Best Mind Fuck films.

[Johnny Canuck3]

Donnie Darko gets my hate because it's full of plot holes and a complete mess of a film. .

Not to mention that it's totally silly.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

An Australian film: The Shout.

 

[Disaster]

Waking Life
Donnie Darko
A Scanner Darkly
The Blair Witch Project
Fight Club
28 Days Later
Human Traffic

Not one of those films fucked my mind (The Blair Witch Project might have done, a little)

 

[Detroit City]

what was that movie by m. night shalyman? sixth sense or something like that?

 

[Jazzz]

Barton Fink

 

[edwin]

Not one of those films fucked my mind (The Blair Witch Project might have done, a little)

okay okay.. if you'd read my post you'd have seen that it didn't have to be particularly mind fucky.

 

[Rizzy]

Science Of Sleep

DO NOT WANT!

 

[Red Faction]

a scanner darkly
requiem for a dream- not really a headfuck in the sense you know what is going on, but its the darkest film ive ever seen- i guess it rapes the part of your head responsible for happiness and hope

butterfly effect

toy story- jesus talking toys! what the fuck is all that about?! ... sorry if ive spoilt the plot for anyone there

 

[looneytune]

Jacob's Ladder (the first film that ever fuct with my head!)
Magnolia (esp. on acid, holy shit)
...and the classic, Apocalypse Now

 

[looneytune]

(and for teens there's 'Heathers')

 

[Detroit City]

(and for teens there's 'Heathers')

 

[Badgers]

National Lampoons?

 

[The Groke]

You Got Served.

 

[skeezix]

The Ninth Configuration

 

[Santino]

Carry on Mindfuck

 

[DotCommunist]

lol 'confessions of a mindfucker

 

[Flashman]

Picnic at Hanging Rock, agreed. Watched it recently some twenty years after first seeing it, gave me the willies again.

Beautifully macabre, sad and unnerving.

Peter Weir ftw.

 

[Santino]

Mindfuck vs. Predator

 

[electrogirl]

do you know what fucking pisses me off about Usual Suspects? No the film itself, but the fact that it's on every Top 100 film list in the world and on these fucking programmes they always reveal the twist. WTF is that about?

How presumptious to think everyone has seen it. So when I eventually did see it I didn't get that 'oh my god!' thing everyone else did so it just made me bitter and hate it.

god, maybe more fool me for watching those shit top 100 film shows in the first place but GOD.

they actually SHOW the clip where blank blankey stops blanking.

 

[trabuquera]

Recent film in this genre that's surprisingly good and no-one seems to have seen: The Nines. Very very odd indeed, not in a gory or particularly pretentious way though. Very much a 'puzzle' of a movie and much less self-consciously 'ooh, I'm dead weird, me' than some of the other contenders.

Just having some drug use/ drug sequences in it doesn't really make a film qualify, so IMO Human Traffic doesn't really mess with your head in the way the thread implies.

 

[Yetman]

Recent film in this genre that's surprisingly good and no-one seems to have seen: The Nines. Very very odd indeed, not in a gory or particularly pretentious way though. Very much a 'puzzle' of a movie and much less self-consciously 'ooh, I'm dead weird, me' than some of the other contenders.

I liked the nines a lot, very dreamlike and highlights the fragility of reality well.

I'd also recommend:

Holy Mountain
Taxidermia
Bad Boy Bubby
Irreversible
Themroc
Pi
Butterfly Effect

Theres loads more I love these sorts of films

 

[mitochondria]

Strange Days.
13 Tzameti.

 

[kyser_soze]

For weirdness that doesn't scare:

Pi
Cube
Fargo
Usual Suspects (funny that...)

Scary and weird
Jacobs Ladder
Blue Velvet
Videodrome/eXistenze/Naked Lunch
The Machinist
Eraserhead

 

[DJ Squelch]

Funny Games (original)
The Cell

 

[Flashman]

Brazil

 

[Rizzy]

Irreversible

Oh I forgot about that one! Uhhrhuhh. (that's a shuddering noise by the way. heh)

 

[Final]

Cube

quality film(shame about the sequels).


Terminator: who was John Connor's father the first time around?

 

[sorearm]

I found Blair Witch Project really quite funny actually, watching it in the cornerhouse cinema in manc on release was quite atmospheric but it was a silly film. The bit where the child's handprints are all over the walls and the bloke is in the corner was a bit though.

Most david lynch I love, he's fucking visceral and twisted, love it! Videodrome had that very creepy wave building up that I liked, ExistenZ was a bit too glossy and superficial for my liking, but I enjoyed it.

yeah, I liked Strange Days, it's still one of my faves, the whole concept is very though provoking.

Jacob's ladder I saw years ago and fucking freaked me out no end, it must have been all the acid I'd taken in my mispent youth he he Still freaks me out that and can't really watch it without a squirm of discomfort as it's very close to the bone...

I tell you what did freak the shit out of me the other day, The Ring was on the telly, fucking hell the psychological racking up of the pressure kept me on the edge... damn good film

I like American Beauty and Usual Suspects, they were nicely edited films, don't freak me out, they're just well crafted with good characters.

... will think of more!

 

[sorearm]

oh god Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me ... yes, not only did that just fucking mess with my head but it was very uncomfortable viewing, probably as a previous poster has said as it was like a bad acid trip, when I first saw it I was closer to my acid taking days so didn't really feel at ease watching it... be interesting to watch it now, but the GF I don't think is a twin peaks fan... *cries*

 

[Flashman]

Terminator: who was John Connor's father the first time around?

Reese