What movies DISTURB you the most?

[Grumpy Guy]

During my military service I saw a French film called Man Bites Dog.  It's about a film crew that does a documentary about the life of a man who kills people for a living.

There are a number of scenes in the film that were flat-out disturbing, but the rape scene near the end comes leaping to mind.  It's a freakish film about the debasement of the human psyche.  Really disturbing.  REALLY GOOD, but really disturbing.

[Mr_Vindictive]

I must agree with Grumpy Guy that Man Bites Dog (1991) is a fantastic film.  A sequel to it that shows the hitman's life leading up to those events should be released within the next year or so.

As for disturbing, I'm gonna have to go with I Spit On Your Grave.  There are two scenes that always come to my mind when I think of this flick.  The first, like Neon Noodle said, is the scene where she cuts off the guy's penis in the bathtub then slowly and calmly walks to her living room and puts on a record of classical music.  This scene always bothered me cause it's the only scene with music in the film.  The other scene is of her running over the guy with boat and chopping him up with the outboard motor.

Das Experiment was also pretty disturbing for me.  Watching the guards shave a prisoner's head, time him to a chair, beat him and then p**s on him really hit me pretty hard.

8mm also has a scene that really disturbed me the first time I watched it.  The scene where Nick Cage beats James Gandolfini while he is tied up before setting the building on fire.  I guess it was because it was such a major change in Cage's character.  He had stayed the normal everyday guy until this point where he just snaps.

[Max Gardner]

If we're talking horror movies, I'd say Jacob's Ladder, The Mothman Prophecies and The Devil's Backbone would be somewhere near the top of my list.

[Susan]

Not that the movie disturbed me but "Trainspotting" comes to mind, I can never quite watch any of the scenes involving the baby

[Vermin Boy]

Titticut Follies, an incredibly gritty documentary about life inside a mental hospital. I've only seen a couple of scenes from it, but one had footage of a patient being forcefed via a tube up his nose, intercut with footage of that same patient's body being prepared for his funeral. I usually have a pretty strong stomach, but that scene gave me a totally weird feeling for the next few days.

[ulthar]

Grumpy Guy wrote:

>
> There are a number of scenes in the film that were flat-out
> disturbing, but the rape scene near the end comes leaping to
> mind.  

In general, I find rape scenes very disturbing, though some are less so than others.  I find it hard to watch rape scenes in a movie (even if not very graphic) with a female present.  It's wierd - general murder scenes don't bother me all that much, but the rape scenes do.

[Eirik]

The movie Irreversible (mad in France) is the most disturbing movie I've seen recently.  It has a 10-minute (not an estimate - at least 600 actual seconds) rape/beating scene done with no cuts, a sene where a guy gets his face literally bashed flat by a fire extinguisher (a very realistic dummy was smoothly substituted for the guy after the first bash), and a guy's upper arm bone getting broken at a 90 degree angle.  It also has a she-male prostitute flashing his genitals, and an extended scene in a gay sex club with lots of simulated sex.  Not a movie I care to ever see again... but actually a pretty powerful movie for that one viewing I was willing to give it.

[ulthar]

I must be getting squeamish in my old age, since I would not care to even watch a movie like this.

To tell you the truth, I watch movies to for fun - to laugh, etc.  I don't care for movies that 'disturb' me.   In my last job (Law Enforcement, working crime scene investigation), I guess I saw enough disturbing stuff for real.  My first call-out my first week at that job was train vs. pedestrian, and the train won.

I once investigated a traffic collision that involved the deaths of two 15 year old girls (only one was drt, the other died after being helolifted to a level 1 trauma center).  The firefighters, cops ambulance guys, everyone was standing around joking and doing that sick stuff that happens at scenes like that.  This went on for a while, until one of the firefighters making some of the 'funnier' jokes realized that the dead girl he was making fun in front of was his very own cousin.  He'd seen her the day before.  He didn't recognize her because, well, sometimes you don't recognize people after they had been killed in car crash.

When a firefighter many many years ago, I also had to do things like cut the body of one of my friend's Dad out of his truck when he got T-Boned by a dump truck going 60 mph - with his kids standing across the street.

Also, one of the several fires I got to investigate that involved the death of a child under 5, had some extra sad circumstances.  The mother needed to go to the store, and her 3 year old son wanted to go, too.  But, she would not let him.  They fussed a little bit.  When she returned from the store, her son was dead, her husband was burned pretty badly, and her home was rubble.  Some trip to the grocery store that was.

[I guess you can see why I have a lot of nightmares]

When I was younger, I guess I liked the grosser the better, but now my perspective has changed.  And don't get me wrong, I do like fun horror movies (and other, similar genres) with all the fantastic, creative effects.  But to this description, I just say, "wow, not my cup of tea."

-I don't care to watch rape depicted on screen, certainly not a long drawn out scene.

-I don't care for gay sex scenes, and certainly not gay rape.

Sorry guys, but real life is disturbing enough for me...I watch movies to ESCAPE from that!

Peace.

[jmc]

IRREVERSIBLE was too arty for its own good....the annoying drunken camerawork and  story structure lessened the impact.

What is disturbing about it is that people are using the rape scene as a selling point.   But in that sense maybe it's no different than the exploitation films of the past, except it's not supposed to be an exploitation film.