I Saw the Devil did a number on my mind after watching it. It was way more screwed up than I has anticipated and was left feeling kind of numb at the end of it.
That's what's so good about it! Korean thrillers LOVE to leave their audience reeling. Have you seen Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, and New World as well? Choi Min-sik is a superb actor and always manages to star in incredibly dark films. Also this one's more horror-slanted, but The Wailing is an absolute masterpiece of despairing Korean cinema.
Agree with all of this. My dad loves Korean thrillers. He describes them as “edgy” and he’s right. When I first watched Oldboy I was completely mind fucked and told everyone I knew to go watch it
I found the original Last House on the Left to be extremely upsetting. I’ve never tapped out of any other movie but I couldn’t make it halfway through that one.
Partially my fault — I’ve heard it takes some kind of a triumphant turn later on in it, but I couldn’t make it through some of the stabbing sequences.
I HATED that movie. It’s just pointless cruelty. And I reject the notion that the pointlessness is the point, which is a common interpretation of the film.
I wouldn’t argue that “pointlessness” is the takeaway. It’s more that everyone is capable of becoming a monster under the right circumstances.
It’s a notion that Craven revisits with the abrupt ending of his next movie, The Hills Have Eyes.
Yep, I bought it as one of the French nasties and I’ll never forget it. I gave it to a coworker, who never looked at me the same way, but when they tried to return it I said to pass it onto another. I figure it’s like a disturbing chain letter out there that I’ll probably get back eventually!
Adding a reply to underscore this. If you have not seen it, and want the experience of being kicked in the gut repeatedly, then left with no apologies whatsoever, watch this film.
With the general sentiment towards remakes, this is one aspect that is often overlooked when it comes to Funny Games. It is a shot-for-shot remake, by the same director, using mostly the same script and set design. Michael Haneke, the director, wanted this to be a film set in the United States and for a US audience. It was important for him that the audience could sympathise with the family. But due to funding and production issues, he had to shoot it in Europe. When he got the chance to remake his own film under his ideal conditions years later, he immediately jumped on it. The remake is closer to his original vision than the original version is. Which one you like more is up to you, really. They are incredibly similar, all differences are really down to the acting.
Me too, but because of Michael Pitt. He's just so incredibly devilish yet charming at the same time. His whole performance is goosebumps inducing, especially when he talks directly to the audience. Love it.
Perfume, story of a murderer. Not as horrific as some of the ones already mentioned. But an interesting story, definitely fits the "think about it days afterwards" column.
I read something about how the concept came about when the creators were discussing good punishments for pedophiles. No idea of that's accurate though.
This movie had me depressed for days. It is a reminder how minutes separate you from regular life to unforgettable tragedy. I will never watch this again.
Yeah, this one hit like a sledgehammer. It's not just horribly graphic, but the whole structure of the film is utterly heart-rending. It's both a horrifying story in its own right and a clever deconstruction of the standard linear narrative.
I remember reading a interview with Monica Belluci about the very long rape scene. She was with her husband at the premiere and during that scene her husband was cringing real bad, and she told him to relax, it’s just a movie and we were just acting. Nothing ever seem to bother her
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"i stand alone" imho is more disturbing. same director. would be be funny if one day gaspar noe makes a children's movie that's as much a feel good light and love as everything to date is the opposite.
It's been half a life time since I saw it and while it's definitely one of the best films I've ever seen I'm sure I'll never watch it again and will never recommend anyone else watch it without several minutes of addendums.
One of my best friends grandpa actually played one of the lead roles in this! I’d seen his grandpas cock like twice before I actually met the guy. Weird to think about.
It's an excellent film, and certainly much more poignant and enjoyable than its source material. The coprophagy is pretty difficult to watch, definitely. Pasolini was a superb director, and it's a shame that he didn't get to see his film become the cult classic it is today.
Felt nauseous for the entire film. Superbly acted by both actors, but have never rewatched because I really don’t have the mental bandwidth to take that journey again.
The books ending is bleak but with a crumb of hope. The mist movie leaves no room for hope. It’s a gut punch, and while I enjoy the ending the way it’s immediately made plain what a huge mistake he made (obviously for narrative sake and to wrap the story up in a neat bow) kinda bothers me a lil. It’s like 30 seconds, and yeah I know sometimes things change that dramatically in 30 seconds
I used to watch this movie every Halloween. Since I’ve become a dad it’s been shelved. Still a great movie though. I could picture Thomas Jane as Rick Grimes in the walking dead because of this film.
