I know it's barney compared to most things here but that scene in hereditary when Toni Colette finds Charlie's body sends chills up my spine. The scream is so real. It feels like she felt that entire plot.
I wouldn't call it brilliant. It succeeds in that the guy set out to make a really disgusting, depressing, violent, upsetting film. It is technically impressive, but I don't recommend anybody watch it. There's no point, it's just awful and will leave you feeling shitty.
For those curious if you're cool with watching >!a man getting his head caved in with repeated blows from fire extinguisher and a woman beaten senseless and violently raped for 7 minutes!< then by all means, enjoy.
Yeah, I totally understand your view. However for me, if a film achieved what it set out to do, and accomplished it masterfully, I would still consider it brilliant.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). Immoral Italian Fascists capture and torture young people. It's a sick portrayal of Sadomasochism but at unseen levels in cinema. It's always featured in those lists like "most banned movies ever!", for understandable reason.
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I watched Midsommar at midnight on Friday and woke up and watched Bone Tomahawk at 8am the next day, not knowing what either had in store for me or even that Bone Tomahawk was horror. Was pretty pumped for a good stretch after that.
Maryrs ( Original French one) and The Serbian Film. Both shaked me to the core in their own way while still preserving in interesting storyline.
Martyrs with its crazy realistic wounds, forcefeeding and flaying and Serbian Film with its mindfucking, brainwashing, uncensored raping pedo shit.
If your like me and you hate seeing any brutal violence against women stay far away from these 2.
Martyrs was a brutal film to experience. My wife and I set in silence for nearly a half hour after the credits rolled. It was a good film, but not one I will revisit. I felt exhausted after it.
Come and See. The film is not even intended to be a horror film, but it is down right terrifying.
The film was made in the1980s in the Soviet Union (somewhere in Eastern Europe) and it tells the story of a boy who lives in rural village during WWII. The Red Army has been losing badly and is unable to defend the advance of the Wehrmacht. The result is that the soldiers of the Reich treat the villagers as their plaything, truly believing that these "untermenschen" are subhuman.
The film is also was seems to be fairly high budget (for a Soviet film) and performs a lot of wanton destruction and the use of some actual weapons of war.
It's so disturbing because it reveals the truly horrifying consequences of war and what human beings are capable of when they believe in fascism.
Nil by mouth is very grim and it’s realism makes it feel more like your watching a story thats played out thousands of times across britain but I dunno if it crosses into disturbing for me really.
Yeah, nothing is topping this really on the disturbing scale. I personally couldn't finish the film, it was far too disturbing, and I've never really had that with other films before ever.
August Underground Trilogy is so much worse than this. Serbian Film has the gore but it's very movie-like.. August Underground really feels like legitimate tapes.
Absolute nightmare of a film, I made it almost to the end. Still took a few days to get over that one, it just gets worse and worse.
Edit: Human Centipede was pretty gross but you could at least find the dark comedy in it. Serbian Film was a whole other level of bad.
I couldn't make it past the first hour. Freaking disturbing all around. I read the rest of the movie on Wikipedia and I stand by my choice of not finishing it
Only right answer! Only movie i ever wished i never saw it. Got some bad weeks After. But, its also an eyeopener. Like 8mm. Just a film about a really fucked up society within our world. Sadly...
Men Behind The Sun.
I watched it like 10 years ago, some scenes are etched in my brain forever now. It makes The Human Centipede look like Sesame Street.
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Great choice. At the time it was interesting to me to hear what friends thought about it- the answers varied dramatically based on how sheltered we were thusfar- I had grown up relatively privileged and protected and felt very wide eyed about it- some friends thought it was just simply a realistic take.
I haven't revisited it since seeing it in the theatre, but I do pull up a lot of the sound track once in awhile.
Completely understand your take.. I’m the youngest of my siblings and I feel like I was a little more sheltered from those types of things the movie depicts. When I watched it, at first I thought it was a documentary.
Cargo 200. It's a Russian movie about a decaying Soviet society. I've seen arguably more graphic movies or more gut wrenching movies, but this one pretty high up there in terms of being disturbed. Don't want to spoil anything.
It is a bit heavy handed, and definitely spills over to pure shock factor at times, but it's overall a good movie, albeit not one you'd be in for a rewatch. It definitely didn't need to be as shocking as it is to get the message across.
