What's your top 10 "most bizzare" film scenes of all time?
 

Okay, I can't think of what would actually be my TOP 10 right now, but these I think are pretty good.

1. Pulp Fiction Gimp Scene
2. Reanimator
3. Meeting John Malcavitch: Crawl into a tunnel and your in his head?
4. Clockwork Orange: . . . well, whole movie really
5. 2001: Astronaut flying through universe at the end
6. Blue Velvet: enough said
7. Vanilla Sky: after he calls for "Tech Support"
8. Eyes Wide Shut
9. Taxi Driver: DeNiro Enters the pimp house and kills everyone
10. The Beach: DeCaprio goes mad and becomes an animalistic untamed jugle boy

I'm sure I've got ones far better than this if I took more time, but here's a start. Now it's ya'lls turn!

just off the top of my head bizzare films in general

1) Cronenbergs "Crash"
2) "fear and loathing in las vegas" terry gilliam
3) "naked lunch" by cronenberg
4) "existenz" by cronenberg (he's a bit of a nut)
5) "battlefield earth" (what was travolta thinking)
6) "donny darko" by richard kelly
7) "the lawnmower man" by bret leonard
8 "edward scissorhands" by tim burton
9) "the big labowski" when he's trippin out being chased by scissors
10 " apocalypse now the directors cut" when they meet the french family...there is no need for that scene its strange and boring and lasts for ever.


By the way Laurence i've read the books 2064 and 3001 that follow on from 2001 and i thought i'd let you know in 3001 they find him floating in space a thousand years later and bring him back to life.

Andy. =)

LOLOL

Can't believe I didn't mention naked lunch. Just about anything chronenberg does is way out there. Fear and Loathing! LOLOL Excellent choice. That should be way in there. Good ones!

I had Cronenberg at the top of my list, too. Even in the relatively mundane (for him, at least) Dead Ringers there were one or two weird scenes.

I loved Apocalpyse Now's plantation scene. It relates French meddling in Southeast Asia to American meddling; the same old story.

I was also intrigued by the French plantation episode. It truly fit the description of "surreal". I'm glad to have finally seen the version that included it. If I'd been in the position of Martin Estevez' character, I'd have found a way to spend more time with that woman, before going off after the crazy colonel. Did anyone recognize Harrison Ford in one of his earlier roles as a Major, at that meeting with the general who assigned him to the mission?

My choice for the most bizarre scene, would be any of many from Fellini's
"Giulietta d'Espiriti", which starred his own wife. Her nightmares/daydreams were merged seamlessly into her real existence and most of the time, you didn't know (or likely care) which was which. The scene showing starving horses on a barge was probably the most extreme and today, would have gotten him condemned by the animal rights crowd. Before the movie was released, a picture spread about it appeared in Life magazine, showing the emaciated horses and caused quite a stir. The accompanying offbeat music added greatly to the fantasy mood of the movie.

All of Fellini's 7 vignettes from "Seven Deadly Sins", were beyond bizarre. It was one of the funniest and most entertaining movies I've seen. My favorite is the one about "Sloth", featuring Marcello Mastroianni. He's traveling with a stimulating young woman, who he sends into a cafe to buy him a sandwich.
"Pate', please" he says, "Because it's easier to chew". Later, she wants him to make love to her, but he declines. "It's too much work to get dressed afterwards", he explains.

Another very striking series of scenes came from "The Naked Prey", starring Cornell Wilde. He somehow finds himself naked and in the middle of an African desert, pursued by a man from a tribe, who is set on killing him. He was 53 when it was made, but has the lean, trained physique of an athlete half his age. They follow a long course of pursuit, with him escaping many close calls.

I always recommend people see 'The Naked Prey' as an example of a film that is very single minded but also has a full range of character movement.

Back to the thread.

One that leaps to mind is the Ken Russell film: "Lair of the White Worm". I am obviously speaking about the dream sequences that have the overt sexual imagery and er .. Amanda Donohue.

That then leads to the dream imagery in his "Altered States".

Not a perfect fit for thiscthread, but man... about once a year I still have a "night of the living dead" dream... it's black & white, I'm boarding up a house and arms keep bursting through windows... shvvrvrvrvrrrrrrrrrr

For a movie with such bad acting, funny how something about it can kinda drill into your psyche.

1) in the movie "Shattered" when Tom Beringer "finds himself".
2) "Bring out the Gimp"
3) You know about "the Crying Game"
4) "The Exorcist" choose any scene
5) "The Ring" dead girl in the closet
6) in "Platoon" when Kevin Dillon (Bunny) smashes enemy's head
7) "Silence of the Lambs" everything that happened in the serial killers basement.
8) "Dumb and Dumber" toilet scene
9) "Boogie Nights" when Mark Wahlberg, (Dirk Diggler), is checkin himself out at the end of the movie.
10) the movie "Seven" the ending
hornorable mention: "There's something about Mary" Cleaning his pipes and styling gel.
also: "Resevior Dogs" Chopping cops ear off.

