This list comes from flavorwire, and the author is very discerning, selecting many very unique and niche freak films. If you're a niche fan of freak movies. Then these will surely satisfy you...
1. Rabbits
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Laura Haring / Scott Coffey / Naomi Watts
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Suspense / Horror / Fantasy
Country of Production: United States
Release date: 2002
Expressionist techniques, quirky lighting, and inexplicable laughter make up David Lynch's avant-garde short film Rabbit. The film, as he puts it, "I don't know what the rabbit is going to do." But anything can happen."
2. Black Moon
Director: Louis Mahler
Starring: Cathryn Harrison / Therese Giehse / Alexandra Stewart / Joe Darius Sandro
Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Country/Region of Production: France / West Germany
Release date: 1975-09-24
"Black Moon" is a mysterious color film with unclear meanings, and Lily, a blonde girl dressed as a man, meets an old woman who can talk to animals, a mysterious unicorn, and an incestuous brother and sister during the journey. The film seems to be describing the story of another world, and this means of film creation comes from the "automatic writing" of surrealism.
3. Sweet Movie
Director: Duchamp Makawiev
Starring: Carloe Laura / Pierre Clementi / Anna Pruconau
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Country of Production: Canada / France / West Germany
Release date: 1974-06-12
A classic masterpiece in the history of erotic cinema. Themed on sexuality, politics, and self-repression, it involves a large number of sex and pornography. Sex, death, and sadomasochism are widely banned because they are projected on the social, political, racial class, and other social superstructures.
4. Bull head Gozu
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Sho Aikawa / Hideki Tsone / Gongka Yoshino / Renji Ishibashi
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Crime
Country/Region of Production: Japan
Release date: 2004-04-16
There is a shadow of the Greek myth "Orpheus and Eurydice" in the film, and the object that the male protagonist is ordered by the boss of the gang to solve is what he calls "big brother", and in the road journey to find big brother, one strange character after another appears one after another, and the moment when the mystery is finally revealed is unforgettable. The film combines various elements such as bizarre, suspenseful, and terrifying, and is a typical Takashi Miike masterpiece.
5、切肤 In My Skin
Director: Marina de Van
Starring: Marina de Van / Laurent Lucas / Leia De Luguet
Genre: Drama / Horror
Country/Region of Production: France
Release date: 2002-12-04
During an accident, Esther's legs were severely injured, after which she gradually realized that her soul and body had been stripped away, and she always had the urge to self-harm. In addition to scraping the flesh, she even had the idea of cutting off her arms and thighs and eating them. The film is the work of Marina de Fan, the screenwriter of "Eight Beauty Map", who wrote and directed himself, and the atmosphere of horror and self-harm created in it is disgusting.
6, dogtooth Dogtooth
Director: Orgus Lance moss
主演: AnnaKalaitzidou / Mary Tsoni / Michele Valley / Aggeliki Papoulia / HristosPassalis / Christos Stergioglou
Genre: Drama
Country/Region of Production: Greece
Release date: 2009-11-11
The three children live with their parents in a secluded country mansion, they have no access to anyone other than their parents, they know nothing about the world outside the walls, and the only strangers who can enter the home are Christina, a female employee of her father's company, who is hired to meet the sexual needs of her eldest son. And her several arrivals are quietly changing the family...
7. Iron Man 1: Metal Beast Tetsuo
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Starring: Tomoro Taguchi / Kenji Ishi / Naomasa Rokuhira / Shinya Tsukamoto / Kyo Fujiwara
Genre: Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror
Release date: 1989-07-01
"Iron Man" is Tsukamoto's most representative work. The film is like a nightmare of the Metal Age, an ordinary Japanese wage earner turned into a metal monster, and the trance plot and unconventional pictures create a spiritually mutated industrial panic world.