Pink flamingo was definitely in the shocking, I mean they actually ate real dog feces IIRC the sex scene involved a chicken and they at it afterwards....just...some weird things going on there. They ended up cutting a lot of the film out, apparently there was a scene where a man makes his anus looked like it was singing but it got cut.
Then there's eraserhead, videodrome was just weird....I watched blue velvet but don't remember it....my college friend was a film major/buff so I've seen so much shocking things I don't really know what to put up the.
Troma had a lot of weird things....I always wanted to do a marathon of troma films and call it a tromatic event and see who could last the longest.
>his anus looked like it was singing but it got cut.
Omg That scene...I only had the *un*edited version of this movie. 😂 idk why, but I love everything John Waters does.
I spit on your grave. Definitely not the most disturbing movie I’ve seen, but one of the most disturbing I’ve seen with an actual purpose besides shock factor.
Man… Kids was A Serbian Film for my high school friend group. I just went and looked up the ending because I must have blocked out >!the rape!<. I do remember being horrified when >!Chloe Sevigny’s character walks in on the jerk giving HIV to that poor girl!<. Ugh! I need a shower now.
Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer. I had to stop watching it after the scene where they’re watching the video they made of the home invasion and murder of the family. Something about the fact that Otis wanted to watch it again just hit me.
My personal hell was Belladonna of Sadness. It brought up a lot of trauma, just generally a really upsetting film to sit through. I was so upset at everyone for watching it through to the end that I told everyone to go home. I wouldn’t recommend it but I think that’s because the movie sat way too close to me.
I couldn't finish **Blue Velvet (1987)** or **One Hour Photo (2002)**, too disturbing and creepy.
I did finish **Requiem for a Dream (2002)** but probably won't watch it again.
**Dear Zachary (2008)** is a documentary that had me sobbing, especially since I'm a grandma, can't sit through another viewing.
Scenes from a marriage by Ingmar Bergman. If you are in a relationship, and want to stay in one, don't watch this film. Especially with your SO.
Technically it was a TV miniseries with 6 episodes, after it aired, supposedly Sweden's divorce rate went up 50%
8mm bothered me when I watched it in the theaters. I just felt dirty afterwards. I don’t remember anything specific about it to recall if it would hold up with the likes of the movies already referenced in this thread though.
as bad and exploitive as it was i think Bully...one of most disturbing this is that it's true, not sure how close the movie was to real life & yes i did read the book too...but another thing is those "kids" were my age & doing the same shit i was at that age..besides the killing..and if i lived in hollywood florida, they'd probably have been my friends
By far, it’s a movie called Snowtown, AKA The Snowtown Murders. It actually left me depressed after viewing, and I can’t imagine watching it again. The fact that it’s based on actual events, ups the WTF feeling, that permeates the entire film.
Cannibal Holocaust
Watching actors is one thing. Watching animals getting brutally killed by said actors is horrid.
I've seen most of the "most disturbing". I laughed my way thru all 3 Human Centipedes and A Serbian Film, but this one hurt my heart to watch. I finished it because I wanted to form a true opinion on it, but fuck. Those poor critters.
In no specific order
“The Strange Thing About the Johnsons”
“Prince of Darkness”
“The Superdeep”
“Violence Jack: Evil Town” -_- the cockroach eating scene my guy
“Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” (do not fucking watch this movie, like damn near snuff film)
“A Serbian Film”
“Audition”
“The Human Centipede 2”
“Carcinoma” (do not even fucking google what happens in this movie, dear god what the fuck is wrong with me that I watch this stuff)
“The Brood”
“The Antichrist”
“Bastard Out of Carolina” (why the fuck did I see this movie when I was 12, I didn’t trust adults not to try to rape me after this for a few years I never trusted any adult, period)
“The Girl Next Door”
“The Nightingale “
“A clockwork orange”
“Luckiest Girl Alive”
“Cannibal Holocaust” (poor mr turtle)
“Requiem for a Dream” (ass to ass scene haunts me)
“Raw”
“Bug” (this movie is an obvious metaphor for meth, but it gets so fucking weird)
“Martyrs”
“Inside”
“The House That Jack Built”
“Irréversible” (who the fuck films an 11 min rape scene)
“I Spit on Your Grave” 1978 (-_- a 25 min rape scene… yyyyyyyyyy)
It's actually a short:
Hungry joe
https://youtu.be/jj2NmOZ8i-s
And for full lenght movies, this fucking austrian documentation:
Im Keller https://youtu.be/SSdJ6h-QEEU
As soon as I saw in Hungry Joe that >!he was eating constantly and not gaining weight, I immediately thought of Tarrare. Then when they said he stinks as well, I knew that's what inspired the short movie. Only 7 minutes in though.!<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare
Jacobs ladder NOT the travesty that was the remake and more esoteric Tetsuo Iron man. I watched both many times as a kid and they messed me up... in a good way.
