The most disturbing film you've ever seen?

[Magnetez]

I've not been able to stop thinking about The Last House on Dead End Street since watching it. That film, for me, is truly the incarnation of evil if ever it was displayed through film.

Makes sense that the director was on meth throughout. Anyone else seen it?

[Misawa]

Never heard of it, apart from the fact that the title is a rip-off of Wes Craven's Last House on the Left.

Not many films have disturbed me since I've been brought up on horror since I was four. Some titles include Irreversible, Inside/A L'Interieur, and recently Exhibit A, which isn't out yet. Michael Haneke's Funny Games as well pretty much, not the remake.

Oh and Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom. The director, Pier Paolo Pasolini, was murdered for making the film.

Pink Flamingos too in a strange, bizarre variation of disturbing.

[Magnetez]

I don't even know if I should recommend Last House on Dead End Street, the trailer itself is seriously screwed up.

Aren't you jealous, I'm going to see Salo, next month in a local cinema! I'm even taking a girl along as a 'date', I don't know why, I want to see how much I can disturb her. :D

I'm gonna watch Men Behind the Sun, Cannibal Holocaust, Traces of Death and a couple of others soon. I am looking for true disturbing films. (Gore don't disturb me though)

[Misawa]

Cannibal Holocaust is one of my favourite films of all time. Import it uncut from the USA if you want the full experience - it will never get passed over here.

Never bothered with Traces of Death. I watched the first two Faces of Death movies when I was a kid, but 99 percent of the footage isn't real. I believe it is in Traces, but I used to have a job that required seeing all that **** in the flesh, so I'm not really one to think "Wow, cool look at that guy's head" anymore.

If you take a girl on a date to see Salo, you're going to leave the cinema single. I can't imagine watching that with other people, it's too crazy, too filthy.

I'll check out Last House on Dead End Street - I collect **** like that and if it's true to what you say I've no idea how I missed it.

If you want to see something outrageous, vile and sleazy, go see John Waters' Pink Flamingos, and by Christ watch it alone. It's not out in the UK so you'd have to eBay it.

[Magnetez]

Don't worry, I've got an uncut copy! I am genuinely fearful of watching Traces of Death because it truly appears to have no purpose whatsoever. Apparantly, it doesn't even attempt to coherently structure itself, and instead is intent on disturbing us with images of death - all real. What about Nekromantik? Have you seen that? The disturbing thing about that is the eyeball the guy sucks out of the corpse was a real pigs eyeball... :|

[Stryderman]

Never really seen a disturbing film before tbh.

Although there was one bit in wrong turn 3 where they caught a bloke up in barbed wire and dragged them across the road from a truck so they like grazed an everything so there skin came off etc but that wasnt tht bad.

I dont rly find films disturbing im mostly fascinated by how people come up with this stuff lol

[Misawa]

Haha, if you were disturbed by the pig eye in Nekromantic, you'll love the real animal killings in Cannibal Holocaust.

There is no purpose to the film. It's just a cash-in on Faces of Death, except going the extra mile with genuine images. If you want to see a proper, structured film - a documentary with real death footage, see if you can get a hold of Executions. I warn you though, as you may regret it depending on your sensitivity to factual and ficticious violence.

Wrong Turn 3, that was so bad. As a film-maker I take great pleasure in thinking of creative ways to disturb people when I'm writing. It's part of the fun.

[Magnetez]

I'll keep an eye out for Executions! Sounds intriguing, at least.

I just thought of another film that disturbed me, on an odd sorta level. Burial Ground: Nights of Terror - that was a seriously screwed up and hilariously disturbing film because of the incestry subplot with the "eight year-old" kid.

[Misawa]

Never heard of that one either. Interesting.

As for Executions, it's on Amazon here (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Executions-DVD-Arun-Kumar/dp/B00004RJCT/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1272593500&sