NIH! *Giant Foot SPLAT*
Monty Python and The Holy Grail, for being bizarre, awesome, and a staple feature of my childhood.. along with Labyrinth, Alien movies and whatever other wierd stuff Dad saw fit to inflict on his small impressionable child.

Lots of better knowns have been mentioned already (Donnie Darko, Hero, Sin City, Ghibli, Brazil etc). Heres some more obscure stuff. IMDB them:


* The Great Dictator - Charlie Chaplin playing both a Jew and Hitler. Found on Sat TV at Christmas. In German..

* Perfect Blue - Dont let the cartoon format fool you. This is seriously headmessing and makes for a good "What the..?" argument afterwards a la Donnie Darko.

* Tzameti 13 - In French, bit Reservoir Dogs, but don't let that put you off. Sit through the first 30mins, until it gets gripping. Clapping at the lightbulb bit and making your mates shit optional.

* Alice (svankmajer) - and they show this to kids?? I'd have shat myself and spent the next 10 years hiding in a closet, screaming at the sight of sock puppets.. Try Little Otik as well.

* OldBoy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance - original, twisted, plenty of shocks both gory and emotional.

* Tidelands - truly the only film that I'd have been fine watching as a kid, but terrified me as an adult, instead of the other way around.

* Samurai Wolf, Shogun Assassin - Throw some Westerns, Spartacus and Ninjas in a blender, and you might end up with these.


Vampire Hunter D, District 13, Suicide Circle, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Draftsmans Contract, Irreversible, Jacobs Ladder, The Edukators, La Planete Sauvage, Shaun of the Dead, Fifth Element, Braindead, The Wrong Trousers, Laputa Castle in the Sky, Renaissance, Delicatessen, Sleepy Hollow, Betty Blue, Clerks, Dogma, orig Ladykillers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Taxi 2, Clockwork Orange, Metropolis, Hellraiser, Apocalypto, Krull, La Haine, Ong Bak, Paprika, Requiem for a Dream...

/relurks
(Hikikomori** watching cartoons on, Sun 20 Jul 2008, 15:38, 4 replies)

Oldboy...
Great film, caught it a while ago on channel 4 at about 2am.
(chrisdood Why yes, I am the shizzle, Sun 20 Jul 2008, 17:17, closed)

Svankmajer's Alice is brilliant
and every bit as scary as the Jonathan Miller BBC version from the sixties (also available on DVD, which the Svankmajer isn't at the moment - not in the UK, anyway).
( Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Sun 20 Jul 2008, 22:14, closed)

"playing both a Jew and Hitler"
Hitler was a jew
(Harleif Skankhammer II was killing time at, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 0:12, closed)

^
An' jew are a hairsplitting Hitler? :D
(Hikikomori** watching cartoons on, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 18:15, closed)