10 Most Disturbing Films...

[Hypnotic Eye]

So what's everyone's top ten>? I don't have mine worked all the way out yet, but so far TCM is number one on my list.

[HomerSimpson]

Hannibal... can't think of anything else I would consider disturbing

[Brock Landers]

- "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" - brutally honest, people like this exist.
- "Freaks" - what's with those pinheads?
- "The Elephant Man" - it's disturbing to see how people judge others on appearance.
- "Wild At Heart" - really messed with my memories of "The Wizard of Oz".
- "Happiness" - the whole pedophile thing while tastefully done does make me feel uneasy.
- "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" - I still have nightmares.
- "The Seventh Day" - shows two real retarded people having sex...very f**ked-up imagery, although retards do have sex in real life.
- "Animal Factory" - Tom Arnold as a rapist in prison sucks his finger then jams it up Edward Norton's a-hole.

...more later...

[DaN]

yes Brock. Those are damn disturbing. no order:

Freaks
A Clockwork Orange
Trainspotting (The only disturbing scene is the one with the baby...)
The Elephant Man
Barney's Great Adventure (The singing! STOP THE SINGING! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!)

[marla singer]

boys don't cry

[Gore 4 All]

Last House on the Left & I Spit on Your Grave. They both contain brutally graphic rape and castration scenes.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer- This movie is excellent but I would only reccomend it to someone who can handle humanity at its lowest form.

Requim for a Dream- Aa sad, very graphically disturbing movie about drug addiction. This will bring you down for weeks at a time.

[the night watchman]

Good topic Hypno.

These are movies that continue to disturb me no matter how many times I watch them. Some movies, like "Se7en" or "The Hitcher" affected me deeply when I first saw them, but not so much any more. Other movies mentioned so far - "Boys Don't Cry" and "The Elephant Man" - are less disturbing to me than troubling and sad, if that makes any sense. These, on the other hand … as Mr. Creosol said, "Better get a bucket, I'm going to throw up."

1) Dead Ringers
2) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
3) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
4) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

If any others occur to me, I'll add on. I haven't seen "Happiness," "Requiem for a Dream," or "Man Bites Dog" yet, but I have a feeling those would also be on my list.

[John Q. Public]

Jacob's Ladder-that hospital, with the bloody, legless things crawling on the ceiling

Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, and Deer Hunter- the only truly disturbing thing is that my stupid friend would laugh at any scene of extreme (or ultra) violence in these movies. Needless to say, I no longer watch movies with him.

Suspiria- mainly when that girl falls into the barbed wire pit. Ouch.

Not a movie, but I always feel disturbeed after listening to Cousin Kevin and Fiddle About on The Who's Tommy.

[Brock Landers]

That's funny you mention "Twin Peaks" nightwatchman... I just bought it this weekend and have yet to see it, it's been years, I'll keep an eye out for any disturbing stuff... and on a whole independent film level, that siamese twin film "Twin Falls Idaho" had a definitely creepy factor goin' on...of course what really disturbed me was the incest scenes in Tim Roth's "The War Zone", brutal and real...

[ToasT]

I have two films that disturb me.
1)Battlefield Earth, its disturbing that there is a director out there that can suck this much. Wipes used in the wrong places, dizzying camera angles that had no effect on the viewer except for the fact it made 'em dizzy, and John Travolta.

2)Imitation Of Life, this b/w movie really disturbed me because it showed the horrors of racial discrimanation and how it can tragically affect a person's life. Also this movie can make grown men cry. I'm 17 years old and I tear up everytime I see this movie. I don't know why I watch this film still even if I know I'm gonna cry...it's, it's so good.

[John Q. Public]

I need to add Requiem for a Dream. I saw it about 5 days ago and I still can't get that ending out of my head.

[lightning crashes 1301]

Did anyone see The Passion of Darkly Wood with pre-fame Ashley Judd and Brendan Frasier. That movie really disturbed me..

[PackBacker]

"Last House on the Left" and "Santa Sangre"

I've seen trailers for "Cannibal Holocaust" and "Cannibal Ferox"...I think these would be on my list if I had seen them.

[Deckard]

Awesome, some great films being mentioned & a few amusing ones. Great choices "Brock","Pack..." & "lightning..".

A few Disturbing films that weren't mentioned are:

Adrian Lyne's JACOBS LADDER. When all the pieces finally fall into place, disturbing is an under-statement. This film was definetly ahead of it's time.

David Lynch's ERASERHEAD & David Cronenberg's DEAD RINGERS "warped my fragile little mind"

Edward James Olmos's AMERICAN ME. The anal violation with a barbed sword alone scarred me for life.

Alan Parker's MIDNIGHT EXPRESS. The definitive prison experience.

Richard Brooke's IN COLD BLOOD. The definitive film on capital punishment. (Far better than DEAD MAN WALKING)

Oscar Wilde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. One of those films that isnt disturbing until you walk away from it. Then you never forget.

Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO disturbed me profoundly. James Stewart was truly in a living hell.

