Looking for movies that really messes with your head
Can someone help me with this? I've always been a fan of these types of movies and i've always been hoping to find a forum that people can help point me to some other movie I've yet seen. It doesn't necessarily have to be a horror, physiological or any certain genre. It simply needs to really mess with the audience in some way, like a great twist at the end, a surreal setting or a hidden meaning behind the movie and events. Movies that I am talking about are things such as Shutter Island, Eraserhead, Inland Empire, Donnie Darko, Momento, etc.
Basically, give me mind**** movies. Pretty please :3 |
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Enemy (2013)
Triangle (2009) Timecrimes (2007) Coherence (2013) Cube (1997) Identity (2003) The Machinist (2004) |
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Brazil (1985)
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas (1998) Black Moon (1975) Twelve Monkeys (1995) and Predestination (2014) |
How about Possession (1981)?
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Originally Posted by saberslash127 (Post 1925257)
It simply needs to really mess with the audience in some way, like a great twist at the end, a surreal setting or a hidden meaning behind the movie and events.
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Slipstream (2007)
Lost Highway Funny Games Eden Log (maybe) Stay (2005) |
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Berberian Sound Studio
Holy Motors Don’t Look Now Alice (1988) Solaris Stalker Videodrome Naked Lunch eXistenZ Barton Fink Shock Corridor Embrace of the Serpent Under the Skin A Field in England Only God Forgives The Holy Mountain Twin Peaks: The Return (yeah, I’m counting it.) |
Originally Posted by Saunch (Post 1925306)
Twin Peaks: The Return (yeah, I’m counting it.)
@topic Jagten the Hunt : As someone who likes kids, this actually left me feeling uncomfortable and scared. Memories of Murder The Secret in their Eyes (Original Argentinian movie) Spoorloos Das letzte Schweigen And lastly, A Serbian Film if you want to hate humanity. |
O Lucky Man! (with Malcolm McDowell), Tales that Witness Madness (with Donald Pleasance, Joan Collins and others), and Black Moon, a French-West German film. After watching them, I can't really say if they are good. I guess they could best be described as interesting.
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Originally Posted by Theophile (Post 1925264)
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas (1998)
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Pi is rather trippy. It isn't the easiest film to follow, but I don't have too much trouble.
If anyone says Inception, that person needs to watch more movies. Eraserhead is bonkers, but not in a good way. Orson Welles' The Trial is a bizarre ride, and I dig it. I'm still not entirely sure why Mr. K is on trial, but I have a theory, though most people disregard it because of when the book came out, but I know Welles adapted it for his contemporary time. One person mentioned Brazil, and I'd like to give it a +1. Awesome, odd movie. Donnie Darko doesn't make much sense, but I haven't a desire to ever watch it again. |
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Shane caruth has bewildered storytelling in Primer and Upstream Colour
Also one of the coolest but i still/wont have any concrete ideas for what it was all about https://i.pinimg.com/474x/3f/00/49/3...ller-japan.jpg |
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I remembered another one:
The Bed Sitting Room (1969). https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/...9,1000_AL_.jpg |
Literally just watch the show Black Mirror. Also I don't watch a lot of mind trip movies so that's really all I got, sorry.
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Persona (1966) has had everyone boggled for the past 50 years, I'm sure it'll do the same to you.
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
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Originally Posted by MijaFrost (Post 1925910)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
Evil Dead Trap is a good one. |
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Images (1972)
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The movie that messed with my head the most is probably The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
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All David Linch's movies
Gone Girl Brazilia Melancholia Nymphomaniac |
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Birdman (2014)
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https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/...0NTM@._V1_.jpg
You'll never be the same after this one! |
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Originally Posted by SuperStar (Post 1926280)
All David Linch's movies
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The Cremator makes me feel pretty damn uncomfortable.
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Originally Posted by doubledenim (Post 1926425)
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Originally Posted by saberslash127 (Post 1925257)
Can someone help me with this? I've always been a fan of these types of movies and i've always been hoping to find a forum that people can help point me to some other movie I've yet seen. It doesn't necessarily have to be a horror, physiological or any certain genre. It simply needs to really mess with the audience in some way, like a great twist at the end, a surreal setting or a hidden meaning behind the movie and events. Movies that I am talking about are things such as Shutter Island, Eraserhead, Inland Empire, Donnie Darko, Momento, etc.
