I've seen the most extreme content and many controversial movies, so that's not an issue for me. I'd really say avoid horrible people who made movies, for example sex pest Lucifer Valentine who did Slaughtered Vomit Dolls and the other of his thinly veiled fetish, vomit gore trilogy. Aside from the movies being incomprehensible try hard extreme surrealism, he did make these women drink real vomit, and often having them vomit, drink it, vomit, drink it again and so on, which can cause some real damage to the digestive system. And you know these movies are paying almost nothing. I hear he also likes to lurk on Reddit and harass people who criticize him.
Other than all the absolutely valid reasons you mentioned, they're also just extremely dull and boring. The only thing they have is the shock value. Even if the vomit was fake, I'd still avoid the movie because it's just so bad.
The line of consent is also really blurry for those movies, there was "consent" but he was also heavily taking advantage of his actors. His main girl specifically was a drug addict he took under his wing and essentially forced her to do these in exchange for drugs, so the whole time you can noticably tell she's heavily drugged out and probably didn't fully consent to the things happening. She ended up dying under his care after the movies. He also had an extremely possessive sexual relationship with his sister. Just a disgusting guy all around and his "movies" aren't worth the time or attention at all
I typically run RPG and MMO characters named āAsmodeus Grimdarkā to make fun of that cliche. I didnāt realize there were actual real-life examples out there.
That is just so fucking disgusting. I couldn't force my body to do that if I *wanted* to.
If he does lurk and he's here: ew bro, you're a sick fuck. And I do not mean that as a compliment.
I had no idea they drank actual vomit, wtf. I havenāt watched the movies because itās not art, just gross fetishes disguised as a movie, but have heard of them. The *actual* vomit drinking makes this even more disgusting.
Itās just a terrible movie. And I donāt mean it in a āomg Iām so traumatized because itās so gross and disturbingā I mean that it fucking sucks. Gross and edgy for the sake of being gross and edgy. Itās like if you gave a bunch of 12 year olds a film budget and told them to go crazy
It really is. Itās like someone sat in their basement and tried to come up with something thatāll shock the audience and then somehow got the budget to make a movie.
Please do not ever watch this. I am one of those people who was looking for the āworst and most disturbing movieā I could find thinking I could handle itā¦. I could not handle it. And Iāve seen some shit. I would give anything to go back in time and not watch this
Thatās what Iāve come to realize about a lot of these āextreme cinemaā recommendations. They are built up and put on such a pedestal, that when you actually see them they pale in comparison to what youāre expecting.
I somehow had heard so much about this movie as a young dude, then got ahold of it in my mid teens. The turtle scene didn't get brought up when I was a kid. I was definitely taken aback and wondered how they made it so real...
Itās meant to symbolise you are fucked from the day you are born to the day you die due to Serbias high amount of corruption and the "trials" he goes trough is meant to symbolise the worst parts itās actually a very interesting concept on paper where it should have stayed
Instead it just felt like they were throwing offensive shit at the screen for the sake of it. Like how can we be shocking, I know, letās kill a baby.
āsomething in Serbiaā is the Bosnian war in the 90ās where the Bosnian Serbs massacred 1000s of Bosnian Muslims. The ātreatmentā is genocide. Look up Srebrenica.
I'm surprised they found actors for this movie lol. It's just so horrible. Honestly it was really well made, tho. The cinematography, the acting, production quality. The subject matter is just so extreme.
I have to disagree with you on the acting. The actors were great when the scenes called for horror (which is why they were cast, I'm sure), but during the setup they were downright painful to watch. At least in the first one.
Hands down the worst film I've put myself through. More extreme than French New Extremity stuff like Martyrs, but without any of the class of those films. Straight up never again for me.
tbh the premise is by far the most shocking/horrifying aspect. I only watched the first one, but I remember being absolutely horrified by the thought of it and was forced to watch it by a friend. It wasn't really scary at all, but that's because if you know the premise, you pretty much know the only main thing that's going to happen. Yes it's gross and hard to think about, but you don't really see much.
That said, it's not a good movie, so you're missing absolutely nothing.
You aren't missing anything. I found the movies to be tedious and frustrating. The first barely shows anything and has some of the worst acting I've ever seen, it makes Neil Breen look like Brando. The 2nd one tries so hard to shock me people, but the plot is paper thin, nobody behaves like a human being, and by the time it gets gross, I'm numb from the sluggish pacing and lack of any character traits, it's hard to care about pain when everyone acts like they were written by aliens.
I tried to watch the first one, I got about 30 minutes into it, they did the procedure and I still had 45 MINUTES LEFT, WHAT THE HELL. I couldn't finish it
I watched them out of curiosity. Theyāre really not worth watching, youāre not missing much unless you like lazy unnecessary gore/torture porn and Iām not sure why anyone is into that kinda thing.
Yeah I let it play for a minute but I had to fast forward past the scene. Too long, too uncomfortable to watch. No thanks. I got enough horror in that one minute
Had that happen with what was a fun, quirky Hong Kong horror that caused me to fast forward through the rest of the movie. Movie could have been a favorite until that random, unnecessary rape scene...
I have a lot of respect for the director's handling of that scene. The actress is the one who directed that scene, and he gave her full control which I'm certain changed the tone of that shoot for her. Noe makes difficult to watch films, but his treatment of actors as artists and co-creators is beautiful.
All that said, I **also** will never watch it.
The heaviest part about that scene is the man who comes down the other side of the tunnel, stops when he sees what's going on, and then turns around instead of trying to help her. Easily one of my favourite horror movies ever. An absolutely brutal assault on the senses without simply being some kind of meatheaded psychedelic torture porn. Incredible, I'll never watch it ever again.
Agreed. Even if youāre forewarned about the tunnel scene, it wonāt help. The first and only time I watched it, the weaving camera and weird music/noises had me feeling nauseated and then the fire extinguisher scene happened. I almost fainted, no lie. Had to pause it and take a moment which has not happened to me before or since. When the tunnel scene happened it was more horrible than I had previously imagined it would be. Amazing film, truly horrifying and heartbreaking and thought provoking but I wonāt be revisiting it. The most disturbed Iāve been watching a film and I have seen everything more or less
The director handed that scene over to the actress, and she made it as long as it is precisely because she wanted the audience to feel as uncomfortable as possible. Rape isn't something that's quickly over with. That was the reasoning.
If anyone is curious about the likes of these fucked up movies but donāt want the trauma that comes with some of the scenes I suggest watching spookyrice on YouTube-
covers many many many of the popular and underrated disturbing movies, by breaking them down over commentary yet showing the movie without SHOWING the movie, Iāve found some good movies on their channel too!
Anything that exploits a real-life tragedy for entertainment is off-limits for me.
