What do you think is the most disturbing movie?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

My husband is watching "The Hills Have Eyes" in the other the room...It's apparently the premiere tonight on HBO. Is it just me or is this one of the most disturbing movies EVER made?
What is your pick?
Duckie

[Deja Q]

1. Gladiator.

I know the Roman empire and its games were brutal; but this shallow hack of a writer had no choice but to put in as much gruesome bits as possible to help compensate for, amongst other things, the piss poor plot pacing. (The 'writer' is, of course, John Logan. Everything he's written is toddler scribble, which needs good special effects to prop his garbage up)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

4. I would agree..

It wasn't that great of a movie, but if the critics are paid enough to hype something, the Oscar sheep follow. The Oscars mean NOTHING anymore.
Duckie

[unpossibles]

89. I liked Gladiator

it wasn't Amelie by any means, but I liked the way it was done. The story is a retelling, isn't it? I forget the name of the older movie, but it's practically a remake.

[yurbud]

119. I saw Spartacus at a young age and it still seemed more brutal than Gladiator

because it caught the emotion, humiliation, and that sequence when he fights Woody Strode, and the outcome is light years beyond a piece of hackwork like Gladiator.

Anybody who liked Gladiator should watch Spartacus as penance for their lack of taste.

[swag]

2. Haven't seen the remake, but the original "The Hills Have Eyes"

is pretty disturbing, especially when the pluck ol', smokin' Bob off that burned cross and his wife is screaming, "That's not my Bob! That's not my Bob!"

"I Spit on Your Grave" is pretty bad too, especially that protracted rape scene. Her revenge on her rapists is pretty bad also, even though gratifying in a way.

"Night and Fog" is extremely disturbing.

[AlCzervik]

41. watching the remake now, the trailer scene just finished long with smoking bob

my god---i'll be sleeping with the night light on.

[AlCzervik]

3. i'm going to be watching that at 8:00 my time, does he think it's good?

i have 3 beers left that i'm saving for it, if it sucks i'll start drinking them now.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. We saw it in the theatre when it came out.

It was disturbing and freaky then. It's not a bad movie...but it is disturbing as hell. Terrified the hell out of me. The desert. One more place I no longer feel safe.
Duckie

[AlCzervik]

8. ok, saving beer until 8:00 except this one.

[NightWatcher]

5. The original Exorcist gave me the creeps for years

and Psycho made me get clear shower curtains (to this day)

[AlCzervik]

7. the Exorcist is my all time scariest movie, i wouldn't want a copy of that in my house.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

10. We have a copy of the prequel and The Exorcism of Emily Rose...

They are terrifying...
I'd have The original Exorcist, but I can't find it.
Duckie

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. My mom refuses to take showers because of it.

She washes her hair in the kitchen sink and takes baths. She always leaves the door open in the bathroom, too, while she's showering.
The Exorcist gave me wiggings too. Gives me wiggings just thinking about it.
Duckie

[Danger Mouse]

11. Jacob's Ladder

Inspired the Silent Hill games. Incredibly, incredibly, INCREDIBLY disturbing movie :(
...the ending was great tho...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

12. Sounds like one to see...

I loved the Silent Hill movie. Disturbing as hell.
Duckie

[Danger Mouse]

16. Here's perhaps the most famous scene from the movie, if you're interested.

Someone on YouTube inserted music from the first Silent Hill game, and it is sickeningly appropriate :D
Obviously, you might not want to watch it if you don't want to spoil any of the movie, or if you don't want to give yourself nightmares ^_^

[YellowRubberDuckie]

19. Did you mean to post a link?

[Danger Mouse]

20. OOps...now with link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCZN60mBeaQ
watch at your own peril :D

[YellowRubberDuckie]

84. We just added it to our Netflix cue....

Damn, it looks awesome.
Duckie

[Danger Mouse]

132. Hope you enjoy it.

See if you can spot a cameo by Lewis Black :D

[AlCzervik]

15. oh yeah, the end of Jacob's ladder---yikes.

[ghostsofgiants]

56. SUCH a good film.

:thumbsup:

[TimeChaser]

165. Hmmm...

I'm really bad when it comes to horror movies, but I might have to check this out if it inspired Silent Hill. My roommates and I are working through the 3rd game now :hi:

[volstork]

180. What I refer to as

a "haldol" flick
so VERY disturbing-- it still creeps me out to think about it!