RUSH with Jason Patrick & Jennifer Jason Leigh.

LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN also with Jennifer Jason Leigh features the most horific pack rape ever. (Written by the author of REQUEIM....)

I have seen all the great war films & I must say that Oliver Stone's PLATOON is the one that truly highlighted the futility of combat. Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET put me through the dehumanization process.
ON THE WATERFRONT is also memorable for it's frank account of war.

GATTACA profoundly effected me, it is as prophetic as 1984. Unless man changes his primary objectives.

These are few of the movies that have stayed with me & probably subconsciously influenced decisions. I mean after "Requiem For a Dream" sticking a needle in you arm cannot be easy....

[falconfilms]

Here's a top 5 list:

"Freaks"

"The Last House on the Left"

"Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

"Requiem for a Dream" stayed with me for weeks. Brilliant, brilliant film. Best film of 2000.

But the film that still creeps me out when I think about it is "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" The violence in that film had all of the awkwardness of actual violence, none of that polished, Hollywood action hero crap.

[falconfilms]

And how could I forget "Naked Lunch"?

[magnumpi82]

everything that has been mentioned indeed could make my list, but the only thing that is coming to mind right now is "in the company of men." the chad character is the most fucked up, evil, sub-human person ever to inhabit the cinema. the movie makes you want to turn away. the end is sooo fucking brutal. it rips your heart out and spits on it. this is how i felt. it's a great movie, but not one that i could watch again.

[goremister]

"Men Behind The Sun". Period.

[Helter Skelter]

HAPPINESS - by far the most disturbing

[falconfilms]

Magnumpi82 -- Good call on "In the Company of Men" I couldn't get that out of my head for awhile. Another disturbing one from Mr. LaBute is "Your Friends and Neighbors", in particular, Jason Patric's monologue.

[7_Words]

In no particular order:

A Clockwork Orange
American Psycho
Se7en
The Cell
Fight Club
Taxi Driver
The Ice Storm (and American Beauty.... almost the same film)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (both the 1956 & 1978 versions)
Ed Wood - Transvestites!!! AAAUGGHH!!!!

[WhiteOut]

***The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Not really as graphic as the reputation has it, but just about as unsettling as a film could get. The greatest horror film ever!

***Henry- Portrait of a Serial Killer - Makes you sympathize with a serial killer. Nuff said.

***Cannibal Holocaust - Kind of like "The Blair Witch Project" about twenty years ahead of time, and with more gore. Lots more.....

***Last House on the Left - Wes Craven sets gruelling violence and rape sequences to seventies hippie music with truly unsettling result.

***Funny Games - Michael Haneke takes the prize. Here he literary makes the viewer an accessory to rape, sadism and murder.

***The Brood - Mutated slime dwarfs clubs cute kindergarten teachers to death with baseball bats. Cronenberg at his most fun!

***Kids - I hated this one!

***New York Ripper - The most violent movie ever made. Probably.

***Night of the Living Dead - Just for the ending. No hope, no future.

***Eraserhead - A surrealist masterpiece. But unnerving as few other films.

Consider these as warnings or recommendations. It's your nightmares....

[Irene Manor]

Freaks - "One of us! One of us!"
Suspiria - The whole house.
Marathon Man - Cavities!
The Holy Mountain (1975)- Tiger heads for breasts, and shooting milk!
Eraserhead - That crying baby
Mommie Dearest - "No more wire clothes hangers!" <SOUNDS OF GIRL CRYING>
Tetsuo - Machines making love!
Jacob's Ladder - Everything from start to finish.
American Me - Cavities!
Gummo - "Filthy rabbit!"
The Sweet Hereafter - Lawyers
The Virgin Suicides - 5 teenage daughters!
Requiem for a Dream/Traffic - The problems with drugs.

[AntonioDelLago]

10 DISTURBING FILMS

ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)
LOST HIGHWAY (David Lynch)
CRASH (David Cronenberg)
FREAKS (Tod Browning)
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper)
HAPPINESS (Todd Solondz)
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch)
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Stanley Kubrick)
EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick)
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (Gus Van Sant)

[Dr Martin Luther Loomis]

Last House on the Left is definitely my first choice.

Does anyone remember Savage Streets? I'm pretty sure Linda Blair was in it... I may be wrong. I saw this when I was young back in 85 or 86, and I haven't seen it since. Everytime I think of it, I get a very sick and disturbed feeling. If I remember correctly, I think a young deaf girl gets raped in a bathroom. I was young, and it really bothered me then. But like I said, I haven't seen it since, so it's probably not as bad as I remember. Although, a rape scene is always disturbing at any age.

Pet Semetary: It always freaks me out when the baby gets hit by the truck. I guess I can count this, even if it's just the one scene. It's still very disturbing.

TCM1: Still disturbing, but not as much as back in the day. I've seen this soooo many damn times that I'm pretty much numb.

The Accused: Another rape scene.

Silent Night, Deadly Night: Yet another rape. Again one I saw as a child, so, that disturbed feeling is stuck with me. The scene with the mom in the beginning really got to me. Hey, we all have moms!

