Movies that disturbed you...

[Guy Fawkes]

I've seen a lot of movies, but only two have ever disturbed me.
"Better Luck Tomorrow" was so-so, but the camera made me sick
"Bloody Sunday" was an absolutely magnificent movie. It disturbed me and moved me deeply.

How about you?
(oh, and the "let the eagle fly" scene from F 9/11 doesn't count!)

[Rowdyboy]

1. Clockwork Orange and The Last House on the Left

Both left me very uneasy...

[NightTrain]

2. Just last Sunday, I saw HOTEL RWANDA.

I was shaken up for DAYS after I saw that film!

Another film that truly disturbed me was the original European version of THE VANISHING. That film would've made Hitchcock proud! :scared:

[jonnyblitz]

3. recently, Hotel Rwanda.

great movie but disturbing and haunting.. I am sure I don't need to explain why.

[NightTrain]

5. Great minds think alike, JB!

See my post above yours.

[jonnyblitz]

8. i noticed it as soon as I hit send..

I saw it the other night. some parts were very hard to sit through. your threads last week are why I saw it btw. :thumbsup:

[msgadget]

30. The Butterfly Effect

Stayed on my mind for awhile.

[Donailin]

82. I want to see that movie but I'm waiting

for the right frame of mind to come along. I know it is going to be very emotional roller coaster.

[GOPFighter]

4. Sophie's Choice

When she was forced to choose which one of her two children would live and which would die. At the time I saw it I had two children the same age, and I felt like I had been kicked in the gut, the thought of being force to make a choice like that. Gut wrenching...

[jobycom]

14. Yeah, that scene still shakes me up, just from the memory.

[7th_Sephiroth]

6. Perfect blue

Nebber trust your friend

[jobycom]

92. Nebber trust yourself, either

Great film. One of a few whose endings I did not see coming. Reminded me of Fight Club, but even more twisted at the end.

[7th_Sephiroth]

102. i saw it coming (spoilers)

she's the only one that could have been close enough to record the sound bite, and the way she freaked otu at the rape scene they were shooting

[Kire]

7. The Magdalene Sisters

You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God! You're not a man of God!

[BrklynLiberal]

41. I had to walk out during certain partsof that movie..it was VERY

disturbing..made even worse to know it was a true story.

[Minstrel Boy]

9. Salo: The 120 Days of Abu Ghrai- er, Sodom

Awful, and brilliant.



Pasolini loosely based his tale the Marquis de Sade’s appalling The 120 Days of Sodom, and then set the film in WWII fascist northern Italy. Sixteen children are kidnapped by the Duc de Blangis and his depraved contingent (including an Archbishop) and removed to a secluded and stately countryside villa. Immediately the children are stripped and forced to begin obedience training, where even the mere mention of God is punishable by death. For the next 120 days, the children move through various circles of degradation and subjected to torture, rape (both heterosexual and homosexual), mutilation, and death.

...

What makes the film even more horrifying is that these unspeakable abuses are all being done to children. But as terrible as it is to watch (there are parts where even the most hardened will gag), Salo is not exploitive, nor should its violence be called over the top. Pasolini’s use of graphic images serve to remind us of the recurring dangers of fascism in the real world and the moral decay and corruption inherent in limitless power.
http://www.thomasvideo.com/realdetroit/real-salo.html

[Emops]

10. "Seven"

Not hard to understand why.

[NewJeffCT]

93. yes, that was disturbing

Defintely one of the most disturbing I've seen and the one I thought of first when I saw the thread's title.

[Ramsey]

117. Seven is my choice as well

It was just grotesque.

[Fenris]

11. A lame choice, but the Kevin Bacon vehicle "Stir Of Echoes"

One of the few films to make me feel disturbed. The scene in which the retarded girl is raped by the meathead neighbor boy and then bludgeoned to death made me really ill. I could recall her screams for weeks after I saw it.

[DrWeird]

36. Nah, that's a good choice.

It's a very underrated film.

It was a lot better than The Sixth Sense, which came out around the same time and stole all its thunder.

[faithfulcitizen]

103. me too!

[auntAgonist]

12. Sybil

It haunts me at times.. I can see that little girl in my mind'e eye.

haunting true story.

[jdj]

13. Sid and Nancy.

VERY bad trip.