[acmavm]

13. Clockwork Orange

[zingaro]

49. Yes. I cannot even sit through this entire movie.

[Kutjara]

54. What's most disturbing about it...

...is that, every year, bit by bit, it's becoming less of a movie and more of a fly-on-the-wall documentary of our society.

[Maine-ah]

138. got my vote.

[flvegan]

14. Most disturbing movie? The Devil's Rejects, though I love it.

Most disturbing moving picture?
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=meet_your_meat

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. I love that movie...

It's so fucked up...
Have you seen that Rob Zombie has remade Halloween? It focuses more on the story of Michael as a boy. It looks really great.
Duckie

[flvegan]

21. I can't wait for Zombie's Halloween

He's easily my favorite director right now.

I actually saw Rejects before House, so I was a little backwards on the story. To be honest, I'd have loved to see Zombie do the Texas Chainsaw Massacre over. That would've been dope.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

23. I HATED House of a 1000 corpses...

It was terrible and I thought it would never end... Definitely his first movie. He's learned a lot since then and is much better.
Duckie

[flvegan]

30. No,it's much better if you watch it

after Rejects. I, personally, appreciated it more as a "first effort" after seeing the masterpiece that Rejects was.

He has grown, is much better, and hence...I look forward to his Halloween...

[ghostsofgiants]

58. The Devil's Rejects is quite good.

[Guava Jelly]

18. Crash

I hated it and loved it at the same time.
Yet I never want to see it again.

[Rhythm]

51. which "Crash"?

The Cronenberg-directed one about sex and car accidents, or the one that came out in 2004 that had Sandra Bullock in it?

The first one i've seen... the second one not yet.

[Guava Jelly]

69. 2004 crash

:)

[RiffRandell]

22. American History X---Warning Graphic

I can't get the scene out of my mind when Ed Norton stomps on the guy's open jaw on the curb.

It is so disturbing to me.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

24. It has a really good message though...

He changes from being an asshole Nazi to being a pretty decent guy.
Duckie

[rockymountaindem]

25. At least that's a quick death

Unlike certain other movie deaths I've seen... i.e. Braveheart etc.

[Rhythm]

73. My sociology prof made reference to that one (and that scene in particular) in...

class a few days ago...

I think i was the only one who'd seen it.
All the others looked visibly ill just thinking about it.

[yurbud]

115. that made my teeth hurt as soon as he told the guy put his mouth on the curb.

[hippywife]

26. The original Wickerman.

Haven't seen the remake and probably won't. :scared:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

27. That looks freaky.

I love me some Nic Cage though. I'll probably watch that when it comes on HBO or Starz.
Duckie

[hippywife]

28. I was in the mood for a spooky movie

and rented the original based on the rec of DU Loungers (it was about the time that the remake came out and everyone raved about the original.)

Last time I see a movie based on the Lounge's recommendation.

[MadMaddie]

110. Worst movie ever....and loved Cage before this version of the movie

Don't waste your time or money on the remake it is awful.

[tigereye]

192. the original was incredibly creepy

the remake didn't seem as intense...

[Critters2]

29. A Clockwork Orange

:scared:

[anti-everything]

43. One of my favorites

[Generic Brad]

31. The French Connection

The only people who got screwed over were the good guys.

[hyphenate]

94. The scenes of Hackman

getting addicted to heroin were definitely disturbing. It does show that Hackman is a great actor.

[rug]

32. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - 1974

[YellowRubberDuckie]

74. Wonderful choice.

My Brother in law and his live in have a full sized replica of Leatherface with his chainsaw on the landing into their theatre/horror room in their house. When you walk past it, the chainsaw sounds go off and it moves up and down. It's freaking terrifying, if you don't know it moves.
Duckie

[martymar64]

181. The original location of the house is about 3 miles away from my place.

It's about the only vacant piece of land in that area, the freeway runs right next to it and the rest of the surrounding area is completely developed. The house was moved to another town and turned into a restaraunt (!)

[GenDem]

133. After seeing that -- no more horror/slasher movies for me

It fucked me up enough to pretty much keep me away from this genre all together.

