Tuesday, October 1, 2013

50 Definitive Bizarro Films

These are the 50 films that I feel best represent and explain the genre of Bizarro. There are certainly many, many more films that could be considered Bizarro, including many of the others by filmmakers whose films I have included in this "Short List". Since this is a Short List, I've only selected the film of any given filmmaker that I feel is the most bizarre/best example of Bizarro.I've listed them chronologically.



  1. The Trial (1962)
  2. Barbarella (1968)
  3. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
  4. Greaser's Palace (1972)
  5. The Holy Mountain (1973)
  6. Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
  7. Desperate Living (1977)
  8. Eraserhead (1977)
  9. House/Hausu (1977)
  10. Forbidden Zone (1982)
  11. Videodrome (1983)
  12. Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
  13. Repo Man (1984)
  14. Brazil (1985)
  15. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
  16. Street Trash (1987)
  17. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
  18. Dr. Caligari (1989)
  19. Meet the Feebles (1989)
  20. The Reflecting Skin (1990)
  21. The Dark Backward (1991)
  22. Freaked (1993)
  23. Cabin Boy (1994)
  24. Cemetery Man (1994)
  25. City of Lost Children (1995)
  26. Eternal Evil of Asia (1995)
  27. Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
  28. Schizopolis (1996)
  29. Six String Samurai (1998)
  30. Being John Malkovich (1999)
  31. Breakfast of Champions (1999)
  32. Tuvalu (1999)
  33. Wild Zero (1999)
  34. The American Astronaut (2001)
  35. Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
  36. Uzumaki (2002)
  37. The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (2003)
  38. The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
  39. Palindromes (2004)
  40. Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)
  41. Blood Tea & Red String (2006)
  42. Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)
  43. Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
  44. Visioneers (2008)
  45. Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
  46. Helldriver (2010)
  47. Last Circus (2010)
  48. Rubber (2010)
  49. The Catechism Cataclysm (2011)
  50. John Dies at the End (2012)