Most disturbing movie you have seen?

Strumms

Parts of Requiem for a Dream

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

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The second one is even more disturbing. There's a third one as well, but that one is just pain silly.

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Agreed. Second sequence of human centipede is by far the most disturbing, the third one is the most graphic

Irreversible. The clue is in the title, you can't unsee it. Gasper noe really needed a hug the year before that was made.

El Gato De Negocios

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Martyrs is bloody awesome. One of the very few movies I've ever watched that i was thinking about days later.

Another one that hasn't been mentioned is one that i saw a good few years ago and have zero inclination to ever watch again.

The War Zone, directed by Tim Roth and starring Ray Winstone. About a small family and the despicable acts of the father who Winstone plays. Really challenging movie.

homingbird

Another case of then & now it doesn't add up but did at the time.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093036/

Spon Farmer

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Spoiler Warning

It has been a long time since I have seen it but I remember that it is very heavy going throughout with that scene (involving Connelly) near the end being very, very upsetting.

thefallingman

Modern film probably unbreakable for the way the pows were treated by the japs, really disturbing stuff.

i remember salems lot and the omen scaring me as a kid

decob

the crying game

Spon Farmer

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I have never seen this. Never had the opportunity.

I have vague memories of the time it was released and there being a lot of talk about it on the radio but cannot remember if people in Ireland were outraged or just bewildered.

I’m pretty sure though that for all the talk about it no one actually spoiled the reveal about the love interest. It was a few years later that it got spoiled for me.

i have the song going through my head now - I think I know most of the words

unkel

This hilarious ad sums up the crying game 😂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecL-MK9SHSQ

Strumms

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Yes, it’s not a film I’d have an inclination to rewatch.

cinematography is beautiful but it is tough going…

HBC08

I was 5 in 1983 when the full uncut version of the Triller music video was played out on a kids Saturday morning show.I was traumatised! I think they had to apologise or something afterwards.

Requiem For A Dream,I watched it in bits with a healthy dose of the fear on a Sunday night.Great movie but I wasn't right after it.

Strumms

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Your last line sums it up..

’ I wasn’t right after it ‘ same feeling as I had… watched it in the IFI and went straight into the Oak after, for an hour.

xper

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I saw the Cry Game first week of release. there had been a huge amount of publicity/controvesey about it in the press but at that stage that was all about it portraying an IRA man holding a British soldier hostage in a sympathetic light. There had been no mention of 'the reveal'. I still wonder how much of that was brilliantly work by the promoters and how much just happened because of the public disposition to the troubles in the UK and Ireland at the time.

Most disturbing film, impact wise, I've seen was Piranha (1978). Didn't help that I was 8/9 at the time.

Actually that said, as brilliant as it was, I don't think I've been able to watch Schindler's List all the way through again since first viewing in a packed but silent Savoy 1.

Ash.J.Williams

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did you snitch?

bucketybuck

Four Lions.

Look past the black comedy aspects and there is a very disturbing movie there.

The scene with the main character talking with his family in their kitchen for just one example. Here are intelligent, loving, empathetic people, he is a normal man with a bright son, she is a nurse, and they are calmly discussing his upcoming suicide bombing.

There are parts of that movie that are very, very real and it has stuck with me since I watched it.

trashcan

Come and See. A Belorussian WW2 film would get my vote. Pretty brutal stuff.

RabbleRouser2k

A few films. As someone mentioned, Deliverance messed me up. Requiem for a Dream, not so much. But the movie that inspired it (and also inspired Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan), Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue (animated, and brilliantly so) genuinely messed me up, It's a very dark, disturbing movie.

In the Mouth of Madness was a movie I saw a few years ago. It's by John Carpenter, and it's a very, very dark and disturbing movie. Watched it late at night, with a few beers and snacks, and it was deeply unsettling.

A really disgusting film, unintentionally so, was The General's Daughter, with John Travolta. It involves the investigation of a rape of a female soldier, and it's horribly disgusting. The movie isn't 'meant' to make you feel disgusted and disturbed afterwards-it's just how it made me feel. The way the rape is filmed is 'titillating' rather than filmed to be disgusting. Don't see it repeated very often. Thankful for that.

olestoepoke

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I still have nightmares about Watership Down

Stephen_Maturin

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Of course not, just suppressed it all down nicely

BorneTobyWilde

Snow White and The 7 Dwarfs

yagan

When I saw the thread title the movie that came to mind was Saviour, and I'm glad to see I wasn't alone in thinking that.

Ash.J.Williams

i see all the usual hitters here but the unlikely one that freaked me out as a kid and still is absolutely nuts is "Return to Oz" when after the previous adventures in oz when basically dorethy is consigned to a mental institution because of her mad tales from oz and she's only a wee girl! it's insane...

and of course it has the baddest mofo's around , the mothefockin Wheelers!

bejeezus

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Haha! I thought I was the only one that had seen this. It’s a little obscure and less viewed than the wizard of oz ,and it is decidedly creepy. I agree

RabbleRouser2k

Return to Oz is one of my favourite films. Harlan Ellison and Neil Gaiman were two of the few voices who genuinely championed that film when it came out.

(It flopped on release).

Joker.

I’ve enjoyed Batman since I was a kid in the 70’s and sat down to watch this thinking it was going to be some mindless/light hearted fun.

Ash.J.Williams

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funny at that exact time i was watching the same thing, came with a serious warning!

Ash.J.Williams

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something truly horrific about a child undergoing experimental shock therapy in a cold asylum full of howling voices :) that's proper horror

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM0RFE3QGAU

:)