8. Even Dwarfs Started Small
Director: Werner Herzog
主演: HelmutDöring / Gerd Gickel / Paul Glauer / Gisela Hertwig / Hertel Minkner
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Horror
Country of Production: West Germany
Release date: 1971-02-02
Herzog's self-written and self-directed black-and-white horror film follows violence between gnome students and correctional staff in a gnome correctional home in Germany. The film is all played by real-life real-life dwarfs, and there are many bizarre violent scenes, with the theme of crazy rebellion to show the state of marginalized people in society.
9. Strange Boy Gummo
Director: Harmony Colin
Starring: Jacob Suel / Nick Sutton / Jacob Reynolds / Colo Severny / Carisa Glucksman
Release: 1997-09-04
Hamoni Colin was influenced into the film industry by The Dwarf Rogue, and in his self-written and directed experimental debut, Strange Boy, both 14-year-old Solomon and Tucker grew up in single-parent families, lost their way to life, and took pleasure in taking drugs, wrenching wrists and killing cats every day, and have been degenerating in this tragic and meaningless world.
10. The puppet Pin
Director: Sandor Stern
Starring: David Hewlett / Cynthia Preston / Terry O'Quinn
Type: Horror
Country of Production: Canada
Release date: 1988
The doctor made a lifelike dummy, spoke for him in belly language, and named him Pino (Pinocchio). After the doctor was killed in a car accident, his eldest son fantasized that Pin was a good friend of his own, living with his sister and dummies. The film has a detailed depiction of schizophrenia and is an unconventional horror film.
11. Meat Love
Directed By: Jan Sven Meyer
Genre: Comedy / Romance / Short Film / Fantasy
Country/Region of Production: United Kingdom / United States / West Germany
Release date: 1989
The surrealist work of the Czech animation master Sven Meyer, in less than 1 minute, shows us the relationship between man and God with a simple plot, and stages a naked alternative "raw meat" love. Under the rapid montage and close-up, the desires of the human subconscious are vividly depicted.
12. An Andalus dog, Un chien andalou
Director: Luis Buñuel
Starring: Simone Mareuil / Pierre Batcheff / Luis Buñuel / Salvador Dali / Robert Hommet
Genre: Short Film / Fantasy
Release: 1929-06-06 (France)
"An Andalus Dog" has become a classic masterpiece of French avant-garde cinema, the film has no coherent plot, only a set of illogical and irrational shots, in which the scene of cutting the eyeball with a blade is very famous, and it is the director Buñuel who holds the blade, which is also his debut work, and the film still has avant-garde significance to this day.
13. Bad Boy Bubby
Director: Love de Hill
Starring: Nicholas Hope / Claire Benito / Ralph Cotterill
Genre: Drama / Crime
Country/Region of Production: Australia / Italy
Release date: 1993-09
The film is known as one of the most important works in the history of cinema in the 90s, the 35-year-old protagonist Babi has been hiding in his dirty little apartment for many years, and his amazing talent for imitation has made him go to the outside world, a hit, in his ignorance and ridiculousness, hiding a strange solemnity and sadness, so that the world is stripped of all disguises, leaving only the chaotic and lamentable essence.
14. Video of a murder videodrome
Directed By: David Cronenberg
Starring: James Woods / Sonja Smits / Debra Harry / Peter Dvorsky / Leslie Carlson
Release date: 1983-02-04
The film is a classic of David Cronenberg's deepening and complexity of horror films in the 1980s, showing the twisted relationship between man and machine through the clever application of model special effects, including the opening of the human abdomen, the videotape of breathing, the face entering the TV series, and the steel screw drilling into the arm.
15. The first contact of the Nonsense Forest
Performed by Katsuto Ishii / Shunichiro Miki / Kazu kazu Ishimine
Starring: Tadanobu Asano / Ryo Kaya / Temple 岛进 / Hideaki Anno / Kazue Fukiishi
Genre: Comedy
Release date: 2006-03-25
The film is like a series of short films, mixing advertising films, ethics dramas, song and dance films, romance films, animations, comics, close-ups, youth school dramas and other elements, two and a half hours long, and 3 minutes of rest time in between, perhaps only Japanese movies can show these strange and absurd plots so vividly.
