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Sebastian wrote: "Ronnie wrote: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Mo..."

I must watch it some time."

I was stone cold sober when I watched it, and I have no clue what the hell it was all about...

That's how I feel about What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams and Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise!

And speaking of Tom Cruise, what the hell was Stanley Kubrick's swansong "Eyes Wide Shut" all about then?

Any ideas?

Probably the Japanese movie 'Tetsuo, the Iron Man'.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096251/

Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZgMg...

My favorite weird sci-fi movie is "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension"

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057181/?...

and...

Manos, Hands of Fate
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060666/?...

For me It would be Killer Clowns from Outerspace.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095444/

Zardoz?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070948/

The thing about Highlander 2, is that there's an alternate cut - "The Renegade Version" - that was released on Region 1 DVD some years ago.

It had been re-edited, some scenes had been moved around, others cut entirely, new FX work etc. - all reference to the Immortals being aliens removed and replaced with them being time travellers from the far future.

Basically, it makes about as much sense as it's going to.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was really weird and the ending made no sense.

Dune was weird as well. Mostly though because of a lot of the visuals and creative choices how to portray things from the book.

"Brazil" - very strange and almost incomprehensible. (and yet this came from the same director who brought us one of my favorite films, "Time Bandits".)

"Brazil" was chopped all to hell by the studio, so depending on which version you watched the incomprehensibility may not have been Gilliam's fault.

How about "A Town Called Panic"?

It's pretty weird, the stop-frame animated adventures of a horse and his best pal a cowboy (both of whom are plastic action figures).

Vanilla Sky. There's no way that movie can make any sense to anyone.

I second that assessment. Vanilla sky was bizarre!

El Topo.

I'd say "Phantom of the Paradise". It's the trippiest, most WTF-iest version of "The Phantom of the Opera" I've ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n5qV...

"Plan 9 From Outer Space" is a close runner up, but that movie's more "bad" than "weird". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHRq8...

KISS and thePhantom of the Park was pretty wierd even back in the mid-70's when it came out. I hav it on DVD now, and it is wierd!

Bob wrote: ""Brazil" - very strange and almost incomprehensible. (and yet this came from the same director who brought us one of my favorite films, "Time Bandits".)"

I love Brazil. Being a UK civil servant, the film actually makes perfect sense to me.

Phantom of the Paradise is another favourite. Somewhat bizarrely, composer Paul Williams also wrote the songs for Bugsy Malone.

Probably Eraserhead.

I've never liked any David Lynch film other than Dune (and I grew out of that!). But Eraserhead was just too much. I don't think I ever managed to get through it all.

I did watch all of the old John Waters films, though. Pink Flamingo was pretty twisted. Gotta love Baltimore for deviant weirdness. (I live an hour from there.)

Mulholland Dr.

Micah wrote: "I did watch all of the old John Waters films, though"

I like Multiple Maniacs

Primer was pretty bad. It was good in that the acting was great for such a low budget film. It was bad in that it was really confusing. There's a time travel paradox, because if you already changed the past, how can you be conscious of needing to change the past? And then the whole thing with knocking his friend out at the end, and his friend knowing he knocked him out. Just weird.