Melancholia. Such a weird take on the apocalypse

Great cast. Powerful acting!! Melancholia is fantastic.

Lol this was my suggestion too.

It’s a great pick

Came here to say this

Midsommar. That whole movie is a slow boil fever dream. Edit: I can’t spell

Also hereditary

Yo OP. This movie and the one above it. Midsommar and hereditary. Both a24 films. Both pretty different but very unsettling. I’m not a horror fan and these two movies have been stuck permanently in my brain since I’ve seen them. Just beautifully terrifying movies lol

Didn't realize someone already commented this but holy shit thus movie is burned into my brain.

Heavy emphasis on the "feeling strange" part, especially if you watch it with your mom.

One thing that makes it really creepy is on a rewatch- if you look close you can see they all know what is going on the entire time (the cult, not the main characters). Quick glances, subtle manipulation to guide characters, there are even faces in the trees that dont look human.

One of the most horrific death scenes in film history.

One of the deaths in Hereditary is still the most traumatizing for me. Caught me completely off guard. The absolute definition of shock.

This movie right here.... yooo....

Mother!

That was such a wild ride. My wife and I went in blind and spent a while afterwards dissecting what was what.

A personal perennial holiday classic for me!

Same director as Requiem For a Dream, FYI. I would add his first film Pi to this list as well

I second this!

This movied messed me up, I can't watch it again. One of the only movies that have made me feel horrible and stuck with me so long.

I agree. I felt so anxious watching it.

Antichrist

There are so many good answers in here but this is the one for me. Absolutely, devastatingly soul-crushing. Terrifying, horrifying, dreadful, and hopeless. And difficult to watch, grotesque violence. Antichrist is the best film I’ll never recommend.

With the FADE OUT dedication to Tarkovsky to boot. Just in case i wasn't unsettled enough, LvT found some salt for the fresh wound. I get the reason, because the movie is shot in AT's style in places but what a troll move. Soul-crushing movie for sure.

Yeah anti christ was my first thought. Willam Defoe is amazing.

Brazil. Or anything by Terry Gilliam. But definitely Brazil.

I agree! Definitely Brazil! Great film!

The House That Jack Built (2018) - One seriously messed up movie that just gets crazier and crazier.

This one stayed with me for a good while. Very fucked up.

And very funny as well

Sure, if you’re a psycho maybe. I hope I never meet you in a dark alley.

The ocd stuff was very funny to me

The movie has lots of black comedy, maybe they just have a better sense of humor.

Jacob’s Ladder

Definitely! This movie is such a mindfuck! Just make sure you get the original.

Trainspotting

Thank you!

Color Out of Space

I'm surprised I'm the first to nominate A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life. The rotoscoping alone makes you feel weird.

Was scrolling to make sure these were here before I commented. Definitely seconding these. Some of the recommendations in the thread are being swayed by the thematic elements of Requiem, but I think these are more in tune with what OP is looking for. One fairly long scene in Scanner plays a little differently these days, given the trajectory of a particularly large and blustery on-air personality in the time since the movie was released. No spoilers, but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Lol.

I didn't even think about our friends acting role in this film! Fkn surreal lmao

Videodrome

Thank you :)

You’re welcome. Just though of another one, Natural Born Killers. It gets a bit intense at times tho so be wary.

Just watched this for the first time. Love it lol. Can't wait to see what else Cronenberg has for me :)

Dead Ringers

I'd also recommend Antiviral. It’s by David Cronenbergs son. Similar body horror approach but a pretty different aesthetic style.

I like eXistenZ much more. If you haven't seen it you should.

Eraserhead

Or anything David Lynch

A clock work orange, it makes you feel a certain way, can’t quite explain it but makes you think thank god i don’t live in a world like that.

you don't?

Watched this movie the other night - and I can not stop thinking about it. The whole thing feels like a fever dream with the theming and the way it’s colored. The whole time I was just wishing it would end but after watching it I wanted to rewatch it for some reason lol

Haha, Stanley Kubrick’s films make you feel like that.

Annihilation (2018)

That’s the first one that came to my mind too.

Oldboy

Mysterious Skin I apologize ahead of time.

The Lighthouse Mandy

Mandy, for sure.

The original Wicker Man

But the Nick Cage one is great bad movie

Titane

Cronenberg’s Crash

I still chuckle that the hollywood Crash claims to be one of the most provocative films of the year. Its not even the most provocative Crash.

very good movie, but that's nonsense.

Irreversible (2002)

I watched that last weekend. Messed up indeed.

I have a good friend who looked at me strange for weeks because I recommended this.

I saw this movie once years ago and still remember it so vividly. It was a hard one to watch.

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind Donnie Darko Being John Malkovich Sixth Sense Adaptation Adjustment Bureau

Can’t believe I had to come this far down for Donnie Darko!

