Darkest films

[Visceral]

What are the five most dark filmd you have ever seen. (doesn't have to be ones you like)

Mine are
5. The Dark Knight
4. Donnie Darko
3. Oldboy
2. Mystic River
1. Taxi Driver

Note: haven't seen all of a Clockwork Orange yet.

[Zephyr Alexian]

I don't know about the darkest, but Gone Baby Gone is up there for me. TDK is probably the most intense film I've seen this year. Blade Runner is dark for its day. Also, the general disposition of every 'out for their own personal gain' character in the Maltese Falcon makes it one of those kind for me. Full Metal Jacket is like that. I can't group them into any order, but those are some I can think of off the top of my head.

[xwolverine2]

dark city :D

lol

i guess it would be obvious to mention tim burton but i refuse to.

[Mr. Todd]

Sweeney Todd is definitely high up there.

[Soapy]

Dumplings.

[Alien Anal]

Bad Boy Bubby
now thats a ukin dark movie

[Carmine Falcone]

Se7en is one bleak, grim piece of film. There are like 2/3 laughs in it. I think that's the one.

[xwolverine2]

Sweeney Todd is definitely high up there.

i dont find a movie where people sing all throughout very dark lol..

[Dexter M0rgan]

...Okay...

Sweeney Todd is definitely dark. A big downer of an ending.

[Kahran Ramsus]

The Godfather Part II. Michael's downfall is quite depressing.

[Eggyman]

8mm
Se7en
+
All bootlegs :p

[Eggyman]

8mm
Se7en
+
All bootlegs :p

[Changeling]

Donnie Darko. Sweeney Todd is definitely dark

[Gilpesh]

28 Days Later (original ending)

[Cousin Itt]

5. No Country For Old Men
4. Silence Of The Lambs
3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (74)
2. Blue Velvet
1. Cannibal Holocaust

All films to watch on Christmas.

[deathshead2]

Wait Donnie darko is dark? I thought it was comedy?:huh: At least I was laughing through most of it.

Oh and the Thing is dark.

[Sawyer]

The Excorcist. Naming a horror movie may be cheap, but nothing is quite as dark as masturbating with a cruxafix.

[bullets]

texas chainsaw massacre
the shining
seven
poltergeist
jacob's ladder

i haven't seen cannibal holocaust and not so sure i want to .. that's dark.

[Warhammer]

I know that Cannibal Holocaust is as nasty as you can possibly get, but how is it really a dark film? The movie even seemed like an actual documentary, so that alone ends it for me classifying it as dark.

[MrWayne]

Nightmare On Elm Street parts 1 & 2

[Franklin Richards]

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[The Guard]

I'm glad someone mentioned 8MM. Despite the various "inaccuracies", it's got some of the darkest stuff you'll ever see in mainstream film.

[BatJeff7786]

No Country for Old Men. The ending is so dark that people were mad at it because it just....ended. No resolution. The bad guy gets away, one hero dies and the other gives up.

[Space Moose]

Dumplings.
Depends. It's a film you have to pay attention to to understand the true horror that's happening otherwise it's just some crazy old bat rambling on about eating babies and stuff.

[Eklypze]

Reguiem of Dream
Kids
Gummo
Bully
The Prestige
Dark City
Equilibrium
Fight Club
Se7en
Lost Highway
Batman Begins
Pewees Big Adventure ( I watched this for the first time in like 10 years not to long ago and was astounded with how dark it actually was)
And i cant think of anymore right now but i know i could here in a few

[Obsidian]

I'd say some of the darkest films are the ones that pose alot of questions without giving clear answers. A good example is "Gone Baby Gone".

[Space Moose]

The half hour of Wall.E was suprisingly dark for a kids film.

[Sarg92]

No Country for Old Men. The ending is so dark that people were mad at it because it just....ended. No resolution. The bad guy gets away, one hero dies and the other gives up.

Now I haven't seen that film but any script writer or director that has the hero losing or the main character/title role die and the villian winning is really brave and a quality writer/filmmaker if they can make it work within the story. It is so different, unexpected and not cliched if you will.

