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'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' has to be at or near the top of the list. To this day I get chills watching it.
A great choice!
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is also a really disturbing one, on many levels.
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What Is The Most Disturbing Film?
A great choice!
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is also a really disturbing one, on many levels.
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I can't remember the name of it. I watch it sometime ago. It was about a plane crash in the mountains and the passengers were straving. The living began to eat the dead. It was based on a true story. All I know is that film really screwed me up for a week. Other then that, nothing has done much.
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Are you possibly talking about Alive?
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Lilya 4 Ever takes the cake for the through the roof tragic level, a hopeless life shown unflinchingly, and a better film than Martyrs, which was good, and there's other "movies" that i don't feel deserve any kind of notoriety, like Mordum and Re-GOREgitated Sacrifice, ... once upon a time my number one film was Dusan Makavejev's Sweet Movie, Otto Muehl was in that, and he made some twisted short films that at least you used to be able to find on Ubu.web.
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no......don't put that in the glossary. 
i would say;
A Clockwork Orange
the rape scene in The Accused (Jodie Foster),
and most of the ultraviolent gory for gory's sake slasher movies where people are just mutilated one by one by some crazy psychopath......e.g. Chainsaw Massacre, et.al.
bleck.....we can do much better things with film.
i would say;
A Clockwork Orange
the rape scene in The Accused (Jodie Foster),
and most of the ultraviolent gory for gory's sake slasher movies where people are just mutilated one by one by some crazy psychopath......e.g. Chainsaw Massacre, et.al.
bleck.....we can do much better things with film.
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Crumb's one of my favorite movies - it was sad for me more than anything else, the scenes with his brothers were pretty disturbing though.
Pay it Forward is disturbing to me. How anyone could like a movie so covered in cheese and contrived, unoriginal melodrama is beyond me. I think it's the worst movie I've watched in the past couple of years.
Pay it Forward is disturbing to me. How anyone could like a movie so covered in cheese and contrived, unoriginal melodrama is beyond me. I think it's the worst movie I've watched in the past couple of years.
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Lilya 4 Ever takes the cake for the through the roof tragic level, a hopeless life shown unflinchingly.
Moodyson's other film Hole in My Heart is just as hopeless, but then is almost unwatchably disgusting and disturbing on top of that. It's horrifying.
This is also not a recommend, even if all of the other movies I've seen by him are great.
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@Karl Childers
“What is the most disturbing movie, overall, that you have seen? I apologize if this topic has been explored recently.”
The most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen is I Spit On Your Grave (the original, would never watch the remake). It’s also the worst movie I’ve ever seen.
@Marcellus
“Schindler's List, especially disturbing watching it as a Jew.”
If you thought Schindler’s List was disturbing, then you should watch The Grey Zone (if you haven’t already). That movie makes Schindler’s List look like Happy Feet.
Btw, I just posted a review of this movie:
https://www.movieforums.com/communit...ad.php?t=71808
Mark
“What is the most disturbing movie, overall, that you have seen? I apologize if this topic has been explored recently.”
The most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen is I Spit On Your Grave (the original, would never watch the remake). It’s also the worst movie I’ve ever seen.
@Marcellus
“Schindler's List, especially disturbing watching it as a Jew.”
If you thought Schindler’s List was disturbing, then you should watch The Grey Zone (if you haven’t already). That movie makes Schindler’s List look like Happy Feet.
Btw, I just posted a review of this movie:
https://www.movieforums.com/communit...ad.php?t=71808
Mark
Lilya 4 Ever takes the cake for the through the roof tragic level, .
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Apologies if already mentioned but I put the film 'In a Glass Cage' on recently, an the first 10 minutes was so disturbing that I postponed it and have decided that I need to watch when I have something strong to drink at hand.
Watch at your peril.
Watch at your peril.
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Apologies if already mentioned but I put the film 'In a Glass Cage' on recently, an the first 10 minutes was so disturbing that I postponed it and have decided that I need to watch when I have something strong to drink at hand.
Watch at your peril.
Watch at your peril.
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We watched it for the 24th Hall of Fame. It is disturbing, but I've seen more disturbing movies. I think you can handle it, especially if you can handle Lilja 4-Ever. I don't think I could watch it again, though, especially since my son is older. Here's a link to that Hall of Fame in case you want to read our thoughts on it.
Some of those reviews of In a Glass Cage made me laugh. Fair enough dislike the film but questioning it's nomination just because you don't like it? Seems a bit odd. I'll give it another go soon.
