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The most disturbing film you have seen?

Men Behind the Sun was really heavy, it's about the Japanese camps in China during the second World War. I believe the movie was actually produced by the Chinese government and is showing in an Auschwitz-like museum somewhere in China. The first fifteen minutes after watching were spend on the couch in fetal position.

Irréversible by Gaspar Noé also gets a piece of the cake. I must say all films I have seen by Noé are disturbing, but Irréversible really left me speechless. It's so wickedly intriguing that the reverse order of all scenes seem to give this film a happy end.

Shutter Island was also quite disturbing, especially since I am doing a research project with chlorpromazine at the moment. (NSFW because of possible spoiler)
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I think it is most disturbing in really capturing the paranoid and delusional nature of psychosis.

Last one that's worth mentioning is Cannibal Holocaust. It's a real underground snuff-type movie about a group of 'researchers' going into the Amazone to make a documentary about cannibals. The (Italian) director actually got sued on a quintiple murder case and had to prove that the actors were still alive in order to avoid a life sentence.

Other disturbing movies that are probably already mentioned: Jacob's Ladder, The Machinist, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, La Haine, Requiem for a Dream.
 
Violenza666 said:
My dad is returning to vietnam for the first time since the war.. this febuary. He killed alot of people there. He's completely fucked in the head now. He is not capable of showing emotions. He tells me he loves me by buying me a car or something. The movies never disturbed me though I had to watch them from a young age on.
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i'm so sorry for both you and your dad. imo, everything about vietnam was so wrong.
i don't know how any 18 yr old boy who grew up being taught killing another person is wrong, a sin, w/e then goes to 6, 8 weeks of boot camp, gets shipped to a jungle on the other side of the world to kill other humans, "the enemy." and then if lucky enough to live through it and get back home, people screamed "baby killer" and spit on them. how the fuck does a person get their head wrapped around all that very wrong shit and not be batshit fuckin' crazy?
i was just a little kid but have very vivid memories of walter cronkite reporting the body counts every night on the 6pm news. i remember family members and friends of family coming to my parents' house to say goodbye then a few months later going to their funerals. i went to more funerals by age 10 than i have in the 35 years since it ended in '75.
so many people continue to be very negatively impacted by what happened there and what happened here when they came home. i am so sorry that you were cheated out of the father you should have had and so sorry your dad couldn't be who he might have been for himself and for your whole family. just breaks my heart cuz it's still not over and now another generation is suffering and being ripped apart because of this current war.
sorry, didn't mean to get off topic. in films or otherwise, war disturbs me very much.
-izzy
 
1. 120 Days of Sodom. I loved it, but I like sick and freaky stuff. Lots of nudity and rape and all.

2. Cannibal Holocaust. Pretty much what everyone else said. Note: While there is real animal killing, which I am not a fan of at all, the DVD gives you the option to watch it without the animal cruelty. And it's still a great horror flick without.

3. Freaks, from the 1930's . As someone else said, it's oldness adds to the creepiness.
 
inside, violence and a pregnant woman :X:(
and the second episode of the japanese series guinea pig.

oh and the fine little movie aftermath about necrophilia :\
 
Re Violenza:
I wish your father a safe trip and the best of luck; by most accounts, vets who've returned to Vietnam report finding some kind of closure, made better by the fact that the Vietnamese are famously magnanimous toward Americans.
 
Hey, people who wanna think "whatthefuck!" when the are watching a movie, check out DogTooth on Netflix Instant. It is actually a pretty quality film, but I still suggest watching with beer and friends. Whenever it was doing it's film festival thing, I watched it with a theater audience of mostly drunk students. very fun.
 
A serbian film is not that bad tbh, a film where a man kills another man by sticking his dick in his eye socket is funny in my opinion.

I just watched Martyrs and it was probably one of the hardest things to watch, nothing has disturbed me as much as it did, made me feel physically sick.
 
Swerlz said:
this movie is banned in several countries =D

gore in 3. . 2. . . 1. . .

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what movie is this?
 
For some reason i found The Road to be quite disturbing, the bleak depressing post-apocalyptic feel it had the entire way through, coupled with some very atmospheric and raw cannibalism scenes left me feeling quite 'disturbed' by what i just watched.

