Most UNIQUE Movie You've Seen?

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

pretty unique

most unique

particularly unique

It's either unique or not unique, there is no sliding scale.

Do we mean distinctive?

[Dr Rock]

Some things are closer to being unique than others.

Anyway, Head.

[Absorb the anus burn]

Persona. Simply for the brutal editing choices.... The mid film burn out... A stiffy and crucifixion in the opening scene... No other vampire movie can come close to the psychological horror Bergman displays here.

[Bazooka]

La Jetée,  I mean I've probably seen something more off bat, but that came to mind.

[Dr Rock]

I Don't Want To Sleep Alone too.

And another vote for Under The Skin.

Remember Being John Malkovich? Reasonably unique I reckon.

[chveik]

The Wayward Cloud

[Magnum Valentino]

Tetsuo The Iron Man. That's an odd one.

[dissolute ocelot]

Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg and The Saddest Music In The World are both unique, and quite unlike each other despite a certain Maddin commonality. Also George Romero's Martin for its unique atmosphere even though there are other films with a similar idea. And Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

A couple of others which may be unique but maybe betray my lack of knowledge of east European cinema, Sergei Parajanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (not seen The Color of Pomegranates though) and Miklós Jancsó's Electra, My Love (an insane Euripedes adaptation shot in long takes with lots of anachronism, random naked people, giant balls, and other weirdness; it's apparently a defence of violent revolution which is also unusual.) I've not seen any other Jancsó and he seems to have made a lot of others, so maybe they're all like that.

(Do you want my essay on why "most unique" is ok? Everything in the universe is unique. If you want to use the word, you must mean particularly unique.)

[SteveDave]

Calvaire (The Ordeal) is pretty, eh, unique. Still haunts me ten years on from seeing it

I've just read the wiki

Spoiler alert

"one of them then briefly rapes Marc on the dining room table"

[close]

Briefly.

[SteveDave]

The Forbidden Zone It's a musical but it's a one-off.

[wasp_f15ting]

I can't recall the name of the film, but its one where a woman breast feeds a sentient baby tree.. one of you Sickos might remember what its called.

[Sin Agog]

I can't recall the name of the film, but its one where a woman breast feeds a sentient baby tree.. one of you Sickos might remember what its called.

Little Otik.  Seen him in the flesh.  Or in the bark.

[Barney Sloane]

Lisztomania.

[El Unicornio, mang]

I caught this one, The Baby (1973) on late night BBC2 when I was a kid and thought it was the most horribly bizarre thing I'd seen. I just couldn't comprehend it. Might come across more as standard 70s weird horror fare if I watched it now though.

[Johnboy]

Bad Boy Bubby

[wasp_f15ting]

Little Otik.  Seen him in the flesh.  Or in the bark.

That's the one !!

[MortSahlFan]

Bad Boy Bubby

Good one.

[druss]

Die Hard - it's an R rated action film but get this: it's set at Christmas.

[Mr Banlon]

The Greasy Strangler

[Cuntbeaks]

The Greasy Strangler

I really liked this, a bit try-hard, but Michael St.Michaels was superb.

For me, Head has to be the most unique film I've seen, even without psychedelics.

Freaks is also high up the list.

[studpuppet]

Sexmission

[AnOrdinaryBoy]

Love Exposure, one of the best four hour long Japanese movies about catholicism, upskirt photography, cross dressing and boners.

I was thinking to say the same film. The way it straddles through differing storylines and genres whilst maintaining a consistent narrative and tone is genuinely mesmerising to watch and all the more surprising given the absolute shit-fest that Japanese cinema has become since the turn of the century.

[Jerzy Bondov]

There's November, which opens with a rattling skull on a stick abducting a cow. Never seen that before.

[sutin]

The Forbidden Zone It's a musical but it's a one-off.

The Oingo Boingo movie! It was created as a goodbye to Boingo's first period as a musical street theatre group (called The Mystic Knights Of The Oingo Boingo). Agreed that there's nothing like it, Richard Elfman is a total maniac.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Tetsuo The Iron Man. That's an odd one.

all three of these films are equally odd and brilliant i recon

tokyo fist also

[Lord Mandrake]

Koyaanisqatsi.

[Johnny Textface]

Hard to be a God
Freddy Got Fingered
Husbands
2001 A Space Odyssey
Adaptation
Police Academy 8

[Sonny_Jim]

2001 A Space Odyssey

Ooh good one, although I would probably say 'Solaris' (the original one, not the remake).  2001 is a much greater accomplishment visually, but Solaris is slightly more unique.

Freddy Got Fingered

I've never seen this, I love shitty movies and Rip Torn, but I don't think I can stand Tom Green.  Plus I think most of the 'gags' have already been ruined for me due to countless clips I've seen over the years.

Police Academy 8

Is that 'Mission to Moscow'?  I wouldn't say it's unique, they made 7 other ones that are basically identical.

[greenman]

Hard to be a God

Certainly high up on the "unique" that I also consider one of my favourites, although I spose taking away from that Marketa Lazarova is a little along the same lines.

[Marner and Me]

Football Factory