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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:37 PM
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What's the oddest movie you've ever seen?
I once saw a film called Blood Harvest. It was a cheap eighties T&A slasher flick starring none other then Tiny Tim as the deranged clown.
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:39 PM
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1. The Sadists
Terrific and terrifying flick.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:39 PM
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2. two come to mind...
Un Chien Andalou, by Bunuel and Dali, and The Terror of Tiny Town, the world's only all-midget western musical.
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theoceansnerves Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:40 PM
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3. sånger från andra våningen
aka "songs from the second floor."
amazing, AMAZING film, but very very odd.
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shekina Donating Member (305 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:40 PM
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4. Pink Floyd: The Wall
that movie was effed up
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Triple H Donating Member (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:41 PM
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5. It
Pennywise still scares the hell outta me...
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oxymoron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:43 PM
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6. Tod Browning's "Freaks"
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Madrone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:43 PM
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7. Mulva: Zombie Asskicker
Hands DOWN.

http://www.secretscrolldigest.com/reviews/bmovies/mulva.html

Sick puppy that I am, I LOVE it.
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Bill of Rights Donating Member (424 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:44 PM
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8. Eraserhead
This film showed what the world looked like to a paranoid schizophrenic. Some of the scenes, especially the cornish game hen scene, are outright bizarre.
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:48 PM
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15. That scene with the game hens
it's impossible not to squirm in your seat.
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:45 PM
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9. several
taxi zum clo
memento
adaptation
run lola run
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brendan120678 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:49 AM
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35. Run Lola Run...
Was a great movie, and, yes...also quite odd. We watched it a million times in my four semesters of German class in undergrad (the undubbed, unsubtitled version -- a.k.a "Lola Rennt"). I had a crush on Franka Potente (Lola)....and I still do. I can't wait for the next Bourne movie to come out!!
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 09:01 AM
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49. Have you seen....
Der Krieger und die Kaiserin? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203632/

It's interesting to see her in a role very different from Lola or Marie. Makes me interested in seeing more movies she's been in. And if you get it from Netflix, it's the version you can turn the subtitles off in :D
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brendan120678 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 10:34 AM
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53. I haven't seen that...
But I'll be sure to check it out. Thanks for the tip!! :hi:
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:46 PM
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10. one that I really enjoyed was Being John Malkovich
I just loved it!
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Insider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:46 PM
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11. Liquid Sky
hands down
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Lizz612 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:48 PM
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12. Dead Man
Johnny Depp, black and white, Billy Bob Thorton, weird just weird.
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Kathleen04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:48 PM
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13. The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour movie is odd
but I love it. :)

It grows on ya.
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Triple H Donating Member (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:48 PM
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14. The Cell
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scottcsmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:49 PM
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16. I don't recall the name
I saw this movie in Tokyo, it was a German film with Japanese subtitles, so I had no idea at all what was being said. I think I liked the movie, though.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:49 PM
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17. even midgets have to start somewhere
werner herzog

funny and very strange

also

in the realm of the senses (Japanese : woman cuts off lover's winky and walks around city with it in mourning)
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Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 04:58 AM
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40. Is that the same as
Even Dwarfs Started Small, by any chance? I actually have that one on DVD. Very strange. A midget standing laughing at a camel taking a dump for 3 or 4 minutes....
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 09:45 AM
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50. Probably - its Herzog ==so if its him its the same
I saw it in NYC years ago. It was very very funny and strange
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absyntheNsugar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:50 PM
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18. Bloodsucking Freaks
weird movie...

bad movie...

truly offensive...
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:51 PM
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19. If
and clockwork orange
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PragMantisT Donating Member (893 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:59 PM
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21. Macolm McDowell fan?
Seen Brittania Hospital and O Lucky Man?

Same director as If.

And with Malcolm McDowell.
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 05:09 AM
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43. O Lucky Man is one of the greatest overlooked films ever...
Is there *any* social ill that isn't examined in that film?
:toast:
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 09:47 AM
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51. Maybe I was not ready for that one when I saw it. But IF was incredible
nt

I'll try to find those others again. Thanks
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neverborn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:53 PM
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20. City of Lost Children
yeah!!
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Redneck Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:12 AM
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25. I really liked that movie n/t
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PragMantisT Donating Member (893 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:00 AM
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22. Kids
weird flick
Real downer
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:09 AM
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23. Blue Velvet
"Candy Colored Clown!!!!"
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:12 AM
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24. Parents
Late 80's satire of 50's America featuring Randy Quaid as the patriarch of a suburban family of cannibals.
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Redneck Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:13 AM
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26. Mulhollend Drive (sp?)
I still haven't figured it out yet.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 08:22 AM
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46. And you won't!
Because there is NO POINT!!!!
That movie was nothing other than David Lynch masturbating.
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:59 PM
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67. Thank you!
I thought I was the only one who thought so! David Lynch brings a whole new meaning to the word "pretentious".

