10 Trippiest Horror Movies Of All Time
Horror at its most brilliantly hallucinogenic.
The great beauty of the horror genre is that horror can come in so many forms, from the basic thrill of a masked killer hacking hapless teens to ribbons, to ghosts haunting houses, extraterrestrial monsters invading the planet, and everything else in between.
Horror can be terrifying or hilarious, or it can deliver an experience you're intended to simply feel above all else. And arguably no genre can transport viewers in this way quite like horror. Horror is the perfect vehicle to take audiences on an honest-to-God trip, to show them otherworldly sights far beyond their wildest imaginations, courtesy of cutting-edge filmmakers with wholly singular visions.
With that in mind, we come to the 10 trippiest horror movies ever made - the 10 films which, above all others, created intense, deeply discomforting, skin-crawling horror out of the bizarre, the inexplicable, and perhaps even the riotously off-the-wall.
Not every movie on this list will hit for everyone, but with horror fans being as adventurous as they are, each of these mind-bending, wildly disorientating films has nevertheless found itself a cult audience that endures to this very day.
And so, open-minded genre fans absolutely owe it to themselves to check these hypnotic horror films out.
10. Annihilation
Alex Garland's unforgettable sci-fi horror film Annihilation is so damn left-field it spooked one of the movie's own financiers, David Ellison, who deemed it "too intellectual" and tried to convince Garland to reshoot portions of it, thankfully to no avail.
If Annihilation's most base synopsis doesn't sound terribly unique - a group of scientists venture to investigate a mysterious alien anomaly - Garland's execution is anything but.
Without giving too much away, Annihilation is so much more than a thinly-veiled sci-fi slasher flick in which the group is picked off by a fleet of grotesque monsters - it's a totally unique vision of an extraterrestrial force and what impact it might have on the human flesh.
Fusing discomforting body horror with psychedelic otherwordliness, Annihilation is a skin-crawlingly offputting and yet compulisvely compelling horror film all at once; one which offers up one of the most beautiful and disarmingly unexpected third acts of any genre effort from the last decade.