Strange, Twisted, Disturbing, and/or Mind-Fuck films

[AgnosticJihad]

I finally got my hands on a DVD copy of Eraserhead over the weekend after years of searching, and after watching it realized I have not seen very many films that are truly bizarre, disturbing, or just all-around twisted. I love films like this and want to see more, but unfortunately my knowledge of such films is quite limited. Curious if anyone out there has any good suggestions for movies like this that I can check out.

[mendyweiss]

The most disturbing, disgusting vile movie I have ever seen is "Salo", directed by that crazy, boy loving, out of his mind, Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was banned in the Us for decades, and to see the unedited version, I think you still have to get it on E-bay from Europe.
It depicts child pornography with real underaged kids. It takes place at the end of WWii in Italy , and the fascists realize its all over. It's based on Dante's Inferno seven layers of hell.
Pasolini was killed by one of the boy actors in the film. Yuck to this piece of shit!!!

[Furtherman]

The most recent one I've seen is Oldboy. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/)

http://www.offoffoff.com/film/2005/images/oldboy.jpg

[nate1000]

Try Birdy with Matthew Modine
Or Memento
Or Last Temptation of Christ

[klaus_kinski_Jr]

El Topo

[Crippler]

I enjoyed the ride while watching "Momento."

Guy Ritchie's "Revolver" just left me confused & angry.

[reeshy]

The most disturbing, disgusting vile movie I have ever seen is "Salo", directed by that crazy, boy loving, out of his mind, Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was banned in the Us for decades, and to see the unedited version, I think you still have to get it on E-bay from Europe.
It depicts child pornography with real underaged kids. It takes place at the end of WWii in Italy , and the fascists realize its all over. It's based on Dante's Inferno seven layers of hell.
Pasolini was killed by one of the boy actors in the film. Yuck to this piece of shit!!!

But......you watched it!!!!!!!!

[feralBoy]

As far as weird, I saw "La moustache" the other day. I can't even say it was good. I don't even know what it was. It made me feel uncomfortable. Definitely something to check out if you like that sort of thing.

One of the weirdest movies I saw in a long time was:
eli, eli lema sabachtani

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0461769/

I would have no idea where you can find that film though. But if they ever release it in the US, definitely something to check out for the weirdness factor.

[patsopinion]

MAY
Im a horror fan and love good blood and guts and a good scare but this movie was so uncomfortable that i had to turn it off, and yet i still want to see the ending

brazil

Requiem for a dream

[Don Stugots]

Blue Velvet was kind of strange to me when i first saw it. now, i think it is normal.

[lleeder]

I liked this thread alot better when I started it
http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=59467

[Fat_Sunny]

AgnosticJihad Has Been On A Jihad Against Original Threads The Last Two Days! Hee Hee.

[patsopinion]

I liked this thread alot better when I started it
http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=59467

i dint post in the old thread so this one is intrinsically better

[lleeder]

AgnosticJihad Has Been On A Jihad Against Original Threads The Last Two Days! Hee Hee.

I knew I'd...I mean We'd see eye to eye on this one Sunny. :wink:

[lleeder]

i dint post in the old thread so this one is intrinsically better

Yeah but you took my movie that I started the original thread with.

[drusilla]

i mentioned it in the other thread, but vanilla sky really fucked me up

[patsopinion]

Yeah but you took my movie that I started the original thread with.

(twilight zone music)
i didnt read your first post over there
the "chick swap" "slutty" made me watch it.
now we can merge three threads

[AgnosticJihad]

AgnosticJihad Has Been On A Jihad Against Original Threads The Last Two Days! Hee Hee.

Not all threads, just yours Lle...I mean, Fat_Sunny, for you are the infidel and your threads must be destroyed! AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA!!!!

