Courtesy of 366 Weird Movies

A roundup and rundown of what’s happening now in bizarre cinema. For reviews, events, and festival coverage of the cinematically surreal, bizarre, cult, oddball, fantastique, strange, psychedelic, and the just plain WEIRD, check out 366WeirdMovies.com.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

In the Earth (2021): In the midst of a pandemic, two men find themselves lost in a deadly forest. Ben Wheatley‘s latest horror offering is, per Chris Evangelista of Slashfilm, “gross and weird and kind of wonderful.” We’ll surely review this one. In the Earth official site.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache (2019): A Buddhist monk tells an atheist entrepreneur who’s seeing visions that he must locate a “dakini” meeting the titular description. Not much info on this one but it shows a clear Apichatpong Weerasethakul influence, plus it’s a rare Nepalese-Mexican-Singaporean co-production. In virtual theaters now. Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache official site.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

About Endlessness (2019): The fourth part (not a misprint) of Roy Andersson‘s “Living” trilogy finally reaches these shores. A couple floating in the air watch over melancholy, absurdist vignettes. Available in select theaters and everywhere on VOD today. We’re on it. About Endlessness official site.

STREAMING:

Used and Borrowed Time (2020): An aging Jewish woman eats a magic pie and is transported to a past life when she was engaged in an interracial love affair in Jim Crow’s Alabama. It’s self-described as “avant-garde” and “surreal” and is over three hours long. Available on Amazon Prime (which treats it like a TV show and breaks it up into two episodes), Apple TV, and something called the Vyre Network; it will also debut theatrically at the Quad in NYC on May 7 (the awards-qualifying run). Used and Borrowed Time official website or watch on Amazon Prime.

IN DEVELOPMENT:

The Toxic Avenger (202?): Troma sold the rights to its most famous franchise to Legendary Pictures. Now, we’re not the biggest fans of Toxie, but there is little doubt that this will be a downgrade for the popular series. Jacob Tremblay and Peter Dinklage have joined the cast, and Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore) will write and direct.  Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz will be involved on the production side, but I wouldn’t expect any jokes at the expense of blind characters or gratuitous boob shots from the company that brought us Godzilla vs. Kong and the upcoming Dune; expect to see it go PG-13 (at best) instead, in the vein of the “Toxic Avenger” Saturday morning cartoon series. How the weird have fallen! More at Variety.

IN DEVELOPMENT:

Crimes of the Future (2022?): If that title sounds familiar, it’s because it has been used before, by David Cronenberg in 1970 for a one-hour experimental feature that has been reviewed on 366 Weird Movies. Now, more than 40 years later, and six years since he last directed (Maps to the Stars), the 78-year old Cronenberg remakes his low-budget sci-fi thriller about killer cosmetics on a grand scale, with Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart attached. Croney’s later films have lost the pervasive weirdness (and the grotesque body horror) of his twentieth century work, but here’s hoping this return to his roots hints at a return to form. More info via Indiewire.

Compiled by Amy M. Vaughn