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only best movies of the Weird Evolution (2015), a French movie that's like a mashup of Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Shape of Water, with a touch perhaps of The Man Who Fell To Earth. Keywords: slow, dreamy, pensive, eerie, atmospheric, symbolic. Makes a good Weird Cinema double feature with When Animals Dream (2014), which is also recommended and shares some of the mood, concerns, and plot trajectory of Evolution. |
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thanks! i watched Get Out (2017) wasn't too bad |
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this one gives me a good feeling, haven't seen it, yet |
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I thought of “Happiness” today, I wouldn’t mind seeing that again. Not weird per se. Are you talking about Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky) weird, Goonies weird, baffling weird? “slow, dreamy, pensive, eerie, atmospheric, symbolic” Ok I’ll have a think! |
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I can’t not mention twin peaks, especially the masterpiece that is season 3. Meant as an 18 hour film, I’ve happily watched it twice, and look forward to a third viewing. Just thinking about season 3 as I type gives me the tingles! |
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I have Get Out, waiting for the right mood to strike me. I get the impression it's going to be gruelling. Post Tenebras Lux looks good, will see if I can hunt it down. |
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Happiness is almost what I'm thinking of in terms of mood, it has an otherworldliness despite no "weird" (as in occult) elements. Have you seen Palindromes? In the schema I'm thinking of, all horror and ghost stories are weird, but not all weird stories are horror and ghost stories. I guess what I have in mind by weird is an artsy weird, not necessarily full tilt buckets of blood, tentacles and ectoplasm, but maybe hints of it, or even a bucket or two but more of a focus on mood and character. Lynch definitely qualifies. Cronenberg hits the weird notes often, especially in his older films. Suspiria qualifies as weird despite being a full on horror movie. It's the dream / nightmare quality. Also yes, Holy Mountain. |
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I like the sound of Evolution. Any tips where to view? Weirdest but most rewarding film I have seen lately was |
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Evolution is on Canadian Netflix now, so you could try that with a proxy. Or, I just checked and 1337x has some torrents with seeders. |
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ghost world maybe thora birch and scarlett whatserface |
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kat.rip for torrents |
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I will try that movie but I admit I find Russian cinema... challenging. Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Umbro, good tip, that site has the goods. lots of seeders, crazy. For a while there were all these kat clones but they were either frozen static snapshots of the past, or total scams. |
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if You haven’t seen seen TP then the ride towards season 3 is worth it. I can’t stress enough how good season 3 is. Yes Cronenberg is ace. Shivers, and Rabid ae great, and were rather influential. I rem something about a journalist asking him if he realised he ripped off Alien. This was after a (much) later screening. I could imagine Cronenberg coming in his head as he “reminded” the journalist that Shivers was done before. Anyway one of the reasons Alien was a work of art is because it was being made at the right time with the right elements, and influences. Giger, who himself was clearly influenced by early Francis Bacon paintings for example. Possibly a perfect line of influences dating back to Egyptian times up until then etc fuck |
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I just picked up the "Evolution" DVD on my lunchbreak in Milton Keynes's branch of "Cex" for a mere £2, a woman (a most unlikely looking sort) in the queue behind me commented that it was a very good film. Uncharitably I thought that she looked like she might have been in it. I look forward to watching that tonight. If anyone's interested I also picked up "Lost Highway" (weird cinema) and "Doom - Extended Version" (not weird cinema but one of my guilty pleasures) for 50p. I had also selected "My Bloody Valentine 3D" but the man-boy behind the till said they'd lost the glasses for it so couldn't sell it as the goods weren't as described, the tools! I noticed a lot of skin problems in that shop, both in front and behind the till. Yes, I have washed my hands. |
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I often notice peoples dandruff |
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Don't look too closely in the mirror tonight because I think you'll find you've acquired the Milton Keynes Look. BTW I thought was amusing (trigger warning: reddit) rustledust: you've titillated me into trying Twin Peaks again... I'm in a "takes advice from people" mood lately, a friend has me watching Channel Zero which is not bad at all, season 3 (each season is standalone) has kind of a Phantasm vibe I think. But yes, Twin Peaks, Officer Pie and all that, looks good, even if Lynch totally copied True Detective. |
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got slated at the time but I enjoyed it. |
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sounds like will self - great apes, which i loved. will add to The List |
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I watched House (hausu) from 1977 earlier and it was totally class and very impressive. |
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Gummo is good weird. |
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That Herzog on with the dwarfs...(goes to look fo English title) Even dwarfs started small! |
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I have on my list of things to watch. I guess it counts as, uh, different. |
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agent f.o.x. |
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Ever imagined what life would be like if humans were apes in modern life? "if?" |
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Ha ha! |
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I have to re-watch Gummo one of these days. Not sure how it will hold up. The first time I watched it I walked around in a daze for a week feeling like civilization had collapsed. Hausu is great. In two words: kawaii Suspiria On my watch list right now: Walkabout, The Last Wave, The Quiet Earth. |
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the quiet earth is really good, haven't seen the other two |
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I have Walkabout on bluray, one of my favourites - also watch if.... .. it isn't "weird" but it gets surreal at times, and also is great. |
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I watched The Quiet Earth end of last year for the first time, it's bloody great. Though *spoiler* the posters for the film fucking gives it away, though it doesn't really matter - it's the journey. There's some great scenes and Bruno Lawrence is fantastic (didn't he co-write it as well?) I don't know what put me on to it as I hadn't heard of it before, .,,,, OH I KNOW, I watched that fucking awful Bokeh and people said it was a shit version of The Quiet Earth. It doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. |
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Sorry about follow up to Marlow, I was originally going to say that I like "if..." as well and that whole Lyndsay Anderson, Malcolm McDowell trilogy (I need to watch Britannia Hospital again, probably quite timely?!!?). And that, despite being a big Nic Roeg, Jenny Agutter fan, I have never seen Walkabout, and this is something I must remedy soonest. |
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Oh yeah I saw the quiet earth as a child, it really had an effect on me the opening scene |
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Got a copy of Quiet Earth, very stoked to watch it tonight. Haven't seen it before though it's one of those things I've almost watched forever. Walkabout is indeed great, I think it counts as weird because of the uncanny mood, isolation, juxtaposition of differing senses of reality, and so forth. For me, weird cinema may or may not have fantastic or horror elements but is broadly like the definition of fiction: "the best way to understand slipstream is to think of it as a state of mind or a particular approach, one that is outside of all categorisation. ... slipstream induces a sense of 'otherness' in the audience, like a glimpse into a distorting mirror... In general it imparts a sense that reality might not be quite as certain as we think." I think "If" would probably count there, though I've not seen it, just going by descriptions. Another one that might fit is The Ruling Class with Peter O'Toole. That is a weird, weird watch. |
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IF is great, if you mean the film with Malcom MacDowell in it, its on of my faves |
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has anyone seen o' lucky man? or Britannia hospital ive seen the first but not the second |
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I have the Quiet Earth but haven’t watched it yet. |
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Not sure how good your french is, but looks great. Also by Quentin Dupieux. |
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I went to a screening of O Lucky Man, just after Lyndsay Anderon died, where Alan Price sang beforehand and afterwards there was a panel with Malcom Mcdowell and David Sherwin so yes, you might say that I've fucking seen O Lucky Man, chum. And Britannia Hospital. |
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I love O Lucky Man, great film - not so keen on Britannia Hospital, was just more depressing and early 80s UK grimy than anything else. A recent(ish) film that was great and very unusual is Under the Skin, but I imagine you've seen it already. If not, get in. |
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