Please recommend new weird films

Yes! That's a good one!

Okay, well. The Substance (surprisingly, given I’d previously read Demi Moore’s interview and was excited for it) really didn’t work for me. It wasn’t the body horror (which I thought was relatively tame! Gimme some À l’intérieur), but rather its overarching loudness and meaninglessness. Margaret Qualley is always a delight to behold, though.

But it is weird, and I still really appreciate the rec. There were definitely things about it I found interesting (the colour scheme in the beginning — the black and yellow stuff; less so the screaming fuschia pink stuff from the second half onwards). I was certain throughout that this was made by a man, because it demonstrates a total lack of understanding of how a plasma lift works! .

Also I felt this was a very pointed skewering of the poor Jane Fonda with her exercise videos. Ouch.

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I recommend it too Never Look Away. A fascinating psychological film about post-war Germany. It also talks about art, relationships and psychological illnesses. The film is fascinating, I watched it in one sitting

The Golden Glove
Bliss
Magical Girl
Bellflower
Bad Boy Bubby
The Painted Bird
Happiness
Good Manners
Bacurau
Singapore Sling
Bad Timing
Freehold
Ex Drummer
Out of the Blue (1980)
Moebius
Horns
Feed (2005)
Sweet Movie
The Butcher Boy
Chuck and Buck
The Devils
Holy Motors
Enter the Void

I don't know if it's your kind of weird but Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria with Tilda Swinton was my favorite movie of 2021 and is certainly not conventional.

Bad Boy Bubby

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I second Chuck and Buck by the talented Mike White.
Happiness is truly disturbing. *shudder*


I recommend Liquid Sky (1982) a weird sci-fi.

Liquid Sky is great.

I would, but I'm not sure you could handle them. We're talking about stuff from the darkest corners of the dark web. Dadaism on steroids, like whose your dada-level, dadaism. Surrealism so mind-smashing that it drove David Lynch to seek therapy (true). Neo-Noir so Neo that it hasn't even been made yet. Science fiction that has put viewers on a DOD watchlist for accessing alien tech. And at the center of it all? Al Roker and a secret that could destroy embroidery industry. Do you want to know more?

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here's a short list of the most baffling movies i've come across. some good, some bad, some known, some less so.
https://letterboxd.com/_gwiffin_/list/beyond/

You've built it up so much I can't imagine not being disappointed.

As for a recommendation, I don't know. I consider Parasite weird by layman's terms, although I think for this thread it's fairly tame. Black Swan and Nocturne are odd, although not overly so. Maybe Ichi the Killer? Well... it's full of grotesque images and sequences.

Is a war film where the main characters don't know there's a war happening right next to them weird, like Welcome to Dongmakgol? Quiet Family by Kim Jee-woon is a comedy about an inn where people mysteriously die.

In the Tall Grass is based on a Joe Hill story, and definitely different (albeit with some padding if I recall correctly) (it would have been better if it stuck to the tall grass). Joe Hill is Stephen King's son. They wrote the story together, although King's son did most of the work.

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Just took in "Predestination" (2014). A braintwister of a time travel yarn. Ethan Hawke is a "temporal agent" who must flit around in time trying to prevent a disaster. Sarah Snook gives a marvelous, mind-blowing performance as, well ... you just gotta see it.

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I absolutely love Predestination, and it's one of those films that I like more and more every time I see it. The performances are fantastic, and Hawke and Snook have great chemistry that befits the complex nature of their relationship.

It also lands in what I consider the sweet spot for time-travel stuff: you understand how everything works, but you can also sort of . . . not care because the characters and their growth are the heart of the film.

And , ugh, such a great line.

The Untamed (2016) - A Mexican movie about sex with an alien

I have heard of this movie.


Not a statement that one usually feels the need to say for when people recommend movies, but this one definitely hit the, "well, that was a real left field recommendation that I didn't see coming."

In terms of recent movies that feel Lynch-influenced, the first two recent ones coming to mind are Titane (already mentioned) and this past year's I Saw the TV Glow.
Neither seem that obscure to me at this point.



But maybe Lynch was more a reference point and "being influenced by" wasn't what was being asked by the OP. Um, the stop motion movie, The Wolf House (just outside the requested time range) and the directors recent short The Bones, do kind of vaguely remind me of Lynch's paintings that I've seen (and the Six Men Getting Sick piece).

Luz (2018) was a weird twist on possession films that I really liked.
Tumbbad (2018) is a cool indian horror/fable
The Dead Don't Die (2019) is the most droll zombie film out there, I can see it not being for everyone but I really dug it.
Psycho Goreman (2020) is more comedy than horror but it is definitely gory and weird.
seconding Lamb (2021)
Gaia (2021) is a eco-body horror that I really enjoyed

I have so much to catch up on from this thread. Major anxiety moment.