What is the most extreme film you've seen? (not faces of death...fiction)

[Khephra]

Salo

I'm sorry I ever saw it.

[incontrovertible]

1. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

One of the most brilliant films I intend never to see again.

Schindler's List comes in second. THE most brilliant film I intend never to see again.

[Rabrrrrrr]

64. That's my first choice too!!

Excellent film - almost too excellent. I almost became physcially ill during it; not from violence, of which surprisingly isn't really that bad, but because of the non-chalantless yet determined nature of it all, and the guy playing Henry - wow. His inability to feel anything about it - I think that's whatmade me almost sick.

Scared the bejeebers out of me, and not in a stuid "horror film" kind of way.

Thankfully, most serial killers have to much ego and too little brain to be truly effective, and up getting caught.

[NightTrain]

2. It's tough to choose, but...

...I'd have to go with a European psychological thriller from the early '90s called "The Vanishing." It deals with a man's obsessive search to find out what happened when his girlfriend mysteriously vanished from a freeway rest area while he was in the bathroom.

Eventually, he confronts the kidnapper. What follows ranks as one of the two or three most harrowing film endings I've ever seen. But I won't give it away just in case you decide to rent it some time.

Incidentally, Hollywood subsequently did a remake of "The Vanishing" starring Keifer Sutherland and Jeff Bridges. I deliberately avoided it and was glad I did when a friend who had also seen the original made the mistake of catching the remake. He told me that not only did the American version water the story down, it even tacked on a happy ending that the original never had. Fucking Hollywood....

[CanuckAmok]

19. Oh, yeah, the original "Vanishing"

The reason the killer was sooo terrifying was because he was just an average (otherwise) normal guy with a family, not some guy with MAGICAL POWERS.

The same thing which makes Hannibal Lechter so UNfrightening; super-powers. because hollywood doesn't GET IT--that the most frightening serial killer isn't some creation who can castrate a guy in 1/4 second through a set of clothes, or supernaturally eviscerate someone ans suspend them from a ceiling to be creepy, it's the guy who lives next door to you and borrows your pwer saw, and returns it later the same day, unsettlingly cleaner than when you loaned it to him.

Everytime Hollywood goes near a European movie I love, it's game freaking over.

Which brings me to my choice for most intense move I've ever seen:

Lars von Trier's "The Kingdom", and the sequel.

And, Hollywood is remaking it. Damn.


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[TXlib]

45. The original Vanishing... Great movie!

[roughsatori]

3. I just clicked on to write: Salo

and that is what you wrote. Paslini's book "Roman Poems" is so beautiful, but that movie.... I've read the bio of him: Requiem, and seen many of his movies. Salo failed to achieve his objectives.

It disturbed me very much at the time I saw it. When I walked out of the theater my date said "That was a lot of fun.(not a note of irony, completely serious)." That shocked me more then the film.

[lazarus]

4. Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie

Truly terrifying and disturbing.

[proud patriot]

6. ROFLMAO

That ones scary ..I found myself mumbling afterwards ..
I'm so glad son my outgrew the Barney phase rather quickly
:scared: :scared:

[nomaco-10]

5. When I was younger, I thought it was...

"A Clockwork Orange." I thought it was revolutionary at the time, but maybe I was young and dumb. I caught it then, but wonder if today's youth would get it?

[Devlzown]

7. Naked Lunch

[Susang]

8. Operation Dumbo Drop

I still have nightmares. :scared:

[Catherine Vincent]

66. Hey! I liked that movie....it was cute.

n/t

[proud patriot]

9. 8mm was pretty extreme

:scared:

[Blue_Chill]

44. Yup

That movie made me feel dirty after watching it. Good flick.

[sasquatch]

10. Prince of Darkness

pretty intense

[MattBaggins]

11. Once Were Warriors

What a brutally honest picture. First time a film had actually left me with the feeling that someone had just punched me in the stomach just from watching it. It is a movie that you must watch twice. The first veiwing leaves you somehow stunned, wondering what to think of it. The second time you watch it, you realize just how brilliant the film is.

[slack]

12. The 120 Days of Sodom

from Pasolini, without doubt. His vision of Marquis de Sade is really disgusting.

Other tough movies, Bad Lieutenant by Abel Ferrara and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover by Peter Greenaway.

[otohara]

13. Dead Ringers / David Cronenberg

Starring: Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold
Director: David Cronenberg

Twin gynecologists descend into madness in this deliberately paced, stylistically impressive horror-drama. Quietly disturbing film offers perverse pleasures to Cronenberg devotees, and to strong-stomached viewers who enjoy unsettling psychological portraits.