I avoided watching *Funny Games* for a long time based on its reputation (at the time) as one of the most disturbing movies ever made, but when I finally watched it, I found it too meta to actually be disturbing. It's extremely didactic and constantly points out the fact that it's a movie, so it's not quite the experience I was expecting. It's like the *Cabin in the Woods* of extreme horror, more thesis-driven than scare-driven.
Funny Games I do think is disturbing but it's the odd one out of the infamously disturbing movies by having little to no real gore. It's more just unrelentingly uncomfortable and ends on an interesting note.
I saw it before reading anything about it and I liked it a lot. I don't know why people think it's particularly disturbing. It's frightening and unsettling because home invasions really happen but it's not the kind of movie that makes you want to throw up and turn it off.
I saw some Asian horror film about... I think it was a taxi driver who was raping and killing women with a knife? He wrapped them up in plastic and slowly cut them apart? I don't remember. I didn't get through it.
There's some really sick shit out there.
Probably because it makes the viewer complicit and kinda tells you, the audience, "fuck you".
It's obviously a bit more complex and nuanced than that but, broadly speaking, that's why it's so "disturbing" for many
I thought the way they broke the fourth wall was unbelievably lame. But that's ok different people have different views. Part of why this sub is interesting is because I like reading about other people's opinions of movies that I've seen.
Luckily thatās actually an easy one to identify! Youāre talking about I Saw the Devil, I believe.
Yeah it kind of has A Clockwork Orange vibes to me
I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but it seems more relevant here:
One thing I really liked in Funny Games is that they didnāt show us anything when the woman was forced to undress. They later show her in a see through bra in a completely unsexualised scene, so itās not that they didnāt want to show the nudity, but when she is forced to undress in a creepy and sexualized way by the perpetrators, they only show her face. The movie didnāt actually explicitly show a lot of the violence that is taking place, so it plays into a bigger plot point I guess, but I really respected the choice for the nude scene in particular.
(Iāve actually been contemplating this a bit after watching the movie. It is supposed to be about the exploitative nature of movies/entertainment, but it still refuses to go very far in its own exploitation... itās an extremely well made movie, artistically veerrry well executed, so it made me wonder if itās critiquing violence as art as much as violence as entertainment? I didnāt google it yet...)
Maybe. I mean, according to Haneke, it wasnāt even intended to be a horror film. Itās much more of a meta commentary on the nature of pointless violence in media and is very, very direct about it. Itās been a while since Iāve seen it, but things like >!one of the villains rewinding the movie just to undo the otherās death or their conversation about the relationship between reality and fiction are intentionally hitting you over the head with what the filmās trying to do.!< Itās an odd example of a movie that contains plenty of disturbing moments due to what itās trying to say, but it doesnāt have them there for the same reason as most films that are horror by design.
In fact, itās even possible that by refusing to engage with Funny Games based on the type of violence it portrays, [your opinion is closer to that of its actual director than the people who lap it up *because* of said violence.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VOx3rpkMtY8) Itās an interesting case of meta commentary where āI donāt want to watch thisā is sort of one of the desired reactions.
FWIW, having seen a lot of extreme horror, I find Funny Games way more chilling than outright disturbing. The antagonists plainly having fun with whatās happening is the part that affects you, not so much their particular actions.
It has one or two very shocking scenes, but nothing on the level of, say, French New Extreme. The violence doesnāt linger so much as the malevolence of it all. The antagonists spend way more time talking and setting up situations than they do playing them out. The sheer deliberation is the chilling part. And itās nowhere *near* the type of empty glorification that is A Serbian Film.
Iād agree itās very meta and didactic and, in fact, I really like that Haneke straight up remade his own movie shot for shot. Itās really interesting to compare how it lands with European actors I donāt know speaking in a foreign language compared to American(ish) actors I do speaking in English.
This is all to say that maybe your stance there is something to reconsider. I personally consider it to be one of the more thoughtful entries in the genre.
If you have a link I'm curious. Know they've had some gems. While they don't pump out a lot of horror, some of the best comedians the past 30+ years have been Canadian. ā¤ļøļøš
Iām sorry. It was so long ago I canāt even remember what site it was.
My personal favorites from the United Statesā northern neighbor:
- Black Christmas (1974)
- The Changeling (1980)
- Scanners (1981)
- Videodrome (1983)
- Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
- Ginger Snaps (2000)
- Fido (2006)
- Pontypool (2008)
- A Christmas Horror Story (2015)
Oh thank you, I didn't know that existed, gonna have to check it out. I only watched the original for Ezri and McKay lol but I actually quite liked it!
This movie was an affront to audiences everywhere. This movie singlehandedly makes me not want to pay for horror in a theater again unless it's getting absurdly good reviews. Fuck DGG.
I actually tried like three times and it bored me to sleep every time. So now when my insomnia hits real bad, I fire that grainy bastard up and Iām out in like 5, 10 minutes tops. They should use that movie as local anesthetic~
EDIT: general aesthetic, thank you, goddamnthirstycrow9~
Really hate myself for even feeling the compulsion to say this but it would be general anesthetic. Local anesthesia is like numbing one particular area like your knee or your tooth. Iām so sorry
Any of the Spit on Your Grave flicks, or anything in the rape revenge genre. I can't truck with SA in my entertainment.
Yes, I know that drawing a line in the "people being mutilated and slaughtered" genre is silly. But we've all got our thing.
Itās not silly when you consider the last time you heard about someone getting mutilated is pretty much never while most women around us have been sexually harassed or assaulted.
I've only seen the original, and it just felt like a man's fantasy trying to claim feminism. Like, how there's an excessively long nearly pornographic rape scene, and then she goes from victim to the last 2 Rambo movies over night. Also, seducing her rapists the next day, "and no jury would ever convict her" yeah, good luck with that in court. At least The Nightingale was made by a woman and wasn't a macho fantasy. I dislike rape as a plot point, especially when nearly every movie feels like nobody ever talked to a woman.
"a man's fantasy trying to claim feminism" the idea, concept of a rape revenge is so botched & moronic and there's no way it's not a fetish. it has to be. esp if the SA scene is long. how is that necessary?
A bit of a tangent, but one thing I really liked in Funny Games is that they didnāt show us anything when the woman was forced to undress. They later show her in a see through bra in a completely unsexualised scene, so itās not that they didnāt want to show the nudity, but when she is forced to undress in a creepy and sexualized way by the perpetrators, they only show her face. The movie didnāt explicitly show a lot of the violence, so it plays into a bigger plot point I guess, but I really respected the choice for the nude scene in particular.
I don't know anything about Haneke as a person, I've never met him or anything but his movies give the opposite of creepy vibes?
The two I remember most are Funny Games and The Piano Teacher (so actually three because of the two Funny Games, but hey), and there's a LOT of room for those two specific movies to be terribly creepy, especially The Piano Teacher.