[Space Moose]

Now I haven't seen that film but any script writer or director that has the hero losing or the main character/title role die and the villian winning is really brave and a quality writer/filmmaker if they can make it work within the story. It is so different, unexpected and not cliched if you will.
He also dies off-screen.

[The Apocalypse]

Harry Potter 1 was pretty dark.

[matrix_ghost]

To the thread creator :
Define dark.

Are talking about movies like say Harry Potter/TDK , which are commercial flicks but are geared towards adults . Dark here meaning having a mature content .

Or are we talking about movies in general that are quite dark on their own ( Taxi Driver ,8 MM , se7en.

[Space Moose]

Twelve Monkeys?
Nothing beats a vicious circle of death.

[Addendum]

Requiem For A Dream
End of Evangelion
Event Horizon
Session 9

[LegendaryCaleb]

No Country For Old Men is one...Theres a couple others but im brain fartin

[Addendum]

Rosemary's Baby is also dark

[Eklypze]

Event Horizon was a great movie Addendum. I thought Sunshine was pretty dark too

[LastSunrise1981]

The Dark Knight
The Mist
X2
Gone Baby Gone
No Country For Old Men
Jeepers Creepers
Se7en
American History X
Cannibal Holocaust
Rosemary's Baby
Twelve Monkeys
Kids(For some reason you feel dirty after watching the film.)
Terminator 2

[Gilpesh]

Event Horizon was a great movie Addendum. I thought Sunshine was pretty dark too

No matter how dark it is... the human race is still shown in a favorable light and 'wins'.

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

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[KnightBat]

Alien 3 is pretty dark, right off the bat. It kills off 3 main characters in the opening sequence and it just gets worse from there. Ripley's forced to start all over again in a hostile prison environment with alien loose again. The one friend she does make gets killed and then she finds out that she is carrying the next Queen Alien. She's then decides to kill herself to save mankind, but has to make a very difficult decision when she is presented with a way out at the end of the film.

[Asr]

28 Weeks Later
Alien (to an extent)
Candyman
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
The Fly
The Hills Have Eyes (2005?)
The Thing
Zodiac

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

The fly's a cool movie. Jeff Goldblum does a good job of making the charecter more convincing in loosing his humanity.

[Space Moose]

The fly's a cool movie. Jeff Goldblum does a good job of making the charecter more convincing in loosing his humanity.
Gina Davis was crap though. Hot, but crap.

[Dark Victory]

Reqiuem For A Dream

Almost had to turn off the TV near the end.:o

[adhokk7]

Off the top of my head and in no particular order:

In The Company Of Men
The Godfather
Shane
Shadowboxer
Magic

[Venom75]

One of the darkest films I've ever seen is also one of my all time favorites:Der Untergang(The Downfall).

That movie was so good that you actually felt like you were in the bunker with Adolf Hitler and his friends and followers. It was a claustrophobic atmosphere and depressing. Although Hitler was evil and you certainly don't cheer for him,he was also human and you kind of felt for him as his world crumbled down around him. You also had the "suicide" of the Goebbels children and the chaos and death that lead up to the end of the war.

[Kane]

Some of the darkest films I've seen that haven't been mentioned yet:

The Chaser (Korean film - really good)
The Crow
Manhunter (the first Hannibal Lecter movie)
The Girl Next Door (based on the Jack Ketchum novel)
Pet Sematary (the book is darker)
Mulholland Dr.

[Brick]

Mysterious Skin.

[thejon93]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned 'The Descent'. The movie itself was the first I recall to have scared the $#&% out of me, so badly, that I was actually leaning my head into the pillow, as I shut off the TV. An intense, disturbing horror movie, other horror movies should take note from this one, because this is truly scary.

[The Chairman]

The Omen
Devil's Advocate
Se7en
The Dark Knight
Batman Returns
Carnal Knowledge
The Shining
Memento
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (People will probably go WTF on this one, but the ending is possibly the darkest things ever put on film. It's even creepier in the extended version when they sing "Superheroes.")
Natural Born Killers

[Visceral]

To the thread creator :
Define dark.