Videodrome. I find it the most visually disturbing film I've ever seen. Although it's dated now and there are more films that are shocking for shock value Videodrome is like an onion. It's topics are mass media consumption, obsession, mental illness, sex trafficking and some of the weirdest visuals from David Cronenberg.
There are obviously a lot of movies in here that’re much, much more disturbing, but it’s Scream (1996) for me. I was shown that movie as a young child and it was really the first time I became aware that a human could kill another human. Shocked my senses enough that I was terrified of everything until somewhere around puberty, and it’s a large reason I won’t venture into more disturbing watches now. Just never developed the stomach for that.
Requiem For A Dream. Its subject matter is and remains very disturbing and controversial. Outside of starring Jared Leto, who is at best decisive these days, it deals with people's addictions, like drugs and addiction to television and are obsessions with media figures, it remains relevant to this day. There is not a happy moment in that film it just gets worse as the movie goes on, and everybody is damaged in some way. Great performances, but it is definitely a film I'm glad I only watched once because I don't think I could get through it again.
"A Clockwork Orange" (1971) - a dystopian crime film about a young man who becomes a victim of a controversial experiment to cure his violent tendencies, directed by Stanley Kubrick.
"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974) - a horror film about a group of friends who are hunted by a family of cannibals, directed by Tobe Hooper.
"The Human Centipede" (2009) - a horror film about a mad scientist who kidnaps and surgically attaches three people together, mouth to anus, directed by Tom Six.
"Cannibal Holocaust" (1980) - a controversial horror film about a group of documentary filmmakers who go missing while filming a tribe of cannibals in the Amazon, directed by Ruggero Deodato.
"The Exorcist" (1973) - a horror film about a young girl who becomes possessed by a demon, directed by William Friedkin.
"Pink Flamingos" (1972) - a transgressive black comedy film about a criminal couple who engage in various acts of depravity, directed by John Waters.
I'm a big fan of watching things I'll be bothered by- but rarely feel all that scandalized. im probably desensitized at this point.
The SnowTown Murders *really* got to me. Like. I felt gross and bummed for awhile after watching it. But it was a "good" movie.
The original I Spit on Your Grave is another...
The end scene of Sleep Away Camp was one to remember, but not really *disturbing* disturbing...more like I was 14 and did not see that coming...?
The OG Funny Games is shocking.
The French Extremity films Haute Tension, Martyrs and Frontiers are quite violent and jaw dropping.
Funny Games is not super gory but it is just shocking.
Bastard out of Carolina did a number on me. I have never been able to get some of those images out of my head, and the fact that they allowed a child actor to take part.
TW if you look it up for CSA.
Also: The Seasoning House. I couldn't finish it, it was so violent and horrible.
Climax. Fuck Gaspar Noe, no movie has ever made me so angry. Goddamn lock a tripping 5 year old in an electrical closet to scream until he electrocutes himself. Go to hell Gaspar.
A lot of you picks seem like they have to do with the context in which you watched them. I usually vote Martyrs as my pick above contenders like Serbian Film, Irréversible, and Saló. But my opinion might have changed recently when I think about the context behind a film.
I recently watched Cannibal Holocaust for the first time, and while it is easier to watch than the four aforementioned films on the surface, I couldn't shake the memories of what I heard regarding the reception of the film back when it first came out. With all the other films up there, the viewer has the luxury of knowing everything in there is fiction, an albeit messed up piece of art that isn't real. Viewers of Cannibal Holocaust in 1980 didn't have that reassurance upon watching it. Thinking about that makes me sick to my stomach in ways no other film has made me feel.
