Films and TV shows that feel like Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz
A detached, dreamlike pop-culture fever dream: the song is catchy and playful on top, but under it sit isolation, paranoia and being numbed by modern life.
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010): Comic-book, video-game stylization wraps a story of slacker alienation in a bright, ironic pop-culture shell.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004): A dreamlike, melancholy story about memory and loneliness, told with a playful surreal sense of fun.
- Heavy Metal (1981): Hallucinatory animated anthology with a dark, trippy, music-driven atmosphere.
- Rick and Morty (2013): Nihilistic, manic, surreal humor with dark existential dread under the fun.
- Mr. Robot (2015): A paranoid, isolated narrator wrestles with a numbing consumer world and his own splintering mind.
- Paprika (2006): Boundary-blurring dream imagery and a candy-colored but unsettling take on the unconscious and media overload.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998): Delirious, paranoid comedy of excess and disillusionment, with a laugh that tips into madness.
- Over the Garden Wall (2014): A strange, eerie, lonely dreamscape with a playful tone hiding creeping unease.
