10 Movies With Mind-Bending Plots
3. Alice (1988)
You could choose anything by surrealist Czech animator Jan Švankmajer, whose undeniable talents veered sharply toward the avant-garde. He produced several equally off-the-wall and wonderful live-action films, but is his stop-motion endeavours which capture the film-maker's imagination at its peak. Like much of the director's work, Alice features a mixture of live-action and animation, and it does so quite brilliantly.
The film is loosely based on the original Alice In Wonderland book, following the adventures of a little girl who follows a white rabbit into an astonishing and frequently disturbing fantasy world. Švankmajer's white rabbit, however, resembles a creature from a nightmare, a badly-stuffed, blank-eyed thing which scuttles and scurries about with menace.
In truth, this may be the most on-point adaptation of Lewis Carroll's fiction in movie history. Where other versions play out like fairy tales, Švankmajer's Alice brims over with all the wonder, fear and fascination of childhood.