Most disturbing movies you ever seen.

[Mike That Likes Music]

I'm going to have to agree with Kids, Bad Lt., and Requiem For A Dream. I think for me Requiem would win out in the end. More because of Ellen Burstyn's character than the Jared Leto/Jennifer Connoly/Marlon Wayans group. The electro-shock scenes are particularaly brutal. Does it say something about me that I own all of these movies?
Mike

[Smokey]

Does it say something about me that I own all of these movies?

Yes, you are a sick puppy

[zapr]

I saw Hostel. Pretty extreme gore for an American film. The Japanese films it draws on for inspiration are pretty brutal too; Audition, Ichii the Killer, etc...

Easily the most difficult-to-sit-through film I've ever seen was one by Gaspar Noe called Irreversible. The film opens with a low rumbling tone coming through the speakers that supposedly was supposed to be so low as to physically upset the audience's stomach. I've read that it didn't work because most theaters' sound systems were unable to replicate the frequency properly, but it's about the only attempt at shock in the film that isn't successful. The next 90 or so minutes include the most realistic killing I've ever seen on screen, pulsing strobe lights, extremely unsteady camera work, thumping club music, and the centerpiece, a twenty-minute unbroken-shot rape scene. At the time, Newseek called it "the most walked-out-of movie of the year."

Another one that leaps to mind is Funny Games by Austrian director Michael Haneke. Lots of painfully unbroken shots and sudden unexpected moments of depraved brutality in that one too. I just saw his new film Caché, and it seems like he's mellowed a bit, although that one has its disturbing moments as well.

My stomach always turns at the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan. I suppose war films have the potential to be the most disturbing of all. Especially WWII... has anyone seen Night & Fog? The warehouse full of hair in that film always sticks in my mind as a vividly distubing image.

-Coop

Good call on Irreversible! Hardest movie I ever sat through, right down to the strobe at the ending drilling the whole thing into your brain. Never get that out of my head......Zapr

[dph1965]

Corn Dog Man - a '99 Sundance film directed byAndrew Shea
Crash w/ James Spader & Holly Hunter

Gotta Agree w/ Kids & Requiem - How about Gummo?

[progfan]

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Cannibal Holocaust
Santa Sangre
Goodbye Uncle Tom

[jamison]

I remember Poltergueist got me and my friends pretty bad... it was back in my partying days ... my friends and i dropped acid and were smoking pot before the movie.. really gave us a heavy trip.
saw midnight express on acid at a friends house.... he had a simulated surround effect going and all the middle eastern singing just freaked us out...


im so glad i dont do that sht anymore way too old for it

polterguiest is campy compared to say SAW or SAW 2 ....those were just about gore

[nightflier]

Gore isn't necessarily scary, though. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Hellraiser series, expecially Hellraiser II although the non-gory depiction of hell is also disturbing. Barker is one sick dude. But I think suspense is more disturbing than gore. Here are some others than haven't been mentioned:

- Marathon Man (Dustin Hoffman getting drilled was pretty intense)
- Down came a Blackbird & Romero (Raul Julia as a torturer seeking redemption and as archbishop Romero - while you don't see anyone being tortured it's the mounting suspense and the screams in the prison that are hard to listen to).
- The Serpent and the Rainbow (the spiders crawling out of the hole in her cheek were pretty creepy)
- Dreamcatcher has some fun little gastro-intestinal scenes.
- Bravo Two Zero (Sean Bean interrogated by Iraqui security police, nuff said)
- Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (not very gory, but it's one of those overly violent British movies that keeps you disturbingly glued to the screen - the golf-ball scene is a bit worrying)
- Braveheart, Payback, The Passion... (Mel Gibson seems to have a fascination with torture).
- Pulp Fiction (the idea that a man would be living in a box in a basement and peridically pulled out to be raped and that this is the entirety of his life, is not gory or suspenseful, but sick nonetheless).
- The Cell (J-lo may not be an actress, but the imagery in this movie is pretty disturbing)
- National Lampoon's Van Wilder (if you've seen this movie, you know the scene I'm talking about - not gory or scary, but definitely disgusting).

But the most disturbing movie to me was Seven. The way that John Doe (Kevin Spacey) so calmly and methodically tortured a man tied to his own bed for months on end, keeping him barely alive, is positively disturbing. And to think that this could be happening right next door in any big city, is pretty revolting.

[noddin0ff]

Seven...that one still gives me chills.

[AVMASTER]

not so much as a distrubing film but a deleted scene from Gladiator;
it was a scene of a father, on his knees embracing a small boy, the child looks up at the camera just as a lion is about to get him then it cuts off. While this little segment doesn't show a child being mauled by a lion the very thought of it has me sick right now.

[wayner86]

Theres 3 movies that come to mind that left a scar on me.

1 & 2. House of a 1000 Corpses & its sequel The Devils Regects. (a seriously disturbed mind concocted this trash.) I got talked into watching the first one, and i had to get some closure by watching the sequel.

3. im not sure if this one applies but....Faces of Death. (the graphic nature of this documentry will haunt me forever. Avoid this film like the plague.)

