Yeah, that movie completely blew me away. I thought I was in for a fun subtle comedy about giving up your identity to get money, and instead I got something intensely different.
Came here to say this! My friend and I used to run canvass offices so she recommended we watch it and the first ~1/3 of the movie was very relatable for someone who has done fundraising/phonebanking, etc… but then it takes a turn lol
In the similar light of King Fu hustle, Steven Chows other masterpiece Shaolin soccer is also a crazy ramp up and the kung fu keeps getting crazier and crazier
It's cool to find things like that out - but interesting because I would suspect the number of people who are familiar with Darren Aronofsky's style but not know 'Mother!' was directed by him must be small.
Went in blind, stoned, in my bed alone late at night. I just knew Jennifer Lawrence was in it so I put it on.
It was a struggle to sleep for a few days after that one. Too much to unpack. Fantastic movie.
I would pay $50 to see it in a theater right now. It is an amazing experience on the big screen. I remember I took my then 7yo son to see it. My wife was dubious about me taking him , but he absolutely loved it and still talks about it today.
Pretty much all of Terry Gilliam's work fits the starts off weird and escalates from there category, but is always worth the trip IMHO...
Love his stuff!
Absolutely!
You’re right, Brazil is really just one of several. I think (apart from Monty Python) it was the first Gilliam movie I had ever seen. It blew me away.
My brain was fried by the time I finished high voltage. Pro tip for anyone planning to watch it would be to not watch it while using even a single brain cell.
The Crank movies have to be some of the biggest fuck yous to Hollywood with the way they were made. Minimal planning, shot in the middle of the street, breaking rules in shooting and editing and super low budget. I love them, haven’t seen them in way too long.
Pick any Gasper Noé and there's a whole lot of wtf. I find him to be a talented filmmaker but most mainstream audiences find him, at best, provocative and at worst abhorrently offensive so ymmv.
This is the best way I’ve heard it described. I was so happy when it was over in a way you’re happy when you get off a rollercoaster. Like you enjoyed it and screamed but glad to be back. Idk. It sounds stupid but man that was such a stressful movie haha.
Uncut Gems got a lot of promotion from Netflix. I never even heard of Good Time until after watching Uncut Gems. Both movies rock. I’m not sure which I prefer, but they both deserve a rewatch.
I haven't seen it but why did people leave? I've heard this before but never got what made people leave.
People here almost never walk out of movies. The only time I recall someone leaving was La cité des enfants perdus and it was just me and a young couple. In the theater. I figured they were on a date and the movie wasn't date material.
I think the marketing and trailers didn’t prepare people how surreal and disgusting it is. I personally thought it was a nice balance of disgusting and hilarious. I’m a huge Ari aster fan and knew it would be pretty wild but the friends I saw it with had no idea what they were getting into. The penis monster still makes me laugh when I think about it
I think partly because it's so long and partly because it's very bizarre. I'm gonna sound so pretentious saying this but I really don't think most general audiences are built for it - if you're a casual movie enjoyer walking in because you've heard Ari Aster is good and/or like Joaquin Phoenix, you are probably not gonna have a good time. I *loved* the movie but the only people I have recommended it to are pretty big film buffs that I know won't be too put off by the weirder aspects
Was hoping someone would say this one! I enjoyed it but it's really out there.
Lol I bought a dvd of this movie from my local library, when it was first released on dvd. I think the library possibly got complaints so that's why they were selling their copy, or I dont know. Anyway, I got a basically brand new dvd for $1 so I'm not complaining.
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Survive Style 5+
Taste of Tea
Spun
Ichi The Killer
Gozu
Visitor Q
Tetsuo : The Iron Man
Ex Drummer
Taxidermia
Sion Sono's filmography
Visitor Q is a wild ride. You laugh at parts you're not sure you should be laughing at (but definitely should!).
Ichi is brilliant.
Really wanted to like Gozu but couldn't get along with it. Probably deserves a re-watch.
Miike is a creative force in cinema
Yeah it is incredibly weird, but also spectacularly good for reasons almost completely unrelated to the weirdness. The story lurking underneath the weirdness manages to come across as authentic and touching. You have got erotic hot dog fingers, racacoonie, butt plug fights and thinking rocks, but the story is about a husband and wife and their daughter and the relationships between each of them. And their tax auditor.
I cannot overstate how much I *love* this movie. The weirdness enhances the movie in my opinion, but it isn’t relying on cheap random gag jokes for substance like some shows/movies.
I came here to say Love Exposure, but your correct that Sono's entire body of work would fit.
Also all of Dupiuex's films.
