Tell me an old and weird #movie or #film you think everyone should watch (and why).

@limebar House on Haunted Hill because it has Vincent Price in it.

@limebar Toys, 1992, directed by Barry Levinson, with Robin Williams & Joan Cusack.

American culture's distaste for earnestness and whimsy led to a deeply unfair response to this film. The level of surrealism was also probably turned up past most people's tolerance.

@synkr3tyk
i'm a military man, i like a military plate!

-ll cool j

@limebar
@gregvr , did you want to maybe say a word about Slacker?

@synkr3tyk @gregvr
loved slacker but have not seen in ages

@limebar I was about to edit the above to indicate (as requested) *why* I recommend it, but I see that I already mentioned whimsy, surrealism, Williams, and Cusack, which feels like enough of a sales job.

@synkr3tyk @gregvr
in my head, slc punk and slacker are joined at the hip but it has been so long that may be a false connection

@limebar Harold and Maude (1971). Everyone needs to think about the inevitability of death, and the inevitability of living.

@cuauh
love this movie
I am a Harold of sorts

@thejessiekirk
saw this recently! had a vincent price halloween month 2 years back
i remember researching that house in detail at the time...

it is available on peertube, btw, for others:
https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/19610b3f-8492-47e8-8672-118a42a8d775

@limebar one of my favorite movies of all time: A matter of Life and death (rebranded Stairway to heaven in the US). British film from the forties by Powell and Pressburger)

@sknob
this one? looks interesting!
https://video.pavel-english.ru/w/32afb0ba-6f74-4c75-81a3-c6d2867e6367

@limebar I would suggest you find a copy with a decent resolution. The cinematography is quite exceptional for the time.

@sknob found already

@limebar Brazil is fairly well known, but if you haven't seen it, you absolutely should. Nothing else prepared me for the sheer eye-gouging absurdity of middle age half as well as that movie.

Beyond that, it is simply a gorgeous and wonderfully creative movie, bursting with wild imagery and crazy visual ideas that come at you at an astonishing pace. I wish I could see it for the first time all over again.

@limebar Eat the Rich: 1987 flawed political collision of sketch comedians, Motorhead and cannibalism starring Lanah Pelay (of Pistol in my Pocket). It's all nauseatingly relevant, and amazing.

@Lime Bar Tarkovsky's movie version oft Stanislav Lems book Solaris.
It's amazingly teaching for the way cameras were telling a story by image, instead oft actors telling you what to - or how you should understand what to - see.
For the necessity of enough time in scenes, so not needing sped up editing, which would only usually cover up a lack of content.
For a whole other planet diving into the human psyche, digging out the buried, wordless, haunting and fascinating at the same time.
Amazing movie - while Soderberghs later version of Solaris isn't bad, but operates just too quick and formatted for such mind blowing content.

@jrp back in the 90s I used to put Solaris on as nightclub visuals, your point about visual storytelling is bang on, you could actually still follow the plot despite the soundtrack being Carl Cox having the time of his life.

@limebar this thread is my jam. I’m going to nominate Robert Wise’s 1963 The Haunting - Wise understood way before anyone else that horror in the viewer’s imagination is always going to be scarier than anything you can put on screen. This idea was later perfected by Michael Hanneke with Funny Games - a truly horrific movie with absolutely no on-screen violence, originally released on video in the UK with a PG rating because it didn’t cross any of the BBFC’s guidelines.

@limebar "Colossus: The Forbin Project" (1970) these days feels more prescient than ever....

(and I love the idea of it all coming from all those tape drives and valves and oscilloscopes locked away inside a radiation-proofed mountain)

Is it weird? Not sure...

(Weird soundtrack has to go to the Barron's "electronic tonalities" for Forbidden Planet of course. A true masterpiece in my view)