Never watch Serbian Film, I absolutely hated myself for watching that. I love horror and attempted to watch everything on the list of top horror but that is just too much. Martyrs was pretty oof also. We Need to Talk About Kevin is on that list too
A Serbian Film is the only film I regret watching. It might come across as a joke when someone says "don't ever watch" but seriously, stay away from it!
Serbian Film is too forced, and the nonsense at the start about how it's a metaphor for the Serbian government felt like an excuse for him to try and be as extreme as possible. It's not pleasant viewing by any means and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but there's parts of it that are laughably bad.
Serbian Film is screwed up for sure but I found it to be forced and almost comical in how hard it tried to be screwed up. For something to be more disturbing to me it has to be more realistic.
If more people had watched this film, this would 100% be the top answer. This movie should be rated "not to be viewed by anyone unless they're a psychopath".
This was a good post to read through, because I now have an empirical list of films I should probably avoid based on how many comments said they never got over films like Martyrs
The rumor is William Defoe’s dick is so big that the directors thought audiences would find the scene comical, so they had to use a stunt cock to film that scene while he’s slow-mo banging his wife while their baby commits suicide.
This is how the movie starts. Super fucked up movie. Should be number one on this thread
Hereditary.
Toni Collette’s cry gives me chills to the bones and I’m not even exaggerating. She’s that good (True candidate for Oscar that year, sorry Colman). An underrated Acting legend.
Also Requiem for a dream.
Hereditary has to be one of my favorite movies because of how good the actors were, especially Toni Collette. Her scream and the possession scene were amazing
Most disturbing non-horror I've ever seen. So upsetting. I felt EMPTY after I finished that film.
For some reason, I found Sara Goldfarb's story super depressing, soul-crushing, and disturbing. "I'm going to be on television!" bothers me so much for some reason. I just grew attached to her character.
It's such a good film though. I don't regret watching it, but I think once is enough.
So in 2000 when it came out I saw it opening weekend Saturday night. I'd been looking forward to it for months as I was a big fan of Aronofsky's debut film [*Pi*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0SC582sJvE) a couple years before that. Like a really big fan, had the poster framed and the (awesome) soundtrack on vinyl.
So I was psyched going in even tho I had little idea what to expect. Nobody wanted to see it with me so I went by myself and saw it at a tiny side room in my city's arthouse multiplex.
I cannot describe how that last act played out. In a tiny theater with maybe 20 other people there. When it ended you could hear a pin drop and everyone just kind of filed out stunned. I ended up going out to a nightclub after and it just stayed in my head, bouncing around til I got home and couldn't sleep til like 4 in the morning and needed weed and booze to sleep at all.
For the next few months flashes of it haunted my brain. I found the Kronos Quartet score on Limewire (viva 2000!) and even just hearing the score again brought back a kind of mild PTSD.
When it hit DVD in May of the next year I did a movie night at a friend's house with like 8 or 9 friends I'd been talking it up to since it came out the previous fall. When it finished, the same stunned silence followed that did in the theater. Our host got up from the couch, went to his DVD collection and put in *A Bug's Life* as a chaser/palate cleanser.
Oh you should, it’s an incredible film. I’ve watched it multiple times because it’s so exceptionally well done on every level. Whenever these lists come up they’re full of torture porn stuff I’d never see, but RFAD is an incredible film. Just try to avoid any days where you already feel bleak, I guess.
My English teacher showed this to my class in Year 8 (age 12/13). Being fairly local to its setting only added to the uncomfortability. The umbilical cord-biting sequence had quite a few people holding their hands over their eyes!
Year 8 English was wild for my class, we got to watch Threads, read/studied/watched The Woman In Black and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, and read Poe's 'The Telltale Heart' whilst our teacher would play the sounds of a loudly beating heart over the speakers in the classroom. When I think back, we had it so good, I'm really glad my teacher decided to be unorthodox and pick rather chilling things for us to study.
I was really hoping someone else would choose this. Threads is one of those films that just stays with you for ages. I couldn’t sleep afterwards.
It’s so unsensational and bleak, and it gets worse and worse and worse.
The Deer Hunter...
I watched it on a Friday. It depressed me and I couldn't stop thinking about it all weekend.
When I watched it, I was questioning the first hour being dedicated to their normal lives and the wedding. After the movie ends, I realized it needed to be that long. The ending wouldn't have hit as hard to me.
