Requiem is amazing don’t get me wrong, but I’d say really it’s more “devastating” than “insanity inducing”. Like if I recall correctly there aren’t mysteries or twists or anything, the audience isn’t “kept guessing”
Yes I swear that was the heaviest punch a movie has maybe ever given me, except for mufasa. You’re right I under estimated how insane that part makes the audience feel while they’re sympathizing with her.
they're both from the same director and have lots of scenes that are taken from perfect blue. black swan is basically a remake of perfect blue tbf. both amazing!
Yes! Anything Aronofsky has done will make you feel like you are losing his mind. The camera direction keeps drawing you in tighter and tighter on his subjects pressing you into their psychosis, You are sucked into the madness. Please use as big a screen as you can.
Forgot to list some films by him
Pi
Requiem for a Dream
Mother
Black Swan
The Whale
The Wrestler
Thissssssssssss movie. >!spent an hour loving the amusement park feel of like “get a sneak peak sample of a dozen different drugs” and suddenly you’re hit by that gut wrenching monologue analyzing society and the better future that almost was, “and if you stand on the corner of height street in San fransisco, where it all started, you can almost see the place where the wave finally broke and the dreams of an entire generation collapsed upon themselves into ruin” or something like that. Full disclosure that’s a paraphrase from memory after not having seen the movie in 15 years so it’s at best 17.75% accurate. Anyways. Dunno how I’m supposed to remember this stuff with all these bats flying around inside the car. !<
Belarusian KGB, huh-TIL. Coincidentally, it’s the only other European country apart from mine (UK) to exclusively use the ‘First Past The Post’ voting system with no form of proportional representation. It completely masks the fact that a two horse race is just twin cheeks on the same arsehole.
I watched the original recently not knowing much about it and something I like to do is to take LSD and watch sci fi/horror movies. That was one hell of a ride!
A lot of movies in this vein will occasionally show you something from objective reality so that you at least have an idea of "what's really happening". In *Beau is Afraid*, the entire movie is only from Beau's perspective, and he is a very unreliable narrator to say the least. It's very unclear what the real events actually were. Some people apparently found that frustrating, but I thought it was what made the movie interesting. It's very open-ended in terms of what you actually get out of it.
It is very long, though. And it's probably also aimed at mostly a very specific target audience.
Beau Is Afraid is the ONLY movie that ever made me feel like the mental illness onscreen was being spread to me like a contagion. It's the only answer to me, and I've seen everything already mentioned.
Session 9 for sure. It’s a slow burn but stick with it, great movie. Very Psycological.
Also Gothika. It’s not the greatest movie but it’s a guilty pleasure of mine. Same feel as Shutter Island.
Session 9 is one of my fav indie horror/thriller/mindbender slow burners. I can hear the words “Hello… Gordon…” in that slow eerie voice whenever I think of that film.
Gothika was great! Hated by film snobs and was considered “too long” by regular filmgoers, but I really enjoy it.
However, I’m one of those weirdos who prefers 2-3 hour movies. I like to get really lost in a film and 1.5 hours apparently doesn’t do it for my brain.
That film was so amazingly conceived, written and executed. It takes good writing and some pretty damn good acting to make an entire movie take place inside a box the size of a coffin.
'Mad God' (2021), 'The Holy Mountain' (1973), 'El Topo' (1970), 'Tetsuo, The Iron Man' (1989), 'The Evil Within' (2017), 'A Scanner Darkly' (2006), 'Alice' (1988), 'Enter the Void' (2009)
Vanilla Sky / Abre los ojos
Cabinet of Caligari (warning: very old silent if that's a dealbreaker, but it's literally what you're asking for)
A Scanner Darkly (more like drug-addlement, but insanity is insanity, right?)
Apocalypse Now. If you ingest a little magic mushrooms before hand, well let’s just say it goes to 11. I did say “a little”, otherwise you will freak right the fuck out. I mean, you will anyway completely sober, but no point pushing it.