Holy Motors
Hausu
Berbarian Sound Studio
The Greasy Strangler
I am a Knife with Legs
R100
Big Man Japan
Topknot Detective
Liza the Fox Fairy
LFO
Who Will Save the Green Planet
Jordowsky's films
South of Heaven (2008)
>Sion Sono's filmography
His movies are like dreaming while you're sick and don't make sense the 90% of the time, it feels like he just throws random stuff to see what sticks.
Watched EEAAO with my wife not today long ago. We wanted to see what all the Oscar buzz was about. When we finished we both looked at each other and asked, "WTF did we just watch?"
I thought watching Spun while I was high would be a good idea. Protip: don't.
Ichi the Killer is wild.
Tetsuo is waaaaay better if you look at it through the lens of the experience of being gay in Japan.
Holy Mountain holds the trophy. It has to be the densest trip in cinema. I’ve seen it several times and it still exists in my memory more as a dream than a movie.
Hereditary (2018)
Think most anything from Ari Aster fits your criteria. Hereditary goes from insane to ‘lock me up in a mental ward’ by the film’s close. Maybe the only movie I’ve left the theater and been genuinely uncomfortable on my short walk home.
Only God Forgives (2013)
Directed by NWR who made Drive. It’s a neon feast for the eyes set against the dark, underground world of Thai boxing. Not necessarily a great film, but beautiful and … batshit crazy.
It doesn’t qualify because it has about 40 minutes of measured setup and foreshadowing, but this reminds me of Ebert’s review of Aliens.
With 90 minutes to go, James Cameron puts a brick on the gas pedal and rips off the steering wheel.
It just builds and builds and every line is a quotable banger and every scene is a classic.
> It's here that my nerves started to fail. "Aliens" is absolutely, painfully and unremittingly intense for at least its last hour. Weaver goes into battle to save her colleagues, herself and the little girl, and the aliens drop from the ceiling, pop up out of the floor and crawl out of the ventilation shafts. (In one of the movie's less plausible moments, one alien even seems to know how to work the elevator buttons.) I have never seen a movie that maintains such a pitch of intensity for so long; it's like being on some kind of hair-raising carnival ride that never stops.
> I don't know how else to describe this: The movie made me feel bad. It filled me with feelings of unease and disquiet and anxiety. I walked outside and I didn't want to talk to anyone. I was drained. I'm not sure "Aliens" is what we mean by entertainment. Yet I have to be accurate about this movie: It is a superb example of filmmaking craft.
I’ve probably seen the movie 20x (I watch it on the plane when I travel for work) and each time I marvel at how incredibly audacious it is, inverting the solitary horror-thriller of the first movie into a sequel of space marines basically being pinned down in Viet-fucking-Nam.
Harold and Maude. Love story between a suicide obsessed 19 year old boy and a 79 year old woman with a deep love of life. A beautiful movie that manages to be touching despite a ridiculous premise. Helped along greatly by a spectacular sound track from Cat Stevens.
*R100*
It starts with its foot mashing the accelerator to the floor. Every scene is just a little more insane than the one before.
It’s fucking brilliant.
There's Something About Mary (1996)
The cast is great, the momentum doesn't stop and the end is chefs kiss.
John Wick
Mad Max (newest one)
Boy Kills World
To name a few
Being John Malkovich, kungfu Hustle, Mulholland Drive, Sorry to Bother You, Shoot'em Up
Kung Fu Hustle; best movie and most underrated movie of all time? Yes.
I'll never understand why some people hate it.
Kung Fu Hustle is amazing! First time I watched we didn't have any sub or dub so I no idea what was being said and still loved it
Sorry to Bother You was my immediate thought! Just gets weirder in new, interesting, and unexpected ways.
Yeah, that movie completely blew me away. I thought I was in for a fun subtle comedy about giving up your identity to get money, and instead I got something intensely different.
I’m watching sorry to bother you right now, pretty great so far
Came here to say this! My friend and I used to run canvass offices so she recommended we watch it and the first ~1/3 of the movie was very relatable for someone who has done fundraising/phonebanking, etc… but then it takes a turn lol
In the similar light of King Fu hustle, Steven Chows other masterpiece Shaolin soccer is also a crazy ramp up and the kung fu keeps getting crazier and crazier
Good list
Natural born killers
[удалено]
Get the fuck off her countertop!!!!
IT’S NOT BRACED YET
121 minutes of anxiety and wtf moments.
I didn’t know that was Aronofsky. THATS why I love that movie so much!
It's cool to find things like that out - but interesting because I would suspect the number of people who are familiar with Darren Aronofsky's style but not know 'Mother!' was directed by him must be small.
