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What film do you folks feel is the most disturbing you've ever seen?
For me it would need to be "family portraits", or the french version of "the vanishing"

I need something to rent, please advise...

Inside/À l'intérieur (2007)

That would get my vote.

I heard Cannibals is very disturbing, haven't seen it though.

Is that about cannibals by any chance?

Martyrs~~ its seriously effed up.

Nekromantik

The Exorcist, Faces of Death, El Topo, Pink Flamingos

Shocking Asia. Normally, I find surgical procedures interesting to watch, but the male-to-female nip and tuck in this shockumentary was very uncomfortable to watch, and I looked away for most of it. That was about 20 years ago. At the time, I thought there was a better than 50-50 chance they faked it, but looking it up more recently, any account I can find says it's real, which gives it a big boost in the disturbing department.

I love this trailer. The narration has the tone of a school film.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8e0ri_shocking-asia-mondo-documentary-tra_shortfilms (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8e0ri_shocking-asia-mondo-documentary-tra_shortfilms)

Pink Flamingos.  Haven't seen the film, but from what I understand, it qualifies perfectly as distrubing.

I wouldn't say all of the film is distrubing, but Paprika had a bunch of scenes that pretty much distrubed the crap out of me.  Example, when the guy has Paprika strapped down to the table and he... ah... he... mind screws her.  That's all I can say.

If you ask me, every Michael Bay film ever made. period.

The Baby because it's PG and still totally unsettling

Audition; Irreversible.

I agree. So is "Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door".

Most disturbing I've seen, probably Visitor Q
Most disturbing ever Serbian Movie, I will not see it and I hate to even mention that it exists.

I'm a serb, am I disturbing? :wink:

Not exactly the MOSt disturbing gilm ever, but I'd like to toss the Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb into the mix. 

Snuff- A Documentary about killing on camera. This is the only one I couldn't watch, because it features clips from films like Snuff, Guinea Pig, Faces of Death, etc.

Last House on the Left (1972) is probably the most disturbing one I've seen. At least it sticks in my mind. It is a well made film though IMO...just not one I see myself revisiting too often.

"Red And Rosey" by Frank Grow is cinematic weirdness at it's best.

Er, good luck trying to find a copy of it anywhere though.

Not entirely related, but I just learnt from the IMDB that "Martyrs" has a US remake on the works. Damn.  :hatred:

'Un Chien Andalou' (1929) is still a hearty contender in my book.

You don't often come across a closeup of a razor slicing an eyeball in half, particularly in a film from the 1920's.

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol. Diabolically disturbing on many levels.

"Begotten" hands down. It's as close to a real life "La Fin Absolue du Monde" that we will ever get.

I'll second "Un Chien Andalou" and add "Le Sangre de Poete"(1934 - Jean Cocteau - one of our Secret Masters re. any Conspiracy Theory) - This is a recreation of a dream as a metaphor for our (anyone's) existence.  The falling through the mirror scene has been imitated a thousand times, but remember that this was the first film to do this.  Yes, also, to "El Topo", though the more Zen Koans you know, the easier it is.  And don't we all just love "Eraserhead"?

Also, have we all thought about the very last few seconds of "Taxi Driver" in a meaningful way?  What doesthat final zoom into the mirror mean?  Huh?  Like, what does it mean, okay? . . .

 :cheers:  I always say, if you want a nice, easy walk in the park, with no complications or dramer, then you simply can't beat "The Seventh Seal"(Ingmar Bergman, 1956) - Nice, screwball, gentle comedy & a predictable outcome at its best - And with cute animals!!~

peter "i'm not disturbed . . . really . . ." johnson/denny "don't point that thing at me" crane

OK, not the most disturbing movie EVER, but considering the target audience I gotta mention "The Adventures of Mark Twain" (1986). 

Also, Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers".  Not so much because of anything that's shown, but because the story itself is so bleak.  It's emotionally rather than visually disturbing.

Yuk :bluesad: It's available on YouTube; critics and film historians have been commenting about the eyeball, but I wonder if anybody really gets it...

LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT is at the top of my disturbing movies list.  It's effective, which is its point.  I hate it. 

Do you mean Travis Bickle's rearview mirror? 

agree with starsky

transformers 2 is the worst

and one where i actually felt disturbed (not for shock or gross factor)

was "the idiots" (idioterne) a danish movie

Taxidermia, a Hungarian film.

Africa Addio was pretty disturbing for me. Don't really know of much more.

I agree!!! Snuff sucks!!!

Just about any movie that has castration in it.

Arrabel's movies are disturbing. They are not all they different from Jodorowsky's films.

Yes. I get uncomfortable any time that happens in a movie, and I actually feel a strange sense of relief if the character is then killed off. Death in a movie is tolerable and expected, making.... that.... a fate worse than death. Seems wrong, even in the realm of movie villainry, to chop off somebody's goodies if you're not prepared to finish him off. It bothers me even when they don't actually show anything, like in Foxy Brown. Coincidentally, that was also a situation where it was more disturbing because the guy was apparently still alive.

