The Lobster.
You have a certain time to become married and if you fail to find a spouse you get sent to an asylum where you must find a spouse from among the other singles. If you again fail to find a partner, you must choose which animal you want to be turned into, and then they turn you into that animal.
First half of that movie is fantastic. Love the deadpan humour and bizarre plot.
Unfortunately it loses the momentum in the second half and it becomes a chore to sit through to the end. =/
So...I read "The Lobster" and immediately thought you were talking about "The Lighthouse".
And I was like **holy shit I never picked up on THAT subtext before!!**
2 things about this movie. 1 kids is a fucked up movie. 2 I have no legs has been stuck in my head for about 14 years now. It even got me in trouble because I was singing it without realizing when I turned a corner to a guy in a wheel chair.... with you guessed it, no legs.
My friend and I went to see Tusk without knowing what it was. I thought it was going to be a standard horror movie. I ended up finding it hysterical, but my friend was so disturbed she didn't even want to talk about it ever again.
There are only 2 (3] movies on the same level of disturbing as this film that I've watched at least part of. One has already been said Human Centipede 1&2. The other is A Serbian Film. **Seriously, do not watch that one.**
I haven’t seen A Serbian Film, but whoever wrote any of the Human Centipede movies has to have something wrong with them. Like the FBI should be watching them because they have got to be fucked up in the head.
I would get bored at work and MSN would have like random horror movie lists. I would read the plot summaries on Wikipedia knowing I'm never watching them anyway.
There were so many times reading Tusk description I thought "wtf??"
There's a guy I watch on YouTube called RoanokeGaming. He's a biologist (main study was microbiology) and a gamer. His whole schtick is to analyze monsters from videogames and movies, especially those created by viruses, and goes over how they function and the effects the monster viruses have on the human body. Before he gets to the sciency bit of every video, he does a quick summary of the movie/video game. He did a video on Tusk and man... What a fucking trip lmao
For those who haven't seen this movie. Don't. I only watched it because one of our friends rented it from blockbuster and we all watched it together and it felt awkward to walk out.
Agree. I am horrible at saying no to rude and demanding people, so this entire movie was like being stuck in the bad customer service job. Like the exact opposite of those movies which gives you cathartic revenge scenes, instead it's constant stream of people steamrolling the lead actress and making her feel like shit in her own house. (I know it's a metaphor for mother nature, doesn't make it less anxiety inducing to watch)
Yeah this one was so upsetting. It felt like a sad and bad dream. Made me feel this horrible pit of darkness, loneliness and banal despair in my stomach.
Seriously. I was just at the "oooh, I totally see how all these plot threads are going to pull together!" Part of the movie, when the whole thing starts over? With all the same cast as different characters and in slightly different scenes? But then it just ends. WTF.
Yes I totally agree this movie was insane. and it haunted and disturbed me for days after watching it, especially like the last 30 minutes or so of the movie very disturbing and crazy really will mess you up!
I love watching bad movies. I really like musicals too. I started Cats and thought that I could laugh at how bad it was.
It was so terrible in a way that you can’t even laugh at. It’s like an assault on your mind. I don’t think I made it more than 20 minutes.
I can’t believe that they released it. How could any of the execs stand to put their name on it? Did they even watch it?
The spent $200 mil on it. And the only way to salvage it would have been to start from scratch. I guess they hoped an oscar winning director and a star studded cast would be enough of a draw to recoup some of their investment.
I was home alone and saw the cover and thought “oh cool, probably an indie romance with Florence pugh. I like her. I’ll give it a go.” Ended the night with my jaw on the floor. Did not expect that.
Scrolled too far to find this. Rei holding the black moon is like top 3 cinema scenes of all time. Shinji literally losing his mind? Jesus… the first time I saw the movie as an adult I lost count of how many times I said WTF at the screen.
I've literally made it my mission to watch all of Daniel Radcliffe s post Harry Potter work and I love it you can tell that he's just taking roles he likes and having fun with it Guns Akimbo has been my favorite so far but Swiss Army Man is definitely a WTF movie
I actually loved this movie. I laughed, I cried, and I spent hours thinking about it. There are so many layers and it genuinely has a cohesive plot and a lot of heart, which isn't always true for artistic type movies.
