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- DirectorRené LalouxStarsBarry BostwickJennifer DrakeEric BauginOn a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.A simple way to confuse your brain right off the bat is to subvert the role of humans. Fantastic Planet is a story about the human race co-existing with giant blue humanoid creatures on another planet; although, co-existing implies a sort of symbiotic relationship. The giant blue creatures on this planet (named Draags) keep the human beings (known as Oms) as pets.
This all takes in what looks like a Salvador Dali painting. The freedom that animation allows, gave the animators and directors working on this film the ability to create a hyper-stylized place full of brilliant blues, reds, and yellows.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/#ixzz4Qw7628WE - DirectorMarcell JankovicsStarsGyörgy CserhalmiVera PapGyula SzabóIn this dreamlike Hungarian folk myth, a horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom.An absolutely unbelievable, grandiose idea that offers no explanation or justification. It’s a folk tale. That is the justification. This is a beautiful picture from Marcell Jankovics and Pannónia Filmmstúdió in Hungary. Son of the White Mare (that’s what the name translates to literally) goes on a quest seeking to rip trees out of the ground and free three princesses who have been kept in the underworld. Sort of a standard monomyth.
What is far from standard is the animation and sound design in this picture. It is a breathtaking, psychedelic masterpiece. Nearly seizure inducing levels of movement and warping; everything so fluidly moving from one scene to the next. Lots and lots of sexual undertone, displays of masculinity and femininity, beard growing and shaving. The terrain changes, mountains get chop-punched in half; iron is made soft like clay.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/#ixzz4Qw7ElSp3 - DirectorFaith HubleyJohn HubleyStarsDizzy GillespieLinda AtkinsonSam HubleyEarth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.The Hubley duo, consisting of John and Faith were an animating powerhouse in the 1960s and 70s. When John passed, Faith continued on her own, working with Storyboard Studios, the company they founded together.
The Cosmic Eye is a film that came after John’s death and an extremely personal one at that. Preaching a message of peace using colorful and mind expanding animation techniques. The Cosmic Eye is a more a message than it is a film. A melancholy love letter to the human race.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/#ixzz4Qw7LD4Wa - DirectorRalph BakshiStarsBob HoltJesse WellesRichard RomanusOn a post-apocalyptic Earth, a wizard and his faire folk comrades fight an evil wizard who's using technology in his bid for conquest.This is like a late 70s arcade game in movie form. This is Ralph Bakshi’s first fantasy, dabbling before in animated films like Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic. It’s set in a futuristic, medieval Earth that has spawned all kinds of new and weird species. Propaganda fuels a new wave of war and hate in a place that is reminiscent of Hitler’s Germany. This is not the only film in this list that uses nuclear holocaust as a main player.
Wizards is the classic battle between good and evil. Just like at the arcade, the audience is given a very clear target. It’s about two brothers, Avatar and Blackwolf. They fight on the scorched Earth, one on a mission for power the other a mission for peace. There’s even a robot named Peace. It’s a bit heavy handed with all the nuclear rhetoric. It’s a far out and dark vision, one that was probably more relatable after the atomic scare in the 60s.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/#ixzz4Qw7TKm60 - DirectorMamoru OshiiStarsMako HyôdôJinpachi NezuKeiichi NodaA mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.The first Japanese film on this list but certainly not the last. Japan is well known for their weird and wonderful cartoons known as anime. Angel’s Egg is one film in a whole genre featuring dark, almost completely black landscapes. Blending science fiction with fantasy is a thing that the Japanese have been doing for a long time. Angel’s Egg is a very heady and progressive feature from 1985.
There’s hardly any dialogue in Angel’s Egg. It shows instead of tells, a technique that will definitely turn some people off. It’s a film that works for your attention, and if you’re not willing to give it 100%, you are going to miss a lot.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/#ixzz4Qw7gAl8w - DirectorDaisuke NishioHirotoshi RissenLeiji MatsumotoStarsRomanthonyThomas BangalterA continuation of the story told in the Daft Punk music videos "One More Time," "Aerodynamic," "Digital Love," and "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger."Time to party Daft Punk fans. It only makes perfect sense to combine the biggest name in French electronic music with a pop-y, fun, animated style. It all comes together to form the visual accompaniment for one of Daft Punk’s most acclaimed albums, Discovery.