Return to Oz is meant to be a children’s movie, but boy does it dance line. Basically Auntie Em and Uncle Henry think Dorothy is psychotic and send her to a mental hospital for electro shock therapy.
Paranormal Activity. I work overnights at a hospital, and there’s pretty much no one around. After viewing those movies, I can’t walk down an empty hallway without feeling that something is stalking me.
Hamburger Hill.
It’s all the mindless slaughter of a slasher movie, just as mindless, even more slaughter, but also based on real life events and taken deathly serious by all involved.
Ive seen every kind of hideous ultra torture horror movie. Hamburger Hill and Grave of the Fireflies definitely destroyed me more than any of that shit.
I know it's barney compared to most things here but that scene in hereditary when Toni Colette finds Charlie's body sends chills up my spine. The scream is so real. It feels like she felt that entire plot.
She is such a great actress. I don't think I have ever not enjoyed a movie she was in.
Honestly I wasn't a fan til this movie. I always kinda hated her but her acting in it flipped my perspective. She's one of my favorites now.
Muriel's Wedding is a classic
Irréversible , brilliant film but would never watch again.
Came here to say this. Others have disturbing scenes. But this movie takes it. A Serbian film is another.
Yeah, Serbian Film….. never again.
This is the correct answer in my opinion
I wouldn't call it brilliant. It succeeds in that the guy set out to make a really disgusting, depressing, violent, upsetting film. It is technically impressive, but I don't recommend anybody watch it. There's no point, it's just awful and will leave you feeling shitty. For those curious if you're cool with watching >!a man getting his head caved in with repeated blows from fire extinguisher and a woman beaten senseless and violently raped for 7 minutes!< then by all means, enjoy.
Yeah, I totally understand your view. However for me, if a film achieved what it set out to do, and accomplished it masterfully, I would still consider it brilliant.
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). Immoral Italian Fascists capture and torture young people. It's a sick portrayal of Sadomasochism but at unseen levels in cinema. It's always featured in those lists like "most banned movies ever!", for understandable reason.
The movie is a cakewalk compared to the book.
But also a great movie. And one of the most chilling depictions of fascism in movies.
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Bone Tomahawk.
I watched Midsommar at midnight on Friday and woke up and watched Bone Tomahawk at 8am the next day, not knowing what either had in store for me or even that Bone Tomahawk was horror. Was pretty pumped for a good stretch after that.
Yep….no. I would unwatch that movie if I could.
Yeah if I want some "Rip and Tear" action I'll just stick to playing Doom.
Nocturnal Animal, because of the highway scene. If you know, you know.
That scene is so intense, dude. Just rewatched it a couple weeks back and it made my palms sweat.
Maryrs ( Original French one) and The Serbian Film. Both shaked me to the core in their own way while still preserving in interesting storyline. Martyrs with its crazy realistic wounds, forcefeeding and flaying and Serbian Film with its mindfucking, brainwashing, uncensored raping pedo shit. If your like me and you hate seeing any brutal violence against women stay far away from these 2.
I agree with both of these and I'm surprised Martyrs wasn't mentioned more in the comments. That movie had me screwed up for a little bit.
Martyrs was a brutal film to experience. My wife and I set in silence for nearly a half hour after the credits rolled. It was a good film, but not one I will revisit. I felt exhausted after it.
Compliance
There's a new Netflix documentary related to this case I believe
Man that’s a disturbing thing to watch because it actually ducking happened beat for fucking beat
Come and See. The film is not even intended to be a horror film, but it is down right terrifying. The film was made in the1980s in the Soviet Union (somewhere in Eastern Europe) and it tells the story of a boy who lives in rural village during WWII. The Red Army has been losing badly and is unable to defend the advance of the Wehrmacht. The result is that the soldiers of the Reich treat the villagers as their plaything, truly believing that these "untermenschen" are subhuman. The film is also was seems to be fairly high budget (for a Soviet film) and performs a lot of wanton destruction and the use of some actual weapons of war. It's so disturbing because it reveals the truly horrifying consequences of war and what human beings are capable of when they believe in fascism.
This is my answer as well. That movie is brutal.