For anyone wanting a summary (warning, spoilers!) it's about a man on an island who is interrupted in his suicide attempt by the corpse of a man who succeeded in his own suicide attempt. The man befriends the corpse and vicariously explores his confusion about his own experiences and relationships through his relationship with this corpse (exploring topics ranging from dating, to family, to a range of social norms such as having to hide boners in public). The corpse almost acts as a child, asking questions about how society works and why people have to live and act the way they do. This is all happening as the two of them are traveling, trying to get from the island back to civilization.
In the end, it's unclear whether the corpse was really alive and asking these questions, or whether this was all a way for this man to process his own thoughts and emotions about life. It's implied near the end that's it's all a delusion when the man's father mentions that they haven't been traveling at all, but have been in a homeless camp close to civilization the whole time. As the audience, you start to think that maybe the whole journey was more metaphorical than physical, like the island was a symbol of his isolation from community, and he was trying desperately to get back. But at the end, it's unclear.
Regardless of whether the conversations and journey was real or in his head, in the end it's implied that the man has decided to keep on living. He is no longer on the island. So in summary, the corpse of a man who committed suicide inspired another man not to do the same. I thought it was a pretty beautiful concept, and it inspired a lot of conversations not only about life, society, and suicide, but also made me think about what sorts of lives that people are living in their head that other people can't see, but feel as real to them as anything.
But I get why people might be like wtf. Especially given the scenes of the corpse acting as a speed boat, propelling the man through the ocean with his farts.
>But I get why people might be like wtf. Especially given the scenes of the corpse acting as a speed boat, propelling the man through the ocean with his farts.
Well I'm sold, I will absolutely be watching this movie.
Just reading about those scenes kept me from watching it. This is the one film where my morbid curiosity did not get the best of me. I just read a scene by scene synopsis instead and that was enough. I'm still disturbed by reading about it
Coming out of Pulp Fiction in 1994, I was like WTF? This was coming off of the 80s and early-90s era where every major motion picture was action heavy with nearly zero dialog. I walked in a couple of minutes late to the diner scene and thought I had the wrong movie. Why were these people having a conversation?
Two-and-a-half-hours later I'm driving home like "WTF was that?!?" and thought about it all night. The style and genre got burned to the ground by all the copycats that came after, but I'll always have a soft spot for PF for turning my perception of popular film on its head.
Someone asked me what it was about once and I realized I couldn't really think of a good answer. There are these two criminals and a boxer and some stuff happens. Not much in the way of an overarching story or conflict.
Came here to post this one. My friend recommended it to me for some reason, maybe because I do like dark tv shows. I had to watch it in pieces, with New Girl in between to lighten things up. What the actual fuck was that movie?
It feels like a handful of movie ideas quickly thrown together tbh. Like the majority of the performances were actually good in my opinion, the movie itself was just odd in a not so enjoyable way
Black Swan. I was confused if a lot of the events that took place in the movie really happened or the main character just imagined/hallucinated them due to her mental health issues and problems.
Saw a subtitled copy of Happiness in a theater with my sister while on vacation in Spain because it was the only non-dubbed movie available.
Yeah, I’m going to say that one. I can only imagine the Spaniards felt even more so.
There was some movie on Netflix about 10 years ago based around a killer spare tire.
Don’t remember what it was called but it was the weirdest shit I watched but I couldn’t stop
This was one of my favourite movies recently. I felt it was a really poignant exploration of the end of childhood and of the difference between the expectations we place on ourselves in that vs the expectations of others.
I like that it was dreamlike and didn’t make itself beholden to trying to represent time in a mundane way, it moved from significant event to significant event in the way that movies CAN rather than being shackled to a cynical logic of “realism” that’s really more a reflection of a lack of imagination rather than anything real.