[cemaphonic]

33. The Tenant

Weird Polanski movie that is not at all gruesome or violent, but is just paranoid and icky in its subtle, insidious way. Plus, Polanski's twisted sense of humor is in full flower here.

[ghostsofgiants]

61. Creepy film.

Good stuff.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

174. That's at the top of my list

I can't exactly put a finger on it, but it just draws you in (to a bad place).

[Left Is Write]

34. Motel Hell.

Okay, not really. It's too campy to be all that disturbing.

I'll have to think about it. I'm not that easily disturbed by movies.

[Broken_Hero]

35. The Sound of Music....nt

[yurbud]

116. yeah, what kind of woman marries Christopher Plummer?

He always looks like a psycho to me.

[Broken_Hero]

142. To be honest, in the interest of self-disclosure,

I've never seen the movie...but the previews that I have seen, have scared the holy bejesus out of me....

Other than this..in a more thought provoking answer, my choice would be Jaws...that movie changed my entire outlook on life/water.....

[yurbud]

157. I've loved watersports of all kind all my life, but ever since Jaws, I get a little creeped out

even in deep lakes.

I have dreams about a shark following me in the water when I'm walking on the beach.

[GRLMGC]

36. Audition

What a fucked up movie that is.

[ghostsofgiants]

59. Check out Visitor Q by the same director.

And Ichii the Killer (also by Miike), which I couldn't even watch because it was so gory, haha.

Miike is just a crazy motherfucker. Though his short Box is one of the most beautifully haunting films I've ever seen.

[martymar64]

183. Try Tetsuo the Iron Man by tsukomoto

That movie will mess you up for life . . .

[ghostsofgiants]

189. I've been meaning to actually, but haven't gotten around to it.

On the topic of messed up Asian films, have you seen Old Boy?

[martymar64]

198. Old Boy is pretty twisted

Cutting off one's tongue is a little extreme, que no?

[yurbud]

114. kih-tee, kih-tee, kih-tee

that one made me jump out of my skin, and it wasn't as much graphic as suggestive.

[volstork]

182. I completely agree

I rented it thinking it would be interesting (the premise is fascinating), but the piano wire almost made me vomit.....

[anti-everything]

37. Caligula

Possibly the most depraved movie of all time

[GRLMGC]

38. Agreed

Although that thumb dance Caligula does in the rain was all kinds of awesome.

[anti-everything]

39. An interesting sidenote about that movie

I made my current girlfriend watch it the first time we ever hung out, and she didn't run screaming. Here we are 5 years later and she's still the one for me.

[GRLMGC]

40. Wow! I'm impressed

That's a hard one to sit through

[anti-everything]

42. She's one in a billion, maybe one in six billion

However, she almost ran screaming when I made her watch Pink Flamingos. But she stuck around.

[GRLMGC]

45. Really. I found Pink Flamingos easier to watch than

Caligula. Still, if she stuck around, she must be pretty cool.

[anti-everything]

48. I found Caligula to be disturbing

as a part of the story they were trying to tell, Pink Flamingos was sick for the sake of being sick. After I saw Caligula, I felt like I needed a shower, after Pink Flamingos, I felt like I needed a shower in carburetor cleaner. Caligula was still the most disturbing though.

[GCP]

95. "Don't Look Now"

Very creepy movie set in Venice with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie.

[Red State Rebel]

131. Wow! I thought I was The only one who saw that on a first date!

I didn't freak, but it was a disturbing movie!!

[yurbud]

112. was that about Bush before he was president?

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

144. that movie made me nauseous

The scene with the giant "lawn mower" that chops people's heads off. The fisting scenes I wasn't too keen on either.:scared:

[Lil Missy]

44. OMG! And it continues to get even more disturbing!

That movie was just sick. And, if I remember right, we noticed a sequel for that movie at Blockbuster one night. We're going to pass on that.

If you want a REALLY BAD movie, check out "Mr Jingles". Must have been made on about a $100 budget too. It was so bad, I lost my movie picking privileges in this house for a while. Terrible movie.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

76. The sequel is currently out in theatres...

There is an old The Hills Have Eyes and there's a sequel to it.
Duckie

[AlCzervik]

46. adding another i just remembered--The tin Drum

hated it and was fascinated it by it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

47. Eraserhead.

and Prince of Darkness.

