All time, top 5 Most DISTURBING films

[sirgallahad2]

Yes it is I, the late, great Sir Gallahad. I want everybody's top FIVE most disturbing films they have ever seen. The 5 that truly disgusted, disappointed, disturbed, and cost you thousands in therapy costs and anti-depressant use. (Note: Yes, "The Doom Generation" sucked something awful. That dreadful turd aside, your top 5 please) Without further ado:


5. An american Gothic: A little-seen horror film from the 1980's. A plane load of friends make an emergency landing on an island inhabited by psychopathic Quaker/Puritan/Amish types who pick them off one by one and the one woman who fights back.

4. Event Horizon: Laugh if you will, That movie freaked. me. out. I've had nightmares about hell before, this movie made it even worse. The video of the happy-go-lucky crew suddenly screaming in pain and anguish and terror and holding their own severed eyeballs in their hands and speaking latin, yeah.... that did it for sleep for a while.

3. Batman and Robin: Absolute BLASPHEMY. Schwarzenegger playing Mr. Freeze...*bzzztt!!*, Bane reduced to a retarded sidekick...*ggguhh!!!!*, Bat....*fftt!!* NIPPLES... *kkrkk!!!* AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. Requiem For a Dream: I grew up in the methamphetamine capitol of southern California (arguably the entire south-west) I have seen drugs destroy the lives of a LOT of the kids that I grew up with. This movie actually hurt to watch because ultimately, addiction is the hero of the film and just watching these people self-destruct in the most cinematically brutal way I have ever seen. Oddly enough it is one of the most disturbing films, and yet one of my most favorite films that I have ever seen.

And now....
Number ONE with a bullet...

Kids: I have seen this movie one time, ten years ago, and I can recall every scene, every character and every camera angle of it. Witnessing the depravity, the arrogance and the complete and utter apathy of the kids and parents in this film is just too hard to watch a second time. I don't care what Larry Clark says, these kids were NOT acting. This may as well have been a documentary with a script. Some people are terrified by masked men with chain saws, some are terrified of sharks. Now that I have a daughter, My greatest terror is a 14 year old skater-kid named Telly "the virgin surgeon" and knowing that there are literally THOUSANDS of little Telly's all over the country.

[StarOpal]

These are in no particular order....

5. Perfect Blue: I saw it once, I will never ever watch it again. Gruesome animated violence, rape, and being just this side of unfollowable with it's intentionally loose hold on reality.

4. The Audition: I know a lot of people would go for the last fifteen minutes to completely represent the disturbing part of this movie, and they wouldn't be wrong. The whole movie though, just has this feel to it where you just know, man, you just know. And that scene with the phone ringing... Freak me out!

3. Lady in a Cage: Completely scarred me as a child. It took a long time for me to be able to watch a James Cahn movie again. I have sworn that, no matter how invalid I may become, to never have an elevator in my house. But it wasn't even just Cahn and his punk friends that did it. There's this scene, before they show up. She's stuck in the elevator, a man comes in her house, and she's relieved. Then instead of helping her he loots her house and leaves the front door wide open for anyone else to come in - and they do. I can't tell you how that still bothers me.

2. Cape Fear (the original): Cape Fear put me off Robert Mitchum for a long, long time. I've never seen the remake. The next Mitchum movie I gave a chance? Night of the Hunter! It took my mother selectively picking out Mitchum movies for me to re-appreciate him. *shivers*

1. Reflections in a Golden Eye: Having known so many military people and base life I can tell you these types of people exist, so it's depressing. But it's also disturbing. I admit, I didn't watch the whole movie. I turned it off when Marlon Brando was getting ready to bludgeon the horse to death for throwing him (sorry Sue!).

[Spiderdancer]

I'm not very sensitive to horror nor gore (Event Horizon didn't do a thing for me), so Number One for me is always going to be Naked Lunch. Weird. Gross. Bizarre. Gross. And gross.

[blinkfan]

In order

5. Jaws: I am still afraid to swim in deep water

4. Requiem for a dream: I am not going to lie this film is fantastic and extremley disturbing. Especially near the end

3. Ichi the killer: Alright, this film is sick,twisted and horrifying. Bravo Mr. Miike

2. Hostel: This film is fantastic. It is so emotionally involving and horrifying.

1. Blair Witch Project: Say what you will, this film scared me beyond belief.

[Head Mutant]

spiderdancer said:

I'm not very sensitive to horror nor gore (Event Horizon didn't do a thing for me), so Number One for me is always going to be Naked Lunch. Weird. Gross. Bizarre. Gross. And gross.

