High Tension, which suprisingly enough is a french film I believe, was pretty damn disturbing in the sense that it was actually GOOD. The ending though was pretty creepy as well, but I won't spoil that one for anyone.

While it's not that high ranking on the creepy/scary scale, I thought the recently released Pulse was pretty weird/disturbing. I know that it could never possibly happen, but there's always that slim chance that it could and it freaked me out ^^;

Haute Tension (High Tension) had an absolutely amazing plot, but it's not gory at all. Well, at least not gory compared to movies like Cannibal Holocaust or Bad Taste. Still a very good movie, though. The chainsaw scene at the end was awesome.

What was the Italian movie where three old men eat each other while they're all still alive?

Speaking of Italian movies, "The New York Ripper" is pretty kawaii as well. Some guy speaking like Donald Duck walking around masturbating and killing some hookers on his way, awesome.

True, there are gorier movies out there. Funny thing is, the cover of the movie here in the US got me hooked...had the main character holding that chainsaw that litterally looked like it was used to cut concrete.

Oh yeah, can't forget classics like "Alone in the Dark" and "Bloodrayne", those two are pretty disturbing as well, dialogue alone. House of the Dead I can forgive because it was just nothing BUT killing zombies...no other plot.

Haha, it was only a matter of time until someone starts to mention Uwe Boll masterpieces.

And concerning High Tension, it's also the hawt main character which makes this movie a winner.

Yeah... Ichi The Killer was pretty bad. I was able to sit through it and the shock value was high enough to where it made me cringe a few times. Great film though.

However, the most disturbing movie I've ever seen is not so much a morally depraved collection of atrocities, but a backward narrative called Irreversible. Since it takes place in reverse one sees a revenge flick in the making but as you start to realize how all the horrific and gut-wrenchingly life-ruining events of the film (most notably the violent rape scene that was really the first acting piece I ever saw of the beautiful Monica Bellucci) are all the byproducts of bad choices on behalf of the characters it really just leaves you feeling completely powerless and disturbed. One can almost begin an introspective query on oneself to think, "Will the things I do today affect how my loved ones suffer in the future?"

That movie probably fucked me up pretty well.

I was going to mention this movie. Im not sure if I liked it, it was one of those movies you sit through and end up just feeling very drained afterwards.

Not to mention the rape scene is a little too much. :cthulhu:

Fulci's Ultimi zombi is pretty fuckin disturbing. The uncensored Eye gourging scene is the worst thing i've ever watched on film.

I also found Jacob's ladder to be incredibly disturbing for some reason.

One of the only films that I've ever really found difficult to watch is Kubrick's Paths of Glory. It's a film about World War I. It's not graphic at all – I think in Canada it even has a G rating. I don't want to give anything away, as it's a terribly powerful piece, but suffice it to say it presents some horrible truths.

Besides that, there was a Canadian independent film called Cube made in the 90's. I haven't seen it for a few years (I think I was 10 the first time I saw it), but I decidedly remember a sense of dread for a couple of days afterwards. The sequels were shitty.

I'm a bit of a mouse when it comes to disturbing movies.

I remember being slightly disturbed by Kill Bill vol. 1, but that was all circumstantial. It was 5:00 AM, i had watched nearly 15 hours of straight movies before then, i was totally fried, and really out there mentally. After a while, i started to feel sick watching the movie, looking at all the "blood" and thinking that it would be possible for a person to be capable of this. The next day i realized how much i was over reacting to that movie, and if i saw it again, it wouldn't hit me nearly as hard.

After that it's just scenes from movies, as opposed to entire movies.

The most disturbing movie I have ever seen is one that Sass mentioned. 'Threads' was apparently 'the movie that shocked a generation' (well that's what it says on the DVD cover), and to be honest, that description isn't far wrong.

It's based on the build-up, initial attack and aftermath of a nuclear attack on Sheffield, a large industrial town that's about 2 or 3 miles away from where I live.

It was a BBC production, so the effects are pretty cheesy by today's standards, but it wasn't trying to be a Hollywood blockbuster, so it didn't really matter. I watched it for the first time about a month ago. I've never been so scared after watching a movie, it was that disturbing.

