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Mindfuck Films

Gabe

-moderator-
over 3 years ago

Thought this was a pretty good list. What do you guys think? Significant omissions?

Adempti​on

over 3 years ago

Sure, everything else by David Lynch, except “The Elephant Man.”

Roscoe

over 3 years ago

Minds fucked by the likes of JACOB’S LADDER, THE GAME and DARK CITY are too easily fucked.

Robert trapped in nowhere

over 3 years ago

how about The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie? or The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover?

Adempti​on

over 3 years ago

True, Robert T.I.N., nearly anything by Bunuel or Greenaway will do.

Crap Monster

over 3 years ago

Roscoe, seconded. That be some tame shit.

Im surprised El Topo isn’t on there….

Adempti​on

over 3 years ago

Salo, the last 1.5 hours of Berlin Alexanderplatz, anything considered Surreal, nearly anything by Guy Maddin, Svankmajer…

Harry Long

over 3 years ago

Just off the top of my head:
EL TOPO
(oops, just noticed your post, Crap Monster)
KAFKA
THE TRIAL
THE ATTIC EXPECITIONS
And, judging by the “Huh?” reaction of so many in the audience: THE PRESTIGE

And then there are the movies that are not puzzling but still fuck with your mind, such as:
THE DEVILS
THE RULING CLASS

Justin Biberkopf

over 3 years ago

In addition to what’s been said, maybe 21 Grams, Werckmeister Harmonies, Gerry, Persona, Teorema…

Adempti​on

over 3 years ago

Yeah, Gerry is fucking weird.

johnny

over 3 years ago

the amputee by david lynch

Harry Long

over 3 years ago

O LUCKY MAN probably belongs on the list, too.

Willam

over 3 years ago

Order- From Cremaster 3
Irreversible

Willam

over 3 years ago

Bunny Lake is Missing
Pink Flamingos
Honeymoon Killers
Cannibal Holocaust
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
Holy Mountain

NIGHTSH​IFT

over 3 years ago

SANTA SANGRE – Jodorovsky
SECONDS – John Frankenheimer
THE TENANT – Polanski
IN A GLASS CAGE – Agusti Villaronga

Willam

over 3 years ago

@Noel Danseco

Seconds has to be one of my favorite films of all time.

NIGHTSH​IFT

over 3 years ago

@MG – Hell yeah, man! Bizarre, underrated and overlooked.

Adempti​on

over 3 years ago

Yeah, Seconds. Probably one of the more depressing films I have ever seen. Ever. It is really well done sci-fi too.

Matthia​s Galvin

over 3 years ago

Missing Last Year at Marienbad.

Hopeles​sly Addicte​d

over 3 years ago

Another nod for Seconds. I accidentally caught it in the early 90s while watching a cable channel and I thought it showcases the 60s-style paranoia than something like The Manchurian Candidate.

Hopeles​sly Addicte​d

over 3 years ago

Also:
Persona
Cache
Funny Games
Close up (Kiarostami)
Total Recall

Jake Howell

over 3 years ago

Pretty much any Haneke, Oldboy and The Sacrifice. Oh, and Don’t Look Now and The Shining. And Naked Lunch. He really could have extended this list to 100 it seems.

Osonnen​strahlo

over 3 years ago

Cronenbergs’s Spider and Crash.

Hopeles​sly Addicte​d

over 3 years ago

Elements of Crime – One of Lars von Trier’s best, if not the best, and often overlooked film.

Honey Bunny

over 3 years ago

I am so happy that CUBE is on that list.

THE FALLEN
USUAL SUSPECTS
CACHE
INSOMNIA

Raul

over 3 years ago

COME & SEE
FANTASTIC PLANET

No T.Hanks

over 3 years ago

For me, it’s Bambi.

Something about Thumper just creeps me out. (No doubt, the hidden influence behind Donnie Darko.)

But seriously, I’d say that while I wouldn’t call Lattuada’s Mafioso a blatant mind fuck, it does do a masterful trick of ending as a different movie than it starts out to be. More subtle in its shift, but deeply effective nonetheless. In the closing shot, were brought back to the same exact world we entered in the begining—but nothing beneath the surface can feel the same again. Also it predates most of the other movies listed by a considerable amount of years.

neo_noi​r

over 3 years ago

This is a bit off but I feel kinda relates to it.

Neon Genesis Evangelion is a total mindfuck. I guess End of Evangelion can count as a film. It’s a great series and all, but fuck it at the same time. I think there was some literal mindfucking in one episode. But Evangelion totally tricks you, it starts off as like a happy go luck mecha anime, but it takes a fuckin’ left turn in the middle of the series, where you find out everyone in that show just has problems. Both endings pissed me the fuck off, I don’t know which ending I like more, or correction pissed me off less: That everything that happend near the end never real and just a fuckin’ test or we ALL fuckin’ DIE. Supposedly the new ending for the re-fuck films is gonna be the true ending, but I feel it’s also gonna piss me off.

Again, sorry, I kinda went off… but it’s also always fun for me to vent my fustration with the series.

Adempti​on

over 3 years ago

“Funky Forest” is a mindfuck. It is boring, but full of laconic, ineffective, slow mindfuckery.

Adempti​on

over 3 years ago

dbl post (got too excited).