Last movie you watched

[Puffy]

I went through a "video nasties" phase years ago. Cannibal Holocaust made me ill, but it's certainly not a movie I'll ever forget. That fucked up music runs through my head to this day. I couldn't help but feel like the point of the story was spot on, yet the filmmakers became exactly what they were condemning.

As I understand it, the director and producer were actually put on trial, but they were able to produce the still living actors who "died" during the course of the film so they were exonerated. The animal cruelty is where they crossed way over the line and I think they did bear some legal responsibility for that. Apparently, the firing squad scene was real, but was stock footage not filmed by the Cannibal Holocaust crew.

I can't even look at a damn turtle without thinking of that movie.

I know! It's that opening soundtrack that gets repeated, it's just so innappropriate and haunting.

And yeah, I think I agree, but then I think that is why the latter half of the film is told through the found footage; it becomes a film within a film so to speak. People invariably come to watch this film because they are looking for violence; we, in a sense, are criticised as the sensationalist audience that the film crew were aiming to appeal to in the latter half; and alongside those producers who wanted to publish the film.

I don't know what really got me about the turtle scene (and likewise the ones where people are taken to pieces). I think the film made me feel alienated from my body. The dignity of the turtle and the monkey is as much stolen as their lives; they're not cute little animals anymore, just messes of blood and guts. Likewise the people are just dismantled piece by piece like machines, with no care. I think that's the thing that shocked me the most.

(I also can't seem to evade the thought that it's actually quite a good film, ashamedly. )

I'm taking it you are a bit of a film buff Noddy, have any other horror films you could recommend?

 

[NoID10ts]

I'm a film fanatic. In fact, the dream of my youth was to either work in the special effects field or direct. I credit my "call into Christian ministry" with raping that dream and leaving it cold and bloody to die on the concrete floor of some abandoned shack (I'm not bitter).

Horror is very subjective and hard to recommend. My brother-in-law is a horror fanatic, yet most of the stuff he subjects me to is complete and utter shit. Without recommending the obvious classics like The Exorcist, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Thing, The Shining, etc ...

In my opinion, Korea is turning out some of the best movies in the world right now. Here's a few horror ones:

Thirst - Vampire movie by Chanwook Park who directed Oldboy
A Tale of Two Sisters
Memories of Murder - More thriller than horror, but very good
I Saw the Devil - Savage! Any movie with Min-sik Choi in it is worth a look. That guy is an amazing actor.
The Host
Mother - Haven't seen it yet, but I hear good things


Here's some other horror ones I've enjoyed, some scary, some not so much:

Black Christmas - Perhaps the first slasher. It came out before Halloween. (EDIT - make sure you watch the original with Margot Kidder, not the remake)
The Devil's Backbone
Ichi the Killer - Not really horror, but gruesome and bizarre just the same
Irreversible - Again, not really horror, but unforgettably disturbing and poignant. I can't get enough of Monica Belucci.
Man Bites Dog
Uzumaki (aka Spiral) - Very weird, but I loved it
Behind the Mask
Suspiria
Maniac - Another video nasty - the shotgun scene is worth the price of admission
Frailty
Near Dark
[Rec]
Let the Right One In
Let Me In - the remake, is one Hollywood got right (Chloe Moretz has a bright future)
Audition - Takashi Miike is a sick fuck (also directed Ichi the Killer, Gozu, Dead or Alive, Visitor Q, Happiness of the Kutakaris, and so on and on and on (he makes like two or three movies a year))
13 Assassins - Not horror, but also Miike - Starts kind of slow, but the payoff comes in spades in the last hour
Men Behind the Sun - Not quite as sick as Cannibal Holocaust, but getting there - sheds light on the Japanese crimes against humanity during WWII that tend to get overlooked in light of the holocaust.


There are tons of others I could recommend, but that's all that come to mind at the moment.

 

[Jinbei]

I've been looking for the DVD forever, but last night the local tv finaly had "Shinjuku Incident"

maybe I'm late to change the channel, but it seems it's not that difficult to understand the main plot. still, I was expecting Jackie Chan's actions but looks like this dark movie didn't had it. Kind of disappointed when Daniel Wu died as a coward

 

[Puffy]

Psycho - Re-watched, but obviously you can tell by <-- that I really love this film (and Hitchcock). The shower scene gets hyped all the time but it really is just amazing. It's as much about it's place in the film than anything else, it comes quite early, and suddenly, and kills off the character who has taken up the whole back-story to that point in the film. When I first saw it I was like "whaa, this must be a dream sequence - she'll wake up soon" *zooms out from her dead eyes* "she's not going to wake up is she.." *chills* A must see anyway.

