Describe the most bizarre movie you've seen

[Ringarune]

So recently I've been thinking about this movie I saw as a kid and I'm like, is it as bizarre as I remember it being??? And boy... yes it was...

So I'm curious, what's the most bizarre movie (or really any piece of media) you've seen?

For me one of the strangest movies I saw as a kid and recently rewatched was this Polish movie called Tytus Romek i Atomek. It mostly centers around how consumerism is bad, but with a really strange plot...

The story stars a monkey who's dream is to become a human and there's a villain who turns people's desires into... commercials for some reason... so he sends the monkey a television set and he catches, for lack of a better word the "consumerism fever" which literally makes him want to buy everything and he starts burning everything around him (they actually have to bring in the fire department to douse him with water)

So then 2 of his friends and a professor that they're for some reason friends with tells them that they have to take this magical train he made (which has a KFC attached to it???) that is powered by their imaginations to a magical storybook land to cure the monkey's "consumerism fever"

And that's just the tip of the iceberg with this movie... There's a toothfairy witch that wants to eat the monkey's teeth, metal people who eat money, a villain that tries to kill people by putting them in a sardine can and lowering it to his sharks, and hallucinating about a statue of Copernicus talking and it wanting the monkey to scratch its back...

I'll leave off with some of my favorite stills from this movie

all that being said though,I actually found this movie really entertaining!!!

[fakey]

The most bizarre movie I've ever seen was probably "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me."

The movie you described sounds like a wild fever dream but the images give me a bit of a nightmare vibe lol

[joannekwan]

I'd have to say Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Melancholia.

Like I know Fear and Loathing is basically a drug trip, what I don't get is why the audience score is so high for it on Rotten Tomatoes. I agree with the main points critics have: it's visually stunning, but the plot goes no where with zero character development.

As for Melancholia, the movie is divided into two parts, both unsettling and at the end of both I was questioning what I watched. It's one of those movies where not much happens over the course of time (well, except one big thing during the second part) but it just sticks with you long after you watch it.

[AdrenalineShots]

This is the single greatest thing I have ever encountered

[phoenixrenaissance]

They fall under sorta similar satire veins but probably Rubber and Why Don't You Play in Hell?

From what I remember, Rubber is about a psychic rubber tire out for revenge. It killed a bunch of people, slept with someone, and their was a tour of people watching unfold like they were on a movie set? A think a bunch of them died in the end.

And Why Don't You Play in Hell was about a group of amateur filmmakers making a film of rival yakuza gang, battling it out. Lots of death and stuff in this one and I'm not sure what the message was in the end.

[Jenny-Toons]

The Beatles' Yellow Submarine. That was as psychedelic as you could get. Though, admittedly, I really do like the movie, as bizarre as the plot was.

It's about a place seven seas below our own, and it's like this musical utopia with bright colors and happiness. But the villains, the Blue Meanies, HATE the sound of music. So they take away the music and the colors and make everything sad and dull.

So it's up to the Beatles to stop these Blue Meanies and restore the happiness and music of the people.

Here are some screenshots:

[Ringarune]

The plot description of the first one sounds amazing XD

[indagold]

I guess cat soup was pretty bizarre. A strange story about a cat who needs to rescue his sisters soul and a lot of weird strange things happen. Its short and I think its still online.

[zod]

Fantastic Planet - A trippy yet amazing film for it's time

[Kimmicomics]

I can't say bizarre,m but it did traumatize me enough.
Watership down... Maybe some of my fellow other 90s kids remmeber this as the parents thought, O a nice animation about bunnies!

F*ck that sh^T.. * excuse language *

[jpnakashima]

You guys ever seen Hausu?

It's this amazing weird Japanese ''horror'' film about a girl called Gorgeous who gets jealous because her father has fallen in love with a woman, so she gets her friends (with amazing names like Fantasy, Sweet and my absolute favorite, the stunning Kung Fu) and goes for a weekend at her aunt's house in the country, far from fuck all...
THE HOUSE IS HAUNTED!! INSANITY ENSUES!
There's no way for me to describe this movie. Is absolutely freaking bonkers and to me it's simultaneously the trashiest thing I've ever see while still being so classy. It's entertaining as hell. It's one of my favorites.

