As someone who likes his films to be as messed up as possible, I'd love to hear what everyone's favourite strange horror movies are.

In no particular order...

Society - the 'shunt' is still one of the greatest cinematic climaxes I've seen in an 80's movie. "I guess you were right son, I am a butthead!"
Videodrome - pretty unbeatable for pure visceral power, Cronenberg excels at weirdness.
The Happiness of the Katakuris - zombies and musical numbers, kinda speaks for itself.
Killers - very low-budget Mike Mendez (The Convent) film. Starts off as a hostage situation involving two newly escaped parent killers, then turns into the movie equivalent of a TooL video. Makes great use of Iron Butterfly's 'In-a-gadda-da-vida' throughout too.
-Pin- - Mediocre movie as a whole, but for scenes that are both creepy and wildly imaginative, this one's hard to top. In case you haven't seen it, its based on that sick puppy Andrew Niedermann's book of the same name, and it's about a doctor's medical dummy who is seemingly alive and influencing the doc's only son. In the bad way of course!
Meet the Feebles - Peter Jackson's muppet masterpiece. This is what you'd get when you try to recreate the muppet show on adrenachrome. Fucked up beyond belief, but still very charming.
Man Bites Dog - yeah I know, masterpiece of extreme cinema. What I find weird about it though is the easy transition from lovable joker Benoit to ruthless serial killer during scenes.
Toxic Avenger 4: Citizen Toxie - Everyone who likes things over the top screwball will love this. It has everything - gore, nappy gangs, sleaze, cheeze - and really crams as much as possibl in there. Troma are pretty unrivalled for weirdness though, if you haven't already, try Terror Firmer.
Gozu - Its incoherent, indescribable, yet I still love it. I can't figure out why. Must be because Takashi Miike is impressing me so much lately I can't even criticise the man. Izo and Zebraman look set to top the weirdness charts when they come out soon. What a guy!

This wasn't a horror movie, per se, but still the creepiest, scariest movie I've ever seen is "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover"... cannibalism doesn't do it for me.

In a similar vein as RayRay's, I offer "Singapore Sling", as far as I know the only film to combine disembowling, golden showers, electroshock, vomiting, lesbian incest, film noir, black comedy, English dialogue, Greek narration from inside a near-catatonic's mind, kinky "straight" sex, Gene Tierney's classic "Laura" and farce, often all at the same time! Bring an open mind and a strong stomach (or plenty of barf bags and a room deodorizer.) I've mentioned it before right here.

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I've seen 'The Cook, The Thief...' a while back, and yeah, there was alot to be disgusted at. The fat man who's constantly eating is bad enough, but Helen Mirren's affair nearly made me sicker than the finale. Good film though.

I'm shocked that I left out 'Uzumaki'. Definitely the strangest Japanese movie I've seen yet, everything in the movie, death, life, is connected with spirals. It's both beautiful and twisted in its visuals.

Just thought of Alessandro Jodorowsky, the guy who did Holy Mountain (anyone remember the names of the other two films in his weirdo trilogy?). Its a bit unexplainable, which is always a plus for me.

Tetsuo The Ironman is another. I've never seen the end of it though.

Has anyone seen "The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea" with Sarah Miles and Kris Kristofferson? I saw it a couple of times at the theatre back in 1976, and I own it on VHS. It's based on a novel by Yukio Mishima, but the setting has been changed to the English seacoast. It has some of the most beautiful cinematography and most explicit sex scenes of any "mainstream" film I've ever seen, all folded into a story about a lonely boy's friendship with a sailor who has an affair with his mom. The ending is truly outre, and catapults the film into the realm of horror.

P.S. Jodorowsky directed "El Topo", but his movie that I know the most about is the whacked "Santa Sangre", which is indescribable but not incoherent. I don't really want to get into it, but it's another unique film from someone who makes David Lynch seem as far-out as Mr. Rogers.