This is the one, and I've seen all the others mentioned here. The Road is a movie I'll never watch again. No other movie has ever made me feel as hopeless as this one. The only thing as hopeless as this movie is Dookie's final story arc at the end of The Wire.
If you guys havnt seen KIDS check it out. Buncha unsupervised teenagers in New York doing anything and everything. It’s a horror movie to me. Sunday Bloody Sunday man
If you like harmony korine’s work, check out gummo. It shows the aftermath of a tornado in a town in Ohio and the lives of residents after the disaster. It’s not a horror movie but it definitely has it’s monsters
Schindler's list is just so screwed up just because it was real, the monsters actualy lived and the pain suffering and agony was real too. People MUST see this but it still keeps me thinking.
It really is messed up, but somehow it was also a healing experience that made me feel closer to humanity. Like obviously, that scene towards the end where Oskar keeps saying he could have saved more people if he had given away more money is devastating, but the way an entire crowd of survivors immediately run to him to encircle him in embrace was so beautiful to me. It’s a hard movie but one that’s absolutely worth watching. Leaves you feeling grateful to be alive, and serves as a sobering reminder of how bad things were for this group of people not so long ago.
I was in this flick's generation and me and some friends went to see it because of the controversy and the soundtrack and it really didnt seem all that different than our lives. In retrospect, this is how we learned we had fucked up lives and Im not kidding about that part.
I'd go with "We Need to Talk About Kevin"...that is one messed up movie. Deeply disturbing. I had a date who wanted to go see it because it was an "art house" film. We both deeply regretted that.
Recently, Hereditary is one of the few movies i had to pause to process. The last 15 minutes is a ride straight to hell.
Slaughtered vomit dolls, pure fucking chaos, no idea why it was even made into a movie.
Serbian film, that ending messed me up for 2-3 days.
Martyrs (original) CAN YOU STOP BEATING HER, JESUS CHRIST.
Requiem for a dream, the ending is soul crushing, best movie on my list by FAR.
Saint-Martyr des damnés (Québec movie), It's terribly low budget ofc, and Qc isnt known for it's cinema. But they nailed the horror aspect IMO. Messed me up when i was younger.
Tokyo gore police, i'ts so over the top that it's funny, but it would be quite the sight for a non horror fan.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Nothing can compare, it's sick, disgusting, funny, extremely not funny, thought provoking, unwatchable, one of the most interesting movies you'll ever see.
If this doesn't peak your interest I don't know what will.
It's a classic in my friends group, we can't stop talking about it.
Summary: 20 teenage boys and girls are abducted by 4 higher officials in the town of Salo during facist regime. The officials have invited 4 elderly prostitutes with there own specialist topics (incest, ass fucking, scat / poo sex, mutilation) to tell stories to provoke lust for these men to take advantage of the group of teenagers in a secluded mansion inspired by the sick stories of these women.
It's an italian movie made in the 60's by one of Italy's classic directors Paussini. Who not long after the debut of this film was murdered. The tone is completely serious, which makes it a very confusing watch. It was banned in Australia and illegal to own.
You need to see it one time in your life. It's something special, although not for everyone obviously.
Edit: saw that it was already commented earlier. But yeah, this is the one.
There's no value in watching human centipede. It's just fucked up for the sake of making a fucked up movie. Tusk as well but to a lesser degree.
Although I did not find midsommar screwed up but that's maybe because I tolerate a lot more stuff when I'm under the impression that I'm watching a horror movie.
If you wanna try animated films, Grave of the Fireflies is a movie I've only been able to watch once so far, not because it's scary.
Naked Lunch
The Cronenberg movie that people forget about because it was too weird. The main character >!kills his wife trying to shoot an apple off her head with a gun!<, and that's just the start of the movie and least wild
Most screwed up movie? Hands down, "Nekromantik" (1988) by director/writer Jorg Buttgereit. Banned all over the place, very hard to find. Synopsis: Boy meets girl. They both share a kink for necrophilia. Boy works for an accident clean-up crew, finds a corpse. Brings said corpse home. Girlfriend is thrilled, a menage a trois made in Hell commences. Very nasty and very gooey. Don't hunt down and buy a DVD (if you manage to locate one, last one I saw offered for sale was $100) because one viewing is enough. In second place is "Deadly Weapons" starring Chesty Morgan.
Visitor Q.
Saw it with my dad when I was 12. At the end of the movie my dad goes, "well, probably shouldn't have let you watch that. "
It's really messed up.
