We veer from the norm at iDigi, but a few members of the staff take the word unusual to another level when it comes to movies they prefer to watch while high. Some of your friends may be a little worried if you suggest one of these films for weed day festivities, but who cares? So if you aspire to be the least basic person ever on 4/20, we suggest you disregard our previous lists and watch these movies instead.
Pedicab Driver
Two men find trouble after one falls in love with a bun maker and the other with a woman he doesn't know is a prostitute.
A Field In England
A group of English Civil War soldiers in the 17th century are captured by an alchemist and led into a vast mushroom field, where they fall victim to violent and nightmarish forces.
The Bear
An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
Holy Mountain
The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The Holy Mountain is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth.
The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes, the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen. Moira Shearer is a rising star ballerina torn between an idealistic composer and a ruthless impresario intent on perfection.
Stalker
In an unnamed country at an unspecified time, there is a fiercely protected post-apocalyptic wasteland known as The Zone. An illegal guide, whose mutant child suggests unspeakable horrors within The Zone, leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the devastation in search of a mythical place known only as The Room. Anyone who enters The Room will supposedly have any of his earthly desires immediately fulfilled.
Watership Down
In this celebrated adaptation of Richard Adams's classic novel, an offshoot group of rabbits struggle to break from their failing, violent community to form a utopian society. With Watership Down, first-time director Martin Rosen and his team of animators created a dark, beautiful work that blends poetic mysticism and austere realism.
Fantastic Planet
Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux's animated marvel Fantastic Planet , a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags).
Naked Lunch
Peter Weller stars as a '50s writer struggling with drug addiction, writer's block and murderous guilt in David Cronenberg's film.
From Beyond
Scientists create a resonator to stimulate the pineal gland (sixth sense), and open up a door to a parallel (and hostile) universe. Based on a story by H. P. Lovecraft.
Donnie Darko
A delusional high school student is visited by a demonic rabbit with eerie visions of the past - and deadly predictions for the future.
Masque of Red Death
While the plague rages outside in the small Italian province, the Satan-worshipping prince stays confined to the sanctuary of his castle. The "Red Death" enters the dance and the guests succumb to the plague... one by one.
