by Wilson Holzhaeuser

What makes a movie weird?

We attach that label to so many films so often that it can often mean anything - from disturbing to whimsical to challenging to off putting. Some use it as simply a synonym for “bad” when they aren’t quite sure how to articulate what they dislike while others embrace anything superficially strange, holding up that strangeness as an accomplishment. If the term is going to be useful all of these readings cannot be correct. The word must hold content. What we need to do is determine what that content may be.