10 Most Disorientating Horror Films
2. I’m Thinking Of Ending Things
If you selected any moment of this film to randomly start watching, there isn’t a chance in hell you would know what was going on. In fact it’s also the case that if you watch from the start through to the end, there’s still only a very slim chance that you’d have a single clue what’s happening.
This film is about as Charlie Kaufman as Charlie Kaufman can get. Acting as screenwriter, director and producer, Kaufman manufactured his masterpiece based on a 2016 novel by Iain Reid.
The film sees a young woman travel with her new boyfriend, Jake, to visit his parents in their isolated farmhouse. In some ways it’s a slow descent into madness but in others you’re thrown in right away, within the first few minutes of the film already being teased with really jarring bits of dialogue.
As things get increasingly disorientating, the film plays with aspects of body horror, nonlinear narrative and unreliable narrators. Basically, you don’t know what’s real and what’s not!
For a film of just two hours, by the time you come out the other side you truly feel like you’ve lived another lifetime.