Top 10 Weirdest Movies
In this list I’m going to be listing 10 films that have the absolute, utter, weirdest premises. There’s not much explaining to do other than that. One note, this list could be made up entirely of movies from the SyFy network, so I’m limiting those.
Sharknado- The only SyFy movie on this list, I’ll admit this film isn’t the weirdest movie to come from this network, but it is certainly the most popular. And it is weird. Spawning a franchise, they somehow made 5 sequels to this movie and all of them are about… well… sharks in a tornado. The franchise features dozens of cameos from a wide variety of celebrities and just get more and more out there.
Bubba Ho-Tep- I think this is perhaps the strangest movie I have ever seen. The plot is that on old senile man who thinks he’s Elvis (and maybe actually is) played by Bruce Campbell and he befriends a black man who thinks he’s JFK (and maybe actually is?) played by Ossie Davis. Then the two of them investigate murders in their retirement home that turn out to be caused by an ancient Egyptian mummy. Hm.
Pride + Prejudice + Zombies- This just makes me wonder how many other existing stories you could add zombies to and make a movie about it. Starring the likes of Lily James, Matt Smith, Charles Dance, & Lena Headey, this film is exactly what the title says. It is the classic Jane Austin love story of Elizabeth Bennet & Mr. Darcy intertwined with undead creatures who want to eat people. Crystal clear.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter- Yep. Once again this is exactly what is sounds like. Mr. Abe Lincoln our beloved 16th President who led the Union during the Civil War was also killing vampires in the abundance of free time he must have had. Also, since it is during the Civil War, naturally the vampires are slave owners.
Swiss Army Man- A movie described a surrealist dram-edy this comes from the filmmakers known as ‘The Daniels’ who only other feature film is Best Picture winner, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ which is also a weird movie. This stars Paul Dano as a man stranded on an island and then a corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) washes up on the shore that has magical powers (a la super-farts) that help rescue him.
The Lobster- Another filmmaker with some weird movies is Yorgos Lanthimos, known for recent films like ‘Poor Things’ and ‘Kinds of Kindness.’ Before those films he directed ‘The Lobster’ which stars Colin Farrell as a single man moved into a facility with other single people. All these singles have 45 days to find romance or they will be transformed into an animal. Forget ‘Love is Blind’ and ‘The Bachelor’ this would be one heck of a reality show.
Being John Malkovich- In this movie John Cusack plays a puppeteer that finds a portal that leads into John Malkovich’s brain. And take note, that’s not a character played by Malkovich. It is Malkovich playing Malkovich. To me the question is ‘why John Malkovich?’
Tusk- Made by well-known filmmaker Kevin Smith, ‘Tusk’ follows a podcaster who meets a man obsessed with a walrus named Mr. Tusk. SPOILERS Long story short the podcaster (Justin Long) is transformed into a walrus by the man who traps him inside a walrus costume made of human skin. The movie ends with Long’s character stuck as a walrus living at the zoo. Now this is cinema.
Rubber- A French indy horror-comedy the slasher villain of this flick is a tire who comes to life and has telekinesis. SPOILERS It ends with the tire dying and being reincarnated as a tricycle with a vengeance.
The VelociPastor- Another movie that’s straight to the point. A man named Doug gets infected with a virus that turns him into a velociraptor when he gets angry. Oh! And Doug is a Roman Catholic priest of course!