Due to its nature, the film itself doesn’t have much of a narrative. But what it lacks in story it makes up for in style. It crafts a unique look that matches the soundtrack so well, it seems the pair were made together. In some very jazzy space station in another galaxy; a galaxy where dance parties are mandatory and electronic music reigns supreme.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/#ixzz4Qw7n96Dh - DirectorChris SullivanStarsNancy AndrewsChris SullivanJudith RafaelConsuming Spirits is an independent feature animation chronicling the lives of three characters who live in a rust belt town called Magguson, and work at its local newspaper The Daily Suggester. They are: Gentian Violet 42, Victor Blue 38, and Earl gray 64. At first, they appear to be acquaintances, but as the film unfolds, we find they have a long diabolical history revolving around social service intervention, foster care, romance, and hatred. Each character has family secrets to hide and family secrets to discover. An auto accident one dark and inebriated night causes a crack in the memory vault of these intimate strangers. By films end all parties walk from the woods, both healed and wounded.This is a fairly young movie that unfortunately hasn’t been given the audience it deserves. It’s a movie that demands to be seen on a cool, foggy night in a cemetery, projected on the side of a mausoleum. Adjectives to describe this movie include, creaky, creepy, cold, damp, musty, smelly, and stale. It’s a tale of bus drivers and heavy drinkers, wandering deer and floating crows. Set in a backwoods town where dark secrets are swept under the rug.
What set Consuming Spirits apart are its techniques. It uses stop motion cutout, stop motion modeling, and simple pencil and paper animation. It was over fifteen years in the making. All working together to craft this story that you can practically smell coming off the screen. The textures give this movie a pulse, albeit one that’s faintly beating. Closer to death than comfortable.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/#ixzz4Qw825AjK - DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsEthan HawkeTrevor Jack BrooksLorelei LinklaterA man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.This is brain-changing fuel in its purest form. Just a good, hearty, philosophical discussion to wake you up and question your entire existence. Another film on the list that uses a unique animation technique; here we see rotoscoping, also used in Linklater’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly. It’s basically an animated mat laid over the top of real people acting on screen. It gives a trippy, out of body effect to the film.
Linklater has always been known for addressing big issues. Waking Life gets down right away to some serious questions about our consciousness, our dreams, and our lives.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/#ixzz4Qw87FWix - DirectorBruno BozzettoStarsMaurizio NichettiMaurizio MicheliMarialuisa GiovanniniAn enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he's come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named "Prisney" (or something) has already done it, he decides to do his own version, using an orchestra comprising mostly old ladies and an animator he's kept locked in a dungeon. Several different classical pieces are animated, while the animator plots his escape.Allegro Non Troppo is a parody of Disney’s Fantasia. That alone tells a lot about this film’s weirdness. Fantasia itself is sort of a magic mushroom experience set to classical music.
Allegro uses similar great classical composers like Debusey and Vivaldi to preach its message of life. A tongue in cheek gag that runs Fantasia’s themes of life and optimism into the ground. In 30 years since Fantasia, a lot those expectations shown in the Disney film have been found to be false promises. Life doesn’t always give you ballerina hippos.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/2/#ixzz4Qw8HmFr7 - DirectorStéphane AubierVincent PatarStarsStéphane AubierJeanne BalibarNicolas BuysseCowboy and Indian's only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse's birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they'll need to travel the world and back to make things right again.Someone accidentally dropped psychedelic drugs in a toy box. Everything comes to life, starts moving around, and speaking French. The cute factor outweighs the weirdness really and lends itself to a very fun experience. But that doesn’t stop it from changing the way you look at animation. It’s a really interesting use of stop motion and found objects.
A lot of the bigger studios need to take note. Not everything has to make sense all the time. Kids like when things don’t make sense. At least little weird kids who grow up to be artists do. Too many animated films these days are so structured; the idea of what constitutes a film is burned into little brains by the age of five or six. A Town Called Panic is a film that doesn’t worry about telling a logical story. When everything makes sense, you hurt the immersion and the experience.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/2/#ixzz4Qw8QJdgM - DirectorEiichi YamamotoStarsAiko NagayamaChinatsu NakayamaMasaya TakahashiAfter being raped by an evil feudal lord and subsequently getting banished from her village, a peasant girl makes a pact with the Devil to gain magical powers and take her revenge.Possibly the most sexually charged film on the list; thanks given to the warped minds at Japanese animation studio, Mushi Production. It was never intended to sit well with a general audience, as it’s much too explicit to appeal to a large percentage of the population. There are however, those that will find the sexual deviant nature of the film enticing.
