Most Startling Films Ever Made

A Field in England

This 17th-century story follows a bizarre witch doctor/alchemist and the people he kept hostage to search for buried treasure. One catch, he dosed his slaves with massive amounts of hallucinogenic mushrooms and forces them to work in the sun for long hours–creativity at its finest.

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The More You Know

  • Alchemists used brain matter as an ingredient for an elixir of eternal life.
  • For Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55 percent of the film’s budget.
  • The Lion King was originally known as King of the Jungle until someone at Disney finally remembered that lions don’t actually live in jungles.
  • Only three films have won “The Big Five” Oscars
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