The craziest movies
Here I tried to list the most unusual, crazy movies that got me hooked and felt like important experiences afterwards. This is the kind of movie I like the most.
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- DirectorDavid LynchStarsDorothy McGinnisRichard WhiteVirginia MaitlandA young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.David Lynch is a crazy genius, and each of his movies can be more or less tagged as 'crazy' (except maybe 'The Simple Story'). I just picked this one as a more obscure of his works.
- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsJohn CusackCameron DiazCatherine KeenerA puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.'Being John Malkovich' struck me as very unusual in terms of both the story and the direction. It doesn't try to visually impress you. Cameron Diaz looks like a dull housewife; there are no special effects, no chases, very little suspence. Instead, the movie gets you by a geniously crafted story. The screenplay to this movie is A LOT beter than the movie itself. Looks like they ran out of budget filming it. If it were made according to the script, they would have probably made a movie that's greater than anything. I think Charlie Kaufman is by far the best screenplay writer of all time. His other movies are exceptional as well.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJohn TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.Though this movie is usually attributed solely to Quentin Tarantino, I think it couldn't have been that good without his co-author, Roger Avary. Neither of them ever reached the height set in this movie on their own. 'Pulp Fiction' started the whole new page in criminal movies, though I haven't yet seen a better movie in this genre. Why do I pick it as one of the 'craziest'? Well, it's that way in many respects, including warped storytelling, an unusual take on the criminals and drug addicts for that time, the gold watch story and many more.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsPeter WellerJudy DavisIan HolmAfter developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.This one is usually described as a filming of William Burroughs's novel. But in fact, there are only a couple of sentences from that novel quoted in this movie. The story and characters have nothing to do with the book. But the main character is clearly an image of William Burroughs himself. This is a story of an addict who loses the sense of reality (which is a common motif in many of David Cronenberg's works) and finds himself a double agent in a country called 'Interzone' whose mission is not quite clear. Though bizzarre visual effects are quite outdated, this movie is a true masterpice.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsWoody HarrelsonJuliette LewisO-Lan JonesTwo victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.A long while ago, I caught a glance of this movie on TV at a friend's appartment, and was instantly hooked. Re-watched it several times afterwards. The movie is very violent and rude in many respects, but the thing that hooked me was unusual visual style of the movie and the way that it tells the story from unexpectedly changing points of view. The idea of this story also looks unusual to me: a guy and a girl find themselves natural born killers and become famous for their outrageous crimes. This is probably the best movie directed by Oliver Stone.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittEdward NortonMeat LoafAn insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.To me, the craziest thing about this movie (and I love it) is its ending, which is the opposite to the book's ending. In other respects, this movie is not usual as well. Based on the counterculture novel by Chuck Palahniuk, it smoothes up the most rough corners of the book, but still hits you in the face with one of the craziest and most dangerous main characters you could ever imagine... One could make all kinds of explosives, using simple household items.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsChristopher PlummerLily ColeHeath LedgerHaving made a deal with the Devil himself for immortality many millennia ago, the now decrepit mystic Doctor Parnassus fights for the freedom of his only daughter's soul.
- DirectorGen SekiguchiStarsTadanobu AsanoReika HashimotoKyôko KoizumiFive bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.
- DirectorDave BorthwickStarsNick UptonDeborah CollardFrank PassinghamA boy born the size of a small doll is kidnapped by a genetic lab and must find a way back to his father in this inventive adventure filmed using stop motion animation techniques. Tom meets a variety of strange creatures and eventually discovers a race of miniature humans like himself.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyHoracio SalinasZamira SaundersIn a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.
- DirectorDanny LeinerStarsAshton KutcherSeann William ScottJennifer GarnerTwo potheads wake up after a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car.Some would say this is just a stupid comedy. Sure, but show me another comedy that would be like this one. Jay and Silent Bob may be somewhat close, but they keep a bit of sanity. This one is just a feast of pure brainlessness and absurdity.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKenji SawadaKeiko MatsuzakaShinji TakedaA family moves to the country to run a rustic mountain inn when, to their horror, the customers begin befalling sudden and unlikely fates.
- DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellEmbeth DavidtzMarcus GilbertWhen Ash Williams is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead in order to return home.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsJack NicholsonPierce BrosnanSarah Jessica ParkerEarth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.
