Hey guys! I wasn't quite sure where to post this, but since the topic can apply to any era/genre, I went with the general folder. And yes, "WTF" does stand for "What the F*#k?
Arguably, just about any film by Jesus Franco (for the wrong reasons) or Aleandro Jordowosky (for the right reasons) could apply, but my vote would go to Dario Argento's 1984 film "Phenomena", better known stateside (at least back in the old vhs days) as "Creepers".
Although many of Argento's films have rarely been guilty of coherence or logic (or for that matter, much of the Italian horror/gialli output of the 70's-80's), "Phenomena" is in a class by itself: an amalgamation of the gialli/police procedural, "troubled telekinetic teen in a foreign school" (Stephen King's "Carrie" by way of Argento's own "Suspiria"), and the "nature strikes back" (the army of insects Jennifer Connelly's character is able to command) genres.
From the film's opening "pane of glass through the head" set-piece, to Connelly casually being thrown from a moving car (because she spurned the advances of two "Tears for Fears" rejects), to the insect attack on the academy, to the disfigured/mutated killer-child reveal, to the straight-razor wielding chimpanzee(!), and let's not forget the presence of Donald Pleasance as a "Sam Loomis-like" entomologist to lend "dignity" to the proceedings, and you have a film that you can't help but say "What the Fu*k?"
What's your pick?
Bryan
Arguably, just about any film by Jesus Franco (for the wrong reasons) or Aleandro Jordowosky (for the right reasons) could apply, but my vote would go to Dario Argento's 1984 film "Phenomena", better known stateside (at least back in the old vhs days) as "Creepers".
Although many of Argento's films have rarely been guilty of coherence or logic (or for that matter, much of the Italian horror/gialli output of the 70's-80's), "Phenomena" is in a class by itself: an amalgamation of the gialli/police procedural, "troubled telekinetic teen in a foreign school" (Stephen King's "Carrie" by way of Argento's own "Suspiria"), and the "nature strikes back" (the army of insects Jennifer Connelly's character is able to command) genres.
From the film's opening "pane of glass through the head" set-piece, to Connelly casually being thrown from a moving car (because she spurned the advances of two "Tears for Fears" rejects), to the insect attack on the academy, to the disfigured/mutated killer-child reveal, to the straight-razor wielding chimpanzee(!), and let's not forget the presence of Donald Pleasance as a "Sam Loomis-like" entomologist to lend "dignity" to the proceedings, and you have a film that you can't help but say "What the Fu*k?"
What's your pick?
Bryan
