Most disturbing movies you've seen?

TimurCivan said:
no that was the blue spirit in the bag/ TV's/flourescant lights/ and lots of inky black.... Scared the poop out of me. thats the movie that should have won horror fest.
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I third that.
 
I don't remember what it was called, (if someone knows help me out) but I remember watching a German film on IFC about two sociopathic brothers who terrorize a family on vacation at a lake house. It's nuts. Downright nuts.

Complete and total lack of happiness and hope. They go above and beyond. No happy ending. Period.

The clincher scene for me is that these brothers have the family tied and held hostage in their living room, and the situation seems so desperate for these characters, you really want them to fight back or escape. Something happens to generate a struggle, and in the middle of it, the shotgun that they were wrestling with goes off, and blows one of the brothers into pieces. I was like, YES! hope. Then the other brother looks at the camera and says, no, this can't be happening, and actually reverses time back to a minute ago, and it replays the scene again, only the brother saves the other one this time.

This was not a Voice over or sci fi movie at all. Just a real life drama. But that scene messed me up. I was like man, no hope at all for these people, yup, they're all gonna die...
 
it's called funny games, pretty nasty stuff but well made film - i think irreversible is the hardest film to watch, still haven't been able to get through the whole of 'that scene' without fast forwarding - again a well made film though. peter greenaway's baby of macon is also unpleasant viewing due to the length of its rape scene
 
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The rape scene near the beginning of "Strange Days" was pretty awful to watch. A friend of mine got up and walked out before it was over.
 
The woodchipper scene in Fargo disturbs me quite a bit. I think the sound effects that you hear before you see anything are what do it.
 
Billy Pilgrim said:
The DVD commentary is priceless, and probably even more disturbing at the same time.
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Oh - the commentary is very disturbing. It's there that you realize that he's completely serious and really does think that he's created a masterpiece (and, in a way, he did - it really is the Plan 9 of music videos)
 
I just found it incredibly funny because, essentially, in the song, he's narrating it and saying everything he's doing when he does it (I went into the closet), and in the commentary, he just re-states what he's already saying in the narration, which is already over-stated because we're watching it happen. So it was upon the realization that I realized either he really is dead serious, or he's the greatest concept comedian since Andy Kauffman. He's either insane, or a genius. My favorite part inthe commentary is when he's talking, an dit ranomly cuts to a straight-on shot of him, and he does this ridiculous silent film villain laugh, like "Muahahahahaha" then it cuts back to the other shot, and he keeps talking, as if that shot didn't just happen.
 
Billy Pilgrim said:
I just found it incredibly funny because, essentially, in the song, he's narrating it and saying everything he's doing when he does it (I went into the closet), and in the commentary, he just re-states what he's already saying in the narration, which is already over-stated because we're watching it happen. So it was upon the realization that I realized either he really is dead serious, or he's the greatest concept comedian since Andy Kauffman. He's either insane, or a genius. My favorite part inthe commentary is when he's talking, an dit ranomly cuts to a straight-on shot of him, and he does this ridiculous silent film villain laugh, like "Muahahahahaha" then it cuts back to the other shot, and he keeps talking, as if that shot didn't just happen.
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The guy pees on people and believes he's god's gift to women and the world, he's nuts.


Oh and for the thread Requiem for a Dream is mine.
 
I would have to say:

Faces of Death 1 - freaking electricution scene haunted me as a child
Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre- so raw and freakish
Saw 1 - brutaly inventive
The Shining- old woman in the tub scene
Breakdown - scary cause of its sheer reality
Deliverance - hate those rednecks
The island of Dr Moureau - simply cause the whole time I am like - WTF????
Halloween I - parts where he is just standing there staring at you
 
cecil995 said:
Halloween I - parts where he is just standing there staring at you
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My grandmother of all people showed me Halloween when I was 11 years old, and for about a year I would reluctantly get water in the middle of the night, and I would always be afraid of that blank, white face materializing in the darkness.
 
The most disturbing image I have seen in fictional video is the skull cap scene in Hanibal. When I was a kid it was the flying monkeys in the Wizard of oz.
Comic books it was 'Weird' magazine which later took on a bogus thing or was sold out.
Those images remain. I can not find a copy of the Weird Magaine (The brutal violence one's) that I used to read as a kid. Long since been banned. God, the stuff I threw out. That stuff was classic.

Oh...lets not forget Vincent Price->The Pit and the Pendulum. As a kid. He was/is thee last of the great horror actors.
 
Jazz Dog said:
I just watched THE most disturbing movie i have ever seen. It is actually a documentary. Having lived on the west coast my whole life I had no idea.
The fim is......Jesus Camp.
Scary.
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I finally saw this last night... crazy scary. I have no problem with sane religious people. They tend to be good people. These people are not sane.
 
Sad Max said:
The rape scene near the beginning of "Strange Days" was pretty awful to watch. A friend of mine got up and walked out before it was over.
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Good choice...... Yes that whole, she feels it, while you feel it thing messed me up. i was like 12 when i saw that right after i saw Salo...... I guess thats why im so charming now....
 
When I saw Event Horizon (much younger than I am now) I was freaked out by it...that movie stuck with me for awhile. Watching it now and seeing some of the horror movies that have come since I guess it's kind of tame by today's standards, but in it's time it freaked me the hell out.
 
The rape scene in "strange days" is not that graphic, clearly you've never seen "Irriversable" what that pimp does to Monica Beluchi, now that was disturbing. Also when they beat the guy with the fire extinguisher and crush his skull, I mean you can feel it.
 
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