All time, top 5 Most DISTURBING films

[varana]

1.Threads was bad, very bad. But the movie that kept me awake for a week, and who made me fear the sound of low flying planes for a long time was a Japanese cartoon. It was made using drawings by actual Hiroshima survivors. 50 minutes with absolutely gruesome details of melting bodies, people walking around while skin was flaking off, someone being slowly crushed to death, a girl who refused to leave a mother with a broken leg while the fires crept nearer and nearer until they were both ablaze people who's faces were gone, a river that defies description.

2.Eraserhead. I was so put off the idea of babies for a while after that "thing"

3. This is a silly one. A puppet horror movie about dentists. I saw it when I was 3years old and ran screaming. Still the only time i've ever reacted to a horror movie.

4. Kids. The above poster has allready said all there is to say about this one.

5. Freddy got Fingered. I've still not completely forgiven the person who made me watch that. that movie was just so disgusting!

[eatmyshorts]

Hmm...

Mean Creek- extremely disturbing and extremely underrated movie that everyone should see

Full Metal Jacket- the boot camp section still sticks with me...

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (70's version) really freaked me out when I was younger

Zero Day- really messed up columbine mockumentary...REALLY disturbing...be prepared to think about this one for many days after viewing

Suicide Club- no need to explain...

[DarthShady]

I'm lame, I know. Just know that none of these scars still follow me today. But here are mine:

5-The Ring. But not the whole girl-walks-out-of-TV thing. For me it was the scene on the ferry with the horse. For months I couldn't stop imagining the blood.

4-The Exorcism of Emily Rose. It literally made me sleep with a Bible under my pillow.

3-Dogma. !!!!!!!! I know, I suck! But I was only 10 when I saw it, and I thought it was great, until Bartleby dropped a headless George Carlin in front of everyone. Now I watch it and laugh, but it did disturb me then. I couldn't think about Kevin Smith for a good 3 years. Which is just a sin in the world of cult, I know. Scared me then, but I am over it now.

2-Poltergiest. This is the one with the skeleton pit, right? Yeah, THAT terrified me as a child. And then a few years later when I found out they were real skeletons. Oh my God, I would've hated being that actress...

And my #1 is actually a Twilight Zone episode, so does it still count?

1-The Hitchhiker. Now, as a young girl, I was always scared of the Twilight Zone. Sometimes I still am. That music, the black0-and-white picture, Rod Serling...But this one in particular hit me hardest. A young womn is driving cross-country, and along the way she keeps seeing the same htchhiker. It's like he's following her, but he's always ahead. Turns out the woman had died in a car accident early on in her journey, and the hitchhiker is sort of a grim reaper. The show ends with him somehow getting in her car and saying "I believe you are going my way."

To tell the truth, sometimes to this day I look in my rearview mirror and half expect to see Leonard Strong sitting behind me. Crrrrazy stuff.

[StarOpal]

Oh man, The Hitchhiker! That episode scared me so bad as a kid. For a week I kept my eyes peeled for suspicious reoccurring hitchhikers whenever I rode in the car. The movie Carnival of Souls sort of reminds of this episode actually.

Did you ever see the one with Agnes Moorehead called... The Invaders (I think)? I still can't watch that one. I don't know if it's the isolated cabin or the lack of dialogue, but it really freaks me out.

[virdi]

Well I can't think of five at this particular moment but there's one that really sticks out and here it is *drum roll*


Videodrome: this movie just really freaked me out. One scene in particular is when the main character, I forget the name(what I never watched it again) had a gap in the middle of his torso area and started picking at it. He lost his gun in there(freaky). Wow the box in which it comes from has the power to induce nightmares. Well the point I'm getting at is it's really gross, freaky, and gross.

OK that was my rant..........

[drew]

varana said:

1.Threads was bad, very bad. But the movie that kept me awake for a week, and who made me fear the sound of low flying planes for a long time was a Japanese cartoon. It was made using drawings by actual Hiroshima survivors. 50 minutes with absolutely gruesome details of melting bodies, people walking around while skin was flaking off, someone being slowly crushed to death, a girl who refused to leave a mother with a broken leg while the fires crept nearer and nearer until they were both ablaze people who's faces were gone, a river that defies description.

I thought that I was the only person who ever saw this. I had to watch it for my British Cinema class. Creepy...

[sirgallahad2]

Yeesh.....

[sarahbot]

virdi said:

Well I can't think of five at this particular moment but there's one that really sticks out and here it is *drum roll*


Videodrome: this movie just really freaked me out. One scene in particular is when the main character, I forget the name(what I never watched it again) had a gap in the middle of his torso area and started picking at it. He lost his gun in there(freaky). Wow the box in which it comes from has the power to induce nightmares. Well the point I'm getting at is it's really gross, freaky, and gross.

OK that was my rant..........

I always thought the scene at the end, with the glasses conference place, was the creepiest. Everytime I want to eat sweet & sour chicken, I can't help but think of that scene. Yeccccch. But David Cronenberg's made that stuff really his stock in trade.

[Ellielator]

I love Videodrome.

deusdragonexx said:

Hostel: No point in it. Just no point.