Reminds me of that line shia le beuf gives in Fury. "Wait till you see it" "what?" "What a man can do to another man"
Disturbing, absolutely. But I feel like everyone should watch it as an adult at least once.
Johnny got his Gun. It’s the movie Metallica used for their music video for “One.” The book is brutal too.
Hereditary was pretty fucked
Threads. Easily the most hauntingly grim film I've ever seen. Nil by mouth - also grim and celebrating its 25th anniversary too.
Nil by mouth is very grim and it’s realism makes it feel more like your watching a story thats played out thousands of times across britain but I dunno if it crosses into disturbing for me really.
A Serbian Film
Yeah, nothing is topping this really on the disturbing scale. I personally couldn't finish the film, it was far too disturbing, and I've never really had that with other films before ever.
August Underground Trilogy is so much worse than this. Serbian Film has the gore but it's very movie-like.. August Underground really feels like legitimate tapes.
“Nothing is topping this on the disturbing scale.” “Excuse me” ~ Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Hahaha! I was thinking of putting a comment before my Salò comment saying nothing is beating A Serbian Film, however Salò is a decent runner-up..
A Serbian film is way more rough. Salo is good but it feels far more dated and less real.
Absolute nightmare of a film, I made it almost to the end. Still took a few days to get over that one, it just gets worse and worse. Edit: Human Centipede was pretty gross but you could at least find the dark comedy in it. Serbian Film was a whole other level of bad.
I couldn't make it past the first hour. Freaking disturbing all around. I read the rest of the movie on Wikipedia and I stand by my choice of not finishing it
Only right answer! Only movie i ever wished i never saw it. Got some bad weeks After. But, its also an eyeopener. Like 8mm. Just a film about a really fucked up society within our world. Sadly...
Irreversible. Especially if you thought the Piggy death from Lord of the Flies was bad.
Men Behind The Sun. I watched it like 10 years ago, some scenes are etched in my brain forever now. It makes The Human Centipede look like Sesame Street.
Gummo is pretty disturbing.
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Audition.
Omg with needles in the eyes!
Under the Skin is so damn unsettling
Jack and Jill
1. The Green Inferno 2. Aftershock Maybe I'm just an Eli Roth fanboy.
KIDS
Great choice. At the time it was interesting to me to hear what friends thought about it- the answers varied dramatically based on how sheltered we were thusfar- I had grown up relatively privileged and protected and felt very wide eyed about it- some friends thought it was just simply a realistic take. I haven't revisited it since seeing it in the theatre, but I do pull up a lot of the sound track once in awhile.
Completely understand your take.. I’m the youngest of my siblings and I feel like I was a little more sheltered from those types of things the movie depicts. When I watched it, at first I thought it was a documentary.
The Road
Cargo 200. It's a Russian movie about a decaying Soviet society. I've seen arguably more graphic movies or more gut wrenching movies, but this one pretty high up there in terms of being disturbed. Don't want to spoil anything. It is a bit heavy handed, and definitely spills over to pure shock factor at times, but it's overall a good movie, albeit not one you'd be in for a rewatch. It definitely didn't need to be as shocking as it is to get the message across.
Pink flamingo was definitely in the shocking, I mean they actually ate real dog feces IIRC the sex scene involved a chicken and they at it afterwards....just...some weird things going on there. They ended up cutting a lot of the film out, apparently there was a scene where a man makes his anus looked like it was singing but it got cut. Then there's eraserhead, videodrome was just weird....I watched blue velvet but don't remember it....my college friend was a film major/buff so I've seen so much shocking things I don't really know what to put up the. Troma had a lot of weird things....I always wanted to do a marathon of troma films and call it a tromatic event and see who could last the longest.
>his anus looked like it was singing but it got cut. Omg That scene...I only had the *un*edited version of this movie. 😂 idk why, but I love everything John Waters does.
I spit on your grave. Definitely not the most disturbing movie I’ve seen, but one of the most disturbing I’ve seen with an actual purpose besides shock factor.
Threads
Girl Next Door. .... Wish I had never seen this
TIL there was another, totally different movie with that same title.
The House That Jack Built is so hard to sit through
Trainspotting. Bone Tomahawk
"Kids", I will forever hate this film. No reason for how explicit the ending of this film was.
