What is the Most Disturbing Film You've Ever Seen?

[JPickettIII]

Jess Franco's 1980 film The Devil Hunter is often considered to be among the sickest achievements of the Italian "cannibal" film boom.  In the most notorious scene, "the Devil" demonstrates "eating p***y" in a grossly excessive, literal manner.

Yes, it's exactly what you think it is.

I went to Youtube to look for a clip of this film and I found a animation film.   Is it animated??

[Metropolisforever]

Jess Franco's 1980 film The Devil Hunter is often considered to be among the sickest achievements of the Italian "cannibal" film boom.  In the most notorious scene, "the Devil" demonstrates "eating p***y" in a grossly excessive, literal manner.

Yes, it's exactly what you think it is.

I went to Youtube to look for a clip of this film and I found a animation film.   Is it animated??

No, Jess Franco's film is not animated.

I think what you saw on YouTube was probably a clip from an anime called Devil Hunter Yohko.

[Metropolisforever]

Philosophy of a Knife (2008) is considered by many to be an extremely disturbing, nightmarish film, despite its extreme running time of 249 minutes.

While the above film shocks with its extreme length, the short films Broken (1992), Aftermath (1994), and Cutting Moments (1997) are considered by many to be among the most disturbing short films.

Kichiku (1999) is another oft-cited disturbing film, as well as Schramm (1993).

[Fishasaurus]

Well, there's good disturbing, and there's bad disturbing.  I have top choices for both categories.

"Good disturbing" would have to be Jacob's Ladder.

"Bad disturbing" would have to be The Last House On The Left.

[Metropolisforever]

The All Night Long trilogy is another example of "extreme" Japanese cinema, considered by many to be extremely disturbing.

[AndyC]

I'm a little late to this thread, but I don't believe it's been mentioned yet. The Butterfly Effect. Children get molested, a baby gets blown up, a dog in a sack gets torched. I can watch a lot of things, but I can't stand mistreatment of children or animals. Just an ugly, ugly movie.

[Psycho Circus]

The new Rambo flick leans alot toward the disturbing zone. I didn't think it was going to be as brutal and gory, even though I love that type of thing - especially when it looks real. People get cut it half by machine gun fire, people get their guts ripped apart, set on fire, bones stick out and a village gets attacked, where one child is held down then shot and another has it's head stamped on! 

[VogNhymn]

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

Nekromantik 1&2

Schramm

The Burning Moon

The Guinea Pig series (1985-1991)

Men Behind the Sun

Cannibal Holocaust

The House on the Edge of the Park (1980)

The Last House on the Left (1972)

Forced Entry (1973)

Naked Blood

Black Sun:The Nanking Massacre

Philosophy Of A Knife

Captured For Sex 2

The New York Ripper

Irreversible

The Girl Next Door

[JJ80]

There was an Indian/Bollywood film that I saw a few years ago that was about the Sri Lankan civil war and featured a scene with a suicide bombing. It was painfully built up with a character shiftily sneaking around behind a military patrol that the main characters were standing next to. There was a horrible inevitability about the ensuing well-staged panic and chaos.

[voltron]

While the above film shocks with its extreme length, the short films Broken (1992), Aftermath (1994), and Cutting Moments (1997) are considered by many to be among the most disturbing short films.

I just saw a snippet (hehe) of one of the more infamous scenes in Cutting Moments and all I can say is WOW. Knocked me on my ass. Yes, it was gross, but it was also gutwrenchingly sad. I do however remember reading a brief little plot sysnopsis about it years ago, but I cannot remember where from. If anyone would let me know where I can get a copy of this, please let me know.

[Franchescanado]

Philosophy of Knife is on Netflix Instant Watch, split into two parts.