The Most Disturbing Film You've Seen?

[retro72]

There's been many films that leave an effect after viewing so which ones have disturbed you the most?

A few of mine are:

Funny Games
Wolf Creek
Man Bites Dog

[scoundrel]

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This is a compelling and superbly acted film set in the midst of the horrible Bosnian war of 1991-1995, horrible even by the standards of warfare, and the film pulls no punches in representing the stark brutality of all sides in this disgusting conflict. Dennis Quaid was outstanding in his portrayal of 'Guy', a man driven mad and homicidal by the murder of his wife in an Islamic terrorist bombing who wages his own dreadful personal war against Muslims until, as the film unfolds, he starts to realise that his Bosnian Serb co-belligerents are every bit as criminal as the murderers of his wife, and that he himself is just as bad as either.

The awful turning point in the film is when Guy's Bosnian Serb comrade, a vile creature called Goran, very well played by Sergei Trifunivic, blames a Serb girl (Natasha Kinski) for having been raped and impregnated by the Muslim enemy, savagely beats her to induce premature labour, then, horrendously, takes up a firing position to execute her baby as it is being born. Quaid watches this incredible display with a deadly calm face, then, as the baby is being born, he turns Goran into mincemeat with a full clip of machinegun fire by way of expressing his opinion. By a most ghastly chain of events, he is now the baby's saviour and has also started to turn back into a human being just as the rest of the world has become hopelessly depraved.

The message of then film is utterly bleak, yet not entirely without hope. Nearly all the decent people die, but Guy's story is a strange one of redemption. At the end, he is heartbroken, contemplating the ruins of his own life which he himself has crashed beyond recall. Only death or life in prison without parole can lie ahead of him. But he has saved the baby, and the comfort of this is real.

Saviour is sad and savage and a first class war movie, emphasising the inhumanity of man against man. It shocked the hell out of me.

[Wendigo]

Hostel
A tribute to the director's skill of putting cheap shocks and OTT gore ahead of a decent story. It led the way for an avalanche of sick copycats.
To me it had not one single redeeming feature and no amount of money would persuade me to watch it again.

[retro72]

http://img149.imagevenue.com/loc256/th_66020_Savior_movie_122_256lo.jpg
This is a compelling and superbly acted film set in the midst of the horrible Bosnian war of 1991-1995, horrible even by the standards of warfare, and the film pulls no punches in representing the stark brutality of all sides in this disgusting conflict. Dennis Quaid was outstanding in his portrayal of 'Guy', a man driven mad and homicidal by the murder of his wife in an Islamic terrorist bombing who wages his own dreadful personal war against Muslims until, as the film unfolds, he starts to realise that his Bosnian Serb co-belligerents are every bit as criminal as the murderers of his wife, and that he himself is just as bad as either.

The awful turning point in the film is when Guy's Bosnian Serb comrade, a vile creature called Goran, very well played by Sergei Trifunivic, blames a Serb girl (Natasha Kinski) for having been raped and impregnated by the Muslim enemy, savagely beats her to induce premature labour, then, horrendously, takes up a firing position to execute her baby as it is being born. Quaid watches this incredible display with a deadly calm face, then, as the baby is being born, he turns Goran into mincemeat with a full clip of machinegun fire by way of expressing his opinion. By a most ghastly chain of events, he is now the baby's saviour and has also started to turn back into a human being just as the rest of the world has become hopelessly depraved.

The message of then film is utterly bleak, yet not entirely without hope. Nearly all the decent people die, but Guy's story is a strange one of redemption. At the end, he is heartbroken, contemplating the ruins of his own life which he himself has crashed beyond recall. Only death or life in prison without parole can lie ahead of him. But he has saved the baby, and the comfort of this is real.

Saviour is sad and savage and a first class war movie, emphasising the inhumanity of man against man. It shocked the hell out of me.

Great choice and one that I should have on my list. Great synopsis too and probably Quaid's finest film into the bargain.

[retro72]

Funny Games is on my list as it's a 'fly on the wall' exploration into violence in the anti hollywood style. Originally made in German the director (Michael Hanecke) remade the film shot for shot in 2007 though this time in English in a bid to attract a more receptive American Audience. There's no gore. Most of the violence is actually off screen but the portrayal of a family held hostage by two sociopaths and forced into psychological games of sadism and humiliation is intense. There's no happy ending although at one point the film "hints" at a reversal in fortune. Not a film you'd likely want to watch twice but very well done IMO.

[avidfan]

the girl next door (2007) without a doubt. im a huge film fan and im not shocked, scared or disturbed by any film ive seen before, id sit and watch them all day long-but this is the most sickening and disturbed film i have ever seen and im never gonna watch it again. it was very, very hard to watch but i did because i wanted to do a write-up for a website i use, i know a few people whove seen this film and they had the same opinion as me.
imdb link...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0830558/

[avidfan]

Funny Games is on my list as it's a 'fly on the wall' exploration into violence in the anti hollywood style. Originally made in German the director (Michael Hanecke) remade the film shot for shot in 2007 though this time in English in a bid to attract a more receptive American Audience. There's no gore. Most of the violence is actually off screen but the portrayal of a family held hostage by two sociopaths and forced into psychological games of sadism and humiliation is intense. There's no happy ending although at one point the film "hints" at a reversal in fortune. Not a film you'd likely want to watch twice but very well done IMO.

i think its a very good film.

[retro72]

i think its a very good film.

I'll have to get hold of a copy of The Girl Next Door. I did a course in film studies a few years ago and one of the most interesting modules was Extreme and shocking cinema. In my experience the most extreme films are those where you identify with the characters and the situations they are in as oppose to any gory 'slice and dice' flick. I read James Herbert's autobiography a while ago and his own slant was that 'true' horror is that which is affecting on a personal level. Ramble over.... :D

[FlyStrat]

Hostel
A tribute to the director's skill of putting cheap shocks and OTT gore ahead of a decent story. It led the way for an avalanche of sick copycats.
To me it had not one single redeeming feature and no amount of money would persuade me to watch it again.
I agree (the girls are great, by the way) but that movie is a step away from what I can stand.

[5310Camelot]

get serious! blood and guts is still just blood and guts. Change channels!
A few candidates:
"Seven Days in May"
"The Manchurian Candidate"
"The Boys from Brazil"
Respectfully,
Cam

[Redskull]

The Men behind the sun
Inside
Martyrs

[eelcat]

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When I first saw this years ago I was left muttering "wtf.......wtf...." afterwards.

[brianwp]

When you say disturbing, I tend to think of real life movies, not Hollywood schlock. Maybe as an American I'm more numbed to gore, but when I watch a movie, I know it's just a movie, and it's fake. But as for "real" disturbing, I would have to say the Faces of Death videos. I'm not particularly squeamish, I've been in embalming rooms, and college dissection rooms, but to see a real live human being die violently is something very different. The politician shooting himself in the mouth, and the Phillipine guy getting shot in the face, with his mouth still trying to speak. When I saw that video, it bothered me for weeks afterwards. Or the new video of that girl Neda getting shot and dying on camera in Iran. That's disturbing to me.

[elton dong]

Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

[dohupa]

Saw this in my teens; it was real provoking at the time and caused quite a stir back then.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

www.imdb.com/title/tt0099763/

[tabler]

I think the most disturbing film I have seen was the 1932 film Freaks, it was set in a circus (scary things anyway) and 'starred' real circus freaks.

[tmee2000]

Freaks is amazing. It's hard to believe what you're seeing.

[Estreeter]

I would have to say the Faces of Death videos. I'm not particularly squeamish
Have too agree with ya,
This was similar, Shocking Asia
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What was disturbing was that my mate was laughing at the scenes while I could barely look at the screen

[gmcbee]

Spoorloos, a foreign film based on Tim Krabbe's novel The Golden Egg.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096163/

It was remade as "The Vanishing" with Keifer Sutherland, Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges. Bridges was creepy in the remake, but the original film is a far superior one.

[thistorontoguy]

I avoid horror movies because I am not "entertained" by violent death. But depictions of violence do have a place in cinema if there is something to be learned from them. So I would say "The Pianist" was one of the most devastating films I've ever seen. While at moments sickeningly violent, it gave you a real glimpse into the madness of the Nazi machine, and why under no circumstances can such horror be allowed again. I walked out of that film just stunned and remained so for several days.

One other film about the consequences of Naziism that is similarly profoundly disturbing is the documentary "Night & Fog." I can't describe it - just see it. And after that experience the next time you meet some idiot claiming the Holocaust didn't happen you will feel completely at liberty to punch him in the mouth.

[alterego]

Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom

[gullygully]

Cannibal Holocaust
August Underground´s Mordum

[mr_tibbs]

Caligua

[avidfan]

Caligua

not a bad film if you can find a good enough cut of it.

[Drtyoleman]

Irreversible
I still get flashbacks from time to time.

[Bengadoce]

Pink Flamingos (1972) from John Waters.

[Wendigo]

Spoorloos, a foreign film based on Tim Krabbe's novel The Golden Egg.
It was remade as "The Vanishing" with Keifer Sutherland, Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges. Bridges was creepy in the remake, but the original film is a far superior one.

I agree with Spoorloos, it is a superb movie and quite disturbing with a wonderful downbeat ending; but The Vanishing was just an empty shell to me with none of the forboding of the original.

The Shocking Asia, Men Behind The Sun, Cannibal type movies I tend to steer clear of as they are just in your face gore with few, if any, redeeming features. I also hate any movie that includes actual cruelty to animals to get a few extra cheap thrills.

[rotobott]

Audition.

Don't ask,I don't want to think about it.

Audition had its share of audience walk-outs. When shown at the 2000 Rotterdam Film Festival, one enraged female viewer confronted Miike by shouting at him: "You're evil!"[2] During uncensored members-only shows at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin in 2001, some patrons collapsed in apparent shock. One audience member was rushed to the St. James's Hospital but later discharged himself.[3]

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[billybunter]

I had the misfortune to see a bit of Animal Farm. And I don't mean Orwell's fable.

[gmcbee]

I agree with Spoorloos, it is a superb movie and quite disturbing with a wonderful downbeat ending; but The Vanishing was just an empty shell to me with none of the forboding of the original...

Yep, I usually don't care for remakes or son of return of moviename II, III, IV, they often cut corners trying to capitalize on the success of an original.

I did get a kick out of both Alien and Aliens, though! That's it man, game over man, game over! I thought III, AVP and Resurrection were lousy.

Except for Winona. :p

[the waitress]

Some disturbing (but some important) movies
120 days of Sodom
Emmanuelle in America (the unrated scenes are absolutely hard stuff)
Viva la muerte (Arrabal)
Nekromantik 2
Guinea Pig Series

[retro72]

http://img149.imagevenue.com/loc256/th_66020_Savior_movie_122_256lo.jpg
This is a compelling and superbly acted film set in the midst of the horrible Bosnian war of 1991-1995, horrible even by the standards of warfare, and the film pulls no punches in representing the stark brutality of all sides in this disgusting conflict. Dennis Quaid was outstanding in his portrayal of 'Guy', a man driven mad and homicidal by the murder of his wife in an Islamic terrorist bombing who wages his own dreadful personal war against Muslims until, as the film unfolds, he starts to realise that his Bosnian Serb co-belligerents are every bit as criminal as the murderers of his wife, and that he himself is just as bad as either.

The awful turning point in the film is when Guy's Bosnian Serb comrade, a vile creature called Goran, very well played by Sergei Trifunivic, blames a Serb girl (Natasha Kinski) for having been raped and impregnated by the Muslim enemy, savagely beats her to induce premature labour, then, horrendously, takes up a firing position to execute her baby as it is being born. Quaid watches this incredible display with a deadly calm face, then, as the baby is being born, he turns Goran into mincemeat with a full clip of machinegun fire by way of expressing his opinion. By a most ghastly chain of events, he is now the baby's saviour and has also started to turn back into a human being just as the rest of the world has become hopelessly depraved.

The message of then film is utterly bleak, yet not entirely without hope. Nearly all the decent people die, but Guy's story is a strange one of redemption. At the end, he is heartbroken, contemplating the ruins of his own life which he himself has crashed beyond recall. Only death or life in prison without parole can lie ahead of him. But he has saved the baby, and the comfort of this is real.

Saviour is sad and savage and a first class war movie, emphasising the inhumanity of man against man. It shocked the hell out of me.

I actually watched this again last night and it is indeed a powerful and compelling film that fully displays the atrocity of war and the senseless hate that man can be capable of. A very good film and certainly in the top bracket where such material is displayed 'warts and all'.