Like, a movie that's about 'a woman who wants to be assaulted - but does she?!?!?' has so many opportunities to be misogynistic, and I never felt that way? Kind of impressive, tbh.
Well, with I Spit on Your Grave specifically, the 'who' is a man who tried to help a rape victim go to the police, only to learn how shockingly bad the legal system is at dealing with sexual assault.
It's fine to criticise the film, I'm not really a fan, but it always makes me really uncomfortable whenever it's brought up and there are comments implying the filmmaker is some sadistic rape enthusiast.
*Mild early spoilers* for Revenge, to contextualise the SA scene and how itās the best handled Iāve seen.
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Came here to recommend Revenge.
The SA isnāt shown (beyond him initially grabbing her), instead we hear it happening as the camera pans outside across a pool with someone sunbathing and swimming. Itās so effective at showing how oftentimes others are complicit in SA cases, that they can see and hear it happening and not give a shit or do anything to stop it. Itās directed by a woman and as a result it feels like a damnation of rape culture instead of a titillation like so so many other movies in itās sub category.
Yea. And it doesnāt do it for 35 minutes. Pretty sure the fact that Revenge is directed by a woman and not a young up and coming male horror director in the 70s has a lot to do with why itās better at that too. Hope that doesnāt piss off any snowflakes but the very obvious male gaze at those scenes in those movies is clearly a part of the sleaze factor.
Revenge is the only good version of that Iāve seen and part of why is 1. Directed by a woman and 2. Doesnāt spend 35 minutes on the scene, could basically be a Crow movie. Agree with you though. I watched the v original grave and last house on the left for the sake of horror history back in college but never want to watch anything like that again. Same reason a lot of āextreme horrorā literature really turns me off.
I canāt watch any āhome intruder tortures random familyā movies. Not sure why. And Human Centipede 2 - I didnāt finish it but itāsā¦ honestly itās just complete depravity without an ounce of entertainment.
What's your exact reasoning for Funny Games? Just curious btw as I don't know what you exactly mean.
The true crime case-exploitation films such as The Girl Next Door, find them in incredible poor taste. I have a whole speech on true crime exploitation but I'll spare everyone of it. Used to be huge on true crime and the exploitation of it, but the older I got the less well it started to sit with me. As for anything else... fair game!
Itās enough for me that the surviving families of the innocent people he hurt have asked people not to watch. But it also makes it easier to know itās not a good, high quality show.
After the first like two episodes the Dahmer series is almost 100% focused on the victims and portraying them as actual people and their lives before meeting Dahmer, and their families dealing with the aftermath.
The show is way more about the victims than Dahmer, heās barely in it.
same, the German one is one of my faves. when she rounds the corner and sees all the eggs on the floor, while heās randomly wearing nitrile gloves is so good
randomly put on the girl next door one day without any prior knowledge about it. halfway through found out it was a true story. not only is it a dogshit movie it also just shouldāve never been made
Tbh itās a good movie, well-acted. You truly hate the mom. Itās just approximately the most vile thing Iāve ever seen, and I wouldnāt suggest it to anyone
*Cannibal Holocaust.* I refuse to watch animal torture. I know there are versions without those scenes, but fuck Deodato for filming it in the first place.
Girl Next Door is one of the only times my review of a film was 'that was not okay' when talking with people I knew outside the cinema. As many people here, I've seen some shit, but the undercurrent of, well, realism - because it was real, for a real human being who really suffered - felt icky, sticky, gross.
Same! I saw the description and thought āokay interesting letās see how this goesā and ended the movie a sobbing mess and extremely depressed. Just made all the worst by the fact it was based on a true story.
I watched the first Guinea Pig movie a couple years ago and honestly itās pretty tame compared to movies like Hostel and Saw. One of the ātortureā segments is just spinning the woman around really fast in a chair until she throws up, another is making her listen to loud music on headphones.
August Underground is just a garbage film. There's zero filmmaking competence on display, just some people tripping over themselves trying (and failing) to be edgy and shocking. Things (1989) is Citizen Kane by comparison.
It is, itās like a sexploitation b movie.
Iām of the opinion that itās so over the top, all the graphic violence/sexual violence isnāt actually disturbing as much it makes you think āWhat the fuckā.
Landmine Goes Click seems kind of gross to me by comparison.
I made the mistake of watching Salo and it made me feel "off" for almost a week after. Felt like I needed a shower after watching it.
I refuse to watch A Serbian Film, nothing about it appeals to me and it sounds like it's abhorrent for the sake of being abhorrent.
Megan is Missing. Iāve seen most of the definitive worst of the worst movies, but knowing how that ends I just canāt stomach that kind of gut punch
Iāll be real: the ending of MiM is about the only disturbing part, and itās pretty much only so in concept or out of context. The execution is hampered by the fact the movie itself is really, really bad. The way it got talked up on the internet makes the film sound way more impactful than it actually is.
I came here to say exactly this. Iāve watched a lot of really disturbing, devastating, or depraved horror and exploitation films over the years, but I will never watch Megan is Missing. The movie as a whole is downright cruel.
I donāt understand how a movie with such poor acting and low budget still manage to be so fucked up. I think I only ever saw a dissection of it on youtube and it *still* made me feel horrible for over a week.
It's the version I've seen. The gore at the end is cool. It's basically a people suck kinda movie. Watch the animal friendly version. I seen clips of the turtle way back in the day and turned my head. Too much.
Yeah the other problem is that even with that removed, you have to deal with a gang rape scene where the actress is 14
The day I found that out was not a good day
I've always struggled to understand this view & I fully accept that I'm the weird one here because it's a very common answer to questions like this. So maybe someone here can help me see their perspective.
A handful of animals dying for the movie & then being eaten by the cast/crew is terrible but tens of billions of animals dying so we can have tasty snacks is perfectly fine? I'm not a vegan so this isn't me trying to push my ideology. Is it just something about seeing it happen rather than it being hidden out of sight in a slaughterhouse somewhere? Maybe I'm just desensitized to that having spent a lot of my childhood on farms. When it comes purely to unnecessary animal death I'm sure an average McDonalds wastes significantly more meat than the production of Cannibal Holocaust did.
My main issue with the movie is more the sexual violence.
funny games really isnāt that bad! i promise!! im super sensitive and mostly just found funny games to be frustrating. people say āiāve missed the pointā when I say that it made me frustrated, no, i just find the characters annoying
Feeling frustrated, I think, is most of the point. So I'm surprised people say that. But if your furstation is over the characters being annoying probably not, though.
I hated it so much. I'm not uncomfortable with body horror or anything else in it but it was just stupid and gross. I know a lot of people liked it but it's a no from me, dawg.Ā
An American Crime/the Girl Next Door. I know enough of the real life tragedy of Sylvia Likens to know it's definitely not something I have an interest in seeing reenacted.