16. Gorgeous Aria
Director: Robert Altman / Bruce Belsford / Bill Bryden / Jean-Luc Godard / Derek Jarman / Frank Rodin / Nicolas Roiger / Ken Russell / Charles Streech / Julian Dumbo
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Music
Country of Production: United Kingdom
Release: 1987-09-15
The film takes 10 arias as background music from several Western operas, and 10 directors produce a 10-minute short film each, with styles ranging from thriller style to expressionism to surrealism, and the director's lineup is also super luxurious.
17. Cat Soup
Performed by: Tatsuo Sato
Genre: Animation / Short Film / Fantasy
Release date: 2001-02-21
In an animated film based on the Japanese manga nekojiru Udon, Sister Cat is taken half of her soul by death and becomes stupid, and Her brother cat takes her on a journey to find the other half of her soul. In the strange journey, there is blood and violence, but there is also no lack of warmth and fun.
18. Pigsty Porcile
Director: Pierre Paul Pasolini
Starring: Pierre Clementi / Jean-Pierre Lyod / Alberto Lionello / Hugo Tognegi / Anne Viazemski / Margarita Lozano / Marco Ferreri
Genre: Drama / Suspense
Country/Region of Production: France / Italy
Release date: 1969-08-31
Italian director Pasolini is another shocking work, the plot of the film is alternately told according to two narrative threads, set in ancient primitive societies and post-World War II Germany. The director compares the capitalists of modern industrial society to the cannibals of ancient times, depicts in detail the cannibalistic violence of the barbaric era, and expresses his heartfelt disgust for this.
19 The New York Ripper
Director: Lucio Ferz
主演: JackHedley / Almanta Suska / Howard Ross / Andrea Occhipinti / Alexandra DelliColli / Paolo Malco / Cinzia de Ponti / Cosimo Cinieri / Daniela Doria
Genre: Suspense / Thriller / Horror / Crime
Country/Region of Production: Italy
Release date: 1982-03-04
Lucio Ferz is a famous Italian horror film director in the last century, whose works are mainly sensory stimulation and bloody scenes. The scene in "New York Killer" where women are killed is direct and rough, but the killer has a Donald duck-like "quacking" voice, diluting a bit of eerie suspense.
20. Marquis Marquis
Director: Henri Xhonneux
Starring: François Marthoret / Valérie Kling / Michel Robin
Genre: Comedy / Animation
Country/Region of Production: Belgium / France
Release date: 1989-04-26
Based on an autobiographical work by the infamous Marquis Thad, the film is one of the strangest combinations of live-action and animation in film history. All the actors wear exaggerated animal masks, the dialogue is dubbed in post,d'étating, and some scenes are filmed using clay sculpture animation, showing the French Revolution in the eyes of the Marquis de Sade in a very absurd way.
21. On the Silver Globe
Director: Andrei Zulaski
Starring: Andrei Severin / Jerzy Trela / Grazyna Dylag
Genre: Sci-fi
Country of Production: Poland
Release date: 1988-05-12
"Silver Planet" is adapted from the classic Polish science fiction novel "Moon Trilogy", director Andrei Zulaski is the polish postmodernist structural film master, the film tells the story of three astronauts (two men and one woman) in the future year to rebuild their homes on the desolate silver planet, because of the content that incited people to resist and was banned, after 7 years Zulaski completed the end of the film, is considered to be the most controversial and artistic peak of his film career.
22. Painting Inhibition 9 Drawing Restraint 9
Director: Matthew Barney
Starring: Matthew Barney / Bjork / Mayumi Miyata
Genre: Fantasy
Country/Region of Production: United States / Japan
Release date: 2005-09-16
Filmed on a Japanese whaling ship in Nagasaki Bay, Painting Suppression 9 revolves around two main lines, one is the shaping and change process of a giant Vaseline sculpture called "Land" on the deck of the ship, and the other is a couple who happen to come here for a traditional Japanese wedding, played by director Matthew Barney and female singer Bjork, who use narration to bring out the main theme of the creation - the reflection on the relationship between self-compulsive resistance and creativity.
