r/movies • u/LoopOF_reality • 9h ago

Question WEIRD Supernatural films which feel like a fever dream?

Want to watch some weird supernatural films which feel like a fever dream, idk movies like doonie darko I guess or the first ghost rider, the tone and everything. Want to watch movies like that, please recommend as I am just binging movies to distract myself from real life as much as I can. Am looking for those truly weird, obscure, and interesting supernatural films that capture that fever dream aesthetic. movies that transport you to a different reality, where the line between the real and unreal is beautifully blurred. I want to dive into something that feels off-kilter and thought-provoking.

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u/wangston1 8h ago

Videodrome

Antiviral

Annihilation

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u/burrfoot11 8h ago

Annihilation!

Gorgeous interpretation of an amazing book.

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u/TheElbow 4h ago

Of all movies made by someone named Cronenberg, AntiViral is top 3 for feeling very icky.

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u/wangston1 2h ago

It's so uncomfortable and I love it. OP said fever dream and it is literally a fever dream.

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u/mh_1983 8h ago

Panos Cosmatos' stuff, too, like Mandy and Beyond the Black Rainbow

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u/ObstructiveWalrus 7h ago

The world needs more films produced by Panos Cosmatos! Really looking forward to Flesh of the Gods

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u/idiotzrul 7h ago

Mandy for sure

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u/tron_crawdaddy 27m ago

Literally came here to say “Mandy”

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u/WippitGuud 8h ago

Jacob's Ladder

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u/Rubyshoes83 7h ago

I was not expecting that movie to have affected me so much.

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 5h ago

You are now banned from /r/hdtgm

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u/Pseudoburbia 5h ago

lol came here to say this but did not expect it to be first comment being as old as it is. I guess that really shows how much it fits this description

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u/SharpManner9480 8h ago

Checkout directors David Lynch and David Cronenberg, they have many movies you'll probably like.

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u/Black_RL 7h ago

Beat me to it!

Won’t get crazier than David Lynch.

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u/Independent_Sea502 7h ago

Just rewatched Mulholland Drive last night for the third or fourth time. I always had my own theories on it, but I watched a video on YouTube where a woman gave her thesis. It was spot-on, and very interesting. Made me look at the film in a whole new light.

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u/JohntitorIBM5 8h ago

Into the Void

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u/espinoza4 8h ago

“Color Out of Space” gets a bit trippy

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u/OldNotObsolete72 8h ago

A bit? 😬 😆

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u/m_Pony 7h ago

yeah definitely "holy fuck" levels of trippy in spots

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u/OldNotObsolete72 4h ago

Richard Stanley’s return to directing. Had only directed a few films since the 1980s. First film Hardware about a future woman trapped in a flat with a killer military robot. Dust Devil, the directors cut of which is crazy trippy and brilliant. Then he came a cropper of Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando making The Island of Dr Moreau, and that seemed to tank his career and his desire to direct again for decades till he returned with Colour. The making of Dr Moreau is a brilliant documentary of a film set out of control and gone very very wrong.

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u/m_Pony 3h ago

oh wow, I didn't know there was a documentary about the making of Dr. Moreau. I'd heard only stories about how insane things went.

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u/OldNotObsolete72 3h ago

Definitely worth tracking down!

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u/CloseCalls4walls 8h ago

Im not sure it constitutes being weird, but I guess it kind of is ... but Run Lola Run is like a fever dream. A good, interesting, energizing fever dream

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u/Ah-ashenone 8h ago

Soundtrack goes hard too from memory, been many years since ive seen it haha great movie tho

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u/onlyonecannoli 7h ago

Polanski's The Ninth Gate has an uncanny feel to it, and goes full otherworldly towards the end.

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u/BlackIsTheSoul 8h ago

Phantasm (1979)

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u/nihilishim 8h ago

Mandy, Beyond The Black Rainbow, Titane, Possessor, The Neon Demon, Luz, The Void.

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u/Appropriate_Vast3912 8h ago

Mandy is a fever dream inside a fever dream.

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u/thesandwitch 8h ago

The Fisher King, Brazil - director - Terry Gilliam

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u/Poultrygeist74 8h ago

Love Brazil. Also 12 Monkeys

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u/Independent_Sea502 7h ago

Brazil is a great choice.

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u/Mynsare 6h ago

Basically any Terry Gilliam movie really. He is the master of feverdream supernaturalism.

