15 'WTF Did I Just Pay To See' Horror Movies

Lars von Trier has made some seriously strange movies throughout his career and in The House That Jack Built - which he has implied may well be the final film he directs - he went all out. 

This story of a deranged American serial killer (a fantastic Matt Dillon) is a memorably bonkers film in more ways than one. Not only is it one of the most explicit and gruesome horror films in recent memory, but it's also told in such an unconventional way.

The film depicts five specific murders in detail and in between those parts are these (very well-written) philosophical conversations between Jack and none other than the Roman poet Virgil (Bruno Ganz), in which Jack justifies his horrific crimes and explains his nihilistic worldview. These are heard in voiceover and played over surreal imagery, archive footage, animations, clips from other movies - hell, there's even a parody of the music video for Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues in there. 

Yeah, it's an exceptionally weird one all the way through, and it saves the biggest surprise for last. The final half hour of the film is an elaborate homage to Dante's Inferno which concludes with Jack literally falling into hell.

There really is nothing else like it, and while the film is indulgent and arguably a little too gruesome for its own good, it's a trip worth taking for those who can stomach its violence.