Mindscrew Movies

[LnGrrrR]

What are some movies with mindscrew moments you enjoy?

For my contribution, I'll throw Iden y out there. Not the best of movies but it kept me interested for a few hours, and it's a worthwhile movie to pop in when October rolls around.

[redzero]

Mulholland Drive, although I didn't really enjoy it (except for the diner scene).

[cantthinkofanything]

Usual Suspects

also, The Mist

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Jacob's Ladder

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Memento

[CubanSucks]

Not really sure what mindscrew means exactly but I'll guess

2001: A Space Odyssey. That one's obvs

Apocalypse Now probably second most mind for me

Donnie Darko is pretty trippy and mind y, maybe tied for second for me

Requiem for a Dream, except it's super depressing

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, so trippy it nearly bummed me out at how distant from reality the characters get

Trainspotting has some mind moments and it's an all around great movie with an uplifting ending

[Trill Clinton]

cosign the mist and also se7en, the sixth sense and fight club had me like

[leemajors]

Umm, Altered States. Seconds.

[cantthinkofanything]

also Primal Fear

and No Way Out

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Cubansucks raises a good point. Depending on exactly what kind of mind screwing you're into you might what to check out Sara Bellum's Full Frontal Lobes for some real hot mind on mind action.

[CubanSucks]

cosign the mist and also se7en, the sixth sense and fight club had me like

because you didn't understand it?

[DPG21920]

For me it was easily the first time I saw The Matrix. The writing and story plus the way the film was shot was pretty damn wow to me.

[cantthinkofanything]

For me it was easily the first time I saw The Matrix. The writing and story plus the way the film was shot was pretty damn wow to me.

and then of course when the director turned out to be a woman

[Darth_Pelican]

Bug

[Trill Clinton]

because you didn't understand it?

yea that's why

[leemajors]

Bug

Pretty entertaining till the foil.

[Mister Sinister]

Usual Suspects

also, The Mist

Beat me to it on both counts.

[xellos88330]

The Game

That movie was the first one that I couldn't figure out the ending until I saw it. It was friggin awesome. I think there was an earlier version, but the one I love was the 1997 one with Michael Douglas.

[Blake]

Jacobs Ladder
Altered States

Pretty much all of Stanley Kubrick's movies

[CuckingFunt]

No point mentioning the obvious ones that will be mentioned throughout the thread, but a couple of the more memorable mindscrews for me were Frailty and Signs. And they were both memorable for being ty twists.

EDIT: Be careful below, as I'm spoiling a couple of ten-year-old movies...




When I first saw Signs, my initial thought was that Gibson was a complete nutter who was paranoid for no reason, making the fact the aliens were real the big twist. The former was an interesting concept. The latter was a boring cliche with rubber costumes and the impossible lameness of aliens who can be killed by water landing on Earth.

Similarly, Frailty (an admittedly not so great movie) hooked me from the start on the story of a religious fundamentalist imagining demons as a justification to kill and passing that crazy down to his son. There's something dark, there, and a bit subversive, that I found genuinely engaging. But then the end comes, with more than its share of twists, including one that basically points out that they can actually see demons and that they are actually killing people in service to God, and... all the dark and subversive that made the movie kind of cool is completely ruined.

[redzero]

No point mentioning the obvious ones that will be mentioned throughout the thread, but a couple of the more memorable mindscrews for me were Frailty and Signs. And they were both memorable for being ty twists.

EDIT: Be careful below, as I'm spoiling a couple of ten-year-old movies...




When I first saw Signs, my initial thought was that Gibson was a complete nutter who was paranoid for no reason, making the fact the aliens were real the big twist. The former was an interesting concept. The latter was a boring cliche with rubber costumes and the impossible lameness of aliens who can be killed by water landing on Earth.

Similarly, Frailty (an admittedly not so great movie) hooked me from the start on the story of a religious fundamentalist imagining demons as a justification to kill and passing that crazy down to his son. There's something dark, there, and a bit subversive, that I found genuinely engaging. But then the end comes, with more than its share of twists, including one that basically points out that they can actually see demons and that they are actually killing people in service to God, and... all the dark and subversive that made the movie kind of cool is completely ruined.

Another movie in that same vein would be The Last Exorcism. It could have been good if there was no demonic possession, but nope.

[LnGrrrR]

Hm a few mentions for Altered States, and I've never even heard of the movie. Interesting.

And I can't stand Signs at all. Aliens that get hurt by water... really? REALLY? They can travel through space but they don't realize that water hurts them? (rage)


Frailty sounds interesting as well.

Another one I'm a big fan of is Brazil... though that only has one true mindscrew, it makes the movie worth it.

On a lesser scale (not quite a mindscrew, maybe a mindtwist?), I love the moment watching Training Day when you realize that Denzel is just an evil mofo.

[Reck]

Saw 1
Fight Club
The Book of Eli
Shutter Island
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

[The Gemini Method]

Pretty much the ones I'd say are already mentioned...

I'll add Brick

[AussieFanKurt]

Nice thread!

Memento, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lost Highway (actually anything by Lynch), Fear and Loathing, Oldboy. The list could go on and on