The most disturbing film ever made is?

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

The Girl Next Door messed me up like no other film has.

An amazing film...that I will never watch again. So many of the scenes come back to me over and over again, and it's just so sad and ugly. I can't even imagine how tragic what they DIDN'T show, was.

[Newt Cox Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Newt Cox]

An amazing film...that I will never watch again. So many of the scenes come back to me over and over again, and it's just so sad and ugly. I can't even imagine how tragic what they DIDN'T show, was.

And the film is majorly toned down from the book. The book was the first novel in years that got to me so much I had to put it down a few times and not start reading it again for a few days. What makes it so brutal is it is based on a real story. And reading up on the real story it seems Ketchum toned it down a bunch for the novel.

Jack Ketchum's The Lost is also a pretty brutal film. The final 10 minutes are some of the most intense,crazy stuff I have seen in a film in years.

Jesus Camp. Seeing an entire generation being brainwashed (and subsequently becoming the next generation of judges, attorneys, politicians, police officers, etc) is very disturbing.

Sadly the area I live in is full of people like the ones in Jesus Camp. That one kid did have an amazing mullet.

[Ashbee Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ashbee]

For me it's SNOWTOWN (I think it's called THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS in the States). I genuinely wish I had not watched it. It is an excellent film though.

[Andrew Monroe Pallid Hands Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew Monroe]

For me it's SNOWTOWN (I think it's called THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS in the States). I genuinely wish I had not watched it. It is an excellent film though.

I have the dvd here, must get to it very soon but your comments have me approaching it with some trepidation. I have to be in a certain frame of mind to watch unpleasant stuff otherwise it hangs around in my head too long.

Thought of another, THE VANISHING aka SPOORLOOS (not the god awful remake). Not graphic in the slightest but supremely unsettling (at least for me). The fate it suggests for certain characters is actually far more disturbing than a lot of graphic gore.

[sukebanboy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close sukebanboy]

HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER was disturbing as hell to me the first time I watched it.....The realness of the characters, thier attitude and the violence....great movie...

[Apronikoff Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Apronikoff]

The most disturbing film I've ever seen was something shown as part of a trial I was an observer at. So I suppose that doesn't count...


But like others have said I find suggestion to be way more disturbing than the gory bits (not that I don't enjoy those -- they just come across as fantasy.) One that has absolutely no violence/gore or really even so much as a raised voice that managed to be immensely disturbing to me was Conspiracy. For those that haven't seen it -- the film recreates the meeting at which the Nazis decided to being the implementation of the Final Solution using actual transcripts. What really got to me on that one was the whole "banality of evil" aspect -- people sitting around a table having a calm rational discussion about death camps as though they were talking about what kind of lightbulb to use.

[sukebanboy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close sukebanboy]

THE ACT OF KILLING ..

Documentry about the genocieds in Indonesia in the 1960's....

The death squad killers were never brought to justice (or even blamed) as the govt is basically the same now as it was then.....

A DOC EVERYONE needs to see....but I feel the doc would have been FAR better if edited tighter as it loses focus every now and again (I I saw directors cut 2 1/2 hours...I think the theater version is 2 hours)...Also needed more tougher interview style...but I guess the filmakers were too scared already (many credits are just listed ANONYMOUS for this reason)

[Richard--W a straight arrow Find all posts View Profile Close Richard--W]

The documentary HEARTS AND MINDS shook me up when I first saw it in the 1970s.

[47lab Guest Find all posts View Profile Close 47lab]

THE ACT OF KILLING ..

Documentry about the genocieds in Indonesia in the 1960's....

The death squad killers were never brought to justice (or even blamed) as the govt is basically the same now as it was then.....

A DOC EVERYONE needs to see....but I feel the doc would have been FAR better if edited tighter as it loses focus every now and again (I I saw directors cut 2 1/2 hours...I think the theater version is 2 hours)...Also needed more tougher interview style...but I guess the filmakers were too scared already (many credits are just listed ANONYMOUS for this reason)

I totally concur. I was glued to the screen during the duration of this film. I know the term "banality of evil" has entered the English lexicon far removed from Arendt's original intent but that's what crossed my mind while watching this riveting portrayal of man's inhumanity to his fellow human being. Or perhaps Adorno's oft quoted phrase "Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying" is more apropos here. I'm lamenting the fact that I missed it when it played at the NuArt a couple months ago but I believe it's going to be screened at The Crest in a couple weeks, so I'm going to make an earnest effort to see this on the big screen if possible. I'll be picking up the blu ray once it's put out by Drafthouse as well.

[Chris Kewley Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chris Kewley]

As far as doc's go Chickenhawk really disturbed me, not just because of the creeps in the film but also because at times it's hard to tell what side of the fence the director is on