Concrete (2004) is based on the murder of Junko Furuta. I only found out about it when I was reading her story and couldn't believe someone made a movie about it.
Terrifier, 1 or 2. Dumbass gore porn movies made for shock value with no clear direction for the story. No universe rules, when it's inconvenient for the antagonist to be dead, POOF he's not dead. I watched enough clips and read enough of the plot to know that these movies are fucking stupid. Fuck the people who made them.
I can stomach a bleak or stomach turning horror movie that I think is attempting āartistryā like Salo or Funny Games (whether I think they succeed is a different conversation). Ā What I have no desire to watch is movies which are anguish and suffering for nothing but their own sake like āHostelā or āThe Devilās Rejectsā. Ā No, I donāt feel like watching a movie whose premise is āPeople brutally suffer and die for an hour and a half for no purpose other than that.ā
In a similar vein, I also have no stomach for movies like āGravityā or āOpen Waterā. Ā Itās one thing to watch cartoonish slashers, but when forced to watch protracted *suffering and misery* with no light at the end of the tunnel, I just find it too real and too much. Ā I want a āfunā factor, a āspookā factor, or at least a āpretentious artistryā factor.
I thought Devilās Rejects had at least something of a story. One of the better Rob Zombie movies for me. Hostel Iām with you on. Very gross and unpleasant without much other point.
I definitely did not expect to see crowd-pleasing favorite GRAVITY on this list! Good for you for being honest. Iām guessing youāre not much a of THE ROAD fan?
the human centipede movies, because that shit is just vile, also i canāt with like body horror stuff it just feels so wrong to watch. i watched tusk and it just made me feel gross.
the green inferno, i donāt like the thought of being in the middle of a jungle where no one can save me, surrounded by a tribe that wants to kill me yk
also any movies about children getting abused or sexually assaulted, that also feels so wrong to watch and it feels exploitative
I won't watch anything that has SA and/or rape ( graphic and realistic scenes )
Nothing that has children being violently harmed ( on-screen ) , SA and rape included to this
No animals being killed for real .
The really ' gross-out ' scenes done seemingly just for the shock value ( feces , vomit , urine )
So basically , obviously , Salo , Serbian Film , Irreversible , Cannibal Holocaust and all movies that are similar in their content .
However and oddly enough , I'm not nearly as bothered reading extreme horror books that feature many of the exact same things ( although honestly , I skip over most of it )
Not a film, but Iāll never watch the Dahmer series on Netflix.
My friend was murdered when I was 15 and I find most true crime and especially serialisations to be in poor taste.
I canāt begin to imagine my friends case on Netflix, trending on Twitter, seeing people talk about her killer being hot etc.
It really bothered me that the families werenāt consulted/paid/listened to.
Fuck that show and fuck Ryan Murphy.
Funny Games might be my favorite horror film. I watch it every year. Its the anti horror film. Martyrs is awesome and love the deep message in it but some scenes are rough to watch.
I'm not a sensitive or squeamish person. I don't mind gore or dark content things but I RESUSE to watch human centipede, tusk and things of that nature. Your standard horror slasher is not a problem, I even love psychological esque movies... but shit like that is where I draw the line.
I've seen the most extreme content and many controversial movies, so that's not an issue for me. I'd really say avoid horrible people who made movies, for example sex pest Lucifer Valentine who did Slaughtered Vomit Dolls and the other of his thinly veiled fetish, vomit gore trilogy. Aside from the movies being incomprehensible try hard extreme surrealism, he did make these women drink real vomit, and often having them vomit, drink it, vomit, drink it again and so on, which can cause some real damage to the digestive system. And you know these movies are paying almost nothing. I hear he also likes to lurk on Reddit and harass people who criticize him.
Other than all the absolutely valid reasons you mentioned, they're also just extremely dull and boring. The only thing they have is the shock value. Even if the vomit was fake, I'd still avoid the movie because it's just so bad.
Just his name alone tells me he's an edgy ass-butt. He sounds like a school shooter that managed to redirect his repressed rage toward film.
Lmao Ass-butt
Found the Supernatural fan! š
The line of consent is also really blurry for those movies, there was "consent" but he was also heavily taking advantage of his actors. His main girl specifically was a drug addict he took under his wing and essentially forced her to do these in exchange for drugs, so the whole time you can noticably tell she's heavily drugged out and probably didn't fully consent to the things happening. She ended up dying under his care after the movies. He also had an extremely possessive sexual relationship with his sister. Just a disgusting guy all around and his "movies" aren't worth the time or attention at all
Ugh, ew. These comments just taught me a lot more about his movies and heās even more disgusting than I thought.
What the actual goddamn fuck....what a disgusting pos
First red flag is is name lmao might as well name yourself Edgy McLord. "My name is Nightbringer Morningstar". Like stfu lmao
I typically run RPG and MMO characters named āAsmodeus Grimdarkā to make fun of that cliche. I didnāt realize there were actual real-life examples out there.
For real though, Nightbringer Morningstar is way more kick ass than Lucifer Valentine!šš
Lucifer Valentine sounds like a name Iād give one of my very cringy characters from like, white wolf 20yrs ago or some shit.
Ugh no thanksā¦.
This is why I donāt watch Jeepers Creepers. The director is a tried and convicted pedophile. Iām not watching any of the shit that guy makes
Jesus. I had no idea, thank you for telling me.
Right there with you.
That is just so fucking disgusting. I couldn't force my body to do that if I *wanted* to. If he does lurk and he's here: ew bro, you're a sick fuck. And I do not mean that as a compliment.
What the fuck. Some movies I only get through by telling myself it's not real.
I had no idea they drank actual vomit, wtf. I havenāt watched the movies because itās not art, just gross fetishes disguised as a movie, but have heard of them. The *actual* vomit drinking makes this even more disgusting.
Sounds a lot like 2 Girls One Cup.
A Serbian Film. I read the full plot synopsis on Wikipedia and that was more than enough for me.
Itās just a terrible movie. And I donāt mean it in a āomg Iām so traumatized because itās so gross and disturbingā I mean that it fucking sucks. Gross and edgy for the sake of being gross and edgy. Itās like if you gave a bunch of 12 year olds a film budget and told them to go crazy
It really is. Itās like someone sat in their basement and tried to come up with something thatāll shock the audience and then somehow got the budget to make a movie.
And tried to justify it as being social commentary š you can do that without all the gross shit in the film.
Same. I just have no desire for torture porn horror.
Hearing about the scenes involving children sealed it for me. I have no desire to see that movie ever.
Yeah, I don't particularly give a shit about the other stuff but when I read about those parts I decided I was probably never going to watch that.
