Disturbing Surrealist/Experimental Horror Films
Surrealism and Experimental film are one of the most mesmerizing and little implemented sub-genres of horror film. This is a list of all the Surrealist/Experimental Horror films.
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- DirectorE. Elias MerhigeStarsBrian SalzbergDonna DempseyStephen Charles BarryPresented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack NanceCharlotte StewartAllen JosephHenry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
- DirectorJames Florian QuinnStarsMan Without a FaceKmsuraDead FleshDeath is imminent and meaning absent in this visual exercise of pointless nihilism. A visual experiment of anger and psychosis, captured on all kinds of manipulated film. Pain and anguish prevail in this masterclass of visually aesthetic edgelord cinema.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsWillem DafoeCharlotte GainsbourgStorm Acheche SahlstrømA grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
- DirectorJorge OlguínStarsCamille LynchKarina PizarroCarolina AndradeIn an unknown future, the earth has been destroyed by man and the air is polluted with a mysterious virus that turns humans into zombies.
- DirectorGeorg KoszulinskiStarsGeorg KoszulinskiMatt DevineSharon ChudnowIn the year 2012, the 3rd great war comes to an end. The war claims no victors, but both sides succeed in executing their chemical warfare campaigns. The result is over 3 billion deaths. Over ninety-eight percent of the male survivors are rendered sterile. Human reproduction is realized by means of cloning. The first strand of clones are harvested in December of 2012 and received with overwhelming success. It was not until nineteen years later that the first problems arose.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAxel JodorowskyBlanca GuerraGuy StockwellA former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
- DirectorBill GunnStarsDuane JonesMarlene ClarkBill GunnAfter being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor's assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.
- DirectorCalvin Lee ReederStarsLindsay PulsipherRobert LongstreetMatt OlsenA woman leaves the farm and enters the unknown.
- DirectorHarmony KorineStarsRachel KorineBrian KotzurTravis NicholsonFollows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in Nashville, Tennessee.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsTomorô TaguchiKei FujiwaraNobu KanaokaA businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.
- DirectorJohn ParkerBruno VeSotaStarsAdrienne BarrettBruno VeSotaBen RosemanThis film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman's nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsEric BossickAkiko MonôYûko NakamuraLosing his son Tom in a hit and run triggers violent emotions in Anthony, whose body begins to transform. When the driver who killed Tom reappears, Anthony mutates into a mass of metal - a human weapon fuelled by an uncontrollable rage.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsTomorô TaguchiShin'ya TsukamotoNobu KanaokaWhen metal-worshipping fanatics abduct his son, a father unleashes his dormant destructive power, as his naked rage transforms the once-feeble flesh into a grisly symbiosis of metal and tissue. Who dares to defy the ultimate body-hammer?
- DirectorKarim HussainStarsSophie LauzièreAnne-Marie BelleyBrea AsherAn anthology of horror, consisting of four segments all themed around gory subjects.
- DirectorDustin MillsStarsDave ParkerAllison EganHaley MadisonExperimental b&w anthology film with no dialogue consisting of four gruesome psychosexual stories featuring a masked cast. A woman hates her family. An elderly person is abused. A woman hates her dad. A nut abducts his female co-worker.
- DirectorJordan HarrisAndrew SchraderStarsPeter TullioPhilip MarlattMelanie WilsonThree young Satanists, Terry, Elliot, and Warren, perform an obscure ritual deep in the forest. Terry may or may not be dead after an accident freeing Warren's car from the mud. Elliot and Warren decide to follow a distant light in hopes of finding help. But the ritual has changed things. After witnessing unexplained bird explosions and unusual tree behavior, Elliot and Warren find themselves pursued by the most heinous of Satanic manifestations.
- DirectorRonny CarlssonStarsRonny CarlssonJenny LindkvistEmil LöflingA director falls into insanity because of the films he is making, and we follow his attempt at making his last film, an anthology of surreal films.
- DirectorBrian O'TooleStarsCamille DoneganTatiana FilippoChris GregoryAnnie and Stephen are a young couple embarking on their honeymoon in Portugal. Shortly upon arriving, Annie encounters a mysterious figure from her past. After nearly drowning in a swimming pool, the nature of Annie's reality gradually begins to unravel. She quickly comes to believe that both her own fate and that of her husband lie in a delicate balance.
- DirectorUisdean MurrayStarsJoy McAvoyJo MenzerKirsten McLeanA tale of two women, Jemima, who attempted to kill her boyfriend and her troubled psychologist, Victoria. Session by session the minds of the two women transfuse and they are transported to a world that will bring forth a terrifying and dormant connection.
- DirectorDaniel FawcettClara PaisStarsJoana CastroBruno SenuneRouzbeh RashidiThe Kingdom Of Shadows is a mystical cinematic experience which stirs from the darkness the spirits of our ancestors and reawakens the horror of unresolved crimes and denied desires.
- DirectorKerry LaitalaDamon PackardDavid ShermanStarsDorothea GriffinBarbara HersheyRonald LaceyA collection of short experimental horror films, some well-known, some not.
- DirectorRyan StandfestStarsGeorge BassoClarice BradleyMorris DrapeMister Ricky lives in the basement of a woman he calls "Grammy," who may or may not be poisoning him, thereby creating delusional yearnings within Ricky to channel the spirit of the long-departed "Gramps."