Most DISTURBING movie you have ever seen?

[bravojohnny]

Most disturbing............. Spice Girls The Movie. I'm sorry but they're back now and so is the fear *looks around in sheer paranoia while rocking in the corner*

On a more serious note Eye For An Eye. Imagine being on the phone to your daughter while she's being raped and murdered (shudder)
Also Saw freaked me out. I haven't seen Irreversible but I hear it's pretty gruesome.

 

[henderson98]

there are four
use.

Saw
again horrible acting
the blonde guy was just laughable
his acting was SO overblown the whole
theater was in tears from laughing so much

The theater i was in was laughing to. At more than one time. So that movie didnt really have any sort of impact. It had an alright story though. The blonde guy is normally a great actor but he just couldnt get it right in that film. LOL!

 

[henderson98]

NO ONE MENTIONED HAPPINESS!

Todd Solondz is so amazing. He did Welcome to the Dollhouse as well.
Okay. I'll start with Dollhouse. Heater Matarazzo stars as Dawn Weiner, a Jr High student in suburban Jersey. She is tortured by fellow classmates all the time.
Scene: Dawn sits down in the cafeteria by a loner girl. A group of cheerleaders come up to the table, laughing.
Cheerleader: "Dawn, we were wondering - are you a lesbian?"
Dawn: "No."
Loner Girl: "She's lying. She just made a pass at me."
Cheerleaders, laughing: "LESBO! LESBO! LESBO!"

Scene: Dawn tells her teacher that a boy in her class (Brendon Sexton III) is trying to cheat off her test. He corners her in the hallway.
Brandon: "Yo Weiner, you better get ready, 'cause at three o' clock today, I'm gonna RAPE you!"

Yeah. Todd Solondz also did Happiness a few years later. My jaw was on the floor by the time it was over.
A father stops at a convenience store on his way home from work. He's looking at the Teen Beat magazines. I thought he had a daughter and was picking one up for her. Oh, how I gasped when he got in the backseat of his car and began masturbating to the pages of underage boys.

He has a conversation with his 10-year-old son Billy toward the end of the film:
Billy: "Dad?"
Dad: "Yes, Billy?"
Billy: "Everyone at school is saying things about you."
Dad: "Who is everyone?"
Billy: "Kids, you know. Everyone."
Dad: "What are they saying?"
Billy: "That... you're a... serial rapist. And a pervert."
Dad: "You mean, like what they painted on the house?"
Billy: "Dad, did you, um... uh... with... Johnny Grasso and Ronald Farber?"
[His father raped his two friends: Johnny, when he spent the night at Billy's house, and Ronald, when Ronald's parents left him home alone for the weekend.]
Dad: "Yes."
Billy: "What... did you do?"
Dad: "I touched them."
Billy: "What do you mean, exactly, touched?"
Dad: "I fondled them."
Billy: "What for?"
Dad: "I couldn't help myself."
Billy: "What else?"
Dad: "I... I unzipped myself."
Billy: "You... you mean, masturbated?"
Dad: "No."
Billy: "Then what?"
Dad: "I... made love."
Billy: "What do you mean?"
Dad: "I fucked them."
Billy: "What was it like?"
Dad: "It was... it was great."
Billy, crying: "Would you do it again?"
Dad, crying as well: "Yes."
Billy: "Would... would you ever... fuck me?"
Dad: "No. I'd jerk off instead."

Yeah. I quoted that exactly from the DVD. I was in tears by the end of that conversation.
So, that's the most disturbing film I've seen.
I want to see Ken Park, Irreversible, and Araki's earlier stuff (Nowhere and Totally Fucked Up).

Another two films that made me close my eyes because I was so freaked out were David Lynch's Lost Highway (the scenes involving Robert Blake) and Mulholland Drive (that bum behind the diner made me cry).

OMG! Welcome to the Dollhouse was halarious. Poor kid. HAPPINESS wasnt disturbing for me, it was just morbid but in a funny way. LOL

 

[imbigtoo]

Vanilla Sky!

Tom Cruise and his sister Penelope neither one can act and it was just a terrible terrible thing to sit and watch - when Penelope said the line " I am the Gato" and then made a bad growl - that did it for me - and Tom Cruise - I liked him when he was young, but now that he is older and so much more arrogant, and he makes the same face no matter what emotion he is trying to do.

