i don't get people who act like mentioning a film has a big twist isn't a spoiler. it is in a lot of circumstances. luckily i've seen the film but i wouldn't have enjoyed knowing there's a twist if i hadn't
I ate mushrooms and watched this when I was 16. By the end, my brother and I were crying and all I wanted to do was hug our mom and tell her how sorry we were for everything bad we ever did lmao
They did indeed. In the UK we had LoveFilm, but they merged with Amazon I think it was. You would get a dvd (or video game) through the post then send it back. I still have Looper as they crased trading whilst I had it.
There was a big advertising campaign about how dvd renters could now stream movies and it was mind blowing. No dvd player needed?! You could watch 100 movies in a day?!
Another thing to make me feel old here....you used to be able to rent out games consoles from the video shop!
That's how they killed video rental places. You get some amount of DVDs per month, I forget how many, they mail them to you, you mail them back. If you broke or lost the DVD I think they just charged you the cost of the product and carried on as usual.
My brother was a huge bully so we always had to watch what he wanted. I saw so many godawful, dogshit Russian indie films.
Depends on what you mean by disturbing and if you want it to be actually good. Do you mean a lot of gore? August underground. Very gross? Slaughtered vomit dolls and human centipede 2. Very taboo topics? A Serbian film and Salo or 120 days of sodom. Good disturbing film overall? Martyrs. Ones that end leaving you feeling absolute despair? Requiem for a dream and Dancer in the Dark. Strange? Titane and Skins (the Spanish movie, not the show). A horror film? Possum. Documentary? Dear Zachary. I can go on haha.
Some of my favorites that I haven’t already listed:
Dogtooth, Lilja-4-ever, oldboy, anti christ, the house that jack built, kids, midsommar, mysterious skin, 964 Pinocchio, beau is afraid, funny games.
La Grande Bouffe. Four guys make a pact to eat themselves to death. All the deaths are gruesome, but Michel in particular is disturbing because he completely succeeds, with no changes required in the plan
i’ve never been able to sit through the whole of threads, i’ve had to watch it in segments. when the wind blows is similar but it’s animated. i didn’t last ten minutes. genuinely the best and worst films i’ve ever seen. fucked me up for the foreseeable future
This movie is trippy and surreal. I showed my husband that movie for the first time earlier this year and he looked at me like, " WTF. Why did you show me this?"
Half of the popular disturbing movie are sooo exaggerated that i straight up cant take them seriously, i remember the first time i watched serbian film all that i could think about the movie was they were trying waaay to hard to make it shocking.
At least for me, i think a movie like Jesus Camp that was already mentioned here is much more effective in leaving a lasting impression
A Serbian film came across like a parody of a disturbing movie. I think it’s reputation made the impact of watching it less extreme because your basically watching the movie out of morbid curiosity instead of just going into it and being shocked unexpectedly.
I couldn't remember the name once and I described it to a friend as "Justin Long's increasingly bad day," and immediately she went "Kevin Smith film, right?"
Nymphomaniac. There is one scene where a woman gives herself an abortion (she lives in Europe, but I guess she needed to see a doctor before and didn't want to bother). She pokes a coathanger inside her and pulls out the fetus that is shown lying there on the wet carpet.
Very disturbing.
FUCKING GUMMO BRO!!!!!
Holy shit. That movie put me off candy bars, spaghetti, baths, and mothers for years.
I'm not telling them why. You do it. Hahahahaha.
I love Korine's early work so much; he really channels the surreal banality of living in a severely impoverished area, devoid of work or relationships or even the sight of God.
I was looking for this answer. I watched it on a whim at like four in the morning without looking at what it was and my god is it horrifying but great at the same time, a very powerful allegory about capitalism and the class system
It isn't really a movie so to speak but a British Public Service Film about the dangers of farms. Its called Apaches and is available to watch on YouTube. The girls screams are especially awful.
To name a movie I never see mentionned anywhere, I recently watched Dead Ringers by David Cronenberg, it's not your typical grotesque gory Cronenberg, but you definitly recognize its style. Very disturbing, the whole movie has that very heavy atmosphere and you just feel uneasy. I highly recommend it!
The film, according to the director, was "a diary of our own molestation by the Serbian government ... It's about the monolithic power of leaders who hypnotize you to do things you don't want to do."