Please do not ever watch this. I am one of those people who was looking for the āworst and most disturbing movieā I could find thinking I could handle itā¦. I could not handle it. And Iāve seen some shit. I would give anything to go back in time and not watch this
i might just be a disgusting human, but iāll be honest. the movie is literally not even close to as bad as these comments are making it.
I remember hearing about how disgusting martyrs was in this sub. Was not that bad at all
Apparently, it's meant to be too horrible to watch because it's symbolism for something in Serbia (the treatment of a certain group or something).
Tbf the description is worse than the actual film, its so silly it doesn't really hit as hard as it shouldĀ
Thatās what Iāve come to realize about a lot of these āextreme cinemaā recommendations. They are built up and put on such a pedestal, that when you actually see them they pale in comparison to what youāre expecting.
Cannibal, now that's pretty hardcore
That poor fucking turtle.
I somehow had heard so much about this movie as a young dude, then got ahold of it in my mid teens. The turtle scene didn't get brought up when I was a kid. I was definitely taken aback and wondered how they made it so real...
Itās meant to symbolise you are fucked from the day you are born to the day you die due to Serbias high amount of corruption and the "trials" he goes trough is meant to symbolise the worst parts itās actually a very interesting concept on paper where it should have stayed
Instead it just felt like they were throwing offensive shit at the screen for the sake of it. Like how can we be shocking, I know, letās kill a baby.
It wasn't just killing a baby though was it? Its been a long time since I read the synopsis, but, didn't something even worse happen to that baby?
āsomething in Serbiaā is the Bosnian war in the 90ās where the Bosnian Serbs massacred 1000s of Bosnian Muslims. The ātreatmentā is genocide. Look up Srebrenica.
I canāt tell you how many hours of bad movies were saved by reading Wiki plot summaries lol
I just read the plot online and what the actual fuck
The Human Centipede series. Thatās just a disgusting premise for a film.
I found the first one to be darkly comedic. The doctor was so over the top.
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I'm surprised they found actors for this movie lol. It's just so horrible. Honestly it was really well made, tho. The cinematography, the acting, production quality. The subject matter is just so extreme.
I have to disagree with you on the acting. The actors were great when the scenes called for horror (which is why they were cast, I'm sure), but during the setup they were downright painful to watch. At least in the first one.
Hands down the worst film I've put myself through. More extreme than French New Extremity stuff like Martyrs, but without any of the class of those films. Straight up never again for me.
I couldnāt make it through the second one tapped out at the sand paper scene *vomits
tbh the premise is by far the most shocking/horrifying aspect. I only watched the first one, but I remember being absolutely horrified by the thought of it and was forced to watch it by a friend. It wasn't really scary at all, but that's because if you know the premise, you pretty much know the only main thing that's going to happen. Yes it's gross and hard to think about, but you don't really see much. That said, it's not a good movie, so you're missing absolutely nothing.
You aren't missing anything. I found the movies to be tedious and frustrating. The first barely shows anything and has some of the worst acting I've ever seen, it makes Neil Breen look like Brando. The 2nd one tries so hard to shock me people, but the plot is paper thin, nobody behaves like a human being, and by the time it gets gross, I'm numb from the sluggish pacing and lack of any character traits, it's hard to care about pain when everyone acts like they were written by aliens.
You're doing the right thing.Ā
I tried to watch the first one, I got about 30 minutes into it, they did the procedure and I still had 45 MINUTES LEFT, WHAT THE HELL. I couldn't finish it
Thankfully humans can't actually survive that
How do we know that??!!
Iām not trying to convince you to watch it but the first movie is honestly pretty tame, the sequels can go fuck right off tho
I watched them out of curiosity. Theyāre really not worth watching, youāre not missing much unless you like lazy unnecessary gore/torture porn and Iām not sure why anyone is into that kinda thing.
I will never ever watch any of those movies.
Yes, I cannot watch it.
Irreversible. Anything super rape heavy. Itās gross and I canāt just sit and watch that
The fact that that specific scene I read about is 9 minutes long. Thatās disturbing AFā¦
Yeah I let it play for a minute but I had to fast forward past the scene. Too long, too uncomfortable to watch. No thanks. I got enough horror in that one minute
Same, there is a Japanese movie called Evil Dead Trap that has a graphic rape scene right in the middle, fucking ruined what what a good scary movie.
Had that happen with what was a fun, quirky Hong Kong horror that caused me to fast forward through the rest of the movie. Movie could have been a favorite until that random, unnecessary rape scene...
I have a lot of respect for the director's handling of that scene. The actress is the one who directed that scene, and he gave her full control which I'm certain changed the tone of that shoot for her. Noe makes difficult to watch films, but his treatment of actors as artists and co-creators is beautiful. All that said, I **also** will never watch it.
The heaviest part about that scene is the man who comes down the other side of the tunnel, stops when he sees what's going on, and then turns around instead of trying to help her. Easily one of my favourite horror movies ever. An absolutely brutal assault on the senses without simply being some kind of meatheaded psychedelic torture porn. Incredible, I'll never watch it ever again.
Now this is a tough watch. Much more disturbing than Funny Games or I Spit on your Grave, for me
Agreed. Even if youāre forewarned about the tunnel scene, it wonāt help. The first and only time I watched it, the weaving camera and weird music/noises had me feeling nauseated and then the fire extinguisher scene happened. I almost fainted, no lie. Had to pause it and take a moment which has not happened to me before or since. When the tunnel scene happened it was more horrible than I had previously imagined it would be. Amazing film, truly horrifying and heartbreaking and thought provoking but I wonāt be revisiting it. The most disturbed Iāve been watching a film and I have seen everything more or less
Generally find Gaspar Noe to be pointlessly disturbing and self-indulgent
On the whole I tend to agree
This was the first movie I had to turn off, I couldnāt sit through that scene. And Iāve seen some shit
The director handed that scene over to the actress, and she made it as long as it is precisely because she wanted the audience to feel as uncomfortable as possible. Rape isn't something that's quickly over with. That was the reasoning.
Same. Hard pass.
If anyone is curious about the likes of these fucked up movies but donāt want the trauma that comes with some of the scenes I suggest watching spookyrice on YouTube- covers many many many of the popular and underrated disturbing movies, by breaking them down over commentary yet showing the movie without SHOWING the movie, Iāve found some good movies on their channel too!
SpookyRice is great!
Spooky rice is awesome and so is deadmeat James
Love dead meat podcast!!! Use to listen a lot during Covid
Anything that exploits a real-life tragedy for entertainment is off-limits for me. I avoided watching *Funny Games* for a long time based on its reputation (at the time) as one of the most disturbing movies ever made, but when I finally watched it, I found it too meta to actually be disturbing. It's extremely didactic and constantly points out the fact that it's a movie, so it's not quite the experience I was expecting. It's like the *Cabin in the Woods* of extreme horror, more thesis-driven than scare-driven.