Shocking Asia takes it to another level by showing a detailed surgical procedure that would seem to be the real deal, at least from any information I can find.

The other really touchy thing for me is any movie in which children or animals suffer excessively. I don't even like being teased with the prospect of a little kid being harmed, unless it's clearly a setup for a daring rescue. Used to be kids were off limits, unless the plot depended on it. That's not always the case anymore.

EXCLAMATION! THE REST OF THIS POST IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! SERIOUSLY, THIS IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION!

I started a long post about the movie Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, but I had problems finishing it (the post, not the film).

The film is a documentary about a guy with cystic fibrosis who took control of his life by putting his body through absolute torture. Flanagan expected, as all CF sufferers do, to die very young. He "conquered" his illness by getting involved in S&M at a young age, and spent the rest of his life chasing that goal.

The majority of the film tracks the damage he does to himself, which he finds sexually exciting. At one point, he literally hammers a nail through the tip of his penis. In case you think I'm exaggerating, I am not. You will literally watch a man hammer a nail through the head of his penis.

I can take self-mutilation, but there are still a few points in this film that make me queasy.

The first is that he meets a young girl suffering from CF, who he introduces to his S&M world. She was underage at the time, but we have an extended scene of him fantasizing about her.

More disturbing, Flanagan's last visit to the hospital is faithfully recorded. Last visit because he dies; we see everything but the very moment of death.

It's rough going, and it isn't a movie.

This is late to the table, but I do mean Travis' last glance in the rearview mirror - Is he going to kill again?  Has he seen inside his soul?  Does he recognize himself?  Just what is going on with that Taxi Driver?

peter johnson/denny crane

I saw this. Really is repulsive.

I'd suggest Irreversible with Monica Bellucci

Music score trivia time: Scorsese was unsatisfied with the vibraphone 'sting' Bernard Herrmann score for the scene. "Play it backwards" said Herrmann. So they did. That's the odd sound you hear at that moment.

"the gift" it's about gay guys who get aids on purpose

I'm currently watching that and the weird naked messed up woman is freaking me out !
I'm guessing she's an illusion of the main character.

Uwe Boll's Darfur was disturbing and frightening in its' realistic depiction of violence ~ the ending made me cry bitterly.

Jans Rautenbach's eerie Jannie Totsiens is a uniquely disturbing experience to watch: it deals with the inmates in a South African asylum and the angel of discord ~ a mute, catatonic mathematics professor ~ in their midst. Having said that it is scary and disturbing, it is also very funny, believe it or not.

I actually just watched Un Chien Andalou recently.  A friend of mine paid $40 for the DVD.  Real ripoff if you ask me.  So I borrowed it and showed it to my girlfriend and my best friend.  They thought I was crazy to even think of watching it.  (They both looked away at the eye scene).

Though, just for the record, a cow's eye was used in the eye cutting scene.  That whole movie was really just Dali and Buñuel writing down their dreams and filming them in the literal sense, so of course it's going to be effed up! :lookingup:

What is cystic fibrosis? I'm afraid to google it. :teddyr:

That was a nice bit of cinematography. They just shot really close to the (dead) cow's face and washed the shot out with light to the point that you couldn't see the fur. So simple, yet very effective.



Don't worry. It's a genetic disorder that mostly affects the internal organs. Has nothing to do with excessive acts of masochism. Since people with it seldom live beyond their 20s, this guy had nothing to lose by abusing his body. I suppose cultivating an enjoyment of pain is not the worst way of coping with an incurable disease. Very practical, in fact.

I bought a movie  on a dare from Shocking Video called SQUIRM FEST. Basiclly it involves an asian women eating some really nasty things....I threw it in the garbage....I felt unclean having it my home.

I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE is a sick, sadistic waste of film. No redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Call me sick,RC, but I actually liked ISOYG. A while back meand a friend were drunk at a bar and we came to te conclusion that the film's budget was mostly spent on high quality film because the movie looked so nice. It can be an unpleasant watch, for sure, but I think the film is well done as far as the rape-revenge genre goes.

Cannibal Holocaust disturbed the hell out of me ~ not the human violence so much, but the animal killings.  :buggedout:

Definitely Funny Games.

I'm right there with you on that one, Trevor.  I can't handle animal torture in a movie even when i know it's fake.  And in CH it, um, wasn't.

Neither was it in Robot Monster, yet you all have nothing against the scenes.

I can't watch animal torture either. Animals or kids.

The altered ending of The Mist, although I thought it was ingeniously horrifying, bothered me for a long time after seeing it.

Watched Shutter Island last night, and the final flashback was really hard to watch. But I think I liked the movie and the ending enough to lessen it.

But the movie that might actually top my list, possibly even outdoing Shocking Asia, is The Butterfly Effect. I saw it once in the theatre, and I will not watch it again. Child molestation, torching a kid's dog in a sack, a baby getting blown up, and just horrible things happening to the kids, either at the hands of adults or worse still, each other. And nothing good in the movie to offset that. Six years later, I can still get a mild sense of revulsion just seeing the title in the TV listings. Hate that movie.