Evil Dead - lol, in comparison. It makes use of some interesting angles in places, but I still have no idea why the Japanese decided to make it into a musical.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre - It's kind of hard to assess, it's a lot like many slasher films you see, but seeing as it's near enough the proto-type you have to be at least a little bit impressed. I enjoyed trying to make a forced sub-text where leatherface is like a psychological continuation of the relationship between the female protagonist and her crippled brother. I think it's there to some extent, but it is likely forced.

Battle Royale - Just plain awesome. Some have called it a warning to younger generations about the older but I think I see it more as a coming of age film. It's obviously a parody of how ruthless and cliquey school can be, at the same time it's showing (by them being forced into the situation by adults) that the school mentality continues into post-school life with little means of distinguishing child from adult behaviour.

Yeah, I'm having another horror phase.. I did watch Joint Security Area (Chang-wook Park) recently as well which is really good, but it doesn't fit the horror motif of this post so no comment for now.

 

[A22]

Taxi Driver

Kind of meh...

 

[Cavallier]

Battle Royale is a wonderful flick. The good version (yes the good version) is not available in the States but I had a film teacher who managed to get his hands on a pirated version and showed it to my class. I, and my friend who I sneaked into the viewing, were the only ones that laughed. I was disgusted. That film was obviously meant to be hilarious and everybody was giving us weird looks.

Wonderful, wonderful movie. It, consciously I think, has some of the best "WTF" moments in a film ever.

Thanks for the horror movie list Nodsmeister.

EDIT:

Taxi Driver

Kind of meh...

You are dead to me.

Evil Dead - lol, in comparison. It makes use of some interesting angles in places, but I still have no idea why the Japanese decided to make it into a musical.

...

the Japanese decided to make it into a musical.

Um...

musical

 

[Puffy]

Evil Dead the Musical: What the F- - - Was That? (song) - YouTube

I like how self-referential the song title is. What the fu- was my general reaction as well.

Also, how do you distinguish which is the good version of Battle Royale as opposed to any other? Are there scenes in it that aren't in other versions? I'm just curious, I enjoyed the version I watched, I wouldn't complain if there was an improved version

Noddy, I just watched Irreversible. I thought it was very well made, and the acting was excellent. I'm not sure it has all sunk in yet though.

 

[NoID10ts]

Battle Royale is a wonderful flick. The good version (yes the good version) is not available in the States but I had a film teacher who managed to get his hands on a pirated version and showed it to my class. I, and my friend who I sneaked into the viewing, were the only ones that laughed. I was disgusted. That film was obviously meant to be hilarious and everybody was giving us weird looks.

I used to have the international version. That is a great movie and it is hilarious. I've heard they're trying to remake it in the US, but they'll only wreck it with an overly serious plot line that sanitizes the original for broader appeal.

Noddy, I just watched Irreversible. I thought it was very well made, and the acting was excellent. I'm not sure it has all sunk in yet though.

It wasn't one of those movies that I'd watch over and over again (I don't handle rape scenes well). At first, I hated it because it was so disorienting and grotesque, but then I realized that was the point. The movie was making me mad and frenzied the way the main character was mad and frenzied, but then there was this gradual reversal and things calm down little by little and you see what led to that point and then it ends with the beautiful moments that happened earlier in the day. It had to have been one of the most devastating happy endings of all time.

Gaspar Noe, the director, also did one called I Stand Alone which was brutal, but though provoking too. I've heard his new one Enter the Void is something to behold too, but I haven't seen it yet.

EDIT: I recently saw the movie Network and absolutely loved it. I don't know if I or anyone else has mentioned it, but I wonder if anyone else has seen it. Here's one of my favorite quotes from it where Howard Beale, a newsman, explains his decree that he would commit suicide on the air:

"Good evening. Today is Wednesday, September the 24th, and this is my last broadcast. Yesterday I announced on this program that I was going to commit public suicide, admittedly an act of madness. Well, I'll tell you what happened: I just ran out of bullshit. Am I still on the air? I really don't know any other way to say it other than I just ran out of bullshit. Bullshit is all the reasons we give for living. And if we can't think up any reasons of our own, we always have the God bullshit. We don't know why we're going through all this pointless pain, humiliation, decays, so there better be someone somewhere who does know. That's the God bullshit. And then, there's the noble man bullshit; that man is a noble creature that can order his own world; who needs God? Well, if there's anybody out there that can look around this demented slaughterhouse of a world we live in and tell me that man is a noble creature, believe me: That man is full of bullshit. I don't have anything going for me. I haven't got any kids. And I was married for thirty-three years of shrill, shrieking fraud. So I don't have any bullshit left. I just ran out of it, you see. "


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[Puffy]

I think the one I viewed must have been the international version. I just watched Battle Royale again with my Sister and she laughed all the way through.

