Most Disturbing Film You've Ever Seen
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For me, the freakiest stuff is the things that could easily happen down the street or next door to you. I haven't seen "Irreversible" but I've heard, ick. I did see "Happiness", just weird.
The two films I'll add:
"Elephant" - Van Sant's film about a Columbine type of shooting in a high school. I haven't been able to make myself watch that film again.
"Mysterious Skin" - Gregg Araki's film about the results of long term sexual abuse of two boys by their baseball coach. Only seen it once, once was enough.
....we need a smiley with a gag reflex. Ick, ick, ick.
-- spinner
Elephant, very good film. But yeah, very disturbing.
I'm not a fan of torture porn either. Never have been...it's a cop-out for creativity. Which when I think about it, a lot of things in Hollywood are...but at least I don't have to see people realistically, brutally tortured.
I don't mind violence, especially in the style of '70's Italian cinema...as long as you don't have it as the focus, it's OK with me.
I don't mind violence, especially in the style of '70's Italian cinema...as long as you don't have it as the focus, it's OK with me.
For me, I think a film can be distrubing without being violent. I tend to stay away from the violence for the sake or violence shock value pictures (Hostel was the last I watched).
Requiem for a Dream is a great example of a film that left me feeling uncomfortable and actually feeling for the characters as more than people on the screen. The ending sequence, again, to me, is very disturbing. You see the lives of people at their lowest and you can see there is no way back up.
Hostel was distrubing not because of what was on the screen, but because I thought, "Man, people are actually abducted like this and never heard from again." I was more distrubed by what I thought after seeing it than what I saw on the screen.
It is tough, based on what we see on the news everyday, for something to be disturbing anymore. I do agree that the most disturbing is what might be going on behind closed doors at the neighbor's house.
Requiem for a Dream is a great example of a film that left me feeling uncomfortable and actually feeling for the characters as more than people on the screen. The ending sequence, again, to me, is very disturbing. You see the lives of people at their lowest and you can see there is no way back up.
Hostel was distrubing not because of what was on the screen, but because I thought, "Man, people are actually abducted like this and never heard from again." I was more distrubed by what I thought after seeing it than what I saw on the screen.
It is tough, based on what we see on the news everyday, for something to be disturbing anymore. I do agree that the most disturbing is what might be going on behind closed doors at the neighbor's house.
This first one is going to sound funny, but I have to say The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Some time in the mid
1980 I was dragged along to a midnight showing and I had never heard of it. Between the movie and the live show......
For a few hours, the world was one screwdup place!
Other than that I would say Trainspotting. A Clockwork Orange.
Terry
1980 I was dragged along to a midnight showing and I had never heard of it. Between the movie and the live show......
For a few hours, the world was one screwdup place!
Other than that I would say Trainspotting. A Clockwork Orange.
Terry
Or something with Jesus in it...
Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter?
SALO, THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM
This is something almost unwatchable. Freaky, scary, nasty and everything else in this sense. I regret for watching this movie. There´s a rumor that director Paolo Pasolini was assassinated because of it. Although the movie structure and production is old, it´s still... well...no words.
"An extremely controversial film, the last work by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Loosely based on the book by the Marquis de Sade, Pasolini transplanted the setting
to Mussolini's post-Nazi-fascist state of Salo. Pasolini creates a symbolic place where
sexual joy and normality are punished while perversion is rewarded. The plot concerns
eight fascists who round up 16 teenage boys and girls and, in a secluded villa, submit
their hostages to various sadistic ordeals including rape, mutilation and murder.
"Pasolini has intended the film to work on many different levels: an illustration
of the moral anarchy of absolute power; the debasement of sexuality through violence.
An exploration of victims as victimizers. The result is, alternately, surreal, harrowing,
repulsive, and fascinating…a hellish journey through a sick soul." - 1WorldFilms.com "
This is something almost unwatchable. Freaky, scary, nasty and everything else in this sense. I regret for watching this movie. There´s a rumor that director Paolo Pasolini was assassinated because of it. Although the movie structure and production is old, it´s still... well...no words.
"An extremely controversial film, the last work by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Loosely based on the book by the Marquis de Sade, Pasolini transplanted the setting
to Mussolini's post-Nazi-fascist state of Salo. Pasolini creates a symbolic place where
sexual joy and normality are punished while perversion is rewarded. The plot concerns
eight fascists who round up 16 teenage boys and girls and, in a secluded villa, submit
their hostages to various sadistic ordeals including rape, mutilation and murder.
"Pasolini has intended the film to work on many different levels: an illustration
of the moral anarchy of absolute power; the debasement of sexuality through violence.
An exploration of victims as victimizers. The result is, alternately, surreal, harrowing,
repulsive, and fascinating…a hellish journey through a sick soul." - 1WorldFilms.com "
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Good examples. AUDITION disturbed me when I first saw it. So did SEED.
I didn't realize this was the "Disturbing..." thread, I was replying to the poster above me.
Okay, so....
Man Bites Dog has a very disturbing scene for a black comedy. You seriously don't know if you should laugh. The mockumentary format makes it all that more real. Check it out.
Okay, so....
Man Bites Dog has a very disturbing scene for a black comedy. You seriously don't know if you should laugh. The mockumentary format makes it all that more real. Check it out.
The unrated version is quite graphic. I love that movie, though. The part where they get drunk and sing, "Cinema" is almost as funny as the killing of the video crew!
Unfortunately, the director (who also plays himself in the movie) Remy Belvaux died not too long ago.
