Chaotic Cinema

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I came across an interesting, self-proclaimed Chaotic Cinema list on Letterboxd of over 2,600 surreal/experimental/cult/horror films and wanted to transport it here. But inputting all those films was an enormous task, and gigantic ICM lists are always so cumbersome to load and use. So, I compromised and only entered the films I haven't seen. Which initially amounted to just about half of them. This makes the list less useful to others, but it's certainly SOME use to other fans of this warped cinematic realm. If nothing else, you can gloat about whichever films you've seen and I haven't!

Inputting this list also led to importing multiple films to the ICM database. But unfortunately, there was also a surprising number of films that don't even have IMDb pages:

A Vessel, the Ideas Pass Through 2021 / AAA AAA 1978 / Artificial Light x20 1969 / Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth 2012 / Avant Coureur/Raster Relief 1983 / Chasse des Touches 1959 / Cinema Is a Mosaic Made of Time 1984 / Circumcision of Participant Observation 2013 / Conditions 2014 / Dead Dance 2009 / Diignus Vindice Nodus 1982 / Double 2001, a.k.a. Bunshin / Earth Pulse 1975 / Embodiment of Darkness 2018 / Epiphany 1984 / Excavations 1979 / Forbidden Symmetries 2014 / Geflecht 1976 / General Motors 1976 / Gewebe 1976 / He Walked Away 2006 / Highbushes Burning 2018 / Hollis Well 2012 / Horror Film 1 1971 / I Am Making Art 1971 / I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art 1971 / Intercourse With... 1978 / Lanzarote 2014 / Levitation 1972 / Light of the Body 2004 / Love Reinvented 1979, a.k.a. L'Amour Réinventé / Magic Mirror 2013 / Measures of Volatility 1979 / Moonblack 1968 / My Very Beautiful Movie 1974 / Number Two 2019 / Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady 1976 / Performance of Video Imaging Tools 1970-1978 (a compilation of 17 video clips by various directors) / Phenomenon 2019 / Pictures of the Lost 1978 / Precession of the Simulacra 1992 / Primarily Speaking 1983 / Primary Time 1974 / Quarry 2015 / R-G-B 1974 / Relation in Time 1977 / Reverberlin 2006 / Scan Processor Studies 1973 / Script 1974 / Set of Co-incidence 1974 / Songs for Synthesized Soprano 1990 / Spinout 1983 / Teaching a Plant the Alphabet 1972 / Ten Years in the Sun 2015 / The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway 2002 / The Dream of the Little Dancing Men 1997 / The Extinct Suite 2017 / The Loner 1980 / The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts 2011 / The Poacher Woman of the Montafon 2011 / The Seismic Form 2020 / Theme Song 1973 / U-Barn 1968 / Unbalance 2006 / Up to and Including Her Limits 1976 / Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch the Movie 2013 / Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia) 1984 / Wilderness Series 2016

I'm going to create IMDb pages for as many of these films as my patience allows -- we'll see how I do. I believe I'm up to 145 adds now. I'll delete titles from the above block of text as I add them to ICM.

I continue to remove films that I see. The list initially was 1,108 films but is much smaller now. But there's an extra wrinkle: The Letterboxd user continues to expand the list, so I'm adding films as well as subtracting them.

PS Two substantial misgivings about this list: 1) Too many trashy horror movies included, just because they're gory or shocking. 2) The list's creator has a creepy fetish about arty women in film. Especially Tilda Swinton -- he runs Facebook pages about her and apparently hoards hundreds of photos of her. And this kink infects the list, which has loads of marginal, female-directed films and, of course, extra Swinton films. He's fixated on Cate Blanchett too.

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  1. 391 +7

    Sicario

    2015, in 2 top lists Check
  2. 464 +10

    The Conjuring

    2013, in 4 top lists Check
  3. 232 +5

    Identity

    2003, in 1 top list Check
  4. 65 +1

    Crna macka, beli macor

    1998 — a.k.a. Black Cat, White Cat, in 4 top lists Check
  5. 214 +3

    Hellraiser

    1987, in 3 top lists Check
  6. 315 +6

    Nueve reinas

    2000 — a.k.a. Nine Queens, in 7 top lists Check
  7. 588 +13

    Trolljegeren

    2010 — a.k.a. Trollhunter, in 1 top list Check
  8. 237 +5

    In the Mouth of Madness

    1994, in 2 top lists Check
  9. 284 +5

    Manhunter

    1986, in 6 top lists Check
  10. 570 +13

    Dom za vesanje

    1988 — a.k.a. Time of the Gypsies, in 8 top lists Check
  11. 269 +5

    Ai no mukidashi

    2008 — a.k.a. Love Exposure, in 3 top lists Check
  12. 586 +13

    Trick 'r Treat

    2007, in 1 top list Check
  13. 90 +1

    Candyman

    1992, in 1 top list Check
  14. 340 +6

    Pet Sematary

    1989, in 1 top list Check
  15. 585 +13

    Triangle

    2009, in 1 top list Check
  16. 216 +5

    Haute tension

    2003 — a.k.a. High Tension, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Jacket

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
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    Slither

    2006, in 3 top lists Check
  19. 531 +12

    Der siebente Kontinent

    1989 — a.k.a. The Seventh Continent, in 5 top lists Check
  20. 486 +11

    The Hitcher

    1986, in 2 top lists Check
  21. 485 +11

    The Guest

    2014, in 0 top lists Check
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    Session 9

    2001, in 2 top lists Check
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    Stay

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
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    May

    2002, in 2 top lists Check
  25. 238 +5

    À l'intérieur

    2007 — a.k.a. Inside, in 3 top lists Check
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    Mirrormask

    2005, in 2 top lists Check
  27. 466 +10

    El día de la bestia

    1995 — a.k.a. The Day of the Beast, in 3 top lists Check
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    El hoyo

    2019 — a.k.a. The Platform, in 1 top list
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    Bitter Moon

    1992, in 3 top lists Check
  30. 272 +5

    Love Streams

    1984, in 8 top lists Check
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    Hardcore Henry

    2015, in 0 top lists Check
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    Mia aioniotita kai mia mera

    1998 — a.k.a. Eternity and a Day, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Loved Ones

    2009, in 1 top list Check
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    The Autopsy of Jane Doe

    2016, in 1 top list Check
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    Swimming Pool

    2003, in 0 top lists Check
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    From Beyond

    1986, in 1 top list Check
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    Shogun Assassin

    1980, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Doom Generation

    1995, in 0 top lists Check
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    Ich seh, Ich seh

    2014 — a.k.a. Goodnight Mommy, in 1 top list Check
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    De vierde man

    1983 — a.k.a. The 4th Man, in 5 top lists Check
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    Basket Case

    1982, in 2 top lists Check
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    Southern Comfort

    1981, in 2 top lists Check
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    Titus

    1999, in 1 top list Check
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    U Turn

    1997, in 1 top list Check
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    The Unbelievable Truth

    1989, in 3 top lists Check
  46. 114 +2

    Cypher

    2002 — a.k.a. Brainstorm, in 0 top lists Check
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    L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)

    2011 — a.k.a. House of Tolerance, in 2 top lists Check
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    I Spit on Your Grave

    2010, in 1 top list Check
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    As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief...

    2000, in 6 top lists Check
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    Cha no aji

    2004 — a.k.a. The Taste of Tea, in 2 top lists Check
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