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Trippy Movies

posted 22 years ago by Vapor_Thompson
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Like Trippy Movies, here you go:

12 monkeys (M)*
1984 *
2001: A Space Odyssey*
8 1/2
A Bout De Souffle
A.I.
Abre los Ojos
Adaptation
Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, The
Affliction
After Hours
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Alien 1-3 (4 was bad)
All Hitchcocks
All the Prseident's Men
Altered States (M)
Amarcord
Amelie
American Beauty*
American Psycho
Amores Perros
Andrei Rublev
Angel Heart
Anniversary Party, The
Aoen Flux
Apocalypse Now
Atlantic City
Autumn sonata
Avalon
Baba Yaga
Babylon 5
Bad Boy Bubby (D)
Bad Taste
Barton Fink
Battle Royale
Battlefield Earth*
Battleship Potemkin
Beach , The
Beautifull Mind*
Being John Malkovich (M)
Big Lebowski , The
Bitter Moon (D)
Blade Runner
Blood Simple
Blowup
Blue Velvet
Body Parts
Bowling for Columbine
Boxing Helena
Braindead
Brazil (M)*
Breakfast of Champions*
Breaking the Waves (D)
Breathless
Buffalo '66
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , The
Careful
Circus
City of God
City of Lost Children
Clara Hakdosha (aka Dairies of Saint Clara)
Clockwork Orange,A (M) (D)*
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (M)*
Communion
Conspirators of Pleasure, The (D)
Contact (M)*
Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover, The (M)*
Crash (sex, death and car crashes)
Cries and Whispers
Crimson Rivers, The*
Crow, The
Crying Game, The
Cube
Cube 2: Hypercube
Dancer In The Dark (D)
Dangerous Lives of The Alter Boy, The
Dark Backward, The
Dark City (M)*
Das Experiment (D)
Dawn of the Dead
De Zee Die Denkt (The Sea That Thinks)
Dead Man
Dead Zone, The
Death & the Maiden (D)
Death Machine
Deep End, The
Defiant Ones, The
Delicatessen
Deliverance (D)
Desire
Diva
Donnie Darko (M)*
Don't Look Now
Double Life of Veronique, The
Dr. Strangelove
Dracula
Draughtsmans Contract, The
Dreamscape
Dune*
Dust
Eden Myths, The
Elephant Man, The (D)
Eloge de l'amour
Entropy
Eraserhead
Event Horizon
Evil Dead, The
ExistenZ
Exterminating Angel
Eye of the Beholder
Eyes Wide Shut
Fahrenheit 415
Fantastic Planet, The
Fargo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (M)*
Felicia's Journey (D)
Festen
Fifth Element, The
Fight Club
Fisher King, The
Focus
Following
Four Rooms
Frailty
Freaks
From Hell
Gates of Heaven
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Gods and Monsters
Gothic
Gummo (D) (M)*
Happiness (D)
Harold & Maude
Heavenly Creatures
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Henry, the portrait of a serial killer (D)
Holy Grail, The
Hour of the Wolf
House of Games
How To Get Ahead in Advertising
Hunger, The
I Shot Andy Warhol
Idiots, The (D)
Impromptus
In the Bedroom
In the Mouth of Madness
Inherit the Wind
Insider, The
Insomnia (original version)
Interview, The
It’s all the Rage (M)
It's a Wonderful Life
Jacob’s Ladder
Johnny Got His Gun
Jude (D)
Kandahar
Killers
Killing Zoe
Kiss Me Deadly
Knife in the Water
Koyaanisqatsi
K-PAX
La Dolce Vita
La Double Vie de Veronique
La Jetee
Lair of the whiteworm
Lantana
L'Apartement
Last Night
Last supper, The
Last temptation of Christ
Last Year at Marienbad
L'avventura
Lawn Mower Man
Le AmelFabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
L'Haine
Lickable wall paper
Life of Brian
Limey, The
Liquid Sky
Living in Oblivion
Lone Star
Lord of the rings
Lost Highway
Magnolia (M)*
Man Bites Dog
Man on the Moon (M)*
Man Who Fell to Earth, The
Man who wasn't There, The (M)*
Manchurian Candidate
Maxx, The
Meet the Feebles
Memento (M)*
Metropolis
Minority Report
Mirror, The
Mononoke Hime (D)
Moulain Rouge
Mulholland Dr
Naked Lunch
Natural Born Killers (M)*
Network
Night and Fog
Night of the Manhunter
Nine Queens
Ninth Gate, The
No Man's Land
Nosferatu (1922 version)
Notorious
Os Mutantes (D)
Others, The
Passion of Anna, The
Pennies from Heaven
Persona
Pi (M)*
Pianist, The
PLan 9 From Outer Space
Possible Worlds
Primary Colors (M)
Princess and the Warrior, The
Progeny
Prophecy
Prosperos Books
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Punch Drunk Love
Ran
Rashomon
Re-animator
Rebecca
Red Squirrel, The
Repo Man
Requiem for a Dream (D)*
Ring, The
Ringu
Rocky Horror Picture Show,
Romeo and Juliet
Rosemary's Baby
Rules of Attraction (D) (M)*
Run, Lola, Run
Santa Sangre
Scanners
Schizopolis (D)
Session 9
Seven
Seven Samurai
Seventh Seal, The
Shadow of the Vampire
Shallow Grave
Shining, The
Short Cuts
Signs
Silent Hill
Sixth Sense
Slaughterhouse-Five
SLC Punk
Sleepy Hollow
Solaris (Tarkovsky version)
Soylent Green
Spellbinder
Spoorloos (D)
Stir of Echoes
Storytelling
Straight Story, The
Stuart Bliss
Sue (D)
Sunset Boulevard
Sweet Hereafter, The
Sybill
Tales from the crypt - Demon Knight
Talk to Her
Taxi Driver
Teenage Caveman
Terror of Tiny Town, The
Tetsuo (iron man)
The 400 Blows
The The Royal Tenenbaums
They Live
THX-1138
Tin Drum (D)
Total Reality
Train, The
Trainspotting
Trial, The
Truman Show, The
Twin Peaks (TV pilot)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Twitch City
Two Towers
Un Chien Andalou
Unbreakable
Under Suspicion
Usual Suspects, The
Vanilla Sky (M)*
Verdict, The
Vertigo
Videodrome (D)
Virgin Suicides, The
Vr5 (TV)
Waking life (M)*
Walkabout
Weekend
Welcome to the Doll House
What lies beneath
What to do in Case of Fire
Where the Buffalo Roam (M)*
Wicker Man
Wild at Heart
Wild Palms (TV)
Wild Strawberries
Wings of Desire
With A Friend Like Harry
Women under the Influence, A
Woodstock
Woyzeck
Zusje (D)

