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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Shostakovich on June 14, 2019, 04:32:31 PM

Title: fever dream movies
Post by: Shostakovich on June 14, 2019, 04:32:31 PM
By fever dream, I mean movies with weird and wonderful plots that stray dangerously close to non-sequiturs but still manage to remain barely coherent. In other words, "I don't know what I just watched".

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Downright hilarious satire of Bush era politics during late stage capitalism. Very 00s. Without a doubt, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's best role in any movie ever. Chapo Trap House approved.


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Adaptation of a Philip K. Dick book. All-star cast, although it got panned by critics. I never knew how badly I wanted to see Robert Downy Jr., Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, and Alex Jones rotoscoped into a 2 hour paranoid drug trip. Robert Downy Jr. in particular is at his wackiest. Opening sequence is also legendary for me.


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Scorcese flick. "I JUST WANT TO GO HOME!" Guy tries to hook up with a nice girl all the way across town and ends up getting chased all over New York getting himself in crazier and crazier situations.


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Thank you TVC, Joe, Wrath, and others for talking about this over and over again. Cinephile's delight. Perpetual slacker gets obsessed with a mysterious girl and hauls ass all over LA to uncover a deeper conspiracy about the secret messages in the media all around us.
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: ToxicAdam on June 14, 2019, 04:53:54 PM
Get really high and watch Heartbeeps. It was supposed to be Andy Kaufman's big leading actor movie and it's a spectacular mess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49M8IJv9gJs
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: toku on June 14, 2019, 06:26:52 PM
After Hours one of the perfect depictions of a wild night out that won't end while you're also completely out of your depth.


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Dellamorte Dellamore is pretty normal for what it's going for until the last 20-30 minute where it and the main character go off the deep. One of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt8quwcnJgU
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: agrajag on June 14, 2019, 06:48:15 PM
don't laugh, but this movie is very underrated and has a very fever dream-y quality to it

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Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: toku on June 14, 2019, 07:39:02 PM
Quote from: agrajag on June 14, 2019, 06:48:15 PM
don't laugh, but this movie is very underrated and has a very fever dream-y quality to it

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/UniSol4officialposter.jpg)

"No, we’re kind of like the same…sort of thing…but maybe they made you better."
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 14, 2019, 07:47:11 PM
Just about all of Satoshi Kon's movies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRQ7ikz_pPg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpaCRJ_u600

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgWDCjj0U68
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: TVC15 on June 14, 2019, 08:15:05 PM
https://youtu.be/_Sv9PacWypE
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: agrajag on June 14, 2019, 08:22:05 PM
I guess every Croenenberg and Lynch movie ever counts.
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: Kara on June 14, 2019, 10:44:28 PM
Quote from: agrajag on June 14, 2019, 06:48:15 PM
don't laugh, but this movie is very underrated and has a very fever dream-y quality to it

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/UniSol4officialposter.jpg)

Pretty sure I've only seen this movie when sick with an actual fever. :lol
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: agrajag on June 14, 2019, 10:46:30 PM
Quote from: Kara on June 14, 2019, 10:44:28 PM
Quote from: agrajag on June 14, 2019, 06:48:15 PM
don't laugh, but this movie is very underrated and has a very fever dream-y quality to it

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/UniSol4officialposter.jpg)

Pretty sure I've only seen this movie when sick with an actual fever. :lol

it has JCVD in mime makeup fighting in slow mo
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: Tasty on June 14, 2019, 11:02:53 PM
mother! by Aronofky might qualify.
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 14, 2019, 11:13:46 PM
Quote from: agrajag on June 14, 2019, 06:48:15 PM
don't laugh, but this movie is very underrated and has a very fever dream-y quality to it

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/UniSol4officialposter.jpg)

I didn't like it quite as much as the one that came directly before this [Regeneration], but it was more of a straight action movie than its infinitely weirder followup.
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: agrajag on June 14, 2019, 11:28:30 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md8SmYeCeL8
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: toku on June 14, 2019, 11:54:58 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koCZ-o50EHY

You used to be able to find the scene on there where giant centipede julian sands forces himself on some young boy but yt censors got to it I guess
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: TVC15 on June 15, 2019, 12:23:18 AM
Carnival of Souls
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Post by: Yeti on June 15, 2019, 03:00:36 PM
Sucker Punch
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Post by: Kara on June 15, 2019, 03:07:02 PM
The Fall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNGqTltN-7M

Tarsem da god :bow2
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 15, 2019, 03:20:08 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSjCkISrJfQ

Zardoz :lawd

Sean Connery gets huge after playing James Bond, and this is the role he chooses to follow that up with. :lawd
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: agrajag on June 15, 2019, 03:27:23 PM
The Cell

spoiler (click to show/hide)
except it sucks
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Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: VomKriege on June 15, 2019, 03:35:05 PM
Point Blank by Boorman.
Japanese horror flick House. A lot of exploitation movies from the 60-70 can reach those at point (S.Suzuki films or classic Girl Gang / Softcore films).
Fulci horror films from the 80's.
Repo Man.
Wong Jing Future Cops.
Maybe Araki's stuff.
Kenneth Anger stuff probably but I'm not too familiar.
The show must go on
Quentin Dupieux and Gaspard Noé's films.
That fucking phone from Once upon a time in America
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: Kara on June 15, 2019, 03:49:39 PM
Quote from: VomKriege on June 15, 2019, 03:35:05 PM
That fucking phone from Once upon a time in America

Such a haunting movie, good pick.
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: toku on June 15, 2019, 03:56:20 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNQbjac-7l4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIpjY0FEW0U


any movie with bai ling in it has an extremely high chance of inducing fever dreams tbh
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: TEEEPO on June 15, 2019, 03:57:21 PM
neon demon, under the skin, open your eyes, doom generation and muholland drive? maybe last year at marienbad and eyes wide shut?

i might be stretching it but holy motor and lovers on the bridge? a central theme of both films is the bridge between reality and dreams, though it's been awhile since i've seen either
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: Tasty on June 15, 2019, 03:59:25 PM
The Animatrix, specifically the segments "Beyond," "World Record," and my favorite, "Matriculated."
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: TEEEPO on June 15, 2019, 04:06:52 PM
oh yea, guy maddin's the forbidden room is feverish as all hell
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: team filler on June 15, 2019, 04:08:13 PM
lolita
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: Thirty-Ought-Six on June 15, 2019, 04:11:41 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/T6N0t18.jpg)

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Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: VomKriege on June 15, 2019, 05:04:50 PM
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His first movie after Diamonds Are Forever was a Sidney Lumet movie, which was an adaptation of a play.

I guess that's The Offence ? That's a good film but it's not a surprise coming from Lumet.
It makes do much sense that Zardoz costume was meant for Burt Reynolds :lol

Two more horror picks : X Tro and Forbidden World. From Beyond has pretty weird logic.
La Grande Belezza has that feel too.
Waltz with Bashir
The Aeon Flux TV series.
Symbol and R100 by H.Matsumoto.
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: agrajag on June 15, 2019, 05:14:18 PM
Jacob's Ladder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9v-UVSy_vo
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: nudemacusers on June 15, 2019, 07:16:45 PM
Really need to see under the silver lake
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 15, 2019, 07:58:04 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YfdpZdugBM
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 15, 2019, 07:59:55 PM
Oh, nearly forgot about Beyond the Black Rainbow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi7aQ-bKziY

Mandy [from the same director] is actually straightforward and easy to follow by comparison.
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: agrajag on June 15, 2019, 09:05:22 PM
https://youtu.be/OocVcZodzII
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on June 15, 2019, 10:56:27 PM
Kagemusha is the first thing that came to mind
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: CatsCatsCats on June 16, 2019, 10:54:52 AM
Joe Versus the Volcano
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Post by: HardcoreRetro on June 16, 2019, 11:12:02 AM
People mention Jodorowsky's movies yet?

I love Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgCxCZNkQ9E
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on June 16, 2019, 11:18:44 AM
Inferno, Dario Argento's sorta-sequel to Suspiria. A movie that feels like an NES ROM hack.
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: naff on June 16, 2019, 09:37:31 PM
Quote from: agrajag on June 14, 2019, 06:48:15 PM
don't laugh, but this movie is very underrated and has a very fever dream-y quality to it

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/UniSol4officialposter.jpg)

Absolutely. It's my favourite UniSol, but the original and regeneration are also preeetty good, but day of a reckoning went off reservation and nailed it.

Little Otik/any of Jan Svankmajers surrealist work is pretty cool

https://youtu.be/-KhGRbgdfbo

Herzog  :rejoice prob 'cause I'm philistine, but I prefer this to Ferreras original. I love the more absurd flavour Herzog gave it over the depressing realism of the original.
https://youtu.be/YXNfHb9b6Y0

Terrifying, with some really funny notes (ymmv)
https://youtu.be/O1jykoE5eQ4

Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: nudemacusers on June 16, 2019, 11:03:33 PM
https://youtu.be/qJ_GxJ4VmtM

This movie (border) is weird and uncomfortable in a way I cannot articulate properly. Reminds me of little otik a bit It’s on Hulu atm.

https://youtu.be/aF8SSyQi-2c

Edit: just saw the little otik post above me  :mynicca
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: nudemacusers on June 16, 2019, 11:08:31 PM
Tetsuo the iron man... I got this as a joke once for a college dorm movie night cuz the dvd description sounded weird and offputting; a bunch of us watched it and most left within 20 minutes or so and I was banned from picking movies... however a friend and I were hooked; total cyberpunk erotic guerrilla filmmaking here with a $20 budget but is legitimately one of the best movies I’ve ever seen and rewards a thoughtful analysis/watch.

Won’t bother linking the trailer it’s right here ready for consumption

https://youtu.be/Md8SmYeCeL8
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: TEEEPO on June 16, 2019, 11:56:12 PM
totally forgot about herzog

aguirre wrath of god and the aforementioned bad lieutenant   :rejoice
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: TEEEPO on June 17, 2019, 12:28:33 AM
will need to check that out
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: curly on June 17, 2019, 02:35:46 AM
First movie to come to mind was Zama. It's basically exactly like the trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc5hiLqHa6g

Also a couple of silentish horror films: A Page of Madness - Japanese film set in an insane asylum with lots of experimental elements, the opening montage sequence is :lawd, unfortunately I can't find a non potato quality version with a decent score online, but this can give you an idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKMrZAfUCqU

And Vampyr, which is actually an early sound film but is formally a lot like a silent. The plot recedes to a whisper in the background to make room for mood.
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: Tasty on June 17, 2019, 02:51:28 AM
Just finished Starry Eyes on Shudder, great movie, I'd say what it's a cross between but that would be a semi spoiler... I guess it's a slightly more grounded Neon Demon? But with a clearer horror focus.
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: agrajag on June 17, 2019, 09:47:11 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSjCkISrJfQ


Zardos  :lawd

Sean Connery outdid himself :lawd :lawd
Title: Re: fever dream movies
Post by: agrajag on June 25, 2019, 01:38:58 AM
what a piece of garbage  ::)