[audiomadness]

1. "SuperSize Me" - My cholesterol has dropped significantly since I've seen that documentary.

2. Saving Private Ryan - Who could ever forget that carnage at Omaha beach.

3. Nightmare on Elm Street - Didn't get much sleep when I was kid when this came out.

4. Even as an adult I had trouble with this one......The Grudge.

[MomurdA]

Oldboy. Korean movie a couple of years old. The first half of the movie is just classic revenge tale, ala Count of Monte Cristo. Then some wierd !@#$ starts going on. Then the climax just makes you want to puke. Seriously. Not very gory or anything, but what happens to this guy is just so sad; truly if you see this movie you wont soon forget it. You should all watch it.

[nightflier]

This one just came to mind:

- Misery. The movie is pretty mundane for the most part until Annie (Kathy Bates), decides to hobble Paul Sheldon (James Caan) to keep him from running away. Reading about the histroy of this practice even makes me think twice about using the term "hobble" figuratively.

[Kam]

Oldboy. Korean movie a couple of years old. The first half of the movie is just classic revenge tale, ala Count of Monte Cristo. Then some wierd !@#$ starts going on. Then the climax just makes you want to puke. Seriously. Not very gory or anything, but what happens to this guy is just so sad; truly if you see this movie you wont soon forget it. You should all watch it.

good call!
i reviewed this a while ago, and wow does it ever stick with you! so disturbing. have you seen the rest of the vengeance trilogy? (sympathy for mr. vengeance and lady vengeance)

[MomurdA]

nope, havent seen those other two, though i have almost picked up sympathy a couple times at hollywood video. Will check it out asap.

[Buffalo Bill]

Requiem for a Dream (lots of folks agree on this one)
American History X (curb scene is hard to shake)
Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (saw it in a drive-in and wished I hadn't)
Alien (literally jumped when the critter snatched his face)
Trainspotting

[wsiler]

Without a doubt. Happiness (1998).
That movie was so disturbing and uncomfortable to watch.

[Geoffcin]

I nominate Tool's "Sober".

I remember sitting there with my jaw hanging open the first time I saw it.

[RoyY51]

Definitely "Alien". I know that it's been copied and parodied so much that by today's standards it is commonplace, but seeing the alien burst out of John Hurt's chest back in '79 really freaked me out. My wife-to be and I watched it in a small, darkened theater, and I'm pretty sure that she still has the imprints from the fingers of my right hand on her left knee.

[superpanavision70mm]

Disturbing Movies on some level:

FAT GIRL (unrated)
LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE
SCHINDLERS LIST
MAN BITES DOG
SALO
EYES WITHOUT A FACE
STRAW DOGS
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
THE EXORCIST
HEARTS AND MINDS (documentary)
NIGHT AND FOG (documentary)
TAXI DRIVER
THE DEER HUNTER
MIDNIGHT COWBOY
DELIVERANCE
WICKER MAN
DON'T LOOK NOW
MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH

[luvs2jam60]

Requiem - Definitely one of the top
"Can ya hear me, can ya see me? OK for work."

Memento - The whole movie is out of order, and there are some scenes which are a little weird.

Seven - The package at the end.....

Better Luck Tomorrow - For those of you who haven't seen this one, its about a group of asian highscool students (American film, tho) who, at the beginning of the movie, are trying desperately to get into colleges, and later on end up selling drugs and becoming alcoholics, with the occaisional decapitation thrown in there.

The Ninth Gate - Devilish movie, consisting of weird acting and Johhny Depp having sex with the devil.

And last, but not least, who could forget Pulp Fiction, when John Travolta blows the guy's head off. I don't care how immune people say they are to violence in movies, the first time you see that, its definitely a "What the #%*&" kinda scene.

[The Isolationist]

Deliverance
This movie has stuck in a lot of people minds and it still amazes me how many references you still see in everyday life from TV movies and everyday people. Every time I hear a banjo I think of this movie. You got a real pretty mouth boy

Event Horizon
This was a great pairing of suspense, horror and science fiction. It really weirds me out to this day and the sound track kicks hard on my system.

Gallipoli
Mel Gibsons early movie about war. The scenes of the men used as cannon fodder were very brutal.

Basket Case
I only mention this because I was pretty young when I saw this and it freaked me out! Some guy id born with a freakish miniature siamese twin attached to him, has it surgically removed when he is an adult and then carries it around in a basket from which he realeases it to do his evil bidding. NICE!

[DPM]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Exorcist III. Though not nearly as good a film as the original--it falls apart in the final third--it is far scarier. One scene in particular made me jump out of my seat, and, for many days afterward, I was looking over my shoulder. Anyone who's seen this movie knows which scene I'm talking about.

Also, I found Seven quite disturbing--particularly the scene with the woman who was done to death with the deadly dildo. Yikes!

The Ring was a good horror movie. The dead girl in the closet stayed in my head far too long.

[wannameasure?]

i have also seen i spit on you grave, another film to avoid like the plague, i believe it is from the late 70's or early 80's and its revolves around the repeated graphic rape and abuse resulting of a robbery gone wrong, sick stuff

[westcott]

No one mentioned Pulp Fiction