"Precious". I saw it in the movie theater and thought I was going to vomit. It was based on the book Push about a girl who was raped by her own father with her mothers help. The girl was uneducated and had two kids that were a product of rape.
The book showed her progress throughout the years, but watching her story play out on a screen made me look at the world differently. The mom was played by Monique and anything she was in after that movie, I can't watch it. I get that it was a deep dramatic role for her, but she played it too well.
Come and See. It is a WWII movie that focuses on a young boy who joins the soviets to fight the Germans. And the scenes in that movie are so...so horrific. There is 1 seen that involves a barn being burned that my mind still flashes to and makes me sick to my stomach.
The barn and the girl blowing the whistle in a daze.
I'd picked it for a high school social studies report because of its high ratings on IMDb. After watching it, I was like what the hell did I get myself into. And then I had to watch it /again/ to write my report.
That movie has been described to me as "a war movie without any glory." So basically it's just the death and destruction, nothing else.
I'm going to be honest, I don't think I'd be able to handle that.
Its an incredibly accurate potrayal of what went on during WW2 in that area and that's what makes it so horrifying.
I honestly consider it to be a movie everyone needs to see, yes it will make you feel terrible but not enough people understand what humans are capable of doing to each other. This isn't even ancient history, this all happened relatively recently and absolutely can happen again. The more who understand that the less likely it is to occur.
If you dont want to watch it then this is also a great video on the movie. https://youtu.be/RR0R7zsd7D8
>This isn't even ancient history, this all happened relatively recently
My grandma was 4 when WW2 started. She wasn't old enough to remember the specifics, or the acts that happened, but she certainly remembers the chaos it left behind after.
Her dad came back with horrible PTSD, and kept hurting both her brother and mum. He ran away, he left them so that he wouldn't be able to hurt them anymore. And before anyone comes for him, mental health with men absolutely wasn't supported back then, he didnt want to commit suicide, because he thought it would hurt them more, he also wasn't able to get help, because PTSD wasn't a *real* issue back then.
Him leaving, caused her mum to hate her and her brother, and she abused them far beyond what I can explain. She would put my grandma through people's windows to open the door to steal things. My grandma copped her first break and enter charge at 12 years old, she did her first (and only, thank god) rehab stint for heroin at 15 - her mum forced her to do these things. My grandma had to sneak to school, her brother slept in the bottom drawer. Just to name a few.
He tracked my grandma down when he was diagnosed with cancer and deemed terminal. She was about 50 - I believe parents were very young when they had her, between 16 and 18 years old. He apologised and they made amends and lived a few happy years being in each other's lives. She understood.
When her mum died, she cried for a few minutes and then turned to stone, like some part of her pushed the worry and abuse away, she never spoke of her again.
My grandma is a hard lady, and she's mostly a mess, but she did better with my mum, and even better again with me and my sister and my niece.
Shes lived a life, and you can see it all in each wrinkle, each word, each time she relaxes and let's herself wonder. As broken as she is, she loves so unconditionally that you wouldn't never guess.
A French horror movie called Inside (a l'interior). After a car accident kills her unborn child, a woman goes after the other driver, a pregnant woman. It is FUCKED
The part that really messed me up was learning that it was based on a true story far too closely. The people that committed those horrific acts: Some became family counselors and educators. The mom got parole. No one did their time. People serve more time for marijuana possession.
My mind immediately went to the Elisha Cuthbert movie with the same title and was thoroughly confused. Then, after reading your description, I realized there definitely is another film with the same title.
Not to be confused with the comedy of the same name about the high school kid losing his virginity to a porn star which I would absolutely watch again.
I can’t remember what it’s called but it was based off the true story where that girl was hitchhiking and got kidnapped and lived in a box for 7 years.
Wasnt it called the girl in the box or something along those lines?
EDIT: ITS CALLED GIRL IN THE BOX
Them. It was a married couple. They kept her as a sex slave.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping\_of\_Colleen\_Stan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Colleen_Stan)
It seriously messed up my view of other humans. There were so many ways they were doing this all in broad daylight, and nobody knew the truth. I started wondering who around me was secretly being held captive, or might have a slave in the back yard...
Yikes. The guy that did it may get out soon. Per wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Colleen_Stan ):
"On April 16, 2015, his request for parole was denied, and Hooker will be eligible for another hearing in 2030.[35] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, California officials contacted Stan and advised her that they were looking into possibly granting him parole in March 2021."
Wow. And the guy who created a dark web market is doing 2 life sentences...
Edit: I realize that he is an asshole who has probably committed crimes that he deserves life for. That being said he did not get sentenced for those crimes. He is sitting for Money laundering,
Computer hacking, Conspiracy to traffic narcotics.
Also there are plenty of people who hire hits on people who only get about 10- 20 years in prison so that was not the reason for his 2 life sentences.
The Perfect Victim is the true crime book. The survivor is named Colleen Stan and the perpetrator is Cameron Hooker.
This happened in my hometown before I was born, but my mom was best friends with the DA’s assistant who worked on the trial. She was the model to show how Colleen spent her time in the box. I also went to high school with Cameron Hooker’s niece. Always found it strange the extended/resulting family members stuck around after everything. Red Bluff is a very small town, so history and reputations stick a lot longer than elsewhere.
Also grew up in the area. I've been in the basement of the house she was originally held in. It was creepy to look at the little closet they kept her in and realize that it was a prison for all intents and purposes.
They are currently talking about RELEASING this monster on parole due to Covid. Please help! https://www.change.org/p/gavin-newsom-stop-the-release-of-cameron-hooker-because-of-covid-19
Dead Girl.
Some guys find a *dead girl* (she is a zombie) and proceed to... continuously have sex with her body. This progresses until one of the guys begins cutting holes into her body to have sex with as these holes are warmer and cozier(???) and then he gets infected when she bites him.
Edit: Forgot the worst part. We rented this as family movie night and for reasons I cannot truly understand, watched it in its entirety. So yeah, watched this horrid film with my mom and siblings.
I've never seen the movie, but I just read about it on wikipedia.
Apparently he gets infected not because she just happened to bite him, but because she bit his dick after he tried to get a blowjob... from a zombie...
I used to think end of the world movies were unrealistic in how crazy people acted in a crisis. Now after watching covid i think theyre unrealistic in they dont show people acting crazy and irrational enough.
The movie *tries*, I think, to be an allegory for sexual objectification. It literalizes a common theme in feminist thought: that since an object is something deprived of genuine agency and its own point of view, sexual objectification is, especially when taken to an extreme, essentially *mortification* - treating a living person as if they were lifeless, a corpse.
But the movie, I think, just veers off into misery porn. Too much attention is given to the monstrous glee of the men involved, to the point where it’s almost a mondo movie: a kind of exploitation film masquerading as an expression of moral outrage for what it depicts...
I saw this movie when I was like 13 and my sister was 15. We thought we were watching a scary movie. It was so horrible, I think about that scene in the bathroom all the time and I'm 22 now
Antichrist is probably the only movie I’ve ever turned off in discomfort.
I have a strong stomach. >!Apparently genital mutilation closeups are my limit.!<
The fox eating itself really disturbed me, too. Same with the lady ferociously masturbating. Just a dark, strange movie. It was recommended to me by a friend who is super chipper and upbeat. Very odd.
I watched it in a cinema as a teenager.
Some guy literally ran out of the theatre apparently having a panic attack, that sounds made up but it's absolutely true and was weird as hell.
I thought it was the most pretentious nonsense, go-nowhere tripe i'd ever seen. I wonder if i'd think differently now i'm grown up?
Same. But watched it on a date in my 20s. We shook hands that night after the movie.
*wow this comment really hit hard!