Noddy, I think it's one of the reasons I feel I must be a little desensitised. I imagine Irreversible is designed to infuriate - I've read a few, negative, reviews from people who seemed quite annoyed as well - but this was lost on me. It is very disorientating, the camera-work and the subtle electonic sound-track in the first 20 minutes is so effective. But when I came to view the rape scene the words of the Butcher couldn't help but circulate through my head "there are no crimes, only actions". I saw the film in it's theoretical sense as an exploration of time, cause and effect: one action that uncontrollably spirals into others. But I think I get too lost in abstracts that I forget the human element.
The rape scene should shock while I was thinking "hey, how come the camera has stopped moving?" The irony of course being that the camera only plants itself in that scene to emphasise the action rather than the movements of the camera.

I loved the ending as well though. I think the final flashing image of the spinning cosmos (counter-clockwise for reversed chronology?) was astounding. "Time ruins everything": a really great finish.

I will definitely watch Noe's other films as I was impressed either way.

 

[A22]

Battle Royale was like... wat?

 

[Cavallier]

Also, how do you distinguish which is the good version of Battle Royale as opposed to any other? Are there scenes in it that aren't in other versions? I'm just curious, I enjoyed the version I watched, I wouldn't complain if there was an improved version

I don't recall which version is called what but the one I saw had various cut scenes that made the whole film even better. This version is outlawed in the States because of publishing rights battles.

 

[Minuend]

Did not know, then I have to watch it again as well.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

300

 

[A22]

Mr. Nobody

boy that was long

 

[Puffy]

The Shining:

Ok, for my last year studying history I'm likely doing my dissertation on the holocaust and horror films. While researching I came across a book on Kubrick's obsession with the holocaust and how it translates into the sub-texts of some of his films. The Shining, according to the historian, has a very elaborate holocaust sub-text woven into the imagery, music and language of the story.

I mean I love this film anyway, but it was a total mind-fuck watching it again with it all in mind. I think the scene where Danny sees the two girls butchered in the corridor is now high up on some of the most disturbing film scenes I've seen. I guess the part at the beginning where Dick and Tony warn Danny that what he's seeing isn't really there, is resonant with our history (and in the film the history of the building) that lurks in it's associations.

And Penderecki man Been on my playlist all day.

Will make an awesome dissertation, though (:

 

[Dr. Freeman]

No Country for Old Men.

It's an interesting movie. (developed slowly, didn't really feel tension. I did enjoy it, though.)

 

[Ozymandias]

Midnight in Paris.

Don't know enough about the artists in film to say if they were depicted well or not but I found it an entertaining watch nonetheless. I liked the nostalgia theme even though they didn't delve that deep into it. And Owen Wilson has a funny face. Made me chuckle a few times through the film.

 

[thelithiumcat]

Good will hunting.

I adore Good Will Hunting. My INTJ friend, an avid mathematician, introduced me to it. Robin Williams and Matt Damon are both wonderful. I suppose, being on the subject of mathematics, I was always going to be drawn to it.

Though I'm watching The Pacific series at this moment, the last film I actually watched is probably Hawking, via Youtube, which I've seen before but discovered recently. I'm attracted to it for similar reasons as with Good Will Hunting. It's about cosmology, logic, intelligence, physics and Stephen Hawking. How much better can things get? On this particular occasion I was showing my INTJ friend who also loved it. I'd suggest it as definitely one people with intellectually inclined minds should watch.

 

[snafupants]

That one with that weird guy, James Frankfurt; the movie was called 127 Hours.

The whole conversion tenor, and redemption through suffering message, was completely cheesy and drawn out; oh, look how clever Danny Boyle is, he juxtaposed the beginning montage and the end one, and (look!) there's new meaning for the main character. Please.

That said, I also hated Hot Dog Billionaire (or whatever the fuck), while loving Trainspotting and liking intensely 28 Days Later, so he could just be hit or miss with me.

The cinematic parts of 127 Hours were cool and I enjoyed the David Lynch inspired freakouts where you get inside this trapped guy's mind. Just didn't especially like that trapped guy.