[DarkHippie]

Brazil was a great mind fuck

[ChimneyFish]

I've seen it 4 times, and still have no idea what's going on.
And I still can't explain why I love it so much:

Lost Highway

[Bob Impact]

The most disturbing, disgusting vile movie I have ever seen is "Salo", directed by that crazy, boy loving, out of his mind, Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was banned in the Us for decades, and to see the unedited version, I think you still have to get it on E-bay from Europe.
It depicts child pornography with real underaged kids. It takes place at the end of WWii in Italy , and the fascists realize its all over. It's based on Dante's Inferno seven layers of hell.
Pasolini was killed by one of the boy actors in the film. Yuck to this piece of shit!!!

Firstly, Pasolini was a homosexual, not a "boy-lover." Secondly, there is not a single second of actual sex in Salo, although I do not know the ages of the actors in it. The movie references circles of hell, but is based not on Dante's Inferno, rather the Marquis De Sade's "Les 120 journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage." Lastly Pasolini was killed by a 17 year old, but not a actor from the film. Theories abound on who actually murdered Pasolini including a extortionist or the Mafia, but nobody has pinned this on an actor that I've seen. Pasolini helped to pioneer neorealism in cinema. I agree that Salo is deeply disturbing, but your facts are inaccurate. This is a movie that eschews cliche cinema, it does not pass any judgment on the contents, it simply shows it.

[Furtherman]

Brazil was a great mind fuck


That film came out in 1985.

Have you watched it recently? Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown, who wrote the screenplay, NAILED some aspects of what the government, and western society, would be like in the future... and I mean today.

Truly a movie ahead of its time.

[Mike Teacher]

I liked this thread alot better when I started it
http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=59467

perhaps the two should be combined into a 'We despertaly want Ron to talk about this Thread' thread

[Bob Impact]

perhaps the two should be combined into a 'We despertaly want Ron to talk about this Thread' thread

HA! FACE!

[Stankfoot]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/gummo.jpg

You will swear this is the worst peice of crap you've ever seen.
But then scenes in it will stay with you for months.
There has to be some skill involved in that .....

[AKA]

El Topo

Holy Mountain

Santa Sangre

[Stankfoot]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/gummo.jpg

You will swear this is the worst piece of crap you've ever seen.
But then scenes in it will stay with you for months.
There has to be some skill involved in that .....

EDIT - I found a clip on Youtube:

Hilarious bathtub scene with spaghetti ! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5zehPW_3yM&mode=related&search=)

[thepaulo]

it goes with out saying That david Lynch is mind fucking more and more....(can't wait for the Inland Empire DVD)
Terry Gilliam's last one Tideland was a mindfuck
but the biggest mindfuck I've seen in the last couple of years was Stay with Ewan McGregor....enjoy

[Fezticle98]

it goes with out saying That david Lynch is mind fucking more and more....(can't wait for the Inland Empire DVD)
Terry Gilliam's last one Tideland was a mindfuck
but the biggest mindfuck I've seen in the last couple of years was Stay with Ewan McGregor....enjoy



I vote for GAP. It has mind-fucked a bunch of people and no one has even seen it yet.

[jennysmurf]

ma mere. the french are so weird. i'm still messed up over this movie.

[thepaulo]

GAp is an evil virus...it has eaten my brain alive

[midwestjeff]

GAp is an evil virus...it has eaten my brain alive

So release it. Your life is a movie.

[thepaulo]

which reminds me
the japanese film Audition is the biggest mindfuck i've ever seen....

[PapaBear]

GAp is an evil virus...it has eaten my brain alive
gap... original

Gap.. how people envision it

GAp... Where Paul is right now

GAP... where Paul freaks out

gAP... pAUL starts to come down

gaP... PaUl remembers the panties

gap... THE BIG PREMEIR!!!

[StupidGirlllll]

If you like crazy drug movies here is 1 for you REQUIM FOR A DREAM, that is where Mr. B's ass to ass line came from....I do not think Vanilla Sky was a good movie, it was confusing more like A.I., but not enjoyable...I never understood that bathroom scene.

[Yerdaddy]

which reminds me
the japanese film Audition is the biggest mindfuck i've ever seen....

That's always been my contribution to these threads. The genre mixing of romantic comedy with sick horror made this the most disturbing movie I've ever seen too.

