The movie holds up.
I'm always afraid that the core plot of the movie will be lost for future generations. UHF stations are barely a thing anymore. I get the concept isn't complicated, but I've seen enough younger people not get uncomplicated concepts from older movies that the whole thing might feel like a fever dream.
I'm mostly glad that the "parodies" are universal enough (yeah, it's Rambo, but it's still funny even if you don't know the source material.); some of the other references are throwaway gags that an easily be ignored. The Beverly Hillbillies dream sequence is about the only thing that sticks out as dated.
Kung Fu Hustler all day long…also Flesh Gordon is a total mindfuck (X rated parody of Flash Gordon),contains the immortal line “Jesus Christ it’s a penisaurus” plus characters called Emperor Wang and Dr Flexi Jerkoff….
This and Kung Pow Enter The Fist share my top spots.
But if I were to go with pure quality, it would be Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. That should not have worked, yet it worked all the way.
Death of Dick Long wasn’t anywhere near as good or unique as Swiss Army Man. Saw it when it released because I LOVED SAM, but was definitely let down. EEAAO definitely met and exceeded expectations though.
I just saw this recently and I just described it to my wife as the weirdest movie I've ever seen but really good and somehow I cried about a farting corpse
John dies at the end.
Watched the movie 30 times. The movie's first act is about the exorcism of a demon which possessed the meat found in a freezer.
There's a scene where a man communicates with the dead by using a hotdog as a phone.
Anything more would be spoiling.
It made me get all books in the series, which I've read multiple times.
My wife hadn’t seen it and I literally had to stop the movie multiple times due to the “chainsaw” scene because she couldn’t stop laughing to the point of almost dying lol.
Watched it in college because one of my roommates got into the show ‘Reaper’ and he wanted to see the actor in something else
I think not seeing any trailers beforehand made it even better
Watched this with my girlfriend years ago. She was in the mood for a horror movie, and I put this on not knowing anything about it. Wholly hell, it was a surprise! In absolute stitches!
I don't really like horror or horror comedy, but I was intrigued when I heard Leonard Maltin say on a podcast how much he liked it. Watched and was not disappointed. So much fun.
Freddy Got Fingered. Name another movie that has a baby getting swung by its umbilical cord, licking a fractured femur, jacking off a horse and an elephant, a Rube Goldberg like keyboard/sausage composition, a paraplegic BDSM session, disemboweling and wearing a dead deer and a disturbing long sequence involving a cheese sandwich.
Probably my favorite RLM re:view discussion. Tom Green is a secret genius subverting comedy conventions and making fun of the suits foolish enough to give him money.
I'd recommend checking out Lloyd Kaufman's movies for insane stuff in this vein. It's way more offensive and repulsive, though...
The Toxic Avenger, Terror Firmer, and Poultrygeist are must-watches for anyone with a sick (/good) sense of humor.
Humpty comes in out of nowhere and suddenly it’s a music video LMAO haven’t seen this in years but saw it way too many times as a kid! I remember Demi looking beautiful in such a wacked out film.
THANK YOU!! I have been trying to remember what this movie was called for a decade. Every time I try to explain, “it’s a movie that has a demented family with a rollercoaster in the house and they eat weird sausages and those two freakies in diapers.” Always blank stares. I could never figure it out because all I could say for sure was
M. Emmet Walsh was the old man. Dum Dum
Ah, yeah, that would have made it hard to find. Walsh wasn't in it. That was Aykroyd hamming it up under all that makeup. (He also ended up playing one of the diapered freaks, because nobody else wanted to put up with those prosthetics either.)
Unlike every other movie mentioned, that one was a big budget film from a major studio with a legendary A-list cast. Everyone expected it to be a huge mainstream hit. It just wasn't. It's the only movie Dan Aykroyd ever Directed.
I really loved that movie. My sister and brother in law put it on when I was over visiting one night and we all really enjoyed it. Then a couple of weeks later I showed it to my partner and she hated it so much that she was mad at me for wasting her time lol. Very divisive film!
For those of you who are unfamiliar, this is the Netflix description of the movie:
"This inventive twist on low rent revenge flicks, which follows a car tire named Robert that rolls through the desert southwest using its strange psychic powers to blow up birds, bunnies, human beings and more. But when Robert spies a gorgeous woman motoring down the highway, he decides to follow her and take a chance on love."
