Are you ready to have your mind blown?  In my attempt to look for some of the greatest Mindfuck moments, I came across a lot of the same films many times.  Mullholand Drive?  Yep.  Inland Empire?  Yep.  Videodrome?  Again- easy choice.  What about the rest of the films out there?  With thousands of films made in the medium's history, I feel like a lot of them have been overlooked.  Instead of going with the obvious, let's think outside the box.  After all, the makers of these films sure did!  In this list, you will see a man meet his doubles, time in a loop and a murder that is also a suicide...kind of.  This is hard to explain...which is kind of the point.  Let's check out the Top 12 *OTHER* Mindfuck Moments of Cinema...

By the way, SPOILERS!!!
 
12. Immaculate conception (Evil Dead Trap): This is from Asia, so I shouldn't be too surprised.  The plot involves a serial killer, a search for a tape's source and...murder!  The crazy moment involves the ending.  The killer is revealed and stabbed to death.  However, a freaky mutant emerges...for some reason.  That too is taken care of, but we have to end with the reporter pregnant...somehow.  I can't...what...huh?!?

 
11. The painting is a lie (F is for Fake): It's a shame that the Director being fat is more remembered than this film itself.  The film is a Documentary...some of the time.  The film is introduced by Orson Welles saying that 'he's going to tell the truth for the next hour.'  The problem, however, is that the film is 77 minutes long.  Welles basically lies to you for about 20 minutes and then admits it.  That's...unexpected.

 
10. Wandering in the garden (Pan's Labyrinth): I love this movie...but it's odd.  A young girl is engaged in a magical journey, all while reality constantly tries to interfere.  In a great move, the film never really reveals its trump card.  Is the girl crazy?  Is she the only one that can see the magical world?  We'll never know, which is even better than having an explanation.  A film with questions left unanswered- crazy!

 
9. What itches? (Bug): You don't have to like it to know about it.  This film is all about a group of people who spend some time trapped in a hotel room.  Unfortunately for them, they are infected with some crazy bugs that are attracted to their skin.  Since this is a film by William Friedkin, you can expect something crazy.  Sure enough, the group discovers the real truth- they're high on Crystal Meth.  Wait- am I high right now?  Hmm...

 
8. Wait- what part is real? (Wes Craven's New Nightmare): Which part is the story?  In the 7th film of the series, the narrative gets really confusing and Meta.  You see, the first Final Girl actress is back and she's being stalked by a person in real life.  So she's an actress who played a character, but now the real Freddy is after her?  The film also features Robert Englund & Freddy as two separate characters, as well as a scene where a Freddy prop attacks someone for real.  My mind asplode!

 
7. Time in a loop (Time Crimes): Time keeps on slipping!  In this foreign import, a series of events unfolds that leads a man to hide in a time machine.  What follows is another series of events that explains how some of the stuff he couldn't explain happened.  Then it happens again.  It happens one more time to wrap things up...assuming that you can still tell which way is up anymore.

 
6. Hey, me! (12 Monkeys): This one is less famous for this part than most else really.  A man from the future goes back in time to stop the release of a deadly virus that has ruined his time.  This proves to be a lot harder, since nobody believes his story.  In the end, he rushes to stop the virus' release, but gets shot to death.  It's at this point we realize that the traumatic event from the guy's childhood was actually the death of his future self.  I'd be crazy after that too!

 
5. Pretty much all of it (Un Chien Andalou): Dali made a movie and it was weird- shocking!  This silent film classic is certainly not as famous as it deserves to be, even if it is only 18 minutes long.  The whole film is just an attempt to play with your mind really.  From fate dragging Dali dressed as a priest to a woman getting her eye cut in what is really cinema's first 'gore' scene, the film is just crazy.  With a mustache like that, who's surprised?!?

 
4. Me me me me me (Being John Malkovich): This had to be here.  In the bizarre comedy, a portal is found that goes right into the mind of actor John Malkovich.  When the man himself finds out, he's not too happy.  Things get really trippy when Malkovich himself goes through the portal.  If you think that you've seen crazy, you haven't seen anything yet!

 
3. The ending is a lie (The Descent): I hope you don't get mad at me.  The plot of this movie involves some women going down into a cave for some spelunking, but all hell breaks loose.  A good chunk of them die and one of them leaves her treacherous friend behind to die.  She digs her way out and drives to safety...but wakes up trapped in the cave.  Yep- she's crazy and doomed to die...until the sequel, which plays off of the Alternate (Happier) Ending.  Now you're just doomed to star in a piece of shit sequel that ruins everything!

 
2. How does this work?!? (Scanner Cop): Seriously, how does this work?!?  In the penultimate film of the series- aka Scanners 4-, a really strange thing happens.  Our hero tries to find out the location of the film's villain from his helper, but she lays there dying.  He tries to scan the information out of her, but gets trapped by her in some sort of mental prison.  His only escape- blowing up her head!  Wait a second- you were already inside of her head...but you blow up her spirit head?  How?  Why?  WHAT THE #@$^ JUST HAPPENED?!?

 
1. The 'Death' of Izo (Izo): I defy you to properly explain this film without a Philosophy Degree!  Izo is an odd film, which reports to show the fall from grace of a samurai.  Of course, this is a Takashi Miike film, so it's going to be odd!  In the scene that boggles me most (aside from the cameo by the vampire accountants), the film cuts to a Modern-Day courtroom and a version of Izo on trial.  As this one repents, the crazy one bursts in and cuts him in two!  Is that a murder, suicide or both?!?

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