Most Disturbing Films.

[freakonaleash]

Trainspotting had some pretty effed up moments.

Have you seen The Acid House too? It's also written by Irvine Welsh.

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

"The Exorcist", "Requiem For A Dream", "Se7en" and the "Saw" trilogy.

 

[hartke20g]

for me, there are a few of "disturbing" films. granted, they aren't so disturbing, but they're not comedy/romance/action films.
Session 9
Perfume
The Memory of a Killer (De Zaak Alzheimer for the europeans)
The Anarchists' Cookbook

those are all that come to mind right now.

 

[eedre]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Child's Play (Chucky frequented my nightmares as a kid)
It
Scream (First horror film I had ever watched - had me almost depressed)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Silence of the Lambs

 

[Aaron]

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.

1922

Although the movie was hard to find for a number of years due to the lawsuit by the Bram Stoker estate, many prints are widely available today. I'm sure you can probably rent it from your local video store.

Another amazing and disturbing Murnau film is Faust.

 

[Yngwie 4String]

Umm you cant get that in Nebraska at the local rental store.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

You can in Connecticut and Ohio.

 

[KeithBMI]

Cannibal Holocaust? I've never seen it... but it was banned in a few places.

 

[Joe Gress]

Passion Of The Christ

 

[gottawalk]

As a kid, it took me three times to finally get all the way through Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds". -------shiver!-----

 

[Aaron]

Cannibal Holocaust? I've never seen it... but it was banned in a few places.

More than a few - there are claims that it was banned in over 50 countries.

 

[Aaron]

Umm you cant get that in Nebraska at the local rental store.

You can get it in at least two places in little ol' Bellingham, WA.

 

[BoneMachine]

Funny games was by far the most disturbing film I've ever seen. It's all about violence for no apparent reason (call that sadism), and impunity. It's actually an award winning film. As I was watching it, I was struggling to resist the temptation to throw the tv set through the window. Read about it here:

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[Ryan L.]

8MM.

 

[Rune Bivrin]

Breaking The Waves. I can't really say why, but it was like the Dementors of Harry Potter: It sucked all joy from me. It didn't strike me as having any message other than that love can kill you, particularly when it is love of another person and love of God at the same time.

Gore films leave me unimpressed. I saw Frankenstein's Monster at the age of 10. Scared the living daylights out of me, and I was terrified of the dark for years. Once I got over that, I've been pretty immune to the supernatural.

 

[Barkless Dog]

Session 9 was very creepy, Not well known but very cool.

 

[mlowe]

Look out for a sicko Aussie classic, "Bad boy bubby"

mmm, very out there!

 

[Alan Vorse]

As a kid, it took me three times to finally get all the way through Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds". -------shiver!-----

My roommate who is in his early 30s just watched that movie for the first time this past winter. He texted me afterwards something to the effect of "MOMMMYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

[jomahu]

does anyone actually get david lynch movies? i'll admit that i'm a plebian and i don't get it, but when i read reviews to get some insight, it seems critics don't even know what they're about.

my disturbing movie: dancer in the dark. tho' i tend to get more freaked out by documentaries. 'iraq for sale' is more disturbing than any piece of fiction i've ever seen.

 

[Anthbass]

Cool, movie talk.
Short list: The Lost Highway (especially the scene with Robert Blake and the cell phone conversation)
Lord of the Flies (1963 version by Peter Brook)
Dead Ringers
Boxing Helena
and +1 for anything produced by Leni Riefenstahl. Beautiful aesthetic production but the messages are rather unsettling.