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Salad Fingers is only good because they used a Boards of Canada song.
remarkably, I remember being very disappointed when I finally watched The Exorcist in the late '90's. I was horribly bored. In fact, my favorite scene in the movie (in terms of being unsettled) never appeared in the orignial movie -- it's the scene where she scrambles down the steps like a human spider.
Oh, I just remembered seeing a movie about a guy and a boy walking across a post-apocalyptic wasteland, doing what must be done to survive in search of hope.
Can't recall the name though. But I quite liked seeing it.
'The Road' from the book of the same name by Cormac McCarthy?
The movies I'm always drawn to are the weird dark ones. I have a need to ritualistically creep myself out.
I just watched Antichrist (2009, Lars von Trier), & it was the most unsettling thing I've seen in a while. I may have nightmares.
Finally saw this last night.
My god, I've never been more simultaneously dazzled (by the beautiful visuals), moved (by the honest and vulnerable acting), creeped out (by the ambiance), turned off (by some of the violence), or have a wtf response (talking foxes, birthing deers, and whatever else). What a mess of a movie, I'm still not sure how I feel about it. Except that with all the slowmo of her in the woods, it left me excruciatingly uneasy ... like evil was lurking there waiting and I didn't know when it would arrive, and everything was in such slow motion that you'd see it coming and wouldn't be able to escape.
I'm finding it a bit easier to talk about and process than Malick's "Tree of Life," but it's leaving me with similar feelings -- like I have just lived within that space and experienced the movie but articulating thoughts about it from the outside eludes me.
And what on earth was that ending?
I haven't seen The Antichrist, but the end of your post makes me wonder if it felt like you were punched in the stomach--because my experience of Lars Von Trier (which is a handful of films--Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, The Idiots, The Boss of it All) is that he always leaves you feeling like someone just punched you. In the stomach. Hard. Even his comedy, I felt like shit after I watched it. I like dark films and stories. But ugh! Lars Von Trier! He is a bad person who wants people to suffer!
McCarthy's The Road, on the other hand--I haven't seen the film and the book has a totally unnecessary ending (not dark enough!), but damn--it's a work of art. Dark art. Gloomy art.
I wouldn't say it's particularly weird, but Se7en is rather dark and is one hell of a good movie.