Movies which disturbed you?

[Trevor]

I have a short list of movies like this: while I enjoyed them, there are some I will never see again.

Darfur
Jannie Totsiens
Event Horizon
The Medusa Touch
Gorky Park
The Hitcher (1986)
Still of The Night
Last Embrace
Prince of Darkness
Come and See
Crowhaven Farm
Baffled!
Dirkie / Lost In The Desert
The Shadowed Mind
Silence of The Lambs
The Believers

[Alex]

Watership Down when I was about 3 years old.
Saw, right at the end.

[bob]

Antichrist (2009) 

[Allhallowsday]

Quick list that includes good films and dreadful films, all disturbing : 

WILD AT HEART   
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE   
LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT   
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE   
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD   
DAWN OF THE DEAD   
MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY   
THE EXORCIST  

[Trevor]

Quick list that includes good films and dreadful films, all disturbing : 

WILD AT HEART   
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE   
LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT   
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE   
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD   
DAWN OF THE DEAD   
MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY   
THE EXORCIST  

Both TCM and The Exorcist hold the record - not a record I would want - for the longest banning streak in South Africa as both only became available 20 years after their first release. 

[Gabriel Knight]

Recently I watched 8MM and I have to say that it has some powerful moments. Really good movie but I'm too lazy to write a review.

[Allhallowsday]

...Both TCM and The Exorcist hold the record - not a record I would want - for the longest banning streak in South Africa as both only became available 20 years after their first release. 

Y'mean release as in to theaters or to VHS?   

I thought of other movies I think highly of but find deeply disturbing: 

GERMANIA ANNO ZERO  (1948)  The most devastating film I have ever seen that was also full of stunning insight.  I will look at it again. 

LA CIOCIARA (1960 aka TWO WOMEN)  A beautiful film, I looked at the 1st sparkling hour again after I had watched the whole thing, but turned it off when I knew the film had turned.  I will never look at the 2nd half again.  Worse than devastating... Surviving. 

[RCMerchant]

...Both TCM and The Exorcist hold the record - not a record I would want - for the longest banning streak in South Africa as both only became available 20 years after their first release. 

Y'mean release as in to theaters or to VHS?   

I thought of other movies I think highly of but find deeply disturbing: 

LA CIOCIARA (1960 aka TWO WOMEN)  A beautiful film, I looked at the 1st sparkling hour again after I had watched the whole thing, but turned it off when I knew the film had turned.  I will never look at the 2nd half again.  Worse than devastating... Surviving. 

I seen this movie when I was A teenager. It's a very good movie.

[Allhallowsday]

...LA CIOCIARA (1960 aka TWO WOMEN)  A beautiful film, I looked at the 1st sparkling hour again after I had watched the whole thing, but turned it off when I knew the film had turned.  I will never look at the 2nd half again.  Worse than devastating... Surviving. 

I seen this movie when I was A teenager. It's a very good movie.

Indeed.  VITTORIO DE SICA I think. 

[Trevor]

...Both TCM and The Exorcist hold the record - not a record I would want - for the longest banning streak in South Africa as both only became available 20 years after their first release. 

Y'mean release as in to theaters or to VHS?   

Release to home video: not sure if it was VHS or if DVD had just started here. All I know is both films were banned for 20 years 

[Archivist]

This topic comes up now and again, and one movie that disturbed me was Xiu Xiu - The Sent Down Girl (1998). It was a horribly depressing movie about a young woman from the city in China, sent to live and work in the country during Chairman Mao's agrarian revolution. She hates it in the country, and lives with a goodhearted farmer who was emasculated in an accident. She begin to sleep with officials who promise her they can approve her return to the city, but they never deliver. She falls pregnant, and eventually asks to be killed by the farmer who has been in love with her all along. He buries her in the rock pool that he made for her. I was deeply shaken by that movie and it took a day or two to recover. @Indianasmith even gave me karma the first time I described the movie because it was honestly a very difficult film to watch.

A movie that disturbed me so much that I never watched it is The Beyond (1981) by Lucio Fulci. The trailer was enough to give me nightmares!

Audition (1999) was very creepy, and as I've described before, there's a part in the movie where you think, 'She not going to do this... surely not...' but she does. And it's awful.

Red To Kill (1994) is pretttttty bad. Yeah.

Following from The Beyond, it's interesting how one's imagination can be as disturbing as anything else. As a kid, I often looked at the covers of horror VHS movies I was way too young to watch, and imagined how awful they probably were. Much later in life, I got to see some of these movies, and while they were bad, they weren't as grotesque as imagined. Video covers of movies like XTRO (1983) gave me the absolute willies.

[Trevor]

A movie that disturbed me so much that I never watched it is The Beyond (1981) by Lucio Fulci. The trailer was enough to give me nightmares!

I have that on DVD: people advised me to watch it with the David Warbeck / Catriona McColl audio commentary on the first time through: it is very funny - although sad to know that David died almost a month after recording the commentary for the LaserDisk release - and takes your mind off some of the truly horrible moments in the film.

[HappyGilmore]

Requiem For a Dream--Great movie overall, but I'd seen it right outta high school and it kinda bothered me.  Didn't dissuade me from using various substances in the years after.  But at a point in my addictions, I'd rewatched it and it mirrored moments in my life and I knew I needed to stop.  I guess it worked?

[chainsaw midget]

Henry:  Portrait of a Serial Killer.  There's something unsettling about how this movie absolutely refuses to any "good" people in it anywhere.  It's bleak, nasty, and sleazy, but it never feels over the top.  It feels realistic in a rather unsettling way.

[Alex]

One I have never watched, but I suspect would disturb me if I did is A Serbian Movie.