Most disturbing movie you have seen?

Oldboy for me

Finished the first viewing and it felt like a gut punch

Weirdly the ending now strikes me as sad (And as a weird parable about protecting the innocents which I am trying not to spoil)

Seen a few of the other listed films and most seem to exist to be extreme or to try to raise the 'shock bar'. Which isn't an issue, but don't make them a good movie (see also the brown bunny). The french got it right for a while, but those days seem gone now as well

Requiem for a dream may just be the bleakest, saddest morality tale I have ever came across !!!! Totally a one and done movie for me, even with Jennifer Connolly going full hardcore in it
 
The bathtub suicide scene in The Rules of Attraction is the most disturbing thing I've ever seen, and I cannot rewatch it, no matter what.
 
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Maybe not for the right reasons but The Fantatic, the John Travolta/Fred Durst collab from last year is just so dumb and gross and offensive and hilariously bad, it's maybe my favorite thing ever.
ROMhack said:
Seul contre tous by Gasper Noe. It's got a lot of incest and sodomy from what I remember.
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This was gonna be my serious answer.
 
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Xplainin said:
Whats the most disturbing movie you have seen?
A Serbian Film was pretty crazy.
Or the dog shit eating scene in Pink Flamingos.
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I used to have the hobby of collecting rare/retro horror films. I came across a few that were disturbing.

Snuff


Spider Labyrinth


Eyes of Fire (Not sure where to start with this. Great movie and it should have been released on DVD. Brad Fiedel wrote the Celtic soundtrack and then Termninator like a year later. It's just creepy how these weird native american earth spirits would morph in and out of trees to kill people)
 
xrnzaaas said:
The Fly would be high on my list. The slow transformation into a fly is absolutely disgusting but the birth scene tops everything.
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Good choice. I rented this movie (along with FF Mystic Quest) when I was 8 and found the whole thing entirely disturbing and depressing.

What a gut punch that movie is. The ending is like fuck you.

Hasn't stopped me from loving it ever since though!
 
carlosrox said:
Good choice. I rented this movie (along with FF Mystic Quest) when I was 8 and found the whole thing entirely disturbing and depressing.

What a gut punch that movie is. The ending is like fuck you.

Hasn't stopped me from loving it ever since though!
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Yep, same here, I watched the movie for the first time as a kid and I noped out at the end. I still feel uncomfortable whenever it's on tv, but Jeff Goldblum is great so I'll stay on the channel and watch it. :)
 
Serbian Movie. But tbh I find it pretty hillarious. It's so over the top you cannot help but laugh at some scenes. Would recommend.
Martyrs 2008
Funny Games
 
The Holy Mountain. The first midnight cinema cult classic.

Stuff like Flower of Flesh and Blood and August Underground are pointless to me. You might as well be watching actual snuff at that point.
 
Any movie/doc that has real animal cruelty in it. It completely destroys me.

But from movies i can watch i think the August Underground trilogy takes the cake. The third part also has some amazing gore effects.
 
AV said:
like that scene
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You're going to have to elaborate as I can think of about 4 scenes which fit into "that scene"!!!

Anyway, mine would also have to go to Serbian Film, with special mention to Martyrs, Inside (2007 French horror film) is also pretty disturbing as well. Plenty more that have been mentioned in here, so i won't repeat them all, and some I have yet to see but have heard plenty about so will have to seek out!
 
bonk64 said:
Hmmm I'd say Kill List is up there.
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As a cat lover, this disturbs me.

But to add to the list I'll say;

Cannibal Holocaust
Green Inferno
8MM
Last House on the Left (1972)
Deliverance
I Spit on your Grave (1978)
The Burning
The Little Girl who Lives Down the Lane
Midsommar (HIGHLY DISTURBING!)
Mother's Day (2010
Any of the V/H/S movies
 
HotPocket69 said:
Deliverance was disturbing?

I call it AWESOME

That badass vest Burt Reynolds wears is 😮
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Awesome of course, but to the snowflake generation, this would be beyond disturbing.

And that reminds me of another film called Mean Creek. I enjoyed it, but younger people may feel disturbed by it.
 
Irreversible, was just a surreal cinema experience.

I once sent my very Irish Catholic parents to see Eyes Wide Shut while they were on a short vacation to Bristol/Bath and my dad was so shocked and disturbed by the films orgy scene that he threw up in the cinema and they had to stop the film.
 
Inside (the french original)
Wasn't prepared. Not at all. Had to watch cartoons afterwards for like an hour. Didn't help that I had my then pregnant gf sleeping in the other room. The ending left a scar on my soul.
 
Add me to the

Come and see
Irreversible
Requiem for a Dream

Crowd.

All good films, but all ones you only need to see once.
 
pauljeremiah said:
Irreversible, was just a surreal cinema experience.

I once sent my very Irish Catholic parents to see Eyes Wide Shut while they were on a short vacation to Bristol/Bath and my dad was so shocked and disturbed by the films orgy scene that he threw up in the cinema and they had to stop the film.
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Weird shit goes on in Bristol all the time, me lovely.
 
I've heard a lot of people say Ichi The Killer before. Not sure if I'm just used to watching fucked up stuff in movies, or I own an edited version, I thought it was awesome.
 
Kadayi said:
Add me to the

Come and see
Irreversible
Requiem for a Dream

Crowd.

All good films, but all ones you only need to see once.
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I remember feeling depressed and watched Requiem for a Dream with lights out and curtains closed. Still haven't recovered.
 
I really don't like things about spirits when they're done in a strange and/or strong way, so when they called the girl in in Hereditary I simply stopped watching... that movie is fucked up... I liked VVitch from the same director, though.

The Fourth Kind also was heavy... caused me a fucked up nightmare to the point I woke up screaming, lol.
 
JimiNutz said:
A Serbian Film
Antichrist
Irreversible
The Nut Job

Watch any of these movies on a really high dose of edible weed to increase the discomfort. Cathartic.
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Each to their own i guess.
 
partime said:
That last scene in the trailer of her being skinned alive? IDK might have spoiled the movie.

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Not at all bruv. Looks a good film. May watch it soon enough. In fact I'll download it today.

I can watch anything like this and it doesn't phase me, but animal cruelty sends me into despair.
 
I saw IT when I was about 10 years old. That stuck with me for a while. IT is definitely the young me answer.

I had seen it all by the time I was a teenager. As an adult, the few movies that stick out are already mentioned loads in the thread. A Serbian movie and Martyrs.

One of the things I find most unsettling in horror movies, when done well, is being powerless and trapped inside of your own body. For that reason, even tho it's not an amazing film, but a decent one, The Skeleton Key comes to mind. And I enjoy The Serpent and the Rainbow for similar reasons.
 
Triangle has a few unsettling moments, not least the entire plot.

Martyrs was great. A similar film in some ways is Starry Eyes.

Event Horizon creeped me out a lot.

Don't think The Vanishing has been mentioned.

I genuinely think the opening 5 minutes of Up were among the most harrowing moments in film history.

Oh and the original cartoon film of Watership Down. Fucking dark, depressing, and horrific.
 
I wouldn't say the movie is the most disturbing, but one scene in Doctor Sleep was. When they torture and murder the boy, couldn't believe they showed this.
 
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