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It's probably She (1984).
You're right. Thanks! I just went on Youtube and found this clip
. It's definitely Suit Guy and I'm pretty sure he's with Axe Lady, who's traded up for a sword. Now that I see the graffiti I remember it from the tail end of what I saw — the skull with "Kill Kill" and "Nork is God", which I'd forgotten about before.
The IMDb's summary is "In a backward post-apocalyptic world, She aids two brothers' quest to rescue their kidnapped sister. Along the way, they battle orgiastic werewolves, a psychic communist, a tutu-wearing giant, a mad scientist, and gladiators before standing against the odds to defeat the evil Norks." This confused me at first, because I don't remember Tutu Guy being particularly big, and he seemed to have been the Mad Scientist... maybe the giant is one of his creations and he dressed it after himself?
The featured user review describes it as The Worst Movie Ever Made. Apparently I'm not alone in thinking it's weird and hilarious.
Edited by SpocktorWho
I saw about fifteen minutes of this bizarre movie while on lunch break at work. It was running on a television screen some distance across the canteen, so I didn't get any audio, but I got plenty of weird visuals. It was apparently running on Comet.
It looked like it might have been made in the 80s or 90s and possibly took inspiration from Lewis Carroll, or maybe just whatever drugs the creators took while working on it. It started out in a forest, where a guy in a suit ambushed a guy wearing what looked like a tutu and tights by the former jumping onto the latter's head from a tree. Three or four other people quickly showed up, one of which was a woodsy-dressed woman with an axe, who were apparently on Suit Guy's side, because they all dogpiled Tutu Guy. But then some kind of gas started pouring out onto the set, and the dogpiling group tried to flee. Tutu Guy pulled out a gas mask, and most of his opponents eventually fell unconscious, although I think one of them got away.
Suit Guy, Axe Lady, and another woman then woke up in Tutu Guy's Secret Lab. Tutu Guy was apparently some kind of Mad Scientist and had imprisoned them all in little plastic tents hanging from the ceiling. There was a bunch of lab equipment around, and at one point Tutu Guy appeared to be performing surgery on a cadaver or maybe a living body — looked like he might have been trying to remove organs? His prisoners freaked out, but were no match for the might of the plastic tents they were in, and after they spent a minute or two pointlessly slapping the tent walls and yelling, Mad Scientist Tutu knocked them unconscious with some kind of yellow foam he vented into their tents. Then Scientist Tutu took a nap, his prisoners woke up while he was sleeping, and were able to swing around in their tents enough to use a fire that was going in a corner of the room to burn the plastic. The whole lab went up, and Suit Guy and one of the women escaped — I don't recall seeing the other one after that, so I don't know if they just got separated or if they left her for dead. No word on the Tutu Mad Scientist.
The freed captives wandered through the woods for a short bit, then ran into a crazy dancing guy who seemed to be a gatekeeper of some kind. He annoyed them, so Suit Guy killed him, but then his body lit up green and he respawned double, so there were now two annoying guys. Suit Guy and the only guy to escape the gas (who had shown back up at that point) threw the two guys off a bridge. That was about the point I had to go back to work.
There was also some kind of wooden sign in the woods that the characters kept going past, but I don't recall what it said. I don't know if I actually want to watch this movie, but it was one of the most whacked out things I've seen in a while, and I'm quite curious to know what the hell it was I was watching. Has anyone seen this? Is it supposed to take place in a medieval fantasy land? Why was the Mad Scientist wearing a tutu? Who were his victims and why were they incompetent sociopaths? What's the deal with the dancing gatekeeper who's secretly a hydra?
Edited by SpocktorWho