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

[Golgo-13]

It's Eden Lake.

In fairness, you don't actually see anything gory. You see him pour the petrol on while the woman he's chasing is hiding, and then we stay with her and you just hear it.

You hear the flames go up, and this boys blood curdling scream - one of the best movie screams I've ever heard. Your imagination does the rest.

The ending is pretty disturbing too, in that there is absolutely no happy ending at all. Which was hard for me because I was really rooting for the woman... I mean anyone would be. She's not a damsel in distress type, she gets badass.

Eden Lake is another one....

 

[-Arya-]

Funny Games immediately comes to mind for me.

 

[Marvin]

I didn't cry, it pissed me off, because the older brother should have either swallowed his pride and went back to that moany old relative when his lil sis started getting ill, or, and I still don't understand this plot point in the film, went back to the bank in the town center to get money out to buy food for her, so, he doesn't do that, but he goes into town after she died to get money?!
It was a very emotionally engaging film, it was just that character's logic I did not understand.

That's the point of a good character film. It's not a logic exercise. It's the human experience. We make bad selfish choices every day. In this case it was a tragic one.

The film being a commentary on the suffering caused by pride. In this case the Japanese being a pridefull culture, the innocent sisters they were supposed to protect but let die, being every single victim of war they committed to death not only by way of their belief in a divine emperor destined to rule the planet(or so the story goes), but rather by how much it truly took for them to swallow their pride and surrender already(not one but 2 atoms bombs apparently). Amazing movie.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

That's the point of a good character film. It's not a logic exercise. It's the human experience. We make bad selfish choices every day. In this case it was a tragic one.

The film being a commentary on the suffering caused by pride. In this case the Japanese being a pridefull culture, the innocent sisters they were supposed to protect but let die, being every single victim of war they committed to death not only by way of their belief in a divine emperor destined to rule the planet(or so the story goes), but rather by how much it truly took for them to swallow their pride and surrender already(not one but 2 atoms bombs apparently). Amazing movie.

Yeah, but it still doesn't make sense why he didn't go to the bank until after his lil sis died.
It was an amazing film, but it was just that one point that i didn't get, and y'know, of course the pride aspect annoyed me too.
I don't know if the aspect of him still having money in the bank was a concious decision to show the young guy being stupid and careless, or whether it was the one logic blip in an otherwise well written film.

 

[Marvin]

Hard to say, I'd have to re watch. But all together tragic.
It taught me that animation is a medium, not a genre ie princesses ugh(or even the pixar genre)

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Well, I guess it's just like the comicbooks over there, it's not so abundantly swamped by superheroes and the like.

 

[bullets]

edit: I'm afraid my fame is not exactly of my own doing, but I do try not to get too personal with other people when battling it out, although it is tempting sometimes given the amount of personal sh** i take on a 24/7 365 days a year for the last three and a half years basis.

I've witnessed a lot of horrible things in my life including murder , roadside bombing , and people burning alive in their vehicles. It doesn't make films less disturbing for me .

The first thing that comes to my mind are the Faces of Death movies. I had to turn them off because they disturbed me so much. I was a freshman in High School when I saw the first one, and then I watched one of the other ones when I was older, thinking I could handle it. Even when I was older, I still couldn't handle them.

I forgot about these. I used to stay over a friends house on the weekends and he'd either want to play video game or watch these.
Watching the dogs get killed was awful and I remember one guy had his leg amputated because it got stuck under a tree. Good times

 

[Secret Fawful]

Yeah, but it still doesn't make sense why he didn't go to the bank until after his lil sis died.
It was an amazing film, but it was just that one point that i didn't get, and y'know, of course the pride aspect annoyed me too.
I don't know if the aspect of him still having money in the bank was a concious decision to show the young guy being stupid and careless, or whether it was the one logic blip in an otherwise well written film.

Before she died, he still had his pride, but after she died, I do believe he had nothing left inside or out. I dunno, if the author of the book were still alive, one could ask him why he made that decision, if he did in real life, but that's my best guess.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

I've witnessed a lot of horrible things in my life including murder , roadside bombing , and people burning alive in their vehicles. It doesn't make films less disturbing for me .

Aye, i have since went back and said how i do get disturbed by certain things in film, but they don't haunt me, as they do with some folk in here as they have said.
But, my original point was more along the lines of folk sitting back comfortably and having the luxury of *only* getting disturbed by movies in their lives, and who do not take into account the incredible stress and illness that can exist in someone's else's real life that they may scoff and mock at.

 

[flickchick85]

Good call on Eden Lake. That one has stuck with me looong after I saw it. Very unsettling.

