Most disturbing ending to a film

[Khephra]

I call "prince of Darkness"

Any other suggestions?

[bif]

1. "The Dissapearance"

Creeped me out.

[BurtWorm]

5. The Vanishing

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. Yes! The French/Dutch Original

Of course, the American version had a happy ending!

[BurtWorm]

9. Prezactement!

[soothsayer]

134. Indeed---my immediate thought as well in terms of endings

Silly american version won't creep ANYBODY out, but woof, that original Swedish one----yipes!

[bif]

10. Now I'm confused

Which was the dutch movie that was remade here about a guy who investigates the dissapearance of his girlfriend/wife. He ends up getting burried alive by the original abducter?

On Edit: Posted this after it was explained above. Thanks. I saw the original.

[BurtWorm]

16. That's the Vanishing

That's what I thought you were talking about, on account of I couldn't remember a movie named The Disappearance, but that title reminded me of The Vanishing, which definitely had a creepy, disturbing ending.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

34. The remake w/Kiefer Sutherland SUCKED

I really loved the origial-creeped me out for days.

[BurtWorm]

38. I didn't see a need to see the American version, so I never did

especially when I heard they fucked with the ending.

[4_Legs_Good]

57. I loved it!!!!

My film professor's prediction about it, that is!!

We watched the original in my film class, and the professor said that he hadn't seen the US version yet, but that it would probably do X, Y, and Z.

A couple years later I watched the US version and, sure enough, it did exactly as he had guessed. Too funny!!

david

Kucinich 2004

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

87. You mean I'm not the only one who saw that?

(The original)
The ending of that movie unnerved me.

[BurtWorm]

97. You are definitely not alone!

Welcome to DU, by the way.

:hi:

[Nlighten1]

167. This movie made my jaw drop at the end.

It is one of the finest films ever made.

[Fenris]

2. I say Peter Jackson's "Heavenly Creatures"

I find the end sequence in which the two girls bash the mother to death incredibly disturbing.

[soleft]

23. I just watched it again the other night

It is really a hard scene to watch because I found myself really identifying with the mother, and that moment when she gets hit and she has no idea what so ever what's happening, all she know is sudden incredible pain, and then she gets hit again and again.

Prior to that moment I was so sympathic to these poor delusional girls, so in love with each other and so distraught at the prospect of being separated.

I believe one of the girls moved to Ireland and became a successful writer.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

30. She did

Her name escapes me, though I've read her stuff. She's very good and has atoned for her horrible crime.

[Gigi]

41. Anne Perry

Hi. Anne Perry is the name of the author and she lives in Scotland.
I don't rate her much as an author but I'm sure she lived what could
have been one of the most chilling stories ever for one of her books.

[Az]

133. Another Jackson possibility is Dead Alive

Mother. Thats all I have to say.

[BurtWorm]

3. Weird! I've thought about starting a thread with this same title.

I would have nominated Chinatown, The Conversation, and Night of the Living Dead.

[BurtWorm]

19. and Man Bites Dog

A Belgian "comedy" about a bunch of filmmakers and their subject: a serial killer.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

26. Amen on "Chinatown"

Nothing is more scary than human evil.

[BurtWorm]

33. Especially human evil that gets away with it

[arwalden]

4. An Ending I Would Have Changed... "Thelma & Louise"

... if only for "Thelma & Louise II".

I guess that might qualify as an ending that disturbed me.

-- Allen

[soleft]

25. I thought it was kind of poetically beautiful, like Butch and Sundance

[bif]

44. I knew it was coming

right from the beginning. don't know why, I just had a sense that it was heading that way.

[Eloriel]

156. T&L is one of my all-time favorite movies

It's a disturbing film overall, and yes the ending is disturbing, but I thought it was perfect: robbing "them" of the final victory.

Eloriel

[Brucey]

6. Casablanca

Because the problems of individuals DO amount to a hill of beans.

[Ivory_Tower]

7. se7en

It took me a while to rationalize a flaw into the plot so the ending wouldn't creep me out as much.

[LoneStarLiberal]

12. You Said It

The only "horror" movie of the last 15 years that really creeped me out.

[Kamika]

15. AGREE

i hate that ending!!! i want to kill that murderer

brad pitt was pretty nice looking in that movie too

[soleft]

31. As for the the flaw in that f*cking plot

it took me a long time to forgive David Fincher for that attempted mind fuck -

If I know gwyneth Paltrow is in jeopardy then Brad Pitt should know Gwyneth Paltrow is in jeopardy - and for his character to be so completely clueless that her head ends up in a box is nothing but the filmmakers pulling a cheap trick

[thom1102]

62. I didn't see it coming...

It caught me completely by surprise. Loved that movie!

[LizW]

143. Me, either. I was thinking "bomb" in the box.

And I watched it on tv, so they didn't show what was in the box, just Brad Pitt's reaction. THEN the realization hit me of what it really was. Awsome.

[donotpassgo]

119. No you're wrong...

suspense is built up BECAUSE you know and He doesn't. He doesn't have access to the larger scope of things that you do. You see motivations played out. You see the conversations between Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth. HE doesn't. You know she is being made into an innocent victim, HE doesn't make the cinematic conncection. It's not like Scream where everyone is aware of the irony.

[soleft]

129. No no no no no

He has a confrontation with the killer in the alley. The killer knows who he is, and they know that the killer targets people who piss him off, so he should have known that he was in the killer's scope.

[Ivory_Tower]

158. The flaw that I saw

(and I had to think about this to shake the creeped-out feeling I had all day after I saw it...)

All of the victims were embodiments of the seven deadly sins, UNTIL the end. Gwyneth Paltrow was an innocent victim and did not fit the pattern. She should not have been a victim.

My rationalization was that since she didn't fit the pattern, she shouldn't have been a victim, therefore the movie was wrong, and I shouldn't be creeped out by it. That kinda worked for me. :)

[bleedingheart]

130. I absolutely hated that movie...it creeped me and my husband

out so bad that we couldn't shake the feeling for weeks..

[mitchum]

148. I hated eveything about that movie after the openings credits...

they were beautifully designed and sucked me in, but I saw all of the plot "twists" coming from a long way away. Possibly one of the most overrated movies ever

[tarkus]

171. Ah. Yeah, that ending did kind of disturb me. N/T.

[Terwilliger]

11. Heathers

just a generally fucked up movie that fucked me up

[NWHarkness]

13. Dr Strangelove

It's hard to top a total global nuclear holocaust.

[Darkseid69]

14. Don't look back

The ending scared the living shit out of me.

[noiretextatique]

17. mulholland drive...more confusing than disturbing

:argh:

[blm]

85. I'm with you, but confusing AND disturbing.

.

[noiretextatique]

93. point taken...it was confusing AND distrubing

now that i think of it...it was both.

[Coventina]

18. West Side Story

I know, I know.
*Coventina ducks tomatoes*

It gets my vote because it was the first movie I saw that didn't have a
"Hollywood ending". I remember being really upset, and my dad explaining to me that not all stories have happy endings.

[GalleryGod]

52. Te Adoro,Antonio!

Boyd Theatre, Market Street,Philadelphia,Christmastime. 1962???
The LAST time we were innocent:loveya:

[thom1102]

66. Anton...

It was "Te adoro, Anton." Theater geek in the house... Did the musical in 10th grade (third jet from the left)

[Bossy Monkey]

20. A Clockwork Orange

Not particularly honorable mention: Friday the 13th for a surprise ending that actually surprised me.

[BigMcLargehuge]

42. the 21st chapter of the book is a better ending

it was cut from the American release of the book, and never made it to the movie...

Alex forms another gang, but he's older and wiser, and tires of the voilence and abandons it in the very last paragraph.

Great film, superb book.

[BurtWorm]

50. That was a great book!

I liked the movie, but the book was a different kind of great, with all that Russian-style slang. I never read the extra chapter that I know of. I wonder why they would drop an ending in which the main character chooses peace on his own. In the American market, no less.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

68. Kubrick's choice

I liked it ONLY because free will triumphs in the end. Very au courant re: anti-establishment feelings of the day.
BTW the film is still banned in Britain I believe.

[BigMcLargehuge]

80. the ban was lifted in 2000, or 2001

if I remember correctly.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

21. "Weekend" by Jean-Luc Godard

After an orgy of violence, murder, rape and cannibalism (No, not at the pig farm in Crawford...:evilgrin:), Godard flashes two titles: "End of Film" "End of Cinema"
Other candidates: "WHatever Happened to Baby Jane?" when the extent of Joan Crawford's character's evil is revealed and she cheats justice by dying, leaving the insane Jane to deal with the repercussions.
Anna Magnani lying dead on the street in "Open City."
Mia Farrow cooing at her cloven-footed child in "Rosemary's Baby."
Most heartbreaking: "Forbidden Games" 1952, directed by Rene Clement, with the orphaned girl screaming as she is separated from her only friend and Mia Farrow looking through tears at a dancing Fred Astaire , knowing she's stuck in an awful life in "The Purple Rose of Cairo"
Greatest last shot ever: Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" A blind prince unknowingly standing at the edge of a cliff, whose guide has been murdered, though he's unaware of this, and who drops the flute he uses to express the best in himself. He gropes for the flute on the edge of the precipice as the sun sets behind him. This, folks, is the human condition in one shot.

[BurtWorm]

24. Excellent choices, very well explained.

:toast:

[theemu]

151. I LOVE Weekend

It's not supposed to really be an entertaining film in any respect - in fact, if you were entertained by it, Godard didn't connect with you with it. The film takes Brechtian notions of art (ie, alienation of principal characters from the audience) and uses it to explore the greed of the French bourgoisie. I love those phrases, as well as his repetive use of titles (stolen from Bruce Conner's "A Movie") throughout the movie.

It really throws you off and takes you out of the movie, doesn't it? You can't help but examine the characters from the most objective point of view possible, because Godard doesn't let you identify with them.

But anyway. "Weekend" isn't meant to be liked, really.

[T Roosevelt]

22. Got two

Serpent and the Rainbow
Fallen (hated this one)

[snooper2]

96. Yep, Fallen...

That's where they play..

"Time, is on my side, yes it is..."

creeped me out with a chill and I'm not religous..

[tridim]

27. The ending to "Being John Malkovich"

is disturbing, chilling and happy all at the same time. "Ohh, look away. Look away. Look away.." Send shivers up my spine every time.

[ProfessorGAC]

28. Arlington Road

I think that's the name of it, with Kevin Spacey as an FBI guy infiltrating an extremist group consistenting of "fine upstanding" upper class types.

The bad guys get away with the whole thing at the end. And it's so "It could happen". I found it very troubling.
The Professor

[KeepItReal]

60. Damn, that is a GREAT CHOICE!!!

<EOM>

[Shrek]

88. Kevin Spacey?

Are you sure it wasn't Jeff Bridges?

[donotpassgo]

122. Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins

[morningtheft]

29. Requiem For a Dream

[4_Legs_Good]

63. Good choice!

The whole last 15 minute sequence is just an insane spiral into the bowels of hell.

I hate watching that movie with someone who's never seen it before, because they get to this point and you can tell, they think everyone has hit rock bottom, and you just have to say, "Hold on, 'cause you're in for one hellova ride".

Insanely brilliant film. A masterpiece, utterly.

david

Kucinich 2004

[dwckabal]

67. I must agree with you there

[onehandle]

32. The Care Bears Movie

The hardcore orgy at the end was just plain wrong.

[morningtheft]

36. but it felt so right

[WoodrowFan]

110. the book

At least they stayed true to the book....

[BigMcLargehuge]

35. I got a few tied for "most" disturbing

Man Behind the Sun: The one doctor with a conscience, who'd risked his life to smuggle one of the Chinese prisoners out of the Biological Warfare Camp as the Japanese army abandoned it, to save himself, runs the Chinese man through with a Japanese flag.

Rough ending to a rough movie...

The Hypnotist: The hero succumbs to the post-hypnitic suggestion and drowns himself with a pitcher of water.

M: When Peter Lorre's child killer character is sentence to death by the German courts the camera pans down to one of the mothers in mourning (Maria's mother from earlier in the film). Behind her is the silhouette of the gallows. The judge declares "In the name of Germany..." Maria's mother then sobs, "this won't bring our children back."

Disturbing because it is so amazingly human.

on edit: apparently too tired to spell tied

[BurtWorm]

46. That reminds me of Sweet Story of Youth

a Japanese cult movie of the early 1960s made by Oshima, maybe. Its pretty standard teen rebel stuff--standard with weird Japaneseness thrown, if you know what I mean--but the ending is so over the top violent. I have a particularly strong image burned in my mind of a tongue dripping blood.

[BigMcLargehuge]

47. Wow, haven't seen that one...

but it is now at the top of my list :)

Thanks for the tip!

[BurtWorm]

53. If you like sick Japanese movies with disturbing endings

you'll LOVE Sweet Story of Youth!

:thumbsup:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

49. M: One of my favorite movies

Peter Lorre is condemned to death by a jury of criminals. it is also reflective of the turmoil of the time period-1930 in Germany.

[BigMcLargehuge]

82. and in the end he's rescued buy "the law"

but the outcome is no different.

Chilling freaking implications there.

Schranker is my hero. That scene with the kangaroo court is a MASTERPIECE and easily the best work in Lang's filmography.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

37. Two more

The murder in the woods in "The Conformist" as Trintignant watches his true love murdered for his own politicasl gain. This film is the perfect analysis of the inherent cowardliness of the fascist mind. And Kon Ichikawa's "Fires on the Plain"-that one you'll have to see for yourself. Truly horrible.

[soleft]

39. I almost got run over after seeing "Blow Out"

Because I was in such a coma I almost walked in the street and got hit by a car.

I also couldn't talk for 24 hours after seeing Sophie's Choice

[DBoon]

40. Pixote

Gave me nightmares

[alfredo]

43. Blazing Saddles

Brian De Palma's Obsession

The Collector.

Dancer in the Dark

Edited of add a little known but excellent film

Seconds

You should read this then find the movie. Rock Hudson's best performance in my opinion.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Seconds-1074378/reviews.php

[Susang]

45. Carrie

When that hand came up through the rubble of her ruined house I almost wet myself.

[Nikia]

107. I was disappointed by that

I really didn't see Carrie as an evil character. She was angry, yes, but I think that she had a right to be with her fundamentalist mother and the tauntings of her classmates. Unfortunately, she had a power in which the anger caused a lot of destruction. I felt bad for her. I cried at the end. The hand ruined the mood.

[short bus president]

48. Easy Rider

really not the way I wanted to see that story end.

[Raven]

56. Absolutelt, Easy Rider!

I saw it when I was about 20 and it just killed me.

[short bus president]

64. same experience, same age

I just kinda sat there stunned for awhile after the credits rolled. Maybe even teared up. Don't remember. Was kinda... intoxicated. ;-)

[tridim]

65. How else could it have ended?

Riding off into the sunset? It was disturbing, but I think it was the correct ending, a metaphor for the death of freedom. Spot on.

[Raven]

75. You are probably right but

when I saw it, I had not "come of age" yet. I still thought America was a decent place, with decent people. The ending really rocked me but I'm sure it was the time of my life.

[bif]

51. Crimes and Misdomeaners

Not shocking. But for a Woody Allen film end like that where Martin Landau gets away with murder, I was a bit disturbed by it. Aren't the bad guys suposed to get caught in movies?