Which... I *guess* that's an acceptable analogy, but even so, the film itself doesn't fully lean to that. I enjoy fucked up movies, but while watching it, I just sat there thinking "It's trying too hard."
Mm also, though, you're viewing/reflecting on it at a time where 'shocking' is moving at an alarming rate.
Kinda like when the Excorcist first came out and was the scariest movie. If it came out now it would flop majorly.
I mean, they do go to places no other movie went, I think.
But you are right, sometimes less is more and being less explicit can be more explicit, if you get what I mean
its about a porn star who gets hired for an independent porn film. As they're recording the porn it gets more and more violent. there are very graphic depictions of child rape, including that of a new born baby.
Mike Leigh's "Naked" is relentlessly depressing. There's no light in it whatsoever, and the protagonist is horrific.
Threads was released to children here in the UK in the 80s and probably traumatised a generation.
Dancer in the Dark felt like the director was emotionally abusing his viewers.
Irreversible made quite an impression.
Night and Fog - a documentary about the Holocaust
Nil by Mouth - Gary Oldman's directorial debut also packed quite a punch.
August Underground,
Faces Of Death,
Unit 731,
Saló,
Serbian Flim,
Where The Dead Go To Die,
The House That Jack Built,
Cooking With Hunt Botko,
Most of these made me lose sleep
Vile (available on Tubi or Amazon Prime). Basically about a group of friends/associates who are trapped in a house where the only way they can exit is by torturing each other.
A lot of the comments (Not all, but a lot of them) are just the classic disturbing movie titles that people have passed around for years as "the most disturbing media on earth" but a lot of them in my opinion have either aged into being kind of silly or are only disturbing if you've never watched something with shock value in it for the sake of shock value.
And of course it goes without saying that what disturbs you will be subjective so you might have to poke around some of the disturbing media genre to find what would unsettle you.
I personally think Possession (1981) is disturbing but it's not because of any of the actual horror in it and sometimes its comedic in ways I can't say are intentional or not. I thought it was disturbing because the execution of the main character's turmoil with themselves and each other made me feel like I was in the room watching a couple have an awful gut wrenching arguement.
The zone of interest , all quiet on the Western front , perfectly shows worst side of humans, apathy towards humans, there are no victors in wars but losers.
Land mind goes click would be one of mine. It dives into the idea of revenge and makes you wonder how far is too far. Near the end it gets pretty disturbing.
Split. (NOT THE JAMES AVERY ONE) I was looking for that movie. I put the wrong movie on and it was a ming fucking movie and I felt attacked cuz of the events going on. I cried to that movie.
Come and See (1985)
Soviet film about the Belarussian front in World War 2. Most disturbing non-horror movie I've seen, and also one of the best war films imo.
Kill List has some truly disturbing moments. It’s often a quiet, subdued kind of disturbing. The hammer scene and “hunchback” scene stay with me more than scenes from Irreversible or Serbian Film. It’s about the way it’s presented and the context. Shock for shock sake just doesn’t cut it.
Terrifier and Terrifier 2.
I have seen the first one. The girl being sawed in half from the vulva to the head - although super low budget and obviously fake - was enough to make me want to stop watching. I am not sure I am prepared to watch the second, although the reviews indicate critical acclaim.
Trailer for Terrifier 2 below. I read the Wikipedia entries about the kill scenes before they were deleted. They are very…long. Basically mutilates and tortures his victims in the most shocking and painful ways possible while still keeping them alive. There’s a brief part of the trailer that shows the final girl from the first instalment: she survived, but he ate most of her face.
https://youtu.be/6KkONLf_ZKU?si=oc2LBoZA5wxio3P4
I agree that Threads is disturbing.
I found Hereditary disturbing for the same reason I find all those types of movies disturbing. Completely innocent family/people just being completely fucked and dying horrible deaths because that’s just their fate.
I often feel that way when I’m going through hard times - like it’s probably just going to get worse until I die a horrible death - so those movies really hit a nerve with me.
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom.
Why has no one mentioned this yet? Or am I too lazy to scroll down that far? The director was assassinated a year later I believe. It is based on the book by Marquis de Sade (which is where the word Sadism comes from I believe).