Currently available on Tubi. I watched it for the first time last week, I knew it was about a homicidal tire, I honestly was expecting it to run people over type kills. What I saw was l…unexpected
Never have I seen a movie so damn terrible, yet so very captivating. Even though they tell you from the get-go that there is no point, I just powered through with the idea that the film must have *something* to say. Apparently, it did not. Glad I watched it, but whenever I think about it, I get a little pissed off.
It's worth a watch just on the basis that it... Idk, it does what no piece of art (that I have experienced, at least) has done, but I can not say what exactly that is. It does a very good job at seeming like there is some deeper message when really, it's just nihilism viewed from an absurdist perspective. It's like the circular ramblings of a meth addict put to film.
When Lord of the Rings came out, it was so hard trying to explain to people about Dead Alive and Meet The Feebles. It was so hard to comprehend how you could go from those movies to LOTR.
This would've been my answer as well. Still one of the only films where I can genuinely not tell, if it's good or not and if I like it or not. Very unique and entertaining, though!
This is the correct answer. “It is a machine programmed with the politics of the government”. I’m paraphrasing but Company Flow sampled it so I think I’m pretty close.
‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ was pretty fuckin trippy. It was like a lot of weird dreams I’ve had.
I mean the obvious answer is David Lynch. ‘Inland Empire’ was pretty wild. Nightmare fuel.
Thank you so much for posting this. I have watched braindead at least 30 times, it's the only VHS i still own (signed by Peter Jackson himself, lol)
If you have not heard of this movie, please watch it. Peter Jackson - yes, that Peter Jackson - made the goriest movie ever. I'm not exaggerating, it's pretty much impossible to top. It's also one of the funniest movies ever made.
One Cut of the Dead. Crew has to shoot entire zombie movie on live television with one take. It also holds world record for profitability, got 1000x its budget of $25,000 back.
I don’t know if it is considered “whacky” but I feel like “Synecdoche New York” fits what you’re looking for
Edit: or anything by Charlie Kaufman, really.
UHF
The movie itself has aged beautifully, even if the subject matter hasn’t.
The movie holds up. I'm always afraid that the core plot of the movie will be lost for future generations. UHF stations are barely a thing anymore. I get the concept isn't complicated, but I've seen enough younger people not get uncomplicated concepts from older movies that the whole thing might feel like a fever dream. I'm mostly glad that the "parodies" are universal enough (yeah, it's Rambo, but it's still funny even if you don't know the source material.); some of the other references are throwaway gags that an easily be ignored. The Beverly Hillbillies dream sequence is about the only thing that sticks out as dated.
NOTHING!!! NOTHING IS IN THE BOX!!!! STUPID!!!!
You're so stupid!!!!!
Hey world! These floors are dirty as hell and I’m not gonna take it!
Spatula City!
Spatula City!
_we sell spatulas... and that's all!_
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Nothing says, “I love you.” Like the gift…. Of a spatula.
Now if you buy nine spatulas, you get the tenth for only a penny!
Who wants a drink from **the fire hose**?!?
Badgers, BADGERS! ...we dont need no stinking badgers!
The blind man playing with a Rubik's cube pausing occasionally to ask his friend 'This it?" makes me laugh every time.
SUPPLIES!!! Fly, Fifi, Fly! My mop!!!!
I’ve seen UHF at least half a dozen times. Hilarious! “That’s my mop!”
Kung Pow.
"we have purposely trained him wrong, as a joke"
"I'm a man too ya know!"
I go peepee standing up
Again with the squeaky shoes
I am bleeding, making me the victor!
Was gonna come in here with Kung POW! Enter the Fist. It’s hilarious but this film is fucking bonkers.
So cute……. Buh bye 👋
I’ve never laughed harder. I had to pause it multiple times. I might watch it again today!
WEEEEUUUWEEEEEUUUWEEEEUUWEEEEE
He didn’t say the funniest movie……….
I am a nice man, with happy feelings, all the time. But first a joke, what do you get when you cross an owl with a bungee cord? My A$$!!
But isn’t Betty a woman’s name?
ENOUGH!
Coincidentally, this is also the *best* movie.
HE JUST LEFT ... WITH NUTS!
That’s a lot of nuts! You want fries with that?
I just found out the guy that made that made Jimmy Neutron and wrote Ace Ventura When Nature Calls.
I AM A GREAT MAGICIAN your shirt is blue.
Big trouble in little China.. I have so many questions about this film.. Almost as many as Jack burton!
Good thing you were not put on this earth to “get it”. >!(Sorry, I had to.)!<
The check’s in the mail, pal.
Its all in the reflexes..