Yeah, NWM, you mentioned a good one...the Hitcher. I won't spoil it.

Some others: Henry: Portrait..., Seven and Clockwork Orange. There's a few more that I just can't think of at the moment.

[DaMovieMan]

By far the most disturbing one was:
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by the God Stan-the-Man Kubrick.
Others would include:

-One Flew OVer..
-Once Upon A Time In America
-Sleepers
-Texas Chainsaw Massacre
-Happiness
-Awakenings

[Parchai]

The most disturbing film I've ever seen is Natural Born Killers. I saw it when I was 15 so it really did a number on me. When I watch it now, I realize how increadibly stupid the movie is.

A close second is: Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend. This movie messed me up when I was 18, and I still cringe when I think of it.

[Bart Simpson]

1. Clockwork Orange
2. Natural Born Killers
3. Say it aint so-I was just disturbed watching this thing.

[father lucifer]

I love disturbing movies, as I have a much higher tolerance for them than most of my friends. But these are 10 that really got to me, in no particular order:

Chuck and Buck (disturbing because it's so extremely realistic)
Freddy Got Fingered (the "Pink Flamingos" of the new millennium so far, disturbing because this kind of "comedy" is now considered entertainment)
Boys Don't Cry (disturbing because I'm gay and I live in small town Texas)
Happiness (boring as hell, yet disturbing nonetheless)
The Reflecting Skin (it's like Roald Dalh meets Marilyn Manson in a Dali painting)
Man Bites Dog (funny but pianfully disturbing)
Pink Flamingos (why, why, why? If I wanted to see a man's gaping butthole I'd dig into my porn collection --- and Divine eating real dogcrap is anti-entertainment)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (sorry, but this still scares the living HELL out of me, disturbing because it's ultra-low budget makes it look like a home video)
Bent (it's obvious why that's disturbing to me)
The Hanging Garden (brilliant but disturbing --- I was that kid in the tree)

But perhaps the most disturbing movies of all time are those that feature Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen.

[Jezka]

Boys Don't Cry is the most disturbing movie I have ever seen. I watched it late one night and it affected me so much that I wanted to cry, but I couldn't because I would wake up the rest of the house and I would probably get busted by my parents for watching it (my mom wanted to see it before I did to tell me if I could see it). P.S. father lucifer, are you by any chance a Tori Amos fan?

[Brock Landers]

Great films father lucifer... I really dig that Clive Owen in "Bent", and "The Reflecting Skin" is really well done too. I'm suprised Tuukka hasn't shown up yet, he always posts when that film pops up. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" still gives me nightmares, but I still watch it, I just love it ever since that dark, summer night outside of Austin where I was driving on a country road and smelled barbeque at this gas station I drove by on the way home from a re-release screening of TCM... "People eat, people meat"...

Jezka... "Boy's Don't Cry" wasn't so disturbing to me, except for the white-trash rapists played by two of my favorite actors... Brendan Sexton III and Peter Sarsgaard... it really was brilliant and I love the camera shots in and around Dallas, Texas...

[Cyclonus]

I just saw "Taxi Driver". The ending is pretty bloody! Good, though! /ubb/smile.gif

[MovieSuperFreak]

Disturbing just for it's reality was the Jerry Bruckheimer film Enemy Of the State how no-one's live it private or sacrate in the mind of the senate bastards.

[Ld Shier]

Anybody ever see "Nukie"? This is the most disturbing film I've ever seen. I still get the shakes even thinking about it.

[Gore 4 All]

I just saw Man Bites Dog and that movie completely caught me off guard. I had been reading a book on Ultra-violent flicks and this movie caught my eye. The violence wasn't too graphic, but the sheer cold-bloodedness of Benoit was horrifying. What was even worse was that the movie was being told by Benoit through the film crew so you got to see his other side, and that made it hard not to like him!! That in itself is disturbing enough.

[father lucifer]

Why yes, Jezka, I AM a Tori fan, hee hee! a HUGE fan! And a huge Bjork fan, too! Email me sometime! faeryboy@yahoo.com
In fact, ANYBODY can email me!!! /ubb/smile.gif

[The Salsa Shark]

Straw Dogs - rape scene
Happiness - pedophilia is always disturbing
Heavenly Creatures - not really a disturbing film but when the girls kill the mother it just seemed so real and violent

[vexu]

Hmm... there are the ones that come 1st to mind:

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Last House on the Left
Henry
Clockwork Orange
Eraserhead
Lost Highway
Naked Lunch

[EL_PHANTAZMO]

How could nobody have mentioned City of lost Children, that is a messed up movie.

Others I agree with are Clockwork Orange, Jacob's Ladder,Crash and Se7en the first time I watched it.

