Sort of a follow on from the Wicker Man thread.After seeing something over the weekend and seeing it was available to watch on you tube today I watched Man Bites Dog it's been 30 years since I first watched it maybe not to everyone's taste it's a Belgian film about a serial killer being followed around by a film crew a seriously dark comedy which certainly takes a sinister turn.Any more recommendations of offbeat films?

"Naked Nuns with big guns" is a bit niche ... a Vigilante Nun takes on a Drug Dealing gang of Hells Angels

Ptangyangkipperbang wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 14, 2024 5:03 pm

Sort of a follow on from the Wicker Man thread.After seeing something over the weekend and seeing it was available to watch on you tube today I watched Man Bites Dog it's been 30 years since I first watched it maybe not to everyone's taste it's a Belgian film about a serial killer being followed around by a film crew a seriously dark comedy which certainly takes a sinister turn.Any more recommendations of offbeat films?

The exact same film I thought of when I saw the thread title!

Priscilla Queen of the Desert has always seemed a marmite film; I absolutely love it and watched it again on TV fairly recently

One Cut of the Dead

Pontypool

Climax

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 14, 2024 5:06 pm

"Naked Nuns with big guns" is a bit niche ... a Vigilante Nun takes on a Drug Dealing gang of Hells Angels

That's got to be a wind-up!

Ptangyangkipperbang wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 14, 2024 5:03 pm

Sort of a follow on from the Wicker Man thread.After seeing something over the weekend and seeing it was available to watch on you tube today I watched Man Bites Dog it's been 30 years since I first watched it maybe not to everyone's taste it's a Belgian film about a serial killer being followed around by a film crew a seriously dark comedy which certainly takes a sinister turn.Any more recommendations of offbeat films?

I've never seen it but it's well-known in France. It helped the launch the career of the main actor Benoît Poelvoorde. He's now a big star in France.

ecc wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 14, 2024 6:47 pm

That's got to be a wind-up!

Nope (I got the title wrong its "nude nuns with big guns")

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1352388/

Performance is pretty out there, decent watch.

Chinese kung fu cult/strange
“2 crippled heroes”
Often shown late on channel 4

I watched a new film last night called The Substance which was pretty bonkers.

Any Troma movies.

'Toxic Avenger' is a good starting point.

They live.

"twin town" is a cult film in Wales and hardly anybody in England has seen or heard of it.

Repoman is always intense.

timshorts wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 14, 2024 9:14 pm

They live.

"twin town" is a cult film in Wales and hardly anybody in England has seen or heard of it.

Repoman is always intense.

Great call, I like all three of those.

Twin Town is brilliant.

Speak no evil 2024 version, which is a remake of a 2022 Danish film. James Mcavoy stars. It's quite disturbing and gave Mrs Jel nightmares!

Bone Tomahawk

Jacob's Ladder (1990).

Extremely disturbing in parts with twists throughout.

Jel wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 14, 2024 9:51 pm

Speak no evil 2024 version, which is a remake of a 2022 Danish film. James Mcavoy stars. It's quite disturbing and gave Mrs Jel nightmares!

Yeah, saw this last week. I want to see the original now.

Not really cult or weird but one of my favourite films ever that people never seem to have seen is Millers Crossing. Love that film.

More recently I enjoyed Long Legs, very odd.

Other honerable mentions for films I can watch again and again which are a little off beat - chasing amy, Napoleon Dynamite, Rushmore, Requiem for a dream.

I'm sure I have tons more

Nocturnal animals.

Dark and noir type film , good acting.

The Lair of the White Worm.

Dead Man's Shoes.

Delecatessen
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101700/

boatshed bill wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 14, 2024 10:09 pm

Bone Tomahawk

Good call. Offbeat Western horror film. Pretty dark but Kurt Russell is excellent in it.

GetIntoEm wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 14, 2024 10:38 pm

Not really cult or weird but one of my favourite films ever that people never seem to have seen is Millers Crossing. Love that film.

More recently I enjoyed Long Legs, very odd.

Other honerable mentions for films I can watch again and again which are a little off beat - chasing amy, Napoleon Dynamite, Rushmore, Requiem for a dream.

I'm sure I have tons more

I'd say more or less anything by the Coen Brothers is offbeat and many of their films are "cult".

Enemy mine
Altered states
Flatliners (the 1990 one)
Dreamscape

Unarmed and dangerous

Rileybobs wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 14, 2024 7:46 pm

I watched a new film last night called The Substance which was pretty bonkers.

Yeah I’ve seen that myself. Demi Moore having a swipe at the beauty industry in Hollywood. She looks great for 61 by the way.

La Cabina (The Telephone Box), a chilling Spanish short film they used to show from time to time on BBC2 back in the seventies:

Watch it in all its glory here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H1_p6B ... 9pLjREpPxe

Fargo - Probably the best acted film I've ever seen. Any Coen Brothers film could make this list I guess.

The Hudsucker Proxy - Lesser known Coen Bros film. I liken it to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but for grown ups.

Boiling Point - Steven Graham plays a stressed chef on shift. The whole film was shot in a single take. Hard viewing but masterful in so many ways.

Amelie - Beautiful French masterpiece. Every scene is a feast for the eye. Has a big cult following but should be widely talked of among the greatest films ever made.

Micmacs - Same director as Amelie if I'm not mistaken. A band of misfits turn the two biggest weapon manufacturers in the world against one another.

Triangle of Sadness - Like 3 films in one. Social classes and status explored. The middle section is one of the best pieces of film making I've ever seen. I almost gave up on it after 10 minutes as the start is slower but ultimately one of the best films I've watched in many years.

Koyaanisquatsi - 'Life out of Balance' - Phillip Glass orchestra scored footage showing awesome time lapse photography of the impact we have on the world. More poignant now than when it was made around 40 years ago. Visually it still stands up to anything we are capable of shooting now. Unlike anything else out there and easily the film that left the biggest impression on me.

