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.