[Vlad15]

Clockwork Orange
Hannibal
Reservoir Dogs
Saving Private Ryan
Starship Troopers

[Cyclonus]

My picks:

ALIEN
HANNIBAL (at least the ending)
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
TAXI DRIVER
CLOCKERS
THE FLY (1986)
AMERICAN PSYCHO
SE7EN
FIGHT CLUB
TRAINSPOTTING (did this one ever fuck with me!)
12 MONKEYS
BRAZIL
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
PULP FICTION
RESERVOIR DOGS
NATURAL BORN KILLERS (yeah, I dug it! /ubb/smile.gif)
HELLRAISER
KIDS (although I hated it, it did bother me. soo..)
TOTAL RECALL (man, all that gore... /ubb/tongue.gif)
CITIZEN RUTH
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN
BOOGIE NIGHTS
EVENT HORIZON
STARSHIP TROOPERS
FULL METAL JACKET
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
PATHS OF GLORY
DR. STRANGELOVE

btw, anyone see Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom? I here that's supposed to be The Most Fucked-Up Movie Ever Made. True or not?

[Igor]

Unless I'm loosin' it, I didn't see anyone post American History X. When Ed Norton's character makes that dude bite the sidewalk, it almost threw me into convulsions. And that look on his face after he did it!?! How disturbing was that! Just thinkin' about real dudes like him walkin' around makes me wanna stay indoors, permanently.

[Maniac Man]

-Cannibal Holocaust
-Guinea Pig ( the only one I've seen is Mermaid in a Manhole)
-Man Bites Dog
-Requiem for a Dream
-Last House on the Left
-I Spit on Your Grave
-Cannibal Ferox

Those are just the ones I have seen When I get around to watching other cannibal Flicks I'm sure they'll be on there
Also I'm debating renting SALO: 120 days of Sodom

[Celestial-being]

I'm not easily shocked but I'm not so keen on the idea of Salo...you can read the 120 Days of Sodom online and believe me, after the first 2 days not only are you bored, but weirded out at the use of some bodily functions *shudders*

[Lindsey]

Igor:I shudder everytime I think about that moment on "American History X". Edward making that guy put his mouth on edge of the sidewalk then BOOM.Ouch... /ubb/redface.gif

[ClockworkOrange#1]

I think that the Bad Luitenant with Harvey Keitel. That is a sick movie. Requiem for A Dream is also disturbing and thats why I bought it.

[Mr. Entertainment]

Pretty much all of the Troma films are disturbing. Who agrees with me?

[God likes movies]

Boys don't cry
The Blair witch project
Fire in the sky

[God likes movies]

For those people who don't know what is "Fire in the Sky"

This is based on a true story, there's some bad ETs in it and I was 7 when I saw it for the first time. Just to see those bad ETs and knowing that it really happened I was freaked out, I couldn't for 2 years. I don't like ETs now, it just scared me.

It was disturbing.

[necrobiosis]

yeah i shudder everytime i think about that scene in american history x
im just now getting ready to watch requiem for a dream so i guess i better get ready to be disturbed hehe

my list

american history x
event horizon
blair witch project
fire in the sky
texas chainsaw massacre 1 and 2
(that scene in 2 where leatherface jumps out of the record closet scares me everytime)
hannible
nin's broken movie
nin's happiness in slavery video
natural born killers
faces of death 2000 pt 1
se7en
evil dead 2 (any film that gorey that can make you laugh sooo hard is truly disturbing)
bad taste (same reason as above)

[jetro315]

-Bad Lieutenant(I'm shocked that no one mentioned this one. I felt like i was going to Hell for watching it. Probably the most disturbing i've ever seen. Good performance by Harvey Keitel though)

-Gummo(There were some truly sick scenes in this movie. Seems real)

-Julien Donkey Boy(Another one of Harmony Korine's crazy,bugged out flicks where he'll try anything to fuck with his audience)

-Basketball Diaries(Leonardo's pre-Titanic days. Also good performance from Mark Wahlberg)

-Deer Hunter(The Russian Roulette scenes are too much. Classic movie, definatlely disturbing)

-Eyes Wide Shut(That music had me watching my back during the movie)

-Deliverance(May not be considered that disturbing by today's standards, but when it was released(1972)this flick was considered VERY disturbing, especially the famous "Squeal like a pig!" scene)

-Psycho(Hitchcock brilliantly scares the shit out of the audience and the whole obsession w/ mother thing is pretty wacked out)

-Kalifornia(One of Pitt's best role's ever. He plays a psycho and a half)

Others already mentioned that i agree w/ are Eraserhead,Texas Chainsaw ,Requiem,Seven,Kids,etc...

[jetro315]

Sorry just realized that someone did mention the Bad Lieutenant. I didn't look at Page 2.

[jetro315]

Another one that disturbed me when i saw it was Communion w/ Christopher Walken. I was young and it freaked me the Hell out. Clockwork Orange was bugged too.

[SIREN30]

1. JUDE (has any other parent seen this awful awful gut wrenching movie?)
2. HAPPINESS (made me almost puke)
3. AMERICAN HISTORY X
4. SCHINDLER'S LIST
5. FREAKS
6. PLATOON
7. THE PROFESSIONAL
8. SE7EN
9. THE INNOCENTS (anybody else get tore up by this one?)
10.THE HAUNTING (the orignal only...freaks me out when the doors breath and the creepy camera angles like the house is alive.)