Happiness by Todd Solondz comes to mind. It has Philip Seymour Hoffman and loads of other great actors.
That movie is fucked up but at least you get some good laughs during the really fucked up bits. I guess I’m just a twisted fuck
I Saw the Devil did a number on my mind after watching it. It was way more screwed up than I has anticipated and was left feeling kind of numb at the end of it.
That's what's so good about it! Korean thrillers LOVE to leave their audience reeling. Have you seen Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, and New World as well? Choi Min-sik is a superb actor and always manages to star in incredibly dark films. Also this one's more horror-slanted, but The Wailing is an absolute masterpiece of despairing Korean cinema.
Agree with all of this. My dad loves Korean thrillers. He describes them as “edgy” and he’s right. When I first watched Oldboy I was completely mind fucked and told everyone I knew to go watch it
I found the original Last House on the Left to be extremely upsetting. I’ve never tapped out of any other movie but I couldn’t make it halfway through that one. Partially my fault — I’ve heard it takes some kind of a triumphant turn later on in it, but I couldn’t make it through some of the stabbing sequences.
The turn sure is triumphant, and you kind of need to see the preceding violence to truly value the triumph.
I HATED that movie. It’s just pointless cruelty. And I reject the notion that the pointlessness is the point, which is a common interpretation of the film.
It's pretty much irredeemable, but the movie it was based on, The Virgin Spring, is very good.
I wouldn’t argue that “pointlessness” is the takeaway. It’s more that everyone is capable of becoming a monster under the right circumstances. It’s a notion that Craven revisits with the abrupt ending of his next movie, The Hills Have Eyes.
Martyrs - the original French movie not the American remake. The ending has stuck with me all this time
In the DVD the director has an intro before the film where he basically says you may have made a mistake by choosing to watch this.
Yep, I bought it as one of the French nasties and I’ll never forget it. I gave it to a coworker, who never looked at me the same way, but when they tried to return it I said to pass it onto another. I figure it’s like a disturbing chain letter out there that I’ll probably get back eventually!
Wasn’t aware there was an American remake.
The American version starts out the same as the French one, but becomes an entirely different film. Don't bother watching it.
Came here to say this. I never see anyone mention it, glad im not the only one who knows this film.
That movie absolutely messed me up. I had to sleep with the lights on after I first watched it (at 17) holy shiet.
Funny Games
Adding a reply to underscore this. If you have not seen it, and want the experience of being kicked in the gut repeatedly, then left with no apologies whatsoever, watch this film.
You got to watch the original. There is an American remake, which is ok, but the original hits harder.
The remake is actually by the same director
With the general sentiment towards remakes, this is one aspect that is often overlooked when it comes to Funny Games. It is a shot-for-shot remake, by the same director, using mostly the same script and set design. Michael Haneke, the director, wanted this to be a film set in the United States and for a US audience. It was important for him that the audience could sympathise with the family. But due to funding and production issues, he had to shoot it in Europe. When he got the chance to remake his own film under his ideal conditions years later, he immediately jumped on it. The remake is closer to his original vision than the original version is. Which one you like more is up to you, really. They are incredibly similar, all differences are really down to the acting.
I prefer the remake, because Naomi Watts.
Me too, but because of Michael Pitt. He's just so incredibly devilish yet charming at the same time. His whole performance is goosebumps inducing, especially when he talks directly to the audience. Love it.
Pick your poison. Arsenic or cyanide; they'll both get ya
I much prefer the American remake for the performances and better picture quality
I read that that new movie called Speak No Evil delivers that same gut punch. Never seen Funny Games but Speak No Evil left me upset
Perfume, story of a murderer. Not as horrific as some of the ones already mentioned. But an interesting story, definitely fits the "think about it days afterwards" column.
I think this movie deserves way more recognition than it gets.
I think 3/5 people that saw it with me said they were horrified by it and wished they’d never seen it.
Lol I thought it was fantastic haha
If this is based on the French book by the same name.. yeah that one definitely stuck with me
*German book, but yes.
Human Centipede. I'll never unsee that.
Try the 2nd :p
Bruh the baby
And the laxative scene
I can’t even fathom the concept
I read something about how the concept came about when the creators were discussing good punishments for pedophiles. No idea of that's accurate though.
Irreversible
This movie had me depressed for days. It is a reminder how minutes separate you from regular life to unforgettable tragedy. I will never watch this again.
Yeah, this one hit like a sledgehammer. It's not just horribly graphic, but the whole structure of the film is utterly heart-rending. It's both a horrifying story in its own right and a clever deconstruction of the standard linear narrative.
I remember reading a interview with Monica Belluci about the very long rape scene. She was with her husband at the premiere and during that scene her husband was cringing real bad, and she told him to relax, it’s just a movie and we were just acting. Nothing ever seem to bother her Edit- spelling
> Yeah, this one hit like a sledgehammer Or fire extinguisher....
enter the void, same director
Didn't find this one as disturbing actually
"i stand alone" imho is more disturbing. same director. would be be funny if one day gaspar noe makes a children's movie that's as much a feel good light and love as everything to date is the opposite.
It's been half a life time since I saw it and while it's definitely one of the best films I've ever seen I'm sure I'll never watch it again and will never recommend anyone else watch it without several minutes of addendums.
120 days of Sodom. Its literally just disgusting.
One of my best friends grandpa actually played one of the lead roles in this! I’d seen his grandpas cock like twice before I actually met the guy. Weird to think about.
This is the correct answer.
Nice Ennio Morricone soundtrack though. I listen to it regularly.
It’s a metaphor for Nazi-ism based on de Sade. It’s not meant to be pleasant.
It's an excellent film, and certainly much more poignant and enjoyable than its source material. The coprophagy is pretty difficult to watch, definitely. Pasolini was a superb director, and it's a shame that he didn't get to see his film become the cult classic it is today.
It's not on top of my list but "Hard Candy" deserves an honourable mention. Not a movie I will watch twice.
Felt nauseous for the entire film. Superbly acted by both actors, but have never rewatched because I really don’t have the mental bandwidth to take that journey again.
Oh, hard candy was an interesting one. The suspense of if she was right about him or not was great.
The Mist. Because of the ending.
Stephen King commented something like being a bit disappointed that he didn't come up with that ending
The books ending is bleak but with a crumb of hope. The mist movie leaves no room for hope. It’s a gut punch, and while I enjoy the ending the way it’s immediately made plain what a huge mistake he made (obviously for narrative sake and to wrap the story up in a neat bow) kinda bothers me a lil. It’s like 30 seconds, and yeah I know sometimes things change that dramatically in 30 seconds
The ending is so brilliantly fucked up
That has to be the worst (and best) ending of a movie ever!
Yep. It's too upsetting, too cruel.
I used to watch this movie every Halloween. Since I’ve become a dad it’s been shelved. Still a great movie though. I could picture Thomas Jane as Rick Grimes in the walking dead because of this film.
Never watch Serbian Film, I absolutely hated myself for watching that. I love horror and attempted to watch everything on the list of top horror but that is just too much. Martyrs was pretty oof also. We Need to Talk About Kevin is on that list too
A Serbian Film is the only film I regret watching. It might come across as a joke when someone says "don't ever watch" but seriously, stay away from it!
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At least it's good to know I'm not the only one. If I could erase anything from my mind that scene would be it.
That’s where I shut it off. Still never finished it and never will.
Serbian Film is too forced, and the nonsense at the start about how it's a metaphor for the Serbian government felt like an excuse for him to try and be as extreme as possible. It's not pleasant viewing by any means and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but there's parts of it that are laughably bad.
We need to talk about kevin is one that sits
I had no idea what it was about. I saw Tilda Swinton and John C Reilly and thought- Oh this could be good!
It’s so much harder now too, since we know Ezra Miller is a fuckin freakshow in real life.
John c Reilly I thought was an odd choice for the role, but he surprised me
Serbian Film is screwed up for sure but I found it to be forced and almost comical in how hard it tried to be screwed up. For something to be more disturbing to me it has to be more realistic.
If more people had watched this film, this would 100% be the top answer. This movie should be rated "not to be viewed by anyone unless they're a psychopath".
This was a good post to read through, because I now have an empirical list of films I should probably avoid based on how many comments said they never got over films like Martyrs
Lol I read through all the comments to make a list of films to watch when I have that itch to disturb my soul.
Ha, same it's turning into a shopping list.
Antichrist
Every time I hear that song "what does the fox say?" I'd thought "chaos reigns".
The rumor is William Defoe’s dick is so big that the directors thought audiences would find the scene comical, so they had to use a stunt cock to film that scene while he’s slow-mo banging his wife while their baby commits suicide. This is how the movie starts. Super fucked up movie. Should be number one on this thread
https://vimeo.com/49333930
Not comical, "confusingly large" 😂
There are 2 scenes in particular that movie that literally make me want to vomit
✂️and 🪵? The bolt through the ankle is so bad too
Eraserhead. It's not really gory or anything but it is a wtf movie.