Next on the list is 'Martyrs' which I haven't seen yet but have been reliably informed that it's an intelligent although utterly disturbing experience to watch. I must be a masochist...

[lightbearerfallen]

There are two movies that made my skin crawl: Defiance of Good (X) and Irreversible: The most disturbing movie ever made, hands down. The shocker at the climax of the opening segment made my jaw hit the floor. As for the rest I can watch the majority of the films listed over and over again. Personally, I prefer SCHRAMM to Henry, although the latter is a fun view.

[retro72]

Irreversible is one to watch. Disturbing most definitely but cinematically a work of brilliance as well. Certainly not mindless...

[tmee2000]

I would say The Shining. That and Downfall. There is one part of Downfall I just couldn't watch.
Getting back to Freaks for a moment, I saw that on the big screen many years ago at a retro/arthouse cinema that has sadly closed down. Taught me something about the lives that some people have to live. I wouldn't watch it again though. Once is definitely enough.

[Rfan]

There's been many films that leave an effect after viewing so which ones have disturbed you the most?

A few of mine are:

Funny Games
Wolf Creek
Man Bites Dog

Wolf Creek is based on a true story, and the most disturbing thing is at the end of the film you find out that the killer is still out there for real.

In The Mouth of Madness I found disturbing.

The first time I saw Alien, I was in a cinema with about six other people so effectively alone, I have to say I remember it to this day, I had to pry my fingers of the armrests at the end.

Cheers.

[elf4736]

Anything with Max Hardcore in it. What a ASSHOLE

[Shy Talk]

Un Chien Andalou

A Salvador Dali film. You really don't want to know.

[se7en]

I would say The Shining. That and Downfall. There is one part of Downfall I just couldn't watch.
Getting back to Freaks for a moment, I saw that on the big screen many years ago at a retro/arthouse cinema that has sadly closed down. Taught me something about the lives that some people have to live. I wouldn't watch it again though. Once is definitely enough.

great choice Tmee. The Shining is a good film, the way it was filmed revolutionised how films are made, it was the first to use such complex tracking shots. It also shows what happens when an artist takes a pulp horror and makes it their own. The books author hated it so much that he remade the film with all the cliche elements of the book put back in, it bombed and is simply not in the same league as Kubrick's which dealt a lot with writers block...great film.

The Freaks is a remarkable film. It simply could not be made today. Even though we are supposed to be supporting the disabled in today's pc culture it could not be countenanced. What makes it such a good, and disturbing film as two things. Firstly the stars are the disabled, this can be shocking to many people. This isn't make-up or effects, these people were disabled, severely in many cases. What makes it a great film is the humanity of the makers. The 'freaks' are the good guys here, they are people with feelings. It is the blond good looking woman who is the bady who gets her comeuppance. That is why it is so good, in my opinion. It challenges people about disability and 'goodness'. Don't get me wrong this is a cheap film, but the way it is filmed and the story that is sympathetic to the 'freaks' reflects something more than pure exploitation.

[retro72]

Un Chien Andalou

A Salvador Dali film. You really don't want to know.

Seen it. It's only about 10 minutes or so as I recall but I know the scene you refer to....not pleasant and one which I still have to look away from, quite apt considering it involves the eyes :eek:

[retro72]

great choice Tmee. The Shining is a good film, the way it was filmed revolutionised how films are made, it was the first to use such complex tracking shots. It also shows what happens when an artist takes a pulp horror and makes it their own. The books author hated it so much that he remade the film with all the cliche elements of the book put back in, it bombed and is simply not in the same league as Kubrick's which dealt a lot with writers block...great film.

The Freaks is a remarkable film. It simply could not be made today. Even though we are supposed to be supporting the disabled in today's pc culture it could not be countenanced. What makes it such a good, and disturbing film as two things. Firstly the stars are the disabled, this can be shocking to many people. This isn't make-up or effects, these people were disabled, severely in many cases. What makes it a great film is the humanity of the makers. The 'freaks' are the good guys here, they are people with feelings. It is the blond good looking woman who is the bady who gets her comeuppance. That is why it is so good, in my opinion. It challenges people about disability and 'goodness'. Don't get me wrong this is a cheap film, but the way it is filmed and the story that is sympathetic to the 'freaks' reflects something more than pure exploitation.

I must admit I don't find The shining all that disturbing in terms of an 'after effect'. It's actually one of my favourite films for the inspired direction, atmosphere and trademark Kubrick visuals. Freaks is definitely more of a 'shocker' but not in the conventional sense as you've described. :)

[sce]

8mm - most disturbing for content
8mm 2 - most disturbing for stupidity

[Sharkhunter]

I think the most disturbing film I have seen was the 1932 film Freaks, it was set in a circus (scary things anyway) and 'starred' real circus freaks.

Yep. The fact that they filmed real people makes it all the more bizarre. Films that stand out for me are Wolf Creek, Eraserhead (wacky David Lynch effort) and Hostel. The latter is disturbing more for the fact that the director has gone beyond the call of duty to create gore for the sake of gore: the only reason I watched this film is because Katka Henesova has a minor walk-on role.

Never again.

One film I have heard a lot about and don't intend to watch is Irreversible - mainly for the thought of the rape scene which leaves me cold. Perhaps less graphic but just as disturbing was The Accused - it's a film I struggled through the first time, and could never watch again.

[retro72]

Yep. The fact that they filmed real people makes it all the more bizarre. Films that stand out for me are Wolf Creek, Eraser (wacky David Lynch effort) and Hostel. The latter is disturbing more for the fact that the director has gone beyond the call of duty to create gore for the sake of gore: the only reason I watched this film is because Katka Henesova has a minor walk-on role.

Never again.

I take it you mean Eraserhead by Lynch? Arnie did eraser which was prob disturbing but in a different kinda way....:D

I love Eraserhead. Dark and unsettling but hypnotic as well.

[snorkie]

One other film about the consequences of Naziism that is similarly profoundly disturbing is the documentary "Night & Fog." I can't describe it - just see it. And after that experience the next time you meet some idiot claiming the Holocaust didn't happen you will feel completely at liberty to punch him in the mouth.

"Night and Fog" would be my choice. This French documentary is so horrific that I'm not embarrassed to admit that I got to a point where I just couldn't watch the screen anymore. A very powerful film.

For a different take on the subject: Scorsese's re-make of "Cape Fear" made me want to go home and take a hot shower - scrubbing down with steel wool!

[Sharkhunter]

I take it you mean Eraserhead by Lynch? Arnie did eraser which was prob disturbing but in a different kinda way....:D

I love Eraserhead. Dark and unsettling but hypnotic as well.

Lol. I corrected my post probably as you were writing yours... Yep, I know the Arnie effort was disturbing in a difference sense but Eraserhead is indeed what I meant... :)

[retro72]

Lol. I corrected my post probably as you were writing yours... Yep, I know the Arnie effort was disturbing in a difference sense but Eraserhead is indeed what I meant... :)

It would be quite funny if Arnie's head was erased in a film.... :D

[MaxJoker]

Think the main ones have already been rightly mentioned , the top of those being

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Hell even

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Which since i don`t want to merely re-hash others comments leaves me with only one other film available , that being

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Which is not only disturbingly filmed , but contains without doubt one of the most brutal and realistic (As one could imagine ) violent rape scenes ever , a scene then eclipsed in brutally by the climatic result of blind revenge

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Well that completes the most disturbing i reckon so what next ?, unless of course we include Hannibal (That brain cooking for one scene ain`t too pretty ) .Or start to include disturbingly bad films (Only that`d be a thread duplication ) :eek:

[Estreeter]

Think the main ones have already been rightly mentioned , the top of those being

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If this is the "Freaks" I saw years ago filmed in black and white, and I remember some armless dude lighting a cigarette with his feet, I didn't think it was disturbing at all. In fact I remember renting it and it was in the comedy section of the video store. I thought it was so damn funny we copied it:D

[MaxJoker]

If this is the "Freaks" I saw years ago filmed in black and white, and I remember some armless dude lighting a cigarette with his feet, I didn't think it was disturbing at all. In fact I remember renting it and it was in the comedy section of the video store. I thought it was so damn funny we copied it:D


You should have tried watching it at age eleven ,late at night and while trying to eat a ham and mustard roll . That`s how i saw it , late at night on telly and all alone :eek:

[Estreeter]

You should have tried watching it at age eleven ,late at night and while trying to eat a ham and mustard roll . That`s how i saw it , late at night on telly and all alone :eek:
I think I saw it in about '81, which would have made me 13, come to think of it, It still might be buried deep in a cardboard box at my parents house, next time I'm there guess what I'm searching for:D:D:D:D:D
http://img177.imagevenue.com/loc516/th_19296_freaks2_123_516lo.jpg
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[tabler]

mv, I was about 25 when I first saw it I 'freaked' out (sorry)
Seriously I cant believe that you didnt find this disturbing, you must be made of sterner stuff in Oz, I couldnt watch it again.

[Estreeter]

mv, I was about 25 when I first saw it I 'freaked' out (sorry)
Seriously I cant believe that you didnt find this disturbing, you must be made of sterner stuff in Oz, I couldnt watch it again.
I might "Freak Out" now:eek:, but I was a young teenager at the time, anything was funny then:D hell, watching my mates getting belted by their parents was funny, we all loved it:):D:):D:)

[Cap'n Zippy]

Cigarette Burns, from the lamented Masters of Horror series. I have a high tolerance for blood and gore, but this one really got under my skin. Even Takashi Miike's infamous Imprint, also from this series, didn't disturb me as much.

Honestly, I haven't seen Hostel. I have no desire to, I just don't get off on torture porn like some do.

And I have to add my vote to Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door. I've got another telling of the same story, An American Crime, queued up on Netflix, but I doubt it will be as wrenching as the first film.

[Estreeter]

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For reasons better kept too myself

[snorkie]

I'm not sure how it could be done, but can you guys give the reason why these films are disturbing?

If you are wondering about "Night and Fog" I'll just say that it consist of actual documentary film shot by the Nazis in concentration camps across Germany and Poland. An accurate description of the horrors shown this film goes well beyond what I think is proper for this forum. It is a short film that seems to go on forever.

[ms45]

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For reasons better kept too myself

I was going to say that this is the most disturbing film ever made for it's terrifyingly wrong portrait of a real family. The mother was a monster and tortured and dominated her children in ways that would disturb a Nazi prison camp commandant. She took twisted to a whole new level and gets played as some angelic figure. Sadly her husband, who comes off very badly in the film, was a decent sort.
To me the false portrayal of families which Hollywood promotes does serious harm to people, more than any violent or "horror" film" because people believe it and are devastated when their own families are not like this. You can't get more evil and disturbing than intentionally harming your audience.

[doyle]

"Shivers" (1975), David Cronenberg's horror film. I saw this thing in London shortly after it came out. "A mutated virus drives its victims wild with sexual passion!" or something to that effect, said the ads.
Oh yeah! I was rubbing my palms together (that's not a euphemism!) in anticipation. God, what a sickening gore fest...
It probably wouldn't look like much today, but I was in an open, uh, receptive frame of mind, and this damn thing turned my stomach...

[Kodojak]

Salo
Gummo

[imtrying]

The movie is "Breakout" with Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Robert Duvall. There's a scene where Bronson and Randy Quaid (disguised as a woman) try to get into the prison. Quaid's disguise is discovered and the Mexican prison guards kick the living crap out of him. Seeing this as a ten-year old was very disturbing. Another one around the same time was "Busting" with Elliot Gould and Robert Blake as L.A. plainclothes cops. There's a scene where Gould gets the shit beat out of him, stumbles down to the car where his partner (Blake) is waiting and discovers that his partner has gotten the same treatment. Pretty rough stuff for a ten-year old.

[Mr Lucas]

So, with a spoiler alert, can someone give a brief description of Irreversible?

[jayduba]

Audition and Irreversible are pretty sick. But when I was a kid, The Legend of Hell House scared the crap out of me . It's a bit boring now that I'm old and jaded.

[Estreeter]

Just the fact I didn't throw up disturbed me
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Just to make matters worse, can't stand a lot of these feel good film's
No reality in them, that's disturbing

[Mal Hombre]

:DThe original Texas Chainsaw Massacre,not so much for the violence,but the overall sense of unease,"wrongness".Mind you the scene in which the Grandfather (actually a teenager in heavy make-up)tries to kill the Heroine with a hammer is pretty intense

[mrhankey]

Interesting thread....By far the most visually disturbing movie is Irreversible for the aforementioned scenes of rape and blind revenge..