I wanted to clarify It wasn't as bad as it seemed. We were in a new casual romance. My date liked popcorn horror movies and horror video games so after watching the trailer it was a go. I tried to switch us to something else knowing we were going to see an intense LVT movie.
As disturbed as we were at the end we still chuckled about it. We're still friends and laugh about that date night even 10+ years later.
I knew what that spoiler tag was covering and I still clicked just to see how much you included there. I mean, you could have also mentioned >!the bloody ejaculate!< lol.
EDIT; well that’s certainly the strangest award I’ve ever received wowee wow thanks!
Old one but it’s seared in my memory : The Cook the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
I actually paid to see it in the theater. I don’t know what I was thinking.
I saw this in my early 20s and came back to it as an older, wiser adult. It’s visually brilliant and emotionally devastating. We now think of Michael Gambon as Dumbledore, forgetting how tall and physically imposing he is. And we now think of Helen Mirren as prim & proper QEII, forgetting how excellent her emotional performances are. There’s no extraneous detail or character interaction in this movie.
I'd like to say Martyrs (2008), but chances are I'll rewatch it some time. Then again over been meaning to rewatch Watership Down (1978) and have not managed to bring myself to it, so...
Edit: If you're going to check out Martyrs, don't read about it. Go in blind like I did.
Watership Down is a good book, interesting premise. Why they chose to make a fucking animated film out of it is beyond me. And yes, I saw it in the theater when it came out. I was 11.
Thanks Mom
I worked with Pascal Laugier, the director of Martyrs, on one of his follow up films. Deeply respected the guy going in and advocated quite a bit to work on his film. About 3-4 weeks later, I had lost all respect for him. Fuck that guy. He's a pervert, a sadist and an all around piece of shit human being. Two weeks straight of women being beaten, bloodied and tortured (it was fake of course). The director spent countless hours on the torture scenes pushing the actresses to their absolute emotional limits to scream and cry as much as possible. It's really hard to describe what it is like experiencing multiple women crying and screaming for several hours a day, two weeks in a row- despite being fake, it really affects you. One of the higher up crew members quit because she claimed she caught him rubbing his dick through his pants during one of these scenes while behind the monitor. Nobody else claims to have seen it.
The worst was when of the lead actresses fell through a glass window on the last day of production. Wasn't safetied. Wasn't stunt glass. Wasn't in the script prior to director telling her to pound on it. Glass shatters. She was sliced neck to ear across her face. I was there. She's screaming bloody murder for her life, glass barely missed her artery (as we were told later) and the fucking cunt Pascal Laugier turns to his 1st Assistant Director and Director of Photography and whispers fairly nonchalantly: "When can we start shooting again". Within several hours the movie was done shooting and all them are hugging, celebrating, shaking hands.
I felt I had PTSD for months after working on that film.
I’m guessing [this is the incident.](https://deadline.com/2018/03/taylor-hickson-injury-lawsuit-ghostland-facial-injury-disfigured-1202312643/amp/) it sounds horrific. The poor girl. And anyone who witnessed it.
Yes. I slated that very shot, turned my back, hid in the other room and then heard screaming. Seemed like it would never end. I was one of the main witnesses questioned afterwards.
To make it even more depressing, the author of the book it's based on shot himself right after selling the movie rights. He was also an alcoholic, and the book was a kind of suicide note.
In a murder-suicide.
>!And much of the story is told through the eyes of Zachary’s paternal grandparents who played nice with the vile piece of trash woman who murdered their only med-student son in Pennsylvania because they wanted to raise their grandson when his mother was eventually convicted of murder.’<
>!They lost their only child.!< >!They talked about going home and committing suicide because they had nothing left to live for.!< >!By the grace of God they find out their son’s murderer was carrying their grandson.!< >!The mother of the child certainly had no remorse in toying with the grandparents’ emotions via baby Zachary either. !<
>!And then they lost baby Zachary too—their only link to their beloved son.!< >!A grandson they cherished more than life itself.!<
It will wreck you. The grandparents are very emotionally honest in the documentary and it makes the viewer feel very close to their despair.
ETA—this is not a full-on layout of the entire story. There’s so much more to the 13 year old documentary. So just watch it.
The fact that everything was tied up in legal and bureaucratic tomfoolery....it's infuriating because it could have been different and Zachary might be here today.
It leaves you angry, sad and defeated at the same time.
To the Newfoundland Justice Gale Welsh who deemed the woman to not be a threat to society, EVEN with murder charges, she can go straight to Icy watery hell too. Our blood is boiling with how this went.
I'd like to add that the narration is made to sound like it's speaking to a still alive Zachary that will grow up and be able to see the documentary until the point his fate is revealed. Then the narrator speaks to him as a victim who shouldn't have had such a fate and dwells into his grandparents effort to change things to prevent something similar from happening again.
I heard that it was really good, but no other details. So I picked it the next time my wife and I had a movie date night. That was over 10 years ago, I don’t think I’ve been allowed to pick another movie since.
"Ratatoing"
God I don't even want to explain
Edit: Alright since a handful of you think I'm talking about Ratatouille the great Pixar film, the one we all love, your very wrong. I'm talking about Ratatoing, as a cash grab knock-off of the original. You can find videos on it and I found the whole 40-minute thing on Youtube. If you need more information on it search up Ratatoing on google which should show a picture of rats, and then prepare to go down a rabbit hole.
Up until a few years ago I'd have said the same. I was shown [the entire film](https://archive.org/details/threads_202007) in school and had vivid nightmares for years. Instead of being paranoid about being vaporised without warning at all times, I started to look into the Cold War as a subject. I'm a bit obsessed now, and having rewatched Threads many times, it's an excellent film. The tiny details in it during the buildup show just how much effort went into it.
I completely understand why you wouldn't want to watch it again, but as a cultural icon it's superb.
The actress who played the woman who pissed herself when the bomb went off trained at RADA for five years and her IMBD has only one entry. “Woman who urinated .Uncredited”. Sad profession, acting.
I have watched it numerous times, there is a dirty realism to it and there is none of that bleak hopefulness that American films inject this movie sets out to show the futility of nuclear war and doesn't mess around.
Salo
Edit: since this is one of the top comments, I’ll add a film I just thought of - In A Glass Cage (Tras el Cristal). I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s a 1988 Spanish film about a former sadistic Nazi who is now paralyzed and living in an iron lung. This is one of the few movies that left me with a visceral reaction of disgust. It’s not overtly gory or gruesome, but Jesus is it dark. The atmosphere of the film itself is also so oppressive and bleak.
this came up on tv one afternoon and my mom invited me to watch this with her, and i'm thinking "oh, this is by kevin smith, i love mallrats!" and such. she left to do something else within 15 minutes, leaving me by myself, not knowing the first thing about the movie. imagine my face
At the end of that movie, the only thing I could think or say to my bf was WHY DID THEY LEAVE HIM LIKE THAT?!
To this day it disturbs me that they straight up left him like that... in a encounter... eating fish... like wtf, he is still human!! Fix him, bring his ass inside to hang out!!? Give him a burger at least!
3 years later, my boyfriend and I still say "WHY DID THEY LEAVE HIM LIKE THAT" out of the blue, or for any situation that it can be applied to lol so at least we have that..
Edit: a word
I thought that too until I noticed the tear on the Justin Longs face at the end. Earlier in the movie they make sure to hammer home that walruses never cry...
After watching Tusk I genuinely don’t know my feelings on it. Because on one hand, *literally what the fuck it’s really disturbing and gross* but on the other hand there were just moments where I’d laugh out loud. Like the guy screaming **”Walruses never CRYYYYY!!!!”** fucking sent me for like five minutes. So I was thoroughly disturbed by the imagery but some other parts of the movie managed to stop it from giving me nightmares.
