I have a few: some of them I will quite happily re-watch but others: no way.
THE CRIMSON RIVERS MATHIEU KASSOVITZ
CROWHAVEN FARM WALTER GRAUMANN
EVENT HORIZON PAUL W S ANDERSON
THE STICK DARRELL ROODT
DARFUR / ATTACK ON DARFUR UWE BOLL
JANNIE TOTSIENS JANS RAUTENBACH
PET SEMATARY MARY LAMBERT
IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS JOHN CARPENTER
THE BEYOND LUCIO FULCI
THE SHADOWED MIND CEDRIC SUNDSTROM
THE MEDUSA TOUCH JACK GOLD
THE BELIEVERS JOHN SCHLESINGER
PRINCE OF DARKNESS JOHN CARPENTER
KATRINA JANS RAUTENBACH
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD GEORGE A. ROMERO
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST RUGGERO DEODATO
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD LUCIO FULCI
IRREVERSIBLE GASPAR NOE
THE SHINING STANLEY KUBRICK
To go for the obvious joke, I was already disturbed when I watched these movies *rim shot*.
The Lord of the Flies - The only movie and book to leave me creeped out beyond reason. Sadly, I could see the situations in this story actually happen, making it all the more terrifying.
Un Chien Andalous - Just the eye-cutting scene. :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - Scared the snot out of my teenaged self. I don't want to watch it again because I'm sure it would be nothing but a cheese-fest now, and I don't want to ruin that memory.
The first Saw movie left me almost shaking at the end reveal.
Nazi's At The Centre Of The Earth, expected an Iron Skys or Dead Snow style movie. Put it off at the forced abortion scene.
The Mist, every time I watch it, the ending still gets me.
Quote from: Derf on November 03, 2015, 08:10:44 AM
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - Scared the snot out of my teenaged self. I don't want to watch it again because I'm sure it would be nothing but a cheese-fest now, and I don't want to ruin that memory.
The original
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS holds up quite well. Definitely dated, but still effective. The 1978 remake is also good.
If I think about movies that disturbed me, I am hard pressed... being disturbed by a movie... that does not happen often. However, you may note a recurring theme in my top choices for "disturbing".
TWO WOMEN (
LA CIOCIARA 1960) is disturbing. That is one film I can always look at the first hour or so, but the ending is devastating. Brilliant performances, excellent direction, a true masterpiece... which I will never look at again.
LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (1972) I hate it. Will never look at it again.
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (1978) I may perhaps look at this again (I'd probably skip the first hour or so...) but this one has one merit: revenge.
I did think the beginning of
WILD AT HEART (1990) very disturbing because of Sailor's violence, but being 25 years younger and drunk and stoned may have had a hand in my impression. I've seen it since, and find it a box of bonbons kind of movie. BAD for you but kind of good. :teddyr:
LA DOLCE VITA (1960) A beautiful, touching, eerie film with a few truly disturbing sequences, it's a masterpiece which I own, but don't look at too often because it still shocks and disturbs me.
GERMANIA ANNO ZERO (
GERMANY YEAR ZERO 1948) A story about waste and despair, this film has the most shocking conclusion I have yet seen. A great film directed by
ROBERTO ROSSELLINI and disturbing as it is, this one I view any opportunity I get.
Takes alot to disturb me these days but unsettling films usually are of the torture porn variety eg Hostel.
The only one I can think of that's not in that genre is probably Requiem For a Dream or Enter The Void
Quote from: Derf on November 03, 2015, 08:10:44 AM
To go for the obvious joke, I was already disturbed when I watched these movies *rim shot*.
:teddyr: :teddyr:
QuoteThe Lord of the Flies - The only movie and book to leave me creeped out beyond reason. Sadly, I could see the situations in this story actually happen, making it all the more terrifying..
