10 Movies That DEMAND Your Attention Immediately

Gaspar Noé is nothing if not a provocative filmmaker, and though he surely reached peak infamy with his 2002 thriller Irréversible, he once again turned many heads with the release of his experimental 2009 drama Enter the Void.

But arguably the most startling thing to appear in the entire movie - and rest assured, there's a ton of nightmare fuel imagery to witness - occurs before it's even really started.

Enter the Void's opening titles are surely the most wilfully jarring ever made, a firm flipping of the bird by Noé at other filmmakers who dare make their titles so boring and conventional.

Noé instead delivers highly stylised, intentionally offputting titles that open with strobed credits flashing fast in front of the viewer complete with an unpleasant droning sound.

Eventually, we switch to a second set of credits where an increasingly hallucinogenic series of near-unreadable credits are flashed across the screen, accompanied by a discordant musical track.

It's insane, and frankly, amazing. The only way you can't be perked up and paying close attention to the movie at this point is quite literally if you're dead.

Apparently the unfinished version of the film screened at festivals didn't have any opening credits, and so due to many complaining about its demanding length, Noé decided the credits should be "as fast as possible and as graphic as possible," which they absolutely are.