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22:50 / 08.10.01

Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover. The last 20 minutes are disgustingly fascinating...

Most of Darío Argento's ouvre: Inferno, Suspiria, etc...

22:57 / 08.10.01

quote:Originally posted by dark welchy:
Has to be Alexandro Jodorowsky's HOLY MOUNTAIN for me. Features real deformed actors, strange orgasmotron type machines, spaced out psychedelic semi religous imagery and some of the most bizarre sequences I've ever seen. Check it out.

Haven't seen Holy Mountain, but Jodorowsky's Santa Sangre is a great film, and througly fucked-up too...

03:31 / 09.10.01

Well I only saw it once as a kid but The Serpent and the Rainbow? I have a friend who saw it once and wont watch it again cause he says it soooooo fucked-up...

07:09 / 09.10.01

Opalfruit very wise man. Listen to Opalfruit. He your friend.

Add to that list

Aguirre: Wrath of God A major influence in Apocalypse Now.

Night of the Living Dead (The black & white version, not the laughable remake).

07:09 / 09.10.01

"In The Mouth of Madness" lovely film, where does it begin, end or whatever....

i found myself laughing through most of it. i don't watch much horror, coz i get bad enough nightmares without 'em, but if that's what they're like, i can probably get by ok. whether i'd wanna waste my time that way is another matter

10:27 / 09.10.01

well as a big nic roeg fan I could it here talking about his films all day same for funny games and man bites dog but if you want really fucked up try

titicut follies- documentary of a mental asylum

or even

Unsichtbare Gegner (invisible adversaries)

11:14 / 09.10.01

Body Double X.

1970s French melodrama remade with all the parts, male and female, played by Jean-Luc Verna in drag.

And hey, what about Pink Flamingoes. The singing arsehole is one of the most fucked up moments in cinema history (alongside Divine and the dogshit, the chickenfuck, etc.)

No star here laces

13:17 / 09.10.01

No, the hotdog tied to the willy, with the blue pubes flashing in the park.

THAT is the most fucked-up scene in the film.

13:51 / 09.10.01

Beware! Children at Playdirected by Mik Cribben. Patricide! Matricide! Fratricide! None of the kiddies are on YOUR SIDE in Beware! Children at Play!
This movie isn't too hardcore throughout, but it has a shocker ending where children who are zombies (but look exactly like normal kids) are killed in myriad and graphic ways by their own parents. One child has a gun shoved in his mouth and his head blown off.

Supposedly, when the uncut trailer for this film played at the cannes film festival, over twenty-five people left the screening in protest. You've got to love a film with the tagline "They Love Their Parents...with Ketchup."

13:57 / 09.10.01

I'll second Dark Welchy's vote for 'Holy Mountain', something for all the family there. If, like me, you just like seeing mad things going on in front of your eyes for hours then you'll love it. But it's not totally random and incoherent - it plays like there's probably some complicated meaning behind it all - so if you like trying to interpret mad images and enjoy looking for metaphors etc (tons of what I take to be references to religious and mythological texts) then you'll get a big kick out of it too. Don't bother, though, if you're the sort who feels you should be able to make sense of it all but don't actually enjoy the process of working it out, it'll bug the living wank out of you.

Ooh, it's (deliberately) funny too.

Most memorable images:

- hero wakes up in warehouse stacked full of gleaming white plaster casts of himself mounted on crucifixes.

- old man with jaguars' heads for tits, which squirt milk from their mouths into the face of one of the protagonists, while old man LARFS.

Hey, has anyone mentioned 'Oh Lucky Man' yet? I think that's the name. It's the sequel to IF, and is about Malcolm MacDowell's life after leaving school. There's a particularly f**ked-up bit where he discovers a human/pig hybrid in a hospital bed. Brrrr...

17:33 / 09.10.01

Never watched "Brazil"...

what about Rosemary's Baby?

The year is one!!

