Dr. T is an alien
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Dec 28, 2007 15:16:23 GMT -5
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) Yeah, I remember when I finally watched that at a friend's on DVD, as I've never been huge into horror films (minus Zombie films) and I was really impressed with, as my friend pointed out to me, how they'd show very very short clips of scenes in the scary moments just to freak you out. Some of them were straight up blink and you miss them... only on screen for a second or two at most. Just an awesome technique that fit the movie. As for weird movies... Death Race 2000 (all the characters they portray and messages they try to convey just make it odd). Another friend of mine who did film work for school had wanted to see this, then even moreso when I caught it on AMC one night. We bought two copies off e-bay and he ended up writing a few page essay on the movie that he got a great grade on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nOzryCfkbcI've always gotten a kick out of Death Race 2000. I love how one hospital would put it's old, sick people out on the street so that Frankenstein could rack up the points for killing old people.
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Grendel
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Post by Grendel on Dec 28, 2007 15:20:40 GMT -5
Yeah, I remember when I finally watched that at a friend's on DVD, as I've never been huge into horror films (minus Zombie films) and I was really impressed with, as my friend pointed out to me, how they'd show very very short clips of scenes in the scary moments just to freak you out. Some of them were straight up blink and you miss them... only on screen for a second or two at most. Just an awesome technique that fit the movie. As for weird movies... Death Race 2000 (all the characters they portray and messages they try to convey just make it odd). Another friend of mine who did film work for school had wanted to see this, then even moreso when I caught it on AMC one night. We bought two copies off e-bay and he ended up writing a few page essay on the movie that he got a great grade on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nOzryCfkbcI've always gotten a kick out of Death Race 2000. I love how one hospital would put it's old, sick people out on the street so that Frankenstein could rack up the points for killing old people. And yet he veered off course and went through the hospital killing the medical staff. Good stuff. And let's not forget the wacky hippie doing the color commentary, along with the gal who did interviews and the older guy who also added his two cents worth on commentary. The hippie marks out worse than any commentator that you have seen do his commentary from ringside.
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Post by krill on Dec 28, 2007 15:23:15 GMT -5
Bad Boy Bubby - that was smurfed up.
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The Ichi
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by The Ichi on Dec 28, 2007 15:30:23 GMT -5
Monkeybone.
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H-Fist
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Post by H-Fist on Dec 28, 2007 16:52:36 GMT -5
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Post by tap on Dec 30, 2007 14:11:32 GMT -5
Well, originally the title of the thread was "avant-garde/experimental/art house films" but I knew that would get me zero responses... then forgot the title when I was typing up a bunch of titles.
And The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was on TV last night, it was a very fun watch. My quick little quip I posted on my Facebook.
"Fantastically imaginative, irreverent, and idealistic, proving that myths and fairy tales, while appearing tired or downtrodden, can have new life breathed into them, or some cases, like the titular character, will always be as potent and powerful every single time."
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bradyfan
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Post by bradyfan on Dec 30, 2007 14:38:53 GMT -5
Freeked it had Randy Quad in it, and man was it werid.
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4real
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Post by 4real on Dec 30, 2007 14:47:43 GMT -5
Memento Mulholland Drive That film with Ryan Phillippe wheres hes in hospital (can't remember the name) Donnie Darko
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Chainsaw
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Post by Chainsaw on Dec 30, 2007 14:57:35 GMT -5
The Happiness Of The Katakuri's. Weirdest damn film I've ever seen. It starts out when a claymation winged monster comes out of a woman's soup then grabs her uvula and flys away. Read that sentence again. Now bear in mind that this scene is never referred to again! The film does have a plot kinda, but it's full of weird crap like killing crows with sticks, singing zombies, old women asking for cake then wailing and fleeing at the sight of a solar eclipse. Maybe it was too highbrow for us, but it was all so disjointed and random, me and my friends dubbed it "Things That Happen 1". Having since discovered "Things That Happen 2 and 3" Here's my favourite clip from the movie. It's actually a great scene... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cymqjan_BP4 I'd put that up with Visitor Q as well. In fact, any Miike movie makes this list, with the exception of One Missed Call. And since we're on the subject, Riki-oh: The Story Of Ricky and Wild Zero also fall into the weird but awesome category.
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