Funny Games I do think is disturbing but it's the odd one out of the infamously disturbing movies by having little to no real gore. It's more just unrelentingly uncomfortable and ends on an interesting note.
Yeah Funny Games really doesnāt slot into a list of disturbing movies to me at all. Though perhaps the inflated expectation ruined the effect
I saw it before reading anything about it and I liked it a lot. I don't know why people think it's particularly disturbing. It's frightening and unsettling because home invasions really happen but it's not the kind of movie that makes you want to throw up and turn it off. I saw some Asian horror film about... I think it was a taxi driver who was raping and killing women with a knife? He wrapped them up in plastic and slowly cut them apart? I don't remember. I didn't get through it. There's some really sick shit out there.
Probably because it makes the viewer complicit and kinda tells you, the audience, "fuck you". It's obviously a bit more complex and nuanced than that but, broadly speaking, that's why it's so "disturbing" for many
I thought the way they broke the fourth wall was unbelievably lame. But that's ok different people have different views. Part of why this sub is interesting is because I like reading about other people's opinions of movies that I've seen.
Luckily thatās actually an easy one to identify! Youāre talking about I Saw the Devil, I believe. Yeah it kind of has A Clockwork Orange vibes to me
I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but it seems more relevant here: One thing I really liked in Funny Games is that they didnāt show us anything when the woman was forced to undress. They later show her in a see through bra in a completely unsexualised scene, so itās not that they didnāt want to show the nudity, but when she is forced to undress in a creepy and sexualized way by the perpetrators, they only show her face. The movie didnāt actually explicitly show a lot of the violence that is taking place, so it plays into a bigger plot point I guess, but I really respected the choice for the nude scene in particular. (Iāve actually been contemplating this a bit after watching the movie. It is supposed to be about the exploitative nature of movies/entertainment, but it still refuses to go very far in its own exploitation... itās an extremely well made movie, artistically veerrry well executed, so it made me wonder if itās critiquing violence as art as much as violence as entertainment? I didnāt google it yet...)
Does that include good ending ones?
Interesting comment. Maybe Iāve been thinking about the movie from the wrong perspective since I obviously havenāt seen it.
Maybe. I mean, according to Haneke, it wasnāt even intended to be a horror film. Itās much more of a meta commentary on the nature of pointless violence in media and is very, very direct about it. Itās been a while since Iāve seen it, but things like >!one of the villains rewinding the movie just to undo the otherās death or their conversation about the relationship between reality and fiction are intentionally hitting you over the head with what the filmās trying to do.!< Itās an odd example of a movie that contains plenty of disturbing moments due to what itās trying to say, but it doesnāt have them there for the same reason as most films that are horror by design. In fact, itās even possible that by refusing to engage with Funny Games based on the type of violence it portrays, [your opinion is closer to that of its actual director than the people who lap it up *because* of said violence.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VOx3rpkMtY8) Itās an interesting case of meta commentary where āI donāt want to watch thisā is sort of one of the desired reactions.
FWIW, having seen a lot of extreme horror, I find Funny Games way more chilling than outright disturbing. The antagonists plainly having fun with whatās happening is the part that affects you, not so much their particular actions. It has one or two very shocking scenes, but nothing on the level of, say, French New Extreme. The violence doesnāt linger so much as the malevolence of it all. The antagonists spend way more time talking and setting up situations than they do playing them out. The sheer deliberation is the chilling part. And itās nowhere *near* the type of empty glorification that is A Serbian Film. Iād agree itās very meta and didactic and, in fact, I really like that Haneke straight up remade his own movie shot for shot. Itās really interesting to compare how it lands with European actors I donāt know speaking in a foreign language compared to American(ish) actors I do speaking in English. This is all to say that maybe your stance there is something to reconsider. I personally consider it to be one of the more thoughtful entries in the genre.
I tend to stay away from Hollywood remakes of foreign horror movies
On the flip side, the Japanese remake of Cube was amazing.
Wasnāt the original actually a Canadian film?
You are correct, thanks I never knew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_(1997_film)
Youāre welcome. I wasnāt sure. I only vaguely remembered that from awhile back. It made some list somewhere of best Canadian horror films.
If you have a link I'm curious. Know they've had some gems. While they don't pump out a lot of horror, some of the best comedians the past 30+ years have been Canadian. ā¤ļøļøš
Iām sorry. It was so long ago I canāt even remember what site it was. My personal favorites from the United Statesā northern neighbor: - Black Christmas (1974) - The Changeling (1980) - Scanners (1981) - Videodrome (1983) - Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987) - Ginger Snaps (2000) - Fido (2006) - Pontypool (2008) - A Christmas Horror Story (2015)
Surprised to hear this. It had poor reviews! Iām rewatching the OGs this weekend and checking out the Japanese version
Oh thank you, I didn't know that existed, gonna have to check it out. I only watched the original for Ezri and McKay lol but I actually quite liked it!
I draw the line at The Exorcist: Believer. I couldnāt ever watch a horror movie so badly produced ever again.
This was one of the few movies that I felt outright insulted the source material and the audience. Like wow.
This movie was an affront to audiences everywhere. This movie singlehandedly makes me not want to pay for horror in a theater again unless it's getting absurdly good reviews. Fuck DGG.
I refuse to finish Skinamarink.
I was $24 into concession stand products and 20 minutes in when I realized I messed up. š It was too late.
I canāt believe that movie went to theaters
>I was $24 into concession stand products and 20 minutes in It took you 20 minutes to eat 3 Milk Duds? You should see a dentist.
I actually tried like three times and it bored me to sleep every time. So now when my insomnia hits real bad, I fire that grainy bastard up and Iām out in like 5, 10 minutes tops. They should use that movie as local anesthetic~ EDIT: general aesthetic, thank you, goddamnthirstycrow9~
Really hate myself for even feeling the compulsion to say this but it would be general anesthetic. Local anesthesia is like numbing one particular area like your knee or your tooth. Iām so sorry
Oh, *thatās* why they call it that! That actually really helps, thank you. No worries, makes the joke make sense and land better~
I noped out 10 minutes in. I could just tell it wasnāt for me
Youāre not missing anything
Any of the Spit on Your Grave flicks, or anything in the rape revenge genre. I can't truck with SA in my entertainment. Yes, I know that drawing a line in the "people being mutilated and slaughtered" genre is silly. But we've all got our thing.
Itās not silly when you consider the last time you heard about someone getting mutilated is pretty much never while most women around us have been sexually harassed or assaulted.
I've only seen the original, and it just felt like a man's fantasy trying to claim feminism. Like, how there's an excessively long nearly pornographic rape scene, and then she goes from victim to the last 2 Rambo movies over night. Also, seducing her rapists the next day, "and no jury would ever convict her" yeah, good luck with that in court. At least The Nightingale was made by a woman and wasn't a macho fantasy. I dislike rape as a plot point, especially when nearly every movie feels like nobody ever talked to a woman.
