# The most demented movies of all time. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192 "2005-08-16T02:06:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/21 "2005-08-17T15:52:36Z")
> [@gfloyd](#): > > **Cannibal the Musical** without a doubt. Just watched that with some friends, last night! “Let’s build a snowman, we can make him our best friend…” ./7 ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/22 "2005-08-17T16:11:15Z")
[Delicatessen](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101700/) gives Peter Greenaway a run for his money. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/23 "2005-08-17T16:26:52Z")
Somewhere on the list should be [The Hotel New Hampshire.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087428/) Big stars, big budget, big hype. Completely sick. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/24 "2005-08-17T17:43:08Z")
**Happiness of the Katakuris** , a bizarre Japanese musical, with several extra-bizarre stop-motion animation sequences, and a most un-musical-like storyline. **Pee-Wee’s Big Adventur** is pretty demented, too, but in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/25 "2005-08-17T17:56:39Z")
[El Topo](http://www.moria.co.nz/fantasy/eltopo.htm). A quote from the review: “One might describe El Topo as a sort of surrealistic Zen Western - imagine Luis Bunuel meets Sergio Leone, or maybe the Kung Fu tv series (1972-5) directed by Sam Peckinpah. Jodorowsky himself plays the titular El Topo (Spanish for The Mole), a gunslinger dressed all in black leather who rides through the countryside accompanied by his naked son. The plot consists of El Topo’s attempt to defeat four gunslingers who are spiritual masters and defend themselves against him with the likes of butterfly nets or by allowing bullets to pass through their bodies. All of this comes accompanied by much sex, fetishism and violence - the streets do quite literally run with blood. And the film also features a number of genuine freaks and malformities.” It’s a seriously crazy movie, worth seeing if you’re into demented, tho quite hard to find. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/26 "2005-08-17T18:06:41Z")
Jodorowsky is one of my favs! [El Topo](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067866/) is not currently available on DVD, but it is a great film. There were riots in several different countries when the film opened! [Santa Sangre](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098253/) is my favorite of his, and is also not currently on DVD. Thankfully, [Fando y Lis](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061643/) is on DVD, and it’s quite as bizarre as his other films. Oh, yeah, [The Holy Mountain](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071615/) is available on DVD in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/27 "2005-08-17T18:10:10Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > **Happiness of the Katakuris** , a bizarre Japanese musical, with several extra-bizarre stop-motion animation sequences, and a most un-musical-like storyline. There’s that damn Takashi Miike again. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/28 "2005-08-17T18:16:12Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > **Happiness of the Katakuris** , a bizarre Japanese musical, with several extra-bizarre stop-motion animation sequences, and a most un-musical-like storyline. There’s that damn Takashi Miike again. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/29 "2005-08-17T20:39:12Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Pink Flamingos gotta agree with BBVL… Mama Edie and the eggs… whew! ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/30 "2005-08-17T21:40:31Z")
Not exactly demented, but: [**Gummo**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/). Yipes. I must go now… ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/31 "2005-08-17T22:42:04Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > **Meet the Feebles** > > Basically, it’s an R-rated Muppet Show. (And it’s only R because it’s puppets. If human beings did the same things, it would be a definite X.) The Feebles Variety Hour is preparing for their first live broadcast. The host (a rabbit) has a fatal STD. The star (a hippo) is stressing over the show, and her husband’s fidelity, and eats an entire bakery. The manager (a walrus, and the hippo’s husband) is smuggling drugs and when we first see him, he’s being orally serviced by the star’s understudy (a cat). The knife-thrower (a crocodile) has shaky hands because he’s strung out on coke, and we see flashbacks of how he was tortured as a POW in 'Nam. Into all this comes Robert, a plucky young hedgehog determined to make it in the big city. > > And who do we have to thank for this? Peter Jackson. Is it out on DVD??? It sounds deliciously sick!A few more: [ul] [li] **Forbidden Zone** –French cult film starring Herve Villechaize and the “Queen of the B’s” and former Warhol star Susan Tyrrell[/li][li] **Trash** –Warhol film with Joe Dallesandro and Holly Woodlawn as the adorable junkie couple-next-door. Holly’s beer bottle scene is worth the price of admission![/li][li] **Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein** –My first on-screen decapitation; also the single most demented line in screen history: “To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life in the gall bladder!”[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/32 "2005-08-17T22:42:58Z")
> [@To Whom It May Concern](#): > > If you’re not into over-the-top gore or extreme views of blood and rather prefer ‘realistic’ or believeable violence/ acts of degradation, I would recommend another film called “Once Were Warriors”. Tells the story of a Maori (Native New Zealanders) family living in poor socio-economic conditions in the bad part/s of Auckland and how the various vices of Society and the influences of Maori culture affect their family structure. > > I know it sounds boring and similar to many chick flicks you have watched at first, but unlike them this one doesn’t end in smiles and your arm around your woman. If anything she’ll run screaming from you for fear of her life. Things like vicious bar fights, domestic violence, drug abuse, statutory rape, gang violence and youth suicide all play a significant part. Funny thing is, this movie was originally meant to be a documentary, but it also sad and disturbing as it shows that none of the things within this movie are dramatized or used for effect. For some people not just in NZ but all around the world, it is for them, part of everyday life. Great movie, although I wouldn’t consider it especially “demented.” Nothing in it that you wouldn’t find in a Lifetime movie of the week. Except for the quality, of course. I’m not sure where you got the idea that it was supposed to be a documentary, though. It’s based on a fairly famous novel of the same name, written by Alan Duff. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/33 "2005-08-17T23:47:41Z")
**want2know** , _Meet The Feebles_ is indeed out on video, as is Peter Jackson’s first film, _Bad Taste_. I happen to have one of the limited edition numbered copies of BT (# 16552/50000). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/34 "2005-08-18T04:20:36Z")
Naked Lunch Pi ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/35 "2005-08-18T07:19:07Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > [li] **Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein** –My first on-screen decapitation; also the single most demented line in screen history: “To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life in the gall bladder!”[/li][/list] God, that guy was hillarious. And the end speech, which the good doctor delivered with most of his guts hanging out on the pike he was impaled on. "All I had vas a laboratory…and a _dream!_ Anyway, I’ll say… _Caligula_ (“Oh, yeah, really going out on a limb there, Ran. Real brave.” Kinda chilling how many things they _didn’t_ have to make up for the plot, though.) _Men Behind the Sun_ Chinese semi-exploitation film, based on the history of Japan’s Unit 731 in occupied Manchuria. You see where that’s going, right? And I will say, for the record, that there are some episodes of _Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends_ which make me doubt the general sanity of mankind. (Why would you _even_ put a Maze of Madness in your freaking attic? For laughs?) ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/36 "2005-08-18T07:36:41Z")
> [@gatopescado](#): > > Decapitation, Nazis, she-males, orgies, men-on-men, girls-on-girls, sex, drugs, rock n’ roll… > > You name it, its in there. Roger Ebert gave it two thumbs up!! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/37 "2005-08-18T07:45:02Z")
> [@quiltguy154](#): > > “Mondo Cane” must surely be on this list. A compilation film of, ahem, unusual practices that spans the globe. The film was never talked about in polite company, BUT the theme song was a major hit. MORE THAN THE GREATEST LOVE THE WORLD HAS KNOWN ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/38 "2005-08-18T08:22:35Z")
Anything by David Lynch…that bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/39 "2005-08-18T12:09:37Z")
You want sick? Try to sit through [_Ilsa, She Wolf Of The SS_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071650/) . :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192/40 "2005-08-18T12:12:40Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Happiness (horribly depressing and twisted Todd Solondz movie.) That was the first movie that popped into my head as soon as I read the thread title. Also, **A Clockwork Orange** , which I saw for the first (and only!) time a few months ago. **Requiem for a Dream** - If you’ve never seen it before, DO NOT WATCH IT STONED!! Trust me on this. :eek: Although, a second viewing under normal brain patterns wasn’t all that different. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-demented-movies-of-all-time/317192.md?page=3)