[Khephra]

14. I was about to say Salo was the hardest film to sit though

But I'm wrong....

Dead Ringers is.

And I'm a man.

I've only managed to see that film once.

[Susang]

17. I love David Croenenberg

He really cuts right to the heart of people's fears.

For your consideration for most extreme movie: Crash

[Khephra]

20. Crash

well...I'm one of the few people who love it.

[Susang]

22. I didn't say I didn't love it

I love all of his films, not to mention J.G. Ballard. Still, it's been by far one of the most extreme and disturbing films I've ever seen. But I'm weird, I enjoy extreme and disturbing movies.

Okay, how about Cafe Flesh or Dr Caligari by Stephen Sayadian (aka Rinse Dream)?

[otohara]

26. Spider Is Out Now Video / DVD

came out a few weeks ago.

Ralph Fiennes .... Spider
Gabriel Byrne .... Bill Clegg


Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed "Spider" by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience his increasingly fragile grip on reality.

[gardenista]

18. Yes, very disturbing.

What a compelling film, though, and Jeremy Irons was brilliant. The music was also wonderful.

[gardenista]

15. I will never see Salo

My husband is a collector of the Criterion DVDs, and has a shrinkwrapped copy of Salo. He's seen it, on laser disc, and knows that I'll never be able to watch it. So, we have this unwatched, unopened, shrinkwrapped DVD, but it's supposedly an investment because it's out of print. I'm just glad I'll never have to watch it. If it makes him happy to watch its value rise on eBay, and I don't have to watch it, then it's all good.

(I won't go into the perils of being married to a film buff. Sometimes I have to beg to watch some kind of simple light comedy along the lines of Nob Hill or Bridget Jone's Diary. Thank God for Netflix.)

The most disturbing films I've seen in the last few years are the original version of "Vanished", "Vagabond", "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover", "Lord of the Flies", "Jubilee" (had to walk away, gratuitiously violent, vain, selfish, and actually incredibly boring), and some sort of horrible Lars Von Trier thing about a serial killer, which put me in a dark mood for days.

Of those, I would certainly see "Vanished", "Vagabond", "Lord of the Flies" and "The Cook..." again. Each has brilliant acting.

Also saw "Bowling for Columbine" recently, and it probably changed my life.

[Clovis Sangrail]

16. Blood Sucking Freaks

Extremely bad/funny/twisted... but not something I'd recommend unless you like camp and have a warped sense of humor.

[Nomad559]

21. Based on a real serial killer

Citizen X

He killed 52 people, mostly children.

[Rowdyboy]

23. Guccione's "Caligula"...

That was one warped movie. Loved the music, loved the cinematography, thought Sir John Gielgud had never been better..a wonderfully bizarre, horribly repugnant, one-of-a-kind movie.

Cannot forget "The Last House on the Left" the horror classic from Wes Craven(1972) that left me ill. A very horrific piece, it left me feeling very unnerved...I didn't sleep well after this piece.

And remember C.H.U.D. (cannibalistic huminoid underground dwellers). Cave-in strands New Yorkers underground for a few generations and cannibalism gets to be socially acceptable.

Don't forget: Ilsa, Shewolf of the SS (bizarre piece about sexy nazi camp female commandant).

The King of Hearts-(Genvieve Bujold's screen debut) a World War I era film where inmates of a mental institution take over a French town before the German army arrives. Rather strange.

Of course we have "Night of the Living Dead" and Texas Chainsaw Massacre to work in. That's my basic list...

[Llewlladdwr]

24. Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood n/t

[Rowdyboy]

25. Also, I forgot, Polanski's...

"The Tenant" is a very odd little piece...

[CanuckAmok]

27. I thought of another one...

"Thesis", a Spanish or Portuguese language indie film about a female student's search for a snuff-film maker to interview for her thesis.

Brrr... Makes 8mm look like Dumbo.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

28. Baxter

I'm not a huge foreign film guy, but this one is awesome and disturbing. A French film told from the mind of a disturbed pit bull.
One of the few movies I actually bought. See it at least once.

[Tom Kitten]

29. The Tree of Wooden Clogs...

the scene where they took a real pig, hung it upside down, slit it open and scooped out it's guts when it was still squealing...the whole scene was excrutiating...

[Aidoneus]

30. extreme as in violent/gory?

in that sense, probably Rob Zombie's House of a Thousand Corpses.. strange to me how such a great artist can produce art so spotty.