[jobycom]

15. A Dream of Passion, and A Grave for Fireflies

A Dream of Passion was a BBC film with Milana Mercouri (no idea how to spell it) and Ellen Burstyn. No one seems to remember it. It's about a Greek actress who returns to Greece to do a play of Media, and meets an American woman in jail who killed her children because her husband was going to leave her. One of the best movies I've ever seen, and no one seems to have even heard of it.

A Grave of Fireflies-- everyone knows that one.

[alittlelark]

54. A Grave for Fireflies.... excellent.

[jobycom]

87. Yes, but notice still no one has commented on A Dream of Passion?

I've brought that film up here for the whole three years I've been around, and no one has once said they had seen it. I feel so lonely.

[CanuckAmok]

16. "The Vanishing" - original Euro version

Scariest killer ever.

The Ring

The Changeling

Twilight's Last Gleamings

[soothsayer]

17. you beat me to the original "The Vanishing"---wow is that creepy

How about Boxing Helena?

[smbolisnch]

18. Crash

With Holly Hunter. That movie seriously disturbed me :scared:

[NightTrain]

19. Not to mention the final scene of SCHINDLER'S LIST, at his grave.

To see all those Schindler Jews as they looked 50 years after the end of World War II really drove the point home for me: Yes, all those horrid events I had just spent three hours watching REALLY HAPPENED, and all those people survived the ordeal because of just one man. SCHINDLER'S LIST remains the most powerful and poignant testimony to the possibility of redemption that I've ever witnessed on film.

[PartyPooper]

20. "Psycho" really disturbed me. I saw it in the theatre when I was 12.

I could hardly shower after that movie.

Later, I rented a creepy apartment whilst in college. I found out someone died in the bathtub!

You're better off dirty than dead!

:scared:

[Kire]

21. Rabbit Proof Fence

the whole "Stolen Generation" in Australia is intensely scary


http://www.nextstepcounseling.org/updates/2003/2003-04-22.htm

[Kire]

22. Nightmare on Elm Street, Part IV

or maybe, part five, whichever one "The Dream Child" was

it was my first horror movie I snuck into, I remember not being able to sleep that night because I was so scared. I think I was 11, or so. Very sheltered.

[Minstrel Boy]

23. A Zed and Two Naughts

by Peter Greenaway.

First time I saw it, I wasn't bothered at all. Second time, it disturbed me so much I had to leave.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. Audition

I try to see every Japanese movie that comes onto cable, but they lost me when they brought out the razor blades.

[moggie]

123. Audition, yeah!

Scariest sound effect ever! :puke: (To say more would be a spoiler).

[yardwork]

25. Seven Beauties, by Lina Wertmuller

Very odd movie.

[seg4527]

26. A Beutiful Mind

It had me worrying that I might be schizophrenic for a few months after I saw it first.

[Taverner]

27. Last House on the Left

Very disturbing movie. Sometimes I wish I could "unwatch" that movie.

[pres2032]

28. seven, Godsend, Schindler's list

Bowling for Columbine is pretty disturbing too.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. The Pawnbroker.

[lectrobyte]

96. Yeah, just saw that on TCM. Powerful and amazing stuff for 1965.

[Kazak]

31. Blue Velvet

[givemebackmycountry]

32. "Dead Ringers"

Another Cronenberg film.

Jeremy Irons in a dual role as identical twin brothers, The Mantels.

They are the most successful fertility specialist and gynecologists in Canada.

Adrianne Barbeau is a tortured, drug addicted movie star and things go south quickly when one of the brothers becomes smitten with her.

The last 30 minutes of this movie made me squirm in my seat.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

33. My nomination would be Threads.

A British production that came out in 1985-1986 re: nuclear war.

I had nightmares for weeks after seeing that movie.

[Kire]

34. Cat Threads or Sex Threads?

I'd say Cat threads are more disturbing.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

35. Kire, seriously there is a movie called Threads

that showed the effects of a global nuclear war.

Now I don't know if it's available at your local Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, or even Netflix. It's truly a very disturbing movie.

BTW, I know you're trying to take the "piss out of me". No luck, I ain't buying it.

[Kire]

38. apologies,

I didn't realize it was about global nuclear war. I didn't read that far into your thread.

I'm a bit punchy, tonight.

Is it anything like The China Syndrome? Or is it more like "Hiroshima Mon Amour" with video footage of the moments after they dropped the bomb, in between a love story.