:scared:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

77. Prince of Darkness....

Is that the true story of Dracula? If not, what is it?
Duckie

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

88. No, it's a really unsettling horror movie about some ancient, evil entity

in a jar in the basement of an abandoned church. Wes Craven directed, I think. It's just schlock horror but it's extraordinarily creepy. I couldn't watch it a second time.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

98. Close...

John Carpenter...I think I'm going to add it to my netflix...I love religious horror.
Duckie

[kedrys]

92. I saw Eraserhead in college

Ran out of the room screaming and have completely blotted it out of my memory. :scared:

[BlueIris]

50. "Dr. T & The Women."

A Texas OB/GYN gets involved with one of his patients. YUCK. And what passes for humor in that one is in really bad taste.

[MonkeyFunk]

52. Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom

by Pasolini. Pretty rough-going.


Edit: I have the 1997 Criterion release of this disc. Turns out it's worth up to $600 - it's very rare, evidently. It was pulled off the market by Criterion for copyright issues, and this particular version is quite collectible!

[datasuspect]

64. i have to agree

the most disturbing movie i've ever seen.

esepcially the "feste di merde" or whatever that one scene was called when they had the banquet of . . . . how shall i say, "delicacies."

good choice.

[Frank Cannon]

82. Oh, God, yes. I forgot about that one.

That movie messed me up for weeks. Thankfully, I've repressed most of what's in it except for the shit banquet.

[Kutjara]

53. "The Hitcher" with Rutger Hauer.

That was one twisted, mean spirited, evil piece of filmmaking. Hauer was about as menacing as a person can be. I felt like I'd been put through a wringer after that movie.

Don't know what the remake with Sean Bean is like. Don't think I can bear to watch it.

[yurbud]

117. how can you remake a movie like that without at least trying to get someone as creepy?

That was a job for Crispin Glover if ever there was one.

[Frank Cannon]

166. Sean Bean as the Hitcher?

Was Clay Aiken not available?

Rutger Hauer is just a naturally scary dude.

[LeftyMom]

55. Earthlings.

I can't even picture anything being more horrible than that. Especially since it's real.

[ghostsofgiants]

57. Visitor Q

Incest, rape, violence, breast milk.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290329/

[Cannikin]

60. Showgirls

[ghostsofgiants]

62. The most disturbing thing about that is that someone greenlighted it.

[rocktivity]

139. That's how I feel about The Bodyguard.

I was smart enough not to have high expectations from Whitney Houston, but SOMEONE should have noticed the total absence of chemistry between her and Kevin Costner and pulled the plug!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Vektor]

145. Self delete - responded to wrong post.

Sorry!

[ghostsofgiants]

146. I beg to differ.

It was an excellent illustration of Durkheim's concept of anomie.

[Vektor]

148. That's fine.

It's an opinion thread, each entitled to their own. The OP asked which movies we found disturbing, I gave my honest opinion, as did everyone else.

I found the movie vapid, and an insult to the intelligence of the viewer. Merely suggesting one should waste their time sitting through its entirety was offensive.

I've seen better and more original illustrations of the "concept of anomie" on The Family Guy.

On edit - I was wondering why you singled me out for criticism - I apparently responded to you instead of the thread.

Sorry! :blush:

[ghostsofgiants]

151. How was it vapid and an insult to the viewer's intelligence?

[Vektor]

153. Again -

This is an opinion thread. Why on earth are you singling me out and arguing with my opinion?

I didn't like the movie, period. In my OPINION, it was completely insipid and a waste of my viewing time. Why? I felt the film was poorly written, the premise way too played out and overused, and the entire movie gratuitous and not at all entertaining. I could go on for paragraphs, but I don't really even care enough about the topic at hand to waste many more keystrokes on it.

If you liked it, fine. It's a waste of your time and mine to try to challenge me as to why I didn't find it worth my time. Go ahead and love the movie if you wish. My not liking it hardly means you cannot.

This entire thread is about movies people didn't like, and dozens of people have weighed in with their opinions. Why are you getting on MY case?

[ghostsofgiants]

160. I'm just asking why, no need to get defensive.

[Vektor]

162. I simply thought it was not a good movie.

I found it uninteresting. Just my opinion. I'm glad you liked it though.