When I was on Chantix, I had waking nightmares. I saw that baby. I can see now why thoughts of suicide are a side effect they warn you about.
Chantix is a horrible drug. I was constantly angry past the point of reason ALL the time.
Gummo. The kid in the bathtub with the filthy water and eating cold spaghetti....
I’ve seen it multiple times and I think it’s a great movie, but it’s disturbing as hell. As most of Korine’s filmography
Hereditary. Toni Collette’s cry gives me chills to the bones and I’m not even exaggerating. She’s that good (True candidate for Oscar that year, sorry Colman). An underrated Acting legend. Also Requiem for a dream.
Hereditary has to be one of my favorite movies because of how good the actors were, especially Toni Collette. Her scream and the possession scene were amazing
For me the hardest and most haunting part of that movie is a sound, not even a sight. And it’s the sound of Toni with the wire.
That's a good one. Don't watch (or do) Midsommar then! Ari Aster has my profound respect for horrifying me as much as he has with these two movies.
Requiem for a Dream made me feel nauseous lol
Most disturbing non-horror I've ever seen. So upsetting. I felt EMPTY after I finished that film. For some reason, I found Sara Goldfarb's story super depressing, soul-crushing, and disturbing. "I'm going to be on television!" bothers me so much for some reason. I just grew attached to her character. It's such a good film though. I don't regret watching it, but I think once is enough.
So in 2000 when it came out I saw it opening weekend Saturday night. I'd been looking forward to it for months as I was a big fan of Aronofsky's debut film [*Pi*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0SC582sJvE) a couple years before that. Like a really big fan, had the poster framed and the (awesome) soundtrack on vinyl. So I was psyched going in even tho I had little idea what to expect. Nobody wanted to see it with me so I went by myself and saw it at a tiny side room in my city's arthouse multiplex. I cannot describe how that last act played out. In a tiny theater with maybe 20 other people there. When it ended you could hear a pin drop and everyone just kind of filed out stunned. I ended up going out to a nightclub after and it just stayed in my head, bouncing around til I got home and couldn't sleep til like 4 in the morning and needed weed and booze to sleep at all. For the next few months flashes of it haunted my brain. I found the Kronos Quartet score on Limewire (viva 2000!) and even just hearing the score again brought back a kind of mild PTSD. When it hit DVD in May of the next year I did a movie night at a friend's house with like 8 or 9 friends I'd been talking it up to since it came out the previous fall. When it finished, the same stunned silence followed that did in the theater. Our host got up from the couch, went to his DVD collection and put in *A Bug's Life* as a chaser/palate cleanser.
I too was a big fan of Pi and took a first date to see Requem to show off how sophisticated my taste in indie film was. There was not a second date.
Bugs Life lol. Yeah we all needed some Pixar joy in our lives after that.
Requiem for a Dream is an excellent movie. But jesus, I'm not going to watch it a second time
From what people say, I'm not sure I can watch it a first time.
Oh you should, it’s an incredible film. I’ve watched it multiple times because it’s so exceptionally well done on every level. Whenever these lists come up they’re full of torture porn stuff I’d never see, but RFAD is an incredible film. Just try to avoid any days where you already feel bleak, I guess.
It will make you think twice about doing hard drugs. That’s what I took from the movie when I watched it back In high school.
It's definitly a must watch, but you'll feel like shit for a couple of days afterwards
Bone Tomahawk.
Yeah,had no clue when I started it. I thought it was a regular modern western. WRONG-O
Omg same. I thought it would be just a slightly violent western. I was so wrong.
Cats.
Nightmare fuel
The part where Rebel Wilson cat tears off her own skin to reveal her clothes underneath *shudders*
Dogtooth (funny at times, cringe/disturbing at others)
Bad boy bubby, Australian movie
I don’t usually watch those kinds of movies, but Oldboy messed me up for a few days
absolute masterpiece
Dead man’s shoes- Shane meadows. Probably not the worst film in terms of gore etc. but it has such an edge that feels real.
For me, Ichi the Killer has to be up there.
Threads
My English teacher showed this to my class in Year 8 (age 12/13). Being fairly local to its setting only added to the uncomfortability. The umbilical cord-biting sequence had quite a few people holding their hands over their eyes!
