9. 24-Hour Psycho
1,440 minutes (25 miles of film)
Number 9 on our list of longest most meaningless movies in the world is 24-Hour Psycho. Artist Douglas Gordon took Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho and slowed it down so it runs exactly 24 hours. This is one of the more popular and accessible (relatively?) experimental films of this nature. Gordon showed it in 1993, and the film forms a major part of the plot of postmodern novelist Don DeLillo’s 2010 novella Point Omega, which is just 110 pages long — almost the same number of minutes as Psycho. Maybe someday, an artist will turn DeLillo’s book into a version of itself that’s 1,440 pages long instead. Then the snake will eat its own tale and a planet will crash into the Earth like in Lars von Trier’s 2008 film Melancholia. But really, let’s never find out.
Pixabay/Public Domain
