The most disturbing film you have seen?

[jokergirl]

The worst thing i ever seen in a movie is the scene in Hostel where the girl is hanging upside down and the other woman is under her cutting her with a corn knife and drinking her blood and apparently having a sexual experience over it.

I can take a lot of things but this about did it for me. I couldnt watch it.

I dont do well with any sort of torture scene anyways. I dont like it a bit.

I like horror movies but not gross things.

I am kind of a wimp.

 

[MrGrunge]

^ I didn't find anything redeeming in Hostel, either. I think violence and gore can be effective when used in the proper context, but violence for the sake of violence is just mind-numbing. Movies like Saw and Hostel are not so much movies as vehicles for blood and guts, which I don't particularly care for or find even remotely entertaining.

 

[34-dihydroxyphen]

^ I didn't find anything redeeming in Hostel, either. I think violence and gore can be effective when used in the proper context, but violence for the sake of violence is just mind-numbing. Movies like Saw and Hostel are not so much movies as vehicles for blood and guts, which I don't particularly care for or find even remotely entertaining.

I agree completely with this post. I have never understood how these two franchises were so successful. They were shitty films, but I suppose people would rather see somebodies blood and guts pouring out than an innovative plotline.

 

[piebald]

the whole opening scene to "Irreversible" is really wild...as well as the rape scene with monica bellucci..very very very realistic and the rest of the film is great....

 

[tela]

I've seen the Dnepropetrovsk murder videos, full length, as well as many other underground films and clips recording murders, rapes, torture, and prisoners of war, with victims ranging from children to the elderly, and various manners of death. When I've shown these to other people, their reactions are almost invariably disgust and repulsion, but.. I can't help but laugh. Like, I recall showing my best friends a video of some Russians being held prisoner by a troop of Czech (I think) soldiers. They had the prisoners laying on their stomaches in a line along a stone wall, and were proceeding down the line slowly hacking off heads. And seriously, I could not stop from smiling. I don't think I'm sick. I'm a good guy, stand-up in fact. I'm intelligent and charismatic and I contribute to society. (Forgive my sounding haughty, I am just making a point.) I think it's interesting, too. But honestly, it's more about the suffering and pain. I relish more the sounds the dying make than actually watching the blade do its work. What do you think?

have to admit, this post creeped me out. especially after reading about the Dnepropetrovsk case and those copycat kid murders

 

[jokergirl]

I hate suffering and pain. I'm certain i wouldnt like the sounds the dying would make. The idea of it makes me somewhat sick at my stomach and sad.

Its probably why I didnt like Saw and Hostel. When i see someone about to get chainsawed in a movie, I cant even watch that hardly and i know its fake and just silliness.

If I had to murder someone, God forbid, I would shoot them, in the head. Boom, its over.

I would be utterly incapable of torturing anyone.

 

[3rd_I_blind]

They were shitty films, but I suppose people would rather see somebodies blood and guts pouring out than an innovative plotline.

I would dare to say that the plotline of the original Saw movie was rather innovative.
Hostel was utter shite though, especially the connection with the pretty girls and the torture maffia...

 

[Percodeth]

^^ no doubt i already said Saw and hostel both ill add chain letter as well

 

[lordreven333]

Are you serious that No Country is nothing? Are you solely focused on the 'psychopathic' element? because No Country was one of the best movies in the last decade at LEAST.

If you're looking for straight psychopath movie see American Psycho (if you haven't already which I assume you have).

how many movies have you seen in the last decade ? I have another list of favorite movies those are just what I was looking for .

 

[Kraken]

I've seen the Dnepropetrovsk murder videos, full length, as well as many other underground films and clips recording murders, rapes, torture, and prisoners of war, with victims ranging from children to the elderly, and various manners of death. When I've shown these to other people, their reactions are almost invariably disgust and repulsion, but.. I can't help but laugh. Like, I recall showing my best friends a video of some Russians being held prisoner by a troop of Czech (I think) soldiers. They had the prisoners laying on their stomaches in a line along a stone wall, and were proceeding down the line slowly hacking off heads. And seriously, I could not stop from smiling. I don't think I'm sick. I'm a good guy, stand-up in fact. I'm intelligent and charismatic and I contribute to society. (Forgive my sounding haughty, I am just making a point.) I think it's interesting, too. But honestly, it's more about the suffering and pain. I relish more the sounds the dying make than actually watching the blade do its work. What do you think?

I think... you will find they were Chechen, not Czech. 8)

Seriously, as much as I love watching the most extreme horror I can find, I cannot stand to watch real suffering and murder. I like the fake stuff because it allows your imagination to explore these dark scenarios in a kind of safe environment. It's not that I enjoy the brutality, so much as find the power relationships and psychology of violence fascinating and I guess it disturbs me a little bit too, gets the adrenaline pumping at just a stimulating level. After all, why do people like roller-coasters? It's because it gives them the sensation of being in mortal danger while knowing on another level that they are really safe. It's something hardwired into us: our distant ancestors would have faced violence and peril on a daily basis, it's embedded in our genes, and today - when everything is so safe and sterile - sometimes we need to re-visit those half-forgotten parts of our psyche just to remind ourselves that we're really alive.