[DrWeird]

37. City of God

One little kid shooting another little kid with malice is just about the most disturbing thing I've ever seen.

Good movie though.

[Swamp Rat]

42. "Cidade de Deus" is true to life.

I spent a lot of time in Brasil to know this. "Central do Brasil" is another good movie.

[grace0418]

39. American History X, Sweet Sixteen,...

Seven, Silence of the Lambs

[faithfulcitizen]

104. American History X, yes very....

[MountainLaurel]

111. I agree

After seeing it, my friend and I created a new category of film: the well-made film. You can't say they're good or great films, because the subject matter is so fucked up.

[Spider Jerusalem]

40. 8mm.

Deeply disturbing.

[SKKY]

61. It certainly was...

..."Machine, set him free."

[Moloch]

43. Exorcist: The Beginning

The scene when a baby is born with maggots all over it.

Oh and the scene where the Nazi shoots the little girl "God is not here today, priest."

[Lorien]

44. I just watched "Two Brothers" and it disturbed me!

Seriously. It just drove home how defenseless nature is against mankind, and how truly thoughtless and callous man can be towards other living things. We're just overwhelming it, and it doesn't have a chance. I thought I would be watching a charming kids movie, instead....:cry:

"Life is Beautiful" There's another one that made me feel much the same way, except that time it was mankind's viciousness towards other human beings. :scared: :cry:

[WCGreen]

45. The Singing Nun....

That movie, when the cheescake pictures fell out of the little cripples big sisters closet at the feet of the virginal Debbie Reynolds, well I just couldn't believe my eyes....

I was drawn to the photos, I felt this stirring deep inside that made me want to see more of the older sister and less of the young cripple boy.....

It was then that I learned I was no longer a boy.........

[solinvictus]

46. "Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer"...

This was a realistic portrayal of two serial killers who's fictionalized exploits were based on real murderers Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole. The reality of it was unnerving.

[CanuckAmok]

49. Oh, damn.... wa that the scariest suitcase on the planet, or what?!

br-r-r-r-r.

[solinvictus]

51. Yep...

I believe that incident was based on Henry Lee Lucas' murder of a younger girlfriend in rural Texas.

[maveric]

47. Swimming With Sharks.

Just all-around disturbing with a fucked-up ending.
Kevin Spacey was magnificent in it as usual,

[BBradley]

62. I second that.

[maveric]

48. Dupe. Please delete.

[RagingInMiami]

50. I forgot the name of it

But it starred John Holmes

[sakabatou]

52. Perfect Blue

[Borgnine]

53. Night of the Living Dead

There was just something eerie about it, especially since nothing is resolved as far as the zombie crisis goes. The dead just continues to walk the Earth, and when you die, you become one of them.

[Kipepeo]

55. The Audition n/t

[American Tragedy]

56. Jacob's Ladder, Last House on the Left, Exorcist, Sid & Nancy

[freeplessinseattle]

57. yes, Jacob's Ladder! I didn't get it, but it really disturbed me (nt)

[mark414]

58. no one mentioned 'requiem for a dream'???

the first time i saw it...that last half hour left me shaking, in a stunned silence

[NickB79]

63. I was just going to post that one!

Yep, that was one majorly f-ed up movie in soooo many ways. I felt worst for the mother and the Wayans brother. A very powerful movie IMO.

[Mr. Blonde]

73. My vote goes right here

I was the only one who considered good of my friends. They didn't think a movie could be that disturbing and yet still good.

[ET Awful]

81. Yup, disturbing is an understatement when it comes to that movie

:scared:

[FuzzySlippers]

59. Monster's Ball.

Here was a movie where in the first 15 minutes you had an execution, a suicide, and a young boy being killed by a hit-and-run driver, yet by far the most disturbing part was the sight of Billy Bob Thornton having sex.

[SKKY]

60. Two Spanish films have really disturbed me...

"Hable con ella (Talk to Her)" by Pedro Almodovar and "Amantes" (Based on a true story) by Vicente Aranda. Talk to her was a bit "difficult", but Amantes seriously f'ed me up for, like, a month. Having said all that, I rank both of them high on my top 10 all-time favorite movies list.

[sbj405]

64. Happiness nt

[messyca]

89. Totally agree!

I never want to see that movie again.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

65. When I was a kid Darby O'Gill and the Little People. The banshee

kept me awake at nights for weeks.

