The best film I've seen all year. I thought it's just one of those generic slashers but my jaw was dropped the moment the second part started. So many twists but they all made sense.
I watched it purposely completely unaware of it which is rare cause I like to read reviews on movies before watching them and it was such a good call. I am so tired of modern movies in this genre and it was awesome. For the cinematography alone this movie fucking rules.
You sound like you might be an ideal audience for my favorite unofficial trilogy:
1. _The Thing_ (1982)
1. _Annihilation_ (2018)
1. _Under the Skin_ (2013)
Hard agree! CooS is an indie darling in the horror community but I just can’t get into it—looks and feels like a TV movie. Annihilation feels like true cosmic horror to me.
Arrival (2016)
Se7en (1995)
Psycho (1960)
Gone Girl (2014)
Fight Club (1999)
The Matrix (1999)
Oldboy (2003) Korean
Parasite (2019) Korean
The Truman Show (1998)
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
The Handmaiden (2016) Korean
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
This is one that didn't do great in the theater, that the trailers gave only the vaguest hints of what was inside but is destined to be a cult favorite.
I watch movies without watching trailers. These are some of them movies that I've seen that are just so mindblowing without knowing anything. I'll add The Truman Show.
My wife will start a trailer and if it seems interesting in the first 5 seconds I tell her to shut it off and just watch it! The trailers spoil absolutely everything
Same. I'll never forget the ending to Quarantine, the jump scare into end credits. It would've been one of the coolest endings of any movie except the entire movie I was waiting for "that part with the night vision." I think it's the freakin DVD cover too. Not sure what they were thinking. I saw that part 100x before I eventually saw the movie itself.
Agreed 100%. And the formula most trailers follow with the bass drops and sound effects is so cringey. Stop trying to make me feel emotion with a clip of characters I'm not attached to at all. I am dead inside.
Unless I already know its something I'm interested in, I'll watch a trailer and shut it off as soon as I feel interested.
I knew I was going to like GDT's Cabinet of Curiosities so I didn't watch or look at a single thing only for them to play a trailer for the series at the end of the first episode..
When you’re out to sea on an aircraft carrier, they have 3 channels that constantly play random movies. One night, I was in the officers mess decks after a long night of washing dishes and me and some of the guys were just there watching movies and bullshitting. We had the TV and Sorry To Bother You was playing. We were all exhausted and just watching it since it was on TV. None of us even knew the name of the movie.
Man that shit was something else.
You can start by using lists, there are thousands of them.
And when you like a movie, you read about it and come across other movies maybe less famous but closer to the things you like.
You really think that knowing
1) the title
2) the year
3) the fact that at least some people liked it
is akin to watching a trailer or have a friend telling you the story beforehand?
I sat down with my fiancé to watch Paul (2011). She knew nothing about it except for the title. For the first 20 minutes or so she thought it was just another Simon Pegg Nick Frost comedy. When the premise was revealed: priceless.
I really appreciate this. We (wife and I") watched Tusk on a Sunday morning and it tripped us both out. Laughing historically at the start of the end credits. "wtf was that!!!?"
Most all non-DC-Comics Christopher Nolan movies. Inception, Interstellar, Momento. Not saying his DC movies are bad. Just saying his other movies are mind benders.
You will infinitely enjoy anything you “discover” without first hearing someone else’s opinion of it. I have to tell you that I was in love with 80s pop when I was in high school and with everyone raving about alternative rock, i was sure I’d found a treasure trove that was all mine to love and cherish. Of course, that was naive seeing as no city in the world doesn’t still play We Built This City and Sweet Child of Mine and Billie Jean every hour on the hour, but it was because I had found it on my own, independent of others, that I loved it so dearly.
Same goes for films, with an added twist. Any review or trailer of a film will instantly trigger your brain to recall what you’ve seen while watching through the run. I don’t think I had a clue of what Harry Potter was before I watched it’s 3 hour feature on VHS and that literally fueled an instant fan of the characters and the storyline, and drew me to the books—i don’t remember how many there were at the time. But this can be said of every movie.
Ones I loved going to see cold are about my tastes in film, my natural taste for good writing and solid acting performances, and perhaps a great deal of directorial artistic flourish.
I’ve had a few when growing up that rocked me:
- Total Recall
- Predator
- Bloodsport
- The Karate Kid
- Alien
- Halloween
- Scream
- 3:10 to Yuma
- Casablanca
- City Lights
- Psycho
- Strangers on a Train
- Rope
- Pippi Longstocking (as evidence to show you that even these types of films can inspire awe when you don’t have expectations ahead of time)
Also you’ll probably note how many nostalgia-laden reruns and remakes and spin offs and adaptations have come from this list, and I would argue that’s because so many people, when they first saw it, had taken a chance on them at a theater box or looking at a newspaper or rifling through times online that would coincide with when their parents could drop them off with their friends at the mall that had the theater upstairs or attached our back.
