Insanity and Corruption in Real Life (books and tv/movies)

By llsoth, in Dark Heresy

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No love for Mulholand Drive ItsUncetainwho? Lynch is essential viewing for things that you wont be able to forget or unsee. All of those films are drenched in an atmosphere of ...wrongness is about the only word I can think of that adequately gets across what he does.

'Also From Hell', the comic by Alan Moore about Jack The Ripper. The entirety of chapter ten....its just about the only sequence in comics which having read made me feel physically ill.

'House of Leaves' is also a brilliant read, offering a really layered narrative. Everyone should read it.

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ItsUncertainWho said:

You people seem like lightweights from the list provided.

I don’t think anyone who has seen everything from this list would be above 10-15 points. That would be relying heavily on seeing the core David Lynch films of Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, and Inland Empire and in watching all of Twin Peaks and Fire Walk with Me within one week. Then you must be able to coherently make a reasonable argument for the actual meaning and plot of each film. Without the perceived understanding of Lynch you cannot but skim the surface of the available Insanity and Corruption points available.

Peter Greenway is another director to watch anything you can get your hands on, as well as, David Cronenberg.

No one has mentioned, probably all too young, GG Allen. His live performances are things that can’t be unwatched.

Load up in one night the films Sweet Hereafter, The Reflecting Skin, and Jude. Those three by themselves are tough to watch; back to back to back they will scar and twist your soul.

Audition(Takashi Miike), The Eye (2002), The Last house on the Left(1972), I Spit on your Grave (1978), August Underground (simulated snuff film), Legend of the Overfiend(Anime/Hentai)

Just be aware that most of what has been listed is not for the faint of heart, stomach, mind, or under 18.

I'll second the original "Last House on the Left" saw it when I was 14, the crappy production made it seem so real, I'll never watch it again.

Also good for corruption and insanity is The Excorcist.

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I watched/read some strange **** as a kid. My mom used to read me lovecraft stories and even let me read her copy of Dream Catcher as a 12yr old. I still chuckle when I think of "ass weasels". All in all I rarely get truly terrified by anything that doesn't affect me in reality like having an incompetent guard who can't even read threaten you with an HK. I literally shat my pants.

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I'm surprised to see Last House On The Left in here, honestly, it was one of the least chilling movies I've ever seen in my life. Not only was it a dreadful movie in its own right, but the (intentional?) comedy utterly soiled any of the gravitas the subject matter could've brought to bear.

It's no Event Horizon, that's for sure.

(maybe it's my catholic upbringing talking, but Event Horizon scarred me more than anything by Cronenberg, Miike, Lynch, or anyone else could bring to bear. I know to some of you it's corny and tacky and garish and unsubtle and inelegant but there's something about it that's more profoundly disturbing than a dozen eraserheads. Best watched alone in the dark in an empty house after several days of isolation.)

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Event horizon was genuinely creepy in a way that 40k ought to be. The movie made me think of DH horror, actually.

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DivinatorVictus said:

No love for Mulholand Drive ItsUncetainwho? Lynch is essential viewing for things that you wont be able to forget or unsee. All of those films are drenched in an atmosphere of ...wrongness is about the only word I can think of that adequately gets across what he does

Mulholland Drive is a fun movie. It’s just too easy for Lynch. He was being lazy. The little old people in the box were awesome, but overall it was too straight foreword. Straight Story was great, but it didn’t get mentioned for obvious reasons either.

The Baby from eraser head wins hands down as far more creepy than anything from Event Horizon. Event Horizon was good, but felt more like it belonged to the Hellraiser universe than its own. The spherical drive seemed like a variation of the lament configuration.

Last House on the Left, for it’s time, was so real and so horrifically shocking that it ended up getting banned. The remake fell flat for me. I felt the parents went further into evil than the bad guys to the point I actually cared more about the bad guys than the parents. The remake could have taken the brutality of the original and pushed it to modern standards and made a film that was difficult to watch and where you truly felt the parents were justified in their actions, but it turned into a modern quick cut “horror-date-flick”.

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Things that give me the creeps and upset me are real things. Attrocities perpetrated on people, murders, ***** etc. I've been frightened by films (the bad guy jumps out etc) but from a very young age had a strong notion of real and pretend violence. I get upset when the news shows footage of helicopters crashing and I KNOW real people are dying. Not that I want to pretend nothing bad happens, but I don't think we need to see someone in their time of grief or death as it happens frame by frame.

I don't like conflict or violence at all, but absolutely love 40k, one of the most brutal, prejudicial and sick scifi settings of all time. Because it's make believe. When it's not real it doesn't matter what it is, because it's not real. So long as the line is there I'm fine with it.

I really liked Event Horizon because of the warp screw-upedness of it. It is very 40k.

Hellebore

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Event Horizon could be run as an DH adventure pretty much strait up.

Scratch that, it could be run as a GOOD DH adventure pretty much straight up. I mean come on, it even has some latin built in.gran_risa.gif