[SIREN30]

Also, just as a side comment, there are a couple of mistakes mentioned above...
THE EIGHTH DAY is the movie where the retarded people have sex, not THE SEVENTH DAY
and...
ON THE WATERFRONT is not a war movie. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT is. ON THE WATERFRONT is an awesome movie about the waterfront union workers and Marlon Brando won an oscar for it.
I just wanted to point those out.

[someguy]

Here are mine:

1.Requiem for a Dream-two words..Ellen Burstyn. She should of gotten the oscar! not Julia's push-up-I mean Roberts.

2.8MM-The videos were disturbing itself. I can't believe no one mentioned it.

3.The Haunting(1999)-Just the large picture of the old owner(shudder).

4.TCM1-It seems realistic with the camera and the narration at the opening.

5.House on Hounted Hill(1999)-The torture scene and the chamber vision was disturbing.

6.The Cell-The nipple scene. Ouch!

7.Cube-Don't ask.

8.The Pit and the Pendulum-the torture devices and scenes.

That's all I know.

[52hangers]

No one said A Simple Plan, to me that was disturbing.

also..
Reservoir Dogs
Cube
Man Bites Dog
TCM
The Grapes of Wrath
Goodfellas
Pieces
A Better Tomorrow
Fallen
Seven
American Psycho
Death Wish
Deliverance
American Me
Miller's Crossing
Fargo

[52hangers]

forgot a few

Night of the Hunter
Night of the Living Dead
Blue Velvet
Rosemary's Baby
The Exorist
The Crying Game

[Adidas03]

No offense but you must be kind of a pussy to get disturbed by A Simple Plan, The Grapes of Wrath, Fallen, or Fargo, none of those movies were that "freaky".

[Toby]

Ring- very eerie japanese horror
Clean, shaven- the fingernails....
Hated- documentary about G.G. Allin
Richard Kern shorts (most of them but especially "Fingered")
Pi- Aranofsky's Eraserhead.
Lost Highway- Lynch at his best
Films by Ian Kerkhof
Mother's Day- Troma's sickest
Naked- Mike Leigh's bleakest
Schramm- A guy nails his dick to the table

in no particular order...

[NicktheQuick]

1. The Omen trilogy
2. Blair Witch Project (yeah, yeah)
3. 8mm
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Schindler's List
6. Alien
7. Cube
8. American History X
9. The Game
10. Frenzy

[claire]

american history x
gattaca
starship troopers
fight club

[rascle1]

american history x:for it's acurate portrail of kids today. seven:because the killer actually made good reasons for his killings except for the end.hannible:because i didn't know you can do that with a human brain. fight club:it shows whats erupting inside of ever man in america. traffic: because it shows what ritch kids are actually like.and thats all i can think of right know i'll post more later

[The Salsa Shark]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Toby:

Hated- documentary about G.G. Allin

G.G. was definitely one sick fucker, but his birthday request was hilarious.

[ilovemovies]

I have not seen Marathon Man, but I have seen a clip of it and from just that few second clip it looks pretty disturbing. Infact I don't think I want to see it now, I hate going to the dentist enough as it is already and if I see this movie it could make things worse /ubb/smile.gif

[meccajay]

Blue Velvet

[Cyclonus]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Lindsey:
I shudder everytime I think about that moment on "American History X"</font>

I feel exactly the same way, babe. /ubb/frown.gif

[Adidas03]

Actually now that I think about it the most disturbing movie I've seen is Species 2. There is tons of gore.

*** spoilers ***
This movie's plot sucked but it was entertaining. You get to see some babies bursting through people's chest and a head explosion. And some. The special effects are neat at least.

[Ebert]

Can anyone tell me what happened to the guy who bite the sidewalk?

I've seen it before but I missed that part

[Cyclonus]

The impact split his skull open or something. /ubb/frown.gif

[Cyclonus]

Oh, yeah, and I'd like to add "Requiem for a Dream" to my list.

[b-girl]

I think most of the disturbing films/scenes have been named, but I also wanted to add

Schindler's List- when the Nazi's are gathering up the children up to take to the gas chambers,

Sophie's Choice- when the Nazi soldier makes her decide which child will live/die, and he's carrying off her daughter kicking and screaming...

Okay, so can you sense a "theme" here?

[ArmyJacket]

I am surprised noone mentioned Sick. that movie is incredibly disturbing, i was looking away from the screen every 5 minutes, it was just unbearable. Especially the "Hammer of love" scene. And the grossest part is the fact that it's all real footage. But the movie is actually funny in parts, and strangely uplifting.