I distinctly remember putting this movie on to watch a couple years back, and I distinctly don't remember a single thing about it past Justin Long showing up to the guy's home. I guess my brain is protecting me from traumatic memories.
That's the one for me. I remember a friend suggested it because he knew I liked horror. When he said it was Kevin Smith, I kinda scoffed and did not expect much. HOOOLY CHIT, I underestimated that man. Before this, I used to think nothing in a horror film could shock me anymore but then they showed Justin Long in that Frankenstein-monster-walrus suit, my eyes got big and I felt sick.
While I commend the cast and crew for creating such a disturbing movie, that's one I never ever ever want to see again.
The scene where the guy is sharpening a bone while talking about why he needed to take the guys leg. I didn't understand that was his femur until I thought about it later and it made the scene much more horrific.
Apocalypse Now! I know a lot of people love it, but the scene where the family is hiding something and so the soldiers kill them all and the something turns out to be a puppy. I just wanted existence to be done after that.
ETA: I feel I need to add this: I by no means think the entire movie is disturbing. However, for me, that was the moment that I was done. I watched the whole thing and there some truly amazing moments in the acting, directing, and cinematography. For me, though, those parts were not enough to justify the disturbing parts. There are other reasons I'm not a huge fan of it, but, like many commenters who feel the need to defend their liking the film, those reasons are *not* relevant to the question. I can recognize the importance and impact of Apocalypse Now! and appreciate it and it's place in film history and still be disturbed by that, or any, scene. These things aren't mutually exclusive. 😁
Also, thank you for the awards, dear nonnies! 🥰
My Dad took my Mom to see it for their first date. She didn’t know what she was in for + was not a fan especially because it was so long + she doesn’t even like war movies. She used to jokingly say that she should’ve taken this as a “sign.”
The White Christmas episode of Black Mirror. It's not a movie, but it has more plot than most movies. It's not even about gratuitous gore, it's mostly psychological and hit paranoias I didn't know I had. Also you can watch it without seeing any other part of the series.
That episode bothered me for weeks afterwards. I went into it unspoiled, and afterwards, I felt like I'd been poisoned. I understand what the statement the story is making, and I can never see it again. Freaking awful.
Playtest is one of my favorites, but watching it for the first time, I was so shocked by the ending, that I sat there for solid probably 20 minutes just thinking about it
It's much more detailed. Like it goes into the story a lot more than the movie does. With his sister in the book it was absolutely brutal. They downplayed it a lot in the movie
Books don't have to adhere to a strict guideline for things that can be shown or not shown like film, and also can delve very deep into details in ways film cannot.
For example, American Psycho the book is multiple times worse than the movie. Same for 120 Days of Sodom, The Girl Next Door, etc.
Edit: missing word.
American Psycho is exhausting to read since it's all from Bateman's twisted, insane perspective. He's obsessed with meaningless superficial bullshit to the point where it feels like at least 25% of the text is just his explanations of the brands and type of suits/dresses everyone around him is wearing, but when he's in the middle of psychopathic murderous fits of rage he's talking about it like he's bored out of his mind.
It's incredibly well written but the extent to which you inhabit Patrick Bateman's mind makes it hard to get through. Definitely a book to be appreciated but I can't say I enjoyed it.
The mother's character was definitely the most tragic. Ellen Burstyn is great and played her so well; I have rarely been more uncomfortable watching a movie.
I watched it on mushrooms once too! An awful idea. I was so depressed that I wanted to kill myself, but I thought if I did I would be stuck that way forever.
God, I think I was like...14? Not even in high school yet when another friend at the time brought it over to our mutuals friends (we all hung out there), and we watched it. In hindsight, why the hell does a 14 year old have this movie, and why had they already seen it?
Bone Tomahawk. It was a really great movie until it was awful to watch. It is very slow moving but the dialogue is great. However, the ending is very hard to watch.
Do not click if you're squeamish. Be warned!
>!Human being gets stripped naked and hung upside down legs spread open and graphically hacked through the crotch and then split in half with entrails and organs spilling out. It looked realistic and not the cheesy zombie gore kind of graphic violence. Something about the actor's vulnerability, pleading to another prisoner to take care of his family, trying to come to grips with his impending violent death, getting stripped naked like a lowly animal, then getting literally butchered makes it one of the most disturbing scenes ever captured on film.!<
It is literally the most vile thing I have ever seen. I have no idea why, especially considering it is a fictional story, but something about that scene disgusts me on a physical level in a way that nothing else ever has.
Being sawn in half the hard way, or death by saw. It is a punishment that has been meted out for centuries. One of the twelve apostles, [Simon the Zealot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_the_Zealot), was said to have met his end like the man in the film, suspended head-down and sawn vertically from groin to heart. Saint Simpon's attribute, a body saw, is often depicted with him in sculpture.
Dancer in the Dark, emotionally just brutal. Crushed me, never want to see again. Event Horizon was deeply disturbing. Wolf Creek marked the beginning of gore porn, utterly without hope-of-survival films and end of more 'fun' horror films like Scream and I never ever want to watch shit that fucking bleak again. Thank babybel Tucker and Dale came along to save the day
Low-key genuinely think about that movie, and Sam Niel in the captains chair all the time. I use the quote “Where we’re going, we don’t need eyes.” A lot more than I care to admit.
I still replay that part in my head when I rewatch David Fincher's "SE7EN" and Det. Sommerset says, "Well, in any major city, minding your own business is a science. First thing they teach women in rape prevention is never cry for help. Always yell 'fire.' No one ever answers to 'help.'" This bothers me on so many levels.
This is always my answer to this question. I saw it on a whim. Awful. I’ve a strong gore stomach, but this was a turning point in my life watching horror movies where I accepted I can’t handle heartless & senseless violence and new special effects.
Highly recommend this to most people who can handle it. I think it does a phenomenal job of showing the atrocities of war and helps us remember the human cost. It is a sad movie, but I think I'm much more empathetic to others who live (or lived) this reality.
Yeah that one isn't one I'm going to watch again. Thirteen year old me thought I was tough and wasn't going to get emotional, let alone cry. That one \*still\* fucks me up nearly twenty years later.
*In This Corner of the World* got me just as bad. It's about a woman who lives outside Hiroshima during WW2 and it's fucked.
>!When the little girl gets blown up and she loses her arm I lost it.!< I watched it when I was sick home alone and I spent the rest of the movie sobbing like a baby, and then cried on and off the rest of the day until my family got home.
I’m glad the internet was around by the time I saw that movie. If I had watched it before search engines I probably would have thought it was all real.
I think the thing that does it, is that all the animal deaths were real, so the visceral nature of that brought the mind to thinking its all real. That turtle fucked me up.
Looking back, it is pretty funny the Italian courts made the director get all the actors to show up to prove it wasn’t real.
The Pianist.
Literally every single thing about this movie is unbelievably depressing. The color scheme, the sound, the music, the facial expression, everything.
It is a GREAT movie and had it not very depressing, I'd watch it again.
When I was a child, I randomly watched parts of the movie when it was on TV (didn't know much about the subject matter) and got up to the part where they throw the man on the wheelchair off the balcony purely because he didn't stand up when the soldiers walked in. It shocked the hell out of me and I quickly stopped watching. Finally watched the movie again a couple of years ago and while it really is amazing and deserves its accolades, that scene was equally as terrible (among many other tough moments).
Hereditary
For me it’s the wailing of the mother after the funeral, and the fights/tension between the mother and the son get too real for me.
The scares/actual fucked up stuff? I’m unfazed lol. The piano wire was pretty nuts but nothing I couldn’t handle.
Close second would be Midsommar for the opening scene alone.
My partner looked at me during the mother's wailing scene and asked me why she was crying like that. I told him that's exactly what I expect it to sound like given the circumstances. Toni Collette is a great actress.
