What are the best drug/mindfuck movies?
 

Like requiem for a dream, fight club, etc =)

fear and loathing in las vegas is a good one

Try:

spun, seriously cool drugmovie with Mickey Rourke
trainspotting (of course)
doberman (french but really cool, features monica Bellucci)
Irreversible (also french, also with Monica Bellucci and guarantees a bad trip! Not execlty for the faint hearted.
Memento (really mindfucking)
Pi (ALSO REALLY MINDFUCKING)

Ditto. The movie is crazy as hell...without you needing to be on drugs. Fear & Loathing is my favorite drug movie next to Blow. :2 cents:

naked lunch

Altered States
Up In Smoke
Brain Candy
Half Baked
Brazil
2001
Dune
Sin City
Fifth Element
Yellow Submarine

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fifth element?

"hand over the stones"

I've just started to watch Dune but I couldn't finish it yet

Topgun =- wow

I used to love doing that, watching crazy films out of your box on acid, but now I'm a responsible father:winkwink:

Any film that's not got a linear plot and seems like lots of random stuff happening would be good in my humble opinion.

Naked Lunch - definitely. Helps if you've read the book (as with most book to film conversions) and if you know about William Burroughs life.

Requiem for a Dream - I watched that stone cold sober and came out of the cinema shell shocked, dunno how freaky that'd be on drugs.

Fantasia - yes the Walt Disney film. Might not freak you out but me and my mates found it hillarious on acid.

Jacobs Ladder

Dust Devil - a little known art house film

Baraka - again might not freak you out (like a nature film set to music) but a lovely thing to watch while tripping :thumbsup

Very Bad Things

Apocalypse Now - crazy film when sober, so fun when tripping

2001 - i used to hallucentate when i was a kid and i had the flu, and i saw the last part of this film in one of those states when i was maybe 5 or 6. Needless to say it has made a lasting impression on me!! :winkwink: :thumbsup

Donnie Darko

Cheech and Chong - Up In Smoke


I'm sure there are quite a few more I've seen, but they have slipped my mind at the moment..(nothing to do with intensive drug use in a former life)

Enjoy!!

I.

fear and loathing in las vegas - the best!
Depp rules! :)

Clockwork Orange needs to be on this list somewhere...

Mulholland Drive

Really, if you haven't seen Mulholland Drive yet, you just gotta rent the movie.

You have to read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas too. the book as usual is way better than the movie. HST is one of the best writers in the last century, not too often does someone create their own genre in anything let alone writing which has been around for centuries.

Requiem for a Dream is probably the most fucked movie i've ever seen. That movie will make you feel the whole spectrum of emotions. All i have to say is "ass to ass"

ps. Once you are done with Fear and Loathing you should read "Hell's Angles", it's about HST hangling out with the Hell's Angles, it is a really interesting read as well.

Oh and if you liked Fight Club you should read some of Chuck Palahniuk's books too because he has a really interesting and fucked up way of writing and developing a story. I read Survivor a little while ago, i couldn't put it down.

Anyways, thats my :2 cents:

There's a good old one called "the trip" with Peter Fonda. It's about a commercial director going through a bitter divorce, so he decides to take an LSD trip.

It's not bad.

No doubt. That is my choice as well.



Mr. Romance

Natural Born Killers

I agree with this one!

Transporting.

Good choices ... Dune is one of my favorite bad movies ;)

surprised no one has mentioned the wizard of oz w/ dark side of the moon. for anyone that hasn't experienced that, you should. haven't done it since college....but get good and fucked up and you're in for a good time

I saw naked lunch and lost highway high on half an ounce of mushrooms once



I am STILL tripping out



First time I ever saw Halcyon I thought he was a part of my trip and I had to walk up and make sure he wasn't some sort of etherial being

Pink Floyd The Wall was my favorite to watch on acid as a teenager...damn I miss acid.

first thing that came to my head. two thumbs up. :thumbsup :thumbsup

Mulholland Drive.

when money kicks in and Dorothy steps into oz and it goes to colour, that is bad assed. that can't be a coincidence

wow.. and i figured ya'll woulda known this one

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097228/
Dr. Caligari

total mindfuck

By far this one is the best and the funniest!

I was looking for someone to say that.

For the Hunter Thompson and William Burroughs fans (Naked Lunch)

From my media room.

http://linkification.com/linked/wii/IMG_0355.JPG

Art by Ralph Steadman.

Silkscreen of Burroughs and a bullseye. Burroughs dressed in his khaki battle fatigues and shot at it in 1995. You can see the bullet holes.

"Lost Chapter" (Hunter betting on horse races) by Steadman.

I have some others.

Permanent Midnight
http://imdb.com/title/tt0120788/

Killing Zoe
http://imdb.com/title/tt0110265/

True Romance
http://imdb.com/title/tt0108399/

Almost anything from Adult Swim: "Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law", "Sealab 2021" and "Frisky Dingo" fucking old timers.

primer :upsidedow

Brazil, yeah that one is fucking out there.

Anything by Quentin Tarantino or David Lynch, including the Four Rooms.

Also, try and find "Until the End of the World" (one of my favorite movies ever). The commercially released version was nearly 3 hours long, but the Director's Cut (which I have not seen yet) is five hours long.

Lair of the White Worm is pretty trippy.

Although it is quite sad, the visuals and story in What Dreams May Come are powerful.

For costuming, sets, etc. I really liked Bram Stoker's Dracula (by Coppola), and Interview with the Vampire. Another lesser known but interesting Coppola film is Mishima.

Being John Malkovich will twist you up pretty good too...

Finally, if you have never seen it, check out Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance. It contains no dialogue or narrative - but it will take you on an incredible visual and musical trip (music courtesy of Philip Glass), and you will find new meanings in it every time.

Happy Trails,

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Nice collection. I met both Hunter Thompson and Ralph Steadman on separate occasions.

In the mid-80's I hired HST to do a lecture at my college campus - it was a huge hit and I was able to get helf a dozen books autographed.

In the late 90's, I attended a lecture by Steadman about wine, followed by a special post-lecture dinner and wine tasting with Ralph Steadman. He had just released a book titled "The Grapes of Ralph".

http://www.fourfiveone.com/oldtownbo...of%20ralph.jpg

What was really cool is that he autographed the book by dipping his finger in wine and then used his finger to pen his signature. One of my favorite autographed editions.

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Eraserhead
Pi
Clockworkorange
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Fight Club
Snatch
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
and more...

Very cool :thumbsup

Gummo http://imdb.com/title/tt0119237/
Julian Donkey Boy http://imdb.com/title/tt0192194/

Are two fucked up movies... but my personal favorite

HAPPINESS

http://imdb.com/title/tt0147612/

Oh, here's another ...

http://linkification.com/linked/gonzo.jpg

Also, have to throw in a vote for Spun too..

Rum Diary novel by Hunter S. Thompson. Status: Pre-production 2008
Filming is expected to begin after Depp completes the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
Johnny Depp .... Paul Kemp
I cant wait to watch this movie...

You took the words out of my keyboard

There are definitely a couple on this list that I have to watch - good thread!

Blow is one of my favorite movies ...

definately, if your looking for it tho, its with the A's generally, since its "A Clockwork Orange" =]

another good one... Bad Taste - "Stick all the bits of brain in a plastic bag, Barry"

Not quite a mind fuck movie ... but a good stoner flick none the less ...

Friday! And how appropriate to post it today!

Oldboy - Korean film that is a real mind trip - the ending will send several shrills down your spine

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/

Drug Movie, Scarface..."Say hello to my little friend...."

Mindfuck, Heavymetal...spark one up if you watch this one :rasta