Actually, I thought it was about American treatment of war prisoners under the guise of a Marathon Man type plot. I heard the director deny it in interviews but... I'm not so sure... Taken as that however, it's very provocative and fascinating.

deusdragonexx said:

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.

Yeah, that movie was disgusting. But again... I thought it was a good cautionary tale. Reminds me of Leviathan somehow. Plus, it makes a statement about the government. Not the 1998 U.S. government, but... I think the true meaning was not lost on me.

[helenbot]

So many good ones in this thread!

I think the 5 most disturbing films I've ever seen are (in no patricular order):

King of the Ants - This is a brilliant thriller that just really creeped me out.

IT - I saw this as a child and it was one of the most intensely terrifying experiances of my life. was scared of bathrooms for years.

Peeping Tom - The classic psycho thriller

Sympathy for Mr Vengeance - It's so horribly bleak, I cried for a long time when this was done.

Requiem for a Dream - For the same reasons as everyone else!

[LadyStarblade]

Unfortunately, I am also one of these people that is very, very difficult to disturb me or gross me out. Too many years at cons, I guess...most things just make me cock my head and go, "huh." I'm hardened, I'm hardened...

But here are the 5 movies/movie moments that made me flinch:

Dracula 3000: Casper Van Dien, Erika Eleniak, Coolio...if that cast alone doesn't send you running, I don't know what will. At last year's Halloween party, we got 10 minutes into this movie, then paused it and went to the liquor store because we couldn't watch it sober. Half the cast couldn't decide if it was a comedy or not, and the ending will definitely leave you going, "WHAT?!?!"

The Exorcist: I've seen it once. Edited for TV. With all the lights in the room on. And I was still so seriously creeped out. Haven't been able to watch the unedited yet.

Leviathan: The only movie I've ever fled from...granted, I was seven years old at the time, but the scene where the giant sea snake thing was burrowing into the guy as he was staggering around and screaming overloaded me a bit.

The Rock: I've seen this movie a dozen times, and after the first time, I was never able to watch the SEAL-team-in-the-shower-room scene again. (and it's not what you think, promise)

Evil Dead: Gritty, rough edged, gory...none of that bothered me...two words. Pencil. Ankle. *shivers*

[aargmematey]

The Wall- particularly the animation bits. Agh!

The Butterfly Effect- I was just aghast the entire movie. At first I was like "okay, weird thriller movie, with Ashton Kutcher playing "serious," I guess it could be kinda cool, or at least funny," WRONG! It was one of those movies where you just go "what OTHER horrible thing could possible happen to these people?!" And then some other horrible thing happens.

The Animatrix-The Second Renaissance pt 1 and 2- Eugh. There are just so many things from this short that have been burned into my brain. It's like a cornucopia of disturbing images and ideas. PLUS it paints humans as these ridiculously despicable, irredeemable monster-people, which is a pet peeve of mine in robot movies (AI! I'm looking at you!).

Requiem for a Dream- One of those movies that I will never watch again. It has a great cast, the music is great, and the cuts and cinematography are AMAZING...but there's this bleakness about it that I just can't stand.

The Wizard of Oz- Okay, this is probably a weird one to be included on here. Here's a breakdown of the parts that freaked me out when I was a kid (and I still think they're weird and scary): When the person on the bike turns into the witch on the broom, the part where the witch of the east's toes curl up after the shoes are taken off, whenever the witch is shown in her castle and/or looking into her crystal ball, when the trees start pelting dorothy and the scarecrow with apples (actually, that entire forest scene is creepy), when the Corwardly Lion jumps out of the window-thing in the Emerald City, when the witch writes "Surrender Dorothy," the entire spooky-forest scene but ESPECIALLY when the Tin Man (I think it's him) gets picked up by the ghosts or whatever and dropped, and when the Flying Monkeys come by and ruin everything, when the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow are plotting and the they get surrounded by the guards, and the finally the scene when Dorothy is trying to talk to Auntie Em and the witch starts yelling at her.

There is barely a part in this movie that DIDN'T horribly scar me as a child.

[StarOpal]

ladystarblade said:

Evil Dead: Gritty, rough edged, gory...none of that bothered me...two words. Pencil. Ankle. *shivers*

The only thing that's ever really creeped me out in the Evil Dead movies was in Evil Dead 2. The scene where the cabin is laughing at him and they show the deer head, and it's all messed up and laughing with it's cataract eyes. *shivers* Mounted heads have always freaked me out, so that was just too much.

[CrypticMyth]

I don't know about top 5, but my top 3 consists of the three Jodorowsky movies I saw:

3. Santa Sangre - The most coherent of the lot. I LOVED the movie, and have never been that captivated before, but it was really disturbing...

2. El Topo - Man. This was a total WTFer! Naked kid running around, blood everywhere, naked women in the desert, a guy who is forced to shoot his testicles. etc.

1. Holy Mountain - The most disturbing film I've seen. Turning excrement into gold? God.


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[Rett Mikhal]

Dark Crystal for all five.

Or, if you're picky, just divide the movie into 5 sections, and number them accordingly.