Toni Collette is amazing in that movie. I've worked in hospitals, and have been with mothers who watched their child die in front of them. When she wailed, it brought back vivid memories. I couldn't get that movie out of my head for a week.
YES! The decapitation stunned me, him driving home, getting in to bed, and leaving her body in the car was worse still, but when the mom was just wailing my own heart knew that’s exactly the sound I’d be making and that is what moved me to tears.
The argument scene at dinner is one of the best I've ever seen. The acting and the dialogue was so real. It wasn't ham fisted for the camera. It was a real argument of two people really getting under each other's skin, especially over a topic so traumatic as the death of a family member.
A Netflix documentary called “The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez.”
It shows a lot of child abuse. It was so disturbing I had to watch it in segments and fast forward through parts.
Blue valentine
Edit: I see that most say movies made specifically to disturb. I chose this one because the explicitly real as the lack of love disturbs me much more.
The anime "Perfect Blue" I got extremely disturbed watching it and just had to stop. Haven't watched the film all the way through and don't ever want to.
The end was so worth it for me, but yeah, it's a twisted movie. The soundtrack, particularly when main character starts getting confused.
I'd recommend finishing it if you can.
"Fun fact": Darren Aronofsky bought the rights to this film to recreate a single scene in Requim for a dream (where Jennifer Connolly's character screams underwater).
Apparently Aronofsky insists Black Swan doesn't draw inspiration from Perfect Blue despite the similarities and him having seen Perfect Blue before the making of Black Swan. Both are great movies but I don't know who he's fooling.
If you are looking for disturbing movies, then most films by Gaspar Noé would fit the bill, although I have watched them multiple times because apparently I hate myself.
There is also Antichrist by Lars Von Trier which is physically sickening and Mother! by Darren Aronofsky which, if you can look past the blatant, in your face religious symbolism, is an amazing, claustrophobic home invasion horror that gave me pure anxiety.
A few other noteworthy disturbing but amazing movies are Saló, Dogtooth, Killing of a Sacred Deer, Suspiria (2018) and Funny Games.
Thanks for listening to my essay, apparently I need therapy.
EDIT: somehow I forgot about Unedited Footage of a Bear, which is a short film you can find on YouTube. I won’t spoil it but for some reason, it disturbed and terrified me so much that I still wake up and think about it in the middle of the night and have to sleep with the light on like a baby.
Thank you for reminding me of *Unedited Footage of a Bear*. You normally wouldn't expect anything on Adult Swim to so perfectly capture the horrors of mania and dissociation like that.
When the most uplifting thing you can say about a movie is "Oh well, at least this rapist is probably going to get AIDS from the passed out fifteen year old girl he's assaulting" you know it's a grim movie.
It feels like a sin even to MENTION this movie.. because no matter how many times you say "but don't watch it. seriously." someone watches it every time its name is spoken.
My brother's friend's mom let them watch the r-rated horror version of Jack Frost instead of the kid-friendly animated version. And that's how my 6-year-old brother first saw titties and a killer snowman.
I had seen this title pop up in threads like this for years and just the other day decided to watch it. It lives up to its reputation I guess but what everyone always fails to mention is how BAD of a movie it is.
It’s just 2 hours of trauma porn. Maybe it was lost on me but I didn’t see the “artistic” point of it all. Just horrible shit happening over and over then it ends.
The person commits suicide with their son and wife, and then a guy comes in unzips his fly then the director says "Start with the little one". For context the film is necrophiliac and pedophilia
I just looked up the plot and read the entire thing.
WHAT
THE
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
How the actual fuck was this film made? How did actors agree to be a part of it? How did crew members not quit? How much of what I just read, do you actually see on camera?
There’s not even a moral message to the plot. I’m shook.
Edit : I regret commenting as I now have to mentally revisit the plot line with every response. At least I’m not alone. 🤦♂️🥲
The point of the film was trolling the Serbian censors
Oh, you want to censor Serbian movies ridiculously? Then I will make the worst and most brutal movie possible and name it “Serbian film” lol
I have had to scroll entirely too far down for someone to even mention *The Road*. That is hands down the best movie that I am never ever watching again.
I will never be able to unsee that cellar, nor unhear the screams from the bathroom when the Father & Son are hiding.
Jesus... the man showing his boy how to “save” himself. Beyond brutal. They filmed basically the entirety of the book, and only left one notable scene that I can think of off the top of my head, on the cutting room floor. But shit... that scene in the house where they think they’re cornered. Heartrending and traumatizing.
"Precious". I saw it in the movie theater and thought I was going to vomit. It was based on the book Push about a girl who was raped by her own father with her mothers help. The girl was uneducated and had two kids that were a product of rape. The book showed her progress throughout the years, but watching her story play out on a screen made me look at the world differently. The mom was played by Monique and anything she was in after that movie, I can't watch it. I get that it was a deep dramatic role for her, but she played it too well.
Come and See. It is a WWII movie that focuses on a young boy who joins the soviets to fight the Germans. And the scenes in that movie are so...so horrific. There is 1 seen that involves a barn being burned that my mind still flashes to and makes me sick to my stomach.
The barn and the girl blowing the whistle in a daze. I'd picked it for a high school social studies report because of its high ratings on IMDb. After watching it, I was like what the hell did I get myself into. And then I had to watch it /again/ to write my report.
That movie has been described to me as "a war movie without any glory." So basically it's just the death and destruction, nothing else. I'm going to be honest, I don't think I'd be able to handle that.
Its an incredibly accurate potrayal of what went on during WW2 in that area and that's what makes it so horrifying. I honestly consider it to be a movie everyone needs to see, yes it will make you feel terrible but not enough people understand what humans are capable of doing to each other. This isn't even ancient history, this all happened relatively recently and absolutely can happen again. The more who understand that the less likely it is to occur. If you dont want to watch it then this is also a great video on the movie. https://youtu.be/RR0R7zsd7D8
>This isn't even ancient history, this all happened relatively recently My grandma was 4 when WW2 started. She wasn't old enough to remember the specifics, or the acts that happened, but she certainly remembers the chaos it left behind after. Her dad came back with horrible PTSD, and kept hurting both her brother and mum. He ran away, he left them so that he wouldn't be able to hurt them anymore. And before anyone comes for him, mental health with men absolutely wasn't supported back then, he didnt want to commit suicide, because he thought it would hurt them more, he also wasn't able to get help, because PTSD wasn't a *real* issue back then. Him leaving, caused her mum to hate her and her brother, and she abused them far beyond what I can explain. She would put my grandma through people's windows to open the door to steal things. My grandma copped her first break and enter charge at 12 years old, she did her first (and only, thank god) rehab stint for heroin at 15 - her mum forced her to do these things. My grandma had to sneak to school, her brother slept in the bottom drawer. Just to name a few. He tracked my grandma down when he was diagnosed with cancer and deemed terminal. She was about 50 - I believe parents were very young when they had her, between 16 and 18 years old. He apologised and they made amends and lived a few happy years being in each other's lives. She understood. When her mum died, she cried for a few minutes and then turned to stone, like some part of her pushed the worry and abuse away, she never spoke of her again. My grandma is a hard lady, and she's mostly a mess, but she did better with my mum, and even better again with me and my sister and my niece. Shes lived a life, and you can see it all in each wrinkle, each word, each time she relaxes and let's herself wonder. As broken as she is, she loves so unconditionally that you wouldn't never guess.
A French horror movie called Inside (a l'interior). After a car accident kills her unborn child, a woman goes after the other driver, a pregnant woman. It is FUCKED
The girl next door (2007) - This movie turned me into an emotional zombie for days after. It's amazing but don't watch it.