Are talking about movies like say Harry Potter/TDK , which are commercial flicks but are geared towards adults . Dark here meaning having a mature content .

Or are we talking about movies in general that are quite dark on their own ( Taxi Driver ,8 MM , se7en.

Mature Content, of course. What is the difference? If something is geared toward adults shouldn't it have mature content? If a peice of art is commercialized does it stop being a peice of art?

[Not_Sane]

I found The Killing Gene very dark and sad. but it was a good movie.

[matrix_ghost]

Mature Content, of course. What is the difference? If something is geared toward adults shouldn't it have mature content? If a peice of art is commercialized does it stop being a peice of art?

Well i would've liked it if you you more specific in what you wanted to see as darkest movies. In terms of mature content i think flicks like The dark Knight and the latest Harry Potter movies pale in comparison to Old Boy.
I see people here posting movies like TDK , Batman Returns and The Mist as their darkest movies but really is the dark knight darker then se7en. Or the shining . Or requiem for a dream :huh:.

There are certain flicks that are dark from the start and continue to go deeper in that area. Se7en starts off as a movie about a serial killer and eventually goes into horrific images of people enduring the 7 sins .

We are talking about the darkest movies we've seen. That pretty limits us to truly psychotic stuff like 8 MM , Oldboy etc.

[Apollo]

Pans Labyrinth was a lot darker than i thought it was going to be. Mostly because i thought it was a Pg-13 film haha

[Visceral]

Well i would've liked it if you you more specific in what you wanted to see as darkest movies. In terms of mature content i think flicks like The dark Knight and the latest Harry Potter movies pale in comparison to Old Boy.
I see people here posting movies like TDK , Batman Returns and The Mist as their darkest movies but really is the dark knight darker then se7en. Or the shining . Or requiem for a dream :huh:.

There are certain flicks that are dark from the start and continue to go deeper in that area. Se7en starts off as a movie about a serial killer and eventually goes into horrific images of people enduring the 7 sins .

We are talking about the darkest movies we've seen. That pretty limits us to truly psychotic stuff like 8 MM , Oldboy etc.

I think that these types of threads tell us a lot about each other and a lot about how we view movies differently. There is a reason why people post such movies. The Dark Knight is darker than Se7en, Oldboy is a critique on a persons psyche, showing the fruitlessness of vengeful action. The Dark Knight not only shows this fruitlessness in a different way, but it calls into question every human institution, rule, and dogma. In Se7en, people endure the 7 deadly sins, but it never really goes far beyond that. The point of the nameless killer was to show how the sins have corrupted us all even the selfrightuous cop.

It all depends on how we veiw these movies as dark, and that is why these threads interest me.

[Upset Spideyfan]

Oldboy and No Country for Old Men.

[Corpus Luteum]

The Chaser.

[McGraw]

Anybody who says TDK, I have to keep a straight fact :hehe:

Reguiem of Dream
Lost Highway
Se7en
The Excorcist
No Country For Old Men
Event Horizon
Gone Baby Gone
American History X
The Crow
Memento

[Jack O Lantern]

Wild Strawberries

The Woman on the Dunes

Chinatown

La Jeteé

[Sarge 2.0]

Wild Strawberries

The Woman on the Dunes

Chinatown

La JeteéYes to these.

Interiors
Snow Angels
Through A Glass, Darkly
Cries and Whispers
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
Straw Dogs
The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Silence
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
The Sweet Hereafter
Pixote

and tons and tons of others.

[The Chairman]

The Pledge was a very dark movie.

[The Navigator]

A Clockwork Orange.

Brazil had a pretty dark ending, but that may not count.

[Dark Victory]

The Mist

Talk about an unhappy ending. Still a great film.

[Not_Sane]

Don't take this personal but The Mist was crap and not that dark at all, just a pain in the ass.

[Nirvana]

Pan's Labyrinth and Sweeney Todd are both definitely dark. I have to be in a certain mood to watch those.