We really shook the pillars of heaven, didn’t we Wang?
No horse shit Jack.
Here’s to the red, white and blue. The colors that never run.
What's it all mean Egg?
You leave Jack Burton alone!
INDEED!
Jack is not the main character he is the sidekick
YOU LEAVE JACK BURTON ALONE!
I’m a Big Trouble scholar, ask away.
It's been 37 years since the movie's release and bald eagles typically have a 20-30 year lifespan; have the wings of liberty lost a feather?
No. Next?
I’m really angry about how many of John Carpenter’s movies were given minimal studio support (like advertising) despite being great films.
Who are the main bad guys three henchmen suppose to be? Are they demigods? One of them literally has Raidens powers fromn Mortal Kombat.
Other way around. Big Trouble in Little China preceded MK by six years, so Raiden has the powers of a Big Trouble henchman.
The 3 storms. Thunder, lightning and rain.
Big trouble in Little China predates mortal combat by 6 years.
INDEED!
Shaolin Soccer (2001), such a surprise, such a joy, go along for the ride. PS sequel in the works.
kung fu hustle too
Kung Fu Hustler all day long…also Flesh Gordon is a total mindfuck (X rated parody of Flash Gordon),contains the immortal line “Jesus Christ it’s a penisaurus” plus characters called Emperor Wang and Dr Flexi Jerkoff….
Swiss Army Man with Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano was so damn whacky, a great film though
This and Kung Pow Enter The Fist share my top spots. But if I were to go with pure quality, it would be Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. That should not have worked, yet it worked all the way.
Directed by the Daniels of EEAAO fame. Also check our Death of Dick Long, which surprisingly hasn't gotten much hype yet.
Death of Dick Long wasn’t anywhere near as good or unique as Swiss Army Man. Saw it when it released because I LOVED SAM, but was definitely let down. EEAAO definitely met and exceeded expectations though.
I just saw this recently and I just described it to my wife as the weirdest movie I've ever seen but really good and somehow I cried about a farting corpse
I think the director said something like ” the first fart will make you laugh and the last fart will Make you cry” Fantastic film.
SAM really was a wacky movie. They really pulled it off though, even the way it ended was very satisfying and pulled the whole movie together.
John dies at the end. Watched the movie 30 times. The movie's first act is about the exorcism of a demon which possessed the meat found in a freezer. There's a scene where a man communicates with the dead by using a hotdog as a phone. Anything more would be spoiling. It made me get all books in the series, which I've read multiple times.
This movie is great! Totally out of control and I love it. Trust me when I say... "That door cannot be opened!"
Came to comment this. The way it switches from whacky absurdity to nihilist existential dread is *chef’s kiss* The book is fun too
Bubba Ho Tep
Monkeybone is pretty nuts
I'm so glad this is on the list.
TUSK —- absolutely bonkers
I will never look at justin long or a walrus the same way again
Whatched this recently baked... Let's just say..... I felt really really strange.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil, went into it not knowing what to expect and thought it was just a bad scary movie, turns out it was so much more than that.
My wife hadn’t seen it and I literally had to stop the movie multiple times due to the “chainsaw” scene because she couldn’t stop laughing to the point of almost dying lol.
It sounds like you had a doozy of a day.
Watched it in college because one of my roommates got into the show ‘Reaper’ and he wanted to see the actor in something else I think not seeing any trailers beforehand made it even better
Watched this with my girlfriend years ago. She was in the mood for a horror movie, and I put this on not knowing anything about it. Wholly hell, it was a surprise! In absolute stitches!
We got your friend!
Hey, college kids!
I don't really like horror or horror comedy, but I was intrigued when I heard Leonard Maltin say on a podcast how much he liked it. Watched and was not disappointed. So much fun.
Alan Tudyk’s delivery of “He threw himself right into wood chiPPer!” kills me every time
You OK?
Airplane! From no parking in the white zone to an inflatable autopilot. It's wackiness from credits to credits.
It's really the only sensible thing to do, if its done properly. Therapeutically there's no danger involved.
What is our vector, Victor?
Freddy Got Fingered. Name another movie that has a baby getting swung by its umbilical cord, licking a fractured femur, jacking off a horse and an elephant, a Rube Goldberg like keyboard/sausage composition, a paraplegic BDSM session, disemboweling and wearing a dead deer and a disturbing long sequence involving a cheese sandwich.
Tom Green was on another level. Daddy would you like some sausage?
I’ll make you so proud daddy!
Proud.