Oh, and "The Hunt" by Carlos Saura. B/W, no soundtrack...
4 friemnds go to a hunt and then things get so wrong...

one of the best ending scenes Ive ever seen

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Warrington Minge

19:09 / 09.10.01

quote: Originally posted by saveloy
Hey, has anyone mentioned 'Oh Lucky Man' yet? I think that's the name. It's the sequel to IF, and is about Malcolm MacDowell's life after leaving school. There's a particularly f**ked-up bit where he discovers a human/pig hybrid in a hospital bed. Brrrr...

I still think of that bit even now. Scared the hell out of me. And what the hell was Alan Price doing in the back of that van????

19:56 / 09.10.01

Your mind will reel at the insanity of “Santa Sangre”. Circus freaks, Catholic mystery cults, Oedipal complexes and depraved ventriloquist acts combine into one freaky movie.

21:01 / 09.10.01

branded to kill one of the most bizarro films i've seen. one of the characters has a fetish for dead insects.

and of course le chien andalou -- the orginal fucked-up movie

12:33 / 10.10.01

I remember seeing a documentary about censorship which featured some scenes that were cut from 'Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer'. They were extremely disturbing.

Did make me wonder - if they were cut from the cinema and video release of the film for .. pretty obvious reasons, why were they allowed to be shown in their entireity in a TV documentary?

13:56 / 10.10.01

Meet the Feebles. Scary puppets.

uncle retrospective

22:26 / 11.10.01

Oh, I forgot to mention "gift" The Perry farrel movie.

Drug use, necrophilla overdoseing on the phone to your auntie.

You will never listen to 3 days the same way ever again.
Ever.

22:31 / 11.10.01

A boy and his dog-for fans of don johnson and leatherstrip......

23:14 / 11.10.01

Harmony Korines' Gummo and Julien Donkey Boy are 2 of the most unnerving wonderful films i've seen in the last couple of years

His books pretty good too

00:04 / 12.10.01

a boy and his dog is awesome. i'm surprised no one has mentioned the last couple leprachaun movies, leprachaun in space and leprachaun in the hood with Ice Cube or one of those rappers. Then again, the topic seems to be good fucked up movies. Has anyone ever seen 'last day on earth'? that movie is majorly messed up, the whole movie is just freaky with an insane plot and even more bizarre conclusion. it did have an awesome orchestral peice at the end though.

01:01 / 12.10.01

Zardoz, starring Sean Connery in a crazy fluorescent superhero costume, helping to kill or fuck Morlocks and Eloi, or something like that. Oh, and there's a giant floating stone head that vomits guns and says, "THE PENIS IS EVIL!"

I'm not making this up. Check it out here -- you can buy it!

As well as my book!

Clavis

10:12 / 12.10.01

I really like The Rocky Horror Picture Show and I think most people agree it's pretty flucked up. Does anyone know the name of that movie where 4? guys are going to a wrestling match and end up getting involved in a gang war in the ghetto?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:58 / 14.10.01

Totally in agreement on the majority of these...
However, would have to add "Audition" (which kind of reassured me that I wasn't some emotionally-numbed psycho 'cos it made me cover my eyes and shout "No! Please don't do that!!!")
Pasolini's "Salo"- I defy anyone (particularly if, like me, they're male) to sit through the last 10 minutes without feeling sickened in at least some part of their twisted little psyche...
And, of course, Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain", which I won't even ATTEMPT to comment on, other than to say it's fucking marvellous and indescribable. And very, very, very fucked up. Better than the wonderful "Santa Sangre" (which I believe has also been mentioned) but TOTALLY different. Haven't seen the rest of his movies, but have been assured that they're all kind of warped.

10:27 / 14.10.01

caligula (sp?) that was screwed up..

although thats really down to having a pornlord producer and a pornfreak director.

salon kitty. nazis.. sex.. nuff said.

django kill.
fucked up western.

cannable: the musical..
very very funny. not really that fucked up.

freaks.
the todd browning original. "one of us one of us one of us.."

straw dogs
the most realistic depiction of rural west country english life i've ever seen.

and theres a shitload of fucked up anime movies that i;ve seen.. i just cant remember there names..

