Most disturbing movie
 

So you know, generally I am a big fan of disturbing, gory horror movies, but yesterday, some friend of mine was like "hey dude lets watch some 'kick-ass' (sic!) flick". The title Aftermath sounded okay, so I was like "hell why not". This Spanish movie is about 30 minutes long with absolutely no spoken dialogue, and it turned out to be the sickest movie I've ever seen. It is a short film wherein a man working in a morgue mutilates and defiles one of the corpses, including necrophilia, with some extremely nasty scenes.

If you can get this somewhere, you should definitely watch it, it's very good, very philosophical.

Anyone of you watched that movie as well? Can you think of any other movies that are just as disturbing? What would be the most disturbing movie you've ever seen? Share your thoughts :)

The most disturbing flicks I've ever seen both come from Takashi Miike, and those are

Ichi the Killer
and
Audition

Ichi because of it's blatant disregard for decency and human life. It's graphic violnece is pretty much the worst I've ever seen, from guys removing their tongues, to women getting their nipples cut off with a box cutter. I don't mind graphic violence in movies, but this was too much for me, and that says something.

Audition because of how fucked up the whole scenario is. It's one of those movies that unfortunately has to give away it's big secret in order to sell the movie, but it didn't change how fucked up and scary it is in the end. It's a movie you have to watch by yourself in order to truly soak in the horror behind it.

Another good one is Wolf Creek. This was a surprisingly brilliant horror film that transcends most slashers in one key way that has always been missing - CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT! Mostly in the fact that in most (ie: all) slashers, you don't give two shits about the characters, but in Wolf Creek these kids are in genuine peril and don't deserve the horrors that await them. The killer is probably one of the most brutal guys in recent cinema, too.

Madhouse
 

I haven't seen that yet but you need to check this movie out if you haven't yet. The movie is called "Madhouse." It's about a man who works at an insane asylum...that he escaped from when he was little. He goes around killing the people that had "pained" him while he was there years before. There's this part with a nympho, but I won't say anything about it. I think the most gory part about that movie was when he electricuted the head nurse. SHE BIT HER OFF HER TONGUE, AND IT SHOWED IT HANGING OFF HER FACE!!! Made me happy it did, with all that blood. It was so...COOL!!!:edgarrock:

no question about it, an old docu-horror called Cannibal Holocaust. so bad it got banned from most theatres in the US during it's release

I've heard lots about that flick, but no real desire to see it. I might check it out just because of how horrific it apparently is.

Oh wow yeah, this is a pretty disturbing movie as well, though it sucks pretty hard. Technically, it is a very bad movie, and fuck the director for killing real animals >=( Cannibal Holocaust was so gory, it's almost hilarious. I think I was constantly shaking my head while watching it, because I thought it was pretty stupid.

A film by David Lynch called Eraserhead. Just utterly fucked up (more than his other films), and well... I can't even begin to describe it really. It didn't disturb me in the sense of it being gory or anything like that.
I'll just say that I've never felt as uncomfortable watching a film as when I watched Eraserhead.

It's a great movie however, I really recommend it.

You've obviously not seen "I Spit On Your Grave".

Or for that matter - the David Lynch short "The Alphabet"

I disagree with all of this. What was all that about not making sure the guy was dead when he was lying there? And the girl watching home videos in the guys garage when she *knows* he's making his way back there.

People scoff at dodgy horror movies cliches, like going down into a dark basement to investigate a sound, but weren't these transgressions much more obvious? No, I didn't care about these silly woman. I was more angry than horrified whilst watching Wolf Creek.


Cannibal Holocaust is an interesting one, because the animal torture and killing was real, and if you're aware of this beforehand then it's those scenes that are the more disturbing ones to watch - you're kind of ripped out of the immersion of the plot at that point, and the simulated plight of the actors becomes obtrusively just that. It'd be an interesting point if the directors intention was to deliberately blur these lines, but I think the special effects team were just having a day off.

There's an old, grainy B movie called Buried Alive that my sister and I used to rent watch over and over again. It's not the one from 1990 starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, it's much older. Probably from the seventies. Anyway, it was so VERY disturbing. Another movie that really bothered me was A Tale of Two Sisters. I believe it's based on a Korean folk tale, and it's not excessively gory or anything, it just has a very disturbing premise.