Somen Like It Rare - French film about a butcher that starts killing vegans and serving their tender meat. Customers love his 'Iberian pork'

Sightseers - Dark British comedy about some Brummie campers. Definitely not for the faint hearted.

Revenge - Another which is not for the faint of heart. Very very graphic French thriller about a girl that seeks revenge. Cinematography stands up to anything else I've seen. I can still hear the sounds that film makes - so vivid.

Pleasantville - Thought I should throw a nicer film in to add balance. This is black and white and paints itself into colour as a plot about the characters becoming liberated from the confines of living in the world of film unfolds.

Cock and Bull Story - A brilliant script and first rate acting by Coogan and Brydon who play themselves.

In the Loop - Fast talking political satire. I didn't watch it for ages as the subject matter might not have been for me but it's a truly great film.

Cube - High concept Sci Fi thriller. Another that broke barriers for me as I don't like sci-fi as a general rule.

Arrival - About a linguist trying to communicate with aliens that have landed in Earth.

I love a slightly left field film. Already got several off other people's mentions that I will be watching.

Great thread!

Midsommar - Was reminded of this by the Wicker Man thread. A cult film about a cult and strange in every sense of the word. Not sure if I can ever watch it again as it was genuinely unsettling. Brilliant nonetheless.

I'm surprised a Clockwork Orange hasn't come up

Gross Point Blank
The Crow (original, not the toned down remake)

Cult horror/odd - Basket Case

"Tyrannosaur" (same guy who made Dead Man's Shoes I think, but this is far better imo)
Another shout out for "Jacob's Ladder" too.

Peter Weller (Robocop), John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Ellen Barkin and a whole of “oh, it’s that guy!” character actors in a film about a rock star brain surgeon samurai scientist and his motley crew battling an alien invasion.

“The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension”

Love it to bits. Likely to leave you going “What? Eh? But….” unless you get what it is doing really early on.

Eraserhead. One of the weirdest films I have ever seen. Haven't a clue what it was about.

Eden Lake made for very uncomfortable viewing.

I once had a German mate staying with me over Christmas/New Year and he asked me if i was going to watch Dinner for One on NYE,apparently its a tradition over there,frankly i had never heard of it

Man Bites Dog stars Benoit Poelvoorde. He also starred as God in The Brand New Testament:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3792960/?r ... mg_knf_t_2

Lars and the Real Girl:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805564/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

The Lobster:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3464902/?r ... 520lobster

And to top it all, The Greasy Stangler:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4381236/?r ... 0strangler

Zardoz

Tetsuo:The Iron Man.
Possibly one of the most bonkers films I’ve seen.

Saw something about the Blues Brothers yesterday, I was surprised that some US cinemas refused to show it back in the day because they considered it to be "too black".

Haven't seen Man bites dog in years, definitely cult for french speakers, a bit like the tonton flinguers (Crooks in Clover) people still quote it.

Strange but not necessarily cult : The Green Butchers, very dark Scandinavian comedy. The Animal Kingdom, a "sci-fi" french film from last year. Crank, a really high energy action film that's all over the place. There are obviously stranger films but some are just unwatchable.

Hipper wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 15, 2024 9:31 am

Man Bites Dog stars Benoit Poelvoorde. He also starred as God in The Brand New Testament:


The Lobster:

Good shout. Actually just about anything by Yorgos Lanthimos

Bad Taste.

Peter Jackson has now become an industry leader in the film business with Lord of the Rings etc.

His first attempts at producing a film included the above which took about 2 years to raise the £20,000 to complete.

It's a Gorefest comedy shot in New Zealand and one of the few films that I have ever laughed so much watching.

Definitely one of those if you've had a few beers !

distortiondave wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 15, 2024 9:28 am

Eden Lake made for very uncomfortable viewing.

Up there with the Wicker Man as extremely "unsettling/disturbing" the first time you see it.

Angel Heart - had to watch twice just to get an idea of what was going on
City of God - loosely based on real events!

Dressinggown wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 15, 2024 10:50 am

Bad Taste.

Peter Jackson has now become an industry leader in the film business with Lord of the Rings etc.

His first attempts at producing a film included the above which took about 2 years to raise the £20,000 to complete.

It's a Gorefest comedy shot in New Zealand and one of the few films that I have ever laughed so much watching.

Definitely one of those if you've had a few beers !

This film appears to be a bit of a gore fest too although I haven't seen it:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14846026/? ... n_0_q_sisu

And another film in that genre but perhaps more interesting is In Order of Disappearance:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2675914/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

There is an American version, Cold Pursuit, which is OK but the Norwegian one, perhaps because of the language too, feels better.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5719748/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

HalifaxClaret wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 14, 2024 11:10 pm

The Lair of the White Worm.

That was a good p!sstake. The 'spoons in Sunderland was 'The Lampton Worm' which told the myth that the film was based on. Closed down now.

dougcollins wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 15, 2024 5:01 pm

That was a good p!sstake. The 'spoons in Sunderland was 'The Lampton Worm' which told the myth that the film was based on. Closed down now.

Whisht lads, had ya gobs,
I'll tell you all an awful story,
Whisht lads, had ya gobs, and I'll tell you 'bout the worm.
But the worm got fat and growed and growed, and growed an awful size,
He'd great big teeth, a great big gob, and great big googly eyes.

RMutt wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 15, 2024 9:54 am

Tetsuo:The Iron Man.
Possibly one of the most bonkers films I’ve seen.

I came in from the pub and found Tetsuo 2 on the telly one night. I think I managed about 20 minutes before I went to bed.

Donkey punch. Probably the strangest film I’ve ever seen