One movie not mentioned on this list that I found disturbing was Kidz. The idea of underage street kids taking advantage of innocence with the added mix of AIDs had me on edge the whole movie....see it and you won't forget it

[Satiros]

I would have to say Begotten. Maybe not so much a film in the traditional sense as it is an assault on your senses. This movie freaked me out big time. Just read the 'plot' line:

God disembowels himself with a straight razor. The spirit-like Mother Earth emerges, venturing into a bleak, barren landscape. Twitching and cowering, the Son Of Earth is set upon by faceless cannibals.

[haldane4]

I think it would have to be Black Sun - The Nanjing Massacre.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

[wockawocka1970]

Here are a couple I didn't see mentioned:

The Sentinel -- made in the 1970's. Very creepy and surreal - starring Cristina Raines and Chris Sarandon. The ending, with its various real-life freaks pursuing a woman down a hallway, is amazing.

Men Behind the Sun -- was in your face and shlocky with the special effects, but depicted actual events from the rape of Nanking as well as the inhuman, unbelievable experiments conducted in Unit 731 on various civilians and POWs (Americans included) by Japan during WWII.

Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte -- the scene where Bruce Dern bites the dust. Very gruesome dismemberment scene for what was at the time a high-end Hollywood film.

The Girl in a Swing -- nothing graphic at all here, but if you have kids, you will find it very disturbing.

[gwminge]

The Love Bug. About a car with a mind of its own.....

[MaxJoker]

So, with a spoiler alert, can someone give a brief description of Irreversible?


Well the box itself is sort of oblong shaped and quite thin ,with a miniature poster attached to it via a plastic covering if that`s any help ?.As for the film ,well this being the Internet you obviously can`t find another method of discovery so i`ll give you the run down :rolleyes:

" Plot "

Mr Clydesdale the optician buys a waterproof jacket from down town Millets on the mistaken understanding that he can turn it inside out and so wear it with two different pairs of slacks , the gist of the story is about him attempting to get a refund once he realizes he can`t

"Spoiler Alert "

After an hour and a half of shop re-visits, letter writing and being offered only a voucher of equivalent value he decides to keep the jacket . Only the final scene has him fingering the fabric and logging onto ebay , so there might be a sequel in the offing ?

Cool :D

[kananga]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Helena

I'm fairly certain it's not the most disturbing film I've ever seen, but it suddenly sprung to mind.
Maybe it's on my list of 'things to do'?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgsUUFYLSoQ&feature=related

Probably more disturbing if your a woman.

[scoundrel]

I thought Irreversible was a documentary about the early years of Reliant Limited, manufacturers of this:
http://img197.imagevenue.com/loc764/th_89054_Reliant_Regal_Mark_1_122_764lo.jpg

The Reliant Regal Mark1 originally offered to the public in 1951. The car had a 598 BMC engine making 14bhp and could manage 50mph on a level surface, provided you didn't burden it with the optional extra of a spare wheel. You could disable the reverse gear and then you were allowed to drive it with a Class A motorcycle licence.

Come on: what could be more traumatic than watching this?

[LustyJanusz]

"Batma & Robin" with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr Freeze. I still refuse to believe Arnold was willing to star in this movie.

[Mal Hombre]

:DHe did it because it made him look good by comparison

[Futuro]

"Idi i Smotri" / "Come and See" i.e. by Elem Klimov. I saw it over twenty years ago, don`t bother to see it again, too shocking for me. It happens in Belarus 1943.

Speaking of how the film drew on his own childhood experience of the war, Klimov said, "As a young boy, I had been in hell... Had I included everything I knew and shown the whole truth, even I could not have watched it."

It`s not a war-film or action-film, it just shows what happened then. People felt very sick when watching this at cinema, I understand why.
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[scoundrel]

Come and See sounds like an experience rather than a film in the ordinary sense: I'm not certain I could face it, knowing what it shows and knowing that these are truthful depictions of atrocities bad almost beyond the power of words to tell.

[Joszka]

- "Salo", by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
- "Un chien andalou" ("an Andalusian Dog"), by Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali.
- "Eraserhead", by David Lynch.
- "Irreversible", by Gaspar Noé.
- "Straw Dogs", by Sam Peckinpah.
- "Pixote, the law of the Weakest", by Hector Babenco.

Different "shocks" at different moments of my life..

[John C. Holmes]

Bloodsucking Freaks - Troma
Jacob's Ladder - Tim Robbins's best and freakiest
Unspeakable - Troma

[Berferd]

Kids--for me, hands down and for so many different reasons...

[nopar king]

Most disturbing scene in a film. Cabaret, the scene in the village where the Hitler Youth boy sings "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" & the whole village ends up singing with him.

[Giacson]

The most disturbing that comes to mind first, "The Deer Hunter". The scene with Christopher Walken offing himself left me bothered for days.

After pleading with her twice to stay a little longer, a date litterally dragged me from the theater during the middle of "Apocolypse Now". The spear through the chest on the way up river was her limit. She would have loved the slaughtered buffalo. I thought that was a bit brutal as well.

"Grease" or any movie involving dance fighting... it just makes my skin crawl

[Romulis]

Thought I'd put my two cents worth in, I found the movie 'Alone With Her' very disturbing as a delve into the mind of a deranged stalker and the lengths he will go to to quench his obvious psycho tendencies.

Quite chilling in the fact that it really can and does happen!

[scoundrel]

In Jurassic Park, Sam Neill's scientist character gives an early description of the appearence and the feeding habits of the velociraptor, laying emphasis on the fact that it ate its prey when they weren't dead yet. Later, Richard Attenborough blithely explains that he has been obliged to feed his velociraptors on live cattle because they won't eat dead meat/carrion. Then we get to see a living cow being winched into the velociraptors' pen. It disappears from view, and within a few seconds there is a series of really loud bovines cries of pain...

A classic case of horror working best when you leave it to the imagination. Discovering that something else is higher on the food chain than you are is a common human fear. But just to give a rough idea of what you're imagining:

http://img137.imagevenue.com/loc1177/th_08632_velociraptor_122_1177lo.jpg

[madal]

i spit on your grave was one of the most disturbing movies i ever saw

[Satiros]

sorry to be so pedantic scoundrel, but I believe the scene you've quoted was involving tyrannosaurus rex.


No, that's def the scene involving the Raptor pen. It's a classic.



I had a huge panic attack the first time I saw Cronenberg's Crash as a 17 year old. It has since become my fav movie (and novel), and it still has a profound (although less frightening) effect on me.

[edward126]

There are many films that have made a lasting impression on me, notably for the sheer acting prowess of certain individuals and the direction givern to these actors. The more extreme the film the better:-

Robert De Niro as paranoid manic Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver. Released 33 yrs ago it still grips me like a vice as you view Travis's obsessive observation of the corrupt, seedy and reputenent world around him and the extreme solutions to this enviroment that manifest within him.

In 1983 i was 18yrs old and working with the National Trust as an estate worker at Pangbourne House just outside of Reading, England. In this year i legally saw my first 18 cert film, it was Scarface. One scene from this film affected my work no end. As an estate worker one of my duties was as a chainsaw operator and it became very difficult to cut into trees and branches and my mind not to wander for a number of weeks after seeing this film. Sometimes i would hear screams and at times the sap became blood as i attacked the wood. Very weird and strange time.

The most extreme film as a cinermatic experience though has to be the Hungarian film Taxidermia. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410730/.
"Gyorgy Palfi's grotesque tale of three generations of men, including an obese speed eater, an embalmer of gigantic cats, and a man who shoots fire out of his penis" Unbelievably brillant with the final scenes of actor Marc Bischoff, the actual taxidermist a masterpeice of direction and special effects. It's very gross, very sick and surreal but highly entertaining.

I would like to end my long ramble with what i view though as the most extreme, nausiating, vile, disturbing, sick, cruel etc films on the planet which are any that has Kevin Costner in it. As Chris Griffen said after veiwing The Postman "How does he still get work"

[Joszka]

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By Claire Denis (France, 2001) with Beatrice Dalle & Vincent Gallo.
Deeply disturbing (and sometimes horrific) story of love and cannibalism.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204700/

And great sountracks by the Tindersticks :

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_fKlrzj6O4

[TCO95]

Scarecrow :
Starring Al Pacino and Gene Hackman. It was released in the early 70's. About two down on their luck guys traveling across the country together and they wind up in a prison.

This movie had two fight scenes I found hard to watch because they were so real. Al Pacino is brutally beaten and raped, his pleading not to be raped and the pleasure his attacker gets from it are chilling. When Hackman finds out who did it he really does a number on him. The sounds of the punches and the realistic portrayal of the cuts, blood, sore hands and the fighters heavy breathing was a real cut above.

[The Black Baron]

"Pink Flamingos" was pretty disturbing.

And although they're practically mainstream horror today, the "Saw" series is disturbing, as in "What the heck is wrong with the mind that came up with this idea?"

Of course, it's all a matter of taste.

[gmcbee]

The Passion of The Christ was pretty brutal.
I'm watching Excellent Cadavers now, looks like it'll measure up.

[gmcbee]

http://img177.imagevenue.com/loc516/th_19296_freaks2_123_516lo.jpg


Is this from Freaks? (Click it, it's animated!)
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[ernstdante]

I thought the final scene in "Don't Look Now" with the knife-wielding midget was pretty disturbing. "In the Realm of the Senses" final scene made me wince. The original "Willie Wonka" disturbed me as a kid. "In a Glass Cage", "Salo", "Irreversible", the "Man Behind the Sun" and "Guinea Pig" series, "Freaks", "Deranged", "Pink Flamingos", "Man Bites Dog" "Funny Games" (the original) are all disturbing films.

[Attila The Hun]

The Most Disturbing Film You've Seen?

'Spice World'.

[Hard Charger]

A Polish film, Eng. title is "Saviour Square". A brilliant film, but as soon as it was over, my reaction to it was to immediately wash my face and hands. Fast as I could, I've never had that sort of reaction to anything.

[gmcbee]

After I saw Silence of the Lambs in the theater on opening weekend, I went home and turned on all the lights and checked every room and the basement before I went to bed.

Only time I've ever done that after a movie.

[Berferd]

Saw this in my teens; it was real provoking at the time and caused quite a stir back then.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

www.imdb.com/title/tt0099763/
Henry: Portrait... That movie was chilling, and so distrubing in the same way that Ray Finnes' portayal of Amon Goeth in Schindler's List was disturbing. That there could actually be people like that in real life is a frightening concept.

[gmcbee]

Henry: Portrait... That there could actually be people like that in real life is a frightening concept.

An associate of Henry Lee Lucas's, Ottis Toole, is believed to be the one who killed Adam Walsh, the son of John Walsh, creator of the America's Most Wanted tv series:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28257294/

[themidlander]

Eraserhead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraserhead

It's the constant crying of the "baby" that I find disturbing

[Fan]

Scenes from films that I saw in my early teens seemed to have an effect on me: I recall vividly the shot of the dismembered bloodied leg sinking in Jaws, and also the filling-up bloodied goggles of a pilot in Battle of Britain. Maybe it was just because I wasn't expecting it.:confused:

[avidfan]

An associate of Henry Lee Lucas's, Ottis Toole, is believed to be the one who killed Adam Walsh, the son of John Walsh, creator of the America's Most Wanted tv series:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28257294/

henry, portrait of a serial killer strays from the truth a bit.
henry lee lucas and ottis toole were serial killer partners, they met each other in a bar and went on the road together. when they met they were already serial killers in their own right-whats the chance of 2 sk's meeting each other in a bar?? anyway, henry lee lucas claimed he had killed hundreds of people-but the police had fed him details about cases to get the cases cleared up, no-one really knows how many henry really killed. ottis toole was almost as bad as henry somethings he did were worse... he ate parts of some victims and even molested corpses after killing them.

[hattertim]

Good question, tricky one to answer.

Think I'll have to go for two films which still creep me out years after seeing them. First of all is the original version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre from 1974. I think that it's 'cause it was shot in an almost documentary style, and I saw it when I was about 16, so that combination had a major impact on my young mind. I've got it on DVD (one of the many releases it's had!), but it's been awhile since I've seen it, but my memories of it are still strong from my original viewing of it.

The second film is a bit more recent, dating from 2002. It's Cabin Fever, once again shot in a faux documentary style, and extremely nihilistic, harking back to the films of the 1970's. It's message? Probably along the lines of no-one gets out alive, so disturbing in a different way to TCM, but just as powerful. This was a movie I again have on DVD, but once again, I've not seen it for awhile, but it's impact on first viewing still lives with me to this day.