[Dark Victory]

Don't take this personal but The Mist was crap and not that dark at all, just a pain in the ass.


To each his own, I guess....

[Max J Power]

A Clockwork Orange
Chinatown
Taxi Driver
The Thing
Seven
Mystic River
No Country For Old Men
Gone Baby Gone

I'm thinking of "dark" as in having dark and bleak themes, not necessarily atmospheres or settings.

[Carmine Falcone]

Straw Dogs

Good pick. That ending is pretty damn sad. I've only seen that flick once, but I thought it was brilliant, I need to check it out again.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Yeah, another good pick. Except for the fact that pretty much the whole movie is about a person who can't escape death, the whole Black Lodge mythology that is shown to us makes you realize (but only after thinking and analyzing and reading up on it for a week) that there are no really good spirits around, except for maybe The Giant. Evil is so much stronger. That's some grim ****.

[WeaponZed3]

To each his own, I guess....

I loved "The Mist"...

Um... "KIDS" is VERY dark, "8MM". I dont consider a lot of the movies being listed as dark though. Well... they're dark, but nothing that was so dark that it left an unsettling impression on me, like "Kids" did.

[bestever23]

yeah I loved the mist too

but I just saw Martyrs:wow:

now everyone must see that, really dark

[hammerhedd11]

I agree with a lot of the ones people've already said and also:

The Mist
Eraserhead
Elephant
Gerry

[Eklypze]

I watched Bully a few weeks ago trippin extremely hard on this misfits print acid and MAN!! I honestly dont know how me and my friend watched it all as hard as we were tripping. It was just insane especially the big kill scene. I dont see how it didnt drive us absolutely nuts for real cuz I have never tripped that hard before

[kedrell]

As far as superhero movies go, TDK and AngHulk pretty much take the cake.

Seven,
8mm,
Identity,
Zodiac,

are also good choices.

[xwolverine2]

Gina Davis was crap though. Hot, but crap.

whhat? i thought she was great...

[xwolverine2]

Event Horizon was a great movie Addendum. I thought Sunshine was pretty dark too

i cant believe i for got that one...

that movie still creeps the hell outta me...

along with Sphere...

[CashforStash]

Edward Scissorhands

[Eklypze]

i cant believe i for got that one...

that movie still creeps the hell outta me...

along with Sphere...


Haha yea dude I caught it on cinemax like 2 months ago and it hasnt left my dvr lmao same thing goes for Bully, The Arrival, Kalifornia, and Killer Klowns from Outerspace. Ive had em all on my dvr for a while lol Thats the only dark ones though.

And dude I absolutely love Sphere but the book is waaaaayyy better so yea if you like the movie or reading then you should check it out cuz it goes way more in depth

[Sarge 2.0]

Welcome to the Dollhouse
Happiness
Kids
Bully

All INCREDIBLY dark.

[Eklypze]

Hahahaha I havent seen Welcome to the Dollhouse since i was a kid

[Longshot777]

The Muppet Movie

I mean that Doc Hopper wants to kill the innocent Muppets


The Great Muppet Caper

Her own brother tying to steal from her is pretty dark

The Muppets Take Manhattan

I mean Kermit getting hit and actually getting hurt with amnesia is pretty dark.



But really:

Top 3 Dark Films

1. Watchmen
2. Fight Club
3. The Prestige

[redhawk23]

Event Horizon was a great movie Addendum. I thought Sunshine was pretty dark too


lol the irony of that statement

[superhero]

BATMAN BEGINS
THE DARK NIGHT
Die hard
I ALWAYS THINK THE FIRST TEEANGE MUTANT NINJATURTLES MOIVE WERE DARK.
THE NEWEST Charlie and the chocolate factory
I always tHINK spider-man 3 was kind of dark. many people didn't like it much.
THE FIRST pirates of the caribbean CRUSE OF THE BLACK PEARL.
mOST OF THE HARRY POTTER MOIVES WERE DARK.
Ghostbusters1
thenever ending story

[Sarge 2.0]

Storytelling.

Todd Solondz needs a hug.