Darkest films

[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.

Spoiler

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

 

[Maximus One]

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 [BLACKOUT]'wins'[/BLACKOUT].

 

[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.

 

[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 favoriteser 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