[rageagainstyou]

I don´t believe so many ppl talked about David lynch films and dont talk about Blue velvet(i know some1 did some pósts ago)

Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks(i hated the movie) Seven, Figth Club, 8mm, Clockwork Orange and Halloween i found most disturbing

i wish i could see all those movies(david lynch´s moveis b4 Blue velvet) and other thrillers but i don´t have time to look at all these "old" films

[tapr00ter]

These are the ones with a traumatic/disturbing ending or death(s)...
-the ice storm
-american beauty
-the virgin suicides
-a clockwork orange
-pay it forward
-light it up
-american history x

[pennywise46]

Shindler's List
A Clockwork Orange
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
American History X
The Exorcist
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Requiem for a Dream
Trainspotting
I Spit on your Grave
Taxi Driver
Kids
The Hills have Eyes
Natural Born Killers
Pink Flamingos
Desperate Living

[meccajay]

**Lol pennywise46**

That 'rape a girl while she's passed out' scene in Kid's was disturbing!!

Also the infamous 'dive into the toiletbowl' scene in trainspotting had me shivering with the willies!!!

[Pinay Chick]

I can't think of a top ten but so far I have two. American History X and Heavenly Creatures.

[Jasonite]

Deliverance disturbed the hell out of me, that's for sure.

J

[Chililoaf]

I have to add....

Basketball Diaries
Killing Zoe
9MM

And Definately agree with Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

[Philip Marlowe]

my 10 pics

-U-turn
-platoon
-the conversation
-the andromeda strain
-bad timing:a sensual obsession
-full metal jacket
-tenebre
-eureka
-don't look now
-bring me the head of alfredo garcia

[Eelco]

1) The People under the Stairs.
2) Citizen X.
3) The Exorcist (never watched it
completely, too scary).
4) Casino (Joe Pesci killed by baseball
bats, it's just too realistic, brrrr!!!
Or the guy whose hand is smashed to
pieces by a hammer and Joe Pesci killing
somebody by stabbing him multiple times
with a pen in his neck, awefull film).
5) Candyman.
etc., etc., etc...


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[dannywalker17]

Event Horizon
Hannibal (just the scene where he bites the nurse's face)
Silence of the Lambs

[flatliner]

CARRIE:To this day, I'm still scared by Piper Laurie's portrayal of Carrie's demented mother.

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS: Buffalo Bill hiding his schlong. Nuff said.

BLAIR WITCH PROJECT:I'm disturbed that some people tought that the movie was real or scary(wrong on both counts)

THE BROOD:KRAMER VS KRAMER on acid.

PRETTY WOMAN


more to come

[DMX]

I think the BLAIR WITCH PROJECT was kinda creepy.Not to mention HANNIBAL. /ubb/rolleyes.gif

[Danny L]

THE EXORCIST
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
SEVEN
HANNIBAL
KIDS
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
TERROR ON ELM STREET (especially that creepy nursery rhyme)

[A Canadian ThereWolf]

"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"- Extremely horrifying. A kind of claustrophobic feel to it. And it was based on actual events!

"Saving Private Ryan"- The opening twenty minutes are very, very hard to watch. And yet you can't take your eyes off of it!

Here's a Few More:
"A Clockwork Orange"
"Henry: Portait of a Serial Killer"
"Se7en"
"Silence Of The Lambs"
"Hannibal"
"The Exorcist"
"Full Metal Jacket"
"Platoon"

[A Canadian ThereWolf]

Oh Yeah, and I forgot "Freddy Got Fingered" (Seriously!)
That scene with the newborn baby was just horrific!

[New Hype]

Glad to see that people mentioned Saving Private Ryan, Pink Flamingoes, American History X, American Me(did not talk to people for days after that one), Sleepers, The Exorcist(had the priviledge of seeing for the first time when it was re-released in theatres, glad I waited), Pet Semetary, Platoon, Fight Club, Deliverence
Boys Dont Cry - I truly don't agree - I felt it was a terrible adaptation and melo-dramatic.
My additions are:
The General's Daughter
Logan's Run
Heathers
Prophecy - Christopher Walken was phenomenol
Less Than Zero - Robert Downey, Jr. "paying" for his drugs - hmmm I haven't been able to watch a movie with him in it since without having that vision come back to haunt me.
Blair Witch - what was most disturbing about that was the hype, hated it!

[Shanep]

AI
Thats the only one that comes to mind. Oh and Snow falling on Cedars. It disturbed me that a film could be so dull and dry.

[Fergus]

Rosemary's Baby
Network
Runaway Train
Seven
Requiem for a Dream
Chinatown
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Easy Rider
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Vertigo
The Manchurian Candidate
The Bicycle Thief
The Picture of Dorian Gray

*These are all pretty disturbing to me, and I'm sure there are more.

[Emo]

****The Rage : Carrie 2
Drop the whole telekinesis thing, that wasn't the least bit disturbing, Lisa commiting suicide and the dog getting run over by the car was VERY! Especially how remarkable the suicide was........it just made you feel so sorry for her.
****Sphere
I do nto care that this movie sucked so much and it had such a terrible ending, I found it somewhat disturbing.

[nb]

Ok, here is mine:

Water Ship Down. It basically haunted my childhood days. It's an anmiated movie about rabbits. It was my mother's favorite movie and I hated it so bad. I was really little when I walked in on her watching it, just for a scene where 20 fluffy little rabits are trapped inside their hole and start to kill each other. I had nightmares for several weeks and I have never ever watched the whole thing.

