10 Bizarre Experimental Films You Won't Believe Actually Exist

6. The Big Shave

The Big Shave is a relatively unassuming student film from 1967, one that probably wouldn't still be talked about today, if it didn't happen to be directed by a young Martin Scorcese while he was studying at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. It had a simple premise, shot in one room with only one character, who is shaving his face. But then, as is the case in so many Scorcese films, things start to get real gruesome real fast. While the man is shaving, he isn't being very gentle, and begins to cut his face with the razor. Cutting away facial hair quickly turns into cutting away skin, all while blood is pouring down his cheeks. The short film (clocking in at only six minutes) features some pretty intense self-mutilation, which is meant to serve as an indictment of American military involvement in the Vietnam War (indeed, the film is alternately titled Viet 67). It garnered a tremendous amount of attention for the young filmmaker, and proved that even when in college he was never one to shy away from violence.