The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao
El Topo

(D) = Disturbing and hard to watch
(M) = Must be on Mushrooms to watch
* = Extra Good

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[–] Victor_Franko 20 years ago

PRIMARY COLORS is a trippy film? ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN? GHOST DOG?

I think you're confusing the word "trippy" for something else. Just because a movie is offbeat (HAROLD & MAUDE, REPO MAN, MAN BITES DOG), deals with heavy issues (IN THE BEDROOM, SHORT CUTS), has a big "twist" in it (HOUSE OF GAMES, NINE QUEENS, THE OTHERS, SOYLENT GREEN), or is stylishly directed/photographed (BUFFALO '66, AMORES PERROS, LA HAINE) that's not what I'd call "trippy".

Hell, any movie you watched on mushrooms would be trippy... why don't you try it with SWEET HOME ALABAMA or SECONDHAND LIONS?

A few that I would call trippy (though several are not 'narrative' features):

The QATSI Trilogy (KOYAANISQATSI, NAQOYQATSI, POWAQATSI)
BARAKA
THE DARK CRYSTAL
CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC
LISZTOMANIA
FANTASIA 2000 (at least the segment with the forest fairies)
MICROCOSMOS
STOP MAKING SENSE

And the already-mentioned RUN LOLA RUN, MOULIN ROUGE, TRAINSPOTTING, SCHIZOPOLIS.

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[–] SickBoy76 19 years ago

How ironic that you missed the Corman classic 'The Trip.' Rookie.
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[–] boognish-6 19 years ago

ANY Stanley Kubrick movie can be considered trippy. Maybe not the black and white ones, but 2001 and everything afterward are pretty nuts. Even for "Barry Lyndon", Kubrick purposefully set up every shot with a NASA lens to take away any depth. And we know what happens to depth perception when you're under the influence of certain things...

[–] tomcat69w 19 years ago

In the 'Old Day's,..it was the only way to see which movie was going to be 'Trippy' by the Trailer's/ad's/etc. I've seen so many either on shrooms or powerful liquid LSD that I'll just list my faves. And alot 'became' faves BECAUSE of the recreational drugs. Ha!