I can't believe no one has mentioned those horrible Faces of Death movies.

Nope, that's not it.

Salo: 120 Days of Sodom.

Kidnap, sex slavery, tongues and eyes cut out, scalping, forced shit eating.

The perfect sunday afternoon movie.

Criterion is re-releasing this soon, for those interested in watching this with family and friends.

I was about to mention it myself. Probably the most graphic, brutal thing I've ever seen.

Also probably Hideo Nakata's "Dark Water". Not really graphic or horrific, but creepy beyond words. There's a scene in which a girl bends over a bathtub, is seized by a pair of hands which try to drown her. It's filmed in such a way that when I watched it with my brother we were both involunarily leaning backwards and doing that fist-clenchy thing.

I just looked it up on IMDB and apparently there was an American remake of it in 2005. Stop fucking ruining my fucking Asian horror movies.

Yes I have, though I've not seen the Lynch short you mentioned.

Picture the movie you mentioned previously squashed into 6 minutes and with singing.

There's this Belgian film, quite recent, about a guy whose car breaks down off the beaten track, so he stays at the house of this older guy living nearby. Long story short, the old dude ties him up, puts him in a dress and starts calling him wife.

Pretty bleak. Anyone know what it's called?

Edit: 'Calvaire'.

Lynch's Alphabet is not that terrifying. You think Oingo Boingo's music video thing is frightening LeHah.

Although I admit that Eraserhead is pretty fucked. I really liked it, though. Lynch, for me, is a big hit-or-miss. I'm tempted to say that Eraserhead is one of his most disturbingly bizarre films ever.

Incidentally, I have heard nothing but horrific rage over Salo. I've yet to see it, and I am not sure if I could sit through it all, but I want to see it just based on what I've heard.

I don't like these kind of movies even if it is fictional because it's very plausible which makes it even more disturbing.

Anyway, to add to your list, I read a short review, in MAXIM, of a Japanese movie in which they showed what Hell is like and there's this one scene where a girl is impaled on a pole. The pole goes in her vagina and comes out her mouth. It was so disturbing and realistic that the movie director was brought to court and they had him bring in the girl from the movie to make sure she was alive. Sorry, but I don't know the name of this film.

That's Cannibal Holocaust, which is Italian. So that's one less "Tha's some weird shit" award for Japan. They're not bothered, they've got loads.

Sass understands film like a spoon understands the taste of food. Nevermind her.

Why is blue, LeHah?

It's a matter of taste. I think you are just triggered by these confused and eerie scenes.

You like Lynch overall. I like some of his stuff. There's no arguing taste.

And on another note, since Jouhou brought it up, I find the more realistic and plausible horrors more than I do the fictions. Artistic takes on the world regarding perception is one thing, but when you see something that happened - something one human does to another - it's infinitely more disturbing, if only because it has or could happen.

Meanwhile, Alphabet is just Lynch being Lynch.

I wouldn't say Deliverance is disturbing, really. It's an AWESOME movie, and yea, to think that a river boating trip would go that wry is kind of scary? But I don't find it disturbing.

Maybe it's because I've seen so many of those damned white water and river boat trips. (White Water Summer, The River Wild, crap like that)


Did you find it disturbing, Devo??

Thinking of other disturbing movies, I found T.H.R.E.A.D.S. to be insanely disturbing. Based on an actual estimation of the decimation of the British population after a nuclear attack, it shows all the horrific details of what would happen to a society if there ever were such an event.

Again - frightening to me if only because it's so close to being real. Taken from IMDB.com:
That's the scary part, I guess.

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.

For me the most disturbing film I have ever seen is Man Bites Dog. It has it all; racism, rape, murder, mutilation, children being hunted and killed, hell you can just look at the cover and see what kind of film it is.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...s_Dog_film.jpg.

Even it if doesn't have the gore of films like Cannibal Holocaust, it more than makes up for it in macabre shocks.

I´m not sure about Ichi the Killer. The gore is so comically overkill sometimes that I couldn´t help but grin.

I don't have an affinity for horror/being disturbed by visual media, but I guess Last House on the Left was pretty "bad" as far as the material went.

