Thread: Movies that screw your brain

'a scanner darkly' was pretty nuts. and it was visually.. confusing at times haha, in a good way.

OMG Across the Universe... the story isn't a mindfuck but the way the director presents it is.... i watched it once sober and it psyched me out, then i watch it high on weed and adoral (back in my partying days) and i still to this day am creeped out by that fucking movie...

Edit:the plot is a great story though...

Fantastic Planet... that's a Rene Lalloux (spelling) stop animation film, right?

Stephen King's The Stand is a very good book/movie that really gets you thinking about humans, when they revert to their primal form. There's a lot of good sociological theory in it (in fact, there's a character in there that I believe was included for that reason).

The book is anywhere from 400-600 pages for the edited, 800-1100 for the original and uncut (depending on height of the book and text size, obviously) and the movie is 4 parts, each an hour and a half to two hours long. But if you have the time, I recommend picking up one or the other.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is fantastic in this respect; one of those movies you have to watch twice to get to grips with.

The Others really crashed my brain.

Nice responses, these should keep me busy for a good while

Originally Posted by cygnus

'a scanner darkly' was pretty nuts. and it was visually.. confusing at times haha, in a good way.

Yeah that's definitely on my list, but I've also been getting into Phillip K. Dick's books recently. I may wait until I've read it to check that one out, though its very likely I won't have the patience for that

Originally Posted by oniman7

Fantastic Planet... that's a Rene Lalloux (spelling) stop animation film, right?

Stephen King's The Stand is a very good book/movie that really gets you thinking about humans, when they revert to their primal form. There's a lot of good sociological theory in it (in fact, there's a character in there that I believe was included for that reason).

The book is anywhere from 400-600 pages for the edited, 800-1100 for the original and uncut (depending on height of the book and text size, obviously) and the movie is 4 parts, each an hour and a half to two hours long. But if you have the time, I recommend picking up one or the other.

Hell yeah! Its not stop-motion animation though, if that's what you mean. Just plain ol' drawings, but among the most creative ones I've seen. His other two feature films 'Gandahar' and 'Time Masters' are also great. Story's not as good but they're just as visually compelling.

I'll have to check out The Stand too, sounds right up my alley.

Originally Posted by Luanne

Start with Mulholland Dr. ( I also recommended it in 'The last movie you saw...' thread.) I won't say a thing except - it's a 'must see', and makes you appreciate cinematography much more!

Will do! I think I'm gonna look this up now in fact, I've been putting off Lynch for far too long now...

Though its not really a psychological mindfuck type movie, the movie 'Dead Girl" freaked me the hell out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2SSL6Ipnvw

Its sick, twisted, and undeniably wrong. But you gotta love it.

I noticed someone recorded Pi recently on our DVR, so I'll probably give it another viewing later today.

Has The Butterfly Effect been posted yet?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289879/

Originally Posted by Sil3nt

Has The Butterfly Effect been posted yet?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289879/

Yes it has.

It isn't that hard to skim through a page of replies to find it.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

Yes it has.

It isn't that hard to skim through a page of replies to find it.

Crtl+F "butterfly" is even faster.

Hmm... I've seen a lot of movies that have done strange things to my head. The fountain was pretty strange...

I was going to instantly say Donnie Darko, but someone beat me to it. Love love love that movie. Best use of music in a film right here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWJPa0bvWnM

Pi was fantastic, as was Abre Los Ojos. I've yet to watch Lost Highway (I attempted one day when I was stoned, and the opening scene freaked me out) but I know it has an amazing soundtrack. I remember seeing The Fountain, but I don't remember what I felt about it. Pan's Labrynth I saw at an outside, nighttime showing while laying in the grass at a park near my house and it was magical. Bowie's Labrynth is great too ("Did you just say 'Hello'?") I've also been meaning to see 'A Clockwork Orange' but I can't get past the first scene, and 'Requiem for a Dream' which I refuse to rent because a few of my friends own it but have yet to bring it by on movie nights.

