The Bizarre Ones (1968) User Reviews

Bizarre is the word for it...

[Flixer1957 · 4/10 · 19 January 2002]

**Possible Spoilers Ahead**

This is a little-known sex flick from Distripix, so obscure that it hasn't turned up in most reference books. In voice-over, a swinger named Deidre introduces herself and her kinky lifestyle. She leaves her pad for a drive in the country and picks up a hitchhiker. She handcuffs and humiliates him, then drives to a farmhouse where some S&M doings are in full swing. For the next hour or so Deidre and her friends titillate, tie up and dominate each other using everything from blindfolds and candles to bondage machinery. Most of this takes place to sitar music which is pretty bizarre in itself. Three of the women are well-stacked, without an ounce of silicone in sight. The hitchhiker finally gets loose and he's mighty p***ed off, leading to a shocking and violent ending. There's little plot and no point to this movie and it's not particularly well-made. However, this little black and white sleazer gets under your skin, rather like a deer tick, and once you see it you'll never ever forget it.

Bizarre, as the title suggests

[The_Void · 5/10 · 7 February 2008]

Well...where do I start? This film has the word 'bizarre' in the title, and that's pretty fitting. The film is completely weird and seemingly pointless to boot, though on an aesthetic level, it's worthy of some note. The Bizarre Ones was clearly made on a shoestring and it does show, although the tacky black and white cinematography actually does it something of a favour as it gives the film a certain bizarre style that bodes well with the bizarre plot. The plot focuses on sex, in particular S&M. The film features a dominatrix looking for someone to turn her on. She comes across a hitchhiker and decides to get him tied up, then she and some other dominatrix's tie up and dominate one another. I would rate the film as an interesting watch if not a fruitful one, and definitely not an essential one. The film isn't notable for its sleaze, sex or violence levels; though all three do feature. The women are nice looking and the film is at least memorable. The film is obscure for a good reason and I wouldn't recommend anyone goes out of their way to find a copy of this; but it's not bad and is recommended to fans of this sort of stuff.

"I'm a swinger."

[The_Rascal_Multitude · 5/10 · 8 November 2008]

"The Bizarre Ones" is an obscure black and white sexploitation flick from the late sixties, involving a self-described swinger named Diedre. The plot involves Diedre picking up a hitch hiker, restraining him with handcuffs, and bringing him to a house nearby where some, well, "bizarre" events are taking place, including a mostly naked woman who is tied down and tormented with candles. The hitch hiker finds himself involved in this vanilla S&M weirdness. Later on, two of Diedre's friends become angry with her after finding her doing something with the female prisoner (I saw this film a while ago, and don't remember exactly what made them angry, if anything significant). They tie her to the roof of the car, and drive down to a river. It's around this time that the hitch hiker decides to take matters into his own hands, which leads to the particularly weird ending, which you're going to have to see for yourself.

I was given a secondhand copy of this on VHS produced by Something Weird video, who I believe are the only ones currently peddling this obscure piece of sleaze anymore. Honestly, the film itself wasn't that interesting, but the movie was made a bit better by the fact that there was a lot of truly awful "grindhouse" type trailers tacked unto the end of the film. Thank you, SWV, for rescuing these films from the collective memory hole.

Deliciously skewed, frequently far out 1960s silliness!

[Weirdling_Wolf · 8/10 · 23 March 2021]

If grotty, Sitar-slathered prurience is your insalubrious thing then Ron Sullivan's profoundly unattractive but perversely satisfying trip into the funk-focused domain of way out, heroically cackling hippies and their groovily emancipated, far from emaciated VW beetle-bound chicks and their naughty boy's rustically home-made, funky-looking pleasure contraptions might just be your ticket to ride!!!

Aptly named, 'The Bizarre Ones' is a consistently crude, ill natured, uproariously absurd, frequently denuded B/W 'roughie' by a wonderfully transgressive filmmaker who laudably dispenses with anything quite so cumbrous as narrative and luridly sets up innumerably static scenes of rope-tied, blind-folded alfresco shenanigans, where prototypical late 60s drugged-out beatniks cavort hedonistically in and about their grotty, bucolic love shack, gleefully satisfying all their myriad rarefied kicks in a singularly strange, almost banal fashion which paradoxically gives this obscure, supremely grainy confection of remarkably pulchritudinous hippie hip-shakers and their clumsy exploits rather more outré charm than it probably deserves.

And I most certainly didn't realize how much I needed to watch an inauspiciously fashioned 'film' that actively promoted the somewhat esoteric, hitherto obscure peccadillo of a mutually satisfying licorice string banquet, a masticatory act celebrated in a confounding, matter of fact manner so deliciously skewed that it reduces the more exploratory digressions of Eraser head to nothing more than the asinine B-movie bungling of a precocious art school dilettante!