I could have listed a few films that were disturbing in that I couldn't believe how bad they were, but I don't think that was the point of the original question. Anyways, there's already a thread for bad movies!

[cujo55]

Heavy Metal, I know its a cartoon but seeing that movie when you were a kid...that flying fortress scene where the crew turns into zombies, I still have nightmares about that

[hotgossamer]

Last House on the Left (original) - the scene where the killers tell the hostage girl 'piss your pants' is a very nasty bit of humilation.

[johnsmith69]

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory!!!

2 Reasons,

1) Umpa-lumpas?!?

2) That FREAKY boat-trip W...T...F...!!!!!!!!!

[RyderKnightley]

Don't know about disturbing, but certainly strange. It stars Charlotte Rampling and Anthony Hopkins as a married couple, whose marriage is under threat by another male, a chimpanzee who Charlotte aquires from the zoo.

[Joszka]

The last scene of "La dernière femme" (aka The Last Woman, aka L'Ultima Donna. Marco Ferreri, 1979),
when the hero (G. Depardieu) is mutilating himself.
In other words, cutting his own d*ck with an electric knife. Brrrrrrrrr..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075364/

http://i30.*******.com/2dka59t.jpg

[bl0wfish]

Mine would be the animated movie "Plague Dogs". "Donny Darko" didn't sit with me either. Im ok with blood and guts. Just something about movies that end in despair.

[biggold80]

In my opinion The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...

[RyderKnightley]

Can't say I'm easily disturbed, so again another strange one. This is the English title of a weird Austrian movie. The plot centres on a woman who believes that the planet is being overrun by aliens who inhabit human bodies. This is no Sci-Fi movie, but I mad psychological thiller(?). I remember two scenes in the movie, one where a guy was sunbathing on the roof of an apartment block wanking himself and another where the woman was washing her hair in the stream of a guy's pee, all shown in graphic detail. Not so strange you may say, you'll find that sort of stuff elsewhere on this forum. What made this strange was that it was in a mainstream-ish movie that I watched on Channel 4 during the time when they did the red triangle movies. Not a movie I would watch again, it was just too weird.

[SUPERsmitty]

As a devout and pious Christian the Passion of the Christ is the Most Disturbing Film I have ever seen....or maybe the new GI Joe Movie.....

[silentope]

When I was young it was Pet Cemetery and Night of the living Dead. Now I would have to say Jackass, more to the point of the movie were Steve-o drinks the horse sperm.

[bkrantz]

The documentary "HATED-The GG Allin Story" is beyond sick and twisted. That guy wins the award for MOST SELF-DESTRUCTIVE HUMAN BEING. There is a scene where he is making a spoken-word performance and carving his torso to ribbons with a torn-in-half beer can. Makes my skin crawl.....

[Xxphd]

I hated the extreme violence in Rambo (2008) Oh Boy, was it gory. I skipped most of the DVD until the melodramatic end.
Still a good rating at imdb.. beats me.. :rolleyes:

oh no:

Rambo V (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1206885/) (2011) (in production (http://pro.imdb.com/r/legacy-inprod-name/inproduction/)) (rumored) .... John Rambo (http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0005265/)i'm afraid we can expect another stinker from Sly
(unless a miracle happens)

:eek:

[Berferd]

When I was exposed to Alien back in the late 70s, early 80's Ridley Scott's direction and HR Giger's artwork gave me nightmares and mostly in that it all was done so well--the artwork wasn't like anything I'd ever seen like it and copied so often afterwards. If the goal of artwork is to 'have an effect on the patron', then wow did that ever.:eek:

[wichsvor]

I found Blair Witch Project truly frightening although a lot of my friends weren't moved at all.

Also that scene in the Hannibal Lecter series where he dopes the guy, fries up and feeds him his own brains.

Brrrr...

[Office Boy]

I go back to 1975 when I was dragged into a cinema with a friend to see the exorcist with linda blair-ironically one of my favourite actresses. He wanted to leave half way through it but he stayed because I wouldn't go. As she was taken over by the demon and her face deteriorated into something completely hideous, I found that very disturbing. I was 17/18 at the time, and I loved my older horror films. But this was the first time in my life I was really scared by something onscreen that looked so real.

After seeing that, I would sleep on a night and soon after I closed my eyes, I'd see her face. I bottled it and never told anyone. I can handle it now but I still can't watch the film. Yet I have sat through plenty of gore movies and stuff with no after effects. By coincidence a couple of months back, I bought a book off amazon. There was no cover photo of it so I had no idea what it was like. Its called, '101 horror movies you must see before you die.' Of course, guess who's on the cover? It makes me fancy jo brand/janet street porter and cherie blair instead!

I remember watching eraserhead on vhs. And tod brownings freaks was brilliant. But one apparently disturbing film I've yet to see surface, is the 1932 original Island of lost souls, with charles laughton. I think the film was banned/is still banned? But there are a couple of scenes that were so evil it had problems with the censors.

[kananga]

I'm going to go with Michael Moores post 9/11 documentary.
Sure it may contain an element of bias, what journalist is truely objective?
If only a fraction of what Moore states is true then it's still shocking.
I'll never forget the footage of Bush in the primary school when he was informed of the attacks on the world trade centre.

No offence my American friends, but aren't you happy he's gone?
I'm sure glad we lost Howard!
Bush and Howard, what a pair.. aye?

[Clouddancer]

I have just seen a film called Nanking Nanking a depiction of the Japanese army's occupation of Nanking.
It is truly horrible & extremely hard to watch, all the more horrific because it didn't even come close to most of the atrocities that were carried out in real life.

[puka80]

Nekromantik

[gmcbee]

Wow. I've just watched a film called The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas.
IMDB has it listed at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/
If you're in the U.S. it may be "pajamas" instead of "pyjamas."

I wasn't sure whether I should put it in the "War films" thread or the "Disturbing"
thread, but here we are.

One of the best films I've seen, ranks with The Pianist, Schindler's List and The Counterfeiters.

The acting is spot on in all cases, and the two child actors are nothing less than phenomenal.

I'm still a bit stunned.

If you go to IMDB to research the movie, watch out for spoilers.

[Mr Lucas]

Well the box itself is sort of oblong shaped and quite thin ,with a miniature poster attached to it via a plastic covering if that`s any help ?.As for the film ,well this being the Internet you obviously can`t find another method of discovery so i`ll give you the run down :rolleyes:

" Plot "

Mr Clydesdale the optician buys a waterproof jacket from down town Millets on the mistaken understanding that he can turn it inside out and so wear it with two different pairs of slacks , the gist of the story is about him attempting to get a refund once he realizes he can`t

"Spoiler Alert "

After an hour and a half of shop re-visits, letter writing and being offered only a voucher of equivalent value he decides to keep the jacket . Only the final scene has him fingering the fabric and logging onto ebay , so there might be a sequel in the offing ?

Cool :D

Well, yeah I could find another method of discovery but this being a thread about disturbing films and why they're found so disturbing I didn't think it was that much to ask about the gist of the film from someone who might care to share why they were affected by it. However I appreciate you're taking the time to write the last couple of paragraphs. Very enlightening and worth every second.

[Bynx]

Without a doubt the most disturbing film I ever saw was a Dutch film called The Vanishing. It really creeped me out about being buried alive. There was an American remake with Kiefer Sutherland and Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock. But it wasnt nearly as creepy as the original.

[jeremyjkg]

i was pretty upset by 'no country for old men'. that nutcase kills everyone in the film stone dead, even the women. actually, i thought the killing of the hero's wife (i think...) was the worst moment of all. she was so innocent.

that made me think of other films i've seen recently that kill innocent women for no reason.

like 'inglorious basterds' (maybe i've spelt that wrong?). that film was really stupid and brad pitt was a complete twat. but it also brutally killed the two women in the film: the heroine, and the actress. the actress was really brutally strangled. it seemed particularly cruel to me. but i hate tarrantino, he's an idiot (no offence).

also, sam raimi's 'drag me to hell'...has anyone seen that film? again, an innocent (more or less) young woman gets punished way beyond the little mistake she made. and dragged down to hell at the end!!! what a lousy film, it didn't even give her a chance.

anyway, you can see that i hate films that brutalise their women just for the sake of it. that's a real cowardly way of making a film imo.

[Aubrey]

There's lots of films I wouldn't want to see - the Saw and Hostel type, mainly - because I tend to get caught up in stuff even when I know its not real. But I hate it when animals get killed or hurt, because you can never be sure that it is faked. (Also, for artistic reasons. Killing animals is an easy way of ratcheting up the pressure/tension/tears etc, without (in the film) any real consequences.)

[AlBundy]

Brady Bunch reunion special

[Estreeter]

Brady Bunch reunion special

That was a film?:confused::confused::confused:
I thought it was a documentary on an experiment that went horribly wrong:D

[AlanF]

Apocalypse Now was very disturbing for me. I sat and absorbed it totally and at the end when they butcher that poor animal made me feel sick.
I can now watch the film up till the last 10 minutes, and when the execution of Col Kurtz and the buffalo come up, I switch over

[Devius]

The following movies I've only ever seen once, then vowed "never again"...

The New York Ripper
I've mentioned this flick a few times in other threads. Of all the video nasties I've ever seen back in the day (thank you, Psychotronic in Camden Town), this is THE nastiest imo.

Ichi the Killer
According to Wikipedia, vomit bags were handed out at the Toronto International Film Festival (as a publicity gimmick) to those attending the midnight screening of this film. I can well believe it.

Then comes the movies I just watched in stunned silence and thought "BLOODY HELL!!"

Henry: Potrait Of A Serial Killer
Eraserhead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original - accept NO imitations)
Children of Men (a brillant film, but it always creeps me out - imo, given the right (wrong) circumstances, one could see a future UK similar to the movie)

[retro72]

The following movies I've only ever seen once, then vowed "never again"...

The New York Ripper
I've mentioned this flick a few times in other threads. Of all the video nasties I've ever seen back in the day (thank you, Psychotronic in Camden Town), this is THE nastiest imo.

Ichi the Killer
According to Wikipedia, vomit bags were handed out at the Toronto International Film Festival (as a publicity gimmick) to those attending the midnight screening of this film. I can well believe it.

Then comes the movies I just watched in stunned silence and thought "BLOODY HELL!!"

Henry: Potrait Of A Serial Killer
Eraserhead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original - accept NO imitations)
Children of Men (a brillant film, but it always creeps me out - imo, given the right (wrong) circumstances, one could see a future UK similar to the movie)

I must admit I don't find Eraserhead all that disturbing anymore, it's more of an experience as oppose to a film, very surreal....

The others you mention are undoubtedly intense in their own different ways. The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the only one worth watching due to what it doesn't show and the nightmarish imagery that is much more disturbing than the standard 'gore' flick....

[danton]

The Shining. Very effective.

[wockawocka1970]

i was pretty upset by 'no country for old men'. that nutcase kills everyone in the film stone dead, even the women. actually, i thought the killing of the hero's wife (i think...) was the worst moment of all. she was so innocent.

that made me think of other films i've seen recently that kill innocent women for no reason.

like 'inglorious basterds' (maybe i've spelt that wrong?). that film was really stupid and brad pitt was a complete twat. but it also brutally killed the two women in the film: the heroine, and the actress. the actress was really brutally strangled. it seemed particularly cruel to me. but i hate tarrantino, he's an idiot (no offence).

also, sam raimi's 'drag me to hell'...has anyone seen that film? again, an innocent (more or less) young woman gets punished way beyond the little mistake she made. and dragged down to hell at the end!!! what a lousy film, it didn't even give her a chance.

anyway, you can see that i hate films that brutalise their women just for the sake of it. that's a real cowardly way of making a film imo.

Dude, you gave away the endings of like three different movies in your post. Not cool.

[scoundrel]

Dude, you gave away the endings of like three different movies in your post. Not cool.Not as bad as the heinous act of an unknown vandal in 1995 who defaced this poster:

http://img224.imagevenue.com/loc989/th_48088_The_Usual_Suspects_122_989lo.jpg

The offendor, for whom no taboo slang term of approbrium is strong enough, spray painted an arrow and the words Kaiser Sozay.:mad:

I hope I havent spoiled it for anybody...:o

[danton]

Not as bad as the heinous act of an unknown vandal in 1995 who defaced this poster:

http://img224.imagevenue.com/loc989/th_48088_The_Usual_Suspects_122_989lo.jpg

The offendor, for whom no taboo slang term of approbrium is strong enough, spray painted an arrow and the words Kaiser Sozay.:mad:

I hope I havent spoiled it for anybody...:o

Was the culprit ever seen again ...?

