Those who watched santa sangre and were in awe of its weirdness and brilliance at the same time, come forward to suggest more films of similar nature, other than Jodorowsky's other films, which are all btw are equally brilliant and recommended for fans of nonsensical/freudian/surrealistic/dreamy/weird (what's the right word?) cinema
I btw also suggest some films of Fellini, Lynch and Takashi Miike (almost everything by him) for similar 'thought provoking' films
Bunuel of course ('Un chien andalou', 'Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie')!
Shinya Tsukamoto ('Tetsuo', 'Vital'), particularly if the Japanese angle grabs ya.
Hey James, thx for the suggestions...I'll checkout those movies you have mentioned
shareYeah Tetsuo the iron man is awesome (a little short, only 68 minutes), and Tetsuo 2 : Body Hammer is also great (THE WHOLE MOVIE IS BLUE THOUGH!!)
sharespeaking of Takashi Miike, i saw Audition. "Gozu" is next on my list.
does anybody else have any suggestions?
yes, GOD YES!
my starting point was 'gozu'.
if you can handle that, i would next go to 'ichi the killer'.
if you haven't left the theatre yet, then: 'full metal yakuza'.
next: 'visitor q'
next: 'happiness of the katakuris'
next: 'the audition'
next: 'the bird people of china'
next: 'MPD psycho' (tv series)
that's just a suggested progression.
it's just a start...
oh, and the 'masters of horror' series episode he did called 'imprint'.
if you can't handle the torture issues in 'ichi the killer', don't view this work. brutal. explicit.
I thought `Fight Club' was similar (although if it in terms of stylistically similar films, `Singapore Sling' (listed on IMDB as Singapore sling:O anthropos pou agapise ena ptoma (1990)) or `Tin Drum' (at least the book anyways) might be good ones to see. I'm a little confused why they're are so many japanese films being recommended in regards to santa sangre(although a lot of them are good films, so should be recommended viewing anyways).
shareThe Reflecting Skin (1990)
The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995)
Clean Shaven (1994)
Ching Se (Green Snake) (1993)
Viva la Muerte (1970) (Director Fernando Arrabal is friends with Jodorowsky)
The Machinist (2003)
Sedmikrasky (Daisies) (1966)
Tromeo & Juliet (1997) (From the director of the Toxic Avenger)
Alice (1988) Jan Svankmajer (Really awesome Czech stop motion animator)
Faust (1994) Jan Svankmajer
Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
The Saddest Music in the world (2003)
The Institute Benjamenta (1995)
Lisztomania (1975) Ken Russel
A Zed and Two Noughts (1985) Peter Greenaway
The Cook, the Thief his wife and her lover (1988)
The Mansion of Madness (1973)
Valerie and her Week Of Wonders (1970)
Careful (1992)
That's all I can think of at the top of my head....
For more recommendations check out my post of similar films on the Holy Mountain thread.
I have to add Freaks (1932) by Tod Browning
shareany list with sedmikrasky and valerie a týden divu is a good list! (i'm taking czech basically because of them :))
shareI have to second the suggested The Cook, the Thief his wife and her lover - that was a trip, another feast for the senses
shareI would consider these Todd Solondz films to be thought provoking.
Palindromes (2004)
Storytelling (2001)
Happiness (1998)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) is also a good movie, but much tamer than his later films.
Everyone has left out the two Babe movies. Yea I mean the pig movies.
shareI actually found Dollhouse to be the most disturbing of the bunch. I guess it's because the others seem to go so far outside the realm of the possible (as in they take things to the absolute limit), that the brutality becomes almost surreal. I can sort of watch it from a distance. Dollhouse however hits me hard. Every time I finish watching it I cringe, and think "Damn... that poor girl." I find it defintely the most depressing, but I guess it is tamer in that it's much less extravagent.
shareThe first thing i thought of (that hasn't already been mentioned) was Sweet Movie (1974), directed by Dusan Makavejev. I just recently saw that it has come out on DVD in the States.
shareSalo: 120 days of Sodomy. Nonsensical, weird, definitely.
shareAll I know is that I can't hear Soul Coughing without thinking of Santa Sangre.
shareAhh, but the greatest work of art of them all and not mentioned here is "Marat/Sade." Such memories it recalls.
Nothing exists more beautifully than nothing.
Definitely "The Naked Lunch". Very very crazy.I hope you like it.
The most similar film must be, of course, Psycho, as Santa Sangre is a remake of the great Hitchcock movie :)
To be equal, you have to add or substract. And i have never liked math...
lol, no that is not true, but Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a remake of Psycho.
shareumm, no.
TCM is NOT a remake of Psycho, lol..
TCM and Psycho are both very loosely based on the necrophiliac killer Ed Gein as was Deranged and The Silence of the Lambs...
Ed Gein only killed two people but he dug up several dead bodies, made furniture, clothing, and knick-knacks (such as a soup bowl from a skull) from their remains. He was a paranoid schizophrenic who had an overbearing mother and his crimes were committed in the 1950's..
I know...I tried to show the poster above how ridiculous it is to say that Santa Sangre is a remake of Psycho. Santa Sangre is NOT a remake of Psycho more than TCM is a remake of Psycho.
The similarities between Santa Sangre and Psycho is very, very surface. Psycho and TCM have more in common if you ask me.
I think Suspiria by Dario Argento is a pretty good combination of Felliniesque grotesques, Hitchcockian (?) suspense and B movie horror/gore. I'd love to see a double bill of that and Santa Sangre. Some striking similarities and differences.
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Here is a new one you will all like fitting perfect in this thread:
Lunacy / Seleni
In a funny sort of way, 5000 fingers of Dr T for the surrealistic style and Funny Games for the hit-you-in-the-stomach reaction. El Topo was much more fun.
shareThe most obvious comparison isTod Browning's THE UNKNOWN. Santa Sanre's primary concept is lifted from this silent classic.
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