Another one that I found disturbing - in a much more entertaining way - was Almodovar's The Skin I Live In. As things kept getting revealed through flashbacks, the situation you're presented with in the beginning just starts looking more and more f****d up. But I still enjoyed the movie and would watch it again. Eden Lake, on the other hand, I never, ever want to see again.

 

[Max J Power]

I don't know why but Dean Stockwell singing In Dreams in Blue Velvet has always freaked me out.

Blue Velvet is one of the more disturbing movies I've seen. Largely because Dennis Hopper's character. [blackout]"BABY WANTS TO ****![/blackout]

 

[bullets]

Aye, i have since went back and said how i do get disturbed by certain things in film, but they don't haunt me, as they do with some folk in here as they have said.
But, my original point was more along the lines of folk sitting back comfortably and have the luxury of *only* getting disturbed by movies in their lives, and who do not take into account the incredible stress and illness that can exist in someone's else's real life that they may scoff and mock at.

Ah I see , all is well and good then.

 

[LOBO3315a]

No, but this is your last warning about trolling this thread.

Thank-you for this!

The ending of The Mist has stayed with me ever since I saw it. Damn, Tom Jane. Damn.

Yeah, Stephen King's original ending left it as an "end of the world" scenario.

The movie's was quite different. Almost a better ending for it. Good choice!

 

[Pittman4Two]

Megan is Missing takes the cake for me.

Took a couple days to shake that one.

 

[childeroland]

Martyrs
Inside
Cannibal Holocaust (mostly 'cause the animal torture killing is real--only film I've seen that morally offends me personally)
Inland Empire

 

[childeroland]

Aye, i have since went back and said how i do get disturbed by certain things in film, but they don't haunt me, as they do with some folk in here as they have said.
But, my original point was more along the lines of folk sitting back comfortably and having the luxury of *only* getting disturbed by movies in their lives, and who do not take into account the incredible stress and illness that can exist in someone's else's real life that they may scoff and mock at.

It's a little presumptuous to assume what other people's experiences must be just because they are more disturbed by a film than you are. How does one person know what others have experienced and how (if in any way) that relates to how they view a film?

 

[Golgo-13]

Funny Games immediately comes to mind for me.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

 

[CGHulk]

When I was 10 I saw Akira. That movie can really freak a kid out!

 

[Superhero 101]

I think Zodiac movie with Ruffalo and Downey was not disturbing but i felt really weird after i watched that film for a few days

 

[Darkness Falls]

the mist definatley

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Good call on Eden Lake. That one has stuck with me looong after I saw it. Very unsettling.

Another one that I found disturbing - in a much more entertaining way - was Almodovar's The Skin I Live In. As things kept getting revealed through flashbacks, the situation you're presented with in the beginning just starts looking more and more f****d up. But I still enjoyed the movie and would watch it again. Eden Lake, on the other hand, I never, ever want to see again.

I've seen Eden Lake a few times... After getting over the initial disturbing factor, it's just such a good film, strong characterisation, and like I said a female lead that actually gets her hands dirty to try and survive instead of just running behind a man and screaming.

Michael Fassbender gives a great performance, and Jack O'Connell is simply this generations greatest psycopath as Brett IMO.

But it's impossible to enjoy watching it, no matter how many times I've seen it. It never stops making me feel the same way it did first time round. And disturbed is the perfect word for it.

I mean you start the horror ride with kids torturing a man with barb wire and pocket knives... And every time you think it can't possibly get worse than that - it gets worse!

When I was 10 I saw Akira. That movie can really freak a kid out!

Seconded!

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Akira? I remember that movie, I used to have it on tape, I always wanted fold up furtinture that turned into robots.

 

[Donnie Darko]

I haven't ever seen Eden Lake, but I really want to after this thread.

 

[Golgo-13]

Samuel Jacksons film Unthinkable is very thought provoking, and disturbing as hell.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I'd probably put Martyrs at the top of the list here, for being both the most disturbing film I've ever seen and also one of the best. In an age when so many horror films are so paint-by-number, Martyrs is a rare (though really sick) gem.
Others...
The Human Centipede
I Spit on Your Grave (original)
Oldboy
Requiem for a Dream
FUNNY GAMES
Antichrist
Inside
The Devil's Rejects
Fire in the Sky **Thanks Sawyer, for reminding me of this one. It makes you look at alien abduction in a whole new way; especially since it might have actually happened.
Eyes Wide Shut
Red State
Unthinkable
Happiness
Welcome to the Dollhouse
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Last Exorcism
Precious

Also, I'd have to add A Clockwork Orange to this list. It doesn't disturb me anymore, but when I first saw it I was about 16 and it disturbed me quite a bit.