"I can think of TWO things wrong with that title..." ~ Nelson, The Simpsons

[deusdragonexx]

Batman and Robin: I'd seen this movie when it first came out and I liked it. I was a kid. But I dug it. Thought it was pretty cool. Then, just recently, since my film enlightenment, I decided to give it another go. It made me want to shoot myself. I mean, Robin busting in on his motorcycle and it leaves Robin's signal perfectly hollowed out in the wall? Who thought that up?!

Mulholland Drive: Most people kind of teeter on the edge for a little while before falling off. David Lynch was like: "Forget all that!" as he took a flying leap off of the deep end. The sad thing is that people went with him. Mulholland Drive is that movie that faux intellectuals talk about in coffee shops to appear smart. Thintelligence, I call it.

Hostel: No point in it. Just no point.

Species 2: I'm not much for aliens, so this movie creeped me out. It is the only movie to date that I have walked out of the theater on.

And last, but certainly not least is:
Glitter: If you need me to explain why this movie disturbs me, you obviously haven't seen it. However, I will give you one piece of insight into why this movie sucks. The entire flick is built on Mariah Carey's singing abilities, yet she never sang in the movie. It was all lip-synching.

[StarOpal]

deusdragonexx said:

Mulholland Drive: Most people kind of teeter on the edge for a little while before falling off. David Lynch was like: "Forget all that!" as he took a flying leap off of the deep end. The sad thing is that people went with him. Mulholland Drive is that movie that faux intellectuals talk about in coffee shops to appear smart. Thintelligence, I call it.

I agree with you all the way, and have one more thing against. There is a perfectly good, but little known, movie called Mulholland Falls. I can't tell you how many uncomfortable situations come from the person you suggest it to only remembering "Mulholland" from the title and getting the wrong movie. Or how many strange looks you get when trying to tell someone about it because they're thinking "Drive" instead of "Falls." Grr!

[sirgallahad2]

I saw a FREE showing of "Batman and Robin" at the local drive through when it came out. When it was over Iwent to the manager and demanded financial compensation. Just.... forget it!!

[StarOpal]

sirgallahad2 said:

I saw a FREE showing of "Batman and Robin" at the local drive through when it came out. When it was over Iwent to the manager and demanded financial compensation. Just.... forget it!!

I saw it on a plane, and three people walked out.


*ba dum bum*

[sirgallahad2]

boo! hiss!!! Get off the stage!!!!

(Kidding by the way) I wanted to jump out of a plane too.

[Big T]

I can't think of 5 but I know that most of the Scary Movies and Date Movie would certainly be on my list..... I still feel so unclean.

[devilndisguise]

WOW...i had completely forgotten about Naked Lunch...yeah that would make my list...as would Mohalland Drive...just strange.... okay so that leaves me 3 more...i'll get back to you.

[bragwair]

'Threads'. All the way. It's one of those films you wish you could just totally erase from your memory. t scarred my mum, it scarred me...

[Lordmoon]

In no particular order…

Audition – What Jaws did for swimming this movie does ten times over for dating.

Old Boy – One of the most WTF & HOLY CRAP!!1!1!! endings that have ever been filmed.

The Body – An episode of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer that having watched it dozen plus times still never fails to send shivers down my spine. One of the most real things I’ve ever seen caught on film.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) – Man was that movie messed up. The dinner scene in particular stuck with me for a very, very long time after the first time I’ve seen the film.

Natural Born Killers – The first time I saw this movie it took me about 8 hours to get through it. Or at least it felt that way. That movie was just a total head trip.

[jimmypage639]

5. Naked Lunch- Definitely agree, Cronenberg is just, I don't know, but he can sure make some weird movies. The part where the main character is having sex with a woman and his "bug typewriter" turns into that thing, I don't even want to think about it.

4. Brazil- The completely no hope left ending just made me feel all empty inside. It didn't help that everything just seemed to be going so well for Tuttle at the end and then just, bam, it was all just a fantasy.

3. Easy Rider- The LSD scene was what did it for me. I've never felt so uncomfortable watching a movie as with that scene, it was almost like you were completely inside their heads and just wanted it to end, but it just kept going.

2. Apocalypse Now- The movie had this really creepy vibe about it, and the tension just kept building until they reach Kurtz's compound and all hell breaks loose. It's tied with the Godfather as the best Brando performance I've ever seen, since you know he's completely insane, but a lot of things he says make a lot of sense, and props for, in my opinion, the best use of a song in a movie ever, with the Doors' "The End" opening and closing the film.

1. Eraserhead- Say what you will about David Lynch, but he certainly knows how to invoke a different kind of fear in people. This movie is basically the definition of atmospheric horror. There's no sex, very little violence, and no language, but I just can't get over how deeply it disturbed me. I can hardly look at that baby without getting really uncomfortable. It's about the closest thing you can get to going through someone's nightmare.