Have you ever watched a movie that rendered you speechless due to its absurdity? It might be unintelligible action, a gorefest, or just a whole bunch of confusion, but it’ll likely end up on an ‘insane’ list. Read on to see if that crazy movie you watched is featured below.
Midsommar
Between cultish murders and ritualistic suicides, the disturbing premise of this movie is nothing short of mind-blowing. You might enjoy it but won’t be glad you watched it. It’s more likely that you’ll be horror-stricken for a couple of hours.
Sausage Party
There are undeniable funny moments in Seth Rogen’s Sausage Party. Still, a bunch of cartoon foods in a supermarket awaiting their golden opportunity to be bought can only be regarded as dubiously created. When a bun breaks into song, it’s plain surreal.
Martyrs
Few movies can disturb us on such a visceral level as the French horror Martyrs. Surreal imagery depicts inner demons, while the film features more violence in one sitting than a human can digest. The acting is top-class, but critics were unanimous in their bid to have the movie banned. It wasn’t, but you can see why it came close.
Jacob’s Ladder
Few people watch a movie to feel depressed afterward, but Jacob’s Ladder cannot offer anything else on an emotional scale. There are lots of trippy visions and mental images through the eyes of a PTSD sufferer, which makes it an uncomfortable and mind-boggling piece of film.
Little Otik
If you’ve never seen this Czech folktale about a married woman in the desperate throes of infertility, you truly must experience it. When her husband playfully chops a piece of wood into the shape of a human physique, she spirals into a psychedelic existence where she believes that the wood baby is, in fact, real. Bizarrely unsettling, deeply disturbing, and impossibly magnificent in equal measures.
American Psycho
Wall Street investment banker Patrick Bateman is a deranged serial killer by night. This is nothing new, but the scenes are so psychotically graphic that the original novel barely made it to publication. The satire is genius, though the movie itself is explicit. King of Surrealism Irvine Welsh championed the movie as a great, which says it all.
Natural Born Killers
Mirroring the notorious undertakings of murderous couples such as Bonnie and Clyde, Quentin Tarantino was deemed to have atypically missed the mark with this highly critiqued anarchic movie. Strange camera angles, hallucinatory flashbacks, and an overkill of violence made it a tough watch.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
With two guys on the road in a psychedelic splurge, you walk away from the movie feeling like you’ve had your drink spiked. It’s hedonism personified, and you’ll either love or hate it.
Run Lola Run
While the premise is intriguing, the concept of a narrative running three times over with alternative endings requires a well-oiled brain. It isn’t one to watch half-heartedly. Stylistic and arty in its execution, its popularity has prompted a theater re-release.
Being John Malkovich
Spike Jonze’s 1999 masterpiece is memorable for all the wrong reasons. Puppetry and magical portals allow people to transform into John Malkovich for fifteen minutes. It may help to know that the film is surreal cinema meets comedy, so prepare to be boss-eyed at the forty-minute mark.
The Lobster
Featuring a premise where people have forty-five days to meet a partner or turn into lobsters, the film left viewers in a state of inner turmoil. Critics praised it, and actor Colin Farrell reveled in the role. At least someone knew what was going on.
The Dark Crystal
You might remember this bizarre animation movie if you’re a child of the eighties. The sets and puppets are undeniably fantastical, but the plot is nonexistent and quite strange.
Yesterday
Imagine a world where no one can remember the emotion-evoking tunes of Abbey Road greats, The Beatles. That’s what happens here, and while the movie is an absolute joy to watch, the premise is utterly bizarre. A boy gets struck by lightning. The boy is the only living soul to remember the great Brit band. It’s a brilliant movie, nonetheless.
The Shape of Water
It was Guillermo Del Toro’s Best Picture winner, and perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised, given his love of bizarre concepts. Sorry, but a janitor falling in love with an imprisoned humanoid amphibian is a bridge too far.
From Dusk till Dawn
The first half of the movie takes you on a journey about a couple of fugitives. You think you’ve got the gist of it when a sexy vampire starts eating people alive. Cue a vampire rampage for the remainder of the movie. It’s very unexpected and impossibly bizarre, but it’s an interesting pairing of two eccentric directors.
Cocaine Bear
In a movie inspired by actual events, a wild black bear ingests enough cocaine to send him on a hallucinogenic drug rampage through the woods. It’s been described as a cross between Scarface and Yogi Bear.
Movie 43
Just because you have a bunch of famous actors doesn’t mean you’re going to produce a hit. Twelve different directors compiled twelve different storylines, and the result was a humorless, immature, insane fest that ranked five percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
In what can only be described as a farce, this 1989 black comedy starring Richard E. Grant depicts a stressed-out salesman who develops a talking head on his shoulder. Many said it was a work of art, but you’ll require a twisted outlook for two hours.
Titane
Like Martyrs, Titane is another movie from the New French Extremity Movement. A woman has a titanium plate put on her head, and it remains visible, as well as a mind of its own. The movie is raw, brutal, and plain disturbing.
