The March/April 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days!

TERRY GILLIAM‘s (1940- ) marvelous and surreal animations for Monty Python featured cut-up Victorian photos and bulbous drawings of giant feet, but his movies are twice as unhinged. Gilliam’s jumbled films invite us into fantastical parallel dreamworlds where anything can happen and usually does, whether it includes time-traveling dwarves (Time Bandits), bureaucratic cities of documentation in triplicate (Brazil), an incomprehensible Dr. Gonzo (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), or Matt Damon with a goofy haircut (The Brothers Grimm).