The Return Of Rothkoid

16:46 / 14.10.01

quote:Originally posted by Zarathustra:
caligula (sp?) that was screwed up..

although thats really down to having a pornlord producer and a pornfreak director.Strangely, Caligula seemed to start out life OK, but then got major-league weird when Playboy (who were putting up the money for it, I sketchily recall) started pushing for more porn-esque scenes in it. Gore Vidal was the original scriptwriter, I think, which would usually be a remarkably good thing, but in this case; all bad.

It's less a fucked up film and more a fucked film, as I recall from the last time I saw it. Although there was some nice dancing. By Caligula.

09:52 / 22.01.02

The President's Analyst.

It's one of my favourites, and it's just nuts. Especially the ending.

"TPC?"

09:52 / 22.01.02

It was Guccioni and Penthouse that put up cash for Caligula, not Playboy. Hef's big foray into 70's cinema was Polanski's Macbeth for which Hef fronted a bunch of cash. That fared better than Caligula, though not by much. Even now, Playboy wouldn't insist on the sex that's in Caligula, and they certainly wouldn't have done it in the 70's, when they were pretty purely t'n'a.

09:52 / 22.01.02

The Return Of Rothkoid

09:52 / 22.01.02

Dammit. I knew it was Penthouse. In retrospect, seems remarkably obvious.

20:13 / 05.01.03

Pleasantville.

It truly fucks up your view of the world and colours. Just saw it.

Did anybody else also think of the possibilities of such a remote controller?

*Zap* and you're in Dynasty, amongts people whose mode of expression is hammy, the only one of true natural behaviour(*). Imagine the consequences of it.

*Zap* and you can tell Buffy where Adam is and how he can be defeated, spoiling carefully crafted suspence and pacing. Also, you can make her and Spike get on with it faster.

*Zap* and you can subvert the rediculous world of Star Trek.

*Zap* and you can avert the death of Madeline by telling that Bob is Laura's father.

Only one I wouldn't go anywhere is Springfield. True, the quirky ideas are real fun, and although the premises are fixed for each new episode, they endure too much pain and hardship in any given moment.

(* = same applies for Baywatch, The Texas Ranger, etc.)

Brigade du jour

20:18 / 05.01.03

'Bad Boy Bubby' deserves a mention - boy fucks his mum, never leaves home because she tells him the outside world is poisonous, kills his dad (I think so anyway - it's been a while since I saw it) and then discovers his mum's deceit and leaves, hooking up with a bunch of guys in a truck. It's Australian. Or New Zealander. From the general area of the world anyway. Don't think it was Fijian though.

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:12 / 05.01.03

It's Australian. His mum fucks him. And you're forgetting the part where he clingfilms his cat, shags the nurse, or becomes a Birthday Party-esque rock-star.

For starters.

Brigade du jour

21:20 / 05.01.03

Oh yeah that's right. Maybe my memory just blanked it out! Was cool though.

00:28 / 06.01.03

Salo (1975) was a stone bummer. It was Pasolini's idea of where the youth movement of the early 1970s would end up. It was also Pasolini's last movie, because shortly after making it, he was beaten to death by a rent boy. I'm sorta glad to have watched it, but I didn't enjoy watching it.

Seconds (1966), by John Frankenheimer, was another depressing one. A middle-aged businessman is totally bored with his success, his wife, everything. He gets a phone call from a friend he thought had died years ago, and the friend offers him a new life. But nothing comes free...Rock Hudson stars as the executive's new identity and I learn that microwave ovens have been around at least since the mid-1960s. Cold-hearted movie.

I'm trying to find Sweet Movie, since the boat scene is apparently filmed on the Amstel. The director is Dusan Makavejev, who also made "The Function of the Orgasm," based on the Wilhelm Reich text(!).

00:32 / 06.01.03

Sweet Movie (1974) (if you can read Italian, and beware the porn click-through popups
Here's the scene from Amsterdam. That's the Carre' theater in the background.

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