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Most Bizarre Movies you ever watched?

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I think the most bizarre movie I wished I never watched was a film by Harmony Korine called Ken Park. MISTAKE. I had seen two other films by him and enjoyed them (Kids and Spring Breakers) and I stupidly thought I might just watch any random other one cause they would be the same (follow similar storylines). I honestly, really wish I could forget it, I'm not even sure why I watched the whole thing in the first place. :lol2: :? :cry:

Another bizarre one I watched was The Lure (2015), it thinks its Polish, but I actually enjoyed it for the most part but it did get increasingly weird. I'd recommend it though.
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Years ago, I randomly bought a Roman Polanski movie called Repulsion from 1965 with Catherine Deneuve. She had a fear of men, and when her sister leaves, she's in the apartment alone. So she has these really crazy hallucinations and finally goes mad. My skin crawled at certain points. I didn't dislike it, but I don't want to keep watching it.

But that doesn't stop me from searching other weird movies, so I'll look for the Lure. ๐Ÿ˜
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Weirdest movie I watched was "The Wizard of Speed and Time", but I liked the weirdness.
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I have seen so many movies that I think the count is in the thousands, and hands down the most bizarre movie I've ever seen is Eraserhead. It disturbed me in a way that years later I'm still uncomfortable thinking about it.
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paigegreenpurba wrote: โ†‘07 Apr 2019, 03:40 I have seen so many movies that I think the count is in the thousands, and hands down the most bizarre movie I've ever seen is Eraserhead. It disturbed me in a way that years later I'm still uncomfortable thinking about it.
Eraserhead works if you think of it as a dream (or nightmare). Actually, I consider it a perfect dramatization of a dream sequence. Once I understood this I looked at the movie in a new way and crazy as it appeared it then achieved a certain artistic brilliance (and certainly novelty) in my opinion.
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If you ask me, I would say it's Final Destination
Didn't get the theme from the movie although the two persons who were suppose to be alive died in the movie... The way the characters died still plays in my head most times
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DATo wrote: โ†‘07 Apr 2019, 06:00
paigegreenpurba wrote: โ†‘07 Apr 2019, 03:40 I have seen so many movies that I think the count is in the thousands, and hands down the most bizarre movie I've ever seen is Eraserhead. It disturbed me in a way that years later I'm still uncomfortable thinking about it.
Eraserhead works if you think of it as a dream (or nightmare). Actually, I consider it a perfect dramatization of a dream sequence. Once I understood this I looked at the movie in a new way and crazy as it appeared it then achieved a certain artistic brilliance (and certainly novelty) in my opinion.
I suppose I could try watching it again with this mindset. Maybe I'd appreciate it a little more!
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To this day, I'm still weirded out by both Stoker and Speed Racer, though I really shouldn't be, considering how linear both films are. Black Swan as well.
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Millennium Actress though the weirdness was expected. I was introduced to the film through the creators other work. There's a lot of flip flopping between past, present, real and unreal.

Really like how the interviewer was identified by the focal character as being her protector when they worked together. It will grab at you when the focal character gets a visit from a past encounter of whom she despised.

An unexpected weirdness came from the Hills Have Eyes.
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Rubber. Ever see Rubber? Homicidal car tire, that just rolls along on its own, finding people to kill. Seriously.
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I don't know if it qualifies as bizarre, but it kind of was. The 1987 adaptation of Northanger Abbey (yes, it's a Jane Austen novel). While the novel itself is a tongue and cheek for the Gothic novels of her youth (The Italian by Radclife, The Monk by Monk Lewis, you get the picture), the adaptation went a little weird. Lots of imagery of scantily clad heroines, blood, and it has a more Gothic a la Hammer Films type feel than Gothic a la late Georgian/Regency kind of feel. It's really weird and isn't very accurate at all (lots of synthesizers being used for atmosphere I am afraid), but it's also a bit enjoyable in it's horridness. I like it more for it's Halloween appropriate feel than for trying to be an Austen adaptation. So, it's weird for an Austen film, but if one was watching it for pure campy Halloween goodness, it works.
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There is one Russian movie called Oxygen, and it was weird in every possible way... but it was the best kind of weird I've ever seen. I don't know how the creators of the movie got the idea, how they felt during writing and filming and whether they stopped to think "Jeez, it's weird" even once, and I loved the final result. But it was weird.
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Killer Clowns from Outer Space was a weird one! Turning people into cotton candy cocoons to eat them...
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Hard Candy is a weird one. For most of the movie, it's just two characters, lots of talking and strange interactions. Although categorized as weird, it's still a movie I'd recommend.
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