Also, good movies rolling here!
@Ringarune This seems so so so great. I must check it out soon!
@joannekwan Melancholia is kind of really cool, right? Saw it on a theater and the whole atmosphere was really somber for the experience. Have you seen Antichrist too? To me it's even more bizarre, it's really weird (and messed up)
@Jenny-Toons What a delight this movie is <3

[zuggarts]

I really enjoy these types of films, so I'm going to be using this reply as an advert for them oops

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence doesn't really have a plot, nor many recurring characters. It's one of those good old "meditation on life"-type films that tends to pick up awards at Cannes and such. There are a lot of powerful moments from the film that has stayed with me the past couple of years--my favourite is the segment at Limping Lotta's bar.

The final scene (which I will only link to) involves soldiers leading a group of slaves into a giant brazen bull of sorts (for anyone not familiar, this was an execution method that cooked the victim alive slowly inside a hollow bronze bull with the air passages carved so that their screams would resemble the sound of a bull). Instead of producing the the sounds of a bull, it creates this dark, harmonious music.

My favourite film of all time, Fellini's Satyricon, is a series of stories only vaguely linked taking place in a fantastic and indulgent version of ancient Rome. As the title implies, it is based off Pretronius' Satyricon liber. It starts off with a jealous young man despairing at losing his boy-toy to another, and ends with a group of men preparing to eat a rich dead poet's body so that they may have a share in his fortune (as his will instructs).

The film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom is a gruelling watch (and something you should definitely not watch if you are under the age of 18) that has a lot of very bizarre scenes, especially when watched in isolation. Here is the infamous 'banquet of shit' scene that I advise you not to click on.

lightning round:

• The Act of Killing (technically a documentary, disgusting but emotional, I was shook)
• Stranger by the Lake (a lot of gay porn, many ways to interpret)
• Dreams (the one by Akira Kurosawa)
• The Holy Mountain (a cheap alternative to lsd)
• Cannibal Holocaust
• Juliet of the Spirits
• WR: Mysteries of the Organism
• PM me recs I have no life

@jpnakashima Hausu looks great, definitely going to take a look!

@joannekwan Have you read Fear and Loathing? I haven't watched the film, but the book seems more enjoyable! Lars von Trier makes some interesting stuff, been meaning to watch Melancholia for a while but now I will definitely give it a shot!

[storytimebiondi]

I feel like the Korean "Oldboy" doesn't receive enough attention. That one really screwed me up. That twist was just too much for my brain. @_@

[scythe]

One night my cousin and I stumbled across an 80s psychological horror movie called Pin. It's about this doctor who has an anatomically correct mannequin called Pin, who he makes speak through ventriloquism for his patients. The doctor's young son though is an abused head case who thinks Pin is real, and he goes off the rails after he catches one of the nurses having sex with the mannequin. I can't recall how it all plays out, but I won't ever forget how much the movie freaked me out when I was young.

Apparently it was so weird it was never even released in the cinemas in the US, even though by all accounts it was pretty critically acclaimed at the time.

[Kyushii]

Oooff I'm not saying it's bad on the contrary but you're going for a visual and mental ride in a good way XD

[storytimebiondi]

Almost forgot about this:

[AdrenalineShots]

I second Fantastic Planet, total triumph

[jpnakashima]

When I was 16, I saw Oldboy and went nuts. The twist is indeed too much to the brain, it's crazy!
I then saw it with my girlfriend at the time and she got really upset with me, like ''Why would you want to see this movie?''

Oldboy is, to me, a master class on how to bum out people. What a movie, though

[J.Lovelace]

Oh gosh, I agree on that one

[J.Lovelace]

If you ask me, most of Polish cartoons were just... weird.