 

[Puffy]

I havn't seen 127 Hours so maybe I have it wrong, but didn't Boyle do the same montage thing in Trainspotting anyway? It opens and closes with the "Choose life" speech to juxtapose the two lifestyles the main character chooses(?) I think I should have liked Trainspotting more than I did, maybe I just wasn't in the mood at the time.

28 Days Later is epic, though. "In the House, in a Heartbeat" is still in some of my playlists. (:

 

[snafupants]

I havn't seen 127 Hours so maybe I have it wrong, but didn't Boyle do the same montage thing in Trainspotting anyway? It opens and closes with the "Choose life" speech to juxtapose the two lifestyles the main character chooses(?) I think I should have liked Trainspotting more than I did, maybe I just wasn't in the mood at the time.

28 Days Later is epic, though. "In the House, in a Heartbeat" is still in some of my playlists. (:

After I watched Days, I literally ran out the next day and rented Weeks. Danny Boyle talked about a possible sequel, which I'm giving the thumbs up to without any reservation that it could ruin the mythology. And, yeah, that song, and the way it was used in the movie, was badass. That might be fun to play on the guitar with some feedback and a loop station...too bad I don't currently have the latter.

 

[Puffy]

Fantastic Planet (la planete sauvage)



I was in absolute awe of this film. I posted ages ago in a different thread that I heard a track that brought back really distant memories of giants dancing and shattering apart in a plain. I thought it could have been from a film I'd seen as a child, but I'd given up much chance of finding it as it's quite an obscure image, so I assumed it was from a nightmare.

It's one of the ending sequences of Fantastic Planet, so basically, for me, a total mind-screw... Yeah, basically the earliest thing I can remember:

Spoiler

If you like experimental animation/ sci-fi/ surrealism it's a must see. Great film-score/ plot/ everything.

 

[Puffy]

The Holy Mountain - It was quite a fun film, a little pretentious but I like how the ending made it feel like it didn't take itself too seriously.

I just wanted to post this: The Holy Mountain - The Conquest of Mexico - 1812 Overture (Finale) - YouTube

From the Spanish toads invading the Aztec toads, to the fact that a raving Jesus figure stomps about the ground afterwards - just plain epic. (Though I hope the toads were ok..)

 

[Cavallier]

I live within half a day's drive from the Timberline Lodge which is where The Shining was filmed. I've been meaning to go back there sometime.

In other news I watched prequel to The Thing. It was terrible. So terrible.

Oh and the first time I watched Trainspotting it freaked me out. I was definitely in the right mind for it and I think my sympathy gland was on overdrive that day. It's been about 6 years since I last saw it and about 20 years in personal growth. I should watch it again.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Fantastic Planet (la planete sauvage)



I was in absolute awe of this film. I posted ages ago in a different thread that I heard a track that brought back really distant memories of giants dancing and shattering apart in a plain. I thought it could have been from a film I'd seen as a child, but I'd given up much chance of finding it as it's quite an obscure image, so I assumed it was from a nightmare.

It's one of the ending sequences of Fantastic Planet, so basically, for me, a total mind-screw... Yeah, basically the earliest thing I can remember:

Spoiler

If you like experimental animation/ sci-fi/ surrealism it's a must see. Great film-score/ plot/ everything.

Yes. It's great, trippy too.

The plot kind of accelerates too fast near the end, and the duration is too short. It could have been much better if it was longer.

Not sure of anyone else but it's cool that at least one other person here has seen it.

 

[Puffy]

^ I agree that it definitely did pick up towards the end and not explain itself that much. But I find I generally prefer surrealist stuff in small doses as it offers so much imagery to analyse anyway. I'm glad there's someone else on the forum who likes it to. (:

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Wow. This film is just awesome. It's a kind of Japanese surrealist horror, stylistically it reminded me a lot of David Lynch's Eraserhead. I think it's meant to be an early Cyber-Punk film as well, but don't quote me on that.

The basic story involves a businessman who gets contaminated by a "metal fetishist" which, in turn, makes him slowly change into a man made of metal. It just happens to depict the transformation in very brutal fashion. It's definitely not for sensitive viewers, but really for a low-budget the film is so incredibly innovative. It's more about the visuals than the story, though my friend thought it could be about how tradition raises men to believe they are like masculine machines, which was fun to read into.

It was unlike anything I've ever seen anyway, in a good way (for me). It's on youtube, I'd definitely recommend watching the first 10 minutes, if it's too much you can always just turn it off.