[4_Legs_Good]

113. I loved loved loved the ending and that scene

It's horribe, and it's shocking because it's absolutely not what you expect, and in the back of your mind, you're thinking it's probably actually true, even though it shouldn't be.

Great movie, great ending.

david

[catzies]

54. Adaptation

It still bothers me.

[sjr5740]

55. "Hannibal" and "Don't Look Now"

Hannibal for the total bad/disturbing movie

Don't look now for the whole creepy "Am I chasing dead daughter or not" aspect

Memento had a cool ending not terribly disturbing though

[Tyler Durden]

59. If you think "Hannibal" the movie was creepy, read the BOOK!

YE GODS, did they totally BLOW a chance to make one of the best endings of a film since "The Usual Suspects" or WHAT?

[sjr5740]

61. Not so much creepy

But just kinda wrong...

Lots of disturbing images that never really advanced the plot.

A total letdown after the brilliant "silence of the lambs"

Didnt even bother seeing the 3rd one

[maveric]

173. After reading the book I felt that the ending was butchered.

And a big disappointment. I would have loved to see Starling succumb to Lector as she did in that great novel.

[Fixated]

58. .....

Requiem for a Dream. Hands fucking down. Se7en comes close, but words can't convey the power of the end of Requiem.

[mitchum]

149. Right about "RFAD" all of the characters get the hell that they...

have "earned"

[CBHagman]

69. "Reuben, Reuben"

Talk about a knife-twist ending. The film is not exactly all sunshine, but that ending left me devastated.

[markus]

70. The Apartment

At least, I believe that was the title. Fellow moves into appartment, is taken over by the spirit of the last tenant, and is driven to commit suicide.

Fails on the first try jumping out the window, so drags himself up the stairs and tries again.

[WoodrowFan]

71. Wizards and Blow Out and Taxi Driver and Garp

Wizards because the end violated the whole theme and spirit of the movie. The good magical brother is carrying a piece?? ARGH.

Blow Out: Cause I hate when the good guys lose

Taxi Driver: Just a damn disturbing movie.

Garp: they killed GARP! THAT B**CH KILLED GARP!!!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

72. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" remake with Sutherland

Cuz those of us who saw the original were expecting something different. :scared:

BTW: the original was supposed to end the same way but the test audiences left the theaters quite decidely depressed.

[musiclawyer]

73. A Midnight Clear

so much buildup of hope that the enemy soldiers not give in...; but then the end. I still cannot watch that movie again..

[alfredo]

131. Loved that movie! I went crazy over Sam Phillip's

rendition of "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear." I became a fan of her's right then and there. http://www.tmtm.com/sam/


Oh yeah, the ending of the movie ... I won't give it away.

[TSElliott]

74. "Frailty"

That movie just blew me away at the ending, I was totally not expecting it.

[Nikia]

76. Empire

I guess the point was that he never could get out except dead.

[deutsey]

77. Looking for Mr. Goodbar

The first time I saw it, I couldn't sleep that night.

[nini]

78. Me Too...

that's what I was gonna say...


still gives me the creeps.


:scared:

[noiretextatique]

91. me three

:scared: really creepy

[Room101]

79. 1984, Winston finally learns to love big brother

It depressed and disturbed me

[zekeson]

81. Sound of Music

all of them, every last one, lived.
/joking

[VOX]

83. "Taxi Driver"

Nutcase made hero. Nothing like a little killing to clear out the sinuses and balance the psyche.

[skip fox]

99. Please reconsider!!! Listen to the music at the end.

There are two dominent themes (musically) throughout: 1. a relaxing, soft, melodious, urban jazz tune, and 2.) a haunting driving, disturbing mechanical theme indicating distress and psychological dislocation. At the end, just before the credits as Bickle drives off, the first theme strangely and suddenly turns into the disturbing, throbbing, haunting 2nd theme. The film does not imply health and happiness ever after. Bickle is still "out there," and will probably go through further psychological problems with destructive results. 'Least that's how I "read" it.

