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  • The most disturbing film ever made is?

    I need to know.

    I've seen a lot of the usual suspects (IRREVERSIBLE, SALO, etc.) that you'll find on most online lists. I'm looking for more obscure ones.

    I hear the following are high on the disturbing meter: ENTER THE VOID, LILYA 4-EVER, MYSTERIOUS SKIN, THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE, and TAXIDERMIA. I haven't seen any of them.

    I seem to remember another one called IN A GLASS CAGE or something?

    Recommendations would be appreciated.
    "We can't all be God's kids, some of us are Satan's."

    - Cage

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    The most disturbing film ever made is?

    The Girl Next Door messed me up like no other film has.
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    • #3
      Enter the Void, Lilya 4-ever and Thriller are IMO not disturbing. Sure, they are in various ways challenging for the viewer but not disturbing. L4E is gut wrenching but not in a disturbing way.

      A Serbian Film is disturbing if you take it like a serious film. If you take it like a Comedy it isnt so bad, so maybe that is something for you.
      "No presh from the Dresh!"

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      • #4
        Faces of Death, although technically not a film but a compilation of nasty nasty clips.

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        • #5
          [QUOTE=
          A Serbian Film is disturbing if you take it like a serious film. If you take it like a Comedy it isnt so bad, so maybe that is something for you.[/QUOTE]

          I loved A SERBIAN FILM. Perhaps the best ending to a film I've ever seen. Nihilistic in the extreme.
          "We can't all be God's kids, some of us are Satan's."

          - Cage

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Will_Bernardara_Jr View Post
            I seem to remember another one called IN A GLASS CAGE or something?
            IN A GLASS CAGE certainly fits the bill, the subject matter is pretty distasteful and it's also got some fairly graphic nastiness. Well made too, with beautiful camera work which somehow makes it even more troubling.

            I thought THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A PORNO GANG was far more of a lingering spirit-killer than A SERBIAN FILM. MAN BEHIND THE SUN and BLACK SUN: THE NANKING MASSACRE are another couple.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Andrew Monroe View Post

              I thought THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A PORNO GANG was far more of a lingering spirit-killer than A SERBIAN FILM.
              Never even heard of this one. Definitely adding it to my list. Thank you very much.
              "We can't all be God's kids, some of us are Satan's."

              - Cage

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              • #8
                I don't find THRILLER disturbing at all, just thrilling!

                The stuff that disturbs me these days is the emotional stuff and stuff about relationships. POSSESSION disturbs me. CRIMES OF PASSION disturbs me. The verbal fights in both those movies between spouses, the frustration and anger rings true to me in a way that's unnerving. Love both of them.
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                • #9
                  THE NINTH CONFIGURATION aka TWINKLE, TWINKLE KILLER KANE has always made me feel uneasy after watching it. I find it more disturbing than THE EXORCIST.

                  Also Shinya Tsukamoto's KOTOKO is pretty disturbing as well. I can imagine it will really unnerve parents of infants in particular. The real or imagined scene of infanticide near the end has go down as one of the most graphic in cinematic history. It makes the bashing of the baby against the wall in CALIGULA seem tame.

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                  • #10
                    THE GREAT SILENCE does it for me.
                    "The popcorn you're eating has been pissed in. Film at 11".

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                    • #11
                      Oddly, or perhaps not so oddly, I find graphic films to be less disturbing than those that rely on the power of suggestion.

                      THE PLAGUE DOGS really funks with my head. I find that one almost impossible to watch, despite it being an animated picture about talking animals.

                      Two others that haven't been mentioned. Gary Oldman's superb NIL BY MOUTH. That's an unsettling film. Tim Roth's THE WAR ZONE is really disturbing too, imo. Both feature Ray Winstone. Mike Leigh's NAKED must get a mention too.