[Evoman]

63. Irreversible.

I could not get the rape scene out of my head for weeks. I hated myself, as a man, after that....ugh. It doesn't help that I was in LOVE with Monica Belluci before I saw that movie, but never saw her the same way after, could never see her as any kind of sex symbol, because that scene comes up in my mind....profoundly life changing for me.

[terrya]

65. "Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer"

[yurbud]

121. watching the videotape of their home invasion...

[NewJeffCT]

66. Fahrenheit 9/11

just the fact that George W. Bush could make an election close enough to steal is disturbing to me.

[sarge43]

67. Se7en and Hannibal.

I know there are far worse, but I'm easily creeped out.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

78. I think Se7en is so freaky because there's a possibility some freak could do those things...

That's what terrified me about it most. The reality.
Duckie

[sarge43]

99. You nailed it, Duckie.

I can handle the impossible horror; the possible ? -- if I wanted that, I'll watch the news.

[jelly]

188. For similar reasons I think it's strange how much Se7en freaked me out.

I mean, it it was "just" a murder mystery movie. Yet, the way the film was put together, such suspense was created that it felt like I was watching a horror/slasher flick.

[querelle]

68. Wolf Creek

An Australian horror film. It starts off really slowly to give you time to get to know and like the characters before they are brutally tortured and murdered. The scene where the young woman has her spine severed haunted me for days.

I highly recommend this film if you like the genre.

Q

[martymar64]

184. You call that a knife?

Now this is a knife! (fingers go flying)

WC was creepy but I really enjoyed it.
Crocodile Dundee reimagined as a serial killer!!!

[malta blue]

70. Kids

Saw it many years ago, am stil disturbed by it.

Unfortunately, it was misplaced in the comedy section of the video store and my roommate came home with it. We did not laugh.

[yurbud]

120. I wanted to kill Telly. That kid is such a good actor that I didn't recognize him later

when he played the college student with cerebral palsy in STORYTELLING.

[gbate]

71. Rosemary's Baby freaked me out for a long time.

[hellbound-liberal]

72. I'll have to go with the Omen. It really left me with a sense of helplessness against overwhelming

evil. I might have agreed with the Exorcist but I read the book first and that blunted the effects of the movie. The book was much more unsettling because the images that I conjured up were worse than Friedkin's. I also think the Texas Chainsaw massacre was pretty spooky. I saw it at a drive-in in the middle of a cow pasture. :scared:

[Ilsa]

176. Me also. Omen III really bugged me.

The guy on fire swinging from the set, the trappist monks rapped by the dogs. The guy under the ice in the second movie bothered me also.

[Rhythm]

75. Blair Witch Project shook me up...

I went with 3 other people, and we were all pretty wired up after seeing that in the theater.

I know that's lame, especially given some of the wild, twisted films that i've seen in my life...
but so be it.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

79. It scared me too...

And it took a lot of convincing for me to go camping after that.
Duckie

[yurbud]

122. that was primal fear--numinous, fear of what's just beyond the light of the fire

like Jaws before they showed the shark.

[jobycom]

152. That flipped a switch in me.

I watched it on video, and missed the point of the ending the first time, so I rewound it and watched it again. I thought, "Hm, clever, but not as bad as I expected."

I woke up the next morning about 2 am, terrified. I turned on the bedside lamp, sure something was going to grab my hand as I did. I was in my thirties, and don't frighten easily, but I slept with the light on for about two weeks. Every night I told myself "This is silly, you know there's nothing there." But I couldn't turn it off.

After two weeks, it went away. It wasn't like I was afraid of anything. I was just afraid. Freakiest reaction I've ever had.

[martymar64]

185. The only thing that disturbed me about Blair Witch

was that my life was robbed of two hours and eight bucks that I will never get back after watching that abortion .

[PeaceNikki]

80. Fahrenheit 9/11

The scene where Gore has to certify the election results shakes me to the core every time.

[deutsey]

81. "Looking for Mr. Goodbar," believe it or not

It's not THE most disturbing movie, perhaps, but the murder scene at the end of it was very unsettling to me.

[deutsey]

85. There was also a foreign movie about the holocaust

I only saw the ending of it, but it haunted me for a long time.

There were trains loaded with Jews being shipped to death camps and the whistle of the train seemed like a scream of horror, while everything else in the town went on "normally." The SS even sent out for food to celebrate after the trains pulled away.

