What movies DISTURB you the most?

[B0SoxSuk (Austin)]

I've been wondering what movies truly bother people.  I'm on a hunt to watch some REALLY enticing films.  What makes you cringe?  What gives you nightmares?  What messes with your pysche?  There are some pretty gripping thrillers and dramas out there, and among them are some sick, demented, frightening, and dastardly films.  Which ones don't let you forget them?

Seven (Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman) did a fairly decent job on me.  

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[Eirik]

There's an unforgettable scene in the otherwise highly forgettable movie Dead Presidents when a guy in a squad in Vietnam goes missing.  They finally find him lying on the ground still alive, but with his hands and feet tied, his belly slit open and his genitals hanging out of his mouth.  It's on screen for just a frame or two, but that's about all it took to sear into my brain.

Also, anything with Phoebe Cates in a sexual context disturbs me because she looks almost exactly like my cousin.  (shudders)

[Susan]

i had the displeasure in my youth of seeing not a movie..but that faces of death crap.

[Ash]

For me it would be "Cannibal Holocaust".

After I saw it, it left a sickening feeling in my gut that stayed with me for a day or two.
I even woke up from sleep with gruesome imagery from it going through my mind a couple of times...remnants of a dream.
No joke.

That is a truly disturbing film!



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[jmc]

All the cannibal flicks are disturbing to various degrees, but that one is the worst.  Makes you feel like taking a shower afterward.

HENRY, PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER was disturbing because you knew people like that were really out there.

I just saw one called ISLAND OF DEATH [aka ISLAND OF THE DAMNED, WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?] which was pretty creepy.  The kids on this island go crazy and start killing all the adults.  It predates CHILDREN OF THE CORN by a few years and is much more disturbing.

[onionhead]

I agree with jmc  :Henry is a real corker.  Michael Mann's Manhunter likewise is a film that really sticks in my head, disturbing visions, disturbing behavior, disturbed minds.  Tom Noonan set the serial killer sociopathic bar, and it has yet to be surpassed, IMO.

[ulthar]

"The Deer Hunter" with Christopher Walken and Robert Deniro is a movie that I've seen once, but it's images have stuck with me for years.

[Chopper]

Like JMC and others mentioned Henry: Portrait of a Sereal Killer is a classic disturbing film, not only for it's strong content but it's realism also.
The film that really sticks out in my mind is a Spanish film titled "In A Glass Cage."
It's about a young boy who was abused by a Nazi who flees to a Spanish village. The young boy then finds the Nazi who's living in an iron lung and earns the trust of his wife and becomes his caretaker. Although he has some alterior motives that include psychological and physical torture, and revenge to some of the worst degrees put on celluloid. If you ever see In A Glass Cage it's truly an experience you wont forget, there are certain images in that film that crawl under your skin and die.

[Neon Noodle]

I saw "I Spit On Your Grave" years ago and I was truly disgusted with the long and humiliating rape scenes. When she cut off the one rapist's unit and locked him in the bathroom; then went downstairs to listen to classical music is an image that will never leave my mind.

Also, I have trouble with anything having to do with fingernails. There was a scene in some movie (think it was Buried Alive) where a crazed doctor pulls out a woman's fingernails with a pair of pliers. Makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.

[Scott]

Well, I can say that the in the mid-80's I saw (not I seen : ) ERASERHEAD. Not sure why, but it is always first on my most distrurbing films.

[Chopper]

Eraserhead is a pretty out there film. that fetus scene still makes me cringe ughh (shivering).

[Jayson]

Poltergeist scared the hell out of me when i was a kid seeing it on the big screen. That friggin CLOWN gave me nightmares!

[Johnny Z]

Watch Deliverance and you will never go camping or listen to a banjo again. A great film, but disturbing none the less is the Exorcist, get the full version, not the tv edited one. I've never seen it but I understand I Spit on Your Grave is another one.

[jmc]

I have this book of essays on horror films where they give a list of the 13 most disturbing horror films...a lot of them have already been mentioned here: ERASERHEAD, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, IN A GLASS CAGE, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, and HENRY....

I haven't seen IN A GLASS CAGE--might check it out someday.  There's also one called MEN BEHIND THE SUN that is really supposed to be hard to watch, but I'm not sure if I'm up to that one.  

I've been meaning to pick up the I SPIT DVD with Joe Bob Briggs commentary but haven't gotten around to it yet.

[Scott]

I haven't seen CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, IN A GLASS CAGE, nor I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE.