10 Film Genres You Never Knew Existed

8. Bizarro

Examples include: Eraserhead (1977), Naked Lunch (1991), Escape from Tomorrow (2013), Tokyo Gore Police (2008) The unstable reality of bizarro is simply put, a nosedive into the stories of the weird; where the €˜je ne sais quois€™ is intensified into WTF. An outsider genre that has made the most waves in its written form, its roots can be traced in top-shelf cult films such as the gross-out odd world of David Lynch€™s Eraserhead and William Burroughs via David Cronenberg€™s Naked Lunch. If Alice was in her late teens when she fell into Wonderland, the warped; psychotic world she entered would be a typically Bizarro one. The owner of Eraserhead press, Rose O'Keefe pretty much defines the genre, suggesting €˜It clearly wasn€™t horror, science-fiction, fantasy, or even experimental fiction. The only real way to describe it would be: weird... It was like the kind of stuff that is common in the cult sections of video stores, with films such as Six String Samurai, Brazil, Repo Man, Pink Flamingos, Tromeo and Juliet, and David Lynch€™s Eraserhead.' Many other films can now be added to this list, such as Gummo; John Dies at the End and Rubber.