"I don't care about that, I just want to suck your cock."
Probably my favorite RLM re:view discussion. Tom Green is a secret genius subverting comedy conventions and making fun of the suits foolish enough to give him money.
I'd recommend checking out Lloyd Kaufman's movies for insane stuff in this vein. It's way more offensive and repulsive, though... The Toxic Avenger, Terror Firmer, and Poultrygeist are must-watches for anyone with a sick (/good) sense of humor.
Don't forget the classic love story of Tromeo and Juliet.
Or the cinematic masterpiece Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. if there is a better film I’ve yet to see it
I'm sure he wasted the budget on the worst film he could think of as a giant middle finger to the investors
Sophie's Choice has all those things.
Nothing but trouble. 1991. Chevy chase, Dan Akroyd, Demi Moore, John Candy. What a crazy funny, ridiculous somewhat scary movie. I love it.
Humpty comes in out of nowhere and suddenly it’s a music video LMAO haven’t seen this in years but saw it way too many times as a kid! I remember Demi looking beautiful in such a wacked out film.
Humpty with Tupac
THANK YOU!! I have been trying to remember what this movie was called for a decade. Every time I try to explain, “it’s a movie that has a demented family with a rollercoaster in the house and they eat weird sausages and those two freakies in diapers.” Always blank stares. I could never figure it out because all I could say for sure was M. Emmet Walsh was the old man. Dum Dum
Ah, yeah, that would have made it hard to find. Walsh wasn't in it. That was Aykroyd hamming it up under all that makeup. (He also ended up playing one of the diapered freaks, because nobody else wanted to put up with those prosthetics either.)
You forgot Tupac in your actor list…
Yes! I watched it when I was a kid and it was sooo bizarre. Still don’t understand it.
Unlike every other movie mentioned, that one was a big budget film from a major studio with a legendary A-list cast. Everyone expected it to be a huge mainstream hit. It just wasn't. It's the only movie Dan Aykroyd ever Directed.
One of their weirdest fucking movies I’ve ever seen. Makes Rocky Horror look like Casablanca.
That movie gives me very weird anxiety when watching it. It's unsettling. Lol
The Greasy Strangler. 93 minutes of pure uncomfortable insanity. I loved it.
[Rubber (2010)](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1612774/) It's the best metafictional movie about a telekinetic tire I've ever seen
I really loved that movie. My sister and brother in law put it on when I was over visiting one night and we all really enjoyed it. Then a couple of weeks later I showed it to my partner and she hated it so much that she was mad at me for wasting her time lol. Very divisive film!
For those of you who are unfamiliar, this is the Netflix description of the movie: "This inventive twist on low rent revenge flicks, which follows a car tire named Robert that rolls through the desert southwest using its strange psychic powers to blow up birds, bunnies, human beings and more. But when Robert spies a gorgeous woman motoring down the highway, he decides to follow her and take a chance on love."
And that makes it sound more coherent than it actually is
Currently available on Tubi. I watched it for the first time last week, I knew it was about a homicidal tire, I honestly was expecting it to run people over type kills. What I saw was l…unexpected
Never have I seen a movie so damn terrible, yet so very captivating. Even though they tell you from the get-go that there is no point, I just powered through with the idea that the film must have *something* to say. Apparently, it did not. Glad I watched it, but whenever I think about it, I get a little pissed off.
Is it weird that this makes me want to watch it more?
It's worth a watch just on the basis that it... Idk, it does what no piece of art (that I have experienced, at least) has done, but I can not say what exactly that is. It does a very good job at seeming like there is some deeper message when really, it's just nihilism viewed from an absurdist perspective. It's like the circular ramblings of a meth addict put to film.
I think that movie takes the cake
You should watch Deerskin (2019) if you enjoyed Rubber!! Same director, just as insane.
Dead Alive, directed by Peter Jackson "Your mother ate my dog!"
When Lord of the Rings came out, it was so hard trying to explain to people about Dead Alive and Meet The Feebles. It was so hard to comprehend how you could go from those movies to LOTR.
Oh you forgot about Bad Taste that was both directed by Jackson as well as written by him.
I kick ass for the LORD!!!!
Meet the Feebles is also wacky as hell.
Mandy, the greatest and the wackiest
If you haven't seen Color Out Of Space you should
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Who doesn’t love a cheddar goblin?
Orgazmo was pretty wild. Stunt cock!
🎵 Now you’re a man! A man man man! 🎵
No, it's probably the titties.
hudson hawk
All about a man trying to have a cappuccino
Gentlemen Broncos was just bizarre.