Basically, give me mind**** movies. Pretty please :3 Obvious ones would be The Usual Suspects, Inception, The Sixth Sense and Fight Club (although the last two may well have been spoilered). I'd add Requiem for A Dream (not so much for twists but for brutality/hard-hitting), The Innocents (plenty of psychological mind-messing there) and The Devils (just mad. Not for plot twists but just mad). |
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Off the top of my head, flicks that messed with me (either in a good or bad way):
Vertigo Hard Candy The Assassination of Richard Nixon Funny Games Closer Secret Window Wonderland Natural Born Killers The Hills Have Eyes (2006) Joy Ride (2001) The Lovely Bones Gone Girl Spotlight |
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Inception
Basic instinct House of games |
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Watching a movie called altered states right now, it’s weird as fook. Not sure if I like it - I don’t think I do. It’s fits the bill though.
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Originally Posted by Larry (Post 1932522)
Watching a movie called altered states right now, it’s weird as fook. Not sure if I like it - I don’t think I do. It’s fits the bill though.
You've just reminded me about the TV film Solid Geometry from 2002, which possibly has some similar themes. Ewan McGregor and Ruth Millar starred and Denis Lawson directed. |
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Originally Posted by SeeingisBelieving (Post 1932525)
Originally Posted by Larry (Post 1932522)
Watching a movie called altered states right now, it’s weird as fook. Not sure if I like it - I don’t think I do. It’s fits the bill though.
You've just reminded me about the TV film Solid Geometry from 2002, which possibly has some similar themes. Ewan McGregor and Ruth Millar starred and Denis Lawson directed. |
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Wtf this just turned into wolf man this movie is crazy! Lmao! He’s running around in a zoo and he’s a half ape Neanderthal lol
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Mulholland Drive (If you've seen Inland Empire, you might have come across this? Another David Lynch mind-bender)
Requiem For A Dream The Butterfly Effect The Mothman Prophecies 1408 The Ring Under The Skin Those should give you a bit to think about for a while. |
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Angel Heart by Alan Parker if someone has not spoiled it for you. For that matter The Crying Game if you have not had it spoiled by now.
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You mentioned it in your introductory post, but the first movie that popped into my head when I saw the name of this thread was Donnie Darko.
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Mother!
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Nobody mentioned Perfect Blue? Well then that's what I would suggest.
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Mostly movies that **** with my head are films I would refuse to see, such as.. A Serbian Movie.. Days Of Sodom and August Underground trilogy. They **** with my head when I think a whole group of people went to great effort to make this movie and the people watch it and get entertainment value from it.. I had a friend always watching some sick horror movies and I have distanced myself from him.. like yeah okay you sit in a dark room and watch this movie..
WARNING: "A Serbian Film Plot" spoilers below
Financially struggling Miloš, a former porn star known for his talent, lives with his wife, Marija, and six-year-old son, Petar. His brother, Marko, a corrupt police officer, is attracted to Marija and is jealous of Miloš's sexual prowess. Marija is curious about her husband's past and is concerned about the family's income. Lejla, a former co-star, offers Miloš a starring role in an art film directed by Vukmir, an independent pornographer, who wishes to cast Miloš for his powerful erection. Having already caught Petar watching one of his films and unaware of the details of Vukmir's film, Miloš is hesitant to participate and continue his career, but accepts to secure his family's financial future. While meeting Vukmir, Miloš passes a bald man and his entourage, regarding them warily.