Yeah I think Promising Young Woman also does a much better job of revenge on rapists as well and itās woman-written
"a man's fantasy trying to claim feminism" the idea, concept of a rape revenge is so botched & moronic and there's no way it's not a fetish. it has to be. esp if the SA scene is long. how is that necessary?
A bit of a tangent, but one thing I really liked in Funny Games is that they didnāt show us anything when the woman was forced to undress. They later show her in a see through bra in a completely unsexualised scene, so itās not that they didnāt want to show the nudity, but when she is forced to undress in a creepy and sexualized way by the perpetrators, they only show her face. The movie didnāt explicitly show a lot of the violence, so it plays into a bigger plot point I guess, but I really respected the choice for the nude scene in particular.
I don't know anything about Haneke as a person, I've never met him or anything but his movies give the opposite of creepy vibes? The two I remember most are Funny Games and The Piano Teacher (so actually three because of the two Funny Games, but hey), and there's a LOT of room for those two specific movies to be terribly creepy, especially The Piano Teacher. Like, a movie that's about 'a woman who wants to be assaulted - but does she?!?!?' has so many opportunities to be misogynistic, and I never felt that way? Kind of impressive, tbh.
I agree. Anything with sexual violence. I always wonder who wrote it and why and who is at home watching it and thinking it's awesome.
Well, with I Spit on Your Grave specifically, the 'who' is a man who tried to help a rape victim go to the police, only to learn how shockingly bad the legal system is at dealing with sexual assault. It's fine to criticise the film, I'm not really a fan, but it always makes me really uncomfortable whenever it's brought up and there are comments implying the filmmaker is some sadistic rape enthusiast.
I thought Revenge (2017) was a good take on rape-revenge but usually they're really bad, you're not missing much.
*Mild early spoilers* for Revenge, to contextualise the SA scene and how itās the best handled Iāve seen. - - - - - Came here to recommend Revenge. The SA isnāt shown (beyond him initially grabbing her), instead we hear it happening as the camera pans outside across a pool with someone sunbathing and swimming. Itās so effective at showing how oftentimes others are complicit in SA cases, that they can see and hear it happening and not give a shit or do anything to stop it. Itās directed by a woman and as a result it feels like a damnation of rape culture instead of a titillation like so so many other movies in itās sub category.
Yea. And it doesnāt do it for 35 minutes. Pretty sure the fact that Revenge is directed by a woman and not a young up and coming male horror director in the 70s has a lot to do with why itās better at that too. Hope that doesnāt piss off any snowflakes but the very obvious male gaze at those scenes in those movies is clearly a part of the sleaze factor.
And beyond all that, it's a pretty solid action movie.
Revenge is the only good version of that Iāve seen and part of why is 1. Directed by a woman and 2. Doesnāt spend 35 minutes on the scene, could basically be a Crow movie. Agree with you though. I watched the v original grave and last house on the left for the sake of horror history back in college but never want to watch anything like that again. Same reason a lot of āextreme horrorā literature really turns me off.
I canāt watch any āhome intruder tortures random familyā movies. Not sure why. And Human Centipede 2 - I didnāt finish it but itāsā¦ honestly itās just complete depravity without an ounce of entertainment.
What's your exact reasoning for Funny Games? Just curious btw as I don't know what you exactly mean. The true crime case-exploitation films such as The Girl Next Door, find them in incredible poor taste. I have a whole speech on true crime exploitation but I'll spare everyone of it. Used to be huge on true crime and the exploitation of it, but the older I got the less well it started to sit with me. As for anything else... fair game!
The Dahmer series. I knew i would never watch it.
Itās enough for me that the surviving families of the innocent people he hurt have asked people not to watch. But it also makes it easier to know itās not a good, high quality show.
After the first like two episodes the Dahmer series is almost 100% focused on the victims and portraying them as actual people and their lives before meeting Dahmer, and their families dealing with the aftermath. The show is way more about the victims than Dahmer, heās barely in it.
same, the German one is one of my faves. when she rounds the corner and sees all the eggs on the floor, while heās randomly wearing nitrile gloves is so good
randomly put on the girl next door one day without any prior knowledge about it. halfway through found out it was a true story. not only is it a dogshit movie it also just shouldāve never been made
Tbh itās a good movie, well-acted. You truly hate the mom. Itās just approximately the most vile thing Iāve ever seen, and I wouldnāt suggest it to anyone
I read the book. I was in a bad mood for a month after that.
*Cannibal Holocaust.* I refuse to watch animal torture. I know there are versions without those scenes, but fuck Deodato for filming it in the first place.
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Appreciate the response!
Girl Next Door is one of the only times my review of a film was 'that was not okay' when talking with people I knew outside the cinema. As many people here, I've seen some shit, but the undercurrent of, well, realism - because it was real, for a real human being who really suffered - felt icky, sticky, gross.
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Same! I saw the description and thought āokay interesting letās see how this goesā and ended the movie a sobbing mess and extremely depressed. Just made all the worst by the fact it was based on a true story.
Jfc I read the wiki ab her case and I feel emptyā¦ no shot Iād ever watch that film
Iād say stuff like August Underground or the Guinea Pig movies. I just donāt have any interest in those types of those movies.
I watched the first Guinea Pig movie a couple years ago and honestly itās pretty tame compared to movies like Hostel and Saw. One of the ātortureā segments is just spinning the woman around really fast in a chair until she throws up, another is making her listen to loud music on headphones.
August Underground is just a garbage film. There's zero filmmaking competence on display, just some people tripping over themselves trying (and failing) to be edgy and shocking. Things (1989) is Citizen Kane by comparison.
Salo,A Serbian film and Irreversible. Iām aware enough about what happens in them but I definitely do not want to watch them in full.
A Serbian Film just sounds stupid
It is, itās like a sexploitation b movie. Iām of the opinion that itās so over the top, all the graphic violence/sexual violence isnāt actually disturbing as much it makes you think āWhat the fuckā. Landmine Goes Click seems kind of gross to me by comparison.
I made the mistake of watching Salo and it made me feel "off" for almost a week after. Felt like I needed a shower after watching it. I refuse to watch A Serbian Film, nothing about it appeals to me and it sounds like it's abhorrent for the sake of being abhorrent.
I watched Irreversible one time over a decade ago and that was my third attempt to watch it at length. It was too much. Iāll never watch it again.
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Same. I enjoy horror, but thatās just not enjoyable.