That's how it ended. I think what bothered me was how no one seemed bothered by what was happening and that the SS celebrated and were not punished.

I wish I could see the entire movie or even knew what it was.

[yurbud]

124. Didn't she humiliate the guy in bed, say he had a small dick or make fun of him for bringing a

condom?

[deutsey]

135. He said that all the pressure is on the guy during sex and that women

didn't have any pressure to perform.

She laughed at that, which set him off. If I remember correctly, he had just be released from prison and was in a homosexual relationship which he broke off (violently) right before meeting her. So his sense of manhood was already confused when he met her and he saw her laughing at what he said as ridiculing him, I think.

[carly denise pt deux]

83. The Grudge

That movie is just plain freaky and very disturbing

a nod goes to "The Shining" simply because realisticially someone could actually go beserk and act like Johnny

Carly

[YellowRubberDuckie]

86. We saw The Grudge at the theatre...

But, seated behind us were a bunch of kids who wouldn't shut up. I never got to get into it to be freaked out. It was a huge let down for me.
Duckie

[Bzzzz]

87. The Passion Of The Christ...

repulsive, IMO. Can not understand how people can sit there for "how" many minutes and watch an individual be tortured. Sadistic to me...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

100. For me, it was kind of a reminder....

I believe in it...I'm Catholic. It was reminder that apparently if this really did happen, someone was murdered just because he thought he was saving the entire world, everyone before him, everyone after him. I saw it three times. Not because I enjoyed it, but because I went with people who had never seen it so they wouldn't go alone. This is not a movie to see alone.
Duckie

[Ekirh]

127. Despite all the torture. ..

The only thing in the movie that really freaked me out was when the "demon children" started taunting and go after Judas. (If I'm remembering correctly) that was just eerie.

[bertha katzenengel]

90. Either "Sophie's Choice" or "Frances" n/t

[PassingFair]

113. BOTH of those movies left me SPEECHLESS for DAYS, Bertha.

I always put them together, too.

[applegrove]

128. Yes. Sophie's Choice. That was truly awful.

[mike_c]

91. Once Were Warriors....

Lots of disturbing movies in this thread, so I'll just add Once Were Warriors.

[kedrys]

93. Triumph of the Will

Yes, Leni Riefenstahl is most definitely a genius, but sitting through the whole thing and thinking up parallels between then and now kept me awake at night for a week. :scared:

[bigwillq]

96. Hostel

:scared:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

101. That freaked me out too...

We saw it in the theatre, and when we left, I was making sure I could see everyone and everything around me.
Duckie

[bigwillq]

103. I saw it in the theatre too

and I hid in my hooded sweatshirt for almost the entire second half.

[yurbud]

126. I imagine at really elite colleges, that's what they do with frat pledges they don't accept

[deucemagnet]

97. The ones I find most disturbing aren't horror flicks.

"In My Skin"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337961/

"Bitter Moon"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104779/

"In My Skin" is the story of a woman who develops a fascination for self-mutilation. In "Bitter Moon", Peter Coyote and a young French actress star as a couple with a seriously fucked-up relationship.

[unpossibles]

102. Happiness

which I thought was brilliant and funny yet creepy and disturbing all at once.

[MilesColtrane]

104. Agreed.

The whole movie seemed to be an exercise in getting the audience to feel for the characters in the movie, then systematically degrading and abusing each of them.
But, the scenes with Dylan Baker as the pedophile/rapist are the worst.

As far as the Exorcist goes, it's right up there.

I can't bring myself to watch the director's cut.
It's got a scene in which in which the possessed Regan crawls, bent backwards on all fours, down a flight of stairs like a spider.

[unpossibles]

134. I have not seen the director's cut - sounds creepy

although the Exorcist doesn't creep me out that much. I am more disturbed by movies with everyday people who do f'd up things, which is why I brought up Happiness.

The thing that makes that movie for me, is that every character is simultaneously likable and despicable. There is no black/white, just like real life albeit exaggerated. Even the pedophile and the phone pervert are "nice guys" and you still hate them and feel sorry for them all at once.

[yurbud]

125. that was off the charts creepy with the dad.

[mitchum]

140. Indeed disturbing...

and also the best movie of the past several years

[ghostsofgiants]

147. Damn, I forgot about that film.

Definitely disturbing.

