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Nightmares and Dreamscapes

by BloodylocksBathory • Created 5 years ago • Modified 1 month ago
Sinister surrealism and experimental horror
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  • A Field in England (2013)

    1. A Field in England

    20131h 30mNot Rated73Metascore
    6.2 (15K)
    Amid the Civil War in 17th-century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field. Captured by an alchemist, the men are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field.
    DirectorBen WheatleyStarsJulian BarrattPeter FerdinandoRichard Glover
  • Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)

    2. Beyond the Black Rainbow

    20101h 50mR49Metascore
    5.9 (18K)
    Despite being under heavy sedation, a young woman tries to make her way out of the Arboria Institute, a secluded, quasifuturistic commune.
    DirectorPanos CosmatosStarsEva BourneMichael J RogersScott Hylands
  • Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

    3. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

    19701h 17mNot Rated
    7.0 (12K)
    Surreal dream-like tale that combines several themes into one fantastical world.
    DirectorJaromil JiresStarsJaroslava SchallerováHelena AnýzováPetr Kopriva
  • Santa Sangre (1989)

    4. Santa Sangre

    19892h 3mNC-17
    7.5 (25K)
    A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
    DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAxel JodorowskyBlanca GuerraGuy Stockwell
  • Jack Nance in Eraserhead (1977)

    5. Eraserhead

    19771h 29mNot Rated87Metascore
    7.3 (138K)
    Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newborn mutant child.
    DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack NanceCharlotte StewartAllen Joseph
  • Pink Floyd in Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)

    6. Pink Floyd: The Wall

    19821h 35mR47Metascore
    8.0 (88K)
    A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
    DirectorAlan ParkerStarsBob GeldofChristine HargreavesJames Laurenson
  • Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin (2013)

    7. Under the Skin

    20131h 48mR83Metascore
    6.3 (165K)
    A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.
    DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsScarlett JohanssonJeremy McWilliamsLynsey Taylor Mackay
  • The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)

    8. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears

    20131h 42mNot Rated53Metascore
    5.9 (4.5K)
    Returning home from a business trip to discover his wife missing, a man delves deeper and deeper into a surreal kaleidoscope of half-baked leads, seduction, deceit, and murder. Does anyone in the building know something?
    DirectorsHélène CattetBruno ForzaniStarsKlaus TangeUrsula BedenaJoe Koener
  • Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive (2001)

    9. Mulholland Drive

    20012h 27mR87Metascore
    7.9 (411K)
    After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
    DirectorDavid LynchStarsNaomi WattsLaura HarringJustin Theroux
  • Brian Salzberg in Begotten (1989)

    10. Begotten

    19891h 12mUnrated
    5.6 (12K)
    Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.
    DirectorE. Elias MerhigeStarsBrian SalzbergDonna DempseyStephen Charles Barry
  • This House Has People in It (2016)

    11. This House Has People in It

    201612mTV-14TV Short
    7.5 (1.9K)
    Security camera footage of a birthday party reveals the unexplained events of a family, a strange disease, and a mysterious pink woman who stalks the family.
    DirectorAlan ResnickStarsNaomi KlineRobby RackleffRory Ogden
  • House (1977)

    12. House

    19771h 28mNot Rated75Metascore
    7.2 (37K)
    A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
    DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko Ôba
  • William Hurt in Altered States (1980)

    13. Altered States

    19801h 42mR58Metascore
    6.9 (41K)
    A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
    DirectorKen RussellStarsWilliam HurtBlair BrownBob Balaban
  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

    14. Tetsuo: The Iron Man

    19891h 7mNot Rated
    6.9 (28K)
    A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.
    DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsTomorô TaguchiKei FujiwaraNobu Kanaoka
  • Escape from Tomorrow (2013)

    15. Escape from Tomorrow

    20131h 30mNot Rated58Metascore
    5.1 (10K)
    In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
    DirectorRandy MooreStarsRoy AbramsohnElena SchuberKatelynn Rodriguez
  • Baskin (2015)

    16. Baskin

    20151h 37mNot Rated58Metascore
    5.8 (13K)
    A squad of unsuspecting cops go through a trapdoor to Hell when they stumble upon a Black Mass in an abandoned building.
    DirectorCan EvrenolStarsMehmet CerrahogluGörkem KasalErgun Kuyucu
  • Elliott Spiers in Paperhouse (1988)

    17. Paperhouse

    19881h 32mPG-13
    6.6 (6.6K)
    A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.
    DirectorBernard RoseStarsCharlotte BurkeJane BertishSamantha Cahill
  • Paranoia Agent (2004)

    18. Paranoia Agent

    2004–200513 epsTV-MATV Mini Series
    8.0 (16K)
    Two detectives try to uncover the identity of a mysterious, roller-blading boy who has been terrorizing Tokyo by assaulting seemingly random citizens with a golden baseball bat.
    CreatorSatoshi KonStarsShôzô ÎzukaToshihiko SekiMamiko Noto
  • Twin Peaks (1990)

    19. Twin Peaks

    1990–199130 epsTV-MATV Series
    8.7 (234K)
    An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.
    CreatorsMark FrostDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanMichael OntkeanMädchen Amick
  • Sheryl Lee in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

    20. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    19922h 14mR45Metascore
    7.3 (114K)
    Laura Palmer's harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of Twin Peaks' neighboring town.
    DirectorDavid LynchStarsSheryl LeeRay WiseMädchen Amick
  • Twin Peaks (2017)

    21. Twin Peaks

    201718 epsTV-MATV Series
    8.5 (84K)
    Picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.
    CreatorsMark FrostDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanSheryl LeeMichael Horse
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

    22. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

    19201h 7mNot Rated
    8.0 (74K)
    Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
    DirectorRobert WieneStarsWerner KraussConrad VeidtFriedrich Feher
  • Alice (1988)

    23. Alice

    19881h 26mNot Rated
    7.4 (15K)
    A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.
    DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsKristýna KohoutováCamilla Power
  • Little Otik (2000)

    24. Little Otik

    20002h 12mTV-1474Metascore
    7.3 (7.2K)
    A childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.
    DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsVeronika ZilkováJan HartlJaroslava Kretschmerová
  • Lunacy (2005)

    25. Lunacy

    20051h 58mNot Rated63Metascore
    7.1 (4.1K)
    A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may've predicted.
    DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsJan TrískaPavel LiskaAnna Geislerová

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