Alien
The Exorcist
Altered States
Tron
12 Monkeys
The Star Wars Trilogy
The Howling
An American Werewolf in London
The Grateful Dead Movie
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola version)
Airplane
Easy Rider
Full Metal Jacket
The Jacket
Brazil
Christine
Blow Out
Pink Flod: The Wall
Pink Floyd Live at Pompei
Fantasia
The Deer Hunter
Bladerunner

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[–] twine10 19 years ago

Anyone ever see "The Point"?

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[–] urchinau 18 years ago

Yeah, it's hard for me too, to watch movies on shrooms. Even Triplets of Belleville, which has basically no words, I couldn't take anymore, just because it was on a machine. So I took a walk outside :)

Great list though. Love the Qatsi trilogy. And Microcosmos, along with his newer one, Genesis. Though I'd add some Fellini movies.. and Eternal Sunshine, Adaptation (both on mushrooms; watched eternal on my first trip.) But not the Butterfly Effect, I found that to be pretty unoriginal.. I think the cinematography seduced people. And Woody Allen movies aren't usually trippy, but I love watching Stardust Memories with a bowl.

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[–] suckerdwsp316 18 years ago

anyone list 'pink floyd: the wall' yet? now thats *beep* trippy

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[–] suckerdwsp316 18 years ago

you just listed every single movie ever made.

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[–] altcake 18 years ago

Has anyone of you seen One point 0? Well, that´s a trippy movie even if you don´t take anything. Like a Kafka´s nightmare. Strongly recommend.
Also United states of leland is quite good, a way kind of like American beauty.

[–] wecomeone12001 18 years ago

yup really trippy one. i was about to ask if anyone seen this movie. other movies: human traffic the equivalent of trainspotting but on electro irreversible(u don't have to take any fungus), arizona dream, in fact all emir kusturika's movies have sth...unique, no one mentioned the doors(oliver stone), a clockwork orange, the salton sea(but no so...) and why not london. now movies off the topic, that i recommend slc punk, fight club, dead poet's society, the chumscrubber, waking life, history boys and i'm a fan of larry clark's work: kids, ken park, wassup rockers, another day in paradise and bully. there may be more but now i can't remember.

[–] JaneFox3 18 years ago

you forgot pan's labyrinth

[–] Krazyzark 18 years ago

i would have to add Takashi Miike's Audition, Ichi the Killer and Imprint (the latter being from the Masters of Horror series).

[–] altcake 18 years ago

well, I rather wouldn´t watch Ichi on any drugs. that´s freaky enough by itself

[–] The-Cartoonist 18 years ago

A Scanner Darkly
Fast Food Nation

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[–] Drillbitch 18 years ago

I'd recommend watching Tetsuo after a big hit of Ketamine :)

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Body Hammer rocks for coming up.
Scanners.
Logans Run.

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[–] blinger12 17 years ago

dunno how many of these were mentioned, but here is some of my list:

#Donnie Darko*
#American Beauty
The Game
#Psycho
Brazil*
#Across the Universe*
#Children of Men (sorta)
28 Days later
28 Weeks Later
#The Matrix*
Dead Again (sorta)
#Edward Scissorhands (sorta)
Unbreakable
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory*
#Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (especially the tunnel scene)
Beetlejuice*

*extremely trippy
(sorta)sorta trippy
#extremely good movies (though all of them are good)

[–] Vapor_Thompson 17 years ago

I think most of those are on the list, but thanks for adding a few.
The other night I zommed and watched 'THe Number 23' and 'Scanner Darkly'.
That was a trip alright.

-dustyjeans

[–] xenophonnelson 17 years ago

Most of those movies would be disturbing on mushrooms. Watch Evil Dead 2.

[–] ke837162 17 years ago

I saw el topo on the main list, but not the holy mountain. So I'll add it now.
The Holy Mountain. Oh and Stalker.

[–] I_am_PL 17 years ago

I really wouldn't consider Across the Universe a trippy movie, rox. I mean, it has very trippy visuals, but the plot, depth and meaning are hardly trippy/weird.

On another note.. Thank you very much OP/other posters for this thread! I know probably one or two people with the same taste of movies that I have, but their suggestions are far from anything I haven't seen. My netflix has been running low and I've needed suggestions on some good movies, and these are exactly my taste.

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