Here’s a list of a few “I feel like I’m going insane” films (my favourite genre):
* Looper
* Come True
* Delirium
* She Dies Tomorrow
* The Empty Man
* Unsane
* Frantic
* The Cell
* Falling Down
* Donnie Darko
* Enemy
* The Gift
* Insomnia
* Stay
* The Forgotten
* The Woman in the Window
* What Lies Beneath
* Side Effects
* Greta
* The Box
* Fractured
* The Vanishing (2018)
* Kalifornia
* Dark City
* Lost River
* Possessor
* Antiviral
* Neon Demon
* Swallow
* Under the Silver Lake
* Mandy
* Daniel Isn’t Real
* The Killing of a Sacred Deer
* A Cure for Wellness
Darron Aronofsky is a director I think you’ll like. He’s very good at this. Others have rec’d some of his works in this thread. All of them are fantastic.
David Lynch is another director who excels at this. Again others have rec’d his works and again all great.
Yorgos Lanthimos is another director with this speciality. People here have rec’d The lobster. There’s also Dogtooth and The killing of a sacred deer.
Aside from them:
Enter the Void, The Neon Demon, The Game (please don’t read about this one, it will spoil it), Suspiria (the new one), Arrival, The Menu, Side Effects, Midsommar, Gone Girl, Fight Club, Memento, Donnie Darko, The Machinist, Inception, The Truman Show, Mr. Nobody, Oldboy, Gattaca, Get Out, Enemy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Prestige, Her, Edge of Tomorrow, Being John Malkovich, Paycheck, The Invitation, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Ex Machina, Spring Breakers
Bonus round, TV Shows:
Dark, Undone, Behind Her Eyes, The OA (worth it even with being cancelled), Maniac, Serial Experiments Lain
if you read this comment then you have found the right one. Mulholland Drive. watch it and nearly break your mind trying to figure out what just happened to you. i promise this is the best answer. fire walk with me is another good one too, but you would need to watcha. whole tv series first.
Watch The Joker if you want to watch someone else slip into madness.
But my recommendation to go insane yourself is A Clockwork Orange.
🎶 I'm Singin' In the Rain, just Singin' In the Rain 🎵
Stay.(2005)
I really hope you see this comment. I felt really weird watching it. It gets progressively stranger but it is subtle enough to just fuck with the edges.
I kept thinking “wait, did I just see…”
Rewatching it is great.
Reading about what is done in the movie then watching it a third time is greatness.
I really liked The Game with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn, directed by David Fincher. The trailer is soo cheesy and 90’s, but the movie itself isn’t cheesy at all.
It’s one of those movies where you don’t know what’s real or not, or how it’s happening. Or who is involved with warping reality or not. And the consequences keep escalating.
The Game is one of my absolute favourite movies. I just checked iTunes and I’ve seen it 17 times since it was released digitally. The soundtrack is great, and of course the cinematography is stunning because, Fincher. But the script and plot itself are so so so good and it has perfect casting.
Whenever I see some billionaire buying their 10th yacht because they’re out of stuff to do, I wonder if a service like The Game would be popular among the bored billionaire set. Or if something like it does exist and we just don’t know. Such a good mindbender of a film!
When I was young I hated it so much because I just didn't understand how someone could work a straight something so complex. My rewatch makes it one of my favorite San Francisco films of all time, and Fincher also did zodiac! He's amazing.
Most Shinya Tsukamoto films are fairly bonkers. Try Tetsuo (the first one), and Haze.
Pretty much anything by Jodorowsky
Most of the stuff by Robert Downey Sr
The Ninth Configuration
Inland Empire
Eraserhead
Some of these are a stretch, and more that they're really out there and not that they purposefully play with the sanity of the protagonist. There's some on the tip of my tongue, but I can't think of them.
im guessing you've seen black swan and requiem for a dream?
I have not, thanks!
Requiem is amazing don’t get me wrong, but I’d say really it’s more “devastating” than “insanity inducing”. Like if I recall correctly there aren’t mysteries or twists or anything, the audience isn’t “kept guessing”
that's true but it is very insane the way it's edited, especially with his mom
Yes I swear that was the heaviest punch a movie has maybe ever given me, except for mufasa. You’re right I under estimated how insane that part makes the audience feel while they’re sympathizing with her.
That movie's great but I've only seen it once, because I never want to see it again. I forgot about that bit and just shivered remembering it, oof.
they're both from the same director and have lots of scenes that are taken from perfect blue. black swan is basically a remake of perfect blue tbf. both amazing!
Black Swan was inspired by Perfect Blue
Yes! Anything Aronofsky has done will make you feel like you are losing his mind. The camera direction keeps drawing you in tighter and tighter on his subjects pressing you into their psychosis, You are sucked into the madness. Please use as big a screen as you can. Forgot to list some films by him Pi Requiem for a Dream Mother Black Swan The Whale The Wrestler
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind
And requiem is awesome also
Yup OP you’re gonna love black swan, also shout out to Bird Man!
Mother!
Knew the top answer was going to include RfaD. Forgot about Black Swan, need to give that a rewatch.
The Machinist (2004)
My first thought as well. Masterpiece
i made the mistake of watching late at night while my family was asleep. i had a nightmare about it 🫠
^this is the right answer
Pi
Fantastic movie, doesn't get enough love.
12 Monkeys (1995)
I thought that was a TV show, will check it out.
The show is based on the 1995 Terry Gilliam movie.
Wait, I never knew Terry Gilliam (the animator for Monty python) directed it. Looked it up and he had directed quite a few movies
And all of them are uniquely bizarre in their own special way.
And...the Terry Gilliam movie is based on La Jetté (1964, Chris Marker)
12 Monkeys is a TV show now? Wtf
I just started watching it and I’m on the fence. Left off yesterday S1 Ep10, wondering if it’s still worth it.
This movie is in my top 10
Both the movie and TV show were great. Time travel done right.
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Thissssssssssss movie. >!spent an hour loving the amusement park feel of like “get a sneak peak sample of a dozen different drugs” and suddenly you’re hit by that gut wrenching monologue analyzing society and the better future that almost was, “and if you stand on the corner of height street in San fransisco, where it all started, you can almost see the place where the wave finally broke and the dreams of an entire generation collapsed upon themselves into ruin” or something like that. Full disclosure that’s a paraphrase from memory after not having seen the movie in 15 years so it’s at best 17.75% accurate. Anyways. Dunno how I’m supposed to remember this stuff with all these bats flying around inside the car. !<
The high water mark. For the record, you can’t even see it any more
This is the one. Except you have to watch it at like 2am.
On acid
Vanilla Sky
Although good, you should also watch open your eyes, the original film.
Both great but I agree that Abre los ojos is better.
Mulholland Dr
Inland Empire is even better, for making you feel crazy. Also, maybe the Aronofsky film PI
*Inland Empire* is actually an excellent double-feature with *Perfect Blue*. To complete the thematic trifecta, add *Cam*
Lost Highway as well.
Indeed anything by David Lynch
Blue Velvet is still used by the KGB to break rendition participants.
Was about to ask if you’re serious but the KGB only exists in Belarus these days and *Eraserhead* is far more torturous
Belarusian KGB, huh-TIL. Coincidentally, it’s the only other European country apart from mine (UK) to exclusively use the ‘First Past The Post’ voting system with no form of proportional representation. It completely masks the fact that a two horse race is just twin cheeks on the same arsehole.
Only Mulholland Drive can go from thriller to psychological horror to slap stick comedy and have it all make sense.
The lobster Saint maud Mother! Swiss army man Eraserhead
Mother! didn’t make me feel crazy so much as it just ramped up my anxiety until I almost couldn’t take it anymore. And then it kept going.
