Most disturbing movie you have seen?

rekluse · 04-04-2022 5:37pm #1

Watched Butchers (2021) last night and it was pretty decent horror/slasher type movie. It was pretty grim in places but by no means the most disturbing movie, but it got me thinking about the most brutal film I have seen. Whats the most disturbing movie you have seen? A couple that spring to mind for me.

Irreversible - Pretty brutal rape scene in this and also a very graphic murder.

I spit on your grave - Another with a pretty gruesome rape scene.

Sinister.- Watched this recently and it was much darker than I anticipated. It was stuck in my head for a few days after.

Any other suggestions from people? A few others that I've heard are pretty brutal but haven't seen personally are Cannibal Holocaust, Martyrs, The Poughkeepsie Tapes and A Serbian film.

poppysee · 04-04-2022 8:30pm

Mother (2017) was horrid, gruesome and made me feel sick.

04-04-2022 8:33pm

"Last Exit to Brooklyn" ........definitely NOT a first date movie & that's from experience 🤣

KaneToad · 04-04-2022 8:34pm

Deliverance

04-04-2022 8:36pm

a Serbian movie

kill list

Galwayguy35 · 04-04-2022 8:55pm

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

There was a rape scene in it which wasn't an easy watch, very good film though way better than the re make.

SouthWesterly · 04-04-2022 9:07pm

I watched Bambi in the Ambassador Cinema.

I left crying when his mammy was killed... The brutality. 😱😭

Sleeper12 · 04-04-2022 9:09pm

My wedding video 😂

black & white · 04-04-2022 9:36pm

Depends on my age, aged 7 the Daleks frightened the **** out of me, aged 10 it was Dracula or Frankenstein. Nowadays a Suspense film rather than horror is the worst

Notmything · 04-04-2022 9:48pm

Savior. 1998 film set during the Bosnian war.

Some very disturbing scenes and don't think it is a film I would enjoy watching again.

_gir · 04-04-2022 9:52pm

Human centipede and Tusk make me gag, can’t do body horror.

Martyrs left an impression too

Dempo1 · 04-04-2022 10:01pm

Have to say, Deliverance. It's a movie I've only seen once and many years ago and I still think it one of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen , but equally it was Brilliant.

04-04-2022 10:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118880783#Comment_118880783

That was GOOD!!!!! kicking myself I didn't get that one in first😂

NewbridgeIR · 04-04-2022 10:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058240259/most-disturbing-movie-you-have-seen

Cannibal Holocaust is great. Top score by Riz Ortolini too.

Also Cannibal Ferox.

Last House On The Left (1972) is bleak as is the copycat Late Night Trains / Night Train Murders

House On The Edge Of The Park and New York Ripper are on the high scale of grimness too.

magicbastarder · 04-04-2022 10:36pm

threads. especially as i was eight when i saw it IIRC.

Be right back · 04-04-2022 10:38pm

Perfume, story of a murderer.

Wolf creek.

JoChervil · 04-04-2022 10:39pm

Breaking the Waves

fryup · 04-04-2022 10:46pm

Scum - life in a British borstal

Clockwork Orange - avant garde violence

One Hour Photo - Robin Williams at his creepiest best

rocky1813 · 04-04-2022 10:46pm

The Devils Rejects

Funny Games

05-04-2022 8:19am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118881005#Comment_118881005

3-4 scenes in that beyond horrific. Easily the most disturbed I've ever been watching a movie. Sure you can do irreversible and send people down to a fisting club, and do 20minute rape scenes, but this is something else entirely. Very real and haunting.

Dempo1 · 05-04-2022 8:37am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118880783#Comment_118880783

Brilliant 🤣

De Bhál · 05-04-2022 12:30pm

I saw The Omen when I was about 11 or 12 back in the 1980's . Turned me off horror for life. Decapitation scene was something I will never forget.

PierreLeCake · 05-04-2022 12:37pm

The Exorcist. Saw it when I was an innocent teenage Catholic in the late 70's.I had nightmares after.I don't know if its aged but I could n't look at it again.I really upped the prayer saying for a few months after

Stephen_Maturin · 05-04-2022 12:38pm

A disinterested baby sitter left me to watch Robocop on the telly when I was about 8 or so.

The early scene in particular where Peter Weller gets his arm shot off with a shotgun really disturbed me at the time, that was a sleepless night

Fr Tod Umptious · 05-04-2022 12:43pm

"Once Were Warriors" is pretty grim

antfin · 05-04-2022 12:44pm

Lars Von Trier's Antichrist has some definite sphincter clenching scenes! One of the few movies that I really struggled to watch.

05-04-2022 12:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118881036#Comment_118881036

The Human Centipede - Who is that movie even for?

