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The most disturbing film you have seen?

95Land said:
This doc gave me the creeps. IME, the further north you go in NY or VT, the odder things get.
I used to ride along on business trips into upstate NY when I was a kid. Even at 7-8 years old, something just didn't feel right about the area and some of the people in it. This documentary reminded me of those rides. Weird feelings.
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Yeah, it can get pretty weird especially the further north you go, back in the hollows and mountains are some strange people, home sweet home:\.

Funny part is I get sketched out in central and northern Pennsylvania, get that exact same "something just doesn't feel right" thing. Been through that region several times and always get the willies, wonder what's going on back in those woods, then again I kinda don't want to know
 
Honestly I haven't been really disturbed by anything in fiction (film or text) in years.

Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer would probably be tops for me. There were just a few scenes that really got to me, like the one where the one killer snaps the girl's neck and then waves her hand at the rolling camera, or the scene at the end where the guy gets stabbed in the eye.

Other than that, what disturbs me most are all these documentaries coming out lately about how totally fucked America is as a country, the whole "collapse of Western civilization" niche. I think that's a different kind of disturbed than what OP is talking about though. I'm always left with this feeling of "oh God, even if I play my cards right it doesn't matter because society is falling apart and I'll be dragged down with it!"
 
MrGrunge said:
^ It's cool on lots and lots of drugs, but I'd have a hard time sitting through it sober.
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Agreed. Despite the fact that I really appreciated the director's willingness to dwell on some of the more arcane aspects of horror film atmospherics -- sometimes quite effectively -- I couldn't help but think a better setting for most people to encounter the film than alone in their living rooms while sober would be in a small cushy backroom at a dimly lit strobe-heavy psychedelic Halloween party where the people who've taken too much ketamine go to chill, or maybe seen displayed more prominently up front by guests who can still feel their bodies on one of a bank of muted dusty old TV sets playing looped select cuts from it among others from Beyond the Black Rainbow and Pop Skull.
 
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RedLeader said:
Martyrs

Okay, this one gets pretty gory, which bothers me a lot more than the sexual depravity typical to the other ones I've been watching. I thought that it was a pretty good movie overall, just that the "bad guys" were very underdeveloped and the plot had a few minor holes/things that were never explained. I get what they were trying to do, and it's a pretty disturbing premise, but it could have been make much more (psychologically) bothering if certain things were better developed. The lead girl is an amazing actress and rather attractive (well, at least in the first half).
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^----- This

Out of all the fucked up movies I have seen which 90% of them listed here, this is the one that had the greatest impact on me personally.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029234/
 
I know some people might think this is lame but Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween really affected me. I was really high when I watched it too, so my mind was nice and open for the fucked up imagery to be seared into my brain forever.
 
@phatass:

Well, this isn't the "enjoyable or entertaining" disturbing movies thread, but I dug up my thoughts on the prospect of seeing the film from earlier in this thread and I see that I came away with a similar impression.
I don't think I'll be seeing A Serbian Film. The idea of the director's, that it's about how the Serbian government "fucks its citizens from birth to death," sounds like a big stretch for justifying its reported deviant violent sexual content. If I'm going to be nauseated watching something it better be nausea that provokes at least somewhat justifiable feelings and ideas.
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Does anybody have an intellectual defense for "A Serbian Film" that wriggles out of these suspicions of mine in a way that makes it seem worth a shot? I did find "Martyrs" worthwhile, though I doubt I'll ever watch it again -- if that gives you some idea about what I mean by "worthwhile".

I do love "Blue Velvet," though it's well known enough that it's been quoted on Family Guy, and I've heard random passersby reference lines. I've always thought that a faithful imitation of Dennis Hopper's lines "Mommy baby wants to..." could be very funny if uttered in unexpected public situations such as a lecture hall or funeral. Alas, it hasn't happened for me yet.
 
psood0nym said:
Does anybody have an intellectual defense for "A Serbian Film" that wriggles out of these suspicions of mine in a way that makes it seem worth a shot? I did find "Martyrs" worthwhile, though I doubt I'll ever watch it again -- if that gives you some idea about what I mean by "worthwhile".
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None. A Serbian Film, from a technical standpoint is well-made, but it's still an exploitation film. After hearing about all of the sexual depravity beforehand, I found myself bored to death. Martyrs is legitimately good (although, the antagonists aren't developed very well) so I don't blame you for liking it more than A Serbian Film.

and I've heard random passersby reference lines.
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Let me guess: "Heineken? Fuck that shit! PABST! BLUE! RIBBON!"
 
^Yes indeed, that's the one.

Ok, I'll give A Serbian Film a pass then. I've also been mulling over whether or not its being on Netflix instant warrants me watching Funny Games ...
 
Probably more depressing than disturbing. Still think it's deserving of a mention.

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Well that "Hostel" movie was disturbing but mostly just disgusting.

Not a film as in a Movie but after seeing a video (real mexican drug cartel footage) where a man literally gets his head cut off with a chainsaw... Well "disturbing" films mostly look like an episode of Donald Duck.
 
P.S I do not wish to watch what i think of as "suffering porn" ever.

I think when you're a teenager you have a strong curiosity in all things you were forbidden as a child but really its mostly not emotionally healthy.
 
psood0nym said:
^Yes indeed, that's the one.

Ok, I'll give A Serbian Film a pass then. I've also been mulling over whether or not its being on Netflix instant warrants me watching Funny Games ...
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I kind of enjoyed the first half, but around the time he 'tries' to quit, from then on it became a mess and I didn't like it much anymore and turned it off.
 
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