Favorite sick, twisted, messed up movie....

[rob2001]

.......if your into that sort.....I gotta go with Fight Club.

Apocolypse Now is pretty messed up too.

[scottlr]

Clockwork Orange

[JohnLochner]

I gotta go with 'Blue Velvet'.

[XKnight]

The Wall!

[LauraMc]

Happiness

[Noah]

Evil Dead II is still the king

other well made movies that might qualify as sick and twisted-
Audition, Dead Alive, Oldboy, Benny's Video, Kids, Irreversible...too many others

[Ooogie]

Repo Man was pretty twisted...a classic!!

[epluribus]

Mars Attacks.

[AaeCee]

I like all of the above, plus:

American Werewolf In London

Pulp Fiction

Hard Candy

Jacob's Ladder

Donnie Darko

Snatch

From Dusk till Dawn

Reservoir Dogs

[bluto0251]

Crash, not the latest one but the twisted one with Spader

[ewheel]

Reanimator - still gives me the creeps!

[AaeCee]

Oh yeah, one more:

The Devil's Advocate.....even Keanu Reeves' contrived, stiff acting couldn't ruin a great story with great supporting actors.

[saucyjack]

Seven
Mulholland Falls

[aps]

Teeth

freaked me out.


APS

EDIT: Ohhh you said "favorite" movies. Teeth is not my favorite but it is pretty messed up.
My favorite would have to be Pulp Fiction or Donnie Darko.

[sysexguy]

Delicatessen might be obscure so here's the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicatessen_(film)

Andy

[Chris T]

Audition

Eraserhead


nothing else like these two anywhere....

[realityczech]

Eraser Head
Warhol's Frankenstein
Bad Leutenant

[macheesmo3]

Last House on the Left
Irreversible
Ichi the Killer

[HEY!YOU!]

House of a 1000 corpses.

Devils Rejects

[zsno]

Probably one of the most sick and twisted:

Singapore Sling.

[cmatthes]

"Shakes the Clown"

(No...really!)
:D

[jgyn]

Audition
Sleeping Dogs Lie
Kissed

[phishmarisol]

Happiness

Great choice.

[Knuckles]

House of a 1000 corpses.

Devils Rejects

Beat me to it.

[TwoTubMan]

Munster Go Home!

:love:

[re-animator]

Last house on the left.


I was distraught for days. Never self-indulgent or gratuitous. The idea behind the movie was to make a movie about violence.... what better way to do that than extreme violence?

[rob2001]

Lots of good ones here. Some I haven't seen. I'll have to check them out.

I'd add Silence of the Lambs.

[Austinrocks]

I gotta go with 'Blue Velvet'.

:agree

[hansoloist]

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

The Suicide Club

peace
-jeff

[dets1]

blue velvet for me too. for the shear possibility that crap like that really goes on. i haven't seen mulholland dr. or the bad lieutenant, but they're on my list.

[kingnimrod]

Holy Mountain
Forbidden Zone

[Suproman77]

My favorite has to be The Shining, I think. Training Day gets me as well.

[patchesprescott]

I cannot believe no one mentioned KIDS

not so much a fantasy as a just real disturbing picture of youth in america

but i thought it was a pretty well-done flick

and of course what about that foreign flick, Man Bites Dog

crazy movie for sure

[phoenix 7]

Snatch - Brad Pitt movie (not porn)
Pulp Fiction
Fargo
Fight Club

[bek]

Curdled.

[Teleplayer]

The Dear Hunter
Omen I

[studiodunn]

brokeback mountain

[slipbeer]

Brazil

[wbfree]

Natural Born Killers
Scanners
Jacobs Ladder

[rwe333]

Not necessarily faves (or enjoyable), but these deserve a mention:
El Topo
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom

[ed84246]

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.

But definitely Happiness and Salo are up there as well. These three make "Fight Club" look like Disney fare.

[lhallam]

Agreed with many mentioned.

"A Simple Plan" was messed up.