[Wetzelbill]

105. "Mad About Mambo" with Keri Russell

Lord that was terrible! It still haunts me.

[Taverner]

106. Bloodsucking Freaks

Very disturbing, in every sense of the word.

True grindhouse, in my opinion...

[Cannikin]

107. Monster: Based on a True Story with Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos

[Lindsey]

108. The Deerhunter...

and Sophie's Choice.

[camero]

197. Agreed

Couldn't handle the rape scene.

[crim son]

109. "Hard Candy".

I've never seen anything like it.

[yurbud]

111. Tie for me: Frailty & Hostel

Because both could actually happen in real life.

In Frailty, a single dad thinks an angel tells him to kill people who are demons disguised as people, and he has his two pre-teen sons help him. One thinks it's great family time and the other thinks dad is nuts. And apart from killing people, he's a good dad. The story is how this conflict between son & father plays out.


Hostel is about rich people torturing and killing hapless tourists to get their rocks off. From what we've seen of the Bushies, it's not hard to imagine that being close to a documentary.

[Burma Jones]

118. Brazil, The Exorcist, Apocalypse Now, Pan's Labyrinth

Monster's Ball was pretty disturbing too......


I really like disturbing movies.....

[jelly]

186. Pan's Labyrinth shook me to the core.

I had to walk out of the theater at one point, cause I could no longer stand the suspense regarding what the evil guy would do next (if you've seen the movie you'll know what I mean).

Great flick, though, and a powerful statement about the horrors of war.

[SoxFan]

123. Willy Wonka (really)

The original, Gene Wilder Willy Wonka freaked me out as a kid. That boat scene rattled me, and the Oompah Loompahs were just plain wrong. On the positive side, the damn thing probably kept me from ever trying anything more potent than Jack Daniels.

[Ekirh]

130. Is it raining is it pouring. .

My older brother use to mimic that whole damn thing to wake me up in the morning . . .

Creepy ass way to wake up.

[SoxFan]

170. You're creeping me out!

Stop that!
:yoiks:

[Ekirh]

129. Most of my choices have already

Been taken . . . but I will also like to add OldBoy to this. . . "disturbing" being the revelation of what the atagonist's revenge plot ends up being.

Great movie though... glad to own it.

[Starry Messenger]

136. Gummo

I went with friends who really liked it (and who were my ride). It ruined the rest of that year for me.
It was just very disturbing.

[Elidor]

137. No one has said Xtro yet, so I'll say it

Freaky-ass movie. I wish I owned a copy of it. Very bizarre stuff about alien rape and a guy who turns into a grasshopper or some such. Kind of a ripoff of The Metamorphosis, but with more weirdness added.

Disturbing? House of Sand and Fog had me ready to slit my wrists. And In the Bedroom was similarly disturbing. Ordinary people dealing with horrific things are the most compelling to me.

[LostInAnomie]

141. Audition

'nuff said

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

143. Night Gallery

In particular the part with Roddy McDowall trying to not let in the dead guy from his painting. He has a painting, and in it is a grave and a house that slowly starts to change and looks like someone is trying to crawl out of the grave. Every time he looks at the painting it looks a little different until one day he looks at the painting and there's a corpse walking towards the house, then he gets a knock on the door.. He looks at the painting and the corpse is at the door... Creeped me the hell out. I had nightmares for years after seeing that..

[yurbud]

155. the episode that scared me as kid was Bill Bixby being stalked by a yard statue

it was of a druid.

They never showed it moving, just wet footprints, and one night Bixby wakes up to see the statue sillouhetted in the doorway.

It freaks him out so much that the next day he goes to break it into pieces with a sledge hammer, but he turns into the statue, and the druid becomes a regular man (though we still don't actually see him).

I had nightmares about that one when I was 9 or 10. I still haven't found it at any video stores yet.

[Vektor]

149. American Beauty

not only disturbingly insipid, but the stupidest, most played out, contrived plot ever.

Utter bilge.

[KitchenWitch]

150. I am a lightweight - I thought "Blue Velvet" was very creepy.

[yurbud]

154. I thought it was creepy that someone thought it was a good idea to make that

it seemed like just a mood piece by a mental patient.