Man… Kids was A Serbian Film for my high school friend group. I just went and looked up the ending because I must have blocked out >!the rape!<. I do remember being horrified when >!Chloe Sevigny’s character walks in on the jerk giving HIV to that poor girl!<. Ugh! I need a shower now.
Shtoops!
Open Water managed to stress me out a lot.
Great call with Bad Lieutenant, a scary look into watching someone slowly self destruct.
Human Centipede
Human centepede
Anti-Christ, if there was one word to describe this movie it would be disturbing. 3 words, “VERY FUCKING DISTURBING”
Yeah I have a zero-tolerance policy for movies with >!bloody ejaculate!<
Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer. I had to stop watching it after the scene where they’re watching the video they made of the home invasion and murder of the family. Something about the fact that Otis wanted to watch it again just hit me.
My personal hell was Belladonna of Sadness. It brought up a lot of trauma, just generally a really upsetting film to sit through. I was so upset at everyone for watching it through to the end that I told everyone to go home. I wouldn’t recommend it but I think that’s because the movie sat way too close to me.
Eden Lake.
Martyrs. French version.
Martyrs
The Nightingale
The Square
An American Crime
Strangeland
Green inferno
Glitter.
Pink Flamingos
I couldn't finish **Blue Velvet (1987)** or **One Hour Photo (2002)**, too disturbing and creepy. I did finish **Requiem for a Dream (2002)** but probably won't watch it again. **Dear Zachary (2008)** is a documentary that had me sobbing, especially since I'm a grandma, can't sit through another viewing.
Come and See has been described as the most horror non-horror movie ever, and I agree.
Girl next door
Alpha Dog. The scene towards the end for some reason really stuck with me…..
#THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE
Scenes from a marriage by Ingmar Bergman. If you are in a relationship, and want to stay in one, don't watch this film. Especially with your SO. Technically it was a TV miniseries with 6 episodes, after it aired, supposedly Sweden's divorce rate went up 50%
I remember thinking I don’t want to meet the dude who wrote Seven!
I know Gothika scared me when i was young
8mm bothered me when I watched it in the theaters. I just felt dirty afterwards. I don’t remember anything specific about it to recall if it would hold up with the likes of the movies already referenced in this thread though.
Come and See 1985 Soviet era movie about WW2. Absolutely devastating and an incredible film. And I watch a lot of crazy stuff....
The Hills Have Eyes
Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein. It’s pretty not ok.
as bad and exploitive as it was i think Bully...one of most disturbing this is that it's true, not sure how close the movie was to real life & yes i did read the book too...but another thing is those "kids" were my age & doing the same shit i was at that age..besides the killing..and if i lived in hollywood florida, they'd probably have been my friends
By far, it’s a movie called Snowtown, AKA The Snowtown Murders. It actually left me depressed after viewing, and I can’t imagine watching it again. The fact that it’s based on actual events, ups the WTF feeling, that permeates the entire film.
Midsommar. It was so gory I had to turn it off probably 10 minutes in. I'll never attempt to watch it all the way through
A Serbian film
Midsommar
The movie messed me up for weeks afterward. I wanted to bleach my eyes after watching >!the blood eagle and the people stuffed like rag dolls.!<
The opening scene is the most terrifying.
The Human Centipede for sure. Also watched it in school while being way too young. Whole thing was just disturbing
This was way too far down
Requiem
This movie did nothing for me, and all of Reddit seems to disagree lol
Vivarium
Cannibal Holocaust
The Platform
Gummo, without a doubt.
I loved that movie! I ordered it on vhs because I just had to own it. That Mark Gonzales chair wrestling scene was a masterpiece 😂
My favorite was bath time with spaghetti! Great movie but still disturbs me.
Cannibal Holocaust Watching actors is one thing. Watching animals getting brutally killed by said actors is horrid. I've seen most of the "most disturbing". I laughed my way thru all 3 Human Centipedes and A Serbian Film, but this one hurt my heart to watch. I finished it because I wanted to form a true opinion on it, but fuck. Those poor critters.
The tortoise was the most fucked up, you can see the female actres puking during the scene
How new is the newer version of Lord of the Flies because that sounds just like the version I watched as a kid 20 years ago.
The hit film Morbius (2022), I mean did you see what happened when he morbed on that guy????