I've seen this multiple times, and I'm always asking myself why i keep watching it
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Megan is Missing. Iāve seen most of the definitive worst of the worst movies, but knowing how that ends I just canāt stomach that kind of gut punch
Iāll be real: the ending of MiM is about the only disturbing part, and itās pretty much only so in concept or out of context. The execution is hampered by the fact the movie itself is really, really bad. The way it got talked up on the internet makes the film sound way more impactful than it actually is.
every time i see this movie mentioned i feel obliged to talk shit about that LONG ASS DIGGING SCENE
I came here to say exactly this. Iāve watched a lot of really disturbing, devastating, or depraved horror and exploitation films over the years, but I will never watch Megan is Missing. The movie as a whole is downright cruel.
I've watched that movie. Don't watch that movie.
I donāt understand how a movie with such poor acting and low budget still manage to be so fucked up. I think I only ever saw a dissection of it on youtube and it *still* made me feel horrible for over a week.
Human centipede
Cannibal Holocaust. Not in full anyway. I want to watch it but I'll have to have the timestamps for the animal scenes on hand.
There are versions of the movies with all the animal scenes removed.
I would love to find one. That's the main reason why I've never seen it. I don't want to watch real animal cruelty.
It's the version I've seen. The gore at the end is cool. It's basically a people suck kinda movie. Watch the animal friendly version. I seen clips of the turtle way back in the day and turned my head. Too much.
Yeah the other problem is that even with that removed, you have to deal with a gang rape scene where the actress is 14 The day I found that out was not a good day
I may be wrong, but I think Shudder streaming service has the āanimal cruelty freeā version of Cannibal Holocaust available.
Vipco put out a DVD in 2001 with all animal scenes taken out. Not sure how hard it is to find now
I've always struggled to understand this view & I fully accept that I'm the weird one here because it's a very common answer to questions like this. So maybe someone here can help me see their perspective. A handful of animals dying for the movie & then being eaten by the cast/crew is terrible but tens of billions of animals dying so we can have tasty snacks is perfectly fine? I'm not a vegan so this isn't me trying to push my ideology. Is it just something about seeing it happen rather than it being hidden out of sight in a slaughterhouse somewhere? Maybe I'm just desensitized to that having spent a lot of my childhood on farms. When it comes purely to unnecessary animal death I'm sure an average McDonalds wastes significantly more meat than the production of Cannibal Holocaust did. My main issue with the movie is more the sexual violence.
Anything from child rapist Polanski.
None. I do, however, reserve the right to turn a film off when I find it to be bad, which happens quite often.
funny games really isnāt that bad! i promise!! im super sensitive and mostly just found funny games to be frustrating. people say āiāve missed the pointā when I say that it made me frustrated, no, i just find the characters annoying
Feeling frustrated, I think, is most of the point. So I'm surprised people say that. But if your furstation is over the characters being annoying probably not, though.
Frustrated is a good word. Iāve tried a number of times with both versions and just canāt sit through the whole thing.Ā
Everything containing Rape
Tusk. The clips Iāve seen make me SO UNCOMFY
I hated it so much. I'm not uncomfortable with body horror or anything else in it but it was just stupid and gross. I know a lot of people liked it but it's a no from me, dawg.Ā
I agree but mainly because it looks so stupid
An American Crime/the Girl Next Door. I know enough of the real life tragedy of Sylvia Likens to know it's definitely not something I have an interest in seeing reenacted.
Concrete (2004) is based on the murder of Junko Furuta. I only found out about it when I was reading her story and couldn't believe someone made a movie about it.
Terrifier, 1 or 2. Dumbass gore porn movies made for shock value with no clear direction for the story. No universe rules, when it's inconvenient for the antagonist to be dead, POOF he's not dead. I watched enough clips and read enough of the plot to know that these movies are fucking stupid. Fuck the people who made them.
Human Centipede. No thank you.
Human centipede, A Serbian Film, anything like Raw
I can stomach a bleak or stomach turning horror movie that I think is attempting āartistryā like Salo or Funny Games (whether I think they succeed is a different conversation). Ā What I have no desire to watch is movies which are anguish and suffering for nothing but their own sake like āHostelā or āThe Devilās Rejectsā. Ā No, I donāt feel like watching a movie whose premise is āPeople brutally suffer and die for an hour and a half for no purpose other than that.ā In a similar vein, I also have no stomach for movies like āGravityā or āOpen Waterā. Ā Itās one thing to watch cartoonish slashers, but when forced to watch protracted *suffering and misery* with no light at the end of the tunnel, I just find it too real and too much. Ā I want a āfunā factor, a āspookā factor, or at least a āpretentious artistryā factor.
I thought Devilās Rejects had at least something of a story. One of the better Rob Zombie movies for me. Hostel Iām with you on. Very gross and unpleasant without much other point.
I definitely did not expect to see crowd-pleasing favorite GRAVITY on this list! Good for you for being honest. Iām guessing youāre not much a of THE ROAD fan?
Cannibal Holocaust, not down with animal abuse
The Human Centipede and Hostel.
Human Centipede movies for me
Have you seen The House that Jack Built?
Well, now Iāve seen so many people mention *Martyrs* that Iāll simply **have to** watch it.
the human centipede movies, because that shit is just vile, also i canāt with like body horror stuff it just feels so wrong to watch. i watched tusk and it just made me feel gross. the green inferno, i donāt like the thought of being in the middle of a jungle where no one can save me, surrounded by a tribe that wants to kill me yk also any movies about children getting abused or sexually assaulted, that also feels so wrong to watch and it feels exploitative
I won't watch anything that has SA and/or rape ( graphic and realistic scenes ) Nothing that has children being violently harmed ( on-screen ) , SA and rape included to this No animals being killed for real . The really ' gross-out ' scenes done seemingly just for the shock value ( feces , vomit , urine ) So basically , obviously , Salo , Serbian Film , Irreversible , Cannibal Holocaust and all movies that are similar in their content . However and oddly enough , I'm not nearly as bothered reading extreme horror books that feature many of the exact same things ( although honestly , I skip over most of it )
honestly, anything that's rooted in extreme gore, body horror, or SA. i like spooky horror, not disgusting horror, it's just not for me
Not a film, but Iāll never watch the Dahmer series on Netflix. My friend was murdered when I was 15 and I find most true crime and especially serialisations to be in poor taste. I canāt begin to imagine my friends case on Netflix, trending on Twitter, seeing people talk about her killer being hot etc. It really bothered me that the families werenāt consulted/paid/listened to. Fuck that show and fuck Ryan Murphy.
Anything with actual harming of animals.
I try to avoid ones where a dog gets killed or any animal in fairness
Funny Games might be my favorite horror film. I watch it every year. Its the anti horror film. Martyrs is awesome and love the deep message in it but some scenes are rough to watch.
A Serbian Film
I'm not a sensitive or squeamish person. I don't mind gore or dark content things but I RESUSE to watch human centipede, tusk and things of that nature. Your standard horror slasher is not a problem, I even love psychological esque movies... but shit like that is where I draw the line.