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What movie fucked with your head the most?

I just finished watching Requiem for a Dream (for the hundredth time). Darren Aronofsky needs a serious hug from his daddy.

What movies have you watched that fucked with your head so much that you were still thinking about it the next day?

IndySent 7 Feb 13
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Eyes Wide Shut.

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Full Metal Jacket!

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When I first saw Blade Runner soon after it came out. What really got me was the sci-fi film noir that was juxtaposed with the hauntingly beautiful soundtrack by Vangelis. And then of course many years later came the Director's Cut! Mind blown again. Vangelis refused to release the soundtrack for many, many years,as he did not want to be heard outside the film.

Underrated movie.
One of the best looking movies I ever saw. No CGI! NOT impressed with CGI. Makes it way too easy.

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The original Star Wars.That got me thinking about forces being neutral, depending on how you use them.
I, and several members of my family, were born psychic, so we knew that "God" wasn't the one doing the stuff we could do (water witching, ESP, seeing the future, etc.) since it came naturally, from birth, and had nothing to do with "religion."

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Brazil. Certain aspects of that movie still haunt me to this day.

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Watched the original Phantasm entirely too young. Think about that movie every time I visit a cemetery to this day. Nothing recently has had that effect. :-/

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(No mention of David Lynch films? This is no cinema discussion! I'm outta here.)

Mulholland Drive is probably his more famous film about this topic. But more so The Lost Highway. Both films present how, for some of us, our minds cope after a traumatic experience.

But those are just for real mind zingers - when you go WTF after watching them.

Ex Machina was the film that stuck in my head days after seeing it. The Turing Test isn't about whether an AI could pass for human. But whether it could while you know it's AI.

Ok, eraser head? WTF? I still can’t quite process that 35 years later

I second Lynch's movies man. Mulholland Falls is a favorite of mine.

@mrcharlie65 Yeah ... I've not researched Eraser Head.

I didn't know what Mulholland Drive was really about until I decided to research it. Then I was recommended The Lost Highway. And I had to look into that as well.

Lynch is truly unique and masterful in converting the psychosis presented in those two movies into narratives. Of course, they were "WTFs" as viewing experiences.

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The shining...

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Donnie Darko.

This x100

@MrLizard I actually have Frank the bunny tattooed on my arm

I watched it with my brother in law, and for some reason I was finishing lines even though it was my first viewing. The bit that surprised him is when I started a rant about smurfette only to find that the movie was also going in that direction.

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the old version of Handmaids Tale, with Duvall. creepy.

the Bothersome man....stayed in my head a long while.

2

The grudge

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Fried green tomatoes at the whistle-stop cafe

Stew anyone?

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A Clockwork Orange always makes me think new thoughts.

Viddy well ill brother. Viddy well.

I do enjoy a malenky bit of the ultraviolence, tolchocking starry teacher type vecks in the yarbles and grudies. πŸ˜‰

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A good "old" classic. Dark City. Great Sci-Fi noir

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When I was younger ie in my teens me and my mates took acid and got stoned then watched the exorcist. freaked the living fuck out of all of us.

oh, you are completely right lol. the question wasn't why but what film. it was nearly 40 years ago

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Inception, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Seven Pounds, Being John Malkovich

2

Deer Hunter

Reading through these, I was trying to remember all those movies I've seen, and then came across AnneWimsey's post. Deer Hunter freaked me out more than any.

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Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind, or Waking Mind.

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Requiem for a Dream.

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The Ring. The Butterfly Effect. Django Unchained. Inception. Silence of the lambs. Se7en

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Psycho. Watched it at the Rialto theater with my mom. Mistake.

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Hostel

NEVER want to travel after that!
Screw that!!

@IndySent I've yet to watch the 3rd one. Those are worse than the Saw movies!

And knowing that is based off true events.. makes it even more nasty.

@mistymoon77 that's just Fucked Up!
shiver

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The last Star Wars.

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Night of the Living Dead. I ain't been right since.

@AMGT I avoid all zombie movies. Although, I got stuck in a situation where I had to watch "World War Z". I closed my eyes for most of the zombie parts. I won't watch "The Walking Dead", or it's spinoff. I even have trouble with the White Walkers on "Game of Thrones". The whole idea of the "undead" really freaks me out.

@AMGT I love that one!

If you get a chance, watch the spoof of that movie. Night of the dawn of the day of the living dead, or something like that. It’s the original film but with all new dialog. It’s cute and might wash the creep factor away. It should be on YouTube

Zombies rock! I live near where they filmed NOTLD, although a little closer to the original Dawn of the Dead location. My sister told me about them filming that and wanting extras for it. My Mother wouldn't let me go, though. 😟

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Apocalypse Now. Woodstock. Bangladesh. Tommy. Heavy Metal. Mad Dogs and English Gentlemen, The sensualist, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell, The Pearl, Altered States... It was not the movies... it was the level of intoxication of the experimental substances.

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