So this time I'm going with On Golden Pond.

http://www.sptimesphotos.com/blogs/80s/uploaded_images/fonda_golden_pond-772581.jpg

Old people just creep me out.

[AnnoyedGrunt]

which reminds me
the japanese film Audition is the biggest mindfuck i've ever seen....

Check out the movie Gozu by the same director. Not nearly as violent but just as fucked up, only he doesn't pull the rug out from under you. It starts out strange and it ends even stranger.

[Reynolds]

Irreversible

French movie, plenty of nude monica belluci scenes including an anal rape in an alley. Also a graphic scene of someone getting their head bashed the fuck in with a fire extinguisher. Plus the whole movie is in reverse, cool movie.

[oh_kee_pa]

Irreversible

French movie, plenty of nude monica belluci scenes including an anal rape in an alley. Also a graphic scene of someone getting their head bashed the fuck in with a fire extinguisher. Plus the whole movie is in reverse, cool movie.

fuck, i read the whole page and a half and i had thoughts in my head of being a hero by mentioning this movie.... i had to shut off this movie 3 times to get through it all....


and about Gummo, the prostitution of the retarded girl still sticks with me

[furie]

the lost highway was always a bit of a mind fuck for me.

[thepaulo]

if you like big budget, hollywood, missionary style mind fuck
I always go with
Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America
and
David Lynch's Dune

[Reynolds]

Audition
(http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Audition/60026319?trkid=190393)
Japanese Horror Film

One of the best torture scenes ever.

Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training. On the day of the audition, she's the last person they see. Aoyama is hooked. He notes her number from her file, calls her and takes her to dinner. He hesitates to call again, worried that he'll seem too eager. When he does, Asami knowingly lets the phone ring for some time before answering. She's alone in her darkened room - alone, that is, apart from the writhing victim she has tied up in a sack on the floor

[ToddEVF]

Definately Audition. i've seen a lot of fucked up shit in my day and Audition is the top of the pyramid. Ichi the Killer is a close 2nd, followed by Suicide Club (Suicide Circle) which is more of a horror political commentary. SC is a distant third. On a side note, Takashi Miike is my go to director for fucked up Nahunjin cinema. edit: Izo is a violent what-the-fuck-is-going-on movie by Miike

[Furtherman]

REQUIM FOR A DREAM

Irreversible

I had to bring this thread back up because this weekend I saw Irréversible.

I've quoted Requim For A Dream because I thought that was disturbing, but Irréversible makes it look like The Muppet Movie.

Extrememly disturbing, beautifuly shot. But holy shit - to those who've seen it - those opening scenes where some of the scariest I've ever seen. And the "long scene" this movie is known for I had to mute a few times because it was just so gut turning.

[fezident]

When I saw the title of this thread, I immediately thought of IRREVERSIBLE.

That scene in the tunnel was gruesome & disturbing. Maybe even more disturbing than that guys head splitting open.

[Leticia]

The Piano Teacher is definitely one of the films I considered pretty disturbing as a movie I can't remember the exact name to ...

it was about a community of people living underground to avoid the atomic bomb and their leader never telling them that the threat was over... there was a lot of family killing each other... the name was something like "the underground'" I know there's a movie called underground but it's not the same...

I looked it up and it is "underground" 1993. It's a long and depressing movie...

[Ritalin]

Jacob's Ladder left me a bit askew.

[badorties]

the trailer for ichi the killer (http://www.liberatedfilms.com/film-31801-Ichi%20The%20Killer%20-%20Trailer) haunts me to no end (the link is NSFW or polite society)

event horizon really bothers me, never seen it all the way through -- but a few scenes really gave me a sense of death (and my own mortality)

straw dogs is a great flick, but the level of violence is disturbing

[Chigworthy]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/gummo.jpg

You will swear this is the worst peice of crap you've ever seen.
But then scenes in it will stay with you for months.
There has to be some skill involved in that .....