TheIrishGrover · 05-04-2022 2:14pm

Audition

Went in completely blind when I saw it on TV. Didn't even know who directed it at the time. Thought, "OK, the guy is a bit weird. This whole audition thing is definitely creepy and wrong but, hey, you know, he's suffering and not handling death of his wife well. I mean look at that girl, so quiet, sitting there with... huh... with a sack... huh... OHMYF*CKINGGODDIDTHATJUSTMOVE???WTF"

I remember being creeped out by Event Horizon too but I'd say that doesn't hold up. Haven't rewatched it but I'd say it's probably pretty cheezy :)

TheIrishGrover · 05-04-2022 2:16pm

Also, Graveyard of the Fireflies is a movie I just can't bring myself to watch again. It's just too heartbreaking. It's hard to believe that it was originally shown as a double-bill in Japan with the wonderful "My Neighbour Totoro"

loyatemu · 05-04-2022 3:28pm

that I've seen - possibly "A Short film about Killing" which is just incredibly bleak.

I've read a synopsis of "A Serbian Film" and I strongly recommend that you not only don't watch it, but don't read the synopsis either, bloody hell...

_gir · 05-04-2022 5:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118883266#Comment_118883266

People that love outgrossing each other

SuperBowserWorld · 05-04-2022 5:19pm

I hate horror movies, but this one is fascinating and very disturbing. And it's a great movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_%281986_film%29

silliussoddius · 05-04-2022 5:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118881005#Comment_118881005

Saw this ages ago, had never heard of it and was impressed (well as much as you can be with the subject matter). Deserves to be more well known.

fryup · 05-04-2022 5:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118884713#Comment_118884713

have yet to see it

jester77 · 05-04-2022 5:35pm

Kids hit hard when I watched it back then, not sure if it would have the same impact today.

I spit on your grave is probably the one that stands out.

bejeezus · 05-04-2022 5:49pm

I don’t watch disturbing, if that means sick?, films by choice. However, I did see IT the original’s opening since sometime before the age of ten. It scarred me for sure! Lol. I do like thrillers and proper old fashioned scary movies like psycho etc. The silence of the lambs was a bit iffy for me. I enjoyed it but it also terrified me.

Dakota Dan · 05-04-2022 5:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058240259/most-disturbing-movie-you-have-seen

Some true life film on Netflix last year about an Australian man that hated tourists and hunted them down and butchered them, gruesome.

santana75 · 05-04-2022 7:56pm

Midsommer........profoundly disturbing. Never want to see it again. I mean its a really good film, but deeply disturbing

Ten of Swords · 05-04-2022 8:07pm

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I was not right for days after seeing the lake scene in that movie

The main character accidentally suffocating a baby to keep it quiet to avoid discovery from the soldiers ethnically cleansing civilians (including the baby's mother) with sledgehammers and golf clubs in the nearby lake

Something especially terrifying about knowing it is fiction based on real events

Also the bumpy road scene in Hotel Rwanda

Pauliedragon · 05-04-2022 8:10pm

Hostel was a bit mad.

Vittu · 05-04-2022 8:20pm

IT when I was young, couldn't have a shower for awhile without feeling anxious.

Bone Tomahawk in the last couple of years, scene where a man is stood upside down and a bone tomahawk was used made me shudder

usernamegoes · 05-04-2022 8:23pm

"Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom"

ForestFire · 05-04-2022 9:14pm

Nightmare on elm Street, when I was young definitely. Can remember what age I was , but the whole premis of something coming for you in your sleep , and you have no control.

Bought it again in golden discs about 8 years ago for 3 euro on dvd and it's still in its plastic sleeve.

SuperBowserWorld · 05-04-2022 9:21pm

I haven't actually seen it, the thoughts of watching it disturbs me or maybe even d'sturbs me 🤣

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Brown%27s_Boys_D%27Movie

El Gato De Negocios · 05-04-2022 9:27pm

Men Behind The Sun - Dramatisation based on factual events surrounding the war crimes perpetrated by the Japanese on the Chinese during World War 2.

In a Glass Cage - Nazi war criminal ends up being nursed by one of the victims of his abuses. Dark, dark stuff.

Henry : Portrait of a Serial Killer - the gold standard of serial killer movies.

August Underground Mordum - Makes a Serbian Film look utterly tame in comparison.

thebronze14 · 05-04-2022 9:31pm

A Serbian Film..

billyhead · 05-04-2022 9:40pm

When I was younger The Fly and The Thing.

Timfy · 05-04-2022 10:07pm

10 Rillington Place. (1971)

The true story of murderer John Christie. The whole feel of the film is so bleak and despairing and Richard Attenborough plays the part so incredibly well, aided and abetted by a young John Hurt.

The atmosphere is so dark and gritty that I feel like I need a shower after watching it. Definitely not a feel good movie!