[Uzybone]

84. Blair witch project

the fact we never saw the "monster" in the entire movie even up till the end.

[Nailzberg]

118. Only disturbing part is that people went to see that crap.

I sat through that whole thing because the buzz on it was that it was supposed to be scary. It wasn't. That damn movie was 84 Charlie Mopic without the VietNam War.

[Uzybone]

127. no-one said it was scary

but the end still suprised me.

[Nailzberg]

163. "Scary as Hell" - Rolling Stone Magazine

That was a full page ad in the Hollywood Reporter prior to the film's LA release. I'll agree that no one really found it to be a scary movie after the release went wide. The secret was blown about a week into the LA/NY release. It was obvious at that point the movie couldn't stand up to it's own marketing hype. But the campaign was all about it being scary. All the early press focused on scariness. I just remember thinking after seeing it, that all those b-list actors (Scott Wolf comes to mind) that saw it at film festivals and claimed to have turned away from the screen in horror, must have been the biggest wussies in the world.
I do agree that it is disturbing to me that I never saw the Blair Witch. I think after sitting through that I deserved to see something. Even if it was just some goth girl with a pentagram t-shirt, but I deserved more.

[ronnykmarshall]

86. Godzilla vs. Mothra

It still have nightmares.

[BurtWorm]

89. The original Mothra scared the shit out of me

I was only three or four, but I've never been able to watch it since.


PS: Because it's never on. I'd actually love to see it.

[ronnykmarshall]

105. Remember the little princesses?

The tiny little twins that sang the Mothra song?

[BurtWorm]

115. They're what scared the shit out of me.

And the bridge getting demolished by Mothra's wings.

[ronnykmarshall]

117. Don't LOOK BurtWorm!!!

[BurtWorm]

142. AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:bounce:

I looked.

[ronnykmarshall]

145. Are they just scary as shit????!!!!

:scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared:

[BurtWorm]

146. What the hell is it about those freaks?

:scared:

[proud patriot]

90. SEVEN

:scared:

[noiretextatique]

92. blue velvet...a disturbing film overall

not the ending, but dennis hopper's character :scared: was really distrubing.

[salin]

125. yep... very disturbing n/t

[Tikki]

94. "Miracle Mile".....

*

[Brucey]

95. For those who have seen this little gem,

In the Realm of the Senses.

[Kat45]

98. I always wanted to see that one

but still haven't. Is it even available on video?

[Brucey]

161. yes.

If you can't find it locally, try FACETS in Chicago.

[Briarius]

100. Event Horizon

the part where he rips out his eyes creeped me out for a couple of days...

[Castilleja]

123. Event horizon had WAY too many missing eyeballs

for my comfort. Yikes!

[KittyWampus]

101. Dead Poets Society

Neils Suicide was unnecessary and contrived. It ruined what could have been a great movie.

[Nikia]

104. How would have you ended it?

I think that it had to be tragic. What kind of story would it have been if everything would have gone well for everyone? It is kind of cool at the very end how they all stood up on their desks in support of the teacher. It also showed the transformation of the other student, Mr Anderson? (I haven't seen the movie in a while.).

[SweetZombieJesus]

102. I'd like synopses for those of us who haven't seen some of these films

Starting with Prince Of Darkness, which Netflix apparently doesn't have.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

103. The Others.... Ooooooh. I LOVED IT!

Feel safe.
Ashcroft watches over us all.

[Castilleja]

124. Billy, why does your troll

know my secrets!?? :scared:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

170. LOL, it's a Pschic Ashcroft Troll.

Feel safe.
Ashcroft watches over us all.

[Wickerman]

106. Two Lane Blacktop

even afer hearing the explanation on the directors commentary I wanted a little more.

[Cocoa]

108. It's a wonderful life

:scared:

[SweetZombieJesus]

109. John Carpenter's In The Mouth Of Madness

The whole concept is fucking scary to begin with, but Sam Neill alone in the theater watching the story over again was a fucking wonderful ending.