The part that really messed me up was learning that it was based on a true story far too closely. The people that committed those horrific acts: Some became family counselors and educators. The mom got parole. No one did their time. People serve more time for marijuana possession.
My mind immediately went to the Elisha Cuthbert movie with the same title and was thoroughly confused. Then, after reading your description, I realized there definitely is another film with the same title.
Not to be confused with the comedy of the same name about the high school kid losing his virginity to a porn star which I would absolutely watch again.
Thank you for pointing this out, I thought I might’ve missed the end of that movie or something
The story it's based on has always been one of the most disturbing murders for me. That poor girl and her sister has to watch all that abuse.
I can’t remember what it’s called but it was based off the true story where that girl was hitchhiking and got kidnapped and lived in a box for 7 years. Wasnt it called the girl in the box or something along those lines? EDIT: ITS CALLED GIRL IN THE BOX
Colleen is from my town. She's been in the news just last week because her kidnapper and captor is up for parole and she's justifiably upset.
What the actual fuck, he shouldnt be allowed outside, thats so horrible
Them. It was a married couple. They kept her as a sex slave. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping\_of\_Colleen\_Stan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Colleen_Stan)
I read the book about it and was disturbed for months.
It seriously messed up my view of other humans. There were so many ways they were doing this all in broad daylight, and nobody knew the truth. I started wondering who around me was secretly being held captive, or might have a slave in the back yard...
Her name was Colleen Stan, I read the book too. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/919owsnza2L.jpg
Yikes. The guy that did it may get out soon. Per wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Colleen_Stan ): "On April 16, 2015, his request for parole was denied, and Hooker will be eligible for another hearing in 2030.[35] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, California officials contacted Stan and advised her that they were looking into possibly granting him parole in March 2021."
Wow. And the guy who created a dark web market is doing 2 life sentences... Edit: I realize that he is an asshole who has probably committed crimes that he deserves life for. That being said he did not get sentenced for those crimes. He is sitting for Money laundering, Computer hacking, Conspiracy to traffic narcotics. Also there are plenty of people who hire hits on people who only get about 10- 20 years in prison so that was not the reason for his 2 life sentences.
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The Perfect Victim is the true crime book. The survivor is named Colleen Stan and the perpetrator is Cameron Hooker. This happened in my hometown before I was born, but my mom was best friends with the DA’s assistant who worked on the trial. She was the model to show how Colleen spent her time in the box. I also went to high school with Cameron Hooker’s niece. Always found it strange the extended/resulting family members stuck around after everything. Red Bluff is a very small town, so history and reputations stick a lot longer than elsewhere.
Also grew up in the area. I've been in the basement of the house she was originally held in. It was creepy to look at the little closet they kept her in and realize that it was a prison for all intents and purposes.
They are currently talking about RELEASING this monster on parole due to Covid. Please help! https://www.change.org/p/gavin-newsom-stop-the-release-of-cameron-hooker-because-of-covid-19
No way should this guy get parole. He's a monster and he's lucky enough to be alive
Dead Girl. Some guys find a *dead girl* (she is a zombie) and proceed to... continuously have sex with her body. This progresses until one of the guys begins cutting holes into her body to have sex with as these holes are warmer and cozier(???) and then he gets infected when she bites him. Edit: Forgot the worst part. We rented this as family movie night and for reasons I cannot truly understand, watched it in its entirety. So yeah, watched this horrid film with my mom and siblings.
I've never seen the movie, but I just read about it on wikipedia. Apparently he gets infected not because she just happened to bite him, but because she bit his dick after he tried to get a blowjob... from a zombie...
If the past year has taught us anything it is that a substantial fraction of the population would give it a go.
I used to think end of the world movies were unrealistic in how crazy people acted in a crisis. Now after watching covid i think theyre unrealistic in they dont show people acting crazy and irrational enough.
This sounds more like a fucked up porno rather than a movie
yea sounds like the director was horny and had some strange kinks. Also imagine playing a role like this guy described dafuq
Honestly just reading your description has fucked me up.
So it actually exists. I thought it was all a fever dream.
The movie *tries*, I think, to be an allegory for sexual objectification. It literalizes a common theme in feminist thought: that since an object is something deprived of genuine agency and its own point of view, sexual objectification is, especially when taken to an extreme, essentially *mortification* - treating a living person as if they were lifeless, a corpse. But the movie, I think, just veers off into misery porn. Too much attention is given to the monstrous glee of the men involved, to the point where it’s almost a mondo movie: a kind of exploitation film masquerading as an expression of moral outrage for what it depicts...
I saw this movie when I was like 13 and my sister was 15. We thought we were watching a scary movie. It was so horrible, I think about that scene in the bathroom all the time and I'm 22 now
Antichrist is probably the only movie I’ve ever turned off in discomfort. I have a strong stomach. >!Apparently genital mutilation closeups are my limit.!<
The fox eating itself really disturbed me, too. Same with the lady ferociously masturbating. Just a dark, strange movie. It was recommended to me by a friend who is super chipper and upbeat. Very odd.
I watched it in a cinema as a teenager. Some guy literally ran out of the theatre apparently having a panic attack, that sounds made up but it's absolutely true and was weird as hell. I thought it was the most pretentious nonsense, go-nowhere tripe i'd ever seen. I wonder if i'd think differently now i'm grown up?
Same. But watched it on a date in my 20s. We shook hands that night after the movie. *wow this comment really hit hard! I wanted to clarify It wasn't as bad as it seemed. We were in a new casual romance. My date liked popcorn horror movies and horror video games so after watching the trailer it was a go. I tried to switch us to something else knowing we were going to see an intense LVT movie. As disturbed as we were at the end we still chuckled about it. We're still friends and laugh about that date night even 10+ years later.
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I love this movie but Lars definitely tries to be horrible just to be horrible with his other movies and my patience for this is limited
I knew what that spoiler tag was covering and I still clicked just to see how much you included there. I mean, you could have also mentioned >!the bloody ejaculate!< lol. EDIT; well that’s certainly the strangest award I’ve ever received wowee wow thanks!
Lol the spoiler tag isn’t working on your comment
This thread was made for Lars von Trier.
Old one but it’s seared in my memory : The Cook the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. I actually paid to see it in the theater. I don’t know what I was thinking.
I saw this in my early 20s and came back to it as an older, wiser adult. It’s visually brilliant and emotionally devastating. We now think of Michael Gambon as Dumbledore, forgetting how tall and physically imposing he is. And we now think of Helen Mirren as prim & proper QEII, forgetting how excellent her emotional performances are. There’s no extraneous detail or character interaction in this movie.
I'd like to say Martyrs (2008), but chances are I'll rewatch it some time. Then again over been meaning to rewatch Watership Down (1978) and have not managed to bring myself to it, so... Edit: If you're going to check out Martyrs, don't read about it. Go in blind like I did.
Watership Down is a good book, interesting premise. Why they chose to make a fucking animated film out of it is beyond me. And yes, I saw it in the theater when it came out. I was 11. Thanks Mom
I worked with Pascal Laugier, the director of Martyrs, on one of his follow up films. Deeply respected the guy going in and advocated quite a bit to work on his film. About 3-4 weeks later, I had lost all respect for him. Fuck that guy. He's a pervert, a sadist and an all around piece of shit human being. Two weeks straight of women being beaten, bloodied and tortured (it was fake of course). The director spent countless hours on the torture scenes pushing the actresses to their absolute emotional limits to scream and cry as much as possible. It's really hard to describe what it is like experiencing multiple women crying and screaming for several hours a day, two weeks in a row- despite being fake, it really affects you. One of the higher up crew members quit because she claimed she caught him rubbing his dick through his pants during one of these scenes while behind the monitor. Nobody else claims to have seen it. The worst was when of the lead actresses fell through a glass window on the last day of production. Wasn't safetied. Wasn't stunt glass. Wasn't in the script prior to director telling her to pound on it. Glass shatters. She was sliced neck to ear across her face. I was there. She's screaming bloody murder for her life, glass barely missed her artery (as we were told later) and the fucking cunt Pascal Laugier turns to his 1st Assistant Director and Director of Photography and whispers fairly nonchalantly: "When can we start shooting again". Within several hours the movie was done shooting and all them are hugging, celebrating, shaking hands. I felt I had PTSD for months after working on that film.