But this is an INTP forum so I assume a guy getting raped by a woman with a metal umbilical cord, and said guy in turn impaling said woman with a power-drill penis isn't "too much", right? :P

 

[Paranoid Android]

Inland Empire (2006) by David Lynch. While I was watching the film I had the "story of my life" feeling. Not because of the plot but because of its atmosphere.

 

[Puffy]

^

<3

I love David Lynch (: I still don't get the ironing rabbits in that film, though. :S

I definitely just showed a group of friends Cannibal Holocaust. They had surprisingly positive reactions, one friend wants to remix the film-score and another kept playing the main theme on the piano afterwards. :P

 

[Melllvar]

In other news I watched prequel to The Thing. It was terrible. So terrible.

Aw man. That is seriously like the worst news I've heard in... at least 12 hours. The Thing was like my All-Time Favorite Movie, and while I should have run out and watched the prequel immediately, I didn't. This is rather disappointing. I hope you're wrong.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

But this is an INTP forum so I assume a guy getting raped by a woman with a metal umbilical cord, and said guy in turn impaling said woman with a power-drill penis isn't "too much", right? :P

No, in fact that really makes me want to watch it more.


Anywho, I watched Transformers 3 the other night. It was every bit as bad as you might expect. I'm trying to think of something positive to say about it. They had Leonard Nimoy in it twice, both as an actual voice actor and in a clip from Star Trek 2? Yeah, I don't know, it was pretty bad. Avoid.

 

[Puffy]

Aw man. That is seriously like the worst news I've heard in... at least 12 hours. The Thing was like my All-Time Favorite Movie, and while I should have run out and watched the prequel immediately, I didn't. This is rather disappointing. I hope you're wrong.



No, in fact that really makes me want to watch it more.


Anywho, I watched Transformers 3 the other night. It was every bit as bad as you might expect. I'm trying to think of something positive to say about it. They had Leonard Nimoy in it twice, both as an actual voice actor and in a clip from Star Trek 2? Yeah, I don't know, it was pretty bad. Avoid.

For Melllvar's eyes only:

Spoiler

surprise!

 

[Paranoid Android]

^

<3

I love David Lynch (: I still don't get the ironing rabbits in that film, though. :S

Well, for me it was a metaphor for humans. As they were doing their stupid and meaningless actions, the fake laughs, the fact that they didn't react to the other ones' questions and statements. For me it was the empty, meaningless "civil life".

But without this explanation I loved it too, because it was creepy. And I love creepy things.

 

[Lydia]

The Exorcist - Simply amazing, the sort of horror I have been reluctantly waiting for.

 

[keekins]

Well lets see, today I watched Season of the Witch, The One Percent, and Capitalism: A Love Story. Season of the Witch was alright, the other two were pretty good.

 

[Audentia]

Paper Moon. The story is set during the 1930s great depression about a con artist father and daughter team. It is a fun and unique movie and now is in my top classic favs.

Paper Moon (1973) - Money Tricks - YouTube

 

[Puffy]

Had a Japanese horror evening the other night (again, I just love it so much..)

Ju-on 2 and Suicide Circle.

I'd definitely recommend the latter one, a really interesting look on the influences of pop culture... and pretty funny... in a black humour sort of way.

 

[Enne]

Sherlock Holmes II. Interesting, funny and gritty. Liked the pace.

 

[SOLROCK]

Watched TThe Elephant man and Eraser Head, that david lynch really seems to enjoy smoke stacks. Going to watch Molholland Drive yay david lynch binge

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Going to watch Molholland Drive yay david lynch binge

One of the trippiest movies I've ever seen. The dumpster scene haha.

 

[Puffy]

Yeaaah, Mulholland Dr., was interesting... And the dumpster scene did surprise me, to. :P

I don't know how to conclude an opinion on it. On one hand it could be genius work in narrative experimentation. I've heard people tell me it's structured as a Moebius strip, say you folded a piece of paper into a spiral there would be a point where the two ends intersect. The identity switch point in the narrative allows the story to recycle in an infinite loop.

On the other hand, I'm not sure if that's just people making up excuses for Lynch. From what I can tell from Twin Peaks he has a tendency to make things up as he goes along. Which is fine, I like his films for the environments and imagery. But Mulholland Dr. was a little ambiguous, plus it was originally intended as a film series, so he obviously had to cut a lot out. It makes me feel it's likely not as complete and genius as it is made out to be.

Interesting, but I would recommend Blue Velvet over it any day. Really great film.

 

[A22]

Pi

Nice movie. I don't like ambiguous endings, though.