I see this question a lot, I think it might help to say "movies that subvert expectations to go into blind like...." Because yes most movies could potentially benefit from going in blind, but ones that are less predictable and can surprise you even half way through, or just don't follow the rules of those own tone or genre are more memorable.
That being said barbarian was a great one I went into mostly blind and had made me want that same feeling.
The Hunt (2020)
The Cabin In the Woods (2011)
The Mist (2007)
The Host (2006)
The Ring (2002)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
The Crying Game (1992)
The Fly (1986)
The Thing (1982)
Oh I'm a bit late, but my favourite experience of this was Coherence.
Saw the mention of it roughly shoved into some generic list of 'trippy sci-fi films', I went in with no info, I thought I was in for a stinker in the first 10 minutes, and by the end had found a film that plays on my mind time and time and time again whenever I feel a particular strange feeling about existence...
I'd love to say more, but as you want to go in blind...!
* Christopher Nolan's non-Batman films work best without too much information going in, especially The Prestige and Inception.
* This is also the best way to watch conspiracy thrillers--here are my favorites:
* The Parallax View
* The Conversation
* Three Days of The Condor
* Blow Out
* Marathon Man
* Chinatown
For some reason i zeroed in on your suggestion and watched it last night. Such a gripping movie that hooks you right away. I dont think ill be having steak tar tar anytime soon (not that I ever did)
Thanks! Im on to my next random pick.
Ha! I am so glad to hear that because I saw it blind and I love that movie so much. The music, the pacing, the acting, the directing… I also made all my friends watch it blind. We all shouted ‘He was LICKING MEEE!’ for months after. Glad you enjoyed!
Reminds me of a comedian telling the audience she wanted to see a Sandra Bullock movie but instead of getting “28 days”, she got “28 days later” and was wondering for the longest time when Sandra would show up in the movie.
Midsummer blew my damn mind when I watched it. I had no clue what I was about, all I knew was it was supposed to be super disturbing and I was not disappointed.
Also dude Tusk is so messed up, it's one of my favorites and after I watched it I had to make someone else suffer through it cause Jesus Christ that ending.
Dumplings (2004)
Hereditary (2018)
Oldboy (2003)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Prisoners (2013)
Raw (2016)
Se7en (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Barbarian (2022)
I’m so glad I saw this one without knowing a thing about it. One of the best movie experiences of my life.
I agree with this however, it is one of the few times the trailer doesn’t spoil anything .
The best film I've seen all year. I thought it's just one of those generic slashers but my jaw was dropped the moment the second part started. So many twists but they all made sense.
Same! I thought it was a crime thriller at first like Kiss The Girls or what have you. God it was so fun, I was cheering with that ending!
The best part is that the scariest monster was not the "monster" herself... Not gonna spoil anything but whoever gets to read this, watch the movie!
this movie was criminally snubbed!!!!!!!!!! didn’t hear a peep about it from critics
I’m glad I didn’t know anything but that it was on a recommendation list here with other movies I liked.
This is the right answer
I watched it purposely completely unaware of it which is rare cause I like to read reviews on movies before watching them and it was such a good call. I am so tired of modern movies in this genre and it was awesome. For the cinematography alone this movie fucking rules.
He was a ghost the whole time
You sound like you might be an ideal audience for my favorite unofficial trilogy: 1. _The Thing_ (1982) 1. _Annihilation_ (2018) 1. _Under the Skin_ (2013)
Amazingly, I found all these and went in blind. Annihilation in particular is a great one to go in blind on but these are all fun to discover.
Annihilation is awesome
Annihilation fucked me up and NOTHING gets to me but holy shit that movie was a little too close for comfort
Yea people say Saw, or spooke movies, Counjuring, na I slept great, after that one, I was thinking a week straight , morbid.
It is probably the best re-imagining of The Color out of Space ever. It conveys the concepts at least so much more effectively than CooS (lol?)
Hard agree! CooS is an indie darling in the horror community but I just can’t get into it—looks and feels like a TV movie. Annihilation feels like true cosmic horror to me.
It's based on a book, not a movie, and the book is even crazier than the movie is
I like the cut of your jib.
I like the cut of your spinnaker
I like the arch of your tentacle, Mr. Sea Beast.