[JVS]

156. The House of Yes`

Great flick!

[MilesColtrane]

158. Maybe it was because it was 1975, maybe because it was Karen Black...

...probably because it was unsual to see a made for TV horror film that was actually good, but "Trilogy of Terror" was disturbing. (at least back then)

[Frank Cannon]

168. There were a lot of great ABC Movie of the Week's in the '70s.

If someone wanted to make some serious scratch, they would rerelease the following ABC Movie of the Weeks on DVD:

Bad Ronald (crazed teenager lives in secret compartment of unsuspecting family's house)
The Night Stalker (the movie that begat the great series)
Duel (Spielberg's big debut and a classic)
Trilogy of Terror (Another classic)
Don't be Afraid of the Dark (Kim Darby has to deal with gnomes that live in her fireplace, and they're not like the cute Travelocity gnome; this scared the SHIT out of me when I was a kid)
Satan's School for Girls (camp value)

[Bucky]

159. The Cagney and Lacey reunion show

I just about cried thru the whole thing.

[Duer 157099]

161. Pink Flamingos, hands down

anyone who has seen it must agree

[SKKY]

163. "Talk to Her" by Pedro Almodovar...

...that damn film had me confused and messed up for a month.

[wildhorses]

164. *i saw a movie one time a long time ago about a 'couple'*

and he had some kind of hold on her where by they would draw cards for her fingers. if she drew the high card she got to keep her finger if he drew the high card he got cut off one of her fingers. there was more to it than that. like how he got this hold on her in the first place. but, it was bizarre and that premise has always stuck with me. she wore gloves so no one know how many fingers she had missing.

does anybody know this movie???

[MonkeyFunk]

171. I think that was

an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode - The Man from Rio.

It was "copied" in Tarentino's segment of "Four Rooms"

[Ilsa]

177. OOO that sounds familiar. I don't remember anything

about the plot, but I remember the gloves and I'm thinking it was a night gallery episode, but I can't be sure.

[volstork]

191. Yes, I remember it as a segment

on the revived "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" from the (?) late 80's. John Huston plays a con man in Vegas who makes a wager with a man and his girlfriend (Melanie Griffith). The bet is this: if the man can light a butane cigarette lighter 10 times in a row without it failing to light, he wins a large amount of money. If the lighter fails to light, John Huston gets one of the guy's fingers. The clip is made more interesting by the presence of Melanie Griffith, her real-life mother, Tippi Hedren (of "The Birds" fame), and Kim Novak, who plays the gloved woman. She was also a Hitchcock Blonde", starring most notably in "Vertigo".

[wildhorses]

193. YES!!! that is it!!! thank you so much and

welcome to du :hi:

[VenusRising]

167. Event Horizon.

or GATTACA.

The first is disturbing on a psychological level. The second on a "how f*cked up" level.

[alphafemale]

169. "Birth of A Nation"

This KKK PR piece enraged me and brought me to tears.

To think that people thought that way then is horrifying.

How horrified might our great-children be by our commonplace attitudes I wonder.

[EstimatedProphet]

172. MANOS: Hands of Fate

[Joey Liberal]

173. Last House on the Left

That was a sick movie. I need to watch it again this weekend:).............

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

175. Play Misty for Me

A creepy Clint Eastwood movie

[gbate]

190. Ooh, but Clint is so hot in this one...

[ThatsMyBarack]

178. Thirteen.

I saw it on IFC last night. It's about this average teenager who falls into the wrong crowd, does drugs, cuts herself, etc. :scared:

[martymar64]

179. In a Glass Cage - film by Villaronga (Spain)

Very disturbing movie. just thinking about it make me want to go take a shower.

[leeroysphitz]

187. August Underground's Mordum

a grizzly unflinching insult to all that is in any way decent about humanity.

Tops anything listed here, thus far, in the "disturbing" department.

I watched it all the way through but I'd rather be blinded with acid than to see it again.

There ought to be a law...

[LTR]

194. "Requiem For A Dream", followed by "Taxi Driver"

Both very unsettling.

[femmocrat]

195. "Angel Heart" was very disturbing.

[volstork]

196. The Accused

An EXCELLENT movie with strong performances by Jodie Foster (Oscar winner for this role) and Kelly McGillis. The rape scene is impossible for me to ever watch again.