I am going to have to say that my favorite weird horror would be attack of the killer clowns. That was scary for some reason. Really bad movie but I liked it.

"The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies"-
Zombies! Evil carnie workers! All in "Hallucinogenic Hypnovision!!!"

"Fangs of the Living Dead"/"The She Beast"-
Who cares what they're about, these films on a budget priced two-fer dvd star Anita Ekberg and Barbara Steele!

"Dimension Travellers"-
Inter-dimension travelling & time travelling & nuclear explosion dodging isn't easy for Japanese school-girls who are trying to fit in at school before doomsday arrives.

"Psyched by the 4D Witch"-
Very strange, erotic and funny. Catchy theme song. Definate cult classic. It's on Something Weird dvd backed with "Monster A Go-Go" which is a total bore. My other favorite from Something Weird is "The Naked Witch".

"Spider Baby"
Must see classic cult film with Lon Chaney Jr and Jill Banner (Snow White in "The President's Analyst"). Don't let the spider sibs catch you napping!

'Cannibal Holocaust' was pretty wierd. I wouldn't say I enjoyed it, but it lived up to it's premise.

'Eraserhead' has to be one of the most bizarre ones. I don't think it was intentionally a horror film on the part of David Lynch, but it horrifies none-the-less.

Whoever suggested 'Killer Clowns form Outer Space' has a very good point. The victims were cocooned in candy floss. Brought back some child hood trauma (although it was very funny).

Bubba Ho-Tep anyone?

The weirdest and creepiest horror movies I have seen so far ar BEYOND THE DOOR I & II.
The sequel is the better of the 2 IMO.It(II) was directed by Mario Bava and is chock full of the psychedelic all-out weirdness of the 70s.

Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural. I picked up this dvd and watched it last night. A 1973 cult film, made so, I guess, by rumors that the prints were lost for awhile and that it had been earned a ban by the Catholic church. Plus the late B-movie babe Cheryl (Rainbeaux) Smith has a major role here. Smith plays Lila Lee, an angelic voice in the church choir, innocent and sweet. But her papa is gangster Alvin Lee who's on the run from the law. Somehow he's abducted by the creepy vampiric, zombie assistants of Lemora (Lesley Gilb), the vampiress head of the eerie Southerm estate. Lemora sends word to Lila to come visit her father, and to come alone. The cinematography is odd but effective, the sound effects are okay, the make-up for the creatures is cheap but the story gets a stake through its heart long before the vampires do. Still there are nice moments for a cult horror movie. Anytime Lemora and Lila are in a scene togather is worthwhile as are the scenes of Lila's flight from her home to her initial lock-up in Lemora's stone prison.

Here are two- Redneck Zombies...incorporates mountain folk, radioactive moonshine and flesheating zombies!!

Killer Clowns From Outer Space is definately one of the weirdest, cheesiest, kitchiest, creepiest movies of all time. Disturbing to me because I think clowns are nothing but creepy. BUT...it is not so gory and bad that I stopped my 7 year old from watching it. He liked it and didn't lose a wink of sleep.

My strange movies were as follows,

the blob ( original)

Slither

killer clowns from outer space

Hollow Man and Hollow Man 2

And maybe more.

Martian Leader.

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In a similar vein as RayRay's, I offer "Singapore Sling", as far as I know the only film to combine disembowling, golden showers, electroshock, vomiting, lesbian incest, film noir, black comedy, English dialogue, Greek narration from inside a near-catatonic's mind, kinky "straight" sex, Gene Tierney's classic "Laura" and farce, often all at the same time! Bring an open mind and a strong stomach (or plenty of barf bags and a room deodorizer.) I've mentioned it before right here.

Man, it must be hard to find; it's not on netflix. Is it even available on DVD?

The weirdest movie I have got to say hands down would have to be the one that the people have zombies with collars around thier necks that shock them if they are bad I can't remeber the name so if you do let me know. But I just thought that was really dumb.