[Occulus]

31. Event Horizon.

From a plot standpoint, it kinda sucked. The main premise of the movie wasn't ever adequately explained- and for those that saw the film, remember that the "What's in the core?" question wasn't ever answered. They didn't even try.

From a blood-gore-concept standpoint, it was cool. Got me thinking, which is what a good sci-fi movie should.

From the totally weird standpoint, I'd suggest "Dark City". You'll have to watch it at least twice, but it's worth it.

[ibegurpard]

32. Khephra, I could've warned you.

There was NOTHING redeeming about that movie. It was just puke-inducing.

[maggrwaggr]

33. Bad Lieutenant (which I still insist is a comedy)

nt

[BigMcLargehuge]

60. Bad Lieutenant was rough... took two sittings to get through

not so much for the gore, there was little if any, but the relentless decline of Harvey Keitel's character. After the first hour my brain just could not process any more of it. I had to break for the day and watch the rest later.

I guess as a tribute to the film, I figured out, three months later, that the killer he was tracking was his own bookie.

[maggrwaggr]

34. Any Mary-Kate and Ashley movie

and I've seen them all due to my seven year old

[maggrwaggr]

35. Seven was too much for me

just too fucking nasty.

[Toby109]

36. Saving Private Ryan

At least the first 24 minutes. I almost had a heart attack!

[WillyT]

37. 'Blue Velvet' Has To Be Up There !!!

:shrug:

[Section_43]

38. One of the final scenes in "Casino"

in which Joe Peschi's character, along with his brother, are beaten nearly to death and buried alive. The most violent thing I've seen on film.

[CanuckAmok]

52. Yes... people are always talking about the "Vise" scene, but

the scene in the cornfield was waaay more horrific. I'm not sure exactly why, but I think it was just the brutality, combined with seeing formerly invincible Nicky reduced to a nearly perverbal state and forced to watch his brother beaten to death...

Brrr....

But an excellent movie!

[Sapphocrat]

39. Take your pick...

Crimes of Passion (the film Kathleen Turner won't talk about), Dahmer: The True Story, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Seven, Pink Flamingos (but only the last scene), Multiple Maniacs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Peeping Tom (but only the binoculars scene), Hellraiser, Dawn of the Dead (a fave), Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (a.k.a. Flesh for Frankenstein -- in 3D!), Bloodsucking Freaks, Revenge of the Living Dead, Last House on the Left, The Devil in Miss Jones (yep, the original), Cannibal Holocaust (you don't want to know), Mondo Cane (oops, sorry, documentary)... many, many others.

Shocking & unnerving, but no "extreme" cigar: Romper Stomper, Natural Born Killers, Showgirls, uncut version of The Exorcist.

I guess those "Gory Wheels of Death" driver's ed films don't count, huh?

[kmla]

43. Andy Warhol's "Frankenstein". Nasty.

What a completely nasty piece of work. An X rating, and it contained no sex...

"To experience life, you must first f*** death..." - quote from the doctor, while performing an act of necrophilia.

Ewwwwww.

:puke:

[EOTE]

40. Cannibal Holocaust...

was fairly extreme. Men Behind the Sun was gut wrenchingly extreme. But neither of those even come close to Gigli.

[noonwitch]

41. "The House of Yes"

About incestous twin siblings, starring Parker Posey as this girl who thinks she's Jackie O and Genevieve Bujold as their strange mother. The boy twin brings his girlfriend home (Tory Spelling, the only weak link in the movie) and his mother proceeds to tell the poor girl about how when the twins were born, the boys penis was in the girl's (Jackie O) hand.

[Kamika]

42. I thought "Hannibal" was pretty extreme

Im pretty lame though.

Im sure you guys think its nothing.


What kind of movie is Salo? Should a girl who thinks Hannibal is extreme see it?

[Durtal]

48. On Salo

What kind of movie is Salo? Should a girl who thinks Hannibal is extreme see it?

If you found Hannibal disturbing, I can hardly imagine how you would react to Salo. Salo is in a completely different ballgame, so to speak. It's not escapist or adventuresome at all; it's got an element of realism that just makes it hard to bear. The plot is simple: a number of powerful men abduct several slaves, male and female, to be taken with them to a remote location, where they may be abused, degraded, tortured and eventually painfully killed. I've never seen anything before that exudes the same combination of feeling both detached/impersonal and completely vicious at the same time. Example: one scene involves one of the powerful men describing how one of the abducted girls' mother had been killed trying to prevent her abduction; this causes the girl in question to weep horribly, at which point the sadistic bastard notices her distress and decides to make it worse; he takes delight in forcing her to eat his shit. The scene of that abused, naked, utterly destroyed woman trembling in humiliation and despair burns itself into your memory. Truly horrifying.