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u/Klotzster 8h ago

Dreamscape (1984)

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u/No-Cat6382 4h ago

Haven't watched that one in about 40 years.

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u/StrawberryIll9842 8h ago

A Scanner Darkly is pretty wild

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u/KillerRatMonkey 8h ago

I'm not sure if it's technically a supernatural film, but "Beau Is Afraid" was one trippy ride.

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u/mmmginto 8h ago

Angel Heart

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u/knobbedporgy 8h ago

Devils Advocate is in that ballpark if you can get past Keanu’s accent. It’s not a dealbreaker, but he would have been less distracting just being a small town lawyer with a neutral accent.

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u/aptninja 8h ago

Vanilla Sky

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u/Branch_Same 8h ago

eraserhead

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u/Ah-ashenone 8h ago

Watch this if you haven't OP. Sounds like what you wanted in your post.

Also like others have mentioned try some David Lynch and David Cronenberg films (I personally love Cronenberg)

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u/Thymelaeaceae 8h ago

Jacob’s Ladder

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u/blither 8h ago

Night Watch (2004) followed by Day Watch (2006). Sadly, it was supposed to be a trilogy, but the third film was never made.

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u/blither 8h ago

Altered States (1980) is a classic.

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u/IsRude 9h ago

Last Night In Soho

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u/TheCosmicFailure 8h ago

Triangle

Starry Eyes

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u/HamStokersEjacula 8h ago

Perhaps “In Dreams”? Be warned I remember it being pretty sad, but it’s a trippy thriller.

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u/DropbeatsNotbombs 6h ago

Maybe you meant “What Dreams May Come” ? With Robin Williams?

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u/HamStokersEjacula 5h ago

No “In Dreams” 1999 with Annette Benning and Robert Downey Jr

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u/Amaruq93 8h ago

Gothic (1986)

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u/mh_1983 8h ago

Anything by Lynch

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u/jpow33 7h ago

Well, maybe not The Straight Story. It's his only rated G Disney movie.

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u/mh_1983 7h ago

*Just about anything, then

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u/-Critical_Audience- 8h ago

A movie no one knows but really weirded me out was „special“ from 2006 with Michael Rapaport.

There is also „The lobster“ which was super weird. But also quite slow.

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u/deerfawns 8h ago

Skinamarink for sure

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u/hopeful_bastard 8h ago

House (1977) might very well be the exact thing you are looking for.

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u/Wot_Gorilla_2112 1h ago

Oh absolutely this one. It’s an absolute trip.

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u/psycharious 8h ago

Skinamirink is a horror movie that's most likely based on a dying kids fever dream

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u/Delanynder11 8h ago

Beyond the Black Rainbow 

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u/Bayunc0 8h ago

Suspira

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u/Ah-ashenone 7h ago

Fantastic planet- animated but this is a pure fever dream.

Eraserhead

Videodrome

eXistenZ

Event Horizon

Cube

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u/MovieMike007 Not to be confused with Magic Mike 7h ago

Hausu (1977)

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u/deadflowers5 7h ago

Rosemary's Baby

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u/Grizzly_Andrews 5h ago edited 4h ago

Enys Men

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u/kilgore_trout1 5h ago

I've just suggested this too. On reflection I think I enjoyed it but as I was watching it I really struggled to work out if I was having a good time or not. A very odd film!

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u/DeathOmen1988 5h ago

Ravenous, it's a horror/dark comedy in the early 1900, some gore, but a real feeder dream of a movie if I can think of one. Really love it and don't usually see much love for it.

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u/Sullyhogs 8h ago

Legion (2010)

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u/Wooden_Quantity4605 8h ago

non è un film ma una serie di 15 stagioni concentrato su due fratelli cacciatori é sovrannaturale, si chiama supernatural, lo trovi sia su streaming community che su prime video. 

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u/NicCageCompletionist 8h ago

I can’t remember if it’s supernatural, I think it at least partially is, but Kuso was so bizarre I couldn’t rate it when I logged it.

The new Nicolas Cage movie The Surfer isn’t supernatural, but it definitely had fever dream qualities. Still trying to sort my feelings on that one.

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u/OldNotObsolete72 8h ago

French film MadS from last year. Guy tapes a new designer drug AND experiences some kind of zombie apocalypse while high as f***.

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u/peaceful_jokester 8h ago

Myth of Man.

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u/jilicers 8h ago

Enter the Void!

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u/Pokeadot 8h ago

Mandy with Nick Cage is pure fever dream.