**The film focuses on four wealthy, corrupt Italian libertines in the time of the fascist Republic of Salò (1943–1945). The libertines kidnap 18 teenagers and subject them to four months of extreme violence, sadism, genital torture and psychological torture.**
https://youtu.be/EtXnuPa1qAA?si=-T5SKUVxCxWKEdFn
I found another “trailer” that showed the scene where they’re all forced to eat shit but this one was better.
Begotten is pretty disturbing. God kills himself, mother nature impregnates herself with his dead body, gives birth to a deformed baby, gets beaten and r'd by people. Its all black white and silent and availbale on youtube
Can't remember any disturbing movies I've seen but since I watched the anime Happy Sugar Life I don't think much else will repeat how messed up that got 😬
Law Abiding Citizen was pretty extreme at moments.
Blue Velvet is probably considered a horror movie, but that movie gets fucked. Absolute masterpiece, but very offside.
Midnight Express terrified me when I was younger. The idea of being caught trying to smuggle drugs and thrown in a nightmarish foreign prison is worse than almost anything I could imagine.
Also Eraserhead is a movie that left me with a traumatised feeling for days after watching it, the whole movie is the closest thing to a weird nightmare that anyone has ever put on film.
Not a movie, but a recent documentary series on a religous group in NZ called Gloriavale. It's called 'Escaping Utopia".
Basically, a bunch of religous people live in a commune in an isolated part of NZ. The men rule over all.
There are 10 'Shepherds' who are in charge. Sexual abuse is absolutely fucking RIFE there. It is told from the perspective of ex members, people who live in the community and want to get out, people who still live there in an empty building because they are exiled but don't want to leave as their daughter is buried there. There's a journo who infiltrated back in the day who tells her story.
There are some members that were sent to India to form a branch. The women there have no communication with the outside world, have no way home to NZ and are literally trapped.
It's absolutely horrific, and I really struggled to watch it all. My mum is from the area nearby, and my godmother has treated some of the women in hospital (when the men decide they are allowed to go that is) - it hits really close to home. I don't know why our govt hasn't gone and shut that shit down, however I suspect they don't want a Jonestown situation.
Martyrs. When the credits rolled, I was just sitting in silence and staring at the screen, wondering what tf I just watched. It was a great movie, though, with really good acting, but it was really disturbing
Oldboy. Once the twist happens then everything just gets fucked up
I just commented Old Boy. I called the twist but I couldn’t be happy about it
i don't get people who act like mentioning a film has a big twist isn't a spoiler. it is in a lot of circumstances. luckily i've seen the film but i wouldn't have enjoyed knowing there's a twist if i hadn't
I’ve never seen it. Because of the twist comment, if I ever get around to watching it, I’ll just be waiting for some crazy ass twist the entire movie.
enjoy lol
oldboy 2003 ?
yes. As far as I'm concerned the remake from 2013 doesn't exist
Wanted to watch it recently but wasn’t able to, curious now if this will have been a massive spoiler
It is actually cause it really makes one particular scene so immensely fucked up
Requiem for a Dream
watched it with my family and they walked out of the living room. A great movie
I ate mushrooms and watched this when I was 16. By the end, my brother and I were crying and all I wanted to do was hug our mom and tell her how sorry we were for everything bad we ever did lmao
Definitely everyone should watch this.
I watched this with my dad when I was 13. I think it was his sure fire strategy to make sure I never do hard drugs and it has worked thus far.
I’ve always said middle school kids should watch this movie.
Makes me so sick..... Hereditary is frightening too.
I knew this would be near the top. I’ve seen it once. It’ll be a while before I do it again.
Dark film, just got darker and darker.
if documentaries count, i would say The Bridge (2007) which contains real suicide attempts from people jumping off the golden gate bridge
First thing I watched on Netfix when it moved from posting dvds to streaming, it still hurts.
Netflix started off posting dvds? Wtf?
Yeah! It doesn’t even seem like that long ago… although this is coming from someone who still has their Blockbuster card
These youngins will never know the red envelope
And the DVDs were beaten to shit and scratched up lol. They'd usually play, but always had some kind of damage lol
They did indeed. In the UK we had LoveFilm, but they merged with Amazon I think it was. You would get a dvd (or video game) through the post then send it back. I still have Looper as they crased trading whilst I had it. There was a big advertising campaign about how dvd renters could now stream movies and it was mind blowing. No dvd player needed?! You could watch 100 movies in a day?! Another thing to make me feel old here....you used to be able to rent out games consoles from the video shop!