Originally Posted by sunshineDaydream

I was going to instantly say Donnie Darko, but someone beat me to it. Love love love that movie. Best use of music in a film right here:



Pi was fantastic, as was Abre Los Ojos. I've yet to watch Lost Highway (I attempted one day when I was stoned, and the opening scene freaked me out) but I know it has an amazing soundtrack. I remember seeing The Fountain, but I don't remember what I felt about it. Pan's Labrynth I saw at an outside, nighttime showing while laying in the grass at a park near my house and it was magical. Bowie's Labrynth is great too ("Did you just say 'Hello'?") I've also been meaning to see 'A Clockwork Orange' but I can't get past the first scene, and 'Requiem for a Dream' which I refuse to rent because a few of my friends own it but have yet to bring it by on movie nights.

Fixed for ya.

EDIT: Oops. guess you already got a valid link. I just saw the horrible embedding mess you had at first, from the YouTube website, and thought I would help.

Originally Posted by oniman7

EDIT: Oops. guess you already got a valid link. I just saw the horrible embedding mess you had at first, from the YouTube website, and thought I would help.

Yep, noticed once I posted. Thanks anyway though!

The uninvited.

Just watched Mulholland Drive...

Amazing stuff. I'm gonna have to watch it at least 20 more times to make any sense out of it. I'll definitely be checking out some more Lynch soon.

Ink was an amazing film! If you have not seen if I highly recommend it.

Yes, definitely a lot of films in this thread that are mind blowing... here's a few more that haven't been mentioned:

trainspotting
the cube
hypercube
cube3 (cube squared)

Originally Posted by Speesh

Just watched Mulholland Drive...

Amazing stuff. I'm gonna have to watch it at least 20 more times to make any sense out of it. I'll definitely be checking out some more Lynch soon.

It's pretty coherent once you get it. In fact all Lynch movies are, it's just a struggle to 'get' it.

I'd also suggest Lost Highway next. Definately. It's my personal favourite.

Yeah, in the past I probably would've dismissed it as a bunch of random loose ends. But I definitely got a strong vibe that it was much more than that. I'm determined to figure it out now . I'll set my sights on Lost Highway now, thanks for the rec.

Since most of my personal favorites have been mentioned (Aronofsky, Lynch, Gilliam, Cronenberg, the Cubes, Donnie Darko etc etc....) I'm gonna throw in some unmentioned ones (at least I didn't notice them)

Andrei Tarkovsky has quite a few, Stalker namely, but people often seem to prefer Solyaris over Stalker, but personally I don't really even like Solyaris.

Alexandro Jodorowsky's El topo and The Holy Mountain, both insanely good movies and some of the most intense mindfucks I've ever seen to be honest.

Peter Weir's Picnic at hanging rock, beautiful, dreamy and haunting.

Nicolas Roeg - Don't look now...

Though it's not as big of a mindfuck I'm sure a lot of you will like Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (the 1973 original not the lame remake with Nicolas Cage)

Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle for really "artsy" stuff.

Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (ok, maybe not that big of a mindfuck but still an amazing movie) and Dreams.

Since someone mentioned Old Boy I'm gonna mention Audition by Takashi Miike, another great Korean director. He does have quite a few mindfuck movies, but no others spring to mind right now.

And I have to mention another Cronenberg favorite of mine, Dead Ringers...

AANNND for a few more mainstream mindfucks/weirdness akin to Fight Club and such - The Life of David Gale, Adaptation, Todd Solondz' Happiness, Lucky # Slevin, Being John Malkovich, Natural Born Killers etc etc..

I don't remember if anyone mentioned any other David Fincher movies than Fight Club, but Zodiac, The Game, Seven are all great movies too if you don't want to spend the rest of the day wondering what the hell just happened

And even though it's not a movie, it's one of the most intense trippy stuff I've seen....The Teletubbies......

I'm probably forgetting dozens and dozens of great movies, but I really need to go to bed now Nightey nite

Originally Posted by oooooo

Natural Born Killers etc etc..

Pretty sure I mentioned it - but it's all good, since you probs just didn't see it. I'd forgive it anyway 'cause it's such an awesome movie