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solid~liquid onwards

12:07 / 21.12.02

Theres plenty of movies and series out there that are brilliant headfucks & put you in a kinda gnostic state for a while after watching. Some of my favrites inclde:

Serial experimants lain . Dark anime that was written by some mad dude who loved HP lovecraft... i wont even try to explain it, but it goes well off the headfuck scale, very little dialogue but lots of highy stylised stuff and immense weirdness in a more everyday sense, exploring ESPy, Goddy internetty stuff... I watched the first few episodes while severely deprived of sleep.

head fucks put you in a good state of mind for magick.
Donnie Darko , of course (i had a pirate copy that i downloaded 7 or 8 months ago)...go see it if you havent.

Neon Genesis Evangelion...i watched the last 4 episodes again recently and i was on the verge of crying... its just pure maddness, starts off big robots fighting, ends up a big psychological head-fudge

im getting a PC of me own over christmas and a broadband connection, so i shall be dowloading overtime. i'd like hear of major headfucks, movies and series... or anything else for tha matter... i had my first OBE after reading 3 preacher graphic novel while lying by a fire.

this should probably go in the movie forum, but ive found these kinda things put you in a good state of mind for magick.

14:17 / 21.12.02

The recent one is Adaptation. Talk about a head fuck...and it's not even sci-fi or fantasy (strictly speaking of course, cause technically it is very much a fantasy)

14:25 / 21.12.02

I've heard nothing but good stuff about Lain so that's on my shopping list.

Neon Genesis Evangelion is brilliant stuff indeed. The mystical elements only serve to influence my magickal leanings in all sorts of funky ways. Get this: I designed a servitor some months back and was stuck for a name. In the end I went for E.V.A. because it sounds pretty cool and the term Eva is used in quite odd ways in NGE.

So I go to the comic shop yesterday and I picked up the new X Men TPB and I read Fantomex's 'partner' is called E.V.A. That was a pretty bizarre headfuck.

solid~liquid onwards

15:09 / 21.12.02

yeah, the new x-men is good stuff... well its the only comic i buy (but i do have an extensive graphic novel collection)

a lot of anime has very spiritual/mystical elements to it, but few of those fudge up your head (they just explain their weirdness i suppose)

memento is a groovy film, most recomended... i have to write an essay about it for philsophy, and when you delve into it you find many new layers of confusion and weirdness, but not really in the mystical sense

16:08 / 21.12.02

I just recently watched the entire 17 episodes of cult 1960s TV show The Prisoner, and can recommend them heartily (convenient DVD boxed sets are lovely). I realised how influenced GM was by that series. David Lynch's Twin Peaks, as well as most of his movies, are of a serious head-wrecking nature.

I also have The Devil Rides Out on DVD, and it's really a classic among occult films.

I can heartily recommend Donnie Darko too. Excellent reality-bending stuff in it. Of the older variety I seem to remember that the TV series Sapphire and Steel was also very odd.

And, when it comes to humour I'd recommend Black Books and Spaced.

Pirate Ven Will Teach You To Lambada (The Forbidden Dance)

20:04 / 22.12.02

Let's all love Lain. Let's all love Lain. LETSALLLOVELAINLAINLAINALSKDFJLDJLSDKJ.
(Reference lost until you've seen it, and if you haven't, shame on you, find copies now.)

But yes. Lain. Total royal headfuck.
What I love about Lain is how I almost always spot something new each time I watch even one of the layers.
I love things that only explain themselves by throwing an endless amount of weird references at you.

End of Eva gets really fucking bizzare/brilliant near the end... Definitely not what I was expecting.

Donnie Darko has to be my favorite. Just. Brilliant ending.
Memento is a damn fine ride as well... Never did see Insomnia though.

And, though they're to a much lesser extent of the level headfuckiness
as the above, In The Mouth of Madness (Cthulhian cameos and evil authors warping reality are always fun) and Uzumaki have my vote as well.

Might think of more/better films later.

04:56 / 23.12.02

"Naked Lunch" yep, Cronrnbergs versin of WSBs novell. Great stuff.
"Videodrome" Cronenberg again... theres something wrong with that guy...
"Tetsou The Iron man" surreal horror SF from the Japanese islands... will rock youre socks of...

Ive used all these movies in magick to... Worked very well.

05:47 / 23.12.02

Lain: The virtual reality of the Internet is bleeding over across the spirit world and the material world. Or something like that. Alien are vaguely involved. Several people transcend during the course of it. There's a little girl in a bear suit. Good good heady stuff.

EVA: Giant Cthuloid quabalistic angel mecha from outer space destroy the world. Just how can you go wrong with that?

Other goodies:

PI: This one has everything. Math, scitzophrenia, conspiracy, chase scenes with long bearded rabbis, the True Name Of God(TM), and Massive Attack. The sound track rocks out, too.

Classics: Akira, Ghost in the Shell

The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen: Seriously. Terry Gilliam is just mad good. Watch this, Brazil, and Time Pilots in a stretch and you may need medical assistance.

Wasn't there a thread on this before?:

13:00 / 23.12.02

MOVIES & MAGICK

14:26 / 23.12.02

Dead Man, directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Johnny Depp.

Depp takes on the persona of a different person with his name, and is guided by an indian named Nobody.

It's a shamanic journey set in the old west, really. Well worth the viewing.

18:03 / 23.12.02

will you...you've left out 'The Wicker Man'.

How fucking luridly cool is that 'Devil Rides Out' cover, btw? Fantastic. Miles more Dennis Wheatley than the cover of my copy. Evil magic satansex - oh yes!

There has been a thread on this, but I'm too lazy to search for it. Instead, I'll just mention my own personal (and generally much-derided) choice - Velvet Goldmine!

I know, I know... But seriously: get very caned, watch it, and bear in mind that it's not a film about gay glam rockers that uses faerie imagery, it's a film about faeries that uses gay glam rock imagery. Honest.

19:03 / 23.12.02

Don't forget to check out the Super Weird Films thread over in the Film forum - lotsa god stuff on there.

04:47 / 24.12.02

Velvet Goldmine - I thought it was about magic sodomy UFOs. Though being about David Bowie makes it pretty magical as well.

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06:20 / 24.12.02

-the faces of death (I've only seen the first one)

-pink flamingos (nasty)

-obedience (8mm nonfiction documenting a contraversial study done at Yale: the one where people thought that other people were getting electrocuted)

07:07 / 24.12.02

Ghost Dog is another I rank. Magic samuari gangsters. And it has Nobody from Dead Man in it, which is worth it just for the cameo.

13:05 / 24.12.02

Natural Born Killers . There's all kinds of demonic imagery in it. Hell, there's a whole essay about it here although it seems a lot shorter than the one I read a few years ago.

Here's the old thread about magick and moviees