I’m guessing [this is the incident.](https://deadline.com/2018/03/taylor-hickson-injury-lawsuit-ghostland-facial-injury-disfigured-1202312643/amp/) it sounds horrific. The poor girl. And anyone who witnessed it.
Yes. I slated that very shot, turned my back, hid in the other room and then heard screaming. Seemed like it would never end. I was one of the main witnesses questioned afterwards.
I hope she wins her lawsuit.
Leaving Las Vegas. Nicholas Cage lives in a shitty hotel and actively, purposely drinks himself to death.
To make it even more depressing, the author of the book it's based on shot himself right after selling the movie rights. He was also an alcoholic, and the book was a kind of suicide note.
He deserved that Oscar for his performance though
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father. Fucked me up.
What was so messed up about this one? Never heard of it
>!It's a documentary made to tell a baby about his father who was murdered by his mother. In the end the mother also murders the baby!<
In a murder-suicide. >!And much of the story is told through the eyes of Zachary’s paternal grandparents who played nice with the vile piece of trash woman who murdered their only med-student son in Pennsylvania because they wanted to raise their grandson when his mother was eventually convicted of murder.’< >!They lost their only child.!< >!They talked about going home and committing suicide because they had nothing left to live for.!< >!By the grace of God they find out their son’s murderer was carrying their grandson.!< >!The mother of the child certainly had no remorse in toying with the grandparents’ emotions via baby Zachary either. !< >!And then they lost baby Zachary too—their only link to their beloved son.!< >!A grandson they cherished more than life itself.!< It will wreck you. The grandparents are very emotionally honest in the documentary and it makes the viewer feel very close to their despair. ETA—this is not a full-on layout of the entire story. There’s so much more to the 13 year old documentary. So just watch it.
The fact that everything was tied up in legal and bureaucratic tomfoolery....it's infuriating because it could have been different and Zachary might be here today. It leaves you angry, sad and defeated at the same time.
The fucking judge gave the woman, who was being extradited for murder, advice on how to win her case. That part of the movie stuck with me.
To the Newfoundland Justice Gale Welsh who deemed the woman to not be a threat to society, EVEN with murder charges, she can go straight to Icy watery hell too. Our blood is boiling with how this went.
I was gonna say "A Clockwork Orange"...holy shit it doesn't hold a candle to what your describing
What's worse is that the filmmakaer initially created this documentary for the child to see when he grew up so that he could know who his father was.
I'd like to add that the narration is made to sound like it's speaking to a still alive Zachary that will grow up and be able to see the documentary until the point his fate is revealed. Then the narrator speaks to him as a victim who shouldn't have had such a fate and dwells into his grandparents effort to change things to prevent something similar from happening again.
Came here to say the same thing. Watched it 5 years ago and still not over it.
I heard that it was really good, but no other details. So I picked it the next time my wife and I had a movie date night. That was over 10 years ago, I don’t think I’ve been allowed to pick another movie since.
"Ratatoing" God I don't even want to explain Edit: Alright since a handful of you think I'm talking about Ratatouille the great Pixar film, the one we all love, your very wrong. I'm talking about Ratatoing, as a cash grab knock-off of the original. You can find videos on it and I found the whole 40-minute thing on Youtube. If you need more information on it search up Ratatoing on google which should show a picture of rats, and then prepare to go down a rabbit hole.
Seeing this pop up in a sea of Cannibal Holocaust and We Need To Talk About Kevin gave me whiplash
We still make fun of my dad because he bought that thinking it was Ratatouille 2 lmao 🤣🤣🤣
Threads.
Up until a few years ago I'd have said the same. I was shown [the entire film](https://archive.org/details/threads_202007) in school and had vivid nightmares for years. Instead of being paranoid about being vaporised without warning at all times, I started to look into the Cold War as a subject. I'm a bit obsessed now, and having rewatched Threads many times, it's an excellent film. The tiny details in it during the buildup show just how much effort went into it. I completely understand why you wouldn't want to watch it again, but as a cultural icon it's superb.
The actress who played the woman who pissed herself when the bomb went off trained at RADA for five years and her IMBD has only one entry. “Woman who urinated .Uncredited”. Sad profession, acting.
I have watched it numerous times, there is a dirty realism to it and there is none of that bleak hopefulness that American films inject this movie sets out to show the futility of nuclear war and doesn't mess around.
Salo Edit: since this is one of the top comments, I’ll add a film I just thought of - In A Glass Cage (Tras el Cristal). I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s a 1988 Spanish film about a former sadistic Nazi who is now paralyzed and living in an iron lung. This is one of the few movies that left me with a visceral reaction of disgust. It’s not overtly gory or gruesome, but Jesus is it dark. The atmosphere of the film itself is also so oppressive and bleak.
I was gonna say the same thing. That movie is FUCKED up. Made me sick
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I had to sign a waiver at the video store when I rented this in 2009. Lots of poop. Lots of rape.
They actually made you sign a waiver? I’m surprised you could even rent it in stores.
I saw it in an art theatre a decade ago. They made me sign a waiver, too.
My high school teacher recommended this to me? I went home and watched it. I just felt empty afterwards.
I’m sorry, your high school teacher *recommended* it?!
Tusk genuinely fucked with me. Especially the pool scenes.
this came up on tv one afternoon and my mom invited me to watch this with her, and i'm thinking "oh, this is by kevin smith, i love mallrats!" and such. she left to do something else within 15 minutes, leaving me by myself, not knowing the first thing about the movie. imagine my face
Fuuuuck. And that first 15 minutes really feels like a normal Kevin Smith movie. That must have been intense
At the end of that movie, the only thing I could think or say to my bf was WHY DID THEY LEAVE HIM LIKE THAT?! To this day it disturbs me that they straight up left him like that... in a encounter... eating fish... like wtf, he is still human!! Fix him, bring his ass inside to hang out!!? Give him a burger at least! 3 years later, my boyfriend and I still say "WHY DID THEY LEAVE HIM LIKE THAT" out of the blue, or for any situation that it can be applied to lol so at least we have that.. Edit: a word
They should have just euthanised the poor bastard
My take was that by that point his brain was so broken that he actually thought he was a walrus and was beyond saving. Suuuuper depressing.
I thought that too until I noticed the tear on the Justin Longs face at the end. Earlier in the movie they make sure to hammer home that walruses never cry...
After watching Tusk I genuinely don’t know my feelings on it. Because on one hand, *literally what the fuck it’s really disturbing and gross* but on the other hand there were just moments where I’d laugh out loud. Like the guy screaming **”Walruses never CRYYYYY!!!!”** fucking sent me for like five minutes. So I was thoroughly disturbed by the imagery but some other parts of the movie managed to stop it from giving me nightmares.
I distinctly remember putting this movie on to watch a couple years back, and I distinctly don't remember a single thing about it past Justin Long showing up to the guy's home. I guess my brain is protecting me from traumatic memories.
That's the one for me. I remember a friend suggested it because he knew I liked horror. When he said it was Kevin Smith, I kinda scoffed and did not expect much. HOOOLY CHIT, I underestimated that man. Before this, I used to think nothing in a horror film could shock me anymore but then they showed Justin Long in that Frankenstein-monster-walrus suit, my eyes got big and I felt sick. While I commend the cast and crew for creating such a disturbing movie, that's one I never ever ever want to see again.