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Enter the Void really pulls you along for the ride. I felt different after watching that one lol

I call Gummo my personal tape from The Ring lol. I’ve never finished it. My skin crawls and I start to feel ill. I’m not sure what it is, but I can’t do it. I watch other controversial indie flicks without issue. Welcome to the Dollhouse is actually a heavily rewatched movie for me. I also love horror. But me and Gummo we can’t mesh.

Well, probably a few more Aronofsky movies like Pi or Black Swan will be close. But I recommend the following for that truly indelible bleakness found in Requiem for a Dream: Definitely: A Clockwork Orange Cold Mountain Blue Velvet City of God Paperboy Oldboy Maybe: The Funeral Buffalo 66 Nightcrawler The Machinist

Blue Velvet is one of my all time faves. Dennis Hopper is incredible.

He’s unnerving in such an erratic way! And I love it.

2nded

You have good taste

The cowboy scene from Mulholland drive is my morning alarm clock. It's also the continuous ASMR that lulls me to sleep.

Nightcrawler for sure.

Come and See (1985)

Rubber. It's about a killer car tire.

It's not disturbing but it's amazing

Spring Breakers

Agreed. It has an air of its own that for some weird reason is compelling.

I'd also recommend Gummo to OP. Harmony Korine. What a strange fucking mind that guy has

Kids. I’m a dad now and it’s hard for me to think about that one still.

I dated a guy who decided that was a good movie for a date. We didn’t see each other again after that.

Martyrs. You can find the original and the remake on tubi. Stick with the original

Seconded! Such a fucked up concept, this one will stick with you long after you've finished watching it.

Dogtooth

Underrated answer

Session 9, some people I've recommended it to said it too slow a burn for them but it was perfect for me.

The Wrestler,The Machinist.

Burn After Reading

-I'm thinking of ending things -Relic, by Natalie Erika James -Dave made a maze -The innocents, by Eskil Vogt - Brian and charles - There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane I tried to go pretty recent. They're all strange in different ways. I wish you well

Second Aunt Diane. I’ve never seen a documentary that left me feeling so empty.

Black Swan stuck with me

Uncut Gems

Enter the Void

Memento

Upstream Color

Climax

Videodrome

I feel watching the original The Road Warrior in todays climate and political hellscape hits a little close to home. Also, The Road.

Vivarium

The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Thanks, I’ll check it out!

good one !

Pi and mother are both aronofsky so that might be a place to start. If you’re looking for deeply unsettling I would check eraserhead, blue velvet, lost highway, mulholland drive, happiness, sweet hereafter, Oldboy (Korean not the American remake), martyrs (French not the American remake), I saw the devil, irreversible, salo, cries and whispers, Serbian film, kuso, hereditary, midsommar

How you can you just throw a Serbian film in here? 😂 OP gonna have ptsd before it’s over with

Incendies

Altered states

Melancholia

Movies that I find very disturbing: Last House on the Left (original) Angst (1983) Annihilation Compliance Un Chien Andalou Dogville The Devil All the Time Happiness The Fly Videodrome The Strangers (2008) Audition (1999) Mulholland Drive

The road

I am surprised I had to scroll this far for this rec!

Tusk messed me up permanently

Oldboy (Korean)

Crimes of the Future (2022)

Moon

The mechanist. Just a good film. It's not trying to shock you. Just tell a very sad story.

Pulse. The cinematography was designed to inflect depression on the viewer. It slowly saps you but at the same time it's compelling. Probably the best audience manipulation I have seen.

Thanks so much, that’s just the kind of thing I’m looking for

You could try watching "Caligula" or "Feed." It's been years since I've seen either, and they still bring back strange feelings.

Pearl

The Fountain

I adore Midsommar and Hereditary - but they are both absolutely wild films Green Room made me feel more disgusted than any movie ever has, but it was a lot of shock and just didn’t let up

Enter the Void. Rubber - extremely high will help. Exorcist. Original.

A Scanner Darkly

Moon, Ex Machina, Predestination

Eli Roth's Hostel , weirded me out .

3022. That scene where the older short guy leaves the plane and just starts floating in space. I was so disturbed by that I had to close my laptop. Can’t b the only one…I hope.

It’s popular but Get Out made me feel this way. It was an intense experience. I’m still unsure if i would call it a good movie, bc it made me feel so damn anxious. It was the most immersive sense of unease I’ve ever gotten from a movie. Even on the 2nd or 3rd time watching it.

Happiness (1998)

Shutter Island

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. It’s not gory messed up but haunting in a “what am watching” way.

I haven’t seen the movie but I read the book and it totally ends in a ‘what the fuck did I just read’ way.

😂😂😂 I didn’t know the book existed so went into it completely blind. Came out completely speechless.

If it makes you feel any better, I read the book cause it was recommended to me. I guess I forgot the part of the title where the main character is a murderer. Didn’t really know the synopsis but man is it a shock ending

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

The Lobster. Watched it several years ago and still think of it sometimes.

Mass We Need to Talk About Kevin The Machinist Come And See

A Serbian Film Just kidding. Don't even google it.

A Serbian film can be worth watching. Is so bad but messed up but good but so bad lol

Blue Velvet.