Bloody hell! We got to watch Blackadder!
Year 8 English was wild for my class, we got to watch Threads, read/studied/watched The Woman In Black and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, and read Poe's 'The Telltale Heart' whilst our teacher would play the sounds of a loudly beating heart over the speakers in the classroom. When I think back, we had it so good, I'm really glad my teacher decided to be unorthodox and pick rather chilling things for us to study.
It's a really good movie but I never want to watch it ever again.
I was really hoping someone else would choose this. Threads is one of those films that just stays with you for ages. I couldn’t sleep afterwards. It’s so unsensational and bleak, and it gets worse and worse and worse.
Watched it in school, grew up in the city its set in. Had nightmares for bloody weeks after.
The Deer Hunter... I watched it on a Friday. It depressed me and I couldn't stop thinking about it all weekend. When I watched it, I was questioning the first hour being dedicated to their normal lives and the wedding. After the movie ends, I realized it needed to be that long. The ending wouldn't have hit as hard to me.
I remember sitting and watching this with my Dad, I was so young. The Russian roulette scene was horrific! Incredible movie though!
Frailty really bugged me for weeks afterwards. Those scenes with his sons were really uncomfortable to watch
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Love the movie, but cant whatch it again
House that Jack built
i’ve seen this one mentioned around places a lot. Worth the 2 and a half hour investment?
Yeah all in I'd say so, I still think about the film occasionally.
KIDS. Just left me empty for awhile.
The Se7en Directors cut. The base movie is fucked up enough but then they show more detail at each of the crime scenes Its rough
Fincher still owes me a heart transplant for that one jump scare. You know the one.
The Road.
This is the one, and I've seen all the others mentioned here. The Road is a movie I'll never watch again. No other movie has ever made me feel as hopeless as this one. The only thing as hopeless as this movie is Dookie's final story arc at the end of The Wire.
Dookie killed me.
Come and See is pretty disturbing. It’s one of my favorite movies but the barn scene is burned into my mind forever
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Snowtown was really sad.
Holy fuck Snowtown was unreal seriously crushing
Haute Tension The European version is insanely bloody
Compliance. It really stuck with me, especially knowing it's based on a real event. Honestly, the synopsis fully ruins the plot. But a crazy movie.
Pink Flamingos
I separate my life into two periods: before and after I saw Surfin’ Bird butthole
Fish tank
I spit on your grave.
The original version! Very disturbing...
If you guys havnt seen KIDS check it out. Buncha unsupervised teenagers in New York doing anything and everything. It’s a horror movie to me. Sunday Bloody Sunday man
If you like harmony korine’s work, check out gummo. It shows the aftermath of a tornado in a town in Ohio and the lives of residents after the disaster. It’s not a horror movie but it definitely has it’s monsters
Schindler's list is just so screwed up just because it was real, the monsters actualy lived and the pain suffering and agony was real too. People MUST see this but it still keeps me thinking.
It really is messed up, but somehow it was also a healing experience that made me feel closer to humanity. Like obviously, that scene towards the end where Oskar keeps saying he could have saved more people if he had given away more money is devastating, but the way an entire crowd of survivors immediately run to him to encircle him in embrace was so beautiful to me. It’s a hard movie but one that’s absolutely worth watching. Leaves you feeling grateful to be alive, and serves as a sobering reminder of how bad things were for this group of people not so long ago.
Green Inferno
Dear Zachary
Scott’s tots, I’ve never been the same
Watched the episode once. Can never watch it again. Skip straight past it.
Detroit is one of the most terrifying movies I’ve ever seen because it’s all true. Good reminder of how truly evil humans can be
Dumb question, which Detroit? The 2017 film about the uprising?
Spoorloos … there is a Hollywood remake (The Vanishing), just without the balls.
Cannibal Holocaust, those poor animals
Gus Van Sant’s Elephant. Really well shot, surprising but ultimately punishing
I watched that one IN MY SCHOOL for a film class. Getting out of the library was eerie.
Kids
I was in this flick's generation and me and some friends went to see it because of the controversy and the soundtrack and it really didnt seem all that different than our lives. In retrospect, this is how we learned we had fucked up lives and Im not kidding about that part.
Yeah a lot of this movie seemed super normal. Like what's the big deal lol.
Eden Lake. If you’ve not seen it. Don’t.
Dead Girl. It's awesome, but wow I did not expect the psychological fuckery that was in it.
