Probably David Lynch’s Inland Empire, which i find irresistibly beautiful as well…
Interesting list. One that grabbed my interest was The Quiet Earth… and a NZ film of all things? I’m off to the video store tonight to see if I can get my hands on it.
Definitely Mamuro Oshii’s Innocence and maybe Primer as well.
Definitely Mamuro Oshii’s Innocence and maybe Primer as well.
Performance
Scream and Scream Again
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Lisztomania
Crash (the good one, not the piece of crap that won the Oscar)
Duelle
I was just going to say Performance too!
Did no one mention Even Dwarves Started Small?
That anime movie Perfect Blue. And Carnival of Souls, too. Inland Empire is as minfuck as resolving a rubik cube hangin on a tree.
Altman’s 3 WOMEN… you gotta do it
pls don’t forget Inland Empire, when i say “mindfuck”, I am thinking mind bending and thereby fucking with our senses and not in anyway bad/boring movie. Inland Empire or for that matter any Lynch movie is great except they do qualify as mindfucks
Calvaire (2004), by Fabrice de Welz
Never seen any Cremaster films, but from what I hear they would work pretty well on the list.
Oh, and then probably The Ruling Class. That movie fucked my mind and didn’t even buy me a drink first.
I agree with David Lynch’s Inland Empire, I had to watch that film in segments…
…would Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’ falls under this category? ?
Fight Club – reveals a schizoid split in the hero’s character, he survives an onscreen suicide attempt with a pistol (thanks, BUF Compagnie!)—then the city blows the fuck up.
Arrabal’s Viva La Muerte and I Will Walk Like A Crazy Horse
Miike’s Gozu
Malle’s Black Moon
Ruiz’s On Top Of A Whale
Izumiya’s Death Powder
Suzuki’s Ziegunerweisen
Oshima’s Death By Hanging
@DAVID E. – “The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse” – I second! I remembered feeling really strange coming out of the theatre after seeing it.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned “Body Double” — the first movie I know of to actually use the phrase “mind fuck.” I went around for weeks afterward looking for a reason to use it.
august underground
funny games
aftermath
trouble every day
salo
august underground’s penance
there are images from these films that i will see when i shut my eyes for the rest of my life.
On a lighter note, Blue Velvet.
Valerie’s Week of Wonders
The Machinist?
I see ‘Cube’ on that list. How about Vincenzo Natali’s ‘Nothing’? It’s mindfuckery of the comedic sort.
So I’m seeing a lot of assorted movies here, but I’m not sure I understand what is meant by the term “mindfuck.” Is there a specific scene in a specific movie that can illustrate the term?
I can only really speak for myself, so here goes. The scene that I would describe as being truly “mindfuck” is in ERASERHEAD, during one of the Henry’s dreams, when he steps onto the stage with the Lady In The Radiator. The scene continues into the sequence in the pencil factory, but the main moments I have in mind are the sequence on the stage itself, with the tree and the crying baby. I don’t want to give too many details, because I don’t want to spoil it for those who don’t know it, but there’s something about that scene that just hits me at some deep place where all my words cease to function, it inspires a sense of dread and a sort of confusion that isn’t confusion, if you know what I mean. Something, some feeling or idea, is being communicated in a completely unconventional and disturbing way.
I’m not sure what it means either. I have always used it for when a film blows me away and is different or a bizarre. Seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey in theatres was a definite mind fuck.
It appears some minds are more easily fucked than others.
‘Hidden’ for sure. About the only time I’ve seen a whole theatre sit until the end of the credits.
Hands down the greatest mind—— film of all time is the original Parent Trap with Haley Mills. End of discussion.
I really don’t think Solaris is really a mindfuck film. If that is what they see in the movie then they really missed the whole point. Solaris is meant to widen your perception of the world around us, not fuck it up.
David, I agree. I think some of these films are just strange or slightly transgressive rather than being true mindfucks. You can ultimately figure out what they’re up to.
Definitely Persona needs to be on that list. I watched it again recently and am still clueless on the meaning behind it all
Justin mentioned Altman’s 3 Women, I think you can throw his Images on there as well.
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God, I really need to see FUNKY FOREST. And QUIET EARTH which I have the great soundtrack for but have still never seen…