[aphex1973]

Hm... I would have to add Reservoir Dogs to this list. With the exception of the Kill Bill films, I am not a fan of Tarantino's films. It's not so much the gore factor as the psychology behind the characters and scenes, I suppose.

I should also say that I found some scenes in The Watchmen disturbing. Great movie, though.

[Traxman]

Herbie goes to Monte Carlo.

A Volkswagon beetle with a mind of it's own; really disturbing!

[Wendigo]

Was the culprit ever seen again ...?

Yes, he walked away limping then.....well u know the rest

[retrogamer]

"In the end, all moviegoing is very subjective. You love things that you can't fully explain, and you despise things that you can't fully explain," [critic Richard Schickel] said.

[technoallah]

Audition is pretty disturbing at times. Irriversible was intense and one film I don't ever want to see again. La Grande Bouffe is slightly disturbing but a whole lot of fun as well.

[Dicklas]

I think, "Funny Games U.S."!

[888]

Old boy has quite a disturbing resolution. Won't spoil the ending for those who haven't seen it. Great film though, worth checking out to see what I mean.

[Sharu]

Interesting threat, it shows how different personal taste is.

For me, Irrevesible has 2 really hard scenes, but the only really disturbing thing on that film, that makes it "hard to watch" for me, is the replay story. Not teh rape or the smashed face scene, the way it was told is the reason, why I only watched this film one time. For me, it would have worked better, if they used the rape as the opening scene, then telling, what happened before the rape, and then back to the revenge part.

The most disturbing thing bout Hostel is, that (specially part 1) it wastes tooooo much time, before it comes to a thrilling point. It was very hard for me, to watch all this teenage bullshit for nearly one hour, before part one comes up. I saw it by a friend, and I wanted him to put another film (the TCM remake, wich is ways better than hostel) in the dvd player, but he said all the time "wait, wait, you ll love it", but I hated it. It was boring and disapointing.

Freaks never "freaked me out", I found it interesting, and a bit sad, but not disturbing.

One of the most disgusting films, I ve ever seen, is a nazi propaganda film, released in 1940, called "Der ewige Jude (the eternal jew)"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156524/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ewige_Jude
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ewige_Jude

Another movie that had an effect on me was
Marathon Man

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074860/

What disturbed me, was that Babe, the longer the story goes, the less people he could trust.
I read in a magazine, that is specialized on cut reviews/information, that the release version of Marathon Man was a strong cut version, the scene where Babe gets tortured by Doc was much longer, but while the preview, nearly the whole audience left the cinema, they couldn t stand it, so they cut it down. If that is true, I would love to see this material.

But the most disgusting thing ever ( its not a movie), for me, was a russian tv report bout this sadistic mo.......er Anatoly Slivko. He killed 7 small boys by hanging them and filmed himself, while doin that. In that report, they showed the whole footage. (Im not goin to link, where I found it, google yourself, if you want to see it). He was executed more or less instantly after he was found guilty. He did it for his sexual satisfaction.

hf

[eelcat]

I recall a documentary I saw about 15-20 years ago called "Throwaway Children" which highlighted sexual crimes against children. It contained actual footage made by the offender, generally the father. I was physically sickened by what I saw and failed to watch the entire programme. As far as I know this documentary as not been seen on tv since that night.

[Sharu]

I wouldn t call it fail, if you are unable to watch things like that. I call it a normal reaction.

[Leprechaun]

Grave of the Fireflies

I wrote something about this movie in another thread: http://www.vintage-erotica-forum.com/showpost.php?p=927166&postcount=23

[prawnking1966]

For me: Simpathy For Lady Vengeance (especially thr 'video viewing' scene); Xtro(1982 british B movie sci fi) and Mamma Mia!:D

[Sharu]

the girl next door (2007) without a doubt. im a huge film fan and im not shocked, scared or disturbed by any film ive seen before, id sit and watch them all day long-but this is the most sickening and disturbed film i have ever seen and im never gonna watch it again. it was very, very hard to watch but i did because i wanted to do a write-up for a website i use, i know a few people whove seen this film and they had the same opinion as me.
imdb link...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0830558/

ouch, I saw it yesterday for the first time. you know, i m a fu...ng gorehound, and normaly i m more disturbed by tha way, a director destroys his work, than on graphic violence. BUT this film is unbelieveble. this goes really deep; normaly i watch p.e. "the devils experiment (guinea pig 1)", and after that "men behind the sun", "martyrs", "canibal holocaust" or anything like that, and it s just entertaining. but i have to say, one day later i still have one scene in mind, this poor girl. i never worried about any violent movie, til i saw that. really hard to watch...

hf

[Devius]

I must admit I don't find Eraserhead all that disturbing anymore, it's more of an experience as oppose to a film, very surreal....

The others you mention are undoubtedly intense in their own different ways. The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the only one worth watching due to what it doesn't show and the nightmarish imagery that is much more disturbing than the standard 'gore' flick....

Should have added "The Devil's Rejects" to my list of one-off movies...:eek:

[beemerider500]

Lately, ther has been an advertisement pandering donations for abused and stray animals, and the video of these animals is absolutely abhorent. And, the very idea that us (as humans and the supposed top of the food chain) could be intentionally cruel to domestic pet animals is very disturbing.

[trout]

#1 - "Wizard of Oz" - Yeah! you can laugh, but as a little kid, that Wicked Witch and those flying monkeys scared the crap out of me!!!

#2 - "I Spit On Your Grave" - Pure-grade D sexploitation from 1980. The production, and the acting, and, well... everything else about this movie sucks, but that bathtub scene gave me nightmares for weeks.

#3 - "Equus" - I still can't deal with the last part. Only seen it once, and walked out early on the second try.

As an aside, anyone remember "Mark Of The Devil?" They gave you a barf-bag after you bought your ticket! LOL!!!

[shag_buddy_007]

the final scene in paranormal activity kinda left an impression on me this month, but seeing the other 2 endings made it worse.....

[Prey]

Disturbing? Hmm...


Antichrist

http://img179.imagevenue.com/loc560/th_78912_Antichrist_123_560lo.jpg (http://img179.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_78912_Antichrist_123_560lo.jpg)

Visitor Q (aka) Bijita Q

http://img239.imagevenue.com/loc205/th_78913_vis_Q_123_205lo.jpg (http://img239.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_78913_vis_Q_123_205lo.jpg)

I Spit On Your Grave

http://img227.imagevenue.com/loc241/th_78915_I_spit_123_241lo.jpg (http://img227.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_78915_I_spit_123_241lo.jpg)

Entrails of a Virgin

http://img214.imagevenue.com/loc886/th_79062_entrails_123_886lo.jpg (http://img214.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_79062_entrails_123_886lo.jpg)

Philosophy of a Knife

http://img197.imagevenue.com/loc663/th_79064_philosophy_123_663lo.jpg (http://img197.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_79064_philosophy_123_663lo.jpg)

3 Extremes

http://img25.imagevenue.com/loc536/th_79065_3_ex_123_536lo.jpg (http://img25.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_79065_3_ex_123_536lo.jpg)

Tumbling Doll of Flesh

http://img45.imagevenue.com/loc689/th_79068_tumbling_123_689lo.jpg (http://img45.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=79068_tumbling_123_689lo.jpg)

Begotten

http://img176.imagevenue.com/loc240/th_79069_begotten_123_240lo.jpg (http://img176.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_79069_begotten_123_240lo.jpg)


But then, there are movies which are plainly more disturbing than squirmers like the ones above.

Requiem For A Dream, Natural Born Killers, Bad Lieutenant, Taxi Driver, Straw Dogs, American History X, etc. are some which come immediately to mind.

[Devius]

For me: Simpathy For Lady Vengeance (especially thr 'video viewing' scene); Xtro(1982 british B movie sci fi) and Mamma Mia!:D

Xtro - god I remember watching this in the cinema with my mates, in my callow youth....:o

(and yes, it is rather disturbing)

Would you believe there were two sequels:

Xtro II: The Second Encounter
Xtro 3: Watch the Skies

[AdamApple]

Idi i smotri (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/)

[porty]

2 girls 1 cup.... jesus.....

[brianwp]

I don't remember seeing jesus in that one, just the two girls. And the cup.

[Mal Hombre]

That film is a load of shit

[Serpico]

I Spit On Your Grave.
Saw it as a teenager.The bath scene with the straight razor.
Never watched that movie again and never will.

[arespilgrim]

Seven

Only ever seen it once. Never, ever need to see it again. Burned onto my brain is that.

[simani]

Vinyan, superb performances by Emanuelle Beart and Rufus Sewel as a couple searching for a child lost in the tsunami in Thailand. Haunted me for weeks afterward.

[savage560]

"Bruno", Sacsha Cohen's debacle.

[jimboy51]

rosemarys baby

[macc lad]

Years ago i heard of a film called something dollars to live, never saw it but heard about cheese grating someones cock.
is this film a myth or has anyone else heard of it ?

[kananga]

Today is the first anniverary of Black Saturday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_bushfires), for us Aussies.
The ABC just aired a riveting documentary.
"The majority of the fires ignited and spread on a day of some of the worst bushfire-weather conditions ever recorded. Temperatures in the mid to high 40s (Celsius, approx. 110-120 degrees Fahrenheit) and wind speeds in excess of 100 km/h, precipitated by an intense heat wave, fanned the fires over large distances."

414 people were injured and 173 died.
Authorities had to rethink the advice they had previously given to residents.

One would hope local radio stations and web page warnings (virtually out of the loop at the time), would also have revision.

Not from the documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELqGQweGbTs&feature=fvw

[dohupa]

That film is a load of shit
Literally. :rolleyes: For some peculiar reason also called kaviar. Like an inside joke or something.... :eek:

[Devius]

Cannibal Ferox...

It's not the most disturbing - but it's pretty high on the "Eeechhh" stakes...

[haunted]

Seven
Rosemary's Baby
Chinatown - Not disturbing but very bleak
Requiem for a Dream - Both disturbing and bleak

[Gladeways]

I find the "Invasion of the Bodysnatchers" quite disturbing,both the original and the sequel starring Donald Sutherland. It's meant to be allegorical with undertones of the creeping cancer of communism etc. but it seems to have relevance today with political correctness,health and safety, extreme Islamic radicalism etc.etc. The control of the mob with echoes of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia..never being sure of your friends and neighbours. Spooky!

[alman]

David Lynch's 'Erasure Head' or the porno 'Animal Farm'

[Sebastian Weetabix]

Rod Steiger starred in a great little low-budget film in the 1970s called "Hennessy".

It was a controversial movie where he played a bitter Irishman out to avenge the death of his wife and child killed by British troops during crossfire with the IRA in Northern Ireland.

Despite a strong cast (led by THE Rod Steiger for Chrissakes!), the film never had proper, nation-wide distribution - only local "film theatres" would screen it.

The movie is STILL not available on DVD - only on ye olde videotape (VHS).

Amazing . . . .

[kenveco68]

^^^^ what was disturbing about it?

[Alvin Lucifer]

The Shining
Gummo
120 Days in Sodom
The Silence of the Lambs
The Last Exit to Brooklyn (for the gang rape scene)
Threads (British drama about the aftermath of nuclear war)
Blue Velvet

The Shining is the only movie that gets scarier every time I watch it. It's the ideas involved with watching Jack Torrence slowly going insane.

If I had scene Gummo before Hurricane Katrina, I don't think it would have bothered me as much.

The Girl Next Door (2007) is disturbing, as is An American Crime, same year, similar subject, but neither was as disturbing as the subject demanded.

Films hyped as disturbing that turned out cheesy:

I Spit on Your Grave
Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Ferox
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre


The Blair Witch Project did scare the hell out of me the first time I saw it, but the effect was fleeting, and I was immune on a subsequent viewing.

[Sebastian Weetabix]

^^^^ what was disturbing about it?

Well, it involved murder, bloodshed, terrorism, PIRA politics, hate, revenge, and had a really creepy, grainy "feel" to it - almost like a documentary. Very low-budget & "un-Hollywood".

Plus: the cinematic powers-that-be wouldn't distribute it!

Disturbing enough, I think.

[Nobody1]

Years ago i heard of a film called something dollars to live, never saw it but heard about cheese grating someones cock.
is this film a myth or has anyone else heard of it ?