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I previously listed:
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
- A Serbian Film
- Men Behind the Sun
- The House That Jack Built
It would be easy to just list a lot of shocking B-movies, but my list was carefully chosen:
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
This has been a banned film with a bad reputation for decades. The content of the film is disturbing in itself, that's what gave it its reputation, but for me it's more the setting of the film, its frame is completely distorted and that's why it's remembered as one of the most disturbed films.
A serbian film
A difficult film to watch. The film gradually takes the viewer towards a more distorted setting, until the viewer realizes that everything that happens in the film is completely wrong and sick. At this point, there is no turning back. The film leaves a disgusting memory in the mind.
Men behind the sun
This is the weakest film on my list. The film itself is hollow and everything is based on shocking scenes. Although the setting is nondescript, the scenes make the film truly disturbing.
The House That Jack Built
This is the only good film on my list. I like the setting of the film, which depicts the sick train of thought and description of a serial killer, the logic of the murderer explaining his actions to himself in all their injustice. So the film has a much deeper narrative of the serial killer's mental landscape, which I think carries well, unlike, for example, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), which is just a series of violent events. Lars von Trier brings a unique stamp to his films and it is also visible here.
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
- A Serbian Film
- Men Behind the Sun
- The House That Jack Built
It would be easy to just list a lot of shocking B-movies, but my list was carefully chosen:
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
This has been a banned film with a bad reputation for decades. The content of the film is disturbing in itself, that's what gave it its reputation, but for me it's more the setting of the film, its frame is completely distorted and that's why it's remembered as one of the most disturbed films.
A serbian film
A difficult film to watch. The film gradually takes the viewer towards a more distorted setting, until the viewer realizes that everything that happens in the film is completely wrong and sick. At this point, there is no turning back. The film leaves a disgusting memory in the mind.
Men behind the sun
This is the weakest film on my list. The film itself is hollow and everything is based on shocking scenes. Although the setting is nondescript, the scenes make the film truly disturbing.
The House That Jack Built
This is the only good film on my list. I like the setting of the film, which depicts the sick train of thought and description of a serial killer, the logic of the murderer explaining his actions to himself in all their injustice. So the film has a much deeper narrative of the serial killer's mental landscape, which I think carries well, unlike, for example, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), which is just a series of violent events. Lars von Trier brings a unique stamp to his films and it is also visible here.
Salo is one of Pasolini's best films while House That Jack Built is one of Von Trier's worst. I get that Salo is a hard sell, but the methods in which it unsettles go way beyond its depictions of depravity. Jack just feels like Von trier on troll autopilot.
Will never watch Men Behind the Sun and will probably never watch A Serbian Film. I'll just assume they are terrible.
Will never watch Men Behind the Sun and will probably never watch A Serbian Film. I'll just assume they are terrible.
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Yes, The House That Jack Built didn't received particularly good reviews and it has divided opinions, but I haven't considered it that bad movie, especially in the serial killer genre. Compared to other Lars von Trier films, Jack ranks somewhere in the middle for me.
Salò has never been my favorite film. Of course, the film deals with fascism and the use of power against individuals, as well as a critique of economic power. In addition, the film's thematics are interesting, with the Marquis de Sade story in the background, but still, Salò has never been a "wow" film for me.
A Serbian Film and Men behind the sun are exploitation movies, that says everything about them.
Salò has never been my favorite film. Of course, the film deals with fascism and the use of power against individuals, as well as a critique of economic power. In addition, the film's thematics are interesting, with the Marquis de Sade story in the background, but still, Salò has never been a "wow" film for me.
A Serbian Film and Men behind the sun are exploitation movies, that says everything about them.
I agree. It sucked @ss, even Spacy was melodramatic.
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Seven is disturbing and sticks with you. I'd say some of the Texas Chainsaw and Terrifier murders do as well. Cruising also sticks with you but for other reasons.
Overall, I'd say Deer Hunter. When I saw that I knew I'd watched a great movie and knew I'd never want to see it again. Now I've come back around and watched it since then but, man, that movie is heavy and not in a gory type of way.
Though this is as good a time as any to mention Red Rooms (2024) which just came out. About a woman obsessed with the trial of a serial killer. Another movie that is disturbing while showing very little. Can't recommend it enough.
Overall, I'd say Deer Hunter. When I saw that I knew I'd watched a great movie and knew I'd never want to see it again. Now I've come back around and watched it since then but, man, that movie is heavy and not in a gory type of way.
Though this is as good a time as any to mention Red Rooms (2024) which just came out. About a woman obsessed with the trial of a serial killer. Another movie that is disturbing while showing very little. Can't recommend it enough.