Absurd Cinema Thread

Some great mentions by Foxbat, and JunkMonkey with an excellent post, by the way.



I continue the weirdness with one of my favortie oddball movies from 1981....


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I couldn't show the graphic trailer, so I only displayed the poster. This movie is also known as, Bloodsucking Nazi Zombies.​

This wonderfully bad/good film is about adventurers searching for Rommel's treasure in North Africa, and to their horror, they meet a legion of the slow walking dead. This movie borrowed footage from another flick called, Grave of the Living Dead (a.k.a. The Treasure of the Living Dead).​

Poorly filmed, badly edited, terribly dubbed, etc. etc. etc. But I really enjoy watching it, now and then.​
 
Alien Apocalypse
(2005)​





I bought this "train-wreck" of a movie, only because actor Bruce Campbell is in it, and it was very inexpensive. The best thing about the DVD is that the audio commentary has Bruce Campbell talking about this flick (among other things).​
 
Foxbat said:
Methinks Mexican wrestling movies could fall into the 'absurd' category:)
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I highly agree. And SANTO films were the best.

In Rolling Stone Magazine, they did a feature on SANTO a few years ago, about his life, wrestling career, his fans, his films and generally what a great guy he was.

There is a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode on one of his movies, Santo vs the Vampire Women (1962 - a.k.a. Samson vs the Vampire Women)

I have a film clip on page 2 of one of my favorite SANTO movies, Santo vs Frankenstein's Daughter.



Anyone else see this wonderfully bad/good film (below)?


Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)​





 
Starbeast said:
I highly agree. And SANTO films were the best.

In Rolling Stone Magazine, they did a feature on SANTO a few years ago, about his life, wrestling career, his fans, his films and generally what a great guy he was.

There is a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode on one of his movies, Santo vs the Vampire Women (1962 - a.k.a. Samson vs the Vampire Women)

I have a film clip on page 2 of one of my favorite SANTO movies, Santo vs Frankenstein's Daughter.



Anyone else see this wonderfully bad/good film (below)?


Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)​





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You have to watch this on Movie Macabre with Elvira. Her commentary is priceless!
 
For those real fans of the film (who don't already know) Manos is currently, laboriously, being restored after the original workprint turned up on eBay.
Because of the way the film was shot - on silent 16mm Ektachrome reversal stock and then edited on that same stock - what was found was the actual film that had been run through the camera back in 1966. There was no negative. A 35mm blowup print was taken from the edited workprint and what we have all seen is (at the best) is a second or third generation DVD transfer or a VHS copy of that.

Slate | 'Manos' in HD

http://www.somethingawful.com/comedy-goldmine/manos-restoration-project/
 
adomol said:
You have to watch this on Movie Macabre with Elvira. Her commentary is priceless!
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Oooo- I've gotta see that. I'm an Elvira fan too. But unfortunately I haven't seen many of her episodes. Huge thanks Admol.

JunkMonkey said:
For those real fans of the film (who don't already know) Manos is currently, laboriously, being restored after the original workprint turned up on eBay.
Because of the way the film was shot - on silent 16mm Ektachrome reversal stock and then edited on that same stock - what was found was the actual film that had been run through the camera back in 1966. There was no negative. A 35mm blowup print was taken from the edited workprint and what we have all seen is (at the best) is a second or third generation DVD transfer or a VHS copy of that.
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Awesome! Another thing I want, that I don't need. Heh heh. Big thanks JunkMonkey.

Here's a SPECIAL TREAT for the fans MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE

The making of MANOS, called "HOTEL TORGO" (in three parts)

Hotel Torgo 1/3 - YouTube

Hotel Torgo 2/3 - YouTube

Hotel Torgo 3/3 - YouTube



Mystery Science Theater 3000 BONUS​



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Well there's Zardoz , which is still the weirdest film I've ever seen, and Brazil on which I'm still undecided if it's sheer brilliance or banality

Probably one of the oddest premises for a movie though is Free Enterprise, with Shatner which also has one of the most out-there end sequences.
 
I thought people would come up with weird rather than just standard b-movie stuff for this. Maybe something absurd (as in absurdist theatre) like "Rhinoceros" - there's a film version with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel somewhere or similiar like "The bed sitting room". I'm sure I could think of something more appropriate given time.
 
I 've just ordered a copy of Captain Berlin Versus Hitler. Looked like it might be wierdly amusing.
 
Yes! Thank you, for a Mexican wrestler flik that I don't have!
Superargo is old news here... likewise the fantastic ArgoMan..
and Samson, with the Wifi videochat connection in his convertible... is familiar, but this Blue Demon is fresh fodder for those of us feebleminded enough to enjoy this kind of stuff. *
 
wam said:
I thought people would come up with weird rather than just standard b-movie stuff for this. Maybe something absurd (as in absurdist theatre) like "Rhinoceros" - there's a film version with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel somewhere or similiar like "The bed sitting room". I'm sure I could think of something more appropriate given time.
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There's a more modern reworking of Ionesco's Rhinoceros. It was called Zombie Strippers. It was awful.

My real absurdist fave SF film is Kin-dza-dza! It's Russian,
135 minutes long, very strange and very funny.

Kin-dza-dza! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia!
 
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