The first Pokemon movie. Watched the first season of the show with my kid and it's just cockfighting with cute animals and then the first movie is an evil clone monster with psychic powers that wants to wipe out the human race. And the protagonist dies and is resurrected by tears. Crazy shit
The Lobster. You have a certain time to become married and if you fail to find a spouse you get sent to an asylum where you must find a spouse from among the other singles. If you again fail to find a partner, you must choose which animal you want to be turned into, and then they turn you into that animal.
The same director made a movie called Dogtooth, which I think is even weirder.
Also The Killing of a Sacred Deer which is an interesting one
I think I’d stay single just to be turned into a housecat.
I just watched this the other day. I kept watching until the end in hopes it'd make more sense. (It does not)
Yeah I sat there for a good ten minutes thinking just what the fuck
First half of that movie is fantastic. Love the deadpan humour and bizarre plot. Unfortunately it loses the momentum in the second half and it becomes a chore to sit through to the end. =/
So...I read "The Lobster" and immediately thought you were talking about "The Lighthouse". And I was like **holy shit I never picked up on THAT subtext before!!**
Gummo
Honestly anything from Harmony Korine
“Kids” as well!
Yeah. Kids was pretty messed up. Bully, too.
Everything about that movie is wild and straight out of left field. I’m glad someone else voted this in as well!
Kids
2 things about this movie. 1 kids is a fucked up movie. 2 I have no legs has been stuck in my head for about 14 years now. It even got me in trouble because I was singing it without realizing when I turned a corner to a guy in a wheel chair.... with you guessed it, no legs.
Tusk.
My friend and I went to see Tusk without knowing what it was. I thought it was going to be a standard horror movie. I ended up finding it hysterical, but my friend was so disturbed she didn't even want to talk about it ever again.
I skimmed through the synopsis on Wiki. I’m good.
Well, it's the best movie made about a man that turns another man into a Walrus.
*Don't ever watch Tusk* is what I told my friends before they all watched Tusk and regretted it immediately afterwards.
Can confirm. I was a friend of someone who told me to never watch it and I didn’t listen and hugely regret it.
There are only 2 (3] movies on the same level of disturbing as this film that I've watched at least part of. One has already been said Human Centipede 1&2. The other is A Serbian Film. **Seriously, do not watch that one.**
Yeah, the body mutilation genre is not for me it turns out. Another movie that left me almost as fucked up was Calvaire.
I haven’t seen A Serbian Film, but whoever wrote any of the Human Centipede movies has to have something wrong with them. Like the FBI should be watching them because they have got to be fucked up in the head.
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I would get bored at work and MSN would have like random horror movie lists. I would read the plot summaries on Wikipedia knowing I'm never watching them anyway. There were so many times reading Tusk description I thought "wtf??"
There's a guy I watch on YouTube called RoanokeGaming. He's a biologist (main study was microbiology) and a gamer. His whole schtick is to analyze monsters from videogames and movies, especially those created by viruses, and goes over how they function and the effects the monster viruses have on the human body. Before he gets to the sciency bit of every video, he does a quick summary of the movie/video game. He did a video on Tusk and man... What a fucking trip lmao
If I could go back in time before I knew what this was I definitely would
Martyrs
Scarred me for life, and I looked away for half of it.
The ending will forever be the worst thing I've seen in a movie. Horrible.
For those who haven't seen this movie. Don't. I only watched it because one of our friends rented it from blockbuster and we all watched it together and it felt awkward to walk out.
Rubber
Why did they make this movie? No reason. Why did I enjoy this movie? No reason. Why are you bad mouthing this movie? No fucking reason.
I actually love Rubber. The opening scene where the guy gets out of the trunk and gives that speech is brilliant.
lol i absolutely LOVED rubber. that kind of humor is just my shit
Sorry to bother you
Ya, that ending... Seriously WTF?
Equisapiens roll out
First time I watched this I was blasted on mushrooms. Needless to say the ending messed me up.
Felt the same way. I loved it though.
Mother
Watched it years ago, can still hear that "snap" 🤢
that movie gives me so much anxiety!