The irony is that Stephen King's IT, with a monster feeding exclusively on children (in clown form, no less), doesn't bother me that much. Maybe because the kids empower themselves and defeat it. The only thing I found really disturbing was a character in the book who didn't even make it into the TV movie. Patrick Hockstetter was far more disturbing for me than Pennywise.

Do you mean the fighting lizards?

Yeah, you remember the topic in which we discussed the scene. The idea is how brinking 2 lizards together to fight is putting tham in a dangerous situation, for the purpose of shooting a movie scene, for entertainment. That is animal torture.

Threads (1984). A made for TV movie (don't let that scare you off) about WWIII set in England. Truly disturbing. The ending was completely devasting.

The ending I saw on Showtime had the father kill his son, the friend and the old couple.  Is the ending you are talking about?  Or is this the regular one?

The one I saw on Showtime was very disturbing.  I don't know if I could do that to my son and the find out that help was about five minutes away.

Later,

John

Yep, that was the ending. Very disturbing.

The Tracey Fragments

Ellen Page as a troubled girl that runs away from home. Disturbing and actually scary scenes, featuring her run-ins with sexual attackers.



Gardens of the Night

Tom Arnold skillfully abducts children to become child prostitutes. Woah...

The Mist could have been one of the best King adaptations ever until Darabont crapped all over it with his stupid, nihilistic ending. The movie is actually 100% better with the ending edited out just after the giant beast appears, as it ends in the story (easy to do with a decent video editor).
I still don't understand that King actually liked the new ending rather than strangle Darabont.

I would definiately have to say basket case 3 with tumors having sex and then giving birth and eating people, it was very disturbing in a funny sort of way

I just watched it.  I had read some on it beforehand about the desire of Dali and the director to put on camera something that couldn't be understood.  What the meaning of the scene would be and so on.  However, after just seeing it I think the movie is more about applicability to our own lives.  Rather then assign a preordained idea to the work show it and let each individual take their own meaning from it.  I usually don't get deep into the meaning of films but this struck me very oddly as just an interpretation of life in its most basic form. 

The eyeball scene represents that we are born but blinded by outside forces and soldier on through life.  We reach a turning point that hits us hard and we feel desires that we struggle to attain.  However, we are held back by work and beliefs.  We reject them fighting to get our goal and then are defeated by our own goals.  That which was once ours is returned to the world.  That which we desire is then given to the next generation to drive them forward till it defeats them as well.  At least, that is what I took from it.   :cheers:

Depends on your definition of disturbing.

For me it would have to be Frank Darabont's The Mist, but even more than that Dead Girl.

Man that movie totally wigged me out!  But I loved it

DEAD GIRL was very disturbing . . . teenagers so desperate they will use a zombie   . . . well, not to give the whole thing away, but EEEW!

YES!!!!!

I can't stand this film !!!!
Five male characters and they're all rotten ! It really makes me angry !!!  :hatred:

Only if you were involved with making that rape/snuff porno they're trying pass off as a movie.

I don't have any intentions of ever watching that s**t. I can tolerate anything in movies except violence against babies.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Philosophy of a Knife.  A four-hour plus "documentary" about Japan's Unit 731.  Despite the hour to ninety minutes of snow - there is more horrifying, brutal, graphic torture - no one should watch this movie.  Seriously.

Currently... Neon Maniacs - (1986)

This movie disturbs me because there was so much stuff going on and nothing explained at the sametime and once the movie is over you are still thinking:

Why are the "Neon Maniacs" a bunch of rejects from the Village People?

Why water?

Where did they come from?

What with the "Neon Maniacs" collectable cards?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWvOvyh5550

How is the nerdy "I cannot pick-up a chick" boy ends of being a lead singer of a new wave punk band? That happens to be in a band battle with Twisted Sister (want-a-be) and that lead singer has a whip. (actually the second band is much better)

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0LoTWhzoRtM/SwIL7G99XAI/AAAAAAAAJJw/8g4G5uaBfrc/s1600/Neon-Maniacs-Donna-Locke-4.jpg)

Then how tall and old is Paula (Donna Locke)? I think she is 4' 6" and 22 in this movie but there is no info on the girl.

I just watched A Serbian Film and it went too far. I could handle the whole snuff porn theme, because I rate snuff themed movies like Mute Witness and 8mm (although this is a different beast), but "those 2 scenes" were too much. Why would you have that in a film? I really have to question filmmakers mental health when they stoop to levels as low as this for "shock value". I've seen the French film Inside and I didn't find "the scene" in that movie overly offensive because I've seen docos on crimes exactly the same as the plot of Inside, so its a semi-factual movie. But man A Serbian Film is tasteless. Other than "those 2 scenes", A Serbian Film is actually fairly well shot, and was a decent watch.