 

[henderson98]

Heavenly Creatures: (Based on a true story) Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge. This is one of Peter Jackson's earlier pieces. I loved this movie, but disturbed me enough that I would never watch it again. I though Kate Winlet's performance was phenomenal and I was disappointed to see Zanie Lynskey's career flop, because I think she is great. I remember when I saw the climax to the film, I almost threw up, it is just so raw, graphic and sad.

Superb film. The ending really disturbed me. Strong performances.

 

[bobobo]

Henderson,

First off, YOU are disturbing---ly hot! It's a good thing I don't live near you or I'd be embarrassing myself and annoying the hell out of you.

Back to topic:

I thought both Matt Damon in Ripley and Kevin Bacon in The Woodsman deserved Oscars for their ability to make intrinsically unsavory characters sympathetic. Have you seen The Woodsman? It's draining.

BTW, did you see the other two I mentioned City of God and Gerry, or have you met anyone who has, or heard of anyone who met someone who has? They weren't big at the box office to say the least.

bobobo

 

[hella]

OMG! Welcome to the Dollhouse was halarious. Poor kid. HAPPINESS wasnt disturbing for me, it was just morbid but in a funny way. LOL

In Solondz's new film, Palindromes, the main character goes to Ben Franklin Jr High as well, and over the intercom they say that Dawn Weiner killed herself.
I thought it was hilarious as well. It just irked me a little because I was in Jr High when I saw it, and kids were exactly like that.
Yeah. I didn't find Happiness funny really at all. I love it to death, but not because it's funny. I do enjoy Philip Seymour Hoffman in his underwear, though. Hottie.

 

[3nipples]

I stayed for the second feature in a revue theater clled the Roxy. I was pretty stoned and didn't notice the place had filled up with bikers. The film was "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", but I snuck out whille the bikers were all cheering the first gory scene.

 

[Andreus]

Drew,

Disturbing yes. But outstanding film making - totally. Creative, inventive, bizarre, crass, crude, sensitive. Brilliant performances and great art direction and fine, fine directing.

Absolutely outstanding film making.

The way the sets changed color, and Dame Hellens dress...

anyway ... It was phenomenal.

But all disturbing films need to be inspired by tallent. Anyone can make disgusting imagery. To make a film that has a psychological effect on it's viewers....

Thats raising the artform to a level of Surealism reminiscent of Dali.

This film did that.

 

[hella]

this is weird but Jeepers Creepers is disturbing to me the basement of the church is freaky like 300 bodies are on the ceiling + when the guy is dying in the begining in the sheets.Also when they drive by an he's staring at them (i once had a dark figure stand outside my bedroom window then i called the cops b/c he was there when i went to sleep after work,then went i woke up

But Jeepers Creepers 2 was hilarious.
I almost peed my pants when the monster licked the back window.

 

[mike_n_herrin]

OMG i'm so glad someone reminded me of "28 Days Later." UGGG i bought this DVD before i saw it. Thinking it was just a neat sci fi/thriller. It was vulger and disgusting...to me anyway. It now sits behind all my other DVDs so i don't even have to see it. eeewww chills man just chills me.

and henderson...this thread took is just cook'n!

 

[GL]

Okay... here goes.

The Fly (1986) -The first movie I was ever physically sick to. I almost lost my lunch.
A Clockwork Orange -Violent, disturbing, engrossing. I was mortified by the rape scene. Brilliant movie though.
Night of the Living Dead (1968) -I think that it was shot in black in white with odd camera angles and focus... It still creeps me out to this day.
The Blair Witch Project -I saw this movie early on, shortly after it opened. The build up was something else. I jumped out of my seat with the ending. I was rather unsettled for a bit thereafter.
Schindler's List -I only needed to see it once and it was all I could take. It's not like the other films in that they were entertainment. This stuff actually happened. That was and is very disturbing to me.

 

[quasar]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre REALLY disturbed me....I had dreams that wouldn't go for a couple of weeks.

