BassJunkie
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Best Mind Fuck films.
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cliche guevara
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2001: A Space Odyssey
If anyone can come up with a "U" rated film that gets in your head more than this, then I'll be impressed.
If anyone can come up with a "U" rated film that gets in your head more than this, then I'll be impressed.
I wouldn't describe any of those as "mind fuck" films, Being John Malkovitch perhaps.
My favourites..
Tetsuo
Eraserhead
and Maybe Videodrome
El Topo is fantastic as well
El Topo. Couldn't even try to tell you what it's about or 'means' but i liked it.
Well thats surely the point of a mind fuck film?
I don't think films that just portray thought provoking or seemingly thought provoking narratives could be considerd mind fuck films. The aim of the film and the techniques it uses has gotta focus more on playing with it's audince than it does on it's plot.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Naked Lunch?
I couldn't finish that film... it was a mindfuck but only because it literally had no meaning and made no sense... it's just like fantasy or something.. there was no deep ideas.. just sum sci-fi memory stuff... kind of like the butterfly effect... yeh they look cool but they mean nothing and offer no inspiration.
brixtonvilla
should be Oslovilla, really
I had to leave the cinema mid-way through film - so weird and unsettling I felt like I was having a flashback to a bad trip.
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
That'll do for me. I notice that the critic decides only to focus on the bit where you say they are alternative as that is vaguely amusing not the bit where he/she gets owned by a lean and mean accurate description...
Mind you, Waking life is awesome and I thought Human Traffic was poo but that doesn't mean I can't see the similarities.
Deciding what does and doesn't belong to a particular genre is incredibly dull. People should see fit to make up their own genres and rearange video stores for fun - bring their own signs with them and everything
'Films that feature lemons in some way'
'Pig flicks'
'Films with leading ladies with onomaetopeiaic surnames'
'Films that feature the names of bodily organs in the title'
etc etc.
Imagine how much more invigorating a journey to the local blockbusters would be if it was all arranged differently according to new catagories.
Imagine if we suddenly hit on a whole new set of previously unoticed generic conventions?
Imagine if I've just reinvented cinema?
elbows
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A few like Eraserhead that others have already mentioned.
But by a long way it has to be:
The Holy Mountain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(1973_film))
Its in a league of its own!
But by a long way it has to be:
The Holy Mountain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(1973_film))
Its in a league of its own!
I'm listening to the soundtrack right now, spooky! It's one of my favourite films.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Right you are. I always confuse the lynch/cronenbourg cause lynch did Dune. Which to anyone who hasn't read the book must be a good headfuck of a flick
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Lost Highway
The Sweet Hereafter (makes sense, really, but just jumps around a lot without signalling it to the viewer)
The Sweet Hereafter (makes sense, really, but just jumps around a lot without signalling it to the viewer)
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Demonoid just got very busy 
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Human Traffic is maybe my least favorite film of all time. No story and everyone in it is a twat.
Donnie Darko gets my hate because it's full of plot holes and a complete mess of a film. Blair witch is boring as hell without the hype.
Add the unbelievably shit (and sooo fucking long) Inland Empire to that list as well, that probably fits the wet sociology student teens type 'mind fuck' category as well.
I feel as though Human Traffic survives on it's druggy references/humour and a few quirky phrases i.e. the milky bar one... it's not the best of films but i think it is unique.
Donnie Darko has a good atmosphere and watching Blair Witch project by yourself for the frist time is prtty intense.... it's all personal taste though i guess.
A few more i like are:
American Beauty
Requiem for a dream
The Beach
No country for old men
Agent Sparrow
AGENT TRAITOR; fools 8 year olds
Saw Primer recently. That's pretty wtf?!
Also, Inland Empire. Wtf indeed!
Also, Inland Empire. Wtf indeed!
chemn
shmemn
Picnic at Hanging Rock.
I still don't like thinking about it decades after I saw it............
Yes! This film is so atmospheric, tense and enigmatic! Haven't seen it for years and will be on the lookout for it now
Johnny Canuck3
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I think it has some of the best lines ever.
Another movie: Fellini Satyricon.
In fact, most Fellini films.
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