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Old 5th June 2018, 10:32 AM
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Thanks to all who contributed a list of their favourite cannibal films and/or those starring the great Tomas Milian.

I had several things to choose from today and decided to choose the one which would probably lead to the most individual and eclectic lists, with the subject being those films which have confused, bewildered or completely lost you with a narrative which is either very complicated or so surreal you have almost no idea of what you've just seen when the end credits are rolling.

From Cronenberg to Aronofsky, Lynch to Kubrick and Gondry to Jodorowsky, a number of filmmakers have made fascinating films which have completely lost me, sometimes meaning I need to watch a film several times before I fully understand what has taken place. Sometimes I can watch a film many times, reading theories and interpretations online and still have little idea about what has transpired, so it would be great to know what films have ended (even if you now completely 'get' them) and left you thinking "Wait, what?"

MINDF**K FILMS

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Old 5th June 2018, 02:18 PM
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These ones left me totally confused

American Psycho
Antichrist 2009
The Demoniacs 1974
Existenz 1999
Feed 2005
Lovely Molly 2011
Manhattan Baby
The Evil 1978
The Hole 2001
The Innkeepers 2011


Some mentions
The House of the Devil
The Langoliers
Infection 2004
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Old 5th June 2018, 06:02 PM
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El Topo
Jacob's Ladder
Eraserhead
Fando Y Lis
Begotten
964 Pinocchio
A Snake of June
Holy Mountain
The Usual Suspects
Possession

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This will be easy. Or will it?

Possession
The Doom Generation
The House With Laughing Windows
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Calvaire
Inland Empire
The Idiots
Kill List
Dogtooth
The 5000 Fingers Of Dr T.

All have messed with my head at some point. Especially the 4th film listed
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Old 11th June 2018, 06:32 PM
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MINDF**K FILMS

These are the top 20 films which left me completely confused about what was going on, listed in order of how much I like them, rather than how confusing I thought they were:
  1. Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
  3. Donnie Darko (Kelly)
  4. Lost Highway (Lynch)
  5. Persona (Bergman)
  6. Triangle (Smith)
  7. Eraserhead (Lynch)
  8. American Psycho (Harron)
  9. Possession (Zulawski)
  10. Inland Empire (Lynch)
  11. Total Recall (Verhoeven)
  12. The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky)
  13. The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel)
  14. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch)
  15. The Machinist (Anderson)
  16. Primer (Carruth)
  17. Solaris (Tarkovsky)
  18. Naked Lunch (Cronenberg)
  19. Holy Motors (Carax)
  20. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)

Half of these probably still confuse me, with the other half now making sense after repeated viewings, watching supplementary material and reading books and online articles.
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Old 12th June 2018, 12:09 AM
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I'm just basically going with films that screw with your mind in some way.

When watching films i can go either way, sometimes i try to work out a meaning for myself and others i just let wash over me.

So without further ado.

Top Ten Headlf*cks (no particular order)

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Holy Mountain
Fantastic Planet
Svankmajer’s Alice

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Hausu
Suspiria

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Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
Lost Highway
Company Of Wolves

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Dr Caligari (1989)
Videodrome
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Next 10

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Tetsuo
Carnival Of Souls
Altered States

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This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse
Eraserhead
Naked Lunch

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Viy - Spirit Of Evil.
The Hourglass Sanatorium
2001

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City Of Lost Children
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Final 10 (Too many films i wanted to mention)

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Beyond The Black Rainbow
Tommy
Yellow Submarine

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Forbidden Zone
Time Bandits

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Liquid Sky
Cabinet Of Dr Caligari
The Devils

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Zed And Two Noughts

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Uzumaki
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Old 12th June 2018, 08:51 AM
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Thanks to everyone who contributed a list in the last week. This week will be a strange one you could put it under the category of 'it's all in the family'; those films which, in some way, explore one of society's major taboos and have incest as a theme. It doesn't have to be an overriding part of the narrative, just something which is significant in the film.

INCEST FILMS

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