The most DISTURBING movie/s you've ever seen THREAD.

[Golgo-13]

I watched the movie Martyrs the other day, and man this is probably the most disturbing thing i've seen on film. It makes the I spit on your Grave re-make, which i thought was disturbing before seeing this, look like an episode of Icarly. I have a really strong stomach and love for gore, and despite Martyrs not having alot of it in there, the editing, pacing and intensity of this movie really freaks you out.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

I am not really into those kinds of movies, but if, as you say, the gory intensity is down to the pacing and editing, I'll wait for the viewmaster adaptation.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

I don't watch a lof of horror films but :

- Creep http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381966/

- Human Centipede http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1467304/

Creep is an ok movie in the genre, Human Centipede is a curiosity and rather "soft" beside the repulsive concept.

 

[jacobed]

Twilight

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Eden Lake
Martyrs
Irreverisble

But I don't watch a lot of disturbing stuff TBH.

Twilight

 

[C. Lee]

Pink Flamingos

 

[Rocketman]

Requiem for a Dream (Unrated Cut) was the first movie that came to mind.

 

[chamber-music]

A Serbian Film was awful. I really struggled to watch all of that film.

 

[batman44]

I Saw the Devil.

 

[Electrofarce]

Irreversible was extremely disturbing and graphic, but it was a good movie from a narrative standpoint and the acting was great.

Eraserhead also was really disturbing, but not necessarily in an unpleasent way. It was just really strange.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Pink Flamingos

You don't like watching a fat transvestite eat poo off the street?

Seriously tho, seconded. John Waters is the master of the shock factor

 

[Superhero 101]

Pathfinder

 

[danoyse]

The Strangers.

 

[rnewbz]

Johnny Got His Gun
Martyrs

 

[Kane52630]

A Serbian Film

Enter the Void

Martyrs

Irreverisble

Antichrist

 

[obin_gam]

A Serbian Film, Martyrs and Cannibal Holocaust are the three films I'll never be able to remove from my cornea.

With that said, I want to point out tho that these are well made and GOOD movies. I feel that people sometimes gets the words disturbing and bad mixed up, which I think is kinda annoying.

All of these are well made, extraordinary acted, great special effects (not counting the animal scenes in CH tho, **** him, for doing that!), and has stories that are well beyond the quality of a random hollywood pg13 horror flick.

 

[Wolfwood]

Oldboy. That movie ****ed me good. I mean...just the whole ending. Ugh.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

You guys must have lived pretty pampered lives to be so easily 'disturbed' by mere fiction.

 

[Snare]

You gus must have lived pretty pampered lives to be so easily 'disturbed' by mere fiction.

 

[danoyse]

You gus must have lived pretty pampered lives to be so easily 'disturbed' by mere fiction.

Or maybe they just found the subject matter of the movie disturbing. No need to read into any further than that.

 

[LOBO3315a]

A disturbing movie to me, is one you think back on years after having watched it. It haunts you.

I've seen Cannibal Holocaust, mostly due to people who rag on Blair Witch saying this film did it first, and better. While rough to watch, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It didn't haunt me. Blair Witch did.

The others listed, (Martyrs, A Serbian Film) having read the reviews and synopses on IMDB make CH sound like a walk in the park. They have been referred to a torture porn. I'm not sure I want to see them. I did see Saws I-V and both Hostels. None of these movies haunted me.

A movie that haunts me to this day, is John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. Between the visions from the future in their dreams, and the ambiguous ending, it's the one movie I think back on all the time.

 

[moviedoors]

A Serbian Film, Martyrs and Cannibal Holocaust are the three films I'll never be able to remove from my cornea.

With that said, I want to point out tho that these are well made and GOOD movies. I feel that people sometimes gets the words disturbing and bad mixed up, which I think is kinda annoying.

All of these are well made, extraordinary acted, great special effects (not counting the animal scenes in CH tho, **** him, for doing that!), and has stories that are well beyond the quality of a random hollywood pg13 horror flick.

The animal killing is what made me hate Cannibal Holocaust. Whatever kind of message they were trying to get across was rendered moot when the director had his actors perpetuate the cruelty he was trying to condemn his characters for. That is the absolute height of filmmaking hypocrisy.

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Here's my list. I despise some of these, I'm indifferent to some, and I think a couple of them are great:

Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom
Irreversible
Cannibal Holocaust
Men Behind the Sun
A Serbian Film
August Underground trilogy
Aftermath
Martyrs
Inside

Though it doesn't hit me like it did when I first saw it (I'm far more desensitized now), I'll give a special shout out to Audition. When I first saw it, I was an 18 year old college freshman, I saw it in the theater, and I walked in completely cold. I didn't even know it was a horror movie or even Japanese. For the first half, I really thought it was a just a cute, whimsical romantic comedy. I stubbled out of the theater two hours later and basically stared at the wall for the rest of the night. That's also the record for the most walks out I've ever seen before. Literally half of the nearly full theater left before the end.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

A disturbing movie to me, is one you think back on years after having watched it. It haunts you.

This is what i'm talking about, if a movie has ever 'haunted' you, it tells me that you have led a pretty uneventful life, you probably live it vicariously for the most part.
I've had far too much crazy sh** happen to me in reality for any kind of fiction to have that kind of effect on me.
and I'm not haunted by anything that has happened to me in real life either.
I'm strong like that.

 

[LOBO3315a]

Good for you?

 

[Pink Ranger]

You don't like watching a fat transvestite eat poo off the street?

Isn't that just a normal Wednesday in New York City?