 

[SomethingBlue]

As far as the "freak you out of your gourd" disturbing, try Cube. It's a weird indie film which I will not attempt to describe, except to say that it will fuck with your head. http://imdb.com/title/tt0123755/

I second the Blair Witch Project, which I was internally hating on until the very end, and then I was like, "Holy crap, I peed myself!" The funny thing about that is that I saw it in the theatre, and I went to the restroom afterwards and all these little teenage girls were like "I don't get it? What happened? Where was the one guy? Huh?" I was laughing.

 

[some_person]

Wow. You guys got ALL of the ones I was going to say. As I was reading though people's posts, I had a list in my head of movies I would name. After I got to the sixth page, my list was reduced down to one movie.

Batoru rowaiaru (2000) also known as Battle Royale.
Grade Nine Students are decieved and taken to a deserted island with food and arms, and are given three days to kill each other. This goes on until there is only one person left standing, and they are used as an example for the rest of the population. This is all a plot formed by the Japanese government in order to regain control of the teenage population.

 

[buzzj]

For me it has to be "Trainspotting." henderson98, what a great idea for a thread!

 

[Corkles]

The most disturbing movie that I have ever seen I my entire life is a movie that I cannot remember the title of.

It was about this German family (mother,father,and young son) who go to their vacation house in the country. Once there,the come across two male drifters who are initially very friendly with the family (I remember one was very skinny and the other guy was a bit chubby. They both wore all white polo shirts and white shorts),but eventually they start mentally torturing them.

They shoot the father in the knee caps,and tie up the mother and son and play mental games with them. They ripped the mom's clothes off in front of the little boy and force him to watch.

At one point the little boy escapes to an abandoned house next door and you really think he is going to escape and get help but they catch him.

They then bring him back to the house and tie him up and force he and his mother to watch as they play Russian Roulette with the father. They eventually kill the father by shooting him through the head.

Then they start to torture the son and make the mother watch and they shoot him in the back of the head when he tries to run away.

After this they decide to take the family's boat (the house was near a lake) to find another family to torture. Then the mother tries to wriggle free from the ropes and they shoot her in the face,throw her body overboard and laugh hysterically.

The movie ends as the boat pulls to shore and the two guys knock on the door of another unsuspecting family.

I saw this movie a few times on The Sundance channel and I cannot remember the name of it!!

I asked Corny,but it didn't sound familiar to him...

Has anyone here seen it?????

 

[henderson98]

The most disturbing movie that I have ever seen I my entire life is a movie that I cannot remember the title of.

It was about this German family (mother,father,and young son) who go to their vacation house in the country. Once there,the come across two male drifters who are initially very friendly with the family (I remember one was very skinny and the other guy was a bit chubby. They both wore all white polo shirts and white shorts),but eventually they start mentally torturing them.

They shoot the father in the knee caps,and tie up the mother and son and play mental games with them. They ripped the mom's clothes off in front of the little boy and force him to watch.

At one point the little boy escapes to an abandoned house next door and you really think he is going to escape and get help but they catch him.

They then bring him back to the house and tie him up and force he and his mother to watch as they play Russian Roulette with the father. They eventually kill the father by shooting him through the head.

Then they start to torture the son and make the mother watch and they shoot him in the back of the head when he tries to run away.

After this they decide to take the family's boat (the house was near a lake) to find another family to torture. Then the mother tries to wriggle free from the ropes and they shoot her in the face,throw her body overboard and laugh hysterically.

The movie ends as the boat pulls to shore and the two guys knock on the door of another unsuspecting family.

I saw this movie a few times on The Sundance channel and I cannot remember the name of it!!

I asked Corny,but it didn't sound familiar to him...

Has anyone here seen it?????

what a fucking sick movie. WHAT is the point on wasting money to even create a film like this?

 

[dynk]

All good choices. Clockwork Orange freaked me out as I first saw it as a young teenager. But the movie that I really found disturbing as a teen was: "EQUUS" Richard Burton was great in it, and I love the film now that I am older. I am surprised no one mentioned it as yet.

 

[irish1]

All-time most disturbing for me: SEVEN

Others over which I have lost sleep (and been unnerved):

Fargo
Whatever happened to Baby Jane?
Silence of the Lambs
Harold and Maude
Blue Velvet
Le Boucher

I have learned that I prefer to be entertained by a movie, not thrust into turmoil. I want to see "Monster-in-Law"; Jane Fonda and Jennifer Lopez don't engender fear in me