[Semi_subversive]

111. The Boys in Company C

My date and I cried like babies. It just wasn't fair.

[xJlM]

112. To Live And Die In LA

For those who haven't seen it, the central figure in the story is named Detective Chance (William Peterson), and he's trying to avenge the death of his partner, who was killed by a master counterfeiter (Willem Dafoe). Another masterpiece by William Friedkin, with a six-lane rush hour car chase and one-hit wonders Wang Chung doing the soundtrack. I won't let you know about the ending, in case you want to see it, but it is disturbing in a very 80's way...

[jayfish]

157. Yes!!!

As I scanned this thread I was hoping that no one picked this flick. Quite a strange feeling, the end of that movie left me with. Is it out on DVD yet? I forced my wife to watch Manhunter and I want her to see this one as well. That car chase is one of the best ever. I remember it was near sickening on the big screen (alcohol included).

Jay

[donotpassgo]

114. Santa Sangre...

The whole f-d up experience is given a new meaning with the last 30 seconds or so.

[donotpassgo]

121. Also Star 80

and The Ring.

[TheRedMan]

116. "A Portrait of Dorian Gray"

STILL can't get that out of my head...

[Nailzberg]

120. PI

Now that was cool. F'ed up, but cool.

A drill through the head? That's gotta hurt.

[salin]

126. Not necessarily the ending... but after 'Dark City'

I sat in the theater seat for awhile... just kind of thinking... "huh"... what an interesting (and tad disturbing) concept...

[Tikki]

128. "Suburbia"...

...Penelope Spheeris's second feature film.

[Nevernose]

147. You are the FIRST PERSON

I've ever "met" who has seen this move!

[jburton]

153. Here's the third person...

Which Suburbia are you talking about?

The one from 1981-ish (my favorite) or the one from the late '90s?

[Nailzberg]

165. If you're referring to the Giovanni Ribosi schlong movie, I've seen it too

Didn't really find anything disturbing about it, though, except that girl's hair, and her performance art act, that was disturbing. Disturbingly bad. Reminds me of when I used to teach acting. Better learn to wait tables, honey.

[Az]

132. Audition

Never able to hear Kitty kitty kitty again without cringing. Its a Japanese film. Not what you expect.

[soothsayer]

135. Planet of the Apes, too

The original, but maybe even the new one.

[soothsayer]

136. OH! Night of the Living Dead, too!

When the nice black guy (the hero)--who after a grueling night of surviving the horror of the living dead, gets shot by a bunch of yahoos who think he's a zombie.

Tragic!

[Lisa]

137. "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane"

Jodie Foster's character actually kills someone. Sure, it's a bullying child molester (played by Martin Sheen) -- but the way the camera lingers on her face as he expires suggested to me that she will either become a merciless psychopath, or be emotionally damaged for the rest of her life.

"Election", with Reese Witherspoon, I also found disturbing -- because of her a teacher ends up ruining his career, and she ends up in a position where she could do even more harm. (As a teacher myself, I took it as a cautionary tale.)

I guess I've always had a horror of people who are not easily identifiable as villains, but who leave a trail of destruction in their wake ... I'm haunted by a short documentary I once saw (I think it was on TLC's "Human Beings" about a decade ago), about a young man who was addicted to BASE jumping. He would travel all over the world, parachuting off things like the bridge in Sydney.

The scary part, for me, was that the stunts get more and more dangerous, and his parents and friends are right there egging him on. People act as if they're totally thrilled to be asked to help him do his stunts, and are swept up by the media attention and excitement. The filmmaker went out of his way to show the guy as being perpetually upbeat and perky -- never worried, upset, or anything less than heroic. Handsome, articulate, wealthy -- kind of a relentless barrage of "isn't this cool?" At various times one expects he's going to be seriously injured ... the tone of the picture makes it evident by the end that he's no longer alive ... but if he died because of a failed jump, it's never discussed. I don't know why I found this film so unpleasant -- perhaps the fact that the central character is manipulative and self-destructive, yet the filmmakers are buying into a romantic myth and discouraging the audience from being skeptical, because we aren't supposed to criticize dead people.