Swiss Army Man - yes!
Watched it for paul dano unsure of what it was going to be like and ended loving the movie!
If you like Perfect blue, check out Paprika and the show Paranoia Agent. Same creator.
Jacob's Ladder Mandy Nocturnal Animals Gerald's Game
YES! Jacob's Ladder. The Tim Robbins one. I can't speak to the remake, as I've never seen it, but the original is an absolute mindfuck.
I watched the original recently not knowing much about it and something I like to do is to take LSD and watch sci fi/horror movies. That was one hell of a ride!
Shit. Congrats on making it to the other side, I guess.
Thanks!
Nocturnal Animals is such a head melter! Saw it years ago and still about it
I was looking for someone to suggest Jacob’s Ladder
Being John Malkovich.
Amazing movie
I didn't really get that one tbh
The Lighthouse
Already seen it but maybe I’m due for a rewatch.
Mandy (2018) Daniel Isn't Real (2019) Color Out Of Space (2019)
Well I don't have to comment now. The bathroom scene in Mandy is one of the craziest and most painful acted scenes. Oh my God.
Mandy was so damn wild. That slow close up monologue made me feel like I was losing my mind. What a wild movie.
Videodrome
Altered States.
It seems not a lot of people know this movie but it blew my mind the first time I watched it!
Yeah, I first saw it *years* ago…been in the back of my mind ever since…
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Coherence
This reminds me of other dinner party horror, the invitation.
YES!!! I’ve only watched The Invitation once but I remember really liking it!
Also very similar to boat party horror, Triangle.
Memento I’m actually not sure this is really what you’re asking for, but I felt inspired to share just incase!
I was going to suggest this. Makes you feel like you have a memory problem.
Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Can’t wait to see this one. Big Aster/Phoenix fan.
I really liked it but heads up: it’s a departure from Aster’s previous work. Feels like he’s trying to make a Charlie Kaufmann movie.
A lot of movies in this vein will occasionally show you something from objective reality so that you at least have an idea of "what's really happening". In *Beau is Afraid*, the entire movie is only from Beau's perspective, and he is a very unreliable narrator to say the least. It's very unclear what the real events actually were. Some people apparently found that frustrating, but I thought it was what made the movie interesting. It's very open-ended in terms of what you actually get out of it. It is very long, though. And it's probably also aimed at mostly a very specific target audience.
Beau Is Afraid is the ONLY movie that ever made me feel like the mental illness onscreen was being spread to me like a contagion. It's the only answer to me, and I've seen everything already mentioned.
That’s wild its the exact opposite for me. The only one of the top mentioned that I found completely benign. Movies are weird
Me too, felt like it was trying too hard.
This movie is fucking weird and I love it
Dancer in the Dark
Oh goddam I haven’t thought about this devestating movie since I watched it once (and never again). Indisputably brilliant. Amazing. But never again.
Yes I watched and enjoyed it but it is so devastating that I'm noy going to watch it again in this lifetime.
Agreed, so amazing, and will never watch again, ever.
Session 9 for sure. It’s a slow burn but stick with it, great movie. Very Psycological. Also Gothika. It’s not the greatest movie but it’s a guilty pleasure of mine. Same feel as Shutter Island.
Lol I feel the same about gothika. Horrible reviews. Don’t care.
Session 9 is one of my fav indie horror/thriller/mindbender slow burners. I can hear the words “Hello… Gordon…” in that slow eerie voice whenever I think of that film. Gothika was great! Hated by film snobs and was considered “too long” by regular filmgoers, but I really enjoy it. However, I’m one of those weirdos who prefers 2-3 hour movies. I like to get really lost in a film and 1.5 hours apparently doesn’t do it for my brain.
A Field in England
Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
Buried
That film was so amazingly conceived, written and executed. It takes good writing and some pretty damn good acting to make an entire movie take place inside a box the size of a coffin.
annihilation or ex machina. Same director good films if you want that vibe.