Other than that, I agree about Funny Games. I still remember when it came to movie theatres over here and basically every newspaper has a review/warning in it that basically said "Don't watch it. It's a good movie. But don't watch it's just too awful." It's the kind of thing that I will always remember but never under any circumstances watch again http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[osha999]

*Apt Pupil
*A Clockwork Orange
*Closetland
*Schindler's List
*Eyes Wide Shut
*The Accused
*The Exorcist

[Lindsey]

I'm going to add "Kids".

[eurofilm]

Salo; 120 days of sodom is by far the most disturbing film i have ever seen. It's Marquis the Sade's tale set in fascist Italy.
It's made to shock and considered as the most controversial film ever. Watch and shiver

[EL_PHANTAZMO]

I'm sorry but some of these movies I can't understand why anyone would be disturbed by them. Let me clarify...

dis·turbed: To trouble emotionally or mentally; upset.

Why are these here?
A Simple Plan
Starship Troopers
Sphere
General's Daughter
Pretty Woman
Alien
Reservoir Dogs
Kalifornia
Boogie Nights
The Proffesional
Pay it Forward
American Beauty

I don't know why these are disturbing, if anyone can help, please do. By disturbing I think we mean making you feel nautious, sick to the stomach, uneasy, unable to sleep, etc etc...

[max]

ANGEL HEART
L.I.E.
FACES OF DEATH
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
KING OF COMEDY
HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER
THE EXORCIST
SCHINDLER'S LIST
BLUE VELVET
BULLY
WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE
PEEPING TOM

[rgse]

Deliverance.

[Celestial-being]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by eurofilm:
Salo; 120 days of sodom is by far the most disturbing film i have ever seen. It's Marquis the Sade's tale set in fascist Italy.
It's made to shock and considered as the most controversial film ever. Watch and shiver </font>

I agree with you eurofilm. What disturbs me most about that film is the age of the victims- it's frightening how young they actually are. That was one book that didn't exactly cry out to be adapted.

[ArmyJacket]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by EL_PHANTAZMO:
I'm sorry but some of these movies I can't understand why anyone would be disturbed by them. Let me clarify...

dis·turbed: To trouble emotionally or mentally; upset.

Why are these here?
A Simple Plan
Starship Troopers
Sphere
General's Daughter
Pretty Woman
Alien
Reservoir Dogs
Kalifornia
Boogie Nights
The Proffesional
Pay it Forward
American Beauty

I don't know why these are disturbing, if anyone can help, please do. By disturbing I think we mean making you feel nautious, sick to the stomach, uneasy, unable to sleep, etc etc...

</font>

Well, i can see how some of these would be disturbing Phantazmo:

General's Daughter: The rape scene in this was pretty disturbing

Kalifornia:Why would you call this not disturbing?

But there are some on here that boggle the mind. Pay it Forward? Starship Troopers?! Pretty Woman?!? What the fuck?

[thatdude]

Bloodsucking Freaks was one fucked up film, funny too.

[meltingman]

Here's mine:

Begotten
Eraserhead
Requiem for a Dream
Reservoir Dogs
Fire in the Sky
Virgin spring

[Hannibal21]

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Don't Look Now
3. The Exorcist
4. Midnight Cowboy
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
6. Scarface
7. Blue Velvet
8. Requiem for a Dream
9. Mulholland Drive
10. The Shining

[Sculder]

Originally posted by nb
Ok, here is mine:

Water Ship Down. It basically haunted my childhood days. It's an anmiated movie about rabbits. It was my mother's favorite movie and I hated it so bad. I was really little when I walked in on her watching it, just for a scene where 20 fluffy little rabits are trapped inside their hole and start to kill each other. I had nightmares for several weeks and I have never ever watched the whole thing.



I agree about Watership Down.It had the same effect on me.

Others that disturbed me would be:
The Exorcist(Gave me nightmares first time I saw it in a dark,dingy cinema which was nearly empty)
***Spoiler***

Prince Of Darkness(The whole bit with dark figure emerging from the church still gets to me)

Jacob's Ladder is completely disturbing too.

[ANavissi500]

Requiem for a Dream
American History X
Schindler's List
Trainspotting

[Michael_myers]

1 A Clockwork Orange
2 The Deer Hunter
3 The Elephant Man
4 Schindler's List
5 American History X
6 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
7 Taxi Driver
8 Goodfellas
9 Gangs of New York
10 etwork

[Tagia_Romero]

Originally posted by John Q. Public
Jacob's Ladder-that hospital, with the bloody, legless things crawling on the ceiling

Suspiria- mainly when that girl falls into the barbed wire pit. Ouch.


