You used to be able to get these for free on his website, but now you have to buy the $20 DVD. Kind of a bummer, but ahwell.

They're simple, but fun.

Brazil
Parents

Cannibal Holocaust - Real Animal Killings - Real Rape - Real Human Killing

Enough Said.

Lol I can sense an old thread being dug up...

Was Parents the movie about the kid who discovers his parents are cannibals? If so, thanks for mentioning the title. I was just thinking about it earlier, and it was driving me crazy... I just couldn't seem to remember the name of the film.

Oh... and for onewhosighs: do you really think that anyone actually believes that anymore? Not trying to bash on the noob, but come on. Give us a little credit here.

Yeah that's the one. I have it on VHS but haven't watched it in years. From memory, it introduced the kid's parents as being somewhat over-the-top 50's sitcom style parents whose 'darker side' was slowly revealed. It had a very bizarre, surreal atmosphere to it, as I recall.

Thank you! Now I may have to hunt this one down. Has there been a DVD release that you know of?

tales of the unusual
the thirteenth floor
logans run (more futuristic, but feels pretty surreal)
dark city
existenz
the trip.

You are in luck:

http://dvdpacific.com/item.asp?ID=703051

Cheap, too.

i wanted to rent parents once.. my husband said it was really strange. i guess thats why its being written about in this thread.

Yeah it is a strange film, but interesting. It tells the story from the child of the family's point of view. This includes using low shot and hand held camera views to simulate how the world is seen by the child.

If you have a chance to rent it again, give it a shot.

not surreal in any way shape or form.

You don't get much stranger than Repo Man or Brain Damage.

if you want really avant garde - try

anything by The Brothers Quay (Street of Crocodiles is probably their most well-known work)

and a great musical film by Bill Morrison called Decasia. . . a total trip

it costs $87. lowest price on amazon.

Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (1932). Anyone who is into odd horror, or strange movies in general, should check this classic out. It is oddly shot, the black and white footage suffered some damage that the director found most interesting, as a result the image is often too bright. The plot is almost forgotten halfways through and some shots are simply bizarre.

Yeh I like that one aswell. A bunch of the Expressionist stuff is really great if your into the surreal kinda deal. I was trying to remember the name of one I caught a couple of years back where a woman was getting chased by a killer with a mirror for a face.

Luna Papa
Tuvalu
Waking Life

here's some super surreal stuff. by a guy called David Firth. You're probably familiar with Salad fingers. watch "10 Different Types Of Soup" or S'poilsbury Toast Boy". Milkman is the best one. check them out.

http://fat-pie.com/flash.htm

I'd recommend FLCL. Really bizarre, cool, transgressive anime. Cronenberg's Existenz has moments of intense surrealism. Vampyr is definitely on target on that list, and so is Videodrome. If you haven't seen Videodrome, by all means get ahold of it. For surreal atmosphere, I would say the Wicker Man is a triumph. Television wise, I'd say the biggest triumphs of surrealism are Twin Peaks and the Prisoner. See the Prisoner.

i saw an episode of that once...doesnt some dude grow some monster out of his head or something?

yeah, its a pretty jacked up anime, its really cool though

david firth rocks. so does richard d. james.

So, Mothman

Have you watched any of the suggestions so far?

i actually havnt had the time to get on Amazon and order anything yet, but i plan on getting Tetsou and a coulpe Jan Svankmajer films, and if Best Buy is stil carrying the Short Films Of David Lynch, ill get that too

fucking A im a huge aphex twin fan

First, allow me to thank many of you for the movie list.

I want to say that most films by Kubrick and Lynch are pretty surreal. I've seen a few in my day. I mean, we know The Shining... old hat, right, but when Kubrick got his hands on it, it totally took sort of a different step into that nightmare, especially in the form of Danny.

Lost Highway was great. I haven't seen it in a while, but I was going to write a thesis on David Lynch's films for an English class (Violence in Literature and Film, or something similar)

Of course The Wall was surreal.

Okay...surreal encompasses "the strange and bizarre," but it also is an artistic movement in which the expression of the subconscious is fucked up, totally irrational. So, it all depends on your personal "real" right?

'tis a good thread.

I forgot to mention Existenz by Cronenberg. Pretty much everything he does is cool, but Existenz has some great surreal moments. I've heard it being accused of being a Matrix or Thirteenth Floor clone, but its much more interesting and transgressive than either.

If you want a very surreal anime you can't go wrong with paranoia agent. I saw 1 episode and I thought it was a comple piece fo shit but later I watched a few more episodes and discovered how amazing it is. It isn't for everyone, and it takes a little getting used to but, it is really good.

HR Puffinstuff

Might have been mentioned already, but you should check out some of Ken Russell's stuff.

I've only seen 3 of his movies, but was really impressed with each of them. Very surreal and very strange, with a really unique style to them.

I recomend the 3 that Ive seen in this order:

Tommy (Might want to pass on this one if you dont like The Who...but then again, if you dont like The Who, you might want to pass on oxygen as well:p)

Altered States (Not quite as surreal as the other two, but still a fantastic movie and plaenty strange)

Gothic (Starts out really slow and is pretty hard to follow, but its completly tripped out crazy)

i saw Altered States. it was good cheesy fun. not very surreal though i would say.

Like I said, its not as surreal as the other two.

ive seen the first 5 minutes of this...i had no idea what was going on really. im going to try and watch it again. The picture and sound transfer is so god damn bad:mad: its from the 50 chilling classics set

Plot Synopsis: A young boy named Jimmy has in his possession a magic flute named Freddie that can talk and play tunes on its own. One day he gets on a magic talking boat that promises to take him on an adventure. The boat happens to belong to a wicked witch named Witchiepoo, who uses the boat to kidnap Jimmy and take him to her home base on Living Island, where she hopes to steal Freddie for her own selfish needs. Fortunately Jimmy is rescued by the island's mayor, a six foot dragon named H.R. Pufnstuf. After Jimmy is rescued by Pufnstuf and his two deputies, Kling and Klang, his adventures begin as well as his attempts to get back home.


lol.

Nude for Satan (1974)

A truly bizarre Italian horror film. Worth a viewing.

Wouldn't you like to be Nude for Satan? ;) :D

I watched it from that set as well...agreed, terrible quality. It takes awhile to get into the really strange shit, but once it gets there I gaurantee that you wont regret it.

ya im about 30 mins into it. Is it supposed to make any sense? lol.

That was a very interesting movie. The whole experience of Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Polidori, and uh...can't remember her name, was so instrumental to the creation of horror, and people don't even realize it.

For example: Some argue that Bram Stoker took more from John Polidori's "The Vampyre" than he did from the Tsepes family history. The Vampyre was writen about Lord Byron's relationship with women. The Vampyre is also where the notion of the beautiful, elegant vampire comes from.

As you know, Frankenstein was born from this experience, as well.

The movie, sort of tries to put in their opiate state, so that you can visualize that experience, because they were trying to scare the shit out of each other.