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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The Conjuring
2013, in 4 top lists Check -
339 +7
Pet Sematary
1989, in 1 top list Check -
215 +6
Haute tension
2003 — a.k.a. High Tension, in 2 top lists Check -
400 +8
Slither
2006, in 3 top lists Check -
213 +4
Hellraiser
1987, in 3 top lists Check -
228 +6
I Spit on Your Grave
2010, in 1 top list Check -
385 +8
Session 9
2001, in 2 top lists Check -
90 +1
Candyman
1992, in 1 top list Check -
442 +10
The ABCs of Death
2012, in 0 top lists Check -
237 +6
À l'intérieur
2007 — a.k.a. Inside, in 3 top lists Check -
287 +6
Maximum Overdrive
1986, in 2 top lists Check -
584 +15
Trick 'r Treat
2007, in 1 top list Check -
540 +14
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
1986, in 1 top list Check -
288 +6
May
2002, in 2 top lists Check -
236 +6
In the Mouth of Madness
1994, in 2 top lists Check -
307 +7
Nekromantik
1988, in 4 top lists Check -
497 +12
The Lords of Salem
2012, in 1 top list Check -
685 +18
Maniac
2012, in 1 top list Check -
601 +16
V/H/S/2
2013, in 1 top list Check -
586 +15
Trolljegeren
2010 — a.k.a. Trollhunter, in 1 top list Check -
184 +3
Frogs
1972, in 1 top list Check -
602 +16
V/H/S Viral
2014, in 0 top lists Check -
498 +12
The Loved Ones
2009, in 1 top list Check -
556 +15
The Woman
2011, in 1 top list Check -
197 +3
Ich seh, Ich seh
2014 — a.k.a. Goodnight Mommy, in 1 top list Check -
187 +3
Frontière(s)
2007 — a.k.a. Frontier(s), in 1 top list Check -
402 +8
Snuff
1975 — a.k.a. American Cannibale, in 1 top list Check -
490 +12
The Keep
1983, in 2 top lists Check -
61 +1
Basket Case
1982, in 2 top lists Check -
144 +2
Donkey Punch
2008, in 0 top lists Check -
229 +6
I Spit on Your Grave 2
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
105 +1
Paura nella città dei morti viventi
1980 — a.k.a. City of the Living Dead, in 3 top lists Check -
284 +6
Maniac
1980, in 1 top list Check -
421 +8
Street Trash
1987, in 2 top lists Check -
651 +17
I Drink Your Blood
1971, in 2 top lists Check -
456 +11
The Burning
1981, in 2 top lists Check -
650 +17
Eaten Alive
1976, in 1 top list Check -
311 +7
Night of the Living Dead
1990, in 1 top list Check -
511 +13
Calvaire
2004, in 2 top lists Check -
303 +7
Murder-Set-Pieces
2004, in 0 top lists Check -
766 +30
Mil gritos tiene la noche
1982 — a.k.a. Pieces, in 2 top lists Check -
543 +14
The Toolbox Murders
1978, in 1 top list Check -
475 +11
De vierde man
1983 — a.k.a. The 4th Man, in 5 top lists Check -
422 +8
Student Bodies
1981, in 1 top list Check -
657 +18
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016, in 1 top list Check -
73 +1
Body Snatchers
1993, in 0 top lists Check -
451 +11
February
2015 — a.k.a. The Blackcoat's Daughter, in 0 top lists Check -
403 +8
Sombre
1998, in 0 top lists Check -
532 +14
The Signal
2007, in 1 top list Check -
308 +7
Nekromantik 2
1991, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on May 2, 2024 by Ebbywebby; source