I don't know this title but the theme sounds like " Rohtenburg ".The real case of the german cannibal Armin Meiwes in a small beautyfull town called Rotenburg. But be carefull, this is in my opinion really sick stuff! Very disturbing.:(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes

[Jeff Vader]

The following movies I've only ever seen once, then vowed "never again"...

The New York Ripper
I've mentioned this flick a few times in other threads. Of all the video nasties I've ever seen back in the day (thank you, Psychotronic in Camden Town), this is THE nastiest imo.

Ichi the Killer
According to Wikipedia, vomit bags were handed out at the Toronto International Film Festival (as a publicity gimmick) to those attending the midnight screening of this film. I can well believe it.

Then comes the movies I just watched in stunned silence and thought "BLOODY HELL!!"

Henry: Potrait Of A Serial Killer
Eraserhead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original - accept NO imitations)
Children of Men (a brillant film, but it always creeps me out - imo, given the right (wrong) circumstances, one could see a future UK similar to the movie)

Henry is IMO vastly underrated, there are a lot more violent films available, but Henry came across as 'off' the whole way through and it was the casual way in which he killed. I spent a lot of the movie just waiting for his next murder.

Ichi the Killer - mad. Just mad.

Irreversible. Scenes in this got to me like no other film has for years. Very well done but horrible.

It's not a film as such, more a collection of scenes, but Faces of Death was the worst. Downloaded it, watched a bit of it and then realised what it was, just a catalogue of misery.

[Jeff Vader]

Un Chien Andalou

A Salvador Dali film. You really don't want to know.

The bit with the eye ? AAARgh. Off.

I can take blood spattered everywhere, entrails scattered, brains hanging off the lights, gore isn't a problem, however anything to do with eyes makes me squirm. The bit in 28 weeks later where he gets infected and turns into a murderous zombie - more aargh.

[MLS]

Hardcore - George C. Scott looking for his runaway daughter who had gone porno to survive financially. There was a scene were a man in a white suit slashed the throat of a restrained Lady. Disgusting scene in B&W and supposedly (and undoubtedly, sadly) true.

NOTE: Not that the act in this film itself was real, but that an event like this occurred and was filmed and viewed as entertainment by some individuals.

[kenveco68]

Hardcore - George C. Scott looking for his runaway daughter who had gone porno to survive financially. There was a scene were a man in a white suit slashed the throat of a restrained Lady. Disgusting scene in B&W and supposedly (and undoubtedly, sadly) true.

NOTE: Not that the act in this film itself was real, but that an event like this occurred and was filmed and viewed as entertainment by some individuals.

Yeah, that was a disturbing film. It was about a teenaged girl from the midwest who just ran away and her father (Scott) went looking for her, with clues to her being involved in prostitution and porn. Very cheesy 70s film, and there were lots of cheesy 70s films. It's on par with Death Wish.

As far as the snuff film, there's only been 1 confirmed, and it was done in South America in the 80s or 90s. There are a billion posts about how real they are, but I'm sure there are murderers who videotaped their victims. Whether such a film was ever made with the goal of selling it is pretty unlikely.

[Lunarbong]

After reading this thread, I checked out 'The Girl Next Door'. Disturbing is the right word to describe it. I read up about the real case online as well and because it is a true story, it makes it very powerful. Watching the film and reading about the case leaves you with so many questions, but no answers. The scene where the woman burns off the girl's clitoris with the blow torch is very disturbing indeed. After much thought, I keep coming back to the woman as the ultimate person responsible. She was the adult. She instigated everything and she could have stopped it whenever she wanted. The end of the film is very touching. I found myself crying and thinking it was best for the girl to pass away so she wouldn't have to suffer anymore.

[bigmac43]

'Once were Warriors' was a memorable film for its raw violence. Great acting and realistic.

[Refhand]

David Lynch's 'Erasure Head'

I'm a big Fan of DL, but I still find EH a very unsettling film to watch.

And how about Frank in Lynch's Blue Velvet, very scary character indeed.

That said, I must admit I gave up on Inland Empire about halfway through, I know Lynch likes to be weird, but i found it totally incomprehensible.

[Refhand]

The Blair Witch Project did scare the hell out of me the first time I saw it, but the effect was fleeting, and I was immune on a subsequent viewing.

I must have had some sort of natural immunity. The scariest thing about that movie was how many people were take in by the whole manufactured mythology use to create a sort of instant cult status.

[MrKinkade]

Well last night for the first time i watched 'The Hills Have Eyes' 2006 remake on TV. I must say the mutant cannibals were pretty grotesque good story line and well made film!

http://thumbnails13.imagebam.com/6937/3b8a1669360779.gif (http://www.imagebam.com/image/3b8a1669360779)

[churchmany]

After reading this thread, I checked out 'The Girl Next Door'. Disturbing is the right word to describe it. I read up about the real case online as well and because it is a true story, it makes it very powerful. Watching the film and reading about the case leaves you with so many questions, but no answers. The scene where the woman burns off the girl's clitoris with the blow torch is very disturbing indeed. After much thought, I keep coming back to the woman as the ultimate person responsible. She was the adult. She instigated everything and she could have stopped it whenever she wanted. The end of the film is very touching. I found myself crying and thinking it was best for the girl to pass away so she wouldn't have to suffer anymore.

While it is based on a true story, it has taken some great liberties in the film. The victim, Sylvia Likens, was never raped, she never had her genitals burned off. The neighborhood this occurred in was inner-city lower class. The kids were a bunch of uneducated rednecks, with very little parental supervision. I am not trying to make light of her plight. She was tortured and murdered by an adult and her kids. The film just really tried too hard to make it look like a slice of apple pie where all this occurred, and that is about as far from the truth as you can get. I live in Indianapolis, and know exactly where their house used to be.

[IronMan]

Tetsuo: The Iron Man was pretty bizarre.

[apocalypse666]

Kids (1995) - disturbing. This is the only movie I've ever walked out on.

[Tacobelle]

......im going to have to say its "Audition".........if you make it through the last 30 minutes of this film, nothing.....NOTHING is gonna disturb you............

[Sharu]

Recently watched this one, don t know what to say.
Too bad and sad that these things still happen nowadays.

http://img188.imagevenue.com/loc466/th_91990_stoning_soraya_123_466lo.jpg (http://img188.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=91990_stoning_soraya_123_466lo.jpg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asH9sUD0A-s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stoning_of_Soraya_M.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1277737/

I have to stop at this point, cause whats up in my mind would get me in trouble with the mods here...

[blackboots]

the ring... uhh

[hattertim]

the ring... uhh

This would be the original version?

[whiskymick]

I watched a movie last night called "Tony" about a mentally disturbed guy in London a real misfit he was, turned out to be a serial killer some scenes were pretty graphic, available at all good sites online. : )

[uncleboo]

I don't think I could narrow it down to a single film, but the most disturbing scene for me is Diane Keaton's death scene in "Looking for Mr. Goodbar". The film itself isn't really that graphic, but that one scene with the waning strobe after she's knifed, man, I get the willies for having dredged it up just to write this post. Everybody has a different button, there's mine, thanks for listening.

[Dumbassgo]

Not really a film that disturbed me on the whole but there's one scene in 'Munich' that I find difficult to watch - the scene where they use the stick guns to kill the female assassin. After she's shot in the chest and is walking around, then picks up her cat - I find it very hard to even think about, I doubt I'll ever watch that scene again.

I think it's the casual way that Daniel Craig asks her "Where are you going?". Really puts the chills in me.

Cheers,
Dumbassgo.

[Hummerman]

Cannibal Holocaust is really disturbing.

[biggold80]

I did not like the movie Hostel...

[Rthomas61]

El valle de los miserables(Valley of the Doomed), a 1975 Mexican movie is disturbing but in a different manner. Concerning a brutal slave camp in South America, the viewer can get sucked into the plot of the slaves rebelling and start empathizing with the characters. This emotional involvement and the manner of their demise at the movie's end is disturbing.

A heavily edited version is out in German on DVD as "Trommeln Ueber Dem Sklavencamp" which I believe translates as drums on the slave camp. It has the date incorrect as 1974 on the DVD. Don't get this movie confused with the 1962 western Valley of the Doomed.

This thread isn't about documentaries but those like 1945's "Nazi Concentration Camps" are certainly disturbing. As an adult, the most disturbing film I've seen was a documentary on the experiments of Dr. Mengele. It shouldn't have been any worse than a film graphically showing surgical techniques but for me it was absolutely horrific. Sort of like some smart, evil people thought up horrible things to do to people through the use of surgery.

[peepingtommy]

The War Zone
Irreversible
Water Power
I Spit On Your Grave
Mother's Day
Maniac
A Clockwork Orange
Henry Portait of a Serial Killer
Clean Shaven
Freaks
pink flamingos

[purplecloud]

When I was around 12, the teacher of my English class showed us a short film adaptation of Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery". I had no idea what it was about and the ending was a tremendous shock. The film though only around 30 minutes was well made and believable which made it that much more shocking.
It really freaked me out and I didn't want to admit it to anyone because I was afraid they would think I was stupid or something. That night I slept with the bedroom door open.

[porty]

nekromantik 1 and 2.

i just watched them and my god.... that is some sick cinema..

[JudgeMental]

A few from the days of my youth when I was left indoors alone and there was no more tv after midnight, just an empty house with an electric meter you had to feed 10p or 50p now and then to keep the lights on....

Deliverance - there were times of great camaraderie early on and it heartened me, I was delighted with the duelling banjos but disturbed by the slack jaw meeting after. Worse to come was Squeal Little Pig, I was too young to really understand the guy is being raped but had an idea thats what was occuring. The worst part is the guilty dream with the hand emerging in eerie silence and the real killer - the silent credits. Burts compound fracture pretty much killed me as well. The alpha male is down. Had to listen to the radio after.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers - just about held it together but was starting to lose it near the end with the freaky trees and that sound. OMG. I'm trying not to do spoilers but fuck me I was bricking it. Silent credits. No going to bed that night!

The Phone Box - a Spanish film. It may be called the telephone box. Oh shit, I watched that one with family but made excuses to be taken to bed after. No way was I walking up stairs alone. Caused a fear of phone boxes for a year or so after, people always wondering why I never closed the door. Its a great twist, like a trick film, I thought it was really interesting then the television punched me in the hippocampus.

Superbeast - the one and only time I nearly puked at a horror film, held onto my gorge though and the new carpet kept its cherry. A disection scene with green guts I believe. Gross. (for a 9? year old)

Later in Life:

Blood Simple - live burial. Earth rising up. Hair on end.

Jacobs Ladder. It ended. I watched it again from the beginning. Its mind bending horror, for me at least but it also has a beautiful message buried in it. I love that film on many levels but I was freaked by it also, hence had to go again.

Evilspeak - an early horror\computers story when video was first around, something about his floating evilness really clicked the scared button for me.

Flicks like Casino \ Goodfellas - the casualness that mobsters and Mafia keep when dipatching someone with icepicks or doubled baseball bats and burying people alive - chilling....

The Grudge, your bog standard Yankee remake, my missus asked me to take her to bed that night for fearfulness caused by that film and I was glad to go to have a reason to not go to bed alone myself!

House of a Thousand Corpses - caught it on holiday before going sightseeing a little way into the film, I loved the descent into madness - from what seemed straight hillbilly psycho stuff to the coffins into the water with the reciting going on and all the mutated dudes in the tunnels made it a whirlwind of freakyness.

[PontiusKak]

Eden Lake - the whole scene where Steve is tied (with barbed wire, no less) to a treetrunk and the gang of chavs take it in turns to stab and slash him while the girl chav records it on her mobile phone. If there's such a word as "brutalcore", this scene deserves that description.

Don't Go In the House - 1979 video nasty with Dan Grimaldi (of the Sopranos) as a misfit who takes women back to his house, ties them up in a steel-panelled room and burns them with a flamethrower. You only see this happen once, but it's completely unforgettable, the unflinching way it's filmed.

Threads - BBC play about a nuclear attack on Sheffield. A bran tub of traumatic post-holocaust horror - burning cats, puking, limbs sawed off without anaesthetic, stillborn mutant babies, dead dogs, rats for supper, urination, you name it.

Last House On the Left - the 1972 original, the meta-real way it's filmed and staged (in close-up, 16mm, grainy documentary-style footage) really makes you feel for those poor girls. The remake is pretty hard going but it's too visually slick and professional-looking to have the same impact.

Scum - the greenhouse rape scene. Just had me staring blankly at the television thinking "Jesus CHRIST". The subsequent gory suicide was pretty intense as well, the actor really went for broke with the anguished screaming.

