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Most Disturbing Films.
- Thread starter Alan Vorse
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The scene in the German 'Nosfertau' where the coffin is broken open on the ship and Orlof stands straight up, I saw a clip of that when I was a kid and it stuck with me.
The other classic scene in the same film where you see the count's shadow as he creeps up the stairs to Mina's room is real creepy as well.
The other classic scene in the same film where you see the count's shadow as he creeps up the stairs to Mina's room is real creepy as well.
I must also give a mention to Man Bites Dog and Irreversible... the French are second only to the Japanese at doing messed-up, twisted movies. The head-stomping scene in Irreversible is seriously effed-up (not to mention the rape scene), and the whole premise of Man Bites Dog is just, well, wrong.
EDIT: Man Bites Dog is Belgian, apparently... although the dialogue is all in French. OK, so France's neighbours to the north are effed-up too.
EDIT: Man Bites Dog is Belgian, apparently... although the dialogue is all in French. OK, so France's neighbours to the north are effed-up too.
Totally agree! That's one messed up flick. I watched the first one in it's entirety and about 2/3 of the second one. Enough! Way too depressing...
Faces of death
Audition is good, but for the most disturbing Miike movie and probly the most disturbing ever you need:
http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/visitorq.shtml
it starts with a father visiting his own daughter for business when shes working as a prostitute and gets *rapidly* more disturbing from then in
cant even mention any more of it on a family rated forum
cheers
Lucy
That film is so beautifully constructed it is indescribable. It is also vile, and utterly brilliant. The scene where the bullies attack the house with the fireworks is amazing, and the bit where the father rapes the woman's corpse is black comedy at it's darkest.
Other disturbing, brilliant films:
Battle Royale 1+2 (2 is incredibly moving)
Audition
Full Metal Yakuza
Ichi The Killer
Old Boy
One film which is quite distrubing is Takeshi Kitano's "Violent Cop". The cold, detached nature of Kitano's character is at times comic and at times chilling. The whole thing is beautiful beyond words.
I haven't seen it, I have the special edition dvd, but I'm guessing you're talking about something else altogether.
I thought BRII: Requiem was even better than the first BR film!
I thought BRII: Requiem was even better than the first BR film!
For some reason, I find the ending scene to "The Wicker Man" (the original, not the crappy Nicholas Cage remake) incredibly haunting.
Very nice, do you think you could PM with a brief overview of how this re-edit works?
As far as disturbing in a visceral manner - Cannibal Holocaust.
Old Boy was disturbing in many different ways (injustice, incest, gore, brutality...)
Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will is the only film I can think of that is disturbing due to its historical context. Someone in the 21st century would find it far more disturbing than those who viewed the first screening.
I think the number of Kubrick films people have listed is fitting. Kubrick seemed to show a really pessimistic outlook on society and life.
Old Boy was disturbing in many different ways (injustice, incest, gore, brutality...)
Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will is the only film I can think of that is disturbing due to its historical context. Someone in the 21st century would find it far more disturbing than those who viewed the first screening.
I think the number of Kubrick films people have listed is fitting. Kubrick seemed to show a really pessimistic outlook on society and life.
A movie that disturbed the socks off of me when I was a kid was "The Sand Pebbles", starring Steve McQueen as a sailor aboard the good ship San Pablo. My dad, a Navy veteran, took me to see it. It's been decades, and a lot of it has faded, but I still remember the scene involving a guy hanging from a tripod on the shore. He's being tortured, he's screaming and covered in blood, and McQueen has to shoot him from the deck of the ship, to put him out of his misery. Another scene has an old guy working on the ship's engines. He's down in a cavity under a giant metal elbow, and somehow the brakes slip. The elbow slams down into the cavity a couple of times. You don't see much, just a bloody lump being carried out on a stretcher, but my imagination filled in more than enough detail. I was creeped out for weeks after seeing that movie. Thanks, Dad, love ya! Delightful bonding experience, ha ha.
These days I avoid disturbing movies like the plague. I don't find them entertaining. But y'all go ahead, have fun!
Edit: To Dad's credit, he also took me to see the Woodstock movie. That was probably a bit of a disturbing movie for him! Dirty naked hippies, rock and roll, aieeee, the horror!
These days I avoid disturbing movies like the plague. I don't find them entertaining. But y'all go ahead, have fun!
Edit: To Dad's credit, he also took me to see the Woodstock movie. That was probably a bit of a disturbing movie for him! Dirty naked hippies, rock and roll, aieeee, the horror!
Some friends and I saw "The Deerhunter" at a midnight movie while I was in college, and I had to walk home to the dorms alone just to clear my head afterwards. That one really got to me.
DUDE! If your refering to Nosferatu: Symphony of Terror, and you have it, then you should know that it is very very rare, and valuable. This would be a silent film made I think in the 1920's and considered by scholars to be the first vampire film.
For reading a screwed up book check out Flowers in the Attic.
