov 2007 11:22 pm 

    Consider the films of Guy Madden - such as “The Saddest Music in the World”.

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  18. Rycke on Wed, 21st Nov 2007 12:03 am 

    Gotta go with BakaBox, Eric and Art…Yeah, these are weird, but not that weird. What about Eraserhead? How about Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo’s Forbidden Zone? Or Stephen Sayadian’s Dr. Caligari? Peter Jackson’s Meet the Feebles? C’mon, guys…do your research…

  19. extreme on Wed, 21st Nov 2007 2:57 am 

    Uh, Evil Dead 2 anyone?

  20. Wyngarde on Wed, 21st Nov 2007 7:35 am 

    How about these:

    The Forbidden Zone (1980)

    El Toppo

    Videodrome

    the 90’s version Dr. Caligari

    Freaked! (From Alex Winters)

    Terror Comes To Tiny Town

    Even Dwarfs Stared Small

    Salo

    Skidoo (With Jackie Gleason)

    THE MANIPULATOR (A.K.A. “African Story”)

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  22. The Guy Who Knows A Pigeon Called Frank on Wed, 21st Nov 2007 10:14 am 

    Check out ‘Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video’.

    The original cast of Saturday Night Live on acid in probably the weirdest film of all time.

    awesome list!

  23. Jauuu on Wed, 21st Nov 2007 4:41 pm 

    I prefer Mulholland Dr the best! what a perfect great movie

    Donnie Darko was boring and insipid to me. Perhaps when I see it again I like it better, I don’t know

    But speaking of weird movies… has anyone here seen Inland Empire? It makes some of these seem like examples of classic John Ford narrative storytelling!

  24. hdtv on Wed, 21st Nov 2007 10:34 pm 

    Mulholland was a weird movie, but it was more boring than anything else, at least to me. Jacob’s Ladder was weird, but I loved it.

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  26. Albert on Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 1:21 am 

    Mulholland Drive is a best¡

    Is really amazing (a master piece), but Inland Empire is more weird than it

  27. Alfred on Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 4:11 am 

    And what about “Rubin and Ed”???

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  29. Someone who knows a good film thats not been MENTIONED on Mon, 26th Nov 2007 3:37 pm 

    Why has no one mentioned Requiem for a Dream? WHY?? Possibly one of the most heart wrenching tear jerking incredibly sad and rather strange movies out there….come on people!

  30. YourMom on Fri, 7th Dec 2007 1:24 pm 

    Magnolia

  31. me on Fri, 15th Feb 2008 5:41 am 

    If you think Jacobs Ladder belongs on a weirdest movie list then you have straightness issues. I’m no expert but that movie was barley weird when I watched it at like 14. Eraserhead, The Pink Flamingo, videodrome..now those are weird movies. I guess when I think of a weirdest moves list I don’t think of ones millions of people saw at your local cineplex. See Eraserhead and tell me Jacobs Ladder is truly weird and not just a little off the beaten path. l8.

  32. MovieFan on Tue, 26th Feb 2008 12:01 am 

    Being John Malkovich - definitive :wink:

  33. Mitch Cumsteen on Sat, 31st May 2008 6:33 am 

    Great list. Thanks for taking the time to do this. The ones I hadnt seen i will see. Why must these pompous pains in the a$$es constantly have to sound better than everyone else? to Bakabox, bobo, eric, and rycke SHUT THE F–K UP! Oh my god you’re soooo much cooler than everyone else because you’ve seen WEIRDER movies. its too MAINSTREAM for you. in the end thats all thats important to idiots like you, whether or not its mainstream, not whether or not its good. BTW ive seen jodorowsky, he’s a total d0uchebagg.

  34. Good Therapy on Sun, 10th Aug 2008 6:22 pm 

    The Wall is one weird movie. Actually the Weirdest movie I’ve ever seen is “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. That was a G rated movie that I found not only boring but simply Weird. Weird can be something odd, unusual, mystic or eerie. So I guess picking a movie depends on your perspective as to what you choose as weird. Myself I love movies that make you think what if rather than ones you can nap through, wake up and not have missed a thing.

  35. Movie Reviews I Like on Mon, 20th Oct 2008 6:38 pm 

    I would also suggest the Science of Sleep. A brilliant film very avant-garde. It uses a lot of non-linear storytelling techniques. If you’ve seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, it’s like an independent, foreign version of that, but I’d say better.

  36. Dino Delellis on Tue, 11th Nov 2008 1:16 am 

    I’m Dino..
    hehehe i love pi!!
    it rocks!!

  37. Therapist on Fri, 14th Nov 2008 12:18 am 

    I will watch any movie if it catches my interest. The only movies that I saw on your list were Donnie Darko and Mulholland Drive. Donnie Darko didn’t really make a lot of sense to me but I think it’s the type of movie that you really have to pay attention to the story line. I can’t really think of any other weird movies that I enjoyed at the moment. Great post!

  38. Nick Moose on Fri, 12th Dec 2008 10:59 am 

    This list is bullshit! wheres the curious dr. hummp? Meet the feebles!? Eraserhead? Tetsuo the iron man? wheres ANYTHING not mainstream? Naked Lunch is even too mainstream of a cronenberg movie to include..what about videodrome? Wheres anything by John Waters? If you include Donny Darko on a list of anything other than movies for wannabe hipsters you’re doing something wrong.

  39. The jester on Tue, 30th Dec 2008 8:56 am 

    probably the best astranged film i’ve seen is fear a loathing in las vegas, what a film

  40. Simmons on Thu, 12th Feb 2009 5:43 pm 

    You forgot eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Jim Carey being serious that was weird enough.

  41. David G. on Thu, 26th Feb 2009 9:45 pm 

    Being John Malkovich should definitely be one of them… I’ve seen a majority of the movies listed above… it’s definitely on!

  42. wat up on Tue, 14th Apr 2009 11:26 pm 

    Attack of the Killer Tomatoes anyone???

  43. irma on Fri, 15th May 2009 1:32 am 

    what about eraserhead?

  44. adz on Thu, 11th Jun 2009 10:49 pm 

    check out they live…..its weird too

  45. Josephine Carns on Sat, 13th Jun 2009 6:54 am 

    I was not able to see any of the movie list.
    But i am quite interested on this.
    I’ll better check one of the movies here and see if there’s any available movie in DVD.
    or in Youtube there must be one perhaps.

  46. loudernow on Tue, 16th Jun 2009 7:39 am 

    i am absolutely appalled that eraserhead didnt make this list

    you obviously havent seen it

    as far as weird goes, NONE of these movies top it

  47. jimsin on Wed, 17th Jun 2009 7:26 pm 

    Calling these the ten weirdest films of all time is simply laughable.

    People shouldn’t make lists unless they know what they are talking about.

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