I have a high tolerance for shock and horror, and this is one of the very worst I have ever seen. I have a dubbed copy (getting an original is practically impossible without spending over $100 for one of those rare Criterion DVDs) and have only watched it twice. Sort of as a test of my endurance.

Gritty, realistic, painful, and with an ending that just wants to merge with your nightmares in a portrait of unrelenting horror. That's really one of the worst aspects of it - you get the feeling at the end that it really won't ever end; nothing ever gets better; and you feel this on a truly visceral level.

[bicentennial_baby]

49. Wow

That plot sounds exactly like the story from the first volume of "The Invisibles" (incredible comic book series written by Grant Morrison, for those not in the know)

It's hard enough to read stuff like that in a comic, I don't think I could handle it in a movie.

[Kamika]

53. Ok thanks

I guess ill watch some mst3k instead :)

[TXlib]

46. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

Pretty gruesome in parts.

[MercutioATC]

47. Ichi the Killer...

...just watched it yesterday (the Japanese import version...uncut).

Some of the blood-spurting scenes were laughable (a wee bit too much pressure from the spraying juglar), but I'd still rate it as pretty damn extreme.

[bicentennial_baby]

51. Ewww

I saw the trailer for that...I'll pass. :P

[MercutioATC]

55. To be fair, the trailer had all of the worst parts, graphically speaking.

The movie wasn't much oogier.

[mitchum]

50. another vote for "Salo"...

also the "home movie/home invasion" sequence in "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer"
"Last House On The Left"

"I Spit On Your Grave"

[Spirochete]

54. Xtro

For some reason, that one repulsed me more than any other movie I've seen.

[skypilot]

56. "Irreversible"

Gaspar Noe's rape/revenge tale set in France.

[Catherine Vincent]

65. Ditto: "Irreversible"

I'm sorry that I viewed this horrible and graphic movie. Very cheaply made. There is a graphic ten minute rape scene that a lot of people walked out on. But if you stayed, you felt you were the one being raped.

Yech!

[BigMcLargehuge]

57. Men Behind the Sun (AKA Hei Tai Yang 731)

T.F. Mou's docudrama about the Imperial Japanese Army Bacteriological Warfare Camp in Harbin China. Told through the eyes of both General Shiro Ishii, a group of very young Japanese boys in the Youth Corps, and through the eyes of a small group of prisoners desperate to get word of the camp attrocities to the outside world before they will inevitably die.

It's horrific, terrible, almost unwatchable, and at the same time, gripping and extremely thought provoking.

Not for the squeamish at all, but it does stay true to the history.

T.F. Mou's follow up film Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre focuses on The Rape of Nanking (Dec 1938-March 1939), the upcoming DVD features an extras set containing the 1944 Why We Fight: The Battle of China propaganda film, interactive map, essay describing the place of The Rape of Nanking in the Sino-Japanese War, mini-bio's of key historical figures, and actual photos from the event designed (and written by) by none other than....

DUs own Big McLargehuge.

[sangh0]

58. Porn

One was about bestiality, and in another, a female did things with her ass that, if not illegal, were at the very least, unhealthy

[Az]

59. Hmmm, well there are a couple

For all out bloodfest: Dead Alive. Early Peter Jackson film. Lets just say: Locked in a room with 40 zombies and the only weapon the hero has is a lawnmower.

Creep out value: Audition. A Japanese film. Lets just say: You will never be able to hear "Kitty kitty kitty" without cringing ever again.

WTF was that value: Eraserhead. David Lynch's first film. Lets just say: Ewwww not the chicken.

You can stop shooting value: The Killer. John Woo. Lets just say: Where did they keep all the ammo?

[BigMcLargehuge]

61. Dead Alive... ROFLOL

That film goes to 11!

Imagine if it weren't funny? Jackson wouldn't have ever gotten away with that much mayhem.

[TrogL]

62. a snuff film

at University. Some guy at residence got ahold of some porn. The last film of the evening was a snuff film.

I won't go into details, but it didn't look fake.

[Michael Daniels]

63. Freaks

Probably the most visually disturbing ending I've ever seen in my life.

This one theater in Norfolk, VA used to run themetic double/triple features all the time in the early 80's and they teamed up Freaks with the Elephant Man.

This was probably 20 years ago now and the ending to Freaks still gives me the shivers to this day.