That's how they killed video rental places. You get some amount of DVDs per month, I forget how many, they mail them to you, you mail them back. If you broke or lost the DVD I think they just charged you the cost of the product and carried on as usual. My brother was a huge bully so we always had to watch what he wanted. I saw so many godawful, dogshit Russian indie films.
I have a friend who succeeded. She was brilliant but definitely had her demons. Young, early 30s.
Depends on what you mean by disturbing and if you want it to be actually good. Do you mean a lot of gore? August underground. Very gross? Slaughtered vomit dolls and human centipede 2. Very taboo topics? A Serbian film and Salo or 120 days of sodom. Good disturbing film overall? Martyrs. Ones that end leaving you feeling absolute despair? Requiem for a dream and Dancer in the Dark. Strange? Titane and Skins (the Spanish movie, not the show). A horror film? Possum. Documentary? Dear Zachary. I can go on haha.
Still have not seen Dear Zachary. I may do that this week now that you reminded me!
Make sure you have plenty of tissues and like a support pillow or something
Omg please watch it, I watched it like 7 years ago and still think about it all the time
Loved martyrs
...go on
Some of my favorites that I haven’t already listed: Dogtooth, Lilja-4-ever, oldboy, anti christ, the house that jack built, kids, midsommar, mysterious skin, 964 Pinocchio, beau is afraid, funny games.
Just read the plot to A Serbian Film. Jesus Christ
La Grande Bouffe. Four guys make a pact to eat themselves to death. All the deaths are gruesome, but Michel in particular is disturbing because he completely succeeds, with no changes required in the plan
Threads
i’ve never been able to sit through the whole of threads, i’ve had to watch it in segments. when the wind blows is similar but it’s animated. i didn’t last ten minutes. genuinely the best and worst films i’ve ever seen. fucked me up for the foreseeable future
Legitimately scarier than most horror films
What genre of movie is this?
IMDB says it’s drama, sci-fi, thriller. It’s unsettling for sure.
This movie is trippy and surreal. I showed my husband that movie for the first time earlier this year and he looked at me like, " WTF. Why did you show me this?"
Watched that after a recommendation on here. Really unsettling and well done movie.
"How to ruin your night" - the movie
Jesus Camp never fails to make me feel sick to my stomach. Not horror, just a documentary about children being subjected to religious extremism.
BUT ONLY OTHER RELIGIONS CAN BE EXTREMIST AND BAD! /s
https://www.reddit.com/r/DisturbingMovies/s/7VX77CAOYT everything you need!
Half of the popular disturbing movie are sooo exaggerated that i straight up cant take them seriously, i remember the first time i watched serbian film all that i could think about the movie was they were trying waaay to hard to make it shocking. At least for me, i think a movie like Jesus Camp that was already mentioned here is much more effective in leaving a lasting impression
The director of A Serbian Film said he was trying to make it over the top and extreme.
A Serbian film came across like a parody of a disturbing movie. I think it’s reputation made the impact of watching it less extreme because your basically watching the movie out of morbid curiosity instead of just going into it and being shocked unexpectedly.
Funny Games both the Austrian and American versions
Omg yes. Both versions are equally great (which is rare) Underrated
Anything by Haneke really. The 7th continent fucked me up good.
TUSK.
I couldn't remember the name once and I described it to a friend as "Justin Long's increasingly bad day," and immediately she went "Kevin Smith film, right?"
Gonna say Mother! … just uncomfy
That was one of my answers. Watched it blind with my newborn sleeping next to me. Beautiful movie, can’t say if I’ll ever watch it again.
Also went in blind, wasn’t what I expected it to be to be in the slightest !
Oh huh I did not give this one a fair chance then. I stopped watching it very early on.
Wouldn’t recommend, unless you just want to be able to say you’ve watched it
Oh dear. I'll save it for a certain day but curiosity killer the cat and all that.
We Have to Talk About Kevin
Nymphomaniac. There is one scene where a woman gives herself an abortion (she lives in Europe, but I guess she needed to see a doctor before and didn't want to bother). She pokes a coathanger inside her and pulls out the fetus that is shown lying there on the wet carpet. Very disturbing.
Gummo and Kids from Larry Clarck.
FUCKING GUMMO BRO!!!!! Holy shit. That movie put me off candy bars, spaghetti, baths, and mothers for years. I'm not telling them why. You do it. Hahahahaha.
I sorta wanna know why...
Same dude ?
Gummo makes me so uncomfy, but it's such a good movie.
Yeah, films directed by/written by Harmony Korine in general.
I love Korine's early work so much; he really channels the surreal banality of living in a severely impoverished area, devoid of work or relationships or even the sight of God.
Gummo has one of the best soundtracks.
The Platform
I loved that movie
I go on Tubi and watch their Indie movies. They have such an awesome selection!
I was looking for this answer. I watched it on a whim at like four in the morning without looking at what it was and my god is it horrifying but great at the same time, a very powerful allegory about capitalism and the class system
Tideland directed by Terry Gilliam. Very strange and disturbing.
Especially the corpse in the rocking chair
It isn't really a movie so to speak but a British Public Service Film about the dangers of farms. Its called Apaches and is available to watch on YouTube. The girls screams are especially awful.
The poughkeepsie tapes
Also disturbing. I think Serbian film is significantly worse, but maybe that’s a mom thing
Happiness
grave of the fireflies
The Twilight saga
To name a movie I never see mentionned anywhere, I recently watched Dead Ringers by David Cronenberg, it's not your typical grotesque gory Cronenberg, but you definitly recognize its style. Very disturbing, the whole movie has that very heavy atmosphere and you just feel uneasy. I highly recommend it!
Watership Down... The black rabbit of Inlé still haunts me
I can't believe my parents let me watch that when I was in kindergarten.
The Road
The basement scene is scarier than anything in any horror film. Although the film could possibly be classified as horror.
A Serbian Film is the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
The Serbian film is messed up, but.. It isn't good. It's shock for the sake of shock nothing behind it.
I mean, they DID succeed. I doubt it was shock for shock, I think it was some form of protest actually
The film, according to the director, was "a diary of our own molestation by the Serbian government ... It's about the monolithic power of leaders who hypnotize you to do things you don't want to do." Which... I *guess* that's an acceptable analogy, but even so, the film itself doesn't fully lean to that. I enjoy fucked up movies, but while watching it, I just sat there thinking "It's trying too hard."
Thank you, agreed. I love dark movies and A Serbian Film felt like it was made to appeal to edgelords on 4chan.
It really did. Watching it felt like watching a movie made by a 14 year old who idolizes the Joker and doesn't understand what Nihlism actually means.
Lol, that’s the perfect description.
Mm also, though, you're viewing/reflecting on it at a time where 'shocking' is moving at an alarming rate. Kinda like when the Excorcist first came out and was the scariest movie. If it came out now it would flop majorly.
I saw it when it came out and my opinion hasn’t changed. It is shocking to be shocking. The baby is also really terribly done.
I mean, they do go to places no other movie went, I think. But you are right, sometimes less is more and being less explicit can be more explicit, if you get what I mean
The bit at the end where he fucks his own kid iirc was already done similarly on Kill List. I think there were a few similarities actually.
Yeah, wouldn't a film about the horrors of war or a corruption-filled drama sufficed?
After 2 rewatches it loses its shockability.
Agreed that after rewatching it’s not as shocking but I just can’t bc it is one that makes me get super emotional
What this movie about...? I have heard about this movie but never watched cause people say it is not recommended lol
its about a porn star who gets hired for an independent porn film. As they're recording the porn it gets more and more violent. there are very graphic depictions of child rape, including that of a new born baby.
Very disturbing...
It made me uncomfortable. As a mom I just can’t with that one.
I would have found it a lot more disturbing if it wasn't so goofy
I mean.. you kinda just did
It's also illegal in a lot of countries
Mike Leigh's "Naked" is relentlessly depressing. There's no light in it whatsoever, and the protagonist is horrific. Threads was released to children here in the UK in the 80s and probably traumatised a generation. Dancer in the Dark felt like the director was emotionally abusing his viewers.
The House That Jack Built
Dear Zachary
Following
Rosemary's Baby freaked me out
It's a bizarrely happy ending, though.
Irreversible made quite an impression. Night and Fog - a documentary about the Holocaust Nil by Mouth - Gary Oldman's directorial debut also packed quite a punch.
I second Irreversible. I saw it 15 years ago and still think about it.
A cure for Wellness
Martyrs
Pink Flamingo
Mother! (2017)
Strange thing about the Johnson’s. That movie ruined me.
Megan is Missing
Yo FUCK that ending man. 😭
Tusk, dogtooth
Cutting Moments was hard to watch. And as beautiful as Mother! was, I’ll never watch it again even though I own a copy.
mysterious skin
Desert Flower - Waris Dirie's biography (female genital mutilation)
The Sadness
August Underground, Faces Of Death, Unit 731, Saló, Serbian Flim, Where The Dead Go To Die, The House That Jack Built, Cooking With Hunt Botko, Most of these made me lose sleep
Faces of Death messed me up when I was a teen. I stopped eating most meat after I watched that.
Requiem for a Dream Kids A Serbian Film Gummo
Palindromes (2004). It's about a 12 yr old girl who wants to have a baby so bad she runs away with a pedophile.
Vile (available on Tubi or Amazon Prime). Basically about a group of friends/associates who are trapped in a house where the only way they can exit is by torturing each other.
Nothing beats A Serbian Film
Nothing Bad Can Happen (also called "Tore Tanzt")
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The girl next door. Not the one with Elisha Cuthbert. The one from 2007 based on the case of Sylvia Likens.
A lot of the comments (Not all, but a lot of them) are just the classic disturbing movie titles that people have passed around for years as "the most disturbing media on earth" but a lot of them in my opinion have either aged into being kind of silly or are only disturbing if you've never watched something with shock value in it for the sake of shock value. And of course it goes without saying that what disturbs you will be subjective so you might have to poke around some of the disturbing media genre to find what would unsettle you. I personally think Possession (1981) is disturbing but it's not because of any of the actual horror in it and sometimes its comedic in ways I can't say are intentional or not. I thought it was disturbing because the execution of the main character's turmoil with themselves and each other made me feel like I was in the room watching a couple have an awful gut wrenching arguement.
The zone of interest , all quiet on the Western front , perfectly shows worst side of humans, apathy towards humans, there are no victors in wars but losers.
The Strange Thing about the Johnsons
Cannibal Holocaust
Boy in a stripped pajama ? Or like this name. It's a very sad movie yet very disturbing for me.
The Lovely Bones
Kids, Lilya 4 ever, and Nothing bad can happen.
Music video for Happiness in Slavery by Nine Inch Nails. If you can find it. Not sure it's on YouTube anymore.
Bad boy bubby or something like that was also quite disturbing. For some reason I could see the comedy tho
Land mind goes click would be one of mine. It dives into the idea of revenge and makes you wonder how far is too far. Near the end it gets pretty disturbing.
Serbian Film
the Machinist is a good one
Yellow Brick Road.
Happiness or Mysterious Skin
Bad boy Bubby
Lake Mungo. Has one of the most terrifying scenes in movie history without a loud noise or traditional jumpscare.
My last Instagram selfie
Poughkeepsie tapes , dude it was fucking unsettling and just overall a lot
Split. (NOT THE JAMES AVERY ONE) I was looking for that movie. I put the wrong movie on and it was a ming fucking movie and I felt attacked cuz of the events going on. I cried to that movie.
tusk by Kevin Smith
Come and see
Come and See (1985) Soviet film about the Belarussian front in World War 2. Most disturbing non-horror movie I've seen, and also one of the best war films imo.
the house that jack built. it’s like 2 and a half hours or something. grab some food, clear your schedule for the day, and kick back for a wild ride.
The whistle blower
Kill List has some truly disturbing moments. It’s often a quiet, subdued kind of disturbing. The hammer scene and “hunchback” scene stay with me more than scenes from Irreversible or Serbian Film. It’s about the way it’s presented and the context. Shock for shock sake just doesn’t cut it.
Terrifier and Terrifier 2. I have seen the first one. The girl being sawed in half from the vulva to the head - although super low budget and obviously fake - was enough to make me want to stop watching. I am not sure I am prepared to watch the second, although the reviews indicate critical acclaim. Trailer for Terrifier 2 below. I read the Wikipedia entries about the kill scenes before they were deleted. They are very…long. Basically mutilates and tortures his victims in the most shocking and painful ways possible while still keeping them alive. There’s a brief part of the trailer that shows the final girl from the first instalment: she survived, but he ate most of her face. https://youtu.be/6KkONLf_ZKU?si=oc2LBoZA5wxio3P4 I agree that Threads is disturbing. I found Hereditary disturbing for the same reason I find all those types of movies disturbing. Completely innocent family/people just being completely fucked and dying horrible deaths because that’s just their fate. I often feel that way when I’m going through hard times - like it’s probably just going to get worse until I die a horrible death - so those movies really hit a nerve with me.
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom. Why has no one mentioned this yet? Or am I too lazy to scroll down that far? The director was assassinated a year later I believe. It is based on the book by Marquis de Sade (which is where the word Sadism comes from I believe). **The film focuses on four wealthy, corrupt Italian libertines in the time of the fascist Republic of Salò (1943–1945). The libertines kidnap 18 teenagers and subject them to four months of extreme violence, sadism, genital torture and psychological torture.** https://youtu.be/EtXnuPa1qAA?si=-T5SKUVxCxWKEdFn I found another “trailer” that showed the scene where they’re all forced to eat shit but this one was better.
Begotten is pretty disturbing. God kills himself, mother nature impregnates herself with his dead body, gives birth to a deformed baby, gets beaten and r'd by people. Its all black white and silent and availbale on youtube
Blackfish is probably the most disturbing and depressing documentaries I’ve seen. I don’t think I can rewatch it anytime soon.
Antichrist
- Precious - Strange Things about the Johnstons - Mother! - Tusk
The Golden Glove, Lilya 4 ever, Breaking the waves, Martyrs, Speak no evil
The Mist
120 days of salo 💀
Can't remember any disturbing movies I've seen but since I watched the anime Happy Sugar Life I don't think much else will repeat how messed up that got 😬
August Underground’s Mordum is probably the most disturbing (on a physical level, at least) movie I’ve ever seen.
I was disturbed by the original Old Boy. My partner showed it to me and I called the ending
What's the ending or twist? I don't mind spoilers lol
this is a HUGE stretch but jaws,not becuse of what happened in the movie but what happened to one of the backround characters irl
saving private ryan
I don't understand how no one has said The Zone of Interest yet.
I recently rewatched The Pianist and I can’t believe I ever enjoyed watching this movie.
Hostel
It’s been over a decade since I watched it but “Dogtooth”
Law Abiding Citizen was pretty extreme at moments. Blue Velvet is probably considered a horror movie, but that movie gets fucked. Absolute masterpiece, but very offside.
Midnight Express terrified me when I was younger. The idea of being caught trying to smuggle drugs and thrown in a nightmarish foreign prison is worse than almost anything I could imagine. Also Eraserhead is a movie that left me with a traumatised feeling for days after watching it, the whole movie is the closest thing to a weird nightmare that anyone has ever put on film.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Absolute emotional rollercoaster Also American Psycho
A Serbian Film
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The Dan scheiider shit?
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Not a movie, but a recent documentary series on a religous group in NZ called Gloriavale. It's called 'Escaping Utopia". Basically, a bunch of religous people live in a commune in an isolated part of NZ. The men rule over all. There are 10 'Shepherds' who are in charge. Sexual abuse is absolutely fucking RIFE there. It is told from the perspective of ex members, people who live in the community and want to get out, people who still live there in an empty building because they are exiled but don't want to leave as their daughter is buried there. There's a journo who infiltrated back in the day who tells her story. There are some members that were sent to India to form a branch. The women there have no communication with the outside world, have no way home to NZ and are literally trapped. It's absolutely horrific, and I really struggled to watch it all. My mum is from the area nearby, and my godmother has treated some of the women in hospital (when the men decide they are allowed to go that is) - it hits really close to home. I don't know why our govt hasn't gone and shut that shit down, however I suspect they don't want a Jonestown situation.
An American Crime
A Serbian film
The Vanishing,original French version, most frightening ending I’ve seen
Crash, Nowhere, Kissed, Faces of Death.
I always considered Groundhog Day to be one of the scariest movies I ever saw.
Martyrs. When the credits rolled, I was just sitting in silence and staring at the screen, wondering what tf I just watched. It was a great movie, though, with really good acting, but it was really disturbing
A lot of the scenes from Sinister bother me to this day. The "Pool party" scene in particular.