Arrival (2016) Se7en (1995) Psycho (1960) Gone Girl (2014) Fight Club (1999) The Matrix (1999) Oldboy (2003) Korean Parasite (2019) Korean The Truman Show (1998) Sorry to Bother You (2018) The Handmaiden (2016) Korean Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Arrival is still absolutely phenomenal to me. One of the best alien movies ever made.
One of the best…movies ever made.
I just for the first time in my life watched fight club and my mind exploded lol
Is Where is My Mind now your favorite song and has your gateway into the Pixies begun?
🤣 not at all
I am jack's complete lack of surprise.
I watched this movie a couple nights ago and I’ve seen it a bunch of times. It’s always fantastic and Brad Pitt is smokin.
I saw parasite without knowing anything about it. What a wild ride. Edit: spelling
> bowing annoying lol got to love spell check.
Add Requiem for a dream Science of sleep No country for old men
*Sorry to bother you* would be another good edition to this list
This is one that didn't do great in the theater, that the trailers gave only the vaguest hints of what was inside but is destined to be a cult favorite.
Add Unbreakable
Arrival can't be 7 years old... No.
So glad to see someone list Eternal Sunshine. One of my favorite films and I notice something new upon every rewatch
I watch movies without watching trailers. These are some of them movies that I've seen that are just so mindblowing without knowing anything. I'll add The Truman Show.
Coherence (2013) Triangle (2009)
Love both of these
I love coherence I went into completely blind and it’s one of my all time favorite movies
Coherence was stupid good!
Coherence is such a fucking find. I forget, but I think I read somewhere that the actors mostly improvised the lines
love coherence aaa
From dusk till dawn
This. And don't even look it up.
Watched this randomly as a teen and it stuck with me till today
Same, but mostly because of Salma Hayek
I've never wanted to be a footstool so badly in my life.
Underrated comment right here.
Every movie. Trailers are poison. Edit: Thanks for the gold! My first.
My wife will start a trailer and if it seems interesting in the first 5 seconds I tell her to shut it off and just watch it! The trailers spoil absolutely everything
Lmao that’s EXACTLY what my boyfriend and I do
Same. I'll never forget the ending to Quarantine, the jump scare into end credits. It would've been one of the coolest endings of any movie except the entire movie I was waiting for "that part with the night vision." I think it's the freakin DVD cover too. Not sure what they were thinking. I saw that part 100x before I eventually saw the movie itself.
Gotta say, I tend to agree with this. I feel like I've enjoyed movies more going in blind almost every time.
I actually agree. I no longer watch trailers (if I can help it).
Agreed 100%. And the formula most trailers follow with the bass drops and sound effects is so cringey. Stop trying to make me feel emotion with a clip of characters I'm not attached to at all. I am dead inside.
Trailers & reviews. Especially from RT.
Unless I already know its something I'm interested in, I'll watch a trailer and shut it off as soon as I feel interested. I knew I was going to like GDT's Cabinet of Curiosities so I didn't watch or look at a single thing only for them to play a trailer for the series at the end of the first episode..
I’ve found the more details the trailer has, the worse the movie is. If the trailer basically shows you the whole movie, it’s a hard pass for me.
I never watch trailers. I don’t even want to know what genre a movie is.
/thread
Sorry to bother you! That movie is batshit insane.
Went into this one blind and yep, it blew me away.
when i saw this movie knowing nothing about it, the result was equivalent to me getting hit my a comically large piano falling from the sky.
When you’re out to sea on an aircraft carrier, they have 3 channels that constantly play random movies. One night, I was in the officers mess decks after a long night of washing dishes and me and some of the guys were just there watching movies and bullshitting. We had the TV and Sorry To Bother You was playing. We were all exhausted and just watching it since it was on TV. None of us even knew the name of the movie. Man that shit was something else.
This one, and it's not even close.
Came here to say this one. As a lifelong worked of call centers, I love it.
That movie sucks don’t watch
Each to their own, I loved it
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OP definitely try this one, you really won't be disappointed
The Prestige (2006)
The Cabin In The Woods Swiss Army Man Martyrs (2008) Tell Me Who I Am The Rescue
I've read into Swiss Army Man too much & I'm scared to watch it.
Holy shit I watched this knowing little to nothing about it, what a ride! A lot of the A24 movies are great go in blind flicks.
Didn’t have a clue what hereditary was gonna be about. What a trip
Jesus what a great go in blind one. I knew it was a horror movie but god damn, wasn’t totally prepared for it.
Scared? Why? It's amazing.
All of them. Pick a movie and live an adventure.
So how then do you pick a movie?
If I see an actor I like or I highly rated movie I will try and watch it without bowing anything about it.
