What is the most disturbing movie you have ever seen? (1 Viewer)

[Chuck Bogie]

Full Metal Jacket, off the top of my head.

You are sick. I like that in a person.

 

[Chuck Bogie]

When I was in college, we rented one of those Faces of Death things for your basic dorm movie party... I was wholly disgusted.

 

[Carl Johnson]

I'd have to vote for Se7en too. I haven't seen very films that even approach disturbing. I tend to dislike horror flicks and war movies just don't appeal to me.

 

[Moe Maishlish]

Requiem for a Dream.

On a high recommendation, I bought the Directors Cut on DVD about a year ago and watched it the same night.

One of the best movies I never ever want to watch again. If you can say that a movie was so good that you never want to see it again, you know that it's achieved it's goal.

Highly recommended.

Moe.

 

[Ralph Summa]

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Blue Velvet

 

[Jesse Skeen]

I watched Requiem for a Dream expecting to be disturbed, but I didn't find it disturbing at all. Since it was presented in such an unconventional fashion, it pretty much said up front that everything wasn't real, plus I don't have much sympathy for people who get into drugs in the first place. It was certainly interesting to watch, but not what I'd call disturbing.

 

[Aurel Savin]

I have to say REQUIEM FOR A DREAM also ...

Very disturbing and genius filmaking at the same time. The soundtrack alone gives me the willies. Best use of sound since the original PSYCHO in my opinion.

Was jittery for a good 2 days after watching it ... and I sat through some sick movies in my life.

There is nothing more shocking than reality!

 

[Scott Weinberg]

Not as a whole, but there's one scene in Roger Avary's The Rules of Attraction that disturbed me more than a little.

(To those who've seen the movie, it's the bathtub scene.)

 

[Benjamin_M]

Se7en gets my vote for my most disturbing movie.

But Frailty is a close second. I rented this flick not to long ago not knowing what it was about and was quite shocked by what those poor kids lived through. I guess that seeing someone being killed in a movie is disturbing but it goes to another level when you see small children witnessing murders and participating in them.

 

[chung_sotheby]

I would have to say Kaazam! Shaquille Oneal in a Genie costume, Just terrifying.

But other than that, almost any Gregg Araki (I think that's his name) movie. The only value that his films have is to see all the up-and-comers that appear in them (like Heather Graham, Ryan Philippi, Mena Suvari, Denise Richards, etc.)

 

[Steve_Knutzen]

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The video tape and the fact that the woman in that seen went into a coma shortly after filming it.
Terror Firmer
When Casey shows what's underneath his dress
. The first time I saw it I neearly threw up.
Requiem for a Dream
The entire end sequence left me speechless.
All three are excellent movies that I've watched numerous times.

 

[Dan Rudolph]

A Clockwork Orange also Carrie. The first because the protagonist has bad goals, yet you fell for him anyway. The latter because you know Carrie is competent enough to bring things to a good end. I'd also bring in The Talented Mr. Ripley. We are left to identify with a guy who isn't all that bad. Then he tells a lie to get ahead a bit. Then, he keeps doing prgressively worse things to cover it up and maintain what he got with the first lie.

 

[Harry Lincoln]

Braindead. I was eating custard while watching it, the custard scene made be vomit. I've never eaten custard again.

 

[Sean Campbell]

The British tv movie 'Threads'.
Made in 1984, this two hour production was the British answer to 'The Day After', only several times scarier. It dealt with a full scale nuclear war, the story focusing on the city of Sheffield. The first 45 minutes or so deals with the build up to the war, the main characters introduced as in the background, tv and radio reports speak of a major crises in the Middle East. We see glimpses of genuine public information films that chill the blood. 'If you have had a body in the house for more than five days, and if it is safe to do so, bring it outside and cover it in earth. Leave a note stating the deceased name and address....'
When the bombs finally drop we see a pretty disturbing montage of exploding buildings, burning bodies, melting bottles, dead cats, rivers of blood spurting out from beneath rubble, a woman peeing in her pants as she sees the distant mushroom cloud...
The final hour sees the survivors struggling to stay alive in the ruins, most of them dying from radiation sickness. We see a woman cradling a long dead baby, packed hospital wards of the injured. Without drugs, doctors are forced to carry out amputations on fully conscious patients, plenty of screams from young and old alike. A woman gives birth to her child in a freezing cold barn, a vicious dog eyeing them from about ten feet away. A man eats a dead sheep raw.
The film finally ends some 13 years later, humanity having reverted to a medieval lifestyle. The final scene involves a 13 year old girl giving birth to a stillborn baby.
Not the kind of film to put you in a good mood.

Luckily, I had 'My Neighbour Totoro' on standby for watching afterwards...

 

[Paul_D]

I'll second
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

It's the only film I've seen that I felt went too far.

 

[Adam_S]

Salò
I saw up to the 'wedding' and couldn't stand any more, and I hear it gets much much worse.


A totally different type of disturbing is Taxi Driver, which I suppose is more along the lines of people who are mentioning Se7en kind of disturbing.

Adam

 

[Chris Moe]

Another disturbing film is Nil by Mouth directed by Gary Oldman and is supposedly somewhat autobriographical.

A taste of how disturbing it is: Here is a quote from Eberts review.

"Gary Oldman's ``Nil by Mouth'' descends into a domestic hell of violence, drugs and booze, where a man can kick his pregnant wife and then, drunk, scrape out the words ``My Baby'' on the wallpaper with his bloody fingernails."

Definitely not for the faint of heart, but a very powerful movie.

 

[dan fritzen]

most disturbing movie I ever saw was the 1986 version of truth or dare where the a guy catches his wife in a affair and creates imaginary friends to play truth or dare. The main character is dared to rip out his tongue and it progresses from there. A baby is run over and a drive by chainsaw rips a boy in two.

I was twelve when I saw this movie after countless Jason and Freddy's flicked already filled my brain. I forgot about it until 2 weeks ago when I had a dream about it and can't get it out of my head now.

 

[Jason Seaver]

Audition. I loved it when I saw it in the theater (though tons of folks walked out), and bought the DVD, but almost don't want to see it again... I'm afraid it'll lose its power with repetition.


And, tonight, I went to the Museum of Fine Arts for a free "Unseen Cinema" screening; mostly-silent stuff from the 1920s. So, anyway, in the middle of this one - "The Soul Of The Cypress", a cute little fantasia about a musician and a wood-nymph, it suddenly cuts to... Well, what it cut to is probably not technically porn, but it's some pretty explicit pre-Hayes Code stuff, and pretty bloody far from what I was expecting going in.

Apparently it was the movie equivelent of graffitti - some long-ago collector cut this stuff into a thoroughly G-worthy movie and it's stuck like that, since there aren't many prints surviving.

 

[Justin_S]

I have seen more than a fair share of the most disturbing movies, but one stands out:

SALO: THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM is by far the most disturbing film I've ever laid eyes on, and even I, a hardened fan of some of the most grotesque films, had a hard as hell time watching it. I have seen the majority of films mentioned in this thread, from IN A GLASS CAGE to HENRY to THREADS, and while all are very disturbing, they can't hold a candle to SALO's ability to disturb, at least in my opinion. Different things disturb different people though...

On another note, I hear that IRREVERSIBLE, which I did a thread about a few days ago, is a spectacular, stunningly beautiful film, yet so disturbing it'll tear you apart. I've been dying to see it, and can't wait till the 7th of March!

Also, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM is my favorite film of all time, and I'm truly glad to see it get so much mention here. It has effected me so greatly every time I view it, and is such a saddening masterpiece. I watch it constantly, because to me, films don't get much better.