Pick any scene from Takashi Miike's films. Like for example, "Ichi the Killer"'s title sequence.

Umm early on.."Zardoz". When the future hippies are breaking down one of their own with their chanting and psychic attacks.

The end of "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and her Lover".

How about the scene in Pedro Almodovar's "Talk to Her." You know what scene I'm talking about, if you've seen the movie. The movie is absolutely beautiful, as are all his films. Anyways, the scene I mention is where the lead character imagines himself as tiny and exploring a naked woman's body. He enters her well...you know where. I can't imagine the set designer reading this for the first time. A 15 foot vagina? Um...sure.

(Are we allowed to say "vagina" on these boards? :-) )

Anyways, as bizarre as it sounds, the movie is incredible. A must see as are all of his movies, imo.

Kevin

I remember that scene too. One of my roommates walked into the room right at the most gruesome point. He walked right back out.

Emre, I saw your web site. Very impressive. I hope that you do well with your films.

1. Drumroll.................The scene from Blue Velvet in which Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth enters the appartment of Rossellini's character and rapes her while being high on Nitrous gas.
"It's daddy you ****head! Where's my bourbon?"

2. The entire "Club Silencio" -scene in Mulholland Drive.

3. Pick any in Lost Highway.

4. Jack and Tyler making soap in Fight Club.

5. The hallucination scenes in Videodrome.

6. The hallucination scenes in Jacob's ladder.

7. The battle for the bridge in Apocalypse Now

8. Jail riot in Natural Born Killers

9. End of 2001 - A space Odyssee

10. Mickey Rourke vs. CG-Elijah Wood in Sin City.

Ok by bizzare i'm also assuming you mean disturbing..but i'll go with just weird too..in no paticular order....

1. Sympathy for Mr. Vengence (the retard at lake? wtf?)
2. Anything Cronenberg
3. Irreversible (by far the hardest thing i've ever watched) damn good though
4. Tin Drum (that kid creeped me out)
5. Suicide Club (great fun)
6. A tale of two sisters (took me a few times to get it)
7. Terror Firmer (pickles..thats all i have to say)
8. Crazy Lips (every genre of movie crammed into 90min)
9. Porn ( thats it, it's just weird sometimes)
10. Holy Mountain

Some from older films, no real special effects, just great cut to cut editing:

In no real order...

1. The Exorcist, Crucifix (easy one here)
2. End to Looking for Mr. Goodbar (completely unexpected, young Tom Beringer)
3. Wild at Heart, David Lynch again, the dog running off with the man's arm.
4. Deliverance, Ned Beatty never live's it down. (Ouch!)
5. Silence of the Lambs, Jodie in the dark basement.
6. Altered States, (SFX here) William Hurt (sp?) bangs down the hall.
7. 2001 A Space Odyssey, (SFX) the near ending trip through the evolutionary cycles.
8. End to Electra Glide in Blue. (completely unexpected)
9. Fire In the Sky (SFX), when the dude wakes up inside the mothership, gooey.
10. Quinten's new pic, Hostile, yet to see it, but the description freaks me out.

Ah another "Electra Glide in Blue" fan!

It's Eli Roth's new movie, Quentin just exec produced. And it's Hostel. And it wasn't that great, it's just Eurotrip gone bad.

And I think the weirdest bit from a movie is actually from another Roth movie called Cabin Fever. Pancakes. That kung-fu kid. What was up with that?

The needle scene in Audition - that is one warped scene!

In no particular order:

1.) The attorney bursting from the bathroom in tighty-whities swinging a knife in Fear and Loathing.

2.) Alex de Large dueling with the plaster penis in Clockwork Orange.

3.) Alex being tormented on stage before the panel.

4.) The horse being dismembered in The Cell.

5.) The first hallucination in The Big Lebowski (with Saddam).

6.) The first fifteen minutes of Once Upon a Time in the West where the bad guys are just SITTING there.

7.) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - the whole thing.

8.) The drunken hallucination in Dumbo.

9.) The restaurant silencing in Vanilla Sky.

10.) The Stay-Puffed Marshmallow Man in Ghostbusters

Kiri kiri kiriiiiiii!!!!

Anyone see the movie 'Thursday'? There's a scene where Paulina Porizkova (aka 'Dallas') has Thomas Jane tied to a chair and is raping him in front of a picture of his wife....she's on something like her 10th orgasm when James LeGros walks up and blows the back of her head off.

Classic.

What a cool question. But I think it has mutated from being bizarre to being shocking; which are two different things, arent they ? Bizarre would be the Gimp in Pulp Fiction whereas Shocking would be 'The Crying Game' ?

I'll stick with the bizarre

Pulp Fiction - The Gimp Scene
House of a 1000 Corpses - After the girl dies and we experience her Hell and meeting with Satan
Meeting the Family in the original Tecas Chainsaw Massacre (especially when the grandpa is sucking on the blood of Marilyn Burns)
The entire collection of John Waters
The entire collection of David Lynch
A Clockwork Orange
Dead-Alive (Braindead)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Don't do that! I don't want to relive that scene any more! ;)

I like the end of "Battle Royale" with Takeshi Kitano (the teacher) and the cellphone.

"Battle Royale : Requiem" when Riki Takeuchi suddenly shows up dressed in his high school rugby uniform.

Takashi Miike's "Dead or Alive: Final" where the robot shows up at the end to rape two of the villains with its enormous robotic thing.

Takashi Miike's "Gozu". From when the cow head guy shows up to the end transformation 'birth' scene.

Takashi Miike's (see a trend here?) "Ichi the Killer". The entire movie. Really.

Many scenes from "7" and "8mm."

bizarre = frogs raining in magnolia

Pink Flamingos. The whole movie was bizzare and sick. I saw it on the campus of the Unversity Of Illinois in the early 70's. The part at the end!! I won't tell you incase you want to go rent it,,,,

Naked Lunch -- sex with typewriter.

Fantasia...

..all of it.
-Jon

[QUOTE=Keith Loh]I always recommend people see 'The Naked Prey' as an example of a film that is very single minded but also has a full range of character movement.

Wow! I thought I was the only one that admired that movie. The movie was really quite an achievement if you think about the difficulties of keeping story as gripping as it is. Been looking for the DVD.

Blue Velvet- the scene where the guy brings his girlfriend home only to be confronted by a naked Isabella Rosalini. Maybe it was too close to home because of some experiences in college...... :>/

Jeff P

I think we have a winner
 

"The scene" in Cache. I'll bet anybody who sees this movie will agree with me.

The Life of Bryan

Where he gets picked up and dropped off again by aliens after falling from the tower. Certainly beats landing on an awning or in a fruit vendor's bin, I guess.

Tampopo - The begining scene. Not so bizarre but yet bizzare enough.

Man shushes the theatre patrons (in the movie) and talks to the movie viewers (outside the screen) and explains we are watching his story, before he dies.

A great film about ramen. A story about ramen? That's bizarre but now I'm hungry.

Just off hand, one of the bizzarrest scenes is from "Bad Lieutenant" with Harvey Keitel.

"Oooooo----oooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!".

Slim and the Bomb
 

Slim Pickins, doing the emergency list check off in the B-52 in "Dr. Strangelove" "...one .45 automatic, condom, $50 in rubles...man I could have me a ball in Vegas..."

And...riding the bomb down at the conclusion of the flick.

One of Kubrick's first movies.

Not to be picky, but STRANGELOVE was well into Kubrick's career--around his seventh film, between LOLITA and 2001.

Kubrick
 

Good Call. Shudda said earlier instead of first.

Lolita was 1961
Strangelove was 1964

There are a number of internet film lists; looks like he made a total of 16 - including 3 shorts. The 1st short was made in 1950, called "Day of the Fight," The last was "Eyes Wide Shut according to Netflix list, and Amazon. Wasn't he working on a thing call "AI" when he died?

Still, I love 'ole Slim..

That was my recollection - I think the bulk of it was completed by Spielberg...other than some very nice cinematography and a 'robotically poetic' performance by Jude Law, I thought AI was only slightly better than Bicentennial Man which I thought was incredibly drawn out and hence grew dismally boring. I think Spielberg is an intensly creative filmmaker and a master imagry craftsman (after his fashion) but I think AI would have been a far superior film experience if it had been a purely Kubrick product.
Just my dime - (2 cents plus inflation)
-Jon

The opening scene in Titus where the kid with the bag over his head playing frantic table top war games had me going "...the hell?"

I love that scene (and the whole movie), but wouldn't put it on the "most bizzare" list... it's frighteningly real! ;-) Check out the recently released restoration on DVD, the documentary is excellent. I think this is a little closer to what Major Kong really says:

Trivia: originally the line said "a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas," which is what Slim recorded. But before the film was released JFK was shot and they decided the Dallas reference wasn't cool. Listen carefully and you'll hear where they overdubbed it with "Vegas".

Also, that part was originally to be played by Peter Sellers, but he was injured on the set and couldn't climb into the cramped cockpit so they brought Slim in at the last minute. The same accident led to Dr. Strangelove's wheelchair - talk about serendipity! And the glove which Stangelove wore was actually one which Kubrick kept around so he could focus lights himself - Sellers grabbed it and started clowning around. Like I said, the documentary on the DVD is full of good stuff :-)