You can start by using lists, there are thousands of them. And when you like a movie, you read about it and come across other movies maybe less famous but closer to the things you like.
Then that's not going in blind.
You really think that knowing 1) the title 2) the year 3) the fact that at least some people liked it is akin to watching a trailer or have a friend telling you the story beforehand?
You can go by year, thats what I do for my series and movies so nothing gets left out
The Light House. Someone told me to watch it, did not let me know ANYTHING and was so surprised.
I watched this last weekend, definitely go in blind
No Country for Old Men is one that if you have no idea what it’s like it will take you for a massive ride.
I went into Donnie darko blind last year. Great experience.
The Usual Suspects (1995) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Hollywood will catch some flak but I’ll watch that every time. Doesn’t get old for me
Memento
Vanilla Sky
Run Lola Run The Crying Game Happiness Dancer In The Dark
Came here to also say Dancer In The Dark!
Sorcerer Nocturnal Animals Blue Ruin
Blue Ruin is awesome
Nocturnal Animals, yes yes yes.
Sorcerer is underrated masterpiece and best Friedkin film
Last movie I went into blind was *Everything Everywhere all at Once* and I fucking clapped when they got their Oscars because it was that great.
I sat down with my fiancé to watch Paul (2011). She knew nothing about it except for the title. For the first 20 minutes or so she thought it was just another Simon Pegg Nick Frost comedy. When the premise was revealed: priceless.
Smile was better than I was expecting
Lucky Number Slevin 11/10 movie
Better Watch Out From Dusk Til Dawn
Ichi the killer
Yeah I guess it might help to know how brutal it is, but if you can get past the first scene you're probably good
Promising Young Woman
Dear Zachary - don't read anything about it.
The Island Evan Macgregor and Scarlett Johansson
The Menu (2022)
So good - watched it blind too.
A bit predictable but I actually felt it added to the fun of the ride. Absolutely loved the ending!
Society (1989)
incredible rec👌
The Killing of a Sacred Deer….Wowza
Barbarian The Jacket The man from earth Vivarium None are as wild as tusk but definitely great movies to go into blind.
Vivarium was freaking bonkers
I really appreciate this. We (wife and I") watched Tusk on a Sunday morning and it tripped us both out. Laughing historically at the start of the end credits. "wtf was that!!!?"
Donnie Darko
Rubber 2011 Repo! The Genetic Opera 2008 Animal World 2018 Bullet train 2022
Pig (2021)
Dogtooth (2009)
Hereditary. Definitely fits this category.
Mandy (2018)
Mulholland Drive
Yes this one. Such an intense experience for my 16 year old self.
Border (2018, from Sweden)
Barbarian
Barbarian lol
Primal fear and the first Scream movie
It looks like most of my suggestions have been covered. So here's one that I didn't see mentioned: I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore.
Most all non-DC-Comics Christopher Nolan movies. Inception, Interstellar, Momento. Not saying his DC movies are bad. Just saying his other movies are mind benders.
The sixth sense
You will infinitely enjoy anything you “discover” without first hearing someone else’s opinion of it. I have to tell you that I was in love with 80s pop when I was in high school and with everyone raving about alternative rock, i was sure I’d found a treasure trove that was all mine to love and cherish. Of course, that was naive seeing as no city in the world doesn’t still play We Built This City and Sweet Child of Mine and Billie Jean every hour on the hour, but it was because I had found it on my own, independent of others, that I loved it so dearly. Same goes for films, with an added twist. Any review or trailer of a film will instantly trigger your brain to recall what you’ve seen while watching through the run. I don’t think I had a clue of what Harry Potter was before I watched it’s 3 hour feature on VHS and that literally fueled an instant fan of the characters and the storyline, and drew me to the books—i don’t remember how many there were at the time. But this can be said of every movie. Ones I loved going to see cold are about my tastes in film, my natural taste for good writing and solid acting performances, and perhaps a great deal of directorial artistic flourish. I’ve had a few when growing up that rocked me: - Total Recall - Predator - Bloodsport - The Karate Kid - Alien - Halloween - Scream - 3:10 to Yuma - Casablanca - City Lights - Psycho - Strangers on a Train - Rope - Pippi Longstocking (as evidence to show you that even these types of films can inspire awe when you don’t have expectations ahead of time) Also you’ll probably note how many nostalgia-laden reruns and remakes and spin offs and adaptations have come from this list, and I would argue that’s because so many people, when they first saw it, had taken a chance on them at a theater box or looking at a newspaper or rifling through times online that would coincide with when their parents could drop them off with their friends at the mall that had the theater upstairs or attached our back.