The Animals Film - 1981 documentary about animal abuse. I had to keep leaving the room and then peeking around the door to see if it was safe to return...

[laloco]

The Woodsman made me feel REAL uncomfortable and is one film I can safely say will never watch again.

Kevin Bacon (who plays his role brilliantly) is a released Paedophile who is housed in a flat overlooking a school. Bacons character has to battle with overcoming his old habits after befriending a young schoolgirl from the school while also recognising another possible paedophile who is may be watching the children aswell

Gritty stuff indeed

http://s1d4.turboimagehost.com/t1/3442008_woodsmanposter.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/3442008/woodsmanposter.jpg.html)

[gmcbee]

When I was around 12, the teacher of my English class showed us a short film adaptation of Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery".

Do you have a title or other info? I once watched a made-for-tv version,
about 1 1/2 hours, but it turned out to be a bag of s---.

[gmcbee]

For those of you who have read Stephen King's "The Mist" and have also seen the film version:

I felt the film was a great adaptation of the novelette, but the ending was much more disturbing.

In retrospect, both endings work well. (No spoilers for those who haven't read/seen it, please!) I liked the film ending better, but that's just because I'm twisted.

[Wendigo]

Do you have a title or other info? I once watched a made-for-tv version,
about 1 1/2 hours, but it turned out to be a bag of s---.

This is on youtube if it helps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1r0MPb5MW8&feature=related

[kelio]

I would have to say that the theme of utter helplessness and aloneness in "Johnny got his gun" (1972) was very disturbing:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067277/

http://pimpandhost.com/media2/image/1/_/_/_/1/7/5/f/5/thumbs/johnny-got-his-gun_0.jpg (http://pimpandhost.com/image/show/id/3827169)

Then the atmosphere of madness in "Eraserhead" (1972):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/

http://pimpandhost.com/media2/image/1/_/_/_/1/f/4/a/d/thumbs/eraserhead-full_0.jpg (http://pimpandhost.com/image/show/id/3827185)

On the same theme of madness but with a different feel to it is "Altered States" (1980):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080360/

http://pimpandhost.com/media2/image/1/_/_/_/1/9/d/3/9/thumbs/altered-states_0.jpg (http://pimpandhost.com/image/show/id/3827193)

And the theme of child abuse and schizophrenia is very disturbing in "Sybil" (1976):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075296/

http://pimpandhost.com/media2/image/1/_/_/_/1/5/f/d/c/thumbs/Sybil_0.jpg (http://pimpandhost.com/image/show/id/3827216)

All the above were very powerful, well acted and finely directed films.
Cinema is great when it makes your mind go to the outer limits of consciouness and think.

[Originalsinn]

Reqium for a dream
The Interview(japanese)

[gmcbee]

I would have to say that the theme of utter helplessness and aloneness in "Johnny got his gun" (1972) was very disturbing

I haven't seen the movie, but the book was fantastic. Dalton Trumbo was
blacklisted by Joe McCarthy's squad, as were many other notables. Thanks
for giving me a pointer to which book to read (for the 9th? 10th? time) when I'm up for the next read. :)

Disturbing? Yea, verily. Heartbreaking.

My best depressed friend keeps trying to talk me into Bukowski, but the
way he describes it, I might just have a reason, a plan... I had enough
trouble with Solzhenitzyn's (sp?) 1914 and Cancer Ward. Tough reads, kids.

[gmcbee]

This is on youtube if it helps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1r0MPb5MW8&feature=related

Now, you had me running for 2 hours, and...... the last class jumps into another story?!?! WTF?

What? No resolution?

OK, granted, the guy's a good teacher. He maketh me to go back school
and write. So, thanks, but I wanted a different ending. :D

[stanleysx]

Korean Drama "oldboy" is quite disturbing

[elton dong]

I just found a torrent for the uncut Jacopetti & Prosperi Mondo movies boxset and re-watched Africa Addio, a film I watched round a mates back in my teenage years. Apart from the fact that it comes across as very racist now, watching a female elephant being brutally killed, cut up and seeing her unborn baby laying dead in what's left of her womb was very disturbing indeed, even knowing it happened way back in the early 60's was no comfort. The funny thing is as the film progresses and you see the aftermath of the massacre at Zanzibar (1964) which is very shocking and rebel soldiers shot at point blank range by mercenary's, yet none of this disturbs me as much as seeing that baby elephant foetus and knowing the scene was especially created by the film-makers .

[sonar_74]

hostel, freakshow 2007

[grossnex]

I already posted these in the violent movie thread, but after watching all 3 a 2nd time through, I can officially state that I'm disturbed. There's no plot whatsoever. Torture, murder & maniacs is all you get.

http://thumbnails32.imagebam.com/8356/914ef783550532.gif (http://www.imagebam.com/image/914ef783550532) http://thumbnails24.imagebam.com/8356/42725e83550536.gif (http://www.imagebam.com/image/42725e83550536) http://thumbnails19.imagebam.com/8356/f23d6a83550538.gif (http://www.imagebam.com/image/f23d6a83550538)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412467/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410332/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0971183/

These movies are fictional snuff films. The violence is so graphic throughout these movies I'm frankly scared to recommend them to anybody I know personally. People seem to blame me when I recommend these types of movies as if I had something to do with their creation. I'm a bit shy talking about them as a consequence. But, if you love this genre they are definitely worth checking out.

[Grizzly]

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Most disturbing thing and it was all real.

Grizzly

[fleetwood77]

"Suicide Circle" Japan 2002 Dir: Sion Sono

Only a few opening sequences in film history could rival the pure shock value of Suicide Circle's bizarre, gruesomely bloody intro. The film begins with an abnormally large crowd of chirpy Japanese schoolgirls gathering together at a subway station platform. In unison, the fifty-four girls suddenly step beyond the yellow line, join hands, and cheerfully plunge in front of the oncoming train—with excruciatingly gory results. To say the screen is “bathed in blood” would not be hyperbole

http://pimpandhost.com/media2/image/1/_/_/_/1/9/8/9/c/thumbs/suicidecircle_0.jpg (http://pimpandhost.com/image/show/id/4020649)

[smel]

Le Locataire by Polanski..very disturbing

[gmcbee]

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Most disturbing thing and it was all real.

Grizzly

Didn't Henry lie about most of his gigs?

[gmcbee]

I'm sure it's been mentioned, Kalifornia, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107302/

[jstewart25]

Without a doubt the most disturbing film I ever saw was a Dutch film called The Vanishing. It really creeped me out about being buried alive. There was an American remake with Kiefer Sutherland and Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock. But it wasnt nearly as creepy as the original.

The Dutch Vanishing is at the top of my list of most disturbing films. I still can't believe that the same director prostituted himself to make that lame Hollywood remake with a happy ending.

[sweetback]

Grave of the fireflies, animation about ww2 in Japan seen through the eyes of children, cried like never before, and I spit and watch Burt reynolds flicks.Bunman, nearly put the telly through when watching this. Was at Uni studying film so tapes were always being passed around, wish I'd never took Bunman home,serial killer flick where we get to see,,, not good stuff if you have a family, or a brain.

[qwerty007]

All you have to say:

Flying steel ball with spikes



Saw SOME of this on late night TV as a kid...running and hiding behind the couch when I was unable to watch anymore...lol

Affected me for years!!! :D

http://thumbnails31.imagebam.com/8841/ba70c288404665.jpg (http://www.imagebam.com/image/ba70c288404665)

[swamp thing]

Men Behind the Sun. This film actually disgusted me.

[m100]

Not really a film but just one scene involving an eyeball in saw 3 which is the only time I've ever fast forwarded a dvd cos it was turning my stomach.

[TexMadrid]

The Worst of Faces of Death

I will never forget seeing Budd Dwyer put a gun in his mouth and pull the trigger at a live press conference. I had a splitting headache after watching that movie and that scene is the worst thing I have ever seen.

[TheBare]

Remember as a yungun seeing N.O.T.L.D. in B&W .. most was OK till it came to the part where the little girl, wielding a trowel turned and we saw that she was devouring her mother. Anotehr was the original Exorcist .. Although i did make the mistake of dropping a hit of 'cid before seeing it ..I was alright until the needle into the jugular part when i just about passed out .. I hate needles
To tell the truth when watching a movie i do flinch sometimes because of the shock content EI: SAW .. but after a few minutes I find it quite amusing .. Buuuuut .the ones that are really disturbing to me are the "real" shows .. When watching a "gory" I can handle blood guts etc, but I can not for the life of me watch an actual show such as "Ultimate Makeover" where peeps are getting their faces peeled back or any documentary such as childbirth etc. I think that if it is a movie my mind clicks into "jeez nice effect wonder how they did that" mode Whereas with the latter type of show means ..this shit is real I think I'll go puke now .. Don't think I could ever be a surgeon or a midwife {I'd never be able to look one of those things in the face again ..LOL}
TB

[Sam Spade]

Bubby: Jesus can see everything I do... and he's going to beat me brainless!


Bad Boy Bubby [rate:6] 4,082 votes (http://imdb.com/title/tt0106341/)




An Australian film made in 1993

Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force Bubby into the waiting world, a place which is just as unusual to him as he is to the worldBubby's mother always wore a gas mask when she left the flat, which had it's windows covered so Bubby could not see out, Bubby's father had abandoned them years earlier, but a woman has needs, so when the mood took her she would get her son to lay down on the bed and would then straddle him, bet would never allow him to touch her.

One day Bubby's father turns up, Bubby is quickly replaced in the marital bed which upsets him, but fate takes a hand, Bubby used to amuse himself by shrink wrapping the cat, and could not understand why it would not move, he could not grasp the concept of death, so when his parents fell into a drunken stupor one day Bubby shrink wrapped them as well.

The next morning he holds out his plate to his mother wanting breakfast, when she does not respond Bubby is forced to leave the house, that's when his life really begins.

This film not only features child abuse and incest, it has an actress actually give birth on film.

YouTube Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSaXgoWevUQ)

A few scenes from the film, including one where he gropes his mother. :eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6IZ9CZOabk

It was her 2nd and last film.

A very controversial, but well made film.

http://img19.imagevenue.com/loc194/th_75693_Capture03_123_194lo.JPG (http://img19.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=75693_Capture03_123_194lo.JPG)

[coronablue]

The last scene of "La dernière femme" (aka The Last Woman, aka L'Ultima Donna. Marco Ferreri, 1979),
when the hero (G. Depardieu) is mutilating himself.
In other words, cutting his own d*ck with an electric knife. Brrrrrrrrr..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075364/

http://i30.*******.com/2dka59t.jpg

Depardieu is excellent. Must hunt this film out. Thanks.

[coronablue]

In my opinion The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...

+1

This is one horror film that still to this day gives me the chills. And its not really gory. It has something to do with the whole vibe of the film.

[Sam Spade]

Freaks (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022913/)

http://img265.imagevenue.com/loc122/th_96263_freaks_poster_03_123_122lo.jpg (http://img265.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=96263_freaks_poster_03_123_122lo.jpg )



Although Freaks was made in 1932 it was banned from the UK until 1963, and then given an X certificate, technically it is still illegal for some US states to show it, and i believe it is still banned in Finland (those crazy Fins)

The film is about the lives of a group of circus "freaks", in particular Hans and Frieda, who were both dwarves, and betrothed, apparently the love scenes between the two were rather stilted, no surprise as they were in fact played by brother and sister Harry & Daisy Earles, Hans is seduced by Cleopatra, the trapeze artist, who in fact only wants him for his money, she is really in love with Hercules, the strong man, when the "freaks" discover this and how the pair have treated Hans they take a terrible revenge on the them.


The Stars..

Harry Earles ~ Hans. http://img206.imagevenue.com/loc385/th_93772_concerned_harry_earles_123_385lo.jpg (http://img206.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=93772_concerned_harry_earles_123_385 lo.jpg)

Daisy Earles ~ Frieda http://img256.imagevenue.com/loc89/th_93773_freaks_i_am_so_happy_123_89lo.jpg (http://img256.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=93773_freaks_i_am_so_happy_123_89lo. jpg)

The happy couple. http://img41.imagevenue.com/loc348/th_93774_harry_earles_100_123_348lo.jpg (http://img41.imagevenue.com/img.phttp://vintage-erotica-forum.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=1178833hp?image=93774_harry_earles_100_123_348lo .jpg)

Olga Baclanova ~ Cleopatra .. http://img197.imagevenue.com/loc336/th_94048_Annex_BaclanovaOlga_02_122_336lo.jpg (http://img197.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=94048_Annex_BaclanovaOlga_02_122_336 lo.jpg)

Henry Victor ~ Hercules.. http://img109.imagevenue.com/loc431/th_94920_Capture_123_431lo.JPG (http://img109.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=94920_Capture_123_431lo.JPG)

Hurcules & Cleopatra get what's coming (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sALWUsvL4X4&feature=related)

and this is why (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4uTEEOJlM&feature=related)


Supporting cast..