But at the same time i found it interesting because i could see some of these circumstance's unfolding if the human race were to end up in a post-apocalyptic world, it would be back to natural selection, primitive behavior and extreme measures for survival.
 
silentangst said:
They killed all the animals, that's why I won't watch it.
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Don't you think that's the wrong kind of principle? It has been stressed quite often in discussions about this film, that those animals would have been eaten either way, by the indigenous inhabitants of the jungle. Filming the actual killing of the animals is just exploring the artistic limits of film-making. If someone shooting a documentary on the treatment of slaughter animals were to film inside a slaughterhouse, there would be a lot less fuss about the actual filming of killing an animal. But when it's in the jungle, the animal has had a decent life and is killed in a way that animals have been killed for 20,000 years, some people feel the need to make a statement...
 
malakaix said:
For some reason i found The Road to be quite disturbing, the bleak depressing post-apocalyptic feel it had the entire way through, coupled with some very atmospheric and raw cannibalism scenes left me feeling quite 'disturbed' by what i just watched.

But at the same time i found it interesting because i could see some of these circumstance's unfolding if the human race were to end up in a post-apocalyptic world, it would be back to natural selection, primitive behavior and extreme measures for survival.
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I can relate to what you are saying. I thought the movie was brilliant, especially visually, but I was profoundly sad after it was over, and not just because of what happened at the end. I thought the constant friction between the son and his father over whether to help others or not was quite fascinating, and I would imagine there are a large number of morals and ethics that can get compromised in that state of affairs. I could see a lot of very good people turning hard in those circumstances, particularly when they have children to protect.
 
3rd_I_blind said:
Don't you think that's the wrong kind of principle? It has been stressed quite often in discussions about this film, that those animals would have been eaten either way, by the indigenous inhabitants of the jungle. Filming the actual killing of the animals is just exploring the artistic limits of film-making. If someone shooting a documentary on the treatment of slaughter animals were to film inside a slaughterhouse, there would be a lot less fuss about the actual filming of killing an animal. But when it's in the jungle, the animal has had a decent life and is killed in a way that animals have been killed for 20,000 years, some people feel the need to make a statement...
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Hmm, if you were going to kill a coatimundi for eating would you grip it in your hand, turn it stomach side up, and repeatedly stab it's guts while it screamed in pained horror at your torture over 10-plus seconds? If you wanted to eat a pig, would you chase it around kicking the shit out of it before you blew its snout off with a shotgun? If you wanted to eat a monkey, would you slice off its face with a machete while it struggled against the sawing motion, and then suck out it's brains?

Independently of the sadistic torture of animals for our dollars, Cannibal Holocaust is an unjustifiable film. All it has going for it is shock, and I guess gore effects of high quality given the time and budget. I can't fathom why that's enough for so many to regard it as eminently disturbing.

There's the generic quote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" at the beginning, and the monotonically delivered question "Who are the real cannibals" at the end after the footage is screened. That's the extent of its "artistic" statement. That's what fans accept as its warrant. It's attempts to be more than exploitation are totally insincere, generic, and tagged on awkwardly. I was expecting something well-acted and psychologically brutal to give impact to the depictions of violence, something deserving of its singular status, but I got something desperate and clumsily crafted. I resent the film for more than the needless animal cruelty -- more because it inexplicably survives on its reputation because people like to be able to impress or freak out their friends by saying they've hunted down and watched the legend. I resent it because it cheats viewers looking to be challenged when fundamentally it's no different than the other forgotten trash from the 70s.
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If you want disturbing watch "Come and See". It's about the Nazi massacres of Russian villages during WWII. The lead actor is a 14 year old boy who was reportedly hypnotized to believe the atrocities happening around him were real. It's a very dark, sometimes surreal, extremely serious film. The director actually grew up witnessing the slaughters depicted, and had to flee his home. Unlike Cannibal Holocaust the disturbing depictions are sincere and have a point. In my view that's what makes a film genuinely disturbing. If it doesn't have that it's merely a display of cynical half-assed opportunism by the filmmakers.
 
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