Thread: Movies that screw your brain

I'll second a lot of the recommendations above and add Brain Storm, from the early '80s and starring Christopher Walken. It starts off seeming like a fairly normal sci-fi flick, but about halfway in, it really heads off into the wilderness. I just found this movie last year--I think it's a bit of a cult classic, but otherwise off the radar.

Fight Club has been the king of all mind-fuckery for me, though I haven't watched it from beginning to end since that first time in the theater. The title could also go to Requiem for a Dream, but I don't know that I could, in good conscience, recommend that anyone subject themselves to Requiem for a Dream.

I forgot PI!

I couldn't get all the way through Pi. I liked it, but it got kind of slow towards the end. For me, at least.

Pi put me to sleep lol

I highly recommend The Stand as well... but the book, not the movie.

Things that mess with my mind don't seem to bother most people:

The Butterfly Effect
Donny Darko
The Hours
A Beautiful Mind
and apparently Memory as well. I've been dreaming about that movie for several nights now after having watched it.

I couldn't watch A Clockwork Orange. I just can't get into pointless violence.

I just watched Moon. That's a very trippy film, and it's gotten very good reviews. You should check that out

Watched Vanilla Sky yesterday, I can say with little doubt that it is the best movie I've seen.

Originally Posted by Marvo

I just watched Moon. That's a very trippy film, and it's gotten very good reviews. You should check that out

Oh yeah, watched that recently. It was quite good and definitely confusing for the first half or so.

Originally Posted by Catbus

I couldn't get all the way through Pi. I liked it, but it got kind of slow towards the end. For me, at least.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

Pi put me to sleep lol

Nawww man give it a chance. You do need an attention span but then most top movies require that.

Also, Zhaylin, I think you're kind of missing the point if you thought the violence in A Clockwork Orange was pointless.

Originally Posted by Scatterbrain

Watched Vanilla Sky yesterday, I can say with little doubt that it is the best movie I've seen.

Watch the movie it's based on, Abre les ojos.

It's totally top.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned 1408. That was one of the first things that came to my mind.

Also, not a mindfuck in the typical sense, but Natural Born Killers definitely freaked me out. I'm really bad at remembering movies so there are a few others that I can think of, but don't remember the titles....

I agree with The Butterfly Effect and Waking Life. I'm gonna see if I can find Vanilla Sky and check that out tonight.

Originally Posted by katielovestrees

I'm surprised no one's mentioned 1408. That was one of the first things that came to my mind.

Also, not a mindfuck in the typical sense, but Natural Born Killers definitely freaked me out. I'm really bad at remembering movies so there are a few others that I can think of, but don't remember the titles....

I agree with The Butterfly Effect and Waking Life. I'm gonna see if I can find Vanilla Sky and check that out tonight.

There was a climate of mindfuck in 1408, but it was somewhat predictable and ham fisted. There are lots of movies like that though, I'd like to think this is thread is more based on the movies which really do fuck your mind heavily, whilst being quality pieces of art, and maybe trying to convey a point to you. I don't feel 1408 achieves this successfully enough to really get a mention.

But of course I may well have missed something. I only watched it once in Czech, not english, so I may have not got the full blast of awesome it may have harboured. Either way, top.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

Watch the movie it's based on, Abre les ojos.

It's totally top.

So I've been told, I already have the film here ready. But it'll probably go to waste if I watch it so soon after seeing the remake, so I'm gonna wait a few days till I watch it.

But it seems to me Abre Los Ojos has a much more dark/horror theme around it (in spite of being almost the exact same story), if that's true I suspect it won't touch me nearly as much as Vanilla Sky did. Still seems pretty awesome though.

I didn't think the Butterfly Effect was very good personally. As a film.