Disturbing Films
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No mentions of Ichi the Killer?
Yeah, this is one of those extraordinarily rare instances where I can actually recommend Ichi the Killer.
Yeah, this is one of those extraordinarily rare instances where I can actually recommend Ichi the Killer.
Yeah, that one! Man, that movie was messed up.anthony87 said:
There's also another one I'd recommend, but I can't for the life of me remember the title. The plot revolved around some college students studying fear as a project and this other guy they brought in to assist takes things a little too far...
Splice was kinda messed up but it didn't bother me. I think everyone who has seen it knows the scene I'm talking about.
Paradise now tells the story of a terrorist in Palestine and how he's chosen for a bombing. It reminded me a lot of american hood movies like Menace II Society, Boyz in the hood, Juice, etc.
It's a great movie though and its on Netflix that's how I saw it.
Hey its on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPhHeUYPnok
It's a great movie though and its on Netflix that's how I saw it.
Hey its on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPhHeUYPnok
My tastes are relatively tame, but
Antichrist - not overly disturbing until the last 1/4 of the film when all sorts of shit happens/gets cut off.
Splice - Two scenes. First scene isn't overly graphic, but messed up. The second last scene of that film... Urgh.
Also, haven't seen Dread, but being based on the short story by Clive Barker, would be cringey stuff. (Just don't watch the trailer, a bit too much is revealed in it).
Antichrist - not overly disturbing until the last 1/4 of the film when all sorts of shit happens/gets cut off.
Splice - Two scenes. First scene isn't overly graphic, but messed up. The second last scene of that film... Urgh.
Also, haven't seen Dread, but being based on the short story by Clive Barker, would be cringey stuff. (Just don't watch the trailer, a bit too much is revealed in it).
Not sure if anyone else feels this way, but I thought Precious was a really rough movie to watch. Maybe not as violent or graphic as some, but it definitely had moments. And really, if you think about it... young, overweight teen girl who's pregnant for the second time because she's being sexually abused at home? Seriously, how messed up is that?
Eraserhead -just plane weird.
Splice -sexy time in the most fucked up way.
Antichrist -things get cut off...
Splice -sexy time in the most fucked up way.
Antichrist -things get cut off...
[rant]Tom Six is a four year old who holds his breath to get noticed. I sat through Human Centipede movies 1 & 2 and was bored to tears. When you put a hyperbolic statement on your movies, they are nothing more than you having a big ego. When fans put a hyperbolic statement onto your movies, there can be some merit to it. Human Centipede movies are boring garbage. "Disgusting" doesn't apply to them, because to be disgusted, you have to hate the villians or like the heroes/victims/somebody. I care about nobody within the films, therefore, I could care less about the movies.[/rant]Kitsune Hunter said:
OT: I just watched a disturbing movie based off of John Bunting, an Australian serial killer, called The Snowtown Murders. A mildly generic sounding name, but it is a true story (An actual true story, not like Fargo is a true story), and from beginning to end, it is quiet, uncomfortable, and not truly graphic, but it has at least two scenes where I cringed and almost wanted to shut off the movie, because I was getting uncomfortable (I don't shut movies off anymore unless I'm bored to tears, if that says anything).
I have more, but I have way too many to mention, and I feel everybody will touch on them here shortly, if they haven't done so already.
Check out Blindness, an adaption of a book by nobel-prize winning author Jose Saramago.
It's about a sickness that makes people blind for no good physiological reason, and about a group of people being quarantined in an old asylum, among them one woman immune to the disease who pretends to be blind to protect her husband.
It very much goes the usual "human nature is awful" route from there (which weirdly sparked some controversy as the American Federation for the Blind condemned the movie for harming the public image of blind people), at least until the surprising third act.
But even expecting that, i was surprised in how disturbing and unpleasant the story would get. Combined with the weird imagery of "untrained" blind people who have to fend for themselves without any aid (the film makes a big point of how f**ked you are when you suddenly go blind without any guidance on how to deal with it), it makes for a truly shocking movie, but in an intelligent and mostly non-sensationalist way.
It's about a sickness that makes people blind for no good physiological reason, and about a group of people being quarantined in an old asylum, among them one woman immune to the disease who pretends to be blind to protect her husband.
It very much goes the usual "human nature is awful" route from there (which weirdly sparked some controversy as the American Federation for the Blind condemned the movie for harming the public image of blind people), at least until the surprising third act.
But even expecting that, i was surprised in how disturbing and unpleasant the story would get. Combined with the weird imagery of "untrained" blind people who have to fend for themselves without any aid (the film makes a big point of how f**ked you are when you suddenly go blind without any guidance on how to deal with it), it makes for a truly shocking movie, but in an intelligent and mostly non-sensationalist way.
Battle Royale. It did what the Hunger Games should have done, make me feel uncomfortable. Why did this film hit me so hard? Well, it's because I am a High School student and can envision something happening like that to my class. It wasn't the killing, it was why it was happening. Would I try and make peace? Would I team up with my friends and kill my class off? Would I suicide? What the fuck would I do?
Try Synecdoche New York. It's not exactly creepy (Well... maybe, in a way.) and certainly not gory but it's one of the most depressing and frightening movies i've ever seen. It get's you on a very emotional level.
Also, as far as i know, it's on YouTube.
Also, as far as i know, it's on YouTube.
Oh, i forgot another one: marebito
As side project by Takashi Shimizu in between two "Ju-On/The Grudge" movies, he moves beyond black-haired-ghost-girl J-Horror for more subtle, psychological thrills.
It's about a camera-obsessed man who becomes interested in the idea of absolute fear when he films a frightened man in a subway killing himself, and while investigating, finds a naked, chained, feral girl in an underground village who may or may not be a vampire/demon/thing/normal human.
It touches upon many things, like the case of Kaspar Hauser or the Hollow Earth Theory and much, maybe too much more, and presents itself as a horror movie that is not so much scary as it is frightening because of it's disturbing implications and it's way to get under the skin.
As side project by Takashi Shimizu in between two "Ju-On/The Grudge" movies, he moves beyond black-haired-ghost-girl J-Horror for more subtle, psychological thrills.
It's about a camera-obsessed man who becomes interested in the idea of absolute fear when he films a frightened man in a subway killing himself, and while investigating, finds a naked, chained, feral girl in an underground village who may or may not be a vampire/demon/thing/normal human.
It touches upon many things, like the case of Kaspar Hauser or the Hollow Earth Theory and much, maybe too much more, and presents itself as a horror movie that is not so much scary as it is frightening because of it's disturbing implications and it's way to get under the skin.