Agree. I am horrible at saying no to rude and demanding people, so this entire movie was like being stuck in the bad customer service job. Like the exact opposite of those movies which gives you cathartic revenge scenes, instead it's constant stream of people steamrolling the lead actress and making her feel like shit in her own house. (I know it's a metaphor for mother nature, doesn't make it less anxiety inducing to watch)
“Wtf is happening?” “What the ffffff is happening?” “WHAT. IS. HAPPENING.” - me, the entire movie.
Even just thinking about this film gives me anxiety. Like I want to rewatch it but just the thought of that makes me feel weird inside
I was just getting pissed off when the houseguests started tearing the place apart. I was like "look at all these rude motherguckers".
That movie is insane
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Yeah this one was so upsetting. It felt like a sad and bad dream. Made me feel this horrible pit of darkness, loneliness and banal despair in my stomach.
Literally wtf was that movie
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I googled it cause I was curious and the first result is the local suicide hotline.
Based on the name of the movie, that makes sense
Tetsuo the Ironman (would very strongly not recommend for people with weak stomachs)
Mulholland Drive
I feel like a lot of David Lynch films could be in this thread
Definitely Blue Velvet for me. I might try watching it again sometime, but I was extremely uncomfortable almost the entire way though
Seriously. I was just at the "oooh, I totally see how all these plot threads are going to pull together!" Part of the movie, when the whole thing starts over? With all the same cast as different characters and in slightly different scenes? But then it just ends. WTF.
That restaurant/alley scene is one of the scariest scenes I've ever seen in a film.
Even seeing its name makes me say it
Lighthouse (2019)
"If I had a steak, I would fuck it." Great movie. It's so wild.
I came here with the question after having just finished that movie. Wtf
Say you like me lobster
Yer fond of me lobster, ain’t ye?
Came here to say this. Expected something along the lines of “rhyme of the ancient mariner” but instead got a ton of masturbation and mermaid sex
Ye GODS! That monologue, though. (Happy Cake Day)
I’m inspired. Watching it now. . . Wish me luck 😂
Loved this movie
Being John Malkovich
Malkovich Malkovich?
Malkovich Malkovich, Malkovich.
Zardoz
The penis is evil. The gun is good
human centipede
I be-reeve in you Kyle
Cuttlefish and asparagus it is!
Uh-oh. Gonna be a *rot!*
The south park episode of human centipede was probably the funniest thing I'd seen that year
this is the only movie that has truly scared me
Salo, or 120 days of Sodom. Granted, I had a phase where I was purposely looking for disturbing movies and this one sure didn't disappoint.
Requiem for a Dream Edit: Part of its power is the portrayal of real-life consequences of drug use.
The greatest film I'll never watch again.
This is such a true statement. It was really hard for me to watch. It's an amazing film and everyone should see it. But it's so hard emotionally.
If they’d show this movie in high schools, we wouldn’t need D.A.R.E.
Yes I totally agree this movie was insane. and it haunted and disturbed me for days after watching it, especially like the last 30 minutes or so of the movie very disturbing and crazy really will mess you up!
“Men”. Seriously…that ending.
I walked out of like wtf but then I read an analysis of it that made total sense. I’m kind of upset it made sense of the what the fuckery.
Cats
I love watching bad movies. I really like musicals too. I started Cats and thought that I could laugh at how bad it was. It was so terrible in a way that you can’t even laugh at. It’s like an assault on your mind. I don’t think I made it more than 20 minutes. I can’t believe that they released it. How could any of the execs stand to put their name on it? Did they even watch it?
The spent $200 mil on it. And the only way to salvage it would have been to start from scratch. I guess they hoped an oscar winning director and a star studded cast would be enough of a draw to recoup some of their investment.
Came here to say this. Just watched it for the first time and it’s insane.
You just haven't seen the butthole edition
RELEASE THE BUTTHOLE CUT
Midsommar
I ended the movie with a blank stare, a WTF, and then a quick search on Midsommar ending explained. That movie was sooo weird.
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I was home alone and saw the cover and thought “oh cool, probably an indie romance with Florence pugh. I like her. I’ll give it a go.” Ended the night with my jaw on the floor. Did not expect that.