But the real stuff... well, I'm just unable to avoid sympathising with the victim to the point that it becomes unwatchable. I just can't stop myself from thinking that out there somewhere, someone's mother or son or sister is sitting there, consumed by the knowledge that their loved one's death is being replayed over and over again, countless times for the puerile kids and fapping perverts. Then I imagine myself in the family member's position and I start to feel sick. But I'm not ashamed of that. It's called empathy. It's the emotion that allows us to form emotional and co-operative bonds with other humans, and ultimately, the emotion that gave rise to the birth of society and was perhaps the greatest evolutionary adaptation in the history of the human race.

 

[draven1321]

The human centipede or red white and blue both cool movies

 

[Tude]

I've seen the Dnepropetrovsk murder videos, full length, as well as many other underground films and clips recording murders, rapes, torture, and prisoners of war, with victims ranging from children to the elderly, and various manners of death. When I've shown these to other people, their reactions are almost invariably disgust and repulsion, but.. I can't help but laugh. Like, I recall showing my best friends a video of some Russians being held prisoner by a troop of Czech (I think) soldiers. They had the prisoners laying on their stomaches in a line along a stone wall, and were proceeding down the line slowly hacking off heads. And seriously, I could not stop from smiling. I don't think I'm sick. I'm a good guy, stand-up in fact. I'm intelligent and charismatic and I contribute to society. (Forgive my sounding haughty, I am just making a point.) I think it's interesting, too. But honestly, it's more about the suffering and pain. I relish more the sounds the dying make than actually watching the blade do its work. What do you think?

You're a sick fuck.

As far as disturbing movies I've seen, American History X is up there.

 

[Carl Landrover]

^
I try not to judge, but I got to agree with Tude.

But the real stuff... well, I'm just unable to avoid sympathising with the victim to the point that it becomes unwatchable. I just can't stop myself from thinking that out there somewhere, someone's mother or son or sister is sitting there, consumed by the knowledge that their loved one's death is being replayed over and over again, countless times for the puerile kids and fapping perverts. Then I imagine myself in the family member's position and I start to feel sick. But I'm not ashamed of that. It's called empathy. It's the emotion that allows us to form emotional and co-operative bonds with other humans, and ultimately, the emotion that gave rise to the birth of society and was perhaps the greatest evolutionary adaptation in the history of the human race.

This is exactly how I feel. I just keep putting myself in the persons place. It'll sometimes make me dizzy.

I watch Tosh.0, but I have a hard time watching the videos he shows where people get hurt. Likewise, I don't like or understand the attitude on shows like Ridiculousness, that new one on MTV. I don't think videos of people getting hurt are funny. It bothers me how people will watch some of the videos where people will be seriously, if not fatally, injured and they'll laugh and make stupid jokes, "LOL maybe he'll have better moves in his wheelchair".

 

[captainballs]

serbian film was pretty grand. It's hard to describe the plot to people without them immediately realizing that it's going to be fucked up as hell. "So, there's an aging porn star and he gets offered a lot of money to be in one last movie. He gets there, and it turns out that the movie is really fucked up, so he tries to leave. Little does he know, they gave him drugs that mimic the effects of viagra for bulls and pcp. When the drugs kick in, he is made to do horrible things that get worse and worse for the movie.'

 

[gaktattack]

The japanese film Audition.

The ending is one of the craziest torture scenes I have seen.

 

[MrGrunge]

^ In addition to that, though, Audition is just a really good movie.

 

[gaktattack]

Was it really a commentary on how japanese men view women? And his imagination gets the best of him after idealizing her?

 

[psychomimetic]

I'm not really into horror films or anything, but I don't think I've seen a more fucked up movie then Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom. It's about wealthy fascists in Italy who kidnap a bunch of young people and torture them physically, sexually and mentally for 120 days. It's based on the book by the Marquis De Sade but set in fascist Italy as a commentary on the time period. It's very good but very disturbing, I watched it once and probably won't ever watch it again.

I just recently watched Gommorah, about the Italian mob, which is a pretty disturbing movie for me in many ways.

Both of those are movies that I think use disturbing imagery and subject matter to further the message of the film. Movies that have gratuitous scenes of violence and torture seem boring and stupid to me. Watching scenes of torture is difficult and unpleasant for me so I really wouldn't want to do so without gaining something positive from it.

 

[MrGrunge]

Was it really a commentary on how japanese men view women? And his imagination gets the best of him after idealizing her?

The Japanese have some pretty strange views regarding women, but I don't think it was meant to be especially misogynistic (at least by Japanese standards).

 

[Flickering]

I'm sure someone's said it, but, Requiem for a Dream. The whole last third of that movie was like a non-stop bad trip just watching it. It made me scared all over again of what'll happen if I fuck my brain up on psychedelics, even though they were on heroin and speed.

A lesser known film is Mysterious Skin. The whole thing is about two guys who were molested as children, and how badly it fucked them up. There was a lot of seriously disturbing shit in that film.

I watched Starship Troopers when I was seven, so I'm gonna toss that in there for sheer trauma factor.

I'm sure there are others, can't think of them right now.