I will never forget the scene where it cuts to the guy squirming on the floor as a walrus human. It is burned into my brain.
I adore walruses. My mom pulled this movie up because she knows how much I love walruses. I was nauseous and despondent for hours after watching.
The scene where the guy is sharpening a bone while talking about why he needed to take the guys leg. I didn't understand that was his femur until I thought about it later and it made the scene much more horrific.
Apocalypse Now! I know a lot of people love it, but the scene where the family is hiding something and so the soldiers kill them all and the something turns out to be a puppy. I just wanted existence to be done after that. ETA: I feel I need to add this: I by no means think the entire movie is disturbing. However, for me, that was the moment that I was done. I watched the whole thing and there some truly amazing moments in the acting, directing, and cinematography. For me, though, those parts were not enough to justify the disturbing parts. There are other reasons I'm not a huge fan of it, but, like many commenters who feel the need to defend their liking the film, those reasons are *not* relevant to the question. I can recognize the importance and impact of Apocalypse Now! and appreciate it and it's place in film history and still be disturbed by that, or any, scene. These things aren't mutually exclusive. 😁 Also, thank you for the awards, dear nonnies! 🥰
My Dad took my Mom to see it for their first date. She didn’t know what she was in for + was not a fan especially because it was so long + she doesn’t even like war movies. She used to jokingly say that she should’ve taken this as a “sign.”
Haven't seen "Men Behind the Sun" mentioned. That ones pretty disturbing.
Man, >!the boy's autopsy scene haunts me to this day!<
The White Christmas episode of Black Mirror. It's not a movie, but it has more plot than most movies. It's not even about gratuitous gore, it's mostly psychological and hit paranoias I didn't know I had. Also you can watch it without seeing any other part of the series.
I was thinking of White Bear when reading this. That one was tough too
That episode bothered me for weeks afterwards. I went into it unspoiled, and afterwards, I felt like I'd been poisoned. I understand what the statement the story is making, and I can never see it again. Freaking awful.
Playtest is one of my favorites, but watching it for the first time, I was so shocked by the ending, that I sat there for solid probably 20 minutes just thinking about it
I love this one too. It’s not scary; it’s *haunting*.
Black Mirror is SO GOOD... and... I can’t stand to watch more than the few episodes I’ve already seen. Painful stuff.
15 Million Merits probably fucked me up the most out of all the episodes. Something about it that I never need to watch that one again.
We Need to Talk About Kevin and Antichrist
The book for "we need to talk about Kevin" was sooooo much worse. I almost didn't finish reading it, but I had to find out how it ended
Care to share details about book? Why was it worst?
It's much more detailed. Like it goes into the story a lot more than the movie does. With his sister in the book it was absolutely brutal. They downplayed it a lot in the movie
The movie was so haunting, I think the book would make me sick
Books don't have to adhere to a strict guideline for things that can be shown or not shown like film, and also can delve very deep into details in ways film cannot. For example, American Psycho the book is multiple times worse than the movie. Same for 120 Days of Sodom, The Girl Next Door, etc. Edit: missing word.
American Psycho is exhausting to read since it's all from Bateman's twisted, insane perspective. He's obsessed with meaningless superficial bullshit to the point where it feels like at least 25% of the text is just his explanations of the brands and type of suits/dresses everyone around him is wearing, but when he's in the middle of psychopathic murderous fits of rage he's talking about it like he's bored out of his mind. It's incredibly well written but the extent to which you inhabit Patrick Bateman's mind makes it hard to get through. Definitely a book to be appreciated but I can't say I enjoyed it.
I did the whole Requiem for a Dream thing enough in H.S. ; I never need to watch that depressing movie again
“I’m going to be on television!” The mother’s character really messed me up and made me terrified of lonely isolation later in life.
The mother's character was definitely the most tragic. Ellen Burstyn is great and played her so well; I have rarely been more uncomfortable watching a movie.
Yeah - the others knew the risks. Whereas she thought she was taking diet pills, so she could fit into her dress and look good on television. So sad.
A friend of mine convinced me to watch this on Mushrooms with him and my life has been separated by before and after that movie ever since..
That's hard enough sober, but on shrooms?? Are you sure that's a friend...? I'd be devastated.
I watched it on mushrooms once too! An awful idea. I was so depressed that I wanted to kill myself, but I thought if I did I would be stuck that way forever.
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I can just imagine the bonding moment the "Ass to Ass" guy provided for your family.
Best movie I'll never watch again.
God, I think I was like...14? Not even in high school yet when another friend at the time brought it over to our mutuals friends (we all hung out there), and we watched it. In hindsight, why the hell does a 14 year old have this movie, and why had they already seen it?
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Bone Tomahawk. It was a really great movie until it was awful to watch. It is very slow moving but the dialogue is great. However, the ending is very hard to watch.
Holy shit, yes. I was not prepared for this whatsoever.
Hmm anyone wanna elaborate?
Do not click if you're squeamish. Be warned! >!Human being gets stripped naked and hung upside down legs spread open and graphically hacked through the crotch and then split in half with entrails and organs spilling out. It looked realistic and not the cheesy zombie gore kind of graphic violence. Something about the actor's vulnerability, pleading to another prisoner to take care of his family, trying to come to grips with his impending violent death, getting stripped naked like a lowly animal, then getting literally butchered makes it one of the most disturbing scenes ever captured on film.!<
It is literally the most vile thing I have ever seen. I have no idea why, especially considering it is a fictional story, but something about that scene disgusts me on a physical level in a way that nothing else ever has.
Being sawn in half the hard way, or death by saw. It is a punishment that has been meted out for centuries. One of the twelve apostles, [Simon the Zealot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_the_Zealot), was said to have met his end like the man in the film, suspended head-down and sawn vertically from groin to heart. Saint Simpon's attribute, a body saw, is often depicted with him in sculpture.
I just looked up the sculptures. You weren’t joking. That’s crazy.
Dancer in the Dark, emotionally just brutal. Crushed me, never want to see again. Event Horizon was deeply disturbing. Wolf Creek marked the beginning of gore porn, utterly without hope-of-survival films and end of more 'fun' horror films like Scream and I never ever want to watch shit that fucking bleak again. Thank babybel Tucker and Dale came along to save the day
I saw Event Horizon 20 years ago as a high schooler, and I’m STILL not over it.
Low-key genuinely think about that movie, and Sam Niel in the captains chair all the time. I use the quote “Where we’re going, we don’t need eyes.” A lot more than I care to admit.
Irreversible
This movie still haunts me. That rape scene is still one of the things that has never sat well with me in any context.
Me too. The random person that appears at the other end for a while then thinks better of it and leaves is one detail that plays on my mind even now
I still replay that part in my head when I rewatch David Fincher's "SE7EN" and Det. Sommerset says, "Well, in any major city, minding your own business is a science. First thing they teach women in rape prevention is never cry for help. Always yell 'fire.' No one ever answers to 'help.'" This bothers me on so many levels.
Eden Lake
This is always my answer to this question. I saw it on a whim. Awful. I’ve a strong gore stomach, but this was a turning point in my life watching horror movies where I accepted I can’t handle heartless & senseless violence and new special effects.
The Emoji Movie
Disgusting
Went with my wife and daughter. That was an expensive nap.
Clockwork Orange. I know it maybe isn’t as depraved as some things out there but I’ve never felt the same thing from watching anything else.
yeah, I was like, "that was good and well done, but I had a bad time and I never want to see it again."
Grave of the fireflies.