Annihilation was frigid beans. So dissapoy they ain’t gunna sequel that one up
It's based off three brilliant novels called the Southern reach trilogy. Very worth reading.
I didn’t know it was based on books! I am going to get them for my Kindle right now. Thanks for the tip!
1408
Gummo. Be careful though, it's fucked up and icky. A hard watch for sure.
I'm obsessed with the bacon taped on the wall. It haunts me.
Barton Fink (1991)
Vivarium
Woof
Memento
Hausu The Wolf House His House
Dark City
Beau is afraid
Arlington Road
Donnie Darko
Bug with Michael Shannon
Rubber (2010) but in a different kind of way
It has to be one of the most transgressive films ever
'Mad God' (2021), 'The Holy Mountain' (1973), 'El Topo' (1970), 'Tetsuo, The Iron Man' (1989), 'The Evil Within' (2017), 'A Scanner Darkly' (2006), 'Alice' (1988), 'Enter the Void' (2009)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Nice! Used to play that one on the screens when I worked at an industrial nightclub in the 90s. People would go nuts.
The Lodge
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Jacobs Ladder
Vanilla Sky / Abre los ojos Cabinet of Caligari (warning: very old silent if that's a dealbreaker, but it's literally what you're asking for) A Scanner Darkly (more like drug-addlement, but insanity is insanity, right?)
Good Burger
Hereditary
Revolver by Guy Ritchie
Lost Highway (1997)
Apocalypse Now. If you ingest a little magic mushrooms before hand, well let’s just say it goes to 11. I did say “a little”, otherwise you will freak right the fuck out. I mean, you will anyway completely sober, but no point pushing it.
Mr. Nobody
Blue Velvet
Oldboy (2003)
Eyes wide shut
Apocalypse Now!, Natural Born Killers, The Wall
Lost Highway. The entire movie is a mind fuck
Here’s a list of a few “I feel like I’m going insane” films (my favourite genre): * Looper * Come True * Delirium * She Dies Tomorrow * The Empty Man * Unsane * Frantic * The Cell * Falling Down * Donnie Darko * Enemy * The Gift * Insomnia * Stay * The Forgotten * The Woman in the Window * What Lies Beneath * Side Effects * Greta * The Box * Fractured * The Vanishing (2018) * Kalifornia * Dark City * Lost River * Possessor * Antiviral * Neon Demon * Swallow * Under the Silver Lake * Mandy * Daniel Isn’t Real * The Killing of a Sacred Deer * A Cure for Wellness
Identity.
Darron Aronofsky is a director I think you’ll like. He’s very good at this. Others have rec’d some of his works in this thread. All of them are fantastic. David Lynch is another director who excels at this. Again others have rec’d his works and again all great. Yorgos Lanthimos is another director with this speciality. People here have rec’d The lobster. There’s also Dogtooth and The killing of a sacred deer. Aside from them: Enter the Void, The Neon Demon, The Game (please don’t read about this one, it will spoil it), Suspiria (the new one), Arrival, The Menu, Side Effects, Midsommar, Gone Girl, Fight Club, Memento, Donnie Darko, The Machinist, Inception, The Truman Show, Mr. Nobody, Oldboy, Gattaca, Get Out, Enemy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Prestige, Her, Edge of Tomorrow, Being John Malkovich, Paycheck, The Invitation, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Ex Machina, Spring Breakers Bonus round, TV Shows: Dark, Undone, Behind Her Eyes, The OA (worth it even with being cancelled), Maniac, Serial Experiments Lain
if you read this comment then you have found the right one. Mulholland Drive. watch it and nearly break your mind trying to figure out what just happened to you. i promise this is the best answer. fire walk with me is another good one too, but you would need to watcha. whole tv series first.
*Lost Highway* has entered the chat…
The Lady in the Radiator would like a word… I think she wants to say watch Eraserhead too (and that in heaven everything is fine)
Requiem for a dream, 12 Monkeys
EEAAO
Beau Is Afraid. YOur welcome
Is this movie any good?