Filming begins at an orphanage, where Vukmir feeds Miloš instructions through an earpiece given by Vukmir's driver, Raša, while a film crew follows him. Miloš sees a young woman being physically abused and scolded by her mother, having disgraced her deceased war hero husband's memory by becoming a prostitute. In a dark room, screens show Jeca, a girl of indeterminate age, seductively eating an ice pop, while Miloš is fellated by a nurse. Then, Miloš is instructed to receive fellatio from the mother, while Jeca watches. Miloš refuses, but is forced to continue. Marko later informs him that Vukmir is a former psychologist and has worked in children's television and state security. Miloš meets with Vukmir, announcing that he is retiring and dropping out of the film, but Vukmir explains to a hesitant Miloš his artistic style of pornography, showing a film of a woman giving birth to a newborn baby, a baby which is then immediately raped by Raša, much to the joy of the mother. The disgusted and horrified Miloš storms out and drives away as Vukmir boasts to him that this is "a new genre" and that he terms it as "newborn porn". At a road junction, being in a disturbed state of mind, he is approached and seduced by an attractive woman who, unbeknownst to him, is Vukmir's doctor. A bloodied Miloš wakes up in his bed the next morning with no memory of what has happened. He returns to the now abandoned set and finds a number of tapes. Viewing them, Miloš discovers that he was drugged to induce an aggressive, sexually aroused, and suggestible state. At Vukmir's manipulative direction, Miloš beat and decapitated Jeca's mother while raping her and was later raped by one of the guards. He then watches footage of Lejla voicing concern for Miloš to Vukmir, stating that she is quitting and taking Miloš with her. A bloodied Lejla is then shown restrained, with a blood puddle and several teeth in the floor right in front of her. A masked man appears and she is forced to fellate him, suffocating her to death. The footage continues as Miloš is led to Jeca's home, where an elderly woman praises him for killing Jeca's mother, laments about Jeca's father dying before he "made her a woman", and offers Jeca as a "virgin commune". Miloš refuses, threatens to cut off his penis with a knife, and escapes through a window. After wandering the streets for a while, he ends up huddling in an alleyway, where he watches as a teenage girl passes by while being tailed by a pair of thugs. He begins masturbating and is assaulted by the thugs before they are killed by Raša, who along with Vukmir takes Miloš to a warehouse. At the warehouse, Vukmir's doctor administers more drugs to Miloš, who in an angry outburst sticks a syringe into her neck, rendering her unconscious from the overdose. He is then taken into a big room, where he is conducted to have intercourse with two hidden bodies placed under sheets and with bags on their heads. Miloš furiously begins penetrating them while keeping them restrained, and as he swaps from one onto the other, the masked man from Lejla's film enters and begins raping the first. Vukmir then reveals the masked man to be Marko, his victim to be Marija, and finally, that Miloš is raping Petar. At this moment, the agonizing female doctor enters the room, with her crotch entirely covered in blood and a bloody pipe on her hand, attracting everyone's attention before collapsing dead. Snapping, an enraged Miloš lunges at Vukmir and repeatedly smashes his head against the floor, initiating a brawl during which Marija bites off a piece of Marko's neck, then bludgeons him to death with a sculpture. Miloš wrestles with the guards and seizes one of their guns, shooting both of them and injuring the one-eyed Raša, whom he kills by ramming his erect penis into his empty eye socket. During all of this, a dying Vukmir praises Miloš's actions as truly worthy of cinema. Miloš, having recalled his actions up to that point, including locking his wife and son in their basement before passing out earlier, smashes Marko's head with the sculpture in a fit of impotence and despair, before returning home to find both of them in shock, with Petar totally unresponsive. After coping with the matter for hours, Miloš and his wife ultimately agree, in silence, that they and their son should die together, so the three gather in bed and embrace before Miloš fires a fatal shot through himself, Petar and Marija. Sometime later, a new film crew, including the bald man from the beginning of the film, is shown recording in the bedroom. One of the security guards begins to unzip his pants and the director, the unnamed bald man, advises him to "start with the little boy" i'll go feed the ducks.. |
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https://www.bing.com/th?id=OIP.2QoRl...r=1.25&pid=1.7 2003......I love this film.
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Memento
The Prestige Eraserhead Mulholland Dr. Millennium Actress Persona 8 1/2 The Mirror (1975) I'm a big fan of the latter two. |
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Jacobs Ladder. Not sure if mentioned already.
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Two people I know, including my film studies mentor, turned off The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the 1974 original) ten minutes in after seeing the van of potential victims pass by a group of cows because they knew the theme. :D
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If you want a brain work out watch - Starship Troopers.
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Donnie Darko was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the title of this thread...Enemy and Bamboozled also came to mind.
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Originally Posted by films246+1 (Post 1965522)
https://www.bing.com/th?id=OIP.2QoRl...r=1.25&pid=1.7 2003......I love this film.
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