• Black Narcissus
  • To Catch a Thief
  • Leave Her to Heaven
  • The French Dispatch
  • North by Northwest
  • Fargo
  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • The Curse
  • Triangle of Sadness
  • Slacker

absurd realism

strange and inexplicable in the way real life and real people are...

  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Dumb and Dumber
  • North by Northwest
  • The Truman Show

✨ movies that changed my life ✨

in rough chronological order of my experience

  • Charisma
  • Persona
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • The Birds
  • Burning
  • The Birds
  • Hour of the Wolf
  • The Brood
  • Phantasm
  • Eraserhead
  • Beau Is Afraid
  • Get Out
  • The Curse
  • The Birds
  • Pearl

absurd horror

horror films that plays directly with the absurdity of life/genre*.

*with the caveat that all horror is intrinsically absurd**

**a…

  • A Ghost Story
  • Swiss Army Man
  • Strawberry Mansion
  • A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Poor Things
  • After Hours
  • Holy Motors
  • The Sweet East
  • Weekend
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Beau Is Afraid
  • The Sweet East
  • Inherent Vice
  • Barking Dogs Never Bite
  • Pulp Fiction
  • House
  • Mandy
  • Eraserhead
  • Poor Things

hyperreality in film

films that feel like heightened "copy" of reality--or--a "copy of a copy"--or--a "copy" of a reality that never existed in…

  • Eraserhead
  • Alien

droning industrial landscapes with weird gloopy non-human babies that ruin people’s lives

I'm sure this list has been made a million times but here's mine.