Strange Movies

  • Mulholland Drive
    Universal Studios

    Haunting, beautiful, mesmerizing... and creepy. One reviewer described it like this: you know how sometimes you just love a song, even though you don't really understand what it's about? This movie is like that. You will never fully understand it, but you just want to watch it over and over again.

    An aspiring actress discovers a woman in her aunt's Hollywood apartment. The woman has amnesia. Searching her purse for some identity, they discover a lot of money.... and a single blue key.

    This movie never goes where you think it will go, nothing is set in stone, and even the characters' names aren't a given from one scene to the next. This may be David Lynch's best film.

     
  • Memento
    Columbia Tri-Star

    If you want a good, summer popcorn thriller that lets you put your mind on autopilot... this is not it. If you like your movies to work your brain like a good Sunday crossword, then read on.

    This film is an instant masterpiece of filmmaking. The story is told in reverse, but just because you know the ending at the beginning doesn't mean there aren't twists involved. The lead character has the inability to make new memories, and the audience is put in that same mindset with the reversed storyline. HE doesn't know what happened ten minutes ago, and because the movie plays backward, neither do we. It's a brilliant move by the director, and with each unfolding scene, we are forced to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew up to that point. Friends turn out to be adversaries... or do they? Things you were SURE of turn out to be false, and stuff you didn't believe was true ends up as gospel. By the time you get to the beginning (which is at the end), the story throws you such a twist that you will have a hard time resisting the urge to reach for the remote and watch it again.

     
  • Pink Floyd - The Wall
    Sony/Columbia

    Eerie, touching, and depressing. Roger Waters' visionary album The Wall tells its story in a feature film. It is a tour-de-force for Bob Geldof, who plays the lead character Pink. It seems that Pink is sitting in a hotel room going insane. His life has been a wreck, his brain messed up on chemicals and depression, and his friends seem to only use him. His father was killed in the war and his mother is overprotective. His spiral into insanity is a trip we'll take with him, and it's not a pretty one. Disturbing, yet fascinating portrayal of a life in darkness.

     
  • Strange Days
    Twentieth Century Fox

    It's the turn of the century, New Year's Eve 1999.... OK, so the movie is dated. Still, the story line is twisted, the action is terrific, and the performances are top notch. Nice twists, gritty look, and some great camerawork (check out the LONG scene at the beginning with no camera cuts!) make this one a keeper.