What are some great, weird, far out movies to watch?

Question

Example: pulp fiction, fear and loathing in las vegas

Answer 1

Jacobs Ladder (1990) - Tim Robbins

"Jacob's Ladder is the grandfather of the "rubber reality" films that became so popular throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s. The films with the most direct influence from Jacob's Ladder have appeared more recently-- Memento (2000), Mulholland Dr. (2001), The I Inside (2003), and The Butterfly Effect (2004). Less obvious, but also strongly influenced are films such as Abre los ojos (1997)/Vanilla Sky (2001), eXistenZ (1999), The Thirteenth Floor (1999) and The Matrix (1999), as well as films where the "rubber reality" is usually played more straight, such as The Sixth Sense (1999) and The Others (2001)."

Answer 2

Natural Born Killers is a 1994 film directed by Oliver Stone and starring Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson. Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Sizemore and Tommy Lee Jones are also featured.

Quentin Tarantino wrote the screenplay, which Stone, Richard Rutowski, and David Veloz extensively re-wrote. Tarantino, unhappy with the rewritten version, publicly disowned the script and asked that his name be removed from the screenwriting credits. He subsequently received a "story by" credit.

The film intends to highlight the sensationalised way crimes are depicted in the media and the way some killers have been glamorized by the media. Ironically, however, the film was criticized for its excessively graphic and violent content.

Answer 3

Blue Velvet

The Big Lebowski

2001 : A Space Odyssey

Heavy Metal

Flash Gordon

The Wall

Heathers

12 Monkeys

Answer 4

The following are all cult classics...enjoy...


Ôdishon (1999) aka Audition
Widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be....at all.

Koroshiya 1 (2001) aka Ichi The Killer
Yakuza boss Anjo disappears with three hundred million yen. His loyal gang members, lead by the masochist Kakihara, start a search, but their aggressive and gory methods worry the other yakuza gangs. Kakiharas most frightening counterpart is the mysterious Ichi, a psychopathic killer with a dark childhood secret, who is controlled by a retired cop.

Fudoh: The Next generation
In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.

Tetsuo The Iron Man (1989)
A man is experiencing problems with metal showing up and protruding from his body. Apparently he got a piece of metal in his head when he was hit by a car. He must face the antagonist which lives inside him as he continues to sprout more and more metal.

Stalker (1979)
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Over his wife's numerous objections, a man rises in the dead of night: he's a stalker, one of a handful who have the mental gifts (and who risk imprisonment) to lead people into the Zone to the Room, a place where one's secret hopes come true.

Answer 5

Gotta love weird movies. Some good ones are
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
PI
Holy Smoke
Audition
3 Extremes 1 & 2
Four Rooms
Satans Little Helper
Dead and Breakfast
Feast

Answer 6

Toys with Robin Williams

The Road Warrior

Time Bandits

Answer 7

Bubba Ho Tep.

Nothing beats it for weird and far out.

Ozzie Davis (African American actor) plays JFK and Bruce Campbell plays Elvis.

They are in a nursing home and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy.

Saw this about 3 years ago and loved it. It was on IFC or Bravo just last week.

Here's the link for a more detailed description.

Answer 8

Jaws, Amityville Horror., Psycho, The Birds, The people under the stairs, The Howling, Dracula.

Answer 9

Check out Oldboy. It's a Korean film so you'll have to put up with subtitles, but you'll never find anything as weird in western cinema.

A man gets snatched off the street and is imprisoned for fifteen years with no idea why. He is suddenly released and is given five days to find out why he was locked away.

Answer 10

Brazil