I think that the scariest part of the movie, is that you know that after the bomb drops, society is pretty much helpless. Dead, gone. That is the most depressing thought. I can't imagine how people felt when watching this film when it was first released in 1984, when apparently most people didn't think that the bomb being dropped was a possibility, they thought it was a CERTAINTY.

If you are squeamish, then it'll give you nightmares for a while, but even if you aren't, it'll at least get you thinking.

As far as sheer graphical/gore content, Stan Brakhage's "The Act of Seeing with One's own Eyes", which is essentially 32 minutes of footage from a morgue, where a bunch of morticians perform various autopsies on cadavers. At first it was fairly tame, as it was just measurements and stuff, but after awhile they started cutting open the bodies and all, the most vivid probably sawing someone's skull open and removing his brain, or cutting the ribcage open. There's no sound or music, just 32 minutes of random autopsy footage. We had to watch this in our Film Classics class recently.

As far as a "movie" that disturbed me, I only really think of the last scene in Audition. Although I'm not really disturbed by film all that much. Even during the autopsy video my friend and I were mostly joking around.

The ending didn't turn you off? Wow I'm surprised. A lot of people said that the ending ruined the whole movie for them, including me.

Anyways I hope disturbing films don't all have to be horror. In that case, the most disturbing film for me (one I can think of from the top of my head) probably has to be Pink Flamingos. Ewwww eating dog poop on screen and all that other weird crap. Haha I quiver thinking about it.

I loved High Tension and for me the ending made me like the movie even more, I like those kind of ending ^^ (even if it was already made before)

and yes the torture scene of "the Audition" is really disturbing, with the nail and when she's cutting his foot. >.<

I had a Threads av/sig for awhile, and I think maybe I'm the one who told you about it. The silent scream that ends the film is so horrifying that I felt like I could've died of an acute depression.

Years of gurochan and weird Italian art means that slaughterhouse films don't really get to me as much, and what was really disturbing to me about Ichi the Killer was that I didn't get the ending.

My vote goes to Blue Velvet, yet another Lynch film. Frank Booth is such a horrifying monster that his influence stretches out an grabs the viewer. Even at the movie's conclusion it feels like he's permanently sullied everything he's touched, even the audience.

In the department of disturbing situations and a general fucked up view of life, I'd definitely say "Gumo" or "Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things"

I'd like to add a couple of documentaries to this list: ENRON: The Smartest Guys In The Room and Jesus Camp.

ENRON was disturbing because it's basically a dissection of the phenomenal fuckups of how that company fell apart and about what the CEOs did that led to the destruction of thousands of lives all because of hubris and greed. It's even more disturbing that it can probably happen again.

Jesus Camp is disturbing for one line: "In the name of Christ we don't need freedom because in the end this freedom will destroy us all."

This is heavy stuff, folks.

I'd have to say that the most disturbing movie for me is "May" which is where this girl chopped off specific parts of the body from her "friends" to make one "perfect" friend for her own :o

I'd also say Saw (I,II,III) but I did not watch em :p

Then you can't really say it, can you?

Which is why I didnt :p

Wow, how so? Seriously, I am surprised. I thought the ending of High Tension was one of the best I've witnessed so far. I mean, talk about twisted plots.

Forgot about Threads, that is certainly a film that shocked me. About the only thing I didn't like about it is the time period it takes place in. I felt it went a bit to far when it showed the aftermath.
That's not saying it was bad at all because it wasn't, but I just found it the strongest when it showed the events right after the bomb hits, that was just really horrifying. Wasn't prepared at all for how gritty it was going to be, great film.

And Blue Velvet is another good one. This thread is reminding me of films I should rewatch.

Someone should really make a movie from this short story by Stephen King called "Survivor Type." It's probably the most disturbing thing I've ever read. This guy, who happens to be a brilliant surgeon, is marooned on a deserted island and in order to survive resorts to cutting off his own foot and eating it. After that, it's on. He begins to go insane and slowly over a couple of weeks amputates other body parts and eats them. He has to pace himself, though, because he'll die of blood loss if he cuts off too much at one time.

For me, the most disturbing thing wasn't that he was forced to eat himself, but that eventually he got to the point where he actually has a taste for his own flesh and would salivate at the thought of eating another piece of himself.