Movies That Will Seriously Mess With Your Head

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These are the movies that make you wonder if some one slipped acid in your coffee.

Un Chien Andalou (1929)

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This infamous short film—directed by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali—has no plot, but instead features a collage of surreal images. The most famous image is the opening eye slicing scene.

Eraserhead (1977)

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All of David Lynch’s movies are head trips, but his first movie “Eraserhead” is a surreal, symbolic dream about parental anxieties. Or at least that’s what I think this movie is about.

"Head" trailer

Yes, Sonny Liston and Annette Funicello were in this movie!

Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)

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Written by Floyd bassist Roger Waters and directed by Alan Parker, this movie has hardly any dialogue, and is told primarily through images (including animated scenes by Gerald Scarfe) and Floyd’s music. Kind of like an hour and a half long music video.

Centerville!

Mark and Howard land in Centerville, “a real nice place to raise your kids up.”

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

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The film takes you inside Jim Carrey’s head as he attempts to save his memories. A really sweet, romantic story.

I am the Walrus

From “Magical Mystery Tour.” Goo-goo-gi-joob!

Morvern Callar

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Both the book and the movie messed with my head. What. In fact, everything we read and watched in my grad school literature classes scarred me for life. Legit.

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Pi (1998)

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Darren Aronofsky’s feature film debut is a twisted psychological thriller involving mathematics, Kabbalah, and conspiracy theories.

Natural Born Killers (1994)

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A bloodbath, social satire, and bad acid trip all rolled into one!

 

The infamous eye slicing opening

Don’t worry, that’s a bull’s eye, not a human’s.

Tommy (1975)

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Ken Russell’s adaptation of The Who’s classic album is chock full of crazy psychedelic imagery. Who can forget Anne Margaret rolling around in a pile of beans and chocolate?

Head (1968)

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By the late ’60s the Monkees were trying to break from their squeaky-clean bubble gum pop image, so they and their manager Bob Rafelson teamed up with Jack Nicholson, smoked a lot of pot, and came up with this surreal movie. It bombed at the box office, but is now a cult classic. Best scene: the opening “Porpoise Song.”

Goodbye Blue Sky

From “Pink Floyd: The Wall.”

200 Motels (1971)

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Frank Zappa wrote and co-directed this bizarre satire of the rock-and-roll lifestyle. The film features Ringo Starr as a surrogate Zappa (“He made me do it!”), Keith Moon as a nun, and Mark and Howard from the Turtles singing with the Mothers of Invention. This movie was shot on videotape, then transferred to film.

Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

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In the midst of their drugged-out phase, the Beatles thought that they could direct a movie with no script and no plot. Although it was a critical disaster when it first aired, this hour-long experimental movie contains some great musical numbers. Trivia: the novelty band Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band have a cameo near the end singing one of their songs. That song is called “Death Cab for Cutie.” And now you know the rest of the story!

Naked Lunch

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…or any of David Cronenberg’s movies, really. Cinematic masterpieces or not, I find myself unable to watch them!

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Gummo

The second feel-good story from Harmony Korine, who first brought you Kids, is Gummo. So many life lessons are learned in this film. Lesson number one: Don’t eat spaghetti in the bathtub.

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Stir of Echoes (1999)

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Uh, this movie gave me a serious aversion to exposed brick. Gives me the willies.

added by The Mean Bean 03/05/2009

Watership Down - Theatrical Trailer

This is supposed to be a movie for children based on a best-selling book. Well, if you’d like to give your children the equivalent of horrifically dark mental tattoos, by all means pop this in this classic on a Friday afternoon. Creepy!

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I didn’t see right away that you already had “Pi” so I started to do that one first – that movie is ca-reeeepytimes!! I never, ever need to see it again.