If you were with me in high school in 1984, that was our set work. :buggedout:
Quote from: dean on November 03, 2015, 06:09:37 PM
Takes alot to disturb me these days
You've known me for a while: that's usually long enough to disturb anyone. :wink:
QuoteEnter The Void
That's directed by Gaspar Noe, am I right? After
Irreversible, I will never watch another of his "films" again. :buggedout:
Yup its by Noe. I really like it but its not what I would call 'pleasant watching'
The Last Man on Earth, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Jaws and The Exorcist gave me nightmares when I was a kid.
Another late night TV creeper that gave us the shivers was Expulsion of the Devil.
In the early days of video rentals, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was quite disturbing, especially for a first time viewing.
The Evil Dead and Faces of Death were dare-you-to-watch movies. Which we did by covering our eyes and shrieking in disgust most of the time.
Eraserhead and Possession (1981) went beyond disturbing. They f**ked with my mind for weeks and months. Both are my all time fave movies.
The slow burn intensity of Halloween (1978) had me constantly on the edge of my seat, and I was an emotional wreck after watching Pet Semetary.
Quote from: dean on November 04, 2015, 05:39:44 AM
Yup its by Noe. I really like it but its not what I would call 'pleasant watching'
True that. :smile:
Quote from: claws on November 04, 2015, 05:52:05 AM
and I was an emotional wreck after watching Pet Semetary.
I literally ran out of the cinema after the final shot where the couple embrace :buggedout: :buggedout:
A couple I failed to mention earlier:
Meet the Feebles - I wanted to like it. I've watched it twice, and both times it left me feeling like my soul needed a long, hot shower.
Tideland - I love almost every film Terry Gilliam has directed, but this one left me in a daze for nearly a week. I had a lot of trouble processing the horrors going on in this movie. It is definitely one of the most disturbing pieces of cinema I have ever experienced.
any movie that features intimate relations between family members, except in a very very few instances feels like a violation. leave it to the soap operas/ 70s pornos film makers. if you need that to be shocking you are missing something or maybe I'm just uptight. whatever, it's my dvd player
Antichrist (2009) directed by Lars von Trier
Great films that I'll never watch again....
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8 MM
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MONSTER
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MANIAC
The Last House on the Left (1972)
Monster (2003)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1973)
Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation (2007)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Freaks (1932)
Threads (1984)
Happiness (1998)
The Exorcist (1973)
Se7en (1995)
The Wizard of Gore (1970)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Naked Lunch (1990)
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
Spanking the Monkey (1994)
Kissed (1996)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Léolo (1992)
Ma Mère (2004)
Two that I've mentioned before:
Xiu Xiu - The Sent Down Girl (1998). Directed by Joan Chen, it follows the story of a 15 year old Chinese girl sent to live and work in the country by the Maoist government during the Cultural Revolution. She yearns to go back to the city, and she begins sleeping with local officials in hopes they can send her back.
Meanwhile, the farmer with whom she is staying is in love with her, and watches silently as a literal procession of men use her night after night. She becomes pregnant, has an abortion, and realizes that she has been used and will never see the city again. She asks the farmer to kill her, and bury her in the rock pool he made for her. I found that movie so disturbing that it kept me awake all night, and I had to talk about it with work colleagues the next day. (Indy gave me karma after I talked about how that movie affected me the first time. Thank you, Indy.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiu_Xiu:_The_Sent_Down_Girl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiu_Xiu:_The_Sent_Down_Girl)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_m5hCAhYJ4#)
Santa Sangre (Sacred Blood) (1989). Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain) directs a crazy movie about the life of a boy who grows up in a circus of freaks. Tattooed women, armless people, random knife throwers, delirious cults and messianic imagery abound. The trailer for this movie played when I went on my first date with my first girlfriend (we saw Almodovar's Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, a super date movie!), but I never saw Santa Sangre until maybe eight years later. So glad I didn't see it as a teenager, it would have messed me up even more than I already was!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Sangre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Sangre)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx2vwzXF1B0#)
Something about BULLY bothered me tremendously.
I think it was the complete and utter moral depravity of every single character in the film.