Lord yes, also:

"The General's Daughter" (the way they glamorised the rape isn't really all that good)

"Naked Lunch"

"Stephen King's The Stand" (the whole chapter devoted to the spreading of the superflu is definately something one should take into consideration)

"Kids"

"Soylent Green"

"Threads" (it's like a doco of sorts when a nuclear war occurs in Britain and it follows the progress of two families)

[Myers666]

1. Requiem for a Dream
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. Bully
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
6. The Hills Have Eyes
7. Transpotting
8. American History X
9. The Exorcist
10. The Elephant List

[notchreturns]

The hardest film I've had to sit through was probably The War Zone. As bleak, depressing and disturbing as they come.

Some other films that disturbed me:

Funny Games
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Bully
Don't Look Now
Pi

[Jon Lyrik]

Schindler's List
Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Mulholland Dr.
Blue Velvet
Elephant Man

[VicVega]

Irreversible
I Stand Alone
Man Bites Dog
Last House On The Left
Casino
Abre Los Ojos
Kids
Boys Dont Cry

[ANavissi500]

Let me add Happiness - child rape isnt a good thing

[phatfreddy]

- Requiem For a Dream
- Boys Don't Cry
- Hannibal
- Pulp Fiction
- Deliverance
- Exorcist
- Event Horizon
- American History X
- Ravenous
- Shining, the

[SuperSoulMan]

Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Se7en

[PsycoPat]

Requiem For A Dream...I felt crappy for the next few days after I saw it

Kids...I actually knew a few of those guyz and it still freaked me out

Saving Private Ryan...If the first scene went on for another 10 minutes I was outta there

Taxi Driver...Holy Shit!

A ClockWork Orange...Only Kubrick could make ya feel sorry for a rapist

Menace II Society...I sat in the theater for like 10 minutes after the movie was over just staring at the screen

Tokyo Fist...I'm still not sure what it was about but it was disturbing

[Romero&Juliet]

Fergus- GREAT call on Easy rider..!

Top 10.. in no order.

Scum
Dont Look In The Basement
I, Zombie (Parkinson)

nevermind.. Top three... :\

[Romero&Juliet]

fuckit..

Patrick
the Tin Drum
Blackboard Jungle
Irreversable
Dancer In The Dark~

top nine.. Not bad, considering I cant make a list to save my life. :)

[Romero&Juliet]

The Boys In Company C
FUN
there. Ten. I did it!

[BadCoverVersion]

Originally posted by Tagia_Romero
"Threads" (it's like a doco of sorts when a nuclear war occurs in Britain and it follows the progress of two families)

It disturbed a fucking nation that did.


Anyway, my picks...all disturbing in DIFFERENT ways...

~SCUM (1979)
~The War Zone
~Irreversible
~Dancer In The Dark
~Brimstone & Treacle (1976)
~Freaks
~Don't Look Now
~Watership Down
~Nil By Mouth
~Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

[Darth Balls]

House of 1000 corpses was very disturbing in the TCM kind of way. But the most uncomfortable I've felt watching a movie was either Kids, or Requiem for a dream. Kids makes me think of every chick I've hooked up with, and requiem is just messed up.

[stewiegriffin]

Deer Hunter
Fire in the Sky
Traffic
Apocalyse Now
Requiem for a Dream
Sid and Nancy
Arlington Road
Cape Fear
The Shining
Clockwork Orange
The First Power( Lou Diamond Phillips movie in 1990?? scary as hell)

[TheAxeGrinder]

Platoon (I never knew they could get away with some of that stuff)
House On Haunted Hill remake (wierd ass shit in this one)
American History X
Guinea Pig films (damn, wtf is wrong with Japanese horror movies?!)

[mr_gamecube]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
House of 1000 Corpses
Hannibal
Wrong Turn

[mr_gamecube]

before you die you see the ring!

[sherimoon]

Requiem For A Dream
Spun
Goodfellas
Casino
Boys Dont Cry
Pulp Fiction
The Virgin Suicides
Higher Learning
Henry:Portrait of A Serial Killer
Silence of The Lambs

[Weasel]

Heavenly Creatures disturbed me deeply when I saw it. I was alone at home for the week-end and I had spent the day completely alone in the house because all of my friends were away. I was feeling a bit depressed and I saw that a Peter Jackson movie was playing on TV that night (I think it played at 11:00). God, I was all alone, and from about the half of the movie, I couldn't help but cry until the end. And that final scene where they kill the mother is fucked up. When it ended, at 1:00 in the morning, I couldn't go to sleep before 4:00 because I felt too depressed. I really think this movie is a masterpiece that should have had a lot more exposure.

[phatfreddy]

There have been lots of movies that have taken my innocent mind and iron cast stomach and shove them both into a blender of raunchiness, and had somehow infected me to the core. here a some that you should agree on.

- Requiem For a Dream
- Boys Don't Cry
- Event Horizon
- Deliverance
- Hannibal
- Goodfellas
- I Spit On Your Grave
- A Clockwork Orange
- American History X
- The Exorcist
- Kids

[arby19]

A Clockwork Orange
Requiem for a Dream - I couldnt sleep after I saw this

[Lynn Minmei]

Definitely Happiness. The end scene with the father and son talking about pedophilia just was disturbing, but true and well done.