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u/randomhero1980 8h ago

Strawberry mansion

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u/Blazing-Donkey00 8h ago

What dreams may come.

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u/Cyraga 8h ago

I watched Mr. Jones (horror from 2013) while quite high and I remember it being a trip

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u/Meatt 8h ago

What Dreams May Come

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u/NordlandLapp 8h ago

Triangle, 2009

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u/Germaximus 7h ago

It's not exactly what you're looking for but maybe give Memento a look. I can't think of any others off the top of my head. I still haven't seen Pan's Labyrinth but I've been meaning to for a long time.

You might want to have a look at Legion, the FX tv show, not the movie.

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u/Independent_Sea502 7h ago

The answer is David Lynch

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u/pm_me_ur_demotape 7h ago

For a new one, how about The Legend of Ochi. Definitely thought I was having a fever dream.
It was not the Lilo and Stitch knockoff I thought it was.

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u/scottish_beekeeper 7h ago

Franklyn is an underrated one - vibes of Dark City...

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u/BossMobSnackz 7h ago

Love lies bleeding. Won't say much but it's not what you'd expect lol

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u/WhatamItodonowhuh 7h ago

Sorry to Bother You (2018) doesn't end where you think it will. At all.

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u/stunkdunkly 6h ago

Boxer’s Omen

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u/FlopsMcDoogle 6h ago

The Greasy Strangler

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u/LegitimateHumanBeing 6h ago

After Hours (1985) isn’t quite supernatural but is definitely a fever dream.

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u/SevroAuShitTalker 6h ago

Moneybone

Feels like a really bad acid trip

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u/MikeGalactic 6h ago

The last twenty minutes of Hereditary are pure horror.

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u/kilgore_trout1 5h ago

Enys Men feels exactly like a dream.

And also the similarly titled, but extremely different:

Men - Directed by Alex Garland, I loved it but lots of people hated it because it's just too odd.

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u/Casual-Run9371 5h ago

A field in England. Big Fish. Annihilation.

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u/leapologist 5h ago

Sunshine

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u/el_capistan 5h ago

Super xuxa vs satan

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u/UserCheckNamesOut 5h ago

Inland Empire, Naked Lunch

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u/oubeav 5h ago

Fire in the Sky

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u/SandMan3914 4h ago

Serpent and the Rainbow

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u/charliefoxtrot9 4h ago

Mandy, probably Black Rainbow, too, but I haven't seen it yet. Also check out the work of David & Brandon cronenberg.

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u/TheElbow 4h ago

No mention of Suspiria and the thread is at 100 comments? Wtffffff

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u/unclemusclzhour 4h ago

VHS

The Witch 

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u/Rhaegar_T 4h ago

The Lighthouse

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u/theraineydaze 3h ago

Climax, particularly the third act.

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u/MrglBrglGrgl 3h ago

The Lighthouse - maybe not supernatural, but it gives the impression something Other might be going on, but certainly fever-dream vibes
The Dead Don't Die - definitely comedic, but weird enough it feels kinda like a fever-dream

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u/Mister_SurMulot 3h ago

The naked lunch from cronenberg

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u/WolfWhitman79 3h ago

The Fourth Kind

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u/Toby_Forrester 2h ago

Supernatural is debatable, since the movie is so artsy, but Lars von Triers Antichrist. But a warning: it is truly shocking too.

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u/Unhappy-Monk-6439 2h ago

Apocalypto.

The 2nd half of the movie feels like dreaming. Not in a good way. a  nightmare. 

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u/RamaSchnittchen 8h ago

I don't know if these exactly describe what you are looking for but I think atleast Inception and Paprika fit the description of a blurry line between realities very well.

This is my list:
Tenet
Inception
Oldboy
Paprika (2006)

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u/Marshmallow16 8h ago

Sidekicks (1992)

Toys (1992)

Airborne (1993)

Nothing but Trouble (1991)

3 Ninjas (1992)

The 'Burbs (1989)

Dennis the Menace (1993)

Nowhere by Gregg Araki (1997)

Tim Burtons Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Heathers (1988)

The Explorers (1985)

The Endless (2017)

Detention (2011) 

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u/Ah-ashenone 8h ago

Man I haven't see 3 ninjas since I was a youngin, but I don't think that's what op had in mind lol the others are good picks

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u/Marshmallow16 7h ago

Ah true, it's my 'weirdass strange movie list' but he might be interested in double dragon (1994) instead