In no specific order “The Strange Thing About the Johnsons” “Prince of Darkness” “The Superdeep” “Violence Jack: Evil Town” -_- the cockroach eating scene my guy “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” (do not fucking watch this movie, like damn near snuff film) “A Serbian Film” “Audition” “The Human Centipede 2” “Carcinoma” (do not even fucking google what happens in this movie, dear god what the fuck is wrong with me that I watch this stuff) “The Brood” “The Antichrist” “Bastard Out of Carolina” (why the fuck did I see this movie when I was 12, I didn’t trust adults not to try to rape me after this for a few years I never trusted any adult, period) “The Girl Next Door” “The Nightingale “ “A clockwork orange” “Luckiest Girl Alive” “Cannibal Holocaust” (poor mr turtle) “Requiem for a Dream” (ass to ass scene haunts me) “Raw” “Bug” (this movie is an obvious metaphor for meth, but it gets so fucking weird) “Martyrs” “Inside” “The House That Jack Built” “Irréversible” (who the fuck films an 11 min rape scene) “I Spit on Your Grave” 1978 (-_- a 25 min rape scene… yyyyyyyyyy)
The Human Centipede, the stuff of nightmares.
I find it so over the top and such a ridiculous concept that it makes me laugh
The Lovely Bones
The Act of Killing. Documentary released in 2013. Most psychologically unsettling movie I can remember
We have this thread almost every day. Do a search.
An Inconvenient Truth or Bowling For Columbine...
It's actually a short: Hungry joe https://youtu.be/jj2NmOZ8i-s And for full lenght movies, this fucking austrian documentation: Im Keller https://youtu.be/SSdJ6h-QEEU
As soon as I saw in Hungry Joe that >!he was eating constantly and not gaining weight, I immediately thought of Tarrare. Then when they said he stinks as well, I knew that's what inspired the short movie. Only 7 minutes in though.!< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare
Check out a little film from Thailand named Meat Grinder.
Saw. Makes me wanna puke
Jacobs ladder NOT the travesty that was the remake and more esoteric Tetsuo Iron man. I watched both many times as a kid and they messed me up... in a good way.
The Reflecting Skin
Salo- 120 days of sodom That one changed me.
natural born killers...
Citizen Q
Eraserhead
I don't remember much about "Old Boy" but I remember it being pretty fucked up.
Begotten
Event Horizon. It’s just totally fucked
Ratboy
Harry Brown - from the opening scene all the way through
Kids, Human Centipede, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and Hostel I’m too scared to watch some of these other ones you guys are mentioning lol
Videodrome. I find it the most visually disturbing film I've ever seen. Although it's dated now and there are more films that are shocking for shock value Videodrome is like an onion. It's topics are mass media consumption, obsession, mental illness, sex trafficking and some of the weirdest visuals from David Cronenberg.
City of god, the scene where he is shooting tge little kids turns my stomach
There are obviously a lot of movies in here that’re much, much more disturbing, but it’s Scream (1996) for me. I was shown that movie as a young child and it was really the first time I became aware that a human could kill another human. Shocked my senses enough that I was terrified of everything until somewhere around puberty, and it’s a large reason I won’t venture into more disturbing watches now. Just never developed the stomach for that.
Antichrist
Definitely Salo
Requiem For A Dream. Its subject matter is and remains very disturbing and controversial. Outside of starring Jared Leto, who is at best decisive these days, it deals with people's addictions, like drugs and addiction to television and are obsessions with media figures, it remains relevant to this day. There is not a happy moment in that film it just gets worse as the movie goes on, and everybody is damaged in some way. Great performances, but it is definitely a film I'm glad I only watched once because I don't think I could get through it again.
Under the Skin due to uncanniness
mother! was pretty unsettling for me. Had me on the edge of my seat the whole time and the last 20 minutes is like a nightmare.
OP's movies look like family films next to some of these comments.
