6 Crazy-Looking Movies You've Never Heard Of (Fall 2017)

What you're looking at are mere bits from the awesome trailer for The Road Movie, a soon-to-be-released film that's one big compilation of Russian road rage incidents. Described as being "as much humor as tragedy" by director Dmitry Kalashnikov, the film is a long montage of all the best that the internet has to offer. Seriously, that's what this film is, as reviews note the total absence of additional commentary and music in it. It's nothing but uninterrupted, unblinking folly. A "world's greatest" of humanity's most baffling dashcam moments, featuring such classic hits as "I'm Gonna Throw This Hammer At You" by Old Angry Guy ...

Voila Films
You might think he gave up his only weapon, but he has an entire quiver of hammers right out of frame.

... and "Look, Absolutely Everything's On Fire" by Satan, Probably:

Voila Films
"Goddammit, I want the meteor back."

Not sure I get a vote, but if we had to show aliens only one film, I feel like this should be the one. It's clearly the only way to ensure their total, unconditional surrender.

If you're wondering, the movie is about a service that offers a high-luxury life to middle-class people, just by reducing their size. It makes sense, right? The way talking Disney mice work off a cheese-and-crumb economy, smaller people require fewer resources and therefore can afford more scaled-down space. A $20 dollhouse to us gigantos is a millionaire mansion to them.

The film follows a working-class couple selling off their assets to live in "Leisure Land," a tiny housing community where a little goes a long way. While the new trailer shows some of the awesome details, ten minutes were screened at CinemaCon, showing Damon and Wiig as they undergo the shrinking process, which involves shaving off all their body hair and removing any foreign metals ...

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

... and then scooping them up with spatulas and jump-starting their new life of luxury dollhouses and comically oversized binge drinking.

Paramount Pictures

The rest of the film remains a delightful mystery, and frankly could go in any goddamn direction. Considering the director, for all we know, the rest of the story is a sorrowful look at middle age and the struggles of marriage ... only tiny.

Tremendous. With such disgusting creature work, this films sure reminds me of The Thing, if the Antarctic horror took place in the way less habitable environment of goddamned Minnesota. According to the official website, the plot follows a woman and her child forced to fend off the spreading frogpocalypse caused by environmental damage. And don't worry, if caring for Mother Nature doesn't get you going, the POV monster chases promised in the trailer will surely splooge your disgusting horror glands.

Ojala Productions

Ojala Productions
It's like Jaws, but if the shark was a frog. What's not to fucking love?

Ryan Prows is one such challenger, as his new film Lowlife has been heavily described as being "Tarantino-esque" by critics who have witnessed its limited screenings. While I can't personally make a judgement on that (also, comparing directors to their closest tonal processors seems dumb), there's certainly a face-value uniqueness to Lowlife's trailer. See if you can spot which faces in particular have such value ...

The Salt Company

The Salt Company

The Salt Company
"It's gonna be a maze when it's done."

That's right, all of them. All of the faces are amazing, and offer the wide gamut of odd scubwad. You got your lucha mask sociopath, your retired porn producer mustache ... everything all the way to happy Nazi face. Look how happy that man is to have a swastika on his face. It's as if the Fuhrer himself whispered good-natured nothings into every breeze that passed his Nazi ears.

In case you care about the plot, the film follows a series of interweaving vignettes featuring such colorful characters as a rogue ICE agent and the failed son of a legendary luchador named El Monstruo. This man never removes his mask and is hilariously prone to blackout bouts of serious violence. According to critics, his rage sequences often start with a high-pitched whine before cutting to him surrounded by punished corpses, like he's Jason Voorhees on a Robitussin bender.

The Salt Company
Martes 13.

It's violence, definitely. Stupid, mean-spirited violence that includes but isn't limited to sex slavery and skull-imploding. If that sort of thing gets your foot in the door, then I highly suggest giving this macabre bastard a whirl.

Look at that trippy shit. It's the type of dark ambient artistry you'll instantly regret taking acid to. I love it.

Coming from studio A24 (Ex Machina, Enemy, Under The Skin, The Rover, Room, The Witch, Green Room, The Lobster, Moonlight, It Comes At Night, THE LIST GROWS EVERY YEAR), the movie is apparently about a young woman in severe mourning who turns to a strong cannabinoid substance to ease her emotional pain. Her grief is then visualized in psychedelic woodsy sequences, as if Bob Ross painted on mescaline.

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"Now we're going to paint a happy little tree and some pine cone testicles that unceasingly scream with incomprehensible horror of Hell."

Just to level with you, I have no idea if this film has a coherent plot. For all I know, it might be the Slytherin love child of Lars von Trier and Terrence Malick. If that's not your particular bag, then you might want to hold off on this one. But for the rest of you brave soldiers looking for some kind of woodland grief Fantasia, it's time to get the hell in line.

THAT'S IT! That's the whole damn clip! It then cuts to an A24 logo (which you have probably realized I have a major hard-on for at this point), and we're left wondering what the fuck we just saw. Well, I did a little more digging, and found Exhibit B to be this radical goddamn poster:

A24
Look, it can't be worse than the last time we had a rapper leaning against a motorcycle on the poster.

So now we know two things: 1) It's called Slice, and 2) Chance the Rapper plays a motorcycle delivery person. We also know that it's directed by Chance's music video collaborator Austin Vesely, was shot in Chicago, and features How Did This Get Made's Paul Scheer. That's all awesome, but so far it's not quite enough to wag your tits at -- but we're also not done by a long shot. It turns out that back in 2015, Vesely gave an interview about the early concept for a movie based on a George Saunders novella. In that interview, he described a character named Dax Lycander, a Chinese food deliveryman who lives in an alternate universe where "supernatural elements" are "accepted as reality." Such elements include things like ghosts who are "basically part of the fabric of the government" and melonfucking werewolves. Chance the Rapper was named to be playing Dax -- who, by the way, is a werewolf himself.

Oh, and somehow the weirdest part of all: The director described it as a "plot-driven" story inspired by Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, only "goofier." What the goddamn hell is this movie, guys. It has werewolves and ghosts, but is also story-focused and silly. Is this a Harry Potter spinoff? Why are we getting so little information about it? How is the world not talking exclusively about this? I don't care what terrible news is happening in the world when you read this, if #ChanceTheMysteryWerewolf isn't trending on Twitter, then I've lost all faith in this country.

If you're Chance the Rapper or Paul Scheer, please tell David what the hell this movie is about on his Twitter.

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