- DirectorJohn WatersStarsKathleen TurnerSam WaterstonRicki LakeShe's the perfect all-American parent: a great cook and homemaker, a devoted recycler, and a woman who'll literally kill to keep her children happy.
- DirectorMary HarronStarsChristian BaleJustin TherouxJosh LucasA wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsSigalon SagnaSaly BadjiBinta CisséThe film depicts daily life in an Senegalian village. The people sleep, eat, make love, pray for rain, et cetera, while civilization, by way of timber trucks and tree fellers, is slowly encroaching.
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsGérard DepardieuBernard BlierJean CarmetAlphonse lives in an empty building. Empty but for one neighbour, the police captain Morvandieu. When the man who have killed Alphonse's wife appears, the three men will be thrown in a serie of event in a surrealist world.Bertrand Blier is the master of absurd. Most of his movies are quite crazy. Most of the time you just don't know what is real and what is not; what is serious and what is a joke. And yet, he tells consistent stories that show a very deep understanding of reality. I picked this one because it was the first of Bertrand Blier's movies that I've seen.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsMarcello MastroianniCatherine DeneuveMichel PiccoliA highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
- DirectorAndrew CurrieStarsKesun LoderBilly ConnollyCarrie-Anne MossIn an Earthly world resembling the 1950s, a cloud of space radiation has shrouded the planet, resulting in the dead becoming zombies that desire live human flesh. A company called Zomcon has been able to control the zombie population. Zombies can be temporarily neutralized by being shot, but can only be permanently neutralized by their brain being destroyed. Their ultimate disposal is through cremation, or burial, the latter which requires decapitation with the head being buried separately from the body. Conversely, Zomcon has created the domestication collar, when activated and placed on a zombie makes the zombie controllable, and thus an eternally productive creature within society. Because all dead initially become zombies, the elderly are viewed negatively and suspectly. And all people, adult or child, learn to shoot to kill to protect society. Zomcon is the go to organization for all things zombie. In the town of Willard, the Robinsons - father Bill (Dylan Baker), mother Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss), and adolescent son Timmy (Kesun Loder) - are one family who don't own a zombie as a domestic, since Bill is afraid of zombies, as, when he was a child, he had to shoot his own zombie father, who tried to eat him. Bill has thus become fascinated with funerals to see zombies put away permanently. But Helen feels pressured to get a zombie when Zomcon's new head of security in Willard, the officious Jonathan Bottoms (Henry Czerny), moves into the neighborhood with his family. Never having had to deal with a zombie directly, Timmy is initially wary of their zombie. But as a lonely child who has no friends and is often bullied, Timmy eventually befriends their zombie, who he names Fido (Sir Billy Connolly), as he treats the zombie much like a faithful pet dog. Timmy protects Fido at all cost, even after Fido, due to no fault of its own, is implicated in some deaths, which creates a mini-wave of loose zombies unknown to Zomcon. But Fido may play a larger role within the family as a companion for Helen, who is largely neglected by Bill, since he sees human affection as ultimately resulting in such difficult issues as what happened between him and his own father. With Timmy and Helen treating Fido with kindness, Fido, in turn, may prove that not all zombies, even when without their domestication collar, are out to kill anyone and everyone in their path.
- DirectorDan O'BannonStarsClu GulagerJames KarenDon CalfaWhen two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsTimothy BalmeDiana PeñalverElizabeth MoodyA young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.
- DirectorGareth CarrivickStarsChris O'DowdMarc WoottonDean Lennox KellyWhile drinking at their local pub, three social outcasts attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum.
- DirectorZack SnyderStarsEmily BrowningVanessa HudgensAbbie CornishA young girl institutionalized by her abusive stepfather retreats to an alternative reality as a coping strategy and envisions a plan to help her escape.
- DirectorRay BoseleyStarsRob HowardNique NeedlesPolly CrokeWhen a nuclear war hits Melbourne, Australia, we find that there's more than one way to survive in the fallout - why sit around wasting what air's left when there's time now to get loose and dance?An Australian movie about a small crowd of survivors after the first strike in the nuclear war. They wait for the next strike that will put an end to everything, and meanwhile they hang out in an underground club doing all kinds of stupid things. Unlike most of the movies about the nuclear apocalypse this one is very gamine and rather crazy.