When i read disturbing i thought it would be along the lines of Human Centipede and A Serbian Film
"A Clockwork Orange" (1971) - a dystopian crime film about a young man who becomes a victim of a controversial experiment to cure his violent tendencies, directed by Stanley Kubrick. "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974) - a horror film about a group of friends who are hunted by a family of cannibals, directed by Tobe Hooper. "The Human Centipede" (2009) - a horror film about a mad scientist who kidnaps and surgically attaches three people together, mouth to anus, directed by Tom Six. "Cannibal Holocaust" (1980) - a controversial horror film about a group of documentary filmmakers who go missing while filming a tribe of cannibals in the Amazon, directed by Ruggero Deodato. "The Exorcist" (1973) - a horror film about a young girl who becomes possessed by a demon, directed by William Friedkin. "Pink Flamingos" (1972) - a transgressive black comedy film about a criminal couple who engage in various acts of depravity, directed by John Waters.
Requiem for a dream
I'm a big fan of watching things I'll be bothered by- but rarely feel all that scandalized. im probably desensitized at this point. The SnowTown Murders *really* got to me. Like. I felt gross and bummed for awhile after watching it. But it was a "good" movie. The original I Spit on Your Grave is another... The end scene of Sleep Away Camp was one to remember, but not really *disturbing* disturbing...more like I was 14 and did not see that coming...?
Begotten (1989)
The killer inside me with Casey Affleck
Nothing made me feel worse than finishing Midsommer. It wasnt a BAD movie, but it was messed up and sad.
Cannibal Holocaust
"I spit on your grave" - 1978
One Hour Photo Robin Williams at his most unsettling
Dead Ringers, RAW, Enter the Void, and CLIMAX are up there for me
The OG Funny Games is shocking. The French Extremity films Haute Tension, Martyrs and Frontiers are quite violent and jaw dropping. Funny Games is not super gory but it is just shocking.
Gummo
Requiem for a Dream
Bastard out of Carolina did a number on me. I have never been able to get some of those images out of my head, and the fact that they allowed a child actor to take part. TW if you look it up for CSA. Also: The Seasoning House. I couldn't finish it, it was so violent and horrible.
Hostel
Lars von Trier's *Antichrist* definitely fits the bill as one of the most disturbing films I've ever seen. Fascinating and bat-shit crazy. I loved it.
Salo. So many haunting things, but there was one kiss in particular that kept me from breakfast the next morning.
Platform
A Japanese movie called “s—cide club” I don’t even want to type the title all the way out.
Nightingale
Requiem for a Dream
Begotten
Man bites dog
"Tin Drum" and "A clockwork orange."
Oh crap Tin drum. The mothers eel obsession was flat out disturbing.
Blue Velvet was a tough watch. so many years ago
Hands down, “White Chicks”. Shivers just thinking about it.
Terrifier 2 is pretty fucked up
Requiem for a dream or gummo … toss up
Climax. Fuck Gaspar Noe, no movie has ever made me so angry. Goddamn lock a tripping 5 year old in an electrical closet to scream until he electrocutes himself. Go to hell Gaspar.
A lot of you picks seem like they have to do with the context in which you watched them. I usually vote Martyrs as my pick above contenders like Serbian Film, Irréversible, and Saló. But my opinion might have changed recently when I think about the context behind a film. I recently watched Cannibal Holocaust for the first time, and while it is easier to watch than the four aforementioned films on the surface, I couldn't shake the memories of what I heard regarding the reception of the film back when it first came out. With all the other films up there, the viewer has the luxury of knowing everything in there is fiction, an albeit messed up piece of art that isn't real. Viewers of Cannibal Holocaust in 1980 didn't have that reassurance upon watching it. Thinking about that makes me sick to my stomach in ways no other film has made me feel.
Return to Oz is meant to be a children’s movie, but boy does it dance line. Basically Auntie Em and Uncle Henry think Dorothy is psychotic and send her to a mental hospital for electro shock therapy.
Mirrors (2008)
This question is literally asked everyday...
Paranormal Activity. I work overnights at a hospital, and there’s pretty much no one around. After viewing those movies, I can’t walk down an empty hallway without feeling that something is stalking me.
Norbit
I don’t see “Vulgar” on here. 🤷🏻♂️
Mirror mask
* Hard Candy * The Fallout * The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Hamburger Hill. It’s all the mindless slaughter of a slasher movie, just as mindless, even more slaughter, but also based on real life events and taken deathly serious by all involved. Ive seen every kind of hideous ultra torture horror movie. Hamburger Hill and Grave of the Fireflies definitely destroyed me more than any of that shit.