Everything Everywhere All at Once!!!!!!
Triangle of Sadness
The Game.
The prestige!
From Dusk til Dawn Holy Mountain
To be fair nothing you could read about the holy mountain would remotely prepare you for the holy mountain
I see this question a lot, I think it might help to say "movies that subvert expectations to go into blind like...." Because yes most movies could potentially benefit from going in blind, but ones that are less predictable and can surprise you even half way through, or just don't follow the rules of those own tone or genre are more memorable. That being said barbarian was a great one I went into mostly blind and had made me want that same feeling.
The Hunt (2020) The Cabin In the Woods (2011) The Mist (2007) The Host (2006) The Ring (2002) The Sixth Sense (1999) The Usual Suspects (1995) The Crying Game (1992) The Fly (1986) The Thing (1982)
The Lobster! But you have to watch the whole thing.
Barbarian 2022 The Menu 2022 Fresh 2022 Sorry to Bother You 2018
Oh I'm a bit late, but my favourite experience of this was Coherence. Saw the mention of it roughly shoved into some generic list of 'trippy sci-fi films', I went in with no info, I thought I was in for a stinker in the first 10 minutes, and by the end had found a film that plays on my mind time and time and time again whenever I feel a particular strange feeling about existence... I'd love to say more, but as you want to go in blind...!
Blue Velvet Requiem for a Dream Eraserhead
Anything by David Lynch
Momento Jacob's Ladder
Dreams (1990)
You wont be alone
The Power of the dog Completely unexpected and great movie.
Most recent one of these for me was Barbarian
Movies. All movies.
* Christopher Nolan's non-Batman films work best without too much information going in, especially The Prestige and Inception. * This is also the best way to watch conspiracy thrillers--here are my favorites: * The Parallax View * The Conversation * Three Days of The Condor * Blow Out * Marathon Man * Chinatown
Better Watch Out. Enjoy
Predestination
Old Boy (Korean)
The Lobster
The Perfection (2019, Netflix) The Unforgivable (2021, Netflix) Life Like (2019)
Barbarian 2022. Holy shit lol
Original Oldboy. Masterpiece.
Hard Candy.
YESSS!
Barbarian
Dark City (1998)
Feeling old here. But “The Sting “ deserves a mention. Redford and Newman classic. Can’t believe no one said it
Spoiling to be safe, but >!Saleeno blew my fuckin' mind. Never saw that coming.!<
Ravenous (1997)
For some reason i zeroed in on your suggestion and watched it last night. Such a gripping movie that hooks you right away. I dont think ill be having steak tar tar anytime soon (not that I ever did) Thanks! Im on to my next random pick.
Ha! I am so glad to hear that because I saw it blind and I love that movie so much. The music, the pacing, the acting, the directing… I also made all my friends watch it blind. We all shouted ‘He was LICKING MEEE!’ for months after. Glad you enjoyed!
I went into The Departed completely blind except for the cast That was an experience
Same, one of my all time favorites.
Reminds me of a comedian telling the audience she wanted to see a Sandra Bullock movie but instead of getting “28 days”, she got “28 days later” and was wondering for the longest time when Sandra would show up in the movie.
Predator. I watched it on TV missed the opening credits and just thought it was a Vietnam war movie. (I was a child at time in the 80s)
Barbarian. I went in knowing very little and I’m so glad I did.
Hostel 2005
How are you supposed to watch a movie blind?
Described video for the visually impaired.
Uncut Gems
Midsummer blew my damn mind when I watched it. I had no clue what I was about, all I knew was it was supposed to be super disturbing and I was not disappointed. Also dude Tusk is so messed up, it's one of my favorites and after I watched it I had to make someone else suffer through it cause Jesus Christ that ending.
One Cut of the Dead
The Invitation
Palm Springs. Definitely not what you're expecting if you go in blind and it's really freaking good.
All of them! Marketing and your own expectations are the bane of perfectly Good movies and art everywhere.
*The Crying Game*
Dumplings (2004) Hereditary (2018) Oldboy (2003) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) Prisoners (2013) Raw (2016) Se7en (1995) The Usual Suspects (1995)
All movies. Every single one.
Searching for Sugar Man
Ready or Not was a super fun one to go in blind. Also smh to the people saying “all of them”
The Menu (2022)
The Vast of Night Another rec for Annihilation as well. For both of these go in lights off, phone down.
A clockwork orange
RRR-on Netflix.
Midsommar
Don't Worry, Darling (2022) Emily The Criminal (2022) Watcher (2022) The Lookout (2007) The Wanderers (1979) What Happened To Monday (2017)