[Cooley Hurd]

66. Pink Flamingoes...

The singing sphincter was hard to watch...

[mirror wall]

67. Irreversible.

IMDB it. It was intended to shock, and shock it did. I'm fairly hardened when it comes to graphic imagery, but that movie made me a bit ill. Two words: fire extinguisher. Good GOD.

Also, the Dark Backward freaked me out a bit when I first saw it. That was mainly because I first saw it on network television in the wee hours of the morn. It's a bit disconcerting to be channel flipping and stumble accross a garbage man licking the bruised exposed breast of a corpse left to rot in a dump.

[ikojo]

68. Capturing the Friedmans and Tarnation

Capturing the Friedmans because it showed me how easily a community can be whipped into a frenzy when allegations of child abuse are made. I saw the movie in the theatre and from what I recall many of the kids were asked leading questions regarding their experiences with the elder Friedman.

Tarnation was disturbing on so many levels. It's a documentary done by Jonathan Couette. He got a video camera at a young age and began filming everything around him, particularly his mom who is mentally ill.

[BearClaws]

69. Seven and More Recentley, Open Water

[Joe Power]

70. "Ju On", the original "Carnival of Souls", "Blue Velvet"

The original "Night of the Living Dead" still gives me nightmares, too.

[Patiod]

106. Carnival of Souls was scary

[NuttyFluffers]

71. Kissed. softcore necrophilia love story... easily found at blockbuster!

it wasn't a good movie.

it wasn't passed off as a joke. it was in all seriousness an attempt to make a torured dramatic romance about necrophilia -- with plenty of ecstatic self-discovery and an apotheosis in the denouement.

want me to spoil the surprise ending?

[Kire]

72. May

May is a young strange girl who had a very disturbed childhood and does not still know the meaning of true friendship or love. She works at a pet clinic and lives alone with her only "true friend"; a doll her mother gave her when she was a little girl. When she fails to find the "perfect man" that will make her happy, she decides to construct him herself, using parts from different people.

Angela Bettis is psycho!!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303361/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9bWF5fGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=1;ft=4;fm=1



There is one scene where she brings her "best friend in the whole world" (a doll in a glass case) to show and tell with the blind kids she just got hired to teach, and they want to touch it but she realizes she doesn't want to let them, so the case drops on the floor and the blind kids (young kids) are crawling on the ground on their hands and kness. Blood is everywhere. Creepiest fucking thing I ever saw.

[solinvictus]

94. May...

It was also a very sad movie. The poor woman just wants meaningful human contact, but she doesn't know how to make friends and such.

[Kire]

112. which makes it even more disturbing

because you are sympathizing with someone who cuts people up and puts them back together

[hippiechick]

74. Audrey Rose

Saw it when I was a teenager and it horrified me.

I cried so hysterically at the end that my parents actually got up out of bed to see what was going on.

[coolhandlulu]

75. Requiem for a Dream

eom

[ET Awful]

80. I'll second that. . . that is one seriously f'ed up movie.

:scared:

[goodboy]

95. I'll THIRD that. I own it, but I never watch it. Once was enough for me.

[NuttyFluffers]

121. if it finished with some puppies in a blender it'd be perfectly disturbing

it was so close to perfection...

yes, great movie, just very sad and unnerving.

[Kire]

76. The Doom Generation

anything by Gregg Araki, or so I've heard

the scene at the end with the Hedgeclippers is, well, it disturbed me.

[Kire]

77. Spun

Mena Suvari, the titular beauty from the Kevin Spacey Oscar-winning movie, is beautiful in a different kind of way when she's on the toilet and discovers there is no toilet-paper in the house, whatsoever. She can't go out, either, she's been strung out on speed for weeks.

[CanuckAmok]

97. Worst. Movie. Ever.

One of two I've walked out of.

Just terrible. No redeeming qualities at all.

[leeman67]

78. American Psycho

[Donailin]

79. Bloody Sunday was excellent, if you liked that

you'd enjoy "In the Name of the Father"

[Left Is Write]

83. Boogie Nights disturbed me.

[chiburb]

84. "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"

One of Jane Fonda's finest roles as a depressed marathon dancer in the Depression.

Very disturbing...