The animation certainly stands out as something different and exciting; combining still images with traditional animation technique. It’s full of color, most notably red, the color of blood shown as bodies are torn apart. Belladonna of Sadness isn’t something for everyone, but it finds a comfy home on this list.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/2/#ixzz4Qw8WriFU - DirectorMarcell JankovicsStarsGyörgy CserhalmiAnikó NagyErzsi PártosA traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young shepherd through love, war, magic and death.The second Jankovics film on the list is his first feature. In a similar vein to Son of the White Mare, Jankovics is most interested in combining folklore with non-traditional, modern animation techniques.
Animation and colors that take from the 1960s and the flower power movement. But it doesn’t feel like a rip-off of that San Francisco scene, Jankovics genuinely feels like his own artist. Making stuff that no other person has the ability to make, seeing forms and humans in a different way. The style of this film is the kind of thing you watch once and never forget. Seeing his images all around in every day life, re-thinking how things move and work.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/2/#ixzz4Qw8fIfWK - DirectorShôji KawamoriStuart J. LevyStarsShirô SanoMariko KôdaChikao ÔtsukaThe story of Kenji Miyazawa, the beloved Japanese poet, who also wrote Night on the Galactic Railroad.Spring and Chaos is a film dedicated to the life of poet Kenji Miyazawa. Of course, he is depicted as a cat in this made for TV film project. Everyone in this film is depicted as a cat, which makes perfect sense and doesn’t leave any room for questions. It’s one of the more recent films on this list, taking advantage of some CGI and cell shading animation that isn’t seen in and wasn’t available to earlier films.
While this film may not be as brain shredding as some of the other really far out psychedelic experiences, it will stick with you. It’s the message of living with passion and being possessed by ideas that’s the focal point. It’s a love letter to a poet who died at the age of 37, long before his work could be recognized for its merit. Made and released on the 100th anniversary of the artist’s death.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/2/#ixzz4Qw8ktY00 - DirectorTatsuo SatôMasaaki YuasaA young anthropomorphic cat goes on a psychedelic journey with his sister in order to save her soul.This is an adaptation of a manga, which can be a common trait among weird films. Somehow, Japan has found huge success through subversive, dark comics; often prominently featuring sex, violence, and death. Not many other cultures are so enamored with this type of animation for adults so it’s easy to conclude that many of the strangest of these films will come from Japan.
Cat Soup is the story of white cats (another common theme from Japan). Many interpretations are available but at it’s simplest it’s a tale that starts with a cat drowning in a bath tub and moving through sort of a death hallucination involving the cat’s older sister.
It’s only 34 minutes long, which makes it a great option to expose those who are unfamiliar with the morbid side of anime. Death is of course a reoccurring theme, and the soundtrack and style suit it nicely. With no spoken words, this is also an excellent example of how “silent” films can still work in today’s film world
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/2/#ixzz4Qw8wEHuK - DirectorHenry SelickStarsPaul TerryJoanna LumleyPete PostlethwaiteAn orphan who lives with his two cruel aunts befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.Henry Selick’s best-known film is without a doubt, A Nightmare Before Christmas. That movie definitely has it’s own baggage and weirdness that could probably make the basis for a nice long thesis paper. The film he made directly after that, however, has advantages in certain departments. James and the Giant Peach is a more surreal vision. Based on the Roald Dahl story of a boy and some critters that fly on a giant peach on a quest to New York.
This Tim Burton-esuqe piece of work is something that could only succeed in the stop motion world. Stop motion by its very nature is unsettling. Seeing real objects manipulated onscreen to make up animated movements tricks our brain into a weird state of acceptance. Accepted are the strange peach flight crew and their mission. When the Giant Rhino emerges from the clouds to do battle, a real fear is conjured up. Many a nightmare was surely produced by this film being marketed exclusively to children.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/2/#ixzz4Qw93YnWL - DirectorDon HertzfeldtStarsRobert MayJennifer NyholmDon HertzfeldtA hilarious collection of animated television commercials that were rejected because of their creator's failing grip on sanity.The style found here is probably most recognizable from a series of Pop-Tart ads of late. This is simply Don Hertzfeldt messing around and coming up with stupid stuff to draw. Such quotable lines come from this little comedy like, “My spoon is too big.” And, “My anus is bleeding.” This was eventually what got Hertzfeldt recognized and got the attention of Mike Judge. The two went on to make an equally weird commentary on animation in The Animation Show.