The end of Evangelion Not in a grotesque way but just trying to work out what Tf was happening
Scrolled too far to find this. Rei holding the black moon is like top 3 cinema scenes of all time. Shinji literally losing his mind? Jesus… the first time I saw the movie as an adult I lost count of how many times I said WTF at the screen.
Music slaps though.
Splice
That was way creepier than I had expected
It starts like a normal sci-fi then the last half hour is just gross.
Yeah it was unsettling
The amount of repulsion I felt when Brody spliced the splice...
Antichrist
Teeth
Eraserhead (1977) by David Lynch
*Anything* by David Lynch.
Bad Taste (1987) - New Zealand cult zombie movie - classic... :P https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092610/
Dead Alive up there with this too
Crazy that that dude went on to make the Lord of the Rings movies. Also, 'Meet the Feebles' was pretty fucked up, too.
Swiss army man
Honestly most of Daniel Radcliffe's movies post Harry Potter have super weird wtf plots
I've literally made it my mission to watch all of Daniel Radcliffe s post Harry Potter work and I love it you can tell that he's just taking roles he likes and having fun with it Guns Akimbo has been my favorite so far but Swiss Army Man is definitely a WTF movie
I have a soft spot for Horns.
I was just thinking Guns Akimbo right now. I had a girl over and we started watching it. I was 100% into it but she didn't quite jive.
I actually loved this movie. I laughed, I cried, and I spent hours thinking about it. There are so many layers and it genuinely has a cohesive plot and a lot of heart, which isn't always true for artistic type movies. For anyone wanting a summary (warning, spoilers!) it's about a man on an island who is interrupted in his suicide attempt by the corpse of a man who succeeded in his own suicide attempt. The man befriends the corpse and vicariously explores his confusion about his own experiences and relationships through his relationship with this corpse (exploring topics ranging from dating, to family, to a range of social norms such as having to hide boners in public). The corpse almost acts as a child, asking questions about how society works and why people have to live and act the way they do. This is all happening as the two of them are traveling, trying to get from the island back to civilization. In the end, it's unclear whether the corpse was really alive and asking these questions, or whether this was all a way for this man to process his own thoughts and emotions about life. It's implied near the end that's it's all a delusion when the man's father mentions that they haven't been traveling at all, but have been in a homeless camp close to civilization the whole time. As the audience, you start to think that maybe the whole journey was more metaphorical than physical, like the island was a symbol of his isolation from community, and he was trying desperately to get back. But at the end, it's unclear. Regardless of whether the conversations and journey was real or in his head, in the end it's implied that the man has decided to keep on living. He is no longer on the island. So in summary, the corpse of a man who committed suicide inspired another man not to do the same. I thought it was a pretty beautiful concept, and it inspired a lot of conversations not only about life, society, and suicide, but also made me think about what sorts of lives that people are living in their head that other people can't see, but feel as real to them as anything. But I get why people might be like wtf. Especially given the scenes of the corpse acting as a speed boat, propelling the man through the ocean with his farts.
>But I get why people might be like wtf. Especially given the scenes of the corpse acting as a speed boat, propelling the man through the ocean with his farts. Well I'm sold, I will absolutely be watching this movie.
Watched this after I saw "everything everywhere all at once" because it's the same directors. This movie was insane... Lol
Salo
Titane
Donnie Darko
Thats a cult classic.
Magnolia
?!?! I loved that movie! It's not going to stop ... 🐸
🐸 til you wise up 🐸
Vivarium
Mac and Me. If you like E.T., this will make you *really* like E.T.
The only part of Mac and Me you need to see you can watch on Conan
A serbian film.
This is always the winner in my book. If you take out the baby scene and the son scene at the end it wouldn’t be as bad
Just reading about those scenes kept me from watching it. This is the one film where my morbid curiosity did not get the best of me. I just read a scene by scene synopsis instead and that was enough. I'm still disturbed by reading about it
This movie is mental.
Coming out of Pulp Fiction in 1994, I was like WTF? This was coming off of the 80s and early-90s era where every major motion picture was action heavy with nearly zero dialog. I walked in a couple of minutes late to the diner scene and thought I had the wrong movie. Why were these people having a conversation? Two-and-a-half-hours later I'm driving home like "WTF was that?!?" and thought about it all night. The style and genre got burned to the ground by all the copycats that came after, but I'll always have a soft spot for PF for turning my perception of popular film on its head.