Chloe Sevigny with electrical tape on her nipples and jumping on the bed.

[Axem Red]

Oldboy had that breath taking ending where you all you did was stand up, put your hands on your head and swear at the t.v. for fucking with you.

[danner1515]

I guess mentioning David Lynch is a little predictable, but I watched Inland Empire this weekend. I had absolutely no goddamned clue what was going on most of the time, but it was a pretty engrossing three hours. Also, the end of Eraserhead is one of the strangest things I've ever seen. Testuo: The Iron Man is another wacky one.

I guess I read too much about Salo: 120 Days of Sodom before I finally saw it because I honestly wasn't all that shaken up by it.

[boonanas]

I like this thread.

Memories of Murder is a Japanese version of Zodiac, a true story of Korea's first serial killer (I'm pretty sure). It's disturbing on so many levels, from beating retards to killing young girls.

I Stand Alone is Gaspar Noe's film before Irreversible, it's pretty twisted but definately not as disturbing as Irreversible.

Blue Velvet was disturbing no matter how many times you watch it . "I LOVE YOU LOVE ME!!" "HE PUT THIS DISEASE IN ME."

All of Todd Solondz films have a very uncomfortable feel to them. Very uncomfortable.

[fezident]

I'm amazed that so many people have seen IRREVERSIBLE.

It came to my attention when I was learning about screenwriting and script-supervision. It's a notorious piece of work. I had to hunt high and low for a used copy of the DVD. (I was living in Canada at that time and it was not available there.... legally).

Did they air this gruesome film on American cable? Was it a word-of-mouth kinda thing?? Was it in American theaters? How is it so "out there"?

[danner1515]

I'm amazed that so many people have seen IRREVERSIBLE.

It came to my attention when I was learning about screenwriting and script-supervision. It's a notorious piece of work. I had to hunt high and low for a used copy of the DVD. (I was living in Canada at that time and it was not available there.... legally).

Did they air this gruesome film on American cable? Was it a word-of-mouth kinda thing?? Was it in American theaters? How is it so "out there"?

I've never seen Irreversible, but it's been in my Netflix queue for over a year. I think it's become a moderately high-profile foreign film mostly due to the controversy over the rape and violence. I used to see it on the shelves at Best Buy all the time. I'm sure it played in some select theaters in America, but it must have been pretty limited. I think IFC has aired it before.

[Slumbag]

the trailer for ichi the killer (http://www.liberatedfilms.com/film-31801-Ichi%20The%20Killer%20-%20Trailer) haunts me to no end (the link is NSFW or polite society)

I was given Ichi the Killer as a gift, and I have never watched it the whole way through.
I say more fucked up than that is Cannibal Holocaust, though(I constantly harp about this film)
It shows real deaths of animals, that's really fucking disturbing.
The producer and director got arrested for making it. But it also has a really great storyline, and is well directed(Half the film is kind of like the Blair Witch Project).
Definitely falls under disturbing and twisted.

BTW, Audition fucking RULED!!!!!

[Chigworthy]

I guess mentioning David Lynch is a little predictable, but I watched Inland Empire this weekend. I had absolutely no goddamned clue what was going on most of the time, but it was a pretty engrossing three hours. Also, the end of Eraserhead is one of the strangest things I've ever seen. Testuo: The Iron Man is another wacky one.

I guess I read too much about Salo: 120 Days of Sodom before I finally saw it because I honestly wasn't all that shaken up by it.

I've been raised on David Lynch and at least liked,if not loved, each one of his films (and TV shows). Except for Inland Empire. I just couldn't get over my suspicion that it was a lengthy pile of shit, and I quit watching after an hour. All of the reasons I could write here about why I hated it sound exactly like the things that people used to say about his other work that I would get pissed about. I guess my "coolness" has dissipated.

As for Testsuo, it's one of my favorite "mind-fuck" films. I think paulo said that he liked it when I mentioned it over at his site..

[stinkbud]

The directors cut of The Descent...

Pretty good horror, I only saw the DC of it, but its end just got to me somehow.

