Tropers who are fans of Surreal and Weird Movies!

Hey fellow tropers! Are there any tropers who are huge fans of movies that are just so bizarre in nature?

I am a huge fan of such films and my favorite weird films are Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Mirrormask.

I enjoy Eraser Head. It's pretty good, and obviously surreal.

I really need to check out Eraserhead. I've been hearing so many good things about that film!

Inland Empire is a personal favourite of mine. I recommend tackling it once you've seen a few of Lynch's other films, particularly Eraserhead and Lost Highway (also brilliant) and reading relatively little about it beforehand, although if you want to just take the plunge outright it is well worth it.

On the short film from, Cat Soup is incredibly moving, but only if you are a very particular kind of person; even if you are not, however, it is technically brilliant. Similarly, Jan Svankmajer's Jabberwocky is one of the best films about growing up in an authoritarian society that I have yet seen, but also the most oblique.

I've heard that Jan Svankmajer's Alice was pretty bizarre and creepy. I definitely would like to check that movie out and also some other works by Jan Svankmajer.

If anime counts, I love "Kaiba."

In live action, I recently watched "Time Bandits" - it's fantasy, but it's fairly strange, especially once everyone gets to the Time of Legends.

I've heard about Time Bandits, especially at the ending about the parents blowing up. Most of Terry Gilliam's works are pretty surreal!

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Fortuitously, I noticed this thread on the way to posting something relevant to it in another coven.

I would say so. Masaaki Yuasa is a brilliant director and animator. Coincidentally, in addition to Kaiba, he was the co-writer and animation director for the aforementioned Cat Soup and the director of the equally perplexing and exuberant Mind Game.

I really need to check Cat Soup out. I heard that it was pretty weird and disturbing at the same time!

As for bizarre anime, FLCL and Neon Genesis Evangelion are good candidates!

edited 28th Jun '14 7:34:43 PM by Rabbitearsblog

It's unsettling, but I think it's more sad than that. The ending, in particular, is really crushing depending on how you interpret it.

I enjoy these; I'm in. I'd just watched Barton Fink, for the first time, yesterday. It's far from the weirdest that I've watched, but I enjoy it. Out of all of the Coen movies that I've watched, it's now one of my favorite.

What about TV? I personally enjoy some surreal/gross-out humor like Tim and Eric, Check it Out! With Dr. Steve Brule and Moral Orel.

edited 15th Aug '14 5:30:03 PM by nbs4

I wouldn't call Moral Orel surreal, although it is a classic example of black humour—a term coined by Andre Breton, the head of the Surrealist International. Now, Tim and Eric's stuff, that can be truly surreal. I'm not always a fan, but I respect how unabashedly bizarre their stuff can be.

Anything by David Lynch ever. (bar the The Straight Story, of course. Though I do like that movie. It just isn't weird.)

Also, The Cube.

edited 23rd Aug '14 9:34:34 PM by LogoP

As for bizarre TV shows, I liked Adventure Time, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and Rockos Modern Life!

Have you seen anything by Sally Cruikshank? Or David Feiss's two shows?

I've seen the Sesame Street shorts made by Sally Cruikshank, which were really good! As for David Feiss, I will admit that I never cared for Cowand Chicken or I Am Weasel when it came on Cartoon Network, but I did like the Cheetos commercials that David Feiss did!

Check out Sally Cruikshank's best works - Quasi at the Quackadero and Make Me Psychic. It's not Monty Python-type surrealism like Rockos Modern Life and Cow And Chicken but full-out Salvador Dali-type surrealism not seen since Betty Boop.

Sounds great! Checking them out now!

Quasi At The Quackadero is hella weird.

Also: I saw Raggedy Ann and Andy's Musical Adventure recently and the latter two-thirds of that film are basically non-stop batshit insanity.

As I said... Salvador Dali-style surrealism, not helped by the doo-wacka-doo soundtrack.

(I actually met one of the guys who played on the soundtrack for Quasi, if you can believe it.)

I've seen Raggedy Ann and Andy's Musical Adventure and that was one WEIRD movie! Also, The Thief and the Cobbler is pretty weird also.

I like weird animation. I'm thinking of watching more M. dot Strange movies, which are exactly that. I liked We Are the Strange but wasn't really sold on Heart String Marionette, I'll watch I Am Nightmare next

Edited by Hqami on Aug 20th 2023 at 8:34:56 PM

Alice in Wonderland is a childhood classic of mine, and indeed, the world of Wonderland is strange yet charming.