The story of Night of the Hunter was also conceptually disturbing.

Audrey Hepburn's Wait Until Dark is another. Even if the film was only mildly entertaining, there's always that one scene... you know which one I'm talking about.

Isn't that the movie with the robbers trying to rob a blind lady? If so, that dude could fucking FLY.

All these people mentioning THREADS prompted me to give it a download. I can see why it came up so often.

I personally thought this movie sucked the big one. It's hard to sit through only because it's so fucking BORING. Sure, there's plenty of gore or whatnot, but it's ridiculous and over-the-top. It's too old to be taken seriously.

Yes. This film is very disturbing. It's very uncomfortable to sit through.

I've actually seen 'I Spit on your Grave' and that movie is one of the least disturbing movies ever. That movie is boring from the get go and remains that way until the end when the woman exacts her revenge. Even then, the movie goes from attempting to be disturbing to shit-brained slasher movie. Even 'Last House on the Left' was more disturbing (same premise) and that was released commercially.

I disagree with this as well. I thought this movie was extremely cliched and predictable. The only thing unique aspect of this film was the fact that it was set in Austrailia.

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The most disturbing movie I saw was Aurore l'enfant martyre

It's the story of a young girl who got abused to death by her stepmother, often helped by her own father.

the most disturbing fact about this movie is that this really happened, and it's the only movie that made me feel dizzy to the point I felt like puking.

Ouch. Fucking A.

I read the IMDB plot summary and that shit is brutal. The nurse kills the Mother, the nurse then marries the Father, and in-turn kills the daughter.

Does any justice come to this witch woman? I wouldn't imagine so, otherwise it wouldn't be a very disturbing movie, I would think.

Actually, she had a death sentence but she was pregnent so at the end she only had a life sentence. she got out of jail a few years later.

This thread being around is rather serendipitous given the information I just heard. On May 1, 2007, Anchor Bay will be releasing a box set of the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, including El Topo, Fando y Lis, Holy Mountain and Cravate. The films have been remastered, and the new prints are supposedly very fresh and crisp, with excellent color. There have been several theater screenings in major US cities, and the reviews have been excellent.

Jodorowsky, once quoted as saying, "I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs," is fucking LORD GOD KING over disturbing films. Most of his movies have been out of print since their release dates because of issues with the distributor (some asshole named Allen Klein hated the films). Nonetheless, the pictures became somewhat of midnight classics and bootlegs were circulated, all rather low quality. It took over 30 years for these films to get the recognition they deserve.

I went on a Jodorowsky craze a few years back. Not sure on what I feel about his movies, they're interesting at least. The one I remember the most is El Topo and one that I forgot the name (takes place around a circus). Both good, but nothing I would want to watch over and over again.

I might be interested in the box though, sounds nice.

I'm not really a fan of disturbing movies, but one of the most disturbing movies I have seen was a Japanese movie called "Battle Royale." It is about a class of first year high school students who are kidnapped to this deserted isle and ordered to kill each other in 3 days time. The winner will be set free. It is not very gory or bloody, but some of these students are best friends, b/f, g/f and they have to kill each other. They used real high school students and the acting is awesome. You really feel for these characters! It stars the Japanese girl from Kill Bill, who plays Go-Go.

I highly recommend this film. It is disturbing.

Haha yeah, that fucking bitch. I opened a bottle of champagne when she got killed.

In Battle Royale or in Kill Bill? LOL

August Underground and the sequel if you want to call it that.

You will cry. :(

The most mentally disturbing movie I've seen was The Machinist. There's something about the slow decline into insanity that's . . . depressing.

Cannibal Holocaust is a "disturbing" movie with a fun little background (banned in over 50 countries, director got heavily fined and was questioned for murder after the release of the film).

13 Tzameti...It's the most instense thriller I have ever seen. It's a French film about crime and a sick game that resembles the russian roulette. It has a great dark feel to it with crazy suspense. :twitch:

http://www.tzameti.com/

I just saw this last week, and it really isn't disturbing at all. Shocking on occasion, yes, but it's pretty obviously a dark comedy. I don't think comedies can really be disturbing by nature.