One I like, but thought very strange, was "The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover" directed by Peter Greenaway.
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:24 AM
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27. Baxter
Weird.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:25 AM
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28. Julien, Donkey Boy
A bizzare tale of a disturbed young man growing up in an odd and disturbing family.
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libbygurl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:28 AM
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29. Peter Greenaway's "Falls"-intolerable, annoying, too.
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x-g.o.p.er Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:29 AM
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30. The 5th Element or 12 Monkeys
I think Bruce Willis was in both. They both sucked, and I'm mad it's approximately 4 hours of my life I'll never get back.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:16 PM
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61. we loved those
thought they were really neat and funny

amazing how different tastes can be
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:29 AM
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31. Another – "Funny Games", a German thriller
'Funny Games,'' a blood-curdling portrait of a family imprisoned in its idyllic summer home by a pair of sadistic killers, puts that question to the test. This beautifully acted and paced German variant of ''Cape Fear,'' which opens today at the Film Forum having traveled around the international festival circuit, is tricked out with a number of Brechtian devices to catch audiences in a voyeuristic trance. Twice in a film that is predominantly hyperrealistic, one of the killers turns to the camera with a conspiratorial leer and asks the wordless question, What are you looking at and why?
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Parrcrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:34 AM
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32. Lost Highway
Gotta figure that all David Lynch films are going to make here eventually.
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brendan120678 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:38 AM
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33. Punch Drunk Love...
with Adam Sandler was kinda strange, but still really really good! :thumbsup:
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 05:13 AM
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44. Punch Drunk Love is terrific!
It has a *very* different way of looking at things, but highly entertaining.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:39 AM
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34. "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover", another
Greenway... I shudder a little bit even thinking of it, now...
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The empressof all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 01:23 AM
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36. The Wickerman
Think it was made in the early 70s-
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 11:30 AM
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58. "OOOH, CHRI-S-S-S-T, NO-O-O-O!!" - Edward Woodward
fun film.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:18 PM
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62. He's surprisingly brilliant in that.
Really captures the Fundy personality.
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Zinfandel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 01:40 AM
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37. After Hours!
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 03:17 AM
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38. The Tick
Giant ticks attacking humans. Special effects were hysterical. I'd watch it again though just for the laughs. It is on cable late at nights from time to time.
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Demonaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 03:37 AM
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39. The Red Balloon, postwar german movie, very profound for a kid
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 05:06 AM
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41. "The Woman Chaser"
Shot in black & white, this features Patrick Warburton as a used-car salesman in LA who wants to make a movie. Sort of a "film-noir"--or perhaps a satire? Dead serious or screamingly funny?

Really an odd little movie. Saw it on the Sundance Channel.

And what are we to make of the scene when the anti-hero dances ballet with his mother?
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 05:08 AM
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42. Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor"
In short: A newspaper reporter gets himself committed to an asylum to expose the abuses there, then loses his own sanity.

But that's not the half of it. The film examines nearly every social ill in America. It's very surreal, very disturbing, and very memorable.
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Gildor Inglorion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 08:19 AM
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45. "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad"
with Rosalind Russell - a 1960's mindtrip.
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Midwest_Doc Donating Member (548 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 08:30 AM
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47. El Topo
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 08:44 AM
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48. The House of Yes
Incest, Kennedy worship and assorted weirdness.
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EV1Ltimm Donating Member (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 09:49 AM
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52. Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 10:56 AM
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54. Liquid Sky
Plot synopsis:

A Bisexual nymphomaniac who can't feel anything has an alienvessel land on top of her apartment. They require fuel. Their fuel is generated by the human brain at the moment of sexual orgasm. The fuel is extracted by a spike driven into their skulls. The main character already having difficulty with reality decides that her love kills. Hilarity ensues.
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cheesloaf Donating Member (36 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 11:08 AM
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55. Reefer Madness
Hands down!!
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tsakshaug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 11:14 AM
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56. Repo man
even the credits were strange
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ACK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:25 PM
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66. One of my top ten movies
Definitely.
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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 11:23 AM
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57. From Dush til Dawn
with George Clooney. It was just plain weird.
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Don Claybrook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 11:32 AM
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59. Come Fire Walk With Me...
-Stranger Than Paradise
-Blue Velvet (previously mentioned)
-Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
-Fishing With John (in the documentary category)
-Mystery Train
-Mulholland Drive (previously mentioned)
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 11:44 AM
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60. Eraserhead
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The Spirit of JFK Donating Member (528 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:19 PM
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63. Eraserhead!
I agree.

Saw it with Brother from Another Planet...which should make this list, too.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:24 PM
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65. I made the mistake of reccomending it to my Dad.
"Brother" that is. Not eraserhead. He totally hated it! To this day, whenever I recommend a movie he says sarcastically, "Is it as good as Brother From Another Planet." It's an offbeat John Sayles film. Did you know, he was one of the two martians in the bar scene in Harlem?--I think he had the line:"I'd like a beer please. On the rocks."
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 12:20 PM
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64. Peter Greenaway movies are up there
Being John Malkovich
Polanski's The Tenant ( scary and strange)
Memento ( too confusing for me)
I just saw 8 Women - forget the director - French? - a musical meets an existential mystery. That had me shaking my head afterwards.
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NuckinFutz Donating Member (852 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 01:05 PM
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68. Hotel Splendide..without a doubt
Hotel powered by a methane generator. It's so odd, I'm at a loss on how to describe it.
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 01:13 PM
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69. For starters, "Santa Sangre"
Then there's always "Age of Consent," with Helen Mirren and James Mason (And they are by no means the weird bit).

Also, at a Worst Films festival at university, I saw "The Terror of Tiny Town," the world's first -- and, we should hope, last -- all-midget Western. A guy would walk into the saloon and have to reach way up to push the swinging doors apart...

Did I mention that it's also a musical?
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