 

[A22]

If it weren't for the lesbian sex scenes, Mulholland Drive would be just a slow piece of what the fuck is going on?

 

[Awaken]

Other fucked up/ weird movies. Not sure if already listed:

al Interieur(inside)- French movie
Martyrs- French movie
The skin I live in- Spanish, new antonio banderas
Chugyeogja(the chaser)- Korean
I saw the devil- Korean
Park chan wook revenge trilogy (oldboy etc)
La pianiste
13 tZameti- French
Malefique- French
Enki bilal immortel
Human centipede 1 and 2
Synecdoche , NY
Takashi miike movies as no1diots mentioned, like I chi the killer and Audition.....kirikirikirikirikiri


Will try to think of some others. My challenge to the forums: find a movie that will scare me. I literally have not felt the emotion of fear in perhaps over a decade.

 

[Puffy]

Hmm, of the six archetypal emotions, fear, shock and disgust are likely most relevant to horror films. I think the latter two are the easier ones to evoke though. Even if I could find a film that would make you jump or go "eugh", I think it's difficult to evoke that sense of dread in a film, that you're literally frightened, at threat of the things to come.

I havn't found a film that has made me frightened since I was a teen so if you can find me a scary film I would likewise appreciate it. I think the Japanese Ringu was the last film to do so. Watching The Shining again a while ago it disturbed me, even prickled the skin, but I don't think it frightened me.

Fucked up is pretty easy though, I've listed Cannibal Holocaust and Tetsuo: The Iron Man a while back, they're pretty messed up.

Also: Begotten, the Guinea Pig film series (Flowers of Flesh and Blood, especially) and anything by Gaspar Noe (thanks Noddy!), Noddy made a list of horror films a few pages back that would be worth considering maybe.

But I don't know a lot of your list, look forward to viewing them. (:

(And for my own protection ^ they are all 18+ boys and girls!)

 

[Puffy]

Oh wait, Salo or 120 days of sodom - f.u.c.k.e.d.u.p.

 

[Awaken]

I keep seeing that movie on my download site. Not sure what keeps me from watching it. Is it black and white? I don't do black and white movies. Also a disclaimer, if I said in the above post that a movie was French, I would be cautious for the less desensitized. Especially al interieur. That movie is simply brutal.

I think the last movie to scare me was the ring( yes, the American version not the Japanese one). Something so eerie about it. Mothman Prophecies and 4th kind came close but I'm afraid it would not have the same effect on others( most people probably hated both of these movies)

 

[Puffy]

Salo is in colour, I'm pretty sure. It's a pretty slow film, though. Disgusting in parts, but.. It felt like it was made by someone who had given up on humanity and just wanted to take a shit - quite literally - on everything. It had a really negative, oppressive energy to it, which made it really draining to watch. He also made the fascist characters really irritating, which drove me in parts to near RAGE!!

I wouldn't watch it again, except to maybe troll on some friends. I don't really recommend it, tbh, just sprang to my mind as "fucked up" :P

I remember Mothman Prophecies frightening me as a teen as well, actually. French ones sound good. :P

 

[lucky12]

Late to the gang bang, yeah Mulholland Drive is fucked up.

For the record I'm a hetero sexual male, Ryan Gosling is merely my role model. His character resonates with me a bit sometimes, kind of scary because a lot of people don't "get" his acting.

Watch Blue Valentine, its a love story.

 

[Words]

Hugo, 2011 film.

It's great. Post-WWI, during(or after) Industrial Age, Steampunk'sh, Orphanage, Lost Art etc. I think the main character in Hugo will play the role of Ender Wiggin in Ender's Game(2013).

 

[YoungGuns]

The Pianist
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253474/
8.5/10 on IMDB

"A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II."

Great holocaust survival movie, especially considering that it's based on a true story.

 

[Jennywocky]

I watched half of The Big Lebowski and half of Sunshine.

They're both excellent, but I think I'm bumping Sunshine up into my personal Top Ten; it's one of those movies I can watch every 2-3 months and enjoy it just as much or more than the first time I watched it.

(Sunshine's a Danny Boyle scifi/horror flick that is channeling both Alien and Event Horizon; but while that last movie was a dog, Boyle and the excellent lead cast -- Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Hiroyuki Sanada, etc -- just really just take things up a few notches. It's not just unsettling, suspenseful, and eerie, but there's a lot of hope in it, and people facing their personal nightmares in order to save everyone else... a perfect bittersweet ending. I am a sucker for those.)