The film itself stems from the creation of The Animation Show, a touring film festival of short animated pieces designed to get animators off of the Internet and into the theater. The Animation Show short film, which is about eight minutes long, is itself a satire that is the two comedians adhering to no structure.
Anyways, Rejected is the film that started this movement. And a film that got guys like Hertzfeldt who were into drawing stick figures out into the mainstream. Teaching that great animation doesn’t always look pretty.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/2/#ixzz4Qw999hHc - DirectorJohn HubleyStarsAlvin EpsteinJudith CoburnRay HubleyShow is an animated tracing of the eight stages of life, from infancy to old age, as they have been described in the works of psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson.nother adventure undertaken by the Hubleys. Everybody rides the carousel is simply about growing up. It details 8 stages of developmental growth in humans and breaks them down into nice little bite size chunks everyone can absorb. Most notable for featuring Meryl Strep as a voice actress in the sixth stage of life, Young Adulthood. That time of your life when you come into your own and begin to open up to the possibility of sharing your life with another person.
The Hubleys always tackle the biggest, broadest topics it seems. But they made them fun, put a spin on some really serious stuff to make it seem like it wasn’t so serious after all. Everybody Rides the Carousel is a colorful, joyful little film that perfectly exemplifies their style. It takes an actual physical carousel and turns it into a metaphor for life.
The philosophy itself has been taken from Erik Erikson’s philosophy of development. Bonus knowledge: John Hubley worked on another one of the films in this list. Fantasia.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/2/#ixzz4Qw9GfpQS - DirectorGeorge DunningStarsPaul McCartneyGeorge HarrisonRingo StarrThe Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his yellow submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music-hating Blue Meanies.“We all live in a yellow submarine.” This is straight up, The Beatles on acid. The track itself was coming off of Revolver, which is generally regarded as the Beatle’s LSD album (along with Sgt Pepper of course). This came right after their pot album Rubber Soul. The Beatles were on to more serious drugs and more serious and existential works. Their music suggested you turn off your mind and float down the river.
Yellow Submarine is still one of the trippiest animations to come out of the late 1960s and that’s saying a lot. Perfectly paired with The Beatles music from the time, this film is vibrant, explosive, and very colorful. The film exudes the warmth of psychedelic drugs and for the most part, avoids the evils. Keeping the trip a good one through the duration.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/3/#ixzz4Qw9NneeT - DirectorKatsuhiro ÔtomoStarsMitsuo IwataNozomu SasakiMami KoyamaA secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics.No list of adult-oriented, freaky animated movies would be complete without the infamous, Akira. Akira is one of the first mainstream anime films to contain graphic violence. And graphic is putting it lightly. But that’s not even the really the most disorienting part of this film.
That comes later when nightmares enter into the real world and affect our main character. Body parts are blown off and re-generate, stuffed animals grow and begin to haunt the scene. It’s all revolving around New Tokyo, a super futuristic city run by gangs that have a penchant for property damage.
Akira is all about psychic energy and telepathy. It’s about physically manipulating the environment around you with your mind and the danger that can be associated with a powerful mind. The powerful and extremely creative minds behind the film adaptation of Akira didn’t think twice about the safety of their viewers.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/3/#ixzz4Qw9Ux0cD - DirectorRené LalouxStarsGlenn CloseChristopher PlummerPierre-Marie EscourrouAn evil force begins to destroy the idyllic paradise of Gandahar, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.Rene Laloux is back for a second time on this list with Gandahar, his final film. Also known as Metal Men, sometimes also known as Light Years, this was one that actually got a bit of attention in the United States. The English version was directed by Harvey Weinstein and produced by Bob Weinstein.
Isaac Asimov, the science fiction author was also involved in the process of translating the English version. The film is about a peaceful people who get attacked by metal men. Of course, these people don’t live on our Earth, they live on the bizzarro planet aptly named, Gandahar.
It features all kinds of species and creatures that look they may have spawned from some half-baked toddler’s drawings. The life on the planet is an immediate clue that this is a film thought up by a group of people with wild imagination.