[Biased Liberal Media]

85. Night of the Living Dead (original), Carnival of Souls (original), 8mm

[Flammable Materials]

86. Irreversible. I Stand Alone. Salo. n/t

[JanMichael]

90. "I Stand Alone" was harsh. Harsh. Harsh.

[JanMichael]

88. For pure shock value "Vulgar". It's about a clown...

Another movie that had a strong effect was "Hate", a French film about three friends living on the edge.

[JimmyJazz]

91. American History X - the curb scene - absolutely brutal n/t

[kittycat1164]

98. Road To Perdition

It was so dark, maybe it effected me so much cause I'd just had brain surgery 2 weeks before. They say that can put you in a tailspin, but I actually left and waited for my husband in the lobby cause it was so depressing and dark. I can't explain it, but that movie was awful for me.

[gollygee]

99. I just saw The Magdalene Sisters the other day

and posted about it.

I was torn up by that. That people did that to their own children. That woman had so few rights their parents could lock them up indefinitely against their will and the Catholic chruch could detain them and take away their babies against their will. That people did that in the name of god and religion.

So awful.

[FrankBooth]

100. Gummo

disgusting.

And John Water's "Mondo Trasho" made me sick to my stomach as well.

[tcfrogs]

101. Bad Lieutenant n/t

[derby378]

105. TAXI DRIVER and AMERICAN HISTORY X

[mcscajun]

107. "O Lucky Man!"

Now there's a truly disturbing film.

"Swimming with Sharks" is another.

[benny05]

108. Depends on the meaning of disturbing

As a child, "The Chamber of Horrors" showed on tv and I remember when some guy was trying to escape underwater and he was handcuffed to something, he chopped off his hand to get free. I had nightmares many times after that, and vowed not to watch horror flicks after that.

The death scene in "Boys Don't Cry" ranks up there, along with the flashback of Sybil remembering her mother putting a douching (spelling) rubber thing hanging out of Sybil (with Sally Field)'s body which was also elevated. How anyone would do that to a child is beyond me. The EST scene in Cuckoo's Nest was also pretty disturbing.

One recent movie, Kinsey, had a couple of scenes that weren't disturbing, but they shocked me a little (not in a bad sense, just strange).

[Guaranteed]

109. The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Everyone hates this movie simply because it's so effective in being disturbing.

[Horse with no Name]

110. Monster, Flatliners, The Handmaids Tale, Monster's Ball

Thats just a start of my list.
Flatliners really bothered me most though for some reason.

[shrike]

119. Monster

That one really got to me.

[arwalden]

113. Jacob's Ladder, The Grifters

[Bzzzz]

114. American History X and...

Eyes Wide Shut.

[Hardrada]

116. Gods and Generals

The phony history in this turkey actually got me upset. Also, of course, as I might have mentioned on another thread, the original Manchurian Candidate with its deep dark political psy op undertones.

[magnolia]

115. The Human Stain

Not so much disturbing as very sad and tragic. Excellent movie...I highly recommend it.

A movie I found disturbing yet strangely entertaining is "Secretary". I have to admit I really liked it and have watched it several times.

[CBHagman]

118. "Santa Sangra," "Reuben, Reuben," "The Others"

Also, "Fahrenheit 9/11" upset me a great deal. The sequence on the World Trade Center attack is not exploitative but disturbing and utterly heart-wrenching. They also show graphic footage of the Iraq war itself and the burnt, mutilated corpses of Blackwater Security contractors. I'd seen some of that before, but it still was like a punch in the chest.

[SoCalDem]

120. The Deer Hunter..On the beach...The 25th Hour (the original one) n/t

:

[NuttyFluffers]

122. Blue Velvet

disturbing.

but the lip gloss covered face holding an industrial light as a microphone is an interesting look.
:freak:

[moggie]

124. Can't make an exhaustive list...

...but, off the top of my head:

Eraserhead: just totally fucked up hallucionogenic strangeness, the way only Lynch knows how.

Come and See: Elem Klimov's masterpiece about WW2 Byelorussia, with imagery which will knock you back in your seat.

Assault on Precinct 13: the Carpenter original, not the pointless remake. A zombie flick without zombies! The genuinely shocking part is one particular murder: it's not gory, it's not flashy, but even if you've seen thousands of on-screen killings (who hasn't, these days?), it'll still hit you hard. As it should.

The Exorcist: I'm an atheist, but I still felt a tangible sense of evil about this. Great performance from Linda Blair.