[soothsayer]

138. And "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (movie, not tv show)

After the ghost and mrs muir totally fall hopelessly in love, he (the ghost) makes her think it was all just a dream (cuz he wanted her to have a human lover, not just waste her life on a ghost).

So poignant.

[nuxvomica]

139. The Sixth Sense (SPOILER WARNING)

When I learned that the Bruce Willis character was dead and thought about all those scenes with his wife, it hit me like a ton of bricks that an estranged relationship is not easily distinguishable from one in which one of the partners has died. What a powerful message.

[soothsayer]

140. James Bond's new bride's death in "In Her Majesty's Secret Service"

Sooooooo sad! Married for just minutes.

tsk tsk

[marigold20]

141. The Ring

a fairly recent movie. The movie as a whole annoyed me, but the end was not what I expected.

[GregW]

144. "Hell in the Pacific"

Only two people in the movie ... Lee marvin and Toshiro Mifune. Both are soldiers stranded on a tropical island (one US, one Japanese). They spend the entire movie antogonizing each other, only to finally realize they need to work together to escape.

The ending is terrible (sorry, no spoilers)

[JanMichael]

150. The French film "Hate".

One of the three main characters gets shot in the face right before they got "Free".

[stanwyck]

152. Can't believe no one has mentioned

"Limbo"..a John Sayles movie set in the Northwest. With David Straitharn and Mary Elizabeth Mastrionni (?). Wonderful movie. Kris Kristofferson plays a very ambiguous character. A man, woman, and the woman's daughter end up stranded on a small island. At the end, you don't know if the helicopter heading toward their island is their rescue or their doom.

[NashVegas]

154. Funny You Should Mention That

Such a frustrating film to watch, and beautiful.

[NashVegas]

155. The Talented Mr. Ripley

I didn't really like this movie, but can't say it's not memorable.

[FredScuttle]

159. The Warriors (1979) - SPOILER ALERT

this is one of my favorites and the ending really threw me for a loop when I first saw it. A quick synopsis...the Warriors are one of a multitude of youth gangs in NYC who are gathered for a gang summit at which an influential gang leader is assassinated. A rival gang accuses the Warriors of the murder, which sets into motion a thrilling battle against every gang in the city for their survival...they can only think of getting home.

(SPOILER)
They manage to fight off all comers and make it by morning back home (Coney Island) by morning ...their weary leader steps off the train into the late 70's decay of Brooklyn, looks around and says "This is what we fought all night to get back to?"

That line has never failed to chill me.

[Nailzberg]

166. Warriors, come out and play.

[Ladyhawk]

160. Frailty

Because of issues in my own life, I hated the ending to that movie. (The movie wasn't much, but that ending...damn.) I will go out of my way to avoid that movie.

[REP]

162. "Brazil"

One of my favorites. Everybody should be watching it again now.

[NashVegas]

164. I was more disturbed by the "Happy" ending than the real one.

Or, specifically, more disturbed by the change when I saw it.

[REP]

169. You Mean the "Edited for TV" Ending?

I only saw that once, and it pissed me off! Whoever did the edit obviously didn't understand the movie.

The real ending isn't a shock, or even that unexpected, but it is disturbing...but the whole movie is.

[jayfish]

168. "Eye Of God"

In addition to "To Live And Die In LA" I have to add this one. The scene that depicts the gruesome and senseless murder of Ainsley(Martha Plimpton )by her ex-con turned fundy husband is truly disturbing. The rest of the movie is also quite good.

Jay

[Rooktoven]

172. Both Monty Python and the Holy Grail AND Life of Brian

Two of my favorite movies.

(Not as dark as some mentioned here, but a bit of discomfort that is eased upon 2nd, third and tenth viewings)