Watching a film with out realizing the place the story will take you is all the time enjoyable. After millennia of tales and greater than a century of films, it’s not all the time simple for a story to shock us. So each time a narrative throws some genuinely sudden twists and turns at you, you’ve received to understand it, even when a few of these twists and turns aren’t precisely enjoyable.
One movie fan took to a web-based discussion board to ask for films that can make them query every little thing. Hundreds of individuals reply with films that depart their heads spinning and jaws on the flooring.
1. Martyrs (2008)
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Martyrs is infamously one in every of the most annoying films ever made. But it’s not simply the film’s excessive violence that makes it so memorable. The story of a younger lady who seeks revenge on a household that abused her as a baby takes so many twists and turns, with reveals that you may by no means see coming, that it could simply be the concepts that shock and stick to you greater than any of the brutality.
2. Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Sorry to Bother You begins as a considerably unusual comedy that takes place in a world barely totally different from our personal, however because it goes on, it turns into one thing nearer to a science fiction horror film with out ever being outright scary. Multiple viewers confessed to screaming, “What?!” whereas watching it.
3. Tusk (2014)
Kevin Smith is greatest identified for his comedies, and whereas Tusk actually has some humorous moments, it’s not only a romp. The film facilities on a person obsessive about turning a human being right into a walrus. Yes, you learn that proper, and that’s simply the start line. It’s a wild trip that can depart you questioning what you simply watched and not sure in the event you discovered it hilarious, disgusting, or each.
4. The Lighthouse (2019)
The Lighthouse facilities on two lighthouse keepers in the late nineteenth century who expertise unusual phenomena on their tiny island. One of them begins to have visions of mermaids, whereas the different sees one thing mystical in the lighthouse’s gentle; in addition they can’t fairly determine how they really feel about one another. All these threads make for a film that delivers one thing delightfully confounding about each quarter-hour.
5. mom! (2017)
Darren Aronofsky has made his fair proportion of films that depart you questioning what you simply watched. But mom! is undoubtedly his most complicated, disorienting, and disturbing film. The movie follows a straight couple in an remoted residence in an exquisite area as increasingly more friends arrive into their lives. These friends are welcomed by the man, however trigger the lady nice stress, till issues come to a head in the closing third of the movie, which presents one in every of the most visceral cinematic experiences you may endure.
6. The Lobster (2015)
The Lobster is, in principle, a romantic comedy. The high-concept science fiction rom-com takes place in a wierd world the place folks should pair up or be was animals. Within that world, the viewers follows David (Colin Farrell) as he tries to discover a match at a retreat and discovers a revolutionary group referred to as “the loners.”
7. Cats (2019)
Cats, the adaptation of the long-running stage musical, had folks asking questions when the first photos of computer-generated humanoid cats have been launched. Once the film got here out, these questions solely elevated. One one that noticed the movie in theaters says, “it was so incoherent in tone and execution, and weird that it just feels like a fever dream in my memory.”
8. The Bad Batch (2016)
Years earlier than Star Wars: The Bad Batch, one other The Bad Batch made its method onto screens. The movie takes place in a future the place criminals are dropped off into an enormous, lawless, open-air jail to fend for themselves and options, as one commenter says, “Keanu Reeves has an army of pregnant concubines, Jason Mamoa is a muscled up cannibal who lives with other muscled up cannibals, and Suki Waterhouse has her arm and leg stolen by the cannibals while she’s alive.” That identical viewer described the film as “two hours of what…am I watching?” It’s a film I really like for exactly that cause.
9. Perfect Blue (1997)
Perfect Blue is one in every of the most beloved anime films of all time for good cause. The movie facilities on a pop idol who will get the alternative to change into an actress. But as she begins her performing profession, she additionally begins to have problem discerning what’s actual.
10. Barbarian (2022)
Barbarian has been overvalued as one in every of the greatest films to enter blind, so I received’t give a lot away right here besides to say that the movie begins when a younger lady arrives at an Airbnb that’s been double booked. From there, the film delivers a wild and splendidly stunning trip that gives horror, comedy, and a surprisingly sharp satirical edge.
11. Mulholland Drive (2001)
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David Lynch has made a number of films that make viewers query what’s occurring and what they’re taking a look at. But Mulholland Drive stays his masterpiece and one in every of the most stunning and thought-provoking movies ever made.
The movie follows two girls, Betty (Naomi Watts), who has simply moved to Los Angeles to change into an actress, and Rita (Laura Harring), who has amnesia, as they try to find the secrets and techniques of Rita’s previous.
12. House (1977)
House is one in every of the most enjoyable films you may watch in any context. The movie follows a bunch of teenage ladies who go to stick with one in every of their aunts however expertise unusual and scary phenomena after they arrive.
While that appears like the setup for a horror film, House is extra humorous and bewildering than scary, with each new scene of religious mischief delivering a brand new sort of joyous cause to query, “what is happening?”
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Kyle Logan is a movie and tv critic and common popular culture author who has written for Alternative Press, Cultured Vultures, Film Stories, Looper, and extra. Kyle is especially all in favour of horror and animation, in addition to style movies written and directed by queer folks and girls. Along with writing, Kyle organizes a Queer Film Challenge on Letterboxd.