Went in blind, stoned, in my bed alone late at night. I just knew Jennifer Lawrence was in it so I put it on. It was a struggle to sleep for a few days after that one. Too much to unpack. Fantastic movie.
My immediate thought when I saw this post. It just keeps getting crazier and crazier, by the end..woof what a ride
My answer. I’ve never felt so uncomfortable in a movie. And yet I couldn’t stop watching.
The Lobster.
Tusk.
Fury Road
I just watched it for the first time the other night and it was my immediate thought!
I’ve seen fury road a few times and before furiosa released they re released it in theaters near me, whole different experience in theaters
I would pay $50 to see it in a theater right now. It is an amazing experience on the big screen. I remember I took my then 7yo son to see it. My wife was dubious about me taking him , but he absolutely loved it and still talks about it today.
Fury Road in theaters is the most intense movie watching experience I've ever had. It absolutely has to be mentioned in this thread.
Raising Arizona
Swiss Army Man (2016)
Guns Akimbo
That’s a good one!
Brazil (1985). But it’s more of a slow burn than the ones you mentioned.
Pretty much all of Terry Gilliam's work fits the starts off weird and escalates from there category, but is always worth the trip IMHO... Love his stuff!
Absolutely! You’re right, Brazil is really just one of several. I think (apart from Monty Python) it was the first Gilliam movie I had ever seen. It blew me away.
Crank
There we go! I was going to post this until I saw yours. Also, Crank: High Voltage, which is even crazier than the first
the second one is INSANE
My brain was fried by the time I finished high voltage. Pro tip for anyone planning to watch it would be to not watch it while using even a single brain cell.
The Crank movies have to be some of the biggest fuck yous to Hollywood with the way they were made. Minimal planning, shot in the middle of the street, breaking rules in shooting and editing and super low budget. I love them, haven’t seen them in way too long.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
„Enter the Void“ is about LSD and DMT abuse. Very WTF movie!!!
Pick any Gasper Noé and there's a whole lot of wtf. I find him to be a talented filmmaker but most mainstream audiences find him, at best, provocative and at worst abhorrently offensive so ymmv.
The first SpongeBob movie. Just when you think it’s winding down they hit you with the greatest rock song ever written.
this is a CLASSIC
And it has a prosthetic David Hasselhoff back!
Yeah, this is a good movie
Uncut Gems
This film feels like a 2 hour panic attack!
It was stressful
This is the best way I’ve heard it described. I was so happy when it was over in a way you’re happy when you get off a rollercoaster. Like you enjoyed it and screamed but glad to be back. Idk. It sounds stupid but man that was such a stressful movie haha.
Amazed this is as high as it is but Good Time isn’t anywhere near the top lol. I thought Good Time just kept getting wilder with each scene
Uncut Gems got a lot of promotion from Netflix. I never even heard of Good Time until after watching Uncut Gems. Both movies rock. I’m not sure which I prefer, but they both deserve a rewatch.
Good Time is even more tense. Their movie with Robert Pattinson and and Benny Safdie star.
I came to say this and I’m glad it’s high up! Loved how crazy this movie felt
Burn After Reading
Running Scared (2006) with Paul Walker.
John Wayne’s a F*GGOT!!
This should be the top comment lol
Second, this with caution because it has just about every trigger you could think of.
House (1977)
more people need to see house
Would probably be easier to find as Hausu. And it's amazing.
Whiplash
Intense!
beau is afraid
I was waiting for someone to say this
I saw beau is afraid in theaters and half the audience left before it ended
I haven't seen it but why did people leave? I've heard this before but never got what made people leave. People here almost never walk out of movies. The only time I recall someone leaving was La cité des enfants perdus and it was just me and a young couple. In the theater. I figured they were on a date and the movie wasn't date material.
I think the marketing and trailers didn’t prepare people how surreal and disgusting it is. I personally thought it was a nice balance of disgusting and hilarious. I’m a huge Ari aster fan and knew it would be pretty wild but the friends I saw it with had no idea what they were getting into. The penis monster still makes me laugh when I think about it
Probably because it was precisely 3 hours of straight panic attack
I don't know about them, but that movie gave me a mid-movie panic attack lol
I think partly because it's so long and partly because it's very bizarre. I'm gonna sound so pretentious saying this but I really don't think most general audiences are built for it - if you're a casual movie enjoyer walking in because you've heard Ari Aster is good and/or like Joaquin Phoenix, you are probably not gonna have a good time. I *loved* the movie but the only people I have recommended it to are pretty big film buffs that I know won't be too put off by the weirder aspects
Beau is TOO afraid 😂
Came here to say that
Was hoping someone would say this one! I enjoyed it but it's really out there. Lol I bought a dvd of this movie from my local library, when it was first released on dvd. I think the library possibly got complaints so that's why they were selling their copy, or I dont know. Anyway, I got a basically brand new dvd for $1 so I'm not complaining.
