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Psychedelic movies

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Did a search and couldnt find a thread so i thought id start one.

Alot of movies have been made with heavy influences from drugs, i have an interest in movies that explore the psychedelic mindspace.

A few that come to mind are

Enter the Void

and

Blueberry.

Both which seem to heavily target DMT/ayahuasca.

Do any of you have any favourite movies that seem to have a small/heavy influence from psychedelic drugs? post away <3
 
The Trip
Yellow Submarine
The Wall
Altered States
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Taking Woodstock
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
The Tripper
Party Monster
Bong Water
 
Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain is very much psychedelic-influenced (and trippy as fuck) and one scene was supposedly filmed with the actors on shrooms.
 
I'd watch something like Baraka, Microcosmos, HD documentaries.. muted with my own music playing
 
I've watched and really enjoyed the following,

Yellow Submarine
The Wall
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Big Lebowski
Hitch Hikers Guide to the galaxy
Blue Velvet
 
Cant forget - Up in smoke - the classic smoke out scene.
Contact is pretty trippy especially the scene where she rides the machine. DMT at its finest - navigating violently through wormholes to reach moments of beauty and awe.
Labrynth is another trippy one - could do without the man in the 80's tights with the small package though
 
"Blueberry" in US is called "Renegade"... theres another film with that title though... look for the one directed by Jan Kounen. The most awesome heavy psychedelic visualizations ever created. They work best in the context of the story though... they have meaning instead of just being wild looking stuff. Do your dose, wait till you start to feel it really good, put then DVD player through the big sound system, turn it up, turn down the lights, hit PLAY and let yourself be absorbed. Amazing experience. DO NOT watch just the trippy parts first, they will spoil the sublime amazement you get seeing them for the first time in the middle of a trip.

All the Matrix movies are amazing tripping, even though I know alot of people hate 2 & 3, but I tried not to be hypercritical and just enjoyed them as spectacle... they are still super intense on psychedelics. The orchestral soundtrack by Don Davis, especially in 3 is phenomenal in and of itself.

Breakfast of Champions film (based on but rather different from classic Kurt Vonnegut novel... he has a cameo in it as the commercial director where Dwayne Hoover [yes,me!] goes nuts] is hilarious and touching... really made for people who are high or tripping IMO... ignore all the hate reviews... plenty of reviews also by those who loved it... the haters all seem to be clueless squares who seem annoyed that the film is hinting at things that they don't get and know they don't get so they get pissed.... but really for anyone here, it is I am sure a wonderful crazy ride with lots of out there moments and visuals... all star cast too. Rather sublime actually IMO. The moments with Nick Nolte and Bruce Willis, and Nolte and Omar Epps are fall-on-the-floor hilarious. Albert Finey is astounding and perfect as recurring Vonnegut crochety bizarre sci-fi writer who unintentionally turns everyone's life upside down.

Another great & super trip film with Finney is "Big Fish". Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup. A story about a son trying to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths his father told him about himself.

"Stay" is incredible and really mind-bending.

The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus is totally WHOA, and anything really by ex-monty-python animator Terry Gillliam... what a total genius. Heath Leger's last movie after Joker in Dark Night.

Well those are some of my faves.

Oh yea... Alice In Wonderland is now on DVD.... really great tripping!

Also - Inception...now in the discount cinemas I think is fucking WILD!!! Try to catch it on the big screen while you can... the ultra-complex visuals are really worth seeing at a gigantic size. Of course a PERFECT story for tripping, with dreams within dreams within dreams. It can get pretty confusing even if you are not tripping by that didn't matter... went to it on 2C-I and had a GREAT psychedelic roller-coaster of a ride.
 
Ooh how could I forget... first and foremost trip movie:

WAKING LIFE.

Plus, Avatar is pretty damn sweet also... all that alien shit and the colors and textures and designs and flying, etc etc.
 
Anything in the "avant-garde/experimental" genre will make good psychedelic viewing. Check out Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, Michael Snow, Jonas Mekas, Kenneth Anger, and other experimental pioneers. There is no way these guys got all their ideas while sober.

Also, take a look at Alejandro Jodorowsky. El Topo is a very oddly moving film. Some people like The Holy Mountain better, but I was very disappointed by the ending. It was just so... anti-climactic.

Angel's Egg is an early anime film from Mamoru Oshii, who would later go on to make Ghost in the Shell. If you think all anime is fast-paced action, you need to see this film. It's slow as molasses, but it always holds your interest. Its meaning is never really clear. Paprika (2006) is another very trippy anime film.

Very early films are often very surreal. Georges Melies' films (like A Trip to the Moon (1902)) are beautiful, strange, and charming.

Be careful what experimental films you watch while tripping, though. Some are extremely scary and will give you a horrible trip.
 
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ODDSAC - the Animal Collective movie. I strongly suggest watching it sober you're first time. It'd be way too much for most people to handle while they're tripping.

Also the Doors movie, the Grateful Dead movie, and the Beatles movies.
 
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