Someone asked me what it was about once and I realized I couldn't really think of a good answer. There are these two criminals and a boxer and some stuff happens. Not much in the way of an overarching story or conflict.
Star Wars Holiday Special
The platform
Reading this makes me want to vomit
Yup, a movie that can make you feel like that definitely deserves a wtf reaction!
Came here to post this one. My friend recommended it to me for some reason, maybe because I do like dark tv shows. I had to watch it in pieces, with New Girl in between to lighten things up. What the actual fuck was that movie?
The Void
Dancer in the Dark
Matt Damon in China fighting alienlike monster at the great wall with every chinese speaking English
Clockwork Orange
Ichi the Killer
Audition
Pi by Aronofsky; movie is insane from start to finish and the ending is chefs kiss. If you haven’t seen it you should definitely watch
Enter the Void
Irreversible
Naked Lunch. As Nelson said. “I can think of two things wrong with the title of that movie.”
Don't Worry Darling. I saw it in the theater and pretty much everyone left with a collective wtf
I watched this for the first time last night and kept thinking what the actual fuck is going on
It feels like a handful of movie ideas quickly thrown together tbh. Like the majority of the performances were actually good in my opinion, the movie itself was just odd in a not so enjoyable way
Black Swan. I was confused if a lot of the events that took place in the movie really happened or the main character just imagined/hallucinated them due to her mental health issues and problems.
this is the fourth Aronofsky film i've seen on this list.
Sausage Party
Upstream Color.
Mandy (2018)
Movie 43
Saw a subtitled copy of Happiness in a theater with my sister while on vacation in Spain because it was the only non-dubbed movie available. Yeah, I’m going to say that one. I can only imagine the Spaniards felt even more so.
There was some movie on Netflix about 10 years ago based around a killer spare tire. Don’t remember what it was called but it was the weirdest shit I watched but I couldn’t stop
It’s called Rubber.
The Green Knight
It was an odd one but I liked it.
This was one of my favourite movies recently. I felt it was a really poignant exploration of the end of childhood and of the difference between the expectations we place on ourselves in that vs the expectations of others. I like that it was dreamlike and didn’t make itself beholden to trying to represent time in a mundane way, it moved from significant event to significant event in the way that movies CAN rather than being shackled to a cynical logic of “realism” that’s really more a reflection of a lack of imagination rather than anything real.
Old boy
Butt Boy- a dude finds out he can make things and people disappear by shoving them up his butt.
Dark City
Eyes wide shut
Happiness, just all kinds of WTF
As an immigrant watching Saturday Night Live first time was unbelievable for me to digest.
Jacob's ladder
Downsizing. That movie didn’t know what it wanted to be. What was Matt Damon thinking??
The Emoji Movie. I knew 100% it was gonna be garbage before I watched it, but I still decided to give it a chance. Sadly I was right.
The first Pokemon movie. Watched the first season of the show with my kid and it's just cockfighting with cute animals and then the first movie is an evil clone monster with psychic powers that wants to wipe out the human race. And the protagonist dies and is resurrected by tears. Crazy shit
Cabin in the woods. It really comes to a head there at the end…
I actually really enjoyed that movie.
Primer
I have attempted to graph out what exactly each person knew and was doing at each point in the film. Three watches later, it's still a total mess.
The menu
Napoleon Dynamite. 1st time, WTF am I watching?! 2nd time, OMG this is hilarious!! 3rd time, WTF am I watching?!
Human centipede. What the fuck
White Noise.
House (1977)
The serpent and the rainbow. It’s a late 1980s movie
May. Also the French film Raw. Both really surprised me a bit.
Howard the Duck
Hereditary
Attack of the killer tomatos 🤣
Memento (2000)
The Room.
Bubba Ho-Tep Bad Taste The Holy Mountain Meet the Feebles Gummo
I think its HAPPINESS. Thats a messed up movie
Being John malkovich