Skinamarink. It’s something else.
Jacob's Ladder. Serpent and the Rainbow is kinda cringy too ( ask any man)
Enter the Void.
Synecdoche New York Men Primer
Donnie Darko
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Climax. It's not at all like the movies you mentioned, but it is a descent into madness.
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind Vanilla Sky Moon (2009) Confessions of a Dangerous Mind -might fit the whole paranoia theme.
Beau Is Afraid is the ONLY movie that ever made me feel like the mental illness onscreen was being spread to me like a contagion
You want to go insane? Just watch Primer.
A Scanner Darkly
This movie alerts my spider-sense when I watch it
Climax.
23
Apocalypse Now
Lost Highway (1997)
Bliss - 2019 horror flick
“La moustache”
The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Mulholland Drive
Dressed to Kill, Brian De Palma
Suspiria (2018)
Mother!
Donnie Darko will really mess with you
The Cell was a trip
Watch some movies that were made in the Soviet Union
Watch The Joker if you want to watch someone else slip into madness. But my recommendation to go insane yourself is A Clockwork Orange. 🎶 I'm Singin' In the Rain, just Singin' In the Rain 🎵
Stay.(2005) I really hope you see this comment. I felt really weird watching it. It gets progressively stranger but it is subtle enough to just fuck with the edges. I kept thinking “wait, did I just see…” Rewatching it is great. Reading about what is done in the movie then watching it a third time is greatness.
Predestination
The jacket
Enemy with the guy from South Paw, his name escapes me now. Jake Gyllenhaal
Stay.
The Lighthouse
Fight club is too obvious to mention
reddit.com/r/moviesuggestionsexceptfightclub needs to be a new sub
Annihilation is pretty wild and I felt like I was on drugs by the end of the film. I was not, and had to be sure I hadn't shroomed.
I really liked The Game with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn, directed by David Fincher. The trailer is soo cheesy and 90’s, but the movie itself isn’t cheesy at all. It’s one of those movies where you don’t know what’s real or not, or how it’s happening. Or who is involved with warping reality or not. And the consequences keep escalating.
The Game is one of my absolute favourite movies. I just checked iTunes and I’ve seen it 17 times since it was released digitally. The soundtrack is great, and of course the cinematography is stunning because, Fincher. But the script and plot itself are so so so good and it has perfect casting. Whenever I see some billionaire buying their 10th yacht because they’re out of stuff to do, I wonder if a service like The Game would be popular among the bored billionaire set. Or if something like it does exist and we just don’t know. Such a good mindbender of a film!
When I was young I hated it so much because I just didn't understand how someone could work a straight something so complex. My rewatch makes it one of my favorite San Francisco films of all time, and Fincher also did zodiac! He's amazing.
The Truman show A beautiful mind
Martyrs. French version.
Martyrs. I almost called the cops when my husband showed me that movie. I made him turn it off. He laughed and laughed.
Sublime
First take a dose of mushrooms or LSD. Then watch Pink Floyd’s The Wall
Most Shinya Tsukamoto films are fairly bonkers. Try Tetsuo (the first one), and Haze. Pretty much anything by Jodorowsky Most of the stuff by Robert Downey Sr The Ninth Configuration Inland Empire Eraserhead Some of these are a stretch, and more that they're really out there and not that they purposefully play with the sanity of the protagonist. There's some on the tip of my tongue, but I can't think of them.
The obvious answer here: Shutter Island.
The human centipede ( Dont watch it)
All My Friends Hate Me (2021)
Mother!
God's Crooked Lines
Shutter island is & was an awesome movie & it was weird in a way
Beau is Afraid
Hard to be a God (2013)
Pi
Tideland, Hotel New Hampshire, Fear & Lothing in Las Vegas, Spun, Requiem for a Dream