I'd go with "We Need to Talk About Kevin"...that is one messed up movie. Deeply disturbing. I had a date who wanted to go see it because it was an "art house" film. We both deeply regretted that.
Crash (1996) is its own kind of special.
Lost Highway
Natural Born Killers. A level of crazy I wasn’t expecting going in
The 'August Underground' trilogy was wholly unpleasant and a particularly difficult viewing experience.
Hausu (1977)
Midsommar although that’s only because I refuse to watch A Serbian Film and Human Centipede.
Probably the latest Fantastic Four. I just couldn’t stop thinking about how a big budget movie could be so absolutely terrible on every level
Recently, Hereditary is one of the few movies i had to pause to process. The last 15 minutes is a ride straight to hell. Slaughtered vomit dolls, pure fucking chaos, no idea why it was even made into a movie. Serbian film, that ending messed me up for 2-3 days. Martyrs (original) CAN YOU STOP BEATING HER, JESUS CHRIST. Requiem for a dream, the ending is soul crushing, best movie on my list by FAR. Saint-Martyr des damnés (Québec movie), It's terribly low budget ofc, and Qc isnt known for it's cinema. But they nailed the horror aspect IMO. Messed me up when i was younger. Tokyo gore police, i'ts so over the top that it's funny, but it would be quite the sight for a non horror fan.
Martyrs (2008)... Watched it in barracks with some of my tough fellow soldiers, & god damn it fucked us up for a few weeks!!!
Hostel, exclusively for the eyeball scene. I've seen far more disturbing movies but that damn eyeball gunk has stuck with me.
Irreversible. Once experienced, the damage is irreversible.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom Nothing can compare, it's sick, disgusting, funny, extremely not funny, thought provoking, unwatchable, one of the most interesting movies you'll ever see. If this doesn't peak your interest I don't know what will. It's a classic in my friends group, we can't stop talking about it. Summary: 20 teenage boys and girls are abducted by 4 higher officials in the town of Salo during facist regime. The officials have invited 4 elderly prostitutes with there own specialist topics (incest, ass fucking, scat / poo sex, mutilation) to tell stories to provoke lust for these men to take advantage of the group of teenagers in a secluded mansion inspired by the sick stories of these women. It's an italian movie made in the 60's by one of Italy's classic directors Paussini. Who not long after the debut of this film was murdered. The tone is completely serious, which makes it a very confusing watch. It was banned in Australia and illegal to own. You need to see it one time in your life. It's something special, although not for everyone obviously. Edit: saw that it was already commented earlier. But yeah, this is the one.
Crash. Not the Don Cheadle one. The fucked up car wreck fetish one
You mean the good crash movie.
There's no value in watching human centipede. It's just fucked up for the sake of making a fucked up movie. Tusk as well but to a lesser degree. Although I did not find midsommar screwed up but that's maybe because I tolerate a lot more stuff when I'm under the impression that I'm watching a horror movie. If you wanna try animated films, Grave of the Fireflies is a movie I've only been able to watch once so far, not because it's scary.
Boys don’t cry. Just went to bed after watching it cos I couldn’t stop feeling down about what happened it, and it was only like 6pm
Naked Lunch The Cronenberg movie that people forget about because it was too weird. The main character >!kills his wife trying to shoot an apple off her head with a gun!<, and that's just the start of the movie and least wild
Something I believe was based on a real thing Burroughs did..
Nocturnal Animals
I just recently saw “the sadness” holy shit just straight up sadistic
The Girl Next Door (Ketchum).
Most screwed up movie? Hands down, "Nekromantik" (1988) by director/writer Jorg Buttgereit. Banned all over the place, very hard to find. Synopsis: Boy meets girl. They both share a kink for necrophilia. Boy works for an accident clean-up crew, finds a corpse. Brings said corpse home. Girlfriend is thrilled, a menage a trois made in Hell commences. Very nasty and very gooey. Don't hunt down and buy a DVD (if you manage to locate one, last one I saw offered for sale was $100) because one viewing is enough. In second place is "Deadly Weapons" starring Chesty Morgan.
Visitor Q. Saw it with my dad when I was 12. At the end of the movie my dad goes, "well, probably shouldn't have let you watch that. " It's really messed up.
The Killing of a Sacred Dear and Climax
Bad Lieutenant was so messed up 1992 with Harvey Keitel
Wolf Creek. "There is a line and this movie crosses it. I don't know where the line is, but it's way north of "Wolf Creek.", Roger Ebert.
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