The Most Screwed-Up Movie You've Seen Is...

[Orko Is King]

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Of the movies I've seen, that's definately in the top 3 for most disturbing. Funny thing about that movie, I ALMOST rented it when I was a little kid because I thought it had to do with Iron Man the comic book character but I opted not to since the box art creeped me out.

 

[Kakihara]

Of the movies I've seen, that's definately in the top 3 for most disturbing. Funny thing about that movie, I ALMOST rented it when I was a little kid because I thought it had to do with Iron Man the comic book character but I opted not to since the box art creeped me out.

I did that same thing. I remember looking on the back of the vhs box trying to see him in the suit.

 

[IRON_Lad]

Ichi the Killer

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Cannibal Holocaust.

 

[Rac]

These words can: Totally awesome!

Indeed!

The most screwed-up movie I've seen? I don't know. I've seen lot of the movies mentioned in this thread, but I wouldn't put 'em here. Maybe Meatball Machine. But it was also very boring and overally bad movie.

Not in terms of gore etc. shocking these were pretty screwed-up movies:

Eraserhead (1977)
Slipstream (2007)

 

[C.F. Kane]

I'm a lightweight, but I'm going to put this on the list just because the violence in it comes out of freaking nowhere:

A Ma Soeur!

The title translates to "To My Sister", but it was released in English as "Fat Girl".

It's about two sisters: an older, pretty one and a younger, fat one. For most of the movie it's about the jealously that comes up as the older one has her first sexual experience (while her sister is in the room - apparently they thought she was asleep) and the fat girl deals with her poor self-esteem and jealously of her sister's sexuality. There's a lot of full nudity, even from underage characters. Most of the time it isn't gross, just frank. It's mostly intellectualizing about female sexuality at a young age.

Anyway, eventually the parents find out that the older daughter had underage sex, and there's a long car ride with the two sisters and their mom. Pretty girl is embarrassed and depressed, the mom is mad, and fat girl just wants everything to be over with. So after a boring road trip, they stop at a gas station and fall asleep at the car.

Then, just out of absolutely nowhere, with nothing setting it up, a crazy guy smashes the windshield of the car they're sleeping in, busting pretty girl's head in and killing her. He strangles the mother and rapes fat girl. The next day police are sweeping the scene and fat girl denies that she was raped.

So, the movie ends by killing two characters, and raping the main one, for no reason at all.

 

[RickO'Connell]

One screwed up movie is Evolution. Its awesome & one of my favorite movies but how Evolution ends up being a big budget Head & Shoulders commercial is disturbing

 

[GhostPoet]

Hellraiser...watched em all when I was younger with my cousin...we had a marathon!

 

[PyroChamber]

KIDS, definitely one screwed-up movie.

 

[OctaviusINC]

Funny Games

 

[mr_gone]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Irreversible.

The title says it all. Once you've watched this you can't unwatch it.

 

[thejon93]

'The Descent', although I liked the movie it made me sick to my stoamach because just watching it makes you feel like your in their shoes inside that endless cave, searching for escape with a bunch of freaks on your tail. When they finally attacked, I couldn't even stand to look at the screen. If you want to feel absolutely disturbed while watching a film, go watch 'The Descent'.

 

[Victarion]

That version of The Island of Dr. Moreau with Thewlis...its a furry's dream come true

Specifically, the scene where the kangaroo chick is having a baby. Yeesh, I flipped on my television, the movie happened to be on and BAM! That scene pops up.

 

[vibeke_T]

Requiem for a Dream

 

[A.J.Rimmer(BSC)]

Ah-hah! So you're the kind of person who goes to see Saw and Hostel.
Personally, I don't see the fun in torture movies. I do not enjoy the idea of spending my saturday night in the theatre watching someone pull out another man's toenail with a heated pair of pliers. The fun in that is beyond me. Even though I have seen my share of violent (gangster)movies, I do not seek out movies that revolve around physcial pain dreamed up by so called directors(Eli Roth, anyone?) that is a bit too much for me.

You've obviously had a knee jerk bandwagon jumping reaction to tabloid spin then. Without even watching the film.

Whilst I'll give you the Saw sequels and Hostel 2, Hostel is a brilliant, layered horror/satire that is fully deserving of any accolades it receives.
If you can look beyond the much reported but not actually that bad gore factor, you'd find a layered, well shot and paced horror piece.

Edit: Most of the gore is quickly cut (edited) anyway, or put in for comical value.

 

[thejon93]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Irreversible.

The title says it all. Once you've watched this you can't unwatch it.

I should have listened, and I should stay out of this thread...

 

[gimmen64]

Requiem for a Dream

Yep, I'm going to have to go with this film. It left me with an ugly feeling afterwards. I think that's the only movie that I can remember making me feel that way.

 

[Sloth7d]

Kazam

 

[PyroChamber]

Is Requiem for a Dream REALLY as disturbing as people say it is? And if so what's so disturbing about it?

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

It's seemed too stylized and slick to be disturbing.
Depressing? Certainly

 

[matthooper]

The movie 'Freaks' from the 30's is pretty disturbing because they used real freaks. This isn't Hollywod make-up or effects, the f'd up looking people are really deformed.


On a lighter note, 'The Phantom Menace' was pretty disturbing. How a man who wrote 'American Graffiti' and 'Star Wars' (1978) could write and direct that train wreck keeps me awake at night sometimes.

 

[Rez]

Naked Lunch, Lost Highway, Southland Tales, Revolver(the original European release, not the heavily edited version recently released on DVD in the States).... uh the list goes on.

These aren't the most violent movies I've seen, just the actual most screwed up.

 

[Watson]

Le Chien Andalou. The one scene...those who have seen it know what I refer to.

Another "memorable" one...lets just call it Marlon Brando's unique use of Land O Lakes Butter in Last Tango in Paris.

 

[StevieG]

New to the forums here, and saw this thread first, so, the most screwed up movie I've seen to date, or at least the most screwed up part, is

The Mist!

That was the most screwed up and disturbing ending I've seen in a movie in a long time. In a way, it should have been the most obvious ending and could be seen a mile away, but, it still took me by surprise and freaked me out for a couple of hours afterward. Bravo to Mr. King.

 

[Sugarculted]

NBK kinda screwed with my head when I watched it at like, 2-3 in the morning.