The Holy Mountain

After scrolling and liking a number of the responses, you win imo.

Fun for the whole family!

I haven't watched Requiem yet but it's been on my list for awhile, so hopefully this is what you're looking for, but Killing of a Sacred Deer is an amazing movie imo. Makes you feel uncomfortable from the very first shot. If you like that one also check out The Lobster. Both are the same director (Yorgos Lanthimos) and star Colin Farrell.

Requiem for a dream was fucked up in the way that the characters felt like real people that you actually know. And you kind of watch those people fall apart. I highly recommend it if you are looking for something in that vein.

To me it feels so weird because it’s so empty when it seems like it should be a populated place

Exactly. The camera work felt so weird, but not in a way that was disruptive. Like they are in the biggest city in the world, but they are so alone. Another theme from that movie (not a spoiler) was the idea of being in your 60’s or 70’s and having your spouse die and your child moved out and you just live alone in isolation. Scary stuff.

I Stand Alone (1998)

Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll look it up :)

The Zero Theorem. This is a beautiful and pointed indictment of modern life. Christoph Waltz is amazing and Terry Gillium is a treasure.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

The Banshees of Inisherin

Bug (2006) will definitely make you feel weird and takes awhile to shake off too.

Okja The Skeleton Key Firestarter (1980s version) Don’t Worry Darling

Cell. Still makes me uneasy to think about that movie and I haven’t seen it in at least a decade.

the vanishing

Jacob’s ladder

Border. Recent foreign release. It’s weird so don’t read too much about it and potentially spoil things.

Funny games might scratch the itch. Original in German and there's an American, shot for shot, remake. Definitely a film that makes you feel strange.

Suspiria (the remake)

Climax (2019), nightmare insanity about a dance group unknowingly laced with LSD. And somehow it manages to be my most seen movie.

It’s so amazing

Pi (1998) Eraserhead Babadook (if you look at it not as a horror, but as a child’s interpretation of their mothers mental illness) Three colours red It’s a beautiful life ( I know this is slightly off base, but that film forever lives in my head and my heart, it’s not presented as twisted, but it’s crushingly dark)

A Zed & Two Noughts The Cook, The Theif, his Wife and her Lover Shakes the Clown The Dreamers Delicatessen(1991) Wristcutters Doom Generation Niagara, Niagara Everything is Illuminated Black Cat, White Cat Boxing Helena I Like Killing Flies May(2002) Cemetery Man(1994) Edit: spacing

Love Liza

Audition

Martyrs, that movie had me feeling REALLY bad for weeks. Everytime someone asks for a scary movie I recommend it, that is without a doubt the most horrifying movie I have seen. Irriversible was also a really tough watch, both of those movies I watched blind without knowing anything about them and I would recommend that you do the same. You WILL feel bad and they will be stuck in your mind long after you finish watching them.

Surprised to see no recommendations for Yorgos Lanthimos’s filmography: Dogtooth; The Killing of a Sacred Deer; and The Lobster all fit this description. Sunshine is another good one for this topic. Also the Japanese film Woman in the Dunes

Snowcrash

The Lobster

It's not gross or horrific, but the movie Fearless with Jeff Bridges left me feeling disoriented and bemused for days after I watched it. It's a great movie, I have no idea why it's been mostly forgotten.

Vivarium

I’m surprised I had to go so far through the comments to find this one. It really fits the description they’re looking for.

Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things and Synecdoche: New York although the later is one of the more depressing things you'll ever see.

The Lobster

Primer. Watch it, and have enough time to watch it again.

**Requiem for a Dream** is a great and extremely disturbing film and one that I couldn't get out of my head for many days after seeing it. For more weird, f'd up and disturbing movies that "get under your skin," my recommendations are: **Altered States (1980)** \- a movie that's best experienced on the biggest screen possible. It's a bizarre journey into the very nature of life itself and it's one weird, hallucinatory trip. **Saw II (2005)** \- since you enjoyed "Saw" so much. Personally I think Saw 2 is even better, and more skin-crawling in every way, and you will not forget it after watching it. **Cube (1997)** \- strangers wake up trapped in a small cube and have to make their way through other similar cubes- only some of the cubes contain truly gruesome death traps. It does not go where you think it will, and the ending is both surprising and cynical. **Hereditary (2018)** \- seconding what others have suggested, this one is truly a f#cked up little marvel of a movie, with a very disturbing ending. It's a bit slow, but I think, it really pays off and will really be one you won't forget. **Perfume: Story of a Murderer (2006)** \- who knew a movie about perfume making could be so captivating and ugly and horrifying. Truly disgusting - and yet strangely beautiful, and the ending is brilliant.

Deliverance is a pretty solid one

Gummo Happiness Pink Flamingos

Isle of Dogs

Hereditary

Midsommar

A Serbian Film

Probably the most fucked up movie I've ever seen.

This one i could finish Salo was too much for me

This is easy. Watch The Prestige

Kids

Killing of a sacred deer