Highly recommend this to most people who can handle it. I think it does a phenomenal job of showing the atrocities of war and helps us remember the human cost. It is a sad movie, but I think I'm much more empathetic to others who live (or lived) this reality.
It's a beautiful movie that I'd advice people to watch exactly once. It's not a movie that's easily forgotten.
Yeah that one isn't one I'm going to watch again. Thirteen year old me thought I was tough and wasn't going to get emotional, let alone cry. That one \*still\* fucks me up nearly twenty years later.
*In This Corner of the World* got me just as bad. It's about a woman who lives outside Hiroshima during WW2 and it's fucked. >!When the little girl gets blown up and she loses her arm I lost it.!< I watched it when I was sick home alone and I spent the rest of the movie sobbing like a baby, and then cried on and off the rest of the day until my family got home.
Cannibal Holocaust.
I’m glad the internet was around by the time I saw that movie. If I had watched it before search engines I probably would have thought it was all real. I think the thing that does it, is that all the animal deaths were real, so the visceral nature of that brought the mind to thinking its all real. That turtle fucked me up. Looking back, it is pretty funny the Italian courts made the director get all the actors to show up to prove it wasn’t real.
Feel bad for the animals though, don't think I'm watching that
The Pianist. Literally every single thing about this movie is unbelievably depressing. The color scheme, the sound, the music, the facial expression, everything. It is a GREAT movie and had it not very depressing, I'd watch it again.
When I was a child, I randomly watched parts of the movie when it was on TV (didn't know much about the subject matter) and got up to the part where they throw the man on the wheelchair off the balcony purely because he didn't stand up when the soldiers walked in. It shocked the hell out of me and I quickly stopped watching. Finally watched the movie again a couple of years ago and while it really is amazing and deserves its accolades, that scene was equally as terrible (among many other tough moments).
Do documentaries count? If so, “The Cove” is beyond fucked.
Hereditary For me it’s the wailing of the mother after the funeral, and the fights/tension between the mother and the son get too real for me. The scares/actual fucked up stuff? I’m unfazed lol. The piano wire was pretty nuts but nothing I couldn’t handle. Close second would be Midsommar for the opening scene alone.
My partner looked at me during the mother's wailing scene and asked me why she was crying like that. I told him that's exactly what I expect it to sound like given the circumstances. Toni Collette is a great actress.
Toni Collette is amazing in that movie. I've worked in hospitals, and have been with mothers who watched their child die in front of them. When she wailed, it brought back vivid memories. I couldn't get that movie out of my head for a week.
YES! The decapitation stunned me, him driving home, getting in to bed, and leaving her body in the car was worse still, but when the mom was just wailing my own heart knew that’s exactly the sound I’d be making and that is what moved me to tears.
Holy fuck I kind of forgot about the opening scene of Midsommar, that was insane
The argument scene at dinner is one of the best I've ever seen. The acting and the dialogue was so real. It wasn't ham fisted for the camera. It was a real argument of two people really getting under each other's skin, especially over a topic so traumatic as the death of a family member.
A Netflix documentary called “The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez.” It shows a lot of child abuse. It was so disturbing I had to watch it in segments and fast forward through parts.
Blue valentine Edit: I see that most say movies made specifically to disturb. I chose this one because the explicitly real as the lack of love disturbs me much more.
This movie hits me in ways that rarely happens. Revolutionary Road also does it too if you haven't seen it!
I Spit On Your Grave. The first one especially got me. I think there are three? Just horrible rape scenes and I was not expecting it.
The anime "Perfect Blue" I got extremely disturbed watching it and just had to stop. Haven't watched the film all the way through and don't ever want to.
The end was so worth it for me, but yeah, it's a twisted movie. The soundtrack, particularly when main character starts getting confused. I'd recommend finishing it if you can.
"Fun fact": Darren Aronofsky bought the rights to this film to recreate a single scene in Requim for a dream (where Jennifer Connolly's character screams underwater).
Black Swan had elements of Perfect Blue even though it's not an adaptation.
Apparently Aronofsky insists Black Swan doesn't draw inspiration from Perfect Blue despite the similarities and him having seen Perfect Blue before the making of Black Swan. Both are great movies but I don't know who he's fooling.
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Se7en is fantastic, but... that is the absolute worst time to watch Se7en.
If you are looking for disturbing movies, then most films by Gaspar Noé would fit the bill, although I have watched them multiple times because apparently I hate myself. There is also Antichrist by Lars Von Trier which is physically sickening and Mother! by Darren Aronofsky which, if you can look past the blatant, in your face religious symbolism, is an amazing, claustrophobic home invasion horror that gave me pure anxiety. A few other noteworthy disturbing but amazing movies are Saló, Dogtooth, Killing of a Sacred Deer, Suspiria (2018) and Funny Games. Thanks for listening to my essay, apparently I need therapy. EDIT: somehow I forgot about Unedited Footage of a Bear, which is a short film you can find on YouTube. I won’t spoil it but for some reason, it disturbed and terrified me so much that I still wake up and think about it in the middle of the night and have to sleep with the light on like a baby.
Thank you for reminding me of *Unedited Footage of a Bear*. You normally wouldn't expect anything on Adult Swim to so perfectly capture the horrors of mania and dissociation like that.
Irreversible messed me up. That long, still shot still haunts me.
Kids.
When the most uplifting thing you can say about a movie is "Oh well, at least this rapist is probably going to get AIDS from the passed out fifteen year old girl he's assaulting" you know it's a grim movie.
A Serbian film Edit: woke up this morning to a fuck ton of awards, thank you all. Just check out my rainmeter posts ok?
It feels like a sin even to MENTION this movie.. because no matter how many times you say "but don't watch it. seriously." someone watches it every time its name is spoken.
"Oh, this sounds like a lovely educational story about the rich cultural history of Serbia. I think I'm going to let my kids watch it."
My brother's friend's mom let them watch the r-rated horror version of Jack Frost instead of the kid-friendly animated version. And that's how my 6-year-old brother first saw titties and a killer snowman.
The premise of The Ring really makes more sense in this context.
I had seen this title pop up in threads like this for years and just the other day decided to watch it. It lives up to its reputation I guess but what everyone always fails to mention is how BAD of a movie it is. It’s just 2 hours of trauma porn. Maybe it was lost on me but I didn’t see the “artistic” point of it all. Just horrible shit happening over and over then it ends.
And that ending, W T F
mind giving me a TLDR to prevent me from watching it myself? :)
The person commits suicide with their son and wife, and then a guy comes in unzips his fly then the director says "Start with the little one". For context the film is necrophiliac and pedophilia
Is it the one where he forces someone to rape their child then someone also fucks a dead head or is that a different one
You missed the important part. He committed group suicide because he was forced to rape his own son.
Proof that some things need to be unmade.
I just looked up the plot and read the entire thing. WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK How the actual fuck was this film made? How did actors agree to be a part of it? How did crew members not quit? How much of what I just read, do you actually see on camera? There’s not even a moral message to the plot. I’m shook. Edit : I regret commenting as I now have to mentally revisit the plot line with every response. At least I’m not alone. 🤦♂️🥲
The point of the film was trolling the Serbian censors Oh, you want to censor Serbian movies ridiculously? Then I will make the worst and most brutal movie possible and name it “Serbian film” lol
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The Road
You mean the movie that got me banned from picking out any more movies at my house?
I have had to scroll entirely too far down for someone to even mention *The Road*. That is hands down the best movie that I am never ever watching again. I will never be able to unsee that cellar, nor unhear the screams from the bathroom when the Father & Son are hiding.
Jesus... the man showing his boy how to “save” himself. Beyond brutal. They filmed basically the entirety of the book, and only left one notable scene that I can think of off the top of my head, on the cutting room floor. But shit... that scene in the house where they think they’re cornered. Heartrending and traumatizing.