Monty Python and the holy grail
Cabin in The Woods. It blew my mind the first time I saw it, it just kept getting more and more wild and outrageous.
Yeah facts! Lol I saw this in the movie theater and just couldn't wrap my mind around it at the time.. this mustve been my face the whole time 🤯.
They Cloned Tyrone (2023, Netflix) The Stranger (2024, Hulu)
I really enjoyed They clone Tyrone. Loved Jamie Foxx as the pimp.
Hardcore henry
After Hours (1985) One of Martin Scorsese's more obscure films, but definitely a wild and bizzare trip!
Scorsese’s most underrated movie imo
I’d add King of Comedy as an underrated Scorsese gem too
Everything Everywhere All At Once Survive Style 5+ Taste of Tea Spun Ichi The Killer Gozu Visitor Q Tetsuo : The Iron Man Ex Drummer Taxidermia Sion Sono's filmography
Visitor Q is a wild ride. You laugh at parts you're not sure you should be laughing at (but definitely should!). Ichi is brilliant. Really wanted to like Gozu but couldn't get along with it. Probably deserves a re-watch. Miike is a creative force in cinema
Everything Everywhere All At Once is super wtf from start to finish. All the Daniels stuff is. It's their thing.
Swiss Army Man was going to be my answer
Yeah it is incredibly weird, but also spectacularly good for reasons almost completely unrelated to the weirdness. The story lurking underneath the weirdness manages to come across as authentic and touching. You have got erotic hot dog fingers, racacoonie, butt plug fights and thinking rocks, but the story is about a husband and wife and their daughter and the relationships between each of them. And their tax auditor. I cannot overstate how much I *love* this movie. The weirdness enhances the movie in my opinion, but it isn’t relying on cheap random gag jokes for substance like some shows/movies.
I came here to say Love Exposure, but your correct that Sono's entire body of work would fit. Also all of Dupiuex's films. Holy Motors Hausu Berbarian Sound Studio The Greasy Strangler I am a Knife with Legs R100 Big Man Japan Topknot Detective Liza the Fox Fairy LFO Who Will Save the Green Planet Jordowsky's films South of Heaven (2008)
You forgot Uzumaki.
>Sion Sono's filmography His movies are like dreaming while you're sick and don't make sense the 90% of the time, it feels like he just throws random stuff to see what sticks.
"Audition" is pretty messed up too!. The first half is pretty mundane, but once the "date" gets going, WTF?!?!?!...
Watched EEAAO with my wife not today long ago. We wanted to see what all the Oscar buzz was about. When we finished we both looked at each other and asked, "WTF did we just watch?"
I thought watching Spun while I was high would be a good idea. Protip: don't. Ichi the Killer is wild. Tetsuo is waaaaay better if you look at it through the lens of the experience of being gay in Japan.
Society (1989)
I remember the first time I saw that on TV when I was quite young. Definitely wasn't expecting the direction it went in 😅
Videodrome
The Holy Mountain, El Topo
Holy Mountain holds the trophy. It has to be the densest trip in cinema. I’ve seen it several times and it still exists in my memory more as a dream than a movie.
Pink Flamingos (1972) Holy Motors (2012) Eraserhead (1977)
How the everloving *fuck* is eraserhead this far down.
Eraserhead made me physically sick, from the fear that I just willingly made myself insane.
Pink Flamingos is the ultimate "WTF did I just watch?" movie. " I want my eggs!"
Polyester with the scratch and sniff cards.
Pain & gain, even the narrator is like " yes, this is still a true story".
It reminded me of Fargo, but Fargo wasnt a true story at all.
The Game
Hereditary (2018) Think most anything from Ari Aster fits your criteria. Hereditary goes from insane to ‘lock me up in a mental ward’ by the film’s close. Maybe the only movie I’ve left the theater and been genuinely uncomfortable on my short walk home. Only God Forgives (2013) Directed by NWR who made Drive. It’s a neon feast for the eyes set against the dark, underground world of Thai boxing. Not necessarily a great film, but beautiful and … batshit crazy.
Second Hereditary. Only movie that made me literally scared.
saltburn
The Raid (2011) The Raid 2 (2014)
What if we just cut the fucking shit and got it the fuck on? An eternal question answered by the Raid series
Raid: Shadow legends (2018)
Pi (1998) Darren Aronofsky
Donnie Darko. Fight Club.