May isn't disturbing: it's fucking hilarious. Creepy, a little, but still fucking hilarious.

I'd like to second the ending of Audition and that rape scene in Irreversible. I mean, I knew what I was getting in to when I went to go see it, but still. Jesus Christ.


And now I wanna see "Threads." Oh and Alphabet is brilliant. Batshit insane, yeah. Terrifying? No.

Demonoid has a well seeded torrent of Threads, which is where I got it.

I agree with you about the Alphabet. I didn't bring it up earlier because LeHah tends to cream his pants and yell about how I don't understand psychology whenever I disagree with him over a Lynch film.

I'll go with Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. There are several shocking scenes but there is one particular scence where:

I've always found Videodrone to be quite disturbing. Not gory or anything like that, just the whole premise of the movie got to me, what with how television and media control us and becomes part of our flesh..very cool visuals for an older movie.

Ones I'd like to second are Audition, Ichi The Killer, and Irreversable.

I was gonna come in here and say OMG CHUCKY or something but then I see some of the shit you guys are talking about and I realize just how naive and child like I am to this stuff. I couldnt even keep reading the full thread after reading about women cutting off their nipples with a boxcutter. WHAT THE FUCK?

Anyway, along th elines of the demented, I once saw this bizarre Japanese movie where a man finds a mermaid in the sewers but shes dying or whatever or ends up rotting away. Bizarre.

While it's hardly the most disturbing movie ever (or even mentioned in this thread), I still have a great difficulty watching the "eye cut" scene in Un Chien Andalou.

I just saw an oh-so-very-fucked-up film called Man Behind The Sun about Japanese war atrocities. There's one scene in particular involving a pressure chamber that made me look away. Just... fucked up.

Along the same lines as The Machinist (which I loved) is Requiem For a Dream. This film wasn't full of gross-out gore, or anything of that nature, but when it ended that feeling of absolute... dread stayed with me for a couple days. Really, a brilliantly directed film, but not one I'm eager to see again.

Yeah, Requiem for a Dream was pretty disturbing all-around.

It's just the mood and the bullshit that these people put themselves through.

It turns your stomach upside down from the very beginning when Jared Leto is demanding his Mother's TV. From there on, you know the movie is going to be an intense fuck-ride.

Most disturbing movie?

Thats easy. Peanut Butter Solution. I still have nightmares about it.

Care to go into detail or you just looking for a quick post?

I had to stop watching the movie for a while about half-way through. I did finish it though. And now I own it.

I haven't really watched alot of horrors, but someones got to mention The Ring. Yes, it seems like it's probably candy compared to what some of you folks have seen in terms of gore or the such. But that scene with Anna Morgan combing her hair on the mirror, fucking creepy.

I'd personally mention Saw, myself. Not II or III, the original Saw.

The twists all through the film just set you on edge, and I swear I cried out "Holy SHIT" at the ending.

Granted, it's also the first horror movie that I actually sat through and watched to the end (thanks, *friend's name removed*. I'll never be the same).

Still, this thread has given me quite a few ideas for things to do next week when I visit her. =D

I recently saw a Korean film called Oldboy which was pretty disturbing. I've got a load of horror films and gore films so I find these days, a film needs a psychological edge to be really disturbing, buckets of blood just don't do it for me any more.

Oldboy is essentially about a guy who get's imprisoned for 15 years without knowing why and is then released just as suddenly. He has a few days to find out why he was imprisoned and released and i's basically pretty fucked up. Any further discussion of the plot would completely ruin it for everyone though...

I think me and my girlfriend are getting a bit de-sensitised to gore these days. When we watched Saw III at the cinema we seemed to be the only people in the cinema laughing most of the way through.

Plot

The main character, a child, loses his hair as a result of fright. He seeks to regain his hair by using a magical formula, whose main ingredient is Peanut Butter (hence the name of the title). This formula works so well that his hair doesn't stop growing. An eccentric artist needs brushes made from human hair. He uses those brushes to create magical paintings. When he realizes that the child's hair continually grows, he kidnaps the child in order to have an endless supply of hair for his brushes.

LOL OMG!!! Has anyone else seen this movie for kids? I suddenly wanna look for it in emule just for laughs :P