"No Country For Old Men"

another one is "The Illustrated Man", the dialogue could've been better but the endings were all f'd up.

[DiazDude]

An Inconvenient Truth

[Noah]

I cannot believe no one mentioned KIDS


crazy movie for sure
6th post down, 1st page ;)

[joejazzguitar]

Boxing Helena

[gtrs]

Killing Zoe
Requiem for a Dream

[Rod]

Videodrome

[notpetrucci]

Natural Born Killers might be my fav.

Inside (french) might be the best.

I about threw up after watching it. It's disgusting.

-Jon

[duckbunny]

"Shakes the Clown"

(No...really!)
:D

Hilarious film! I thought I was the only one who ever watched it.
How about:
"The Dark Backwards"

Ditto on "Audition"

[Frankee]

Gummo.

[Shine]

I Spit on Your Grave
Havoc
Seven
A Clockwork Orange

[jgyn]

(snip)
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom

When I saw this in a theater, only about a third of the audience remained until the end.

[DemonOfTheFall]

In no particular order:

Audition
Oldboy
Funny Games
Eraserhead

[AaeCee]

CAN'T BELIEVE nobody mentioned Hostel! Great? No. Sick and twisted? Way.

One more:

River's Edge. Extra twisted, as it was based on a true story.

[jmbstudios]

I think the most sick and twisted movie that I have seen in a long time was.............

The Devil's Rejects - From Rob Zombie(2005)

That has to take the prize!!

[duckbunny]

Uh, no one mentions Pink Flamingos?



-db

[Rayneman]

House of a 1000 corpses.

Devils Rejects

This!

Devil's Rejects is one of my favorite movies. I've been raving about it to my bandmates for a long time... I finally got them to sit down and watch it the other night after rehearsal, with beers, and I now feel they think I'm insane.

Maybe I'm silly, but I thought there was great characterization in Rejects, while our singer remarked that the acting was "terrible" (I know characterization and acting are two different things, but...) Perhaps Sheri Moon Zombie isn't a cinematic princess, but Wydell (Forsythe), Otis (Mosley) and Spaulding (Haig) - not to mention the whole Kahiki Palms Motel crew were awesome!! Also Mother Firefly (I can't recall her name ATM) was wild as well.

Oh, and I tried to get my wife to watch it with me on several occasions, and well, she didn't usually make it past the opening scene, but she did manage to make it until Otis put the "mask" on the remaining woman at the motel and that was IT.

[Noah]

Here's a few more foreign films -

Hausu- Japan (insanely bizarre haunted house movie from 1978, Evil Dead II ripped off some stuff from this one for sure!)

Movie buffs already know about these two and I already mentioned Oldboy in my first post, but these are both great also-
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - Korea (any movie where the hero is heard gurgling and choking to death on his own blood during the closing credits qualifies for sick and twisted)
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance - Korea

Gozu - possibly Takashi Miike's(director of Audition) weirdest movie, and that's saying a lot!

Those are all interesting or good movies, but there are lots of other crap movies that are really sick and twisted like Bad Boy Bubby, Aftermath/Genesis, Ex-Drummer, or the embarrassingly dumb but truly sick August Underground's Mordum.

[epluribus]

Sid Haig fans...dramatic turn, straight character in the recently released indie film Little Big Top (http://littlebigtopmovie.com/). Still plays a clown, but it sho' ain't Capt. Spaulding. Interesting.

--Ray

Btw, not a slasher fan by any stretch, but the film crew included a bunch of my buds.

[devnulljp]

I'd have to go with Eraserhead.
Nil by Mouth is an awesome and nasty film.
Delicatessen is great, but I thought it was more of a comedy than sick and twisted.
Julien Donkey-Boy was pretty messed up.
There are a few Cronenburgs that are pretty odd (Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch), but I wouldn't call them favourites.

[Freedom]

Braindead... :bow

[triple_vee]

Vacancy

[BigJamesyBoy]

Another +1 for Blue Velvet, ridiculously well written, well acted!