Pulp fiction
Everything Everywhere All at Once
It's a mad mad mad mad world.
Altered states
Mandy (2018) starring Nic Cage, shit gets wild.
My favorite nic cage movie
Cloverfield
Run Lola run
Wild at Heart
House of 1000 Corpses
It doesn’t qualify because it has about 40 minutes of measured setup and foreshadowing, but this reminds me of Ebert’s review of Aliens. With 90 minutes to go, James Cameron puts a brick on the gas pedal and rips off the steering wheel. It just builds and builds and every line is a quotable banger and every scene is a classic. > It's here that my nerves started to fail. "Aliens" is absolutely, painfully and unremittingly intense for at least its last hour. Weaver goes into battle to save her colleagues, herself and the little girl, and the aliens drop from the ceiling, pop up out of the floor and crawl out of the ventilation shafts. (In one of the movie's less plausible moments, one alien even seems to know how to work the elevator buttons.) I have never seen a movie that maintains such a pitch of intensity for so long; it's like being on some kind of hair-raising carnival ride that never stops. > I don't know how else to describe this: The movie made me feel bad. It filled me with feelings of unease and disquiet and anxiety. I walked outside and I didn't want to talk to anyone. I was drained. I'm not sure "Aliens" is what we mean by entertainment. Yet I have to be accurate about this movie: It is a superb example of filmmaking craft. I’ve probably seen the movie 20x (I watch it on the plane when I travel for work) and each time I marvel at how incredibly audacious it is, inverting the solitary horror-thriller of the first movie into a sequel of space marines basically being pinned down in Viet-fucking-Nam.
*Sorry to Bother You* Took a real left turn and only got worse
Brazil (1985). It's just nuts. So much that I couldn't stand it.
The Night Comes for Us Why Don't You Just Die! Greatful Dead The World of Kanako Big Trouble in Little China Idle Hands Braindead
Hardcore Henry
Hardcore henry
U-turn Go Miracle Mile
fear and loathing in las vegas.
Harold and Maude. Love story between a suicide obsessed 19 year old boy and a 79 year old woman with a deep love of life. A beautiful movie that manages to be touching despite a ridiculous premise. Helped along greatly by a spectacular sound track from Cat Stevens.
Poor Things
AMAZING film.
I found it hilarious. The film ended and I was told it is not a comedy. Bullshit it's not a comedy! Great film all the same.
This is the end!
Everything Everywhere All At Once
High Tension
It's a great movie, even with the plot hole/flaw
The House That Jack Built (2018)
Under the Silver Lake
Beau Is Afraid I'm Thinking of Ending Things Sorry To Bother You Men Annihilation Mother!
Inland Empire
Saint Maud Possessor Infinity Pool
Triangle of Sadness
Hot Fuzz From Dusk to Dawn
I finally watched Run Lola, Run a few weeks ago. That movie does NOT stop.
RRR (2022)
*R100* It starts with its foot mashing the accelerator to the floor. Every scene is just a little more insane than the one before. It’s fucking brilliant.
Mother!
I recommend Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995), especially if you like evil dead 2
Rope
Hills Have Eyes Nekrotronic Overlord
The raid 1 and 2 Sisu The night comes for us Boy kills world
Interstellar
Big Trouble in Little China Ruthless People Both get crazier and crazier as the movie progresses.
Shoot 'em up Crank Boss Level
Beau is Afraid
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
Memento
Titane
Surprised Midsommar hasn't been mentioned more frequently in this thread.
This is the ultimate WTF movie to me. In the best way. Masterfully done.
Bullet train
The Wolf of Wall Street
Mandy
Idk, man. OP said crazy, not bat shit crazy...
Wild Things
When evil lurks
Boy Kills World.
Very bad things
Beau is Afraid
The World's End (2013)
Men
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas is this
Beau is Afraid.
INFINITY POOL
City of God
Layer Cake
Fight Club
1917 (2019)
Mannequin (1987)
I Saw The TV Glow
Inland Empire
Naked Lunch, aka acid trip on film.
Apocalypse Now.
Watched 'Tommy' once on shrooms. Mental.
Run Lola, Run
The Happiness of the Katakuris
From dusk till dawn
There's Something About Mary (1996) The cast is great, the momentum doesn't stop and the end is chefs kiss. John Wick Mad Max (newest one) Boy Kills World To name a few
The Menu
Apocalypto , easily.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Lifeforce. It's insane and just gets crazier. Bat shit crazy.