"Weird" is an increasingly elusive topic these days, since the horror and fantasy genre have been growing increasingly popular and diverse recently. Weird has become someone or another's normal. I watched Cabin In The Woods, however, and got a pretty good taste of what could be considered weird. The film features a relatively generic plotline for a horror flick, but is colored sporadically with inventive demons and villains, some of which are a fresh take on old tropes.
Though not a horror film, I also recently re-watched the film Brazil, which definitely approaches the definition of weird. A blue collar desk worker for a vague government industry meets a supposed terrorist who exposes him to the real beauty of life and takes him on a journey that he's been dreaming about for a long time. It's somewhat unclear to the viewer how much of the film actually happens and what happens in the character's dream-world, but it's very Bowie-esque weird.
I'm not sure what I'd call weird anymore, though. It used to be the grotesque, the uncomfortable, but now it's turned into whatever is merely unexpected. What's unexpected at this point is really anything that's not the traditional take on zombies and monsters, but rather a more old school approach to psychological drama.
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