23, Crazy Life Multiple Maniacs
Directed By: John Waters
Genre: Comedy / Horror / Crime
Release date: 1970-04-10
"King of Disgust" John Waters' work before "Pink Flamingo", the unforgettable fat woman "Saint Daughter" in "Flamingo" also starred in the film, playing a psychotic lesbian who staged a heavy-hearted plot of being raped by a giant lobster.
24. Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą under the mirror during sanding
Director: Voyzicht Haas
Genre: Drama / Fantasy
Release date: 1973-12-12
The film is set on the eve of World War II, a young man rides a strange train to visit his dying father living in a nursing home, but this place that is about to be demolished evokes many memories of him, and the soldiers of the past, the mercenaries of the colony, the girls of the old life gradually surround him... The film's sister story, The Manuscript of Zaragoza, is one of the favorite films of martin circusses, Coppola and many other famous directors.
25. Haunted House
Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi
Starring: Kiko Ikegami / Kumiko Ohki / Miki Jimbo / Yoko Minamida / Godigo
Genre: Comedy / Horror / Fantasy
Release date: 1977-07-30
Obayashi Nobuhiko got the inspiration for the story in the process of chatting with his daughter, 7 middle school girls came to the country manor for a vacation, but one by one inexplicably disappeared, this is a fantasy film about young girls, under the horror packaging of ghost stories is an exaggerated and beautiful fantasy world. Obayashi's daughter starred in the film as a little girl who shined shoes.
26, clear sky Liquid Sky
Directed by: Slava Tsukerman
Starring: Anne Carlisle / Paula E. Sheppard
Genre: Comedy / Sci-Fi
Release date: 1983-10-14
In the science fiction comedy of the 80s, invisible aliens drove flying saucers to Earth to find heroin, they landed the saucers on the top of a drug dealer's apartment in New York, the drug dealer's lover was a hermaphrodite, bisexual good fanatic model, the aliens found that the bioinforms produced by humans during orgasms were superior to heroin...
27, rubber tire killer Rubber
Director: Quentin Doffy
Starring: Rosanna Maqueda
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Suspense / Horror
Release: 2010-11-10 (France)
The protagonist of the film is a life-only tire "Robert", from the process of rolling small creatures to the juice and bursting blood, he first experienced the beauty of life. Later, he fell in love with a human girl at first sight and identified her as the bride of this life. Most frighteningly, Robert learned the superpower of telepathy, and simply stayed where he was, he could deal with any target he wanted to destroy.
28、Things
Directed by: Andrew Jordan
Starring Barry J. Gillis / Amber Lynn / Bruce Roach / Doug Bunston
Andrew Jordan's Z-rated films (referring to independently produced, ultra-low-budget films with a much lower investment than the usual so-called B-rated films) were released directly on videotape.
Boxing Helena
Director: Jennifer Lynch
Starring: Julian Sanders / Sherlyn Finn
Genre: Drama / Romance / Suspense / Thriller
Language: English
Release date: 1993-06-18
Director Jennifer Lynch is the daughter of David Lynch, inheriting her father's gorgeous, gloomy, eerie mixed with black humor, she created an extreme hunting love affair in her directorial debut "Love Break Helena", hospital director Nick is unrequited with the beautiful woman Helena, in order to let her stay by her side, he will not hesitate to amputate her limbs.
30, a crazy page
Director: Sadayuki Igakasa
Starring: Masahiro Inoue / Yoshie Nakagawa / AyakoIijima / NemotoMoto
Language: Japanese
Release date: 1926-09-24
Based on the novel of the same name by Yasunari Kawabata, Japan's first Nobel Prize-winning writer for literature, "A Crazy Page" won the fourth place in the 1926 Film Shunbun Ten Best Award, after which film was dusted off for 50 years, and it was not until the 1970s that it reappeared in the 1970s, and it was a landmark masterpiece of Neo-Sensation film in the history of Japanese cinema.