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Added 2021-05-18 23:29:01 +0000 UTCI've had the psychedelic experience on my mind lately, after I shelved it temporarily. I'm doing another video where we cover more of our favorite movies to watch that you consider psychedelics and why. The first one I did about a year ago. Feel free to respond.
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Zama Don’t know if you’ve seen it but you should because it’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen. To the point where I didn’t know what to make up it after my first watch. It’s like Aguirre the Wrath of God mixed with like this acid purgatory kind of feel. It somehow is dead pan and static, but achieves elliptical surrealism effortlessly. It’s the existential death of the squash-buckling pillager and all he’s left in his wake.
jared Clarke
2021-05-26 13:59:28 +0000 UTCYeah this is a good one
Stephen
2021-05-21 19:34:24 +0000 UTCDead Man by Jim Jarmusch. Not sure if you’ve reviewed any of his films or is a fan, but I found this one a mix of funny, surreal and spiritual, striking such a weird and specific tone that I haven’t felt before. Like, the tone alone made me feel like I’m tripping. The themes as well flip the typical Western on its head which creates this almost cognitive dissonance, where you’re on the fence on giving into the weirdness, or trip. Also, a Neil Young improvisational score of just guitar that feels as cathartic as a psychedelic peak definitely helps
nick moose
2021-05-20 20:06:03 +0000 UTCI'll look into it. Definitely wax curious at a certain point. Thanks!
Deepfocuslens
2021-05-20 17:15:09 +0000 UTCEmbrace of the Serpent and The Red Turtle are two more recent films that come to mind as offering a 'oneness with the universe' vibe. Spun is also a superb film though not as psychedelic (in the traditional hippy kinda sense) as one might wish. For 60's psychedelia Beyond the valley of the dolls is a real Peak.
Ross Skilton
2021-05-19 22:22:45 +0000 UTCYou should absolutely check out Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018) if you haven’t yet. That film is basically one long dream and the final hour is all one shot it’s such a beautiful, meditative, and haunting experience unlike anything I’ve ever seen. One of maybe 5 films or so that made me feel like I was flying the first time I saw it.
Dan Tedesco
2021-05-19 17:10:50 +0000 UTCDredd is what you MUST review!! It's a violent movie, but it's a beautifully violent film! Very well shot, and Olivia Thirlby was actually great! Karl Urban was badass, especially that he had the helmet on his face the entire time. The film is very true to the comics!
Tony Moro
2021-05-19 09:10:27 +0000 UTCI’m going with a horror movie called Jacob’s Ladder (1990), about a Vietnam vet living a cozy, idyllic life with his girlfriend in New York City who suddenly begins to encounter strange, disturbing beings that may or may not be hallucinations brought on by drug experiments done to him during the war. It should be said that the movie is not very good (it has a narrative that never really gains momentum and collapses in the third act, even before the grand revelation), but it has sequences that showcase some of the most inspired, horrific imagery ever seen in a horror film. And all of it really does seem to spring from the depths of a mind going through the worst drug trip imaginable, which to me qualifies it as a psychedelic film, albeit a nightmarish one.
Bennett Oliver
2021-05-19 02:11:35 +0000 UTCI don't know how loose we are with the idea of a psychedelic film but I'd also say Inland Empire. The first and only time I've seen it so far about an hour in I felt the trance come over me. I was in it for the rest of the movie. By the time it was over, it genuinely felt like I was waking up from the sort of dream you have after eating spicy food late at night. Very memorable experience.
Tyler Shobe
2021-05-19 00:21:57 +0000 UTCThe Devils by Ken Russell. I like my psychedelic experiences fucked up, sexual and full of sacrilege. Shame that movie, to this day, is still so taboo and still has never had its original cut made public.
Tyler Shobe
2021-05-19 00:16:42 +0000 UTCThe Doors from Oliver Stone for the obvious. I took a low dose of LSD when I went to see Midsommar back in 2019, and seeing it that way helped me to define Dani's journey as a spiritual one. Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé) is one I watched while coming down a couple of years ago and it was quite amazing, for it's relation to ego loss and death. Back in the day I found an animated film called Gandahar (Rene' Laloux) that I honestly only watched a number of times while on a psychedelic. :)
Atticus Xey
2021-05-18 23:58:01 +0000 UTCYou gotta review V For Vendetta, Equilibrium and They Live! VERY telling to what we're seeing in the world right now!
Tony Moro
2021-05-18 23:42:54 +0000 UTC
