Kevin's Watch

I got this idea from reading a thread in the Library (sorry, can't rmember who first mentioned the idea). So here it is.
The most distrubing/weird/strange movies you have every seen.

Here are some that come off the top of my head:

- Eraserhead. this is THE weird movie for me. Dark and disturbing, it captures the dream/nightmare very well. I still don't understand all of it.
(It should be noted at this point that many of Lynch's movies could be in here, including "Lost Highway"... but I give the 'topper' of his)

- Naked Lunch. Weird, yes, but in a strangely logic format. Even if you don't understand it, you feel as if you do in a subconscious way. Great work by Cronenberg here.

- 200 Motels. The Frank Zappa movie that is loosely based upon the idea of what it's like to tour. I have so far been only able to watch it from beginning to end once. It is just too weird, and not in a laughable way either (although Keith Moon as a derranged nun is funny).

i'm sure there are more rattling in my head, but those are the first to come forth...

Strangeland. Written by and starring Dee Snider of Twisted Sister.

I mostly don't watch dark, strange, weird movies. So for me...

A Clockwork Orange

Eating Raoul is really really weird...

Kiss of the Spiderwoman

I've seen Eraserhead, Kiss of the Spiderwoman and A Clockwork Orange. I have to say Eraserhead just left me feeling the most sick to my stomach. We have a winner!

City of Lost Children is pretty dark, strange and weird.

Without question, the 1932 movie 'Freaks' by Tod Browning. Damn, now that I've thought of it, the nightmares will probably start again.

Naked Lunch most definitely. Then there's The Dark Backward, which I'm still trying to figure out. Nothing But Trouble fails as a comedy, but is supremely weird and dark.

But the darkest film I've ever seen is Keitel's The Bad Lieutenant. There's nothing light about it at all, and I don't know if I could sit through it again. It's absolutely unrelenting.

Hotel Rwanda is pretty harrowing, as it's based on a true story.

Genocide is always a dark subject.

Yeah, I can't wait for the musical.

dw

Genocide Story?





only thing I can say is I was stunned when I first saw this....

I had thought about starting a thread for Eraserhead, which I had just seen not long ago, but then I wondered how on earth I was going to talk about this movie. I've read some theories on what the film is about, and they sound intriguing. For instance, the theory that says the film is about a man's fear of parental responsibility seems as plausible anything else. But is that all?

Actually, I watched Eraserhead twice, and you know what? On the 2nd viewing, I ended kinda liking the movie. It's nightmarish, yes, but it was also oddly touching at the end. I guess the Lady in the Radiator had a lot to do with that.

I haven't seen a lot of really weird films, but I'd rank Eraserhead and Naked Lunch as the two weirdest by a fair margin.

Eraserhead was at least sort of comprehensible to me, but Naked Lunch totally had me confused. I still don't know what the movie is about. So I literally don't know what to say about it.

More to say, but I gotta get off the computer. Later...

A Clockwork Orange was a bit strange, but I still liked it.
As for just plain off-the-wall weird, try Special Bulletin.
The whole format of the movie was... unusual.
(But I still liked it)

this one is so weird i have wanted to see it again just to make sure it wasn't just ME in a weird mood, but...it was too weird so i haven't!!
dark doesn't begin to describe.



tho i agree with Cail that BL is pretty dark, abel ferrara's films always seem disjointed to me and never satisfying so i've given up seeing any. bad lieutenant was the last straw for me and abel. heh.

and then i do definitely remember being weirded out by Eraserhead when i first saw it. haven't seen it since either tho i've thought about it a couple of times.

tho i admire Lynch's oddly compelling sensibilities, i usually don't see his films more than once, and that last one...Lost Highway or something? with Robert Blake in it? what the hell was THAT about???
Blue Velvet freaked me out entirely the first time i saw it and i remember we went out to dinner after the film and i kept looking at everybody in the restaurant thinking "how weird is HE, how weird is SHE!"

Spoiler

(okay okay, i'd had a little spliff before that one! wrong move entirely!!! )

i have other dark ones (went through a very dark period where everything i read and every film that appealed to me was ultra bleak and dark) but i'll save some for later in the thread.

Lynch does absolutely nothing for me, go figure.

BL was far less disjointed than the other AF films I've seen, but it is a brutal movie. Harvey should've won an Oscar for it.

Not dark, but Being John Malkovich (or whatever the actual title and/or spelling is) was certainly strange. I enjoyed it a lot.

"Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", the one starring the Beegees and Peter Frampton with George Burns and Steve Martin and Alice Cooper and Aerosmith. OH, I think I was supposed to put that in worst movies ever....

You've got to admit though, it is possibly the most gleefully stupid movie ever made.

Mulholland Drive definitely ranks high up on the weird list.