[Furtherman]

I'm amazed that so many people have seen IRREVERSIBLE.

It came to my attention when I was learning about screenwriting and script-supervision. It's a notorious piece of work. I had to hunt high and low for a used copy of the DVD. (I was living in Canada at that time and it was not available there.... legally).

Did they air this gruesome film on American cable? Was it a word-of-mouth kinda thing?? Was it in American theaters? How is it so "out there"?

I read about it and the walkouts that occurred. It was one of those love it or hate it films. I don't recall if it was in American theaters and if it was it probably had a limited art house run.

As to how is it so "out there"... well, it shows the two sides of humanity. Beautiful and evil. In both the characters and the events.

The movie is actually brilliant in its cinematography and layout, as it is told backwards, so you have this delayed "Oh shit, that's what happened" feeling.

Plus, according to IMDB: The first 30 minutes of the film has a background noise with a frequency of 28Hz (low frequency, almost inaudible), similar to the noise produced by an earthquake. In humans, it causes nausea, sickness and vertigo. It was the main cause of people walking out of the theaters during the first part of the film in places like Cannes and San Sebastian. In fact, it was added with the purpose of getting this reaction.

Now that's literary fuckin' with the audience! Brilliant.

[fezident]

Thanks.
By "out there", I kinda meant "available to the public" but, I gotta say, I enjoyed reading your insight. Sharp stuff.

I never heard anything about the low freqs being embedded into the soundtrack! That's some serious shit.

[torker]

http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/characters/pinocchio/pinocchio4.jpg
visual overload

[Chris from TX]

Has anyone seen any of the Cremaster films by Bjork's husband? I've only seen part of one of the films called "The Order". Perhaps I am not as artistically minded, but about the only thing I got from it was a mind-fucking.

http://www.ica.org.uk/thumbnail.php?id=1354&max=408

As far as more mainstream, Mullholland Drive was pretty fucked up.

[Dougie Brootal]

whatever one of you sick bastards recommended irreversible oughta be shot in the nutz with a 12 gauge. i just watced it and am now scarred for life. im calling my chick and making her quit hr job and come home immediatley. thanks budday.

[IamPixie]

Has anyone seen any of the Cremaster films by Bjork's husband? I've only seen part of one of the films called "The Order". Perhaps I am not as artistically minded, but about the only thing I got from it was a mind-fucking.

http://www.ica.org.uk/thumbnail.php?id=1354&max=408



The Cremaster is Bjork's Husband? Live and learn

[Franklyn]

I am a huge David Lynch fan but I would say that I was lost in "Dark Highway" others that are Darkly fucked are:

"ichi the killer"
"Blood Sucking Freaks"
"City of Lost Children"
"Delicatessen"
"Dark City"
"Jacob's Ladder"
"Videodrome"
"The Dark Backward"

All my films are this way too. It's what I love.

[JackStraw]

whatever one of you sick bastards recommended irreversible oughta be shot in the nutz with a 12 gauge. i just watced it and am now scarred for life. im calling my chick and making her quit hr job and come home immediatley. thanks budday.

Oh you watched it? You have got balls, I can't bring myself to do it. Thanks for the warning though.
Hey, quit rocking in the corner and sucking your thumb.

[Dougie Brootal]

Oh you watched it? You have got balls, I can't bring myself to do it. Thanks for the warning though.
Hey, quit rocking in the corner and sucking your thumb.

seriously, DON'T. i will never (chris jericho voice) EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVERRR (chris jericho voice) watch another movie recommended on this site (chris jericho voice) agay-nnnn (chris jericho voice)!!!!!!!

[Chigworthy]

agay-nnnn

Hmm.

[JackStraw]

Hmmmiamtheonewhoisgay.

Hmm.

[hedges]

Liquid Sky was strange--I was pretty young when I saw it.
Blue Velvet is great. "HEINEKEN! FUCKIN' PABST BLUE RIBBON MAN!"

[chubbyknuckles]

Henry:potrait of a serial killer