[jw112]

i've seen most of the films mentioned above and in my opinion

irreversible is top of my list

honorable mentions:
kids
gummo
ken park
bully
Happiness
Storytelling
zoo

[TCauble]

Evil Dead - Bruce Campbell is a god

[Motorhed]

Bad Taste
Dead Alive
Meet The Feebles
Re-Animator
Evil Dead 2
Street Trash
The Toxic Avenger
Eating Raoul(it is a dark comedy and not all that graphic but I think the idea is pretty twisted. Its hilarious too!)
Sin City(its much more polished than the others I've listed but I still think it fits)


I won't call it a favorite but one that certainly fits this thread and was a VERY interesting experience was Caligula. I'm talkin about the uncensored hardcore version. Its just so damn wierd. There's more wierd stuff going on in the background of this movie than in the foreground of most movies. In the end it was done to campy too be taken seriously and it was too artsy to be porn and to pornographic to be artsy. It was just....wierd.

[twoheadedboy]

Ichi the Killer
Trouble Every Day
Battle Royale

[stratzrus]

Some I would have listed have already been mentioned:

Crash, not the latest one but the twisted one with Spader
Holy Mountain



El Topo
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Kids
I Spit on Your Grave


But I'd add to that list:

Christianne F
Wife to be Sacrificed (perhaps the sickest movie I've ever seen)
In the Realm of the Senses

[Suproman77]

I forgot my all time favorite messed up film. American Psycho. That movie is the sh*t.

[dets1]

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.

But definitely Happiness and Salo are up there as well. These three make "Fight Club" look like Disney fare.
i would've listed "the cook" and "pink flamingos" but i didn't want to admit that i had watched them.

[kovachian]

Gummo
Crash (old one, not the newer one)

[AaeCee]

I forgot my all time favorite messed up film. American Psycho. That movie is the sh*t.But the book is soooo much better. But you know how it goes when you read the book first. Still, not a bad film. Some scenes really captured the mood especially well, such as the business card scene. The excellent casting really helped, with Christian Bale as a great lead.

[notpetrucci]

Twitch of the death nerve/bay of blood. Bava is a horror god.

A night at the golden eagle is great, too.

Faces of death didn't come up yet?

-jon

[Da5Id]

I have to say that Trainspotting, one of my favorite movies, is certainly twisted.

[pir8matt]

Gummo.

Damn, beat me to it.

'Mulholland Drive' scares the crap out of me. Its just so..weird.

[lhallam]

Interesting three Lynch movies are mentioned in this thread:

Erasure Head
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive

[Whamosi]

Anyone mention "Memento" yet?

[dgood]

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/video/Large/superd_1884037.jpg

[bostonwal]

Delicatessen might be obscure so here's the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicatessen_(film)

Andy

+ a lot

[shngn7]

American Psycho.

[hellbender]

Old Yeller

[Guitarzandstuff]

Blood Sucking Freaks

[wstsidela]

Freaks
Happiness

[?&!]

"Wild At Heart". That's 4 David Lynch films on the list! Willem Dafoe should have gotten an Oscar for his performance as Bobby Peru. Just awesome.

My favorite crazy movie ever, though, is "Gummo". There are certain parts that are just gratuitously weird and surreal, but other parts are DEAD ON. I grew up in a trailer park in Iowa, and about 3/4 of that movie was like watching a documentary on my childhood. People who weren't raised in that environment think that the whole movie is surreal, but in reality, it's uncomfortably close to what goes on in the white trash kingdom. Scary!!!!!!!!

[Noah]

I just saw a really super messed up movie called "Mum and Dad". Lots of sick and perverse gross out scenes, but nothing very interesting going on...ugh..that one was not fun.

There's a fantastic new British horror film called "Eden Lake" that I would highly recommend. Be warned if you want to check it out: There are some truly disturbing and brutal scenes that involve children, but it's extremely well made and frightening.

[twinrider1]

The gore doesn't get to me. I've seen enough real gore online that it's lost its impact. And I don't give a filmmaker much credit for it. Too easy.
I like films that screw with your mind.

Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
Jacob's Ladder

Thanks for the warning on Eden Lake. I don't like people screwing with kids, even in a movie.

[Echo Are]

Lots of good movies mentioned already. I'll add:

-Harold And Maude
-The Groove Tube
-Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes
-Kentucky Fried Movie

[Structo]

American Psycho!

[Bassomatic]

Freaks
Happiness

+ Storytelling - also by Solondz
Bitter Moon
Blue Velvet
Desperate Living (The John Waters classic!)

[Mojosupreme]

The Orphanage
Deathproof

[Twangdaddy]

"House of Wax" starring Vincent Price - also doubles as comedy

[twinrider1]

Oh, I'm going to throw TOMMY in there. Mom took me to see that when it opened. I wasn't quite 8 yet.

[surfshack]

what about "PHANTASM"?
when i was younger that movie was super-freaky!
very creative.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icrfsangQns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEyJB4Phrms

[Fixxxer]

House of 1000 corpses rules

[marklp]

My favorites were already mentioned, but I'll throw in the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" since it hasn't been mentioned yet.

[pfflam]

Passolini's Medea

The original Dutch the Vanishing is very good

Happiness is good too

But if you want very very weird: Sweet Movie bu Dusan Makavejev -not great but a splice of a certain era in experimental film and ideology

Then other favorites:
Heart Of Glass by Herzog - he had the entire acting crew hypnotized and imagined that in ideal viewing situations the entire audience would also be hypnotized before hand.

Satantango by Bella Tarr - 7 hours long - must be watched in one sitting-!!
fantastic long takes, very very memorable scene where a young girls manhandles a cat . . . once in a lifetime experience

Head - the Monkees - great movie

With a Friend Like Harry - good French film

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - now we're talkin

More mainstream but great: Brazil - Gilliam at his best.
also kinda mainstream:Delicatessen is a good one


But one of the best movies that is also one of the sickest and most twisted is called: SICK: the life and times of Bob Flanagan Super Masochist - a documentary about this artist/masochist, his relationship to his wife and his way of dealing with Cystic Fibrosis - a very heavy powerful film-!! not for the squeemish

.

[v-verb]

Sin City

[guitarpkr67]

Not really my favorite my favorite, but definitely messed up.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/LxSxDrEaMs/tideland.jpg

[evanjackson]

Grindhouse.

[pfflam]

Not really my favorite my favorite, but definitely messed up.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/LxSxDrEaMs/tideland.jpgI want to see that . . . I love Gilliam's sensibility, and this one does sound twisted.

[Texas_Blues]

Hard Days Night
http://i426.photobucket.com/albums/pp345/elelelelelo/Beatles/nose.jpg

[Guitar Slinger6]

I did not see "Frailty" mentioned. Definite sick twisted movie!

[cg]

The Vanishing - the 1988 Dutch original, not the horrible remake with Keifer Sutherland.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1036630-vanishing/

Synopsis: Three years after the mysterious abduction of his girlfriend while the two were on vacation, a man tracks down her kidnapper. The abductor, a seemingly normal professor who contacts the young man... Three years after the mysterious abduction of his girlfriend while the two were on vacation, a man tracks down her kidnapper. The abductor, a seemingly normal professor who contacts the young man through the mail, is actually a cold-hearted clinician of terror. When her kidnapper promises to reveal the location of his lost loved one, their confrontation explodes.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d9/Spoorloos.jpg/200px-Spoorloos.jpg

[rob2001]

Whoa... this thread got a new set of wheels! OK, when I was a kid I saw Willy Wonka... Never really figured what the plot of that one was...... pretty freaky to me at 7. I I have yet to watch it since to see if it makes any sense.

[Ian Anderson]

Lock, Stock, and 2 smoking Barrels.

Reservoir Dogs

A Clockwork Orange

[Berlebster]

Sympathy for Mr vengeance....
Severance (wow my daughter gave me this one last week, strange taste)