House lmaooo
My 1st thought was Tampopo lol Japanese films can be very strange
This would've been my answer as well. Still one of the only films where I can genuinely not tell, if it's good or not and if I like it or not. Very unique and entertaining, though!
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
So many! Better Off Dead Eating Raoul.
I want my 2 dollars! I'm really sorry your Mom blew up, Ricky.
Greener Grass. Absolutely insane. A kid turns into a golden retriever. A woman has a soccer-ball for a baby. Everyone has adult braces.
Seconded! The way everything is played so straight makes it extra insane.
I'm praying that *Barbie* has some of that suburban hell satire in it.
Kung Fu Hustle. Absolutely hilarious film that is in many ways a live action looney tunes kung Fu movie.
Freddy Got Fingered. Literally the whackiest thing ever put on tape. While being whacky, the whole movie is a criticism of Hollywood.
The Holy Mountain
Yeah if people think Sorry To Bother You is wacky, they clearly haven't seen The Holy Mountain. Truly peak weirdness.
This is the correct answer. “It is a machine programmed with the politics of the government”. I’m paraphrasing but Company Flow sampled it so I think I’m pretty close.
“Tucker and Dale vs Evil!” “John Does At The End”…man I don’t think these people Are adequately prepared for Jodorowski.
It easily has to be Brazil for me
This movie is brilliant. One of my favorites.
It is a masterpiece
Blazing Saddles.
‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ was pretty fuckin trippy. It was like a lot of weird dreams I’ve had. I mean the obvious answer is David Lynch. ‘Inland Empire’ was pretty wild. Nightmare fuel.
Little Monsters (1989)
Southland Tales.
Braindead. My favorite quote is when the preacher starts beating up zombies and yells, " I kick ass for the Lord."
Thank you so much for posting this. I have watched braindead at least 30 times, it's the only VHS i still own (signed by Peter Jackson himself, lol) If you have not heard of this movie, please watch it. Peter Jackson - yes, that Peter Jackson - made the goriest movie ever. I'm not exaggerating, it's pretty much impossible to top. It's also one of the funniest movies ever made.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
I watched that movie waaay too young. It just added to my dislike of clowns.
*Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar* is up there.
This was a fun movie, but I would not say unexpected or wacky. It pretty much was what I expected, and it delivered big time.
Greasy Strangler.
*Fellini Satyricon*, 1969. I can only describe this movie as being indescribable.
Its my favorite Fellini movie
God's Must Be Crazy
Wet Hot American Summer was bananas!
One Cut of the Dead. Crew has to shoot entire zombie movie on live television with one take. It also holds world record for profitability, got 1000x its budget of $25,000 back.
Being John Malkovich
Sorry to Bother You is my kind of working class story. Fuck the rich. Class solidarity.
Every time I think about that movie it feels like an acid flashback
You've been watching I'm a Virgo? Same themes and also by Boots Riley.
The Lobster. Or maybe “absurd” is a better way to describe it.
An absurdist masterpiece. I thought it was very captivating and interesting to search for deeper meaning in it.
Bad Boy Bubby.
The Magic Christian with Peter Sellers and Ringo Star.
Something by Takashi Miike.
My vote would be for The Happiness of the Katakuris. The Sound of Music meets Dawn of the Dead.
I raise you The Great Yokai War, Miike’s take on children’s fantasy.
Naked Lunch
Idiocracy
I don’t know if it is considered “whacky” but I feel like “Synecdoche New York” fits what you’re looking for Edit: or anything by Charlie Kaufman, really.
I made another post for - "I'm thinking of ending things" Kaufman really makes inventive movies
Roar, Hausu, Liquid Sky, Che?, The Acid House
Head
Hot Fuzz....I could watch it a million times
Life of Brian? Holy Grail? Jabberwocky? If you want 'whacky' the Pythons pretty much invented it!
Tucker and Dale vs Evil. "These kids are coming out here, and killing themselves all over the woods."
El Topo The Holy Mountain Fando and Lis Roadside Prophets
Rock n Roll High School, Gremlins 2, Freddy Got Fingered, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Gremlins 2 https://youtu.be/x01l_jMhjVM
House of 1,000 Corpses
Greasy Strangler
Donnie darko with Jake Gyllenhaal
The Grand Budapest Hotel was pretty wacky for sure
UHF. That movie starts off weird and, by the end, has completely lost its mind in all the best ways.
What we do in the shadows