Johnny Eck ~ Half Boy...http://img109.imagevenue.com/loc138/th_95186_freaks14_123_138lo.jpg (http://img109.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_95186_freaks14_123_138lo.jpg)


Violet & Daisy Hilton ~ Siamese Twinshttp://img176.imagevenue.com/loc177/th_95186_freaks12_123_177lo.jpg (http://img176.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_95186_freaks12_123_177lo.jpg)

Frances O'Connor ~ Armless girl http://img221.imagevenue.com/loc817/th_95186_freaks11_123_817lo.jpg (http://img221.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_95186_freaks11_123_817lo.jpg)


Elvira & Jenny Lee Snow ~ Pinheadshttp://img136.imagevenue.com/loc358/th_95187_freaks09_123_358lo.jpg (http://img136.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_95187_freaks09_123_358lo.jpg)


Schlitzie ~ Himself http://img235.imagevenue.com/loc577/th_95187_freaks08_123_577lo.jpg (http://img235.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_95187_freaks08_123_577lo.jpg)

Schlitzie's big scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwEL7m75GDM)


Prince Randian ~ The Living Torso http://img196.imagevenue.com/loc574/th_95188_freaks_pic_123_574lo.jpg (http://img196.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=95188_freaks_pic_123_574lo.jpg)


The Torso lights a cigarette (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd3Wzxq-LDA&feature=related)

Others appearing include the bearded lady (real), Koo Koo the bird lady (probably a phoney), The living skeleton (real), and various dwarves.


It's a fascinating film, i heartily reccommend you watch it if you can. :thumbsup:

Footnote:

The Siamese twins ended their days bagging groceries until influenza took them.

The Living Torso could roll and light his own cigarettes, his one line in the film was "Can you do anything with your eyebrows?" :D

Johnny Eck toured in a show where a magician would saw him in half, his "legs" (in reality a dwarf) would then run around the stage chased by Johnny. :D




A few other images..




http://img163.imagevenue.com/loc215/th_96270_freaks4_123_215lo.jpg (http://img163.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=96270_freaks4_123_215lo.jpg)http://img260.imagevenue.com/loc498/th_96271_freaks07_123_498lo.jpg (http://img260.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_96271_freaks07_123_498lo.jpg)http ://img203.imagevenue.com/loc577/th_96271_harry_earles_140_123_577lo.jpg (http://img203.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=96271_harry_earles_140_123_577lo.jpg )
http://img163.imagevenue.com/loc148/th_96273_pip_123_148lo.jpg (http://img163.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=96273_pip_123_148lo.jpg)http://img238.imagevenue.com/loc455/th_96275_prince_randian100_123_455lo.jpg (http://img238.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=96275_prince_randian100_123_455lo.jp g)http://img168.imagevenue.com/loc1164/th_96276_violet_daisy_hilton100_123_1164lo.jpg (http://img168.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=96276_violet_daisy_hilton100_123_116 4lo.jpg)

[grossnex]

I didn't realize Freaks was ever banned anywhere. But, I know why. I saw that movie when I was 13, because a buddy of mine had a copy. It's been more than 20 years & I'll never get those images out of my head Sam. The Living Torso crawling around was too much to take. My friend found it funny, but honestly I found the entire movie disturbing. I had forgot about it until I saw the pics of the characters. Good choice :thumbsup:

[Foo Fighter]

Most disturbing!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spit_on_Your_Grave

[kenveco68]

Bad Boy Bubby (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106341/)

An Australian film made in 1993

I found 2 relevant links:
http://www.boobpedia.com/boobs/Carmel_Johnson
http://www.boobpedia.com/boobs/Image:Carmel_Johnson2_-_Bad_Boy_Buddy.jpg

[palo5]

For me it's Babij Jar (Germany/Belorus 2003). Other movies have troubled me, but nothing else comes close for being truly disturbing

If you don't know what happened there, just google it - it's true alright

[Suns]

The series of movies Saw and Hostel are disturbing although I only watched the first one of each.

The most disturbing film I have ever seen was a series of real life murders, suicides, executions, and accidental deaths. The movie series is called Faces of Death. This is was seen out of curiosity and I wish I hadn't viewed a second of it. This is truly not for the squeamish and will warp your mind with horrible lasting images and scenes. Again, I don't recommend watching them.

One mainstream movie is a true story starring Ellen Page. It is unbelievable something this ever happened to someone in real life but this is the horror of it all. See the full description at the IMDB link.

An American Crime (2007)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0802948/

[Suns]

Thanks for the book recommendation. I'm going to check it out very soon. There is the true crime version of the court case as well.

House of Evil: The Indiana Torture Slaying by John Dean

[Jeff Vader]

The series of movies Saw and Hostel are disturbing although I only watched the first one of each.

The most disturbing film I have ever seen was a series of real life murders, suicides, executions, and accidental deaths. The movie series is called Faces of Death. This is was seen out of curiosity and I wish I hadn't viewed a second of it. This is truly not for the squeamish and will warp your mind with horrible lasting images and scenes. Again, I don't recommend watching them.

One mainstream movie is a true story starring Ellen Page. It is unbelievable something this ever happened to someone in real life but this is the horror of it all. See the full description at the IMDB link.

An American Crime (2007)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0802948/
Sorry to rain on your parade a little but a lot of the 'deaths' you saw were staged.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_of_Death

If you really want to see carnage of real deaths it's out there, though I don't recommend it.

[Suns]

I know for a fact most were not staged. One example was a public official calling a press conference in San Francisco and committing suicide by shooting himself in the head. Trust me, I know the difference between real and faked. Wartime executions were certainly not faked. Of course, it is your right to believe as you wish. Honestly, Wikipedia can't always be trusted to be factual and erroneous information is posted often. The films were not banned in countries for no reason if they were faked. I don't care to see any death and consider it the real pornography.

[sintrovert]

Dunno if it's been mentioned on this thread yet, but I'll go for Salo: The 120 Days Of Sodom.

It's full of scenes of rape, torture, shit eating and stuff like that.

[TexMadrid]

I know for a fact most were not staged. One example was a public official calling a press conference in San Francisco and committing suicide by shooting himself in the head.

Yeah that film was brutal! I only saw the "Worst of Faces of Death" a compilation of the previous. The public official was in Pennsylvania, unless there is another one. The suicide was actually broadcast on live TV when kids were home watching cartoons. Broadcast as Breaking News, they thought it would just be a press conference, that he would be admitting guilt and resigning.

Type Budd Dwyer into google if you really want to see it. Judge for yourself; real or fake. It is so horrific I will not even put a youtube link on here; I think it is on there as well. I never want to see that again!

[Suns]

Yeah that film was brutal! I only saw the "Worst of Faces of Death" a compilation of the previous. The public official was in Pennsylvania, unless there is another one. The suicide was actually broadcast on live TV when kids were home watching cartoons. Broadcast as Breaking News, they thought it would just be a press conference, that he would be admitting guilt and resigning.

You may be right about the location being Pennsylvania. It has been many years since I watched the tape before the days of compact discs. It was live television and very disturbing. You could see the life drain out of the guy at the very time of death which is unmistakable. I'm not saying at all some scenes may have been faked but surely not this one. The war scenes and executions were real as well. I seem to recall someone getting hit by a train too. If you were curious as I was then, just beware before viewing. Maybe it is safer to go in thinking it is all faked so it doesn't disturb those who have never seen this type of thing before.

Of course, there are those who are not affected by blood and guts and death. I suppose society has to have every type of person in order to manage all situations. After all, there are surgeons, coroners, morticians, and the like who this type of life and death does not affect them in any way whatsoever. We are all geared and structured in different ways mentally, this just so happens to be my weak point.

[MaxJoker]

Knight and Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_and_Day)

http://img159.imagevenue.com/loc440/th_21527_Knightanddayfilm_123_440lo.jpg (http://img159.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=21527_Knightanddayfilm_123_440lo.jpg )


I only stayed long enough to get a gist of it , but still a couple things about it disturbed me no end.

1- When did Diaz turn into an old frozen faced duck ?
2- How did it finish production without the entire crew beating Cruise to death with what passes for it's script ?

[TexMadrid]

I heard it was mostly staged and I have seen a lot of them which do look staged....very

Yeah I read that also. I think that maybe in the originals there were some staged. That is why I noted I only saw the "best of" or "worst of" as the case was.

I really only remember the suicide guy. And I remember how I felt after watching the entire movie; splitting headache. We thought it would be interesting to watch; it was not. Never saw it again; never want to see it again!

edit: There were 3 Faces of Death movies before "The Worst Faces of Death".

[Jeff Vader]

I know for a fact most were not staged. One example was a public official calling a press conference in San Francisco and committing suicide by shooting himself in the head. Trust me, I know the difference between real and faked. Wartime executions were certainly not faked. Of course, it is your right to believe as you wish. Honestly, Wikipedia can't always be trusted to be factual and erroneous information is posted often. The films were not banned in countries for no reason if they were faked. I don't care to see any death and consider it the real pornography.

I've watched it. Several are indeed faked.

[Sharu]

I've watched it. Several are indeed faked.

yepp, you re right, but it s only true for the first one, the sequels had more "real stuff" than the original.

"Although several of the "human death" scenes are fake ( with Alan A. Apone, make up and special effects artist for the film saying about 40% of it is fake)... *Wikipedia (based on a real interview with Alan)

"Exiguous scenes within this motion picture have been reconstructed to document and further clarify their factual origin." - Faces of Death end titles

O.K., that means that 60% are genuine, but I read in another forum, that roundabout 60% are fake.

"Faces of Gore 1 & 2" are way more disturbing, although no dying is filmed, only the result
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_of_Gore

[Jeff Vader]

yepp, you re right, but it s only true for the first one, the sequels had more "real stuff" than the original.

"Although several of the "human death" scenes are fake ( with Alan A. Apone, make up and special effects artist for the film saying about 40% of it is fake)... *Wikipedia (based on a real interview with Alan)

"Exiguous scenes within this motion picture have been reconstructed to document and further clarify their factual origin." - Faces of Death end titles

O.K., that means that 60% are genuine, but I read in another forum, that roundabout 60% are fake.

"Faces of Gore 1 & 2" are way more disturbing, although no dying is filmed, only the result
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_of_Gore

Heh, the first was enough for me, I probably have the sequels downloaded somewhere but never got around to watching them.

[gmcbee]

The Dutch Vanishing is at the top of my list of most disturbing films. I still can't believe that the same director prostituted himself to make that lame Hollywood remake with a happy ending.

Spoorloos was the release title, I believe.

[gmcbee]

I watched The Road recently and just finished the book by Cormac McCarthy (who also authored No Country For Old Men).

Wow, what a brutal, yet uplifting story.

BTW, the movie follows the book very well. A couple of differences, but nothing too significant, nothing that changes the tone of the book.

I hate when a movie massacres the book....

Sometimes the book massacres the movie! Amistad was a fair flick, but some knucklehead wrote the book from the screenplay. It's so bad I keep it on the bathroom counter in case I run out of asswipe, along with spare Dean Koontz novels. :D:D

[ikeswanson]

Anyone ever seen "Salon Kitty" by Tinto Brass? That was really freaky.

[kenveco68]

As far as Faces Of Death, the guy who was 'electrocuted' should've been nominated for an Oscar. He was quite convincing.

Yeah, the original Vanishing was brutal. Between that and Silence of the Lambs, I'll never help a guy with a sling cast.

[abro]

I've seen a lot of movies - and a lot of shocking scenes / images - often I think it is just for that purpose (like Base Moir) - but the one movie that probably unsettled me the most is
"Srpski Film ("A Serbian Film")" - and to quote "It's ultra-violent, contains very explicit sex, and crosses the line at so many points into taboo it guarantees the film is never going to be seen widely, if ever, outside of the festival circuit".


This movie really galvanises people - with many reviews that rave about it and just as many condemning it..........
Once I had seen it I kind of wished I could "unsee" it and erase the memory banks.
Cheers

[dwk57]

Failsafe. The original, not the remake. For those of us who lived/fought the Cold War...