This is yet another film that takes on life’s greatest issues. Animation is the perfect medium for exploring life’s biggest problems. Nothing is every really at stake, especially when you are exploring them on a planet far, far, away. There is complete freedom to dream up entire civilizations that conform exactly to a lesson that needs to be taught. Gandahar explores the need for peaceful society in a modern age and the tragedy of war. A story that might hit too close to home if it was in a familiar setting.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/3/#ixzz4Qw9d4Ubt - DirectorKeita KurosakaStarsSayaka SuzukiRina YukiChicapanA woman strives to engineer a dream-food that can put a stop to the famine that has lain waste to a dystopian, near future Tokyo.Tokyo makes a great setting for dystopian, apocalyptic future. You have so much going on that just looks excellent when you lay it to waste. This is another film that puts itself in that setting, showing the city on the brink of collapse in muted colored pencil.
Taking ten years to complete, this 55-minute film was completed by a single person, Japanese animator, Kurosaka Keita. Obviously a labor of love and a personal project. That element of oneness really is on display as the film feels like it was made from a single nightmare. A terror of starvation and of appetite, emptiness is a feeling that comes to mind after viewing.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/3/#ixzz4Qw9jFcwt - DirectorGerald PottertonJohn BrunoJohn HalasStarsRichard RomanusJohn CandyJoe FlahertyA glowing green orb that embodies ultimate evil terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories.A tongue-in-cheek cartoon, the tagline here being, “A Step Beyond Science Fiction”. This is an extremely silly attempt at recreating a popular comic book for the screen. Worked on by several different animation studios simultaneously to rush a the release forward, it definitely lacks any sort of cohesiveness.
It’s full of violence and nudity and was exactly what people wanted in 1981. It made around $20,000,000 dollars and has gone on to become a cult classic. The 80s were really a strange time in the world of animation.
Not many people would argue that this is actually a well-made film. But it has redeeming qualities that set it apart. The animation coming from several different places ends up being really interesting to look at. The soundtrack is absolutely 80s and fits perfectly with the nutso pictures onscreen. Most importantly you have a some comedians (a couple who are no longer with us) that make this thing stand out. John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Harold Ramis all grace the work with their voice
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/3/#ixzz4Qw9ouYLo - DirectorWan LaimingCheng TangStarsYue-Feng QiuRun-Sheng FuHans AlfredsonSun Wukong, the King of the Monkeys, sets off on his first adventure to gain a worthy weapon. This earns the attention of the Jade Emperor of Heaven.Sometimes called Havoc in Heaven, this is one of the most popular Chinese films and the only one on this list. The Monkey King is based upon the works of the Ming Dynasty and features a score reminiscent of the Peking Opera.
It is quintessentially a Chinese film. There aren’t a whole lot of films to come out of the country in the 1960s and even less that are such great examples of creative animation. The Monkey King has stood the test of time and remains an international treasure.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-weird-animated-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/3/#ixzz4Qw9vTjC2 - DirectorJerry ReesStarsJon LovitzTimothy StackTimothy E. DayA group of dated appliances embark on a journey to the city to find their master after being abandoned in a cabin in the woods.The Brave Little Toaster is a favorite for many in Generation Y. Someone had gotten sick of animated talking dog and cat movies for children and thought it a better idea to draw up talking household appliances. A precursor to so many animated films seen today; this film was worked on by several of the founding Pixar employees.
The life brought into these typically “dead” pieces of everyday life was extremely liberating. Children had known all along that a thing did not need to be alive to give it a voice. The animators finally nailed down that role of exceptional imagination and turned out a fantastic film.
But The Brave Little Toaster isn’t all sunshine and talking electric blankies. The film gets real dark. Toaster and his friends are on a quest to find their master, the guy who keeps them all in operation and happy. Whether the appliances are in the scary woods or the scary junkyard, the choice to use appliances instead of living creatures gave the animators the freedom to rip them apart; onscreen in front of children.
While this may have been horrific, it only serves to further enforce the lessons the film is teaching. It taught a lesson of friendship, family, and being kind to everyone you come across no matter what their shape or size. The most important lesson that can be taught to our children.
Author Bio: Ben Sprowl is currently living and working in Los Angeles. He has been editing video for the past 10 years or so; studied film and video production at Ball State University
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