                      Elem Klimov's COME & SEE has to be near the top of my list too. Plus THREADS, although I've only seen it twice - once in the 1980s and again about 10 years ago.
                      Originally posted by 47lab View Post
                      THE NINTH CONFIGURATION aka TWINKLE, TWINKLE KILLER KANE has always made me feel uneasy after watching it. I find it more disturbing than THE EXORCIST.
                      Agreed with this. I'm a big fan of THE NINTH CONFIGURATION. It's an excellent film.
                      Also Shinya Tsukamoto's KOTOKO is pretty disturbing as well. I can imagine it will really unnerve parents of infants in particular. The real or imagined scene of infanticide near the end has go down as one of the most graphic in cinematic history. It makes the bashing of the baby against the wall in CALIGULA seem tame.
                      Definitely. I'd also add that COMBAT SHOCK and ERASERHEAD have become deeply disturbing for me, for similar reasons, since I became a parent.
                      Originally posted by Scott View Post
                      The stuff that disturbs me these days is the emotional stuff and stuff about relationships. POSSESSION disturbs me. CRIMES OF PASSION disturbs me. The verbal fights in both those movies between spouses, the frustration and anger rings true to me in a way that's unnerving. Love both of them.
                      I'd agree with this too, Scott. Also, having been raised in a home where my father regularly beat my mother during bouts of drunken mania - and some of my earliest memories being of those traumatic scenes - I find sequences of domestic violence deeply unsettling. (There's that sequence in Doug Liman's wretched MR AND MRS SMITH in which Pitt and Jolie slug it out in their home, and I remember seeing the film at the cinema and feeling really troubled in a shot where - if I remember correctly - Pitt is in a medium shot as, offscreen, he boots Jolie's character who is lying on the floor. Whoever thought that sequence was 'funny' was so far off the fucking mark it's unbelievable.)

                      I remember seeing Tsukamoto's BULLET BALLET at the Dublin Film Festival in 1999. That one really got to me, but I don't think it would have the same effect on a home viewing - thus I've never revisited. I also remember seeing SEUL CONTRE TOUS at around the same time, and that one also upset me - particularly the sequence in which the Butcher beats his pregnant wife.
                      'You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow'

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Scott View Post
                        ...The stuff that disturbs me these days is the emotional stuff and stuff about relationships. POSSESSION disturbs me. CRIMES OF PASSION disturbs me. The verbal fights in both those movies between spouses, the frustration and anger rings true to me in a way that's unnerving. Love both of them.
                        Then you might find Mike Nichols' CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (1971) disturbing, too. Ingmar Bergman's films from the 1960s are lacerating in their emotional upheavals and metaphysical rumblings. But you come out of a Bergman film richer than when you went in.

                        Blowing up the Enterprise in WRATH OF KHAN (1982) upset me. They did it because it was the only way to get Leonard Nimoy back. That spoiled the Star Trek films for me, forever. It meant the wrong people were in control, and that they didn't care what they did to the franchise. From now on all the films would play up the possibility of blowing up the ship and murdering the favorite characters, as if they couldn't think of anything else to do. I would rather they simply left the character out and done a completely different thing. I'd rather they told Nimoy to fuck off than blow up the Enterprise.

                        I find the gender war waged on James Bond in the Daniel Craig films deeply unsettling. And delusional. It signifies a rejection of the character, of the fantasy, of its roots, of the male role. A lot of people don't see it, but that's because they don't want to. That bothers me, too.

                        For violence, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE is disturbing. The impact it had in England is unprecedented.
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                        - Raymond Chandler, 1939.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Paul L View Post
                          Oddly, or perhaps not so oddly, I find graphic films to be less disturbing than those that rely on the power of suggestion.
                          That's the way it is for me, usually, and I think it's pretty common for people to bothered by the idea of something before, or in place of ever seeing the act.

                          Broken record time - the movie that's probably caused me the most emotional discomfort was Lars Von Trier's BREAKING THE WAVES, specifically the final bit...(apologies if I don't get the details right on this one as I haven't seen this movie in 16 years)



                          ***SPOILERS***

                          Emily Watson's character believes that by prostituting herself to a ship full of men God will bring her injured husband out of his coma. We see her being brought onto this ship and down to the lower berth where a group of scuzzy, evil looking men (led by Udo Kier) await. We never see what transpires, just the looks on the men's faces as she enters the chamber. Later we see her back in the village, clearly having been brutalized by these goons. She goes to the hospital expecting to find the husband conscious and in good health but his condition hasn't changed.

                          We then see her back on a dinghy, on her way to the same ship and we know she's going to die. These pieces of shit are going to rape and murder her and she's going to passively allow it to happen and the fucked up thing is that the husband is healed after that.



                          Fuck. That scene killed me when I saw it and I will never watch that film again. Fuck that shit.
                          Now everyone can have a complete KRULL lifestyle.

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                          • #14
                            Jesus Camp. Seeing an entire generation being brainwashed (and subsequently becoming the next generation of judges, attorneys, politicians, police officers, etc) is very disturbing.
                            "Ah! By god's balls what licentiousness!"

                            Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom.

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                            • #15
                              The two mondo films "Addio Ultimo Uomo" and "Africa Dolce e Selvaggia", directed by Alfredo & Angelo Castiglioni.
                              They contain some very disturbing scenes of African tribal rites and traditions.

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