The folks out at Image Entertainment have given us a lot of great movies to work with, but they’ve also occasionally brought out some stuff that defies description. Burning Palms will definitely match that description nicely.

Burning Palms is a series of five vignettes that join a group of people out in Los Angeles whose lives–and by extension, their stories–are plain old bizarre. There’s a father and his daughter, whose relationship is a little too close for dad’s new fiancee’s comfort. A gay couple finds themselves playing host to an African child. A man’s bizarre bedroom fetish is a little more than his girlfriend can handle. A boy takes his brothers on an adventure that may cost them more than they think. And a woman who finds herself attacked has an unusual request for the man attacking her.

Weird, weird, weird, folks–there’s simply no other way to describe Burning Palms. It’s an endless string of weird. And this is both credit and flaw. While there is pretty much nothing like what you’ll be seeing with Burning Palms–the closest analogue is Crash, and frankly, that still doesn’t do the job all the way. This is like some spectacularly weird hybrid of Crash and, maybe, Creepshow. It’s actually a little on the scary side, to be honest. People are going to wind up dead here, and they’re not going to die pleasantly. Or normally, for that matter.

Burning Palms is an endlessly unsettling affair that’s full of strange things. And yet, at the same time, it’s actually pretty funny, a lot of the time. Perhaps this is the hilarity of the so very disturbing that there’s no other way to process it, but it really doesn’t matter because at many points it’s a riot on par with anything a college can turn out after a football game.

Sometimes it’s creepy, sometimes it’s hilarious, and sometimes it’s both. But one thing it will never be is predictable.

Burning Palms is a hilarious and disturbing little chunk of strangeness that’s going to be utterly unlike anything you’ve seen before. It’s not for everybody, and you’ve got to be prepared for that. But if you actually do decide to take on this strange, twisted and occasionally uproarious nightmare, you’ll be left with an experience that’s wholly unique.

The Screenhead Ten Scale hands Burning Palms a seven out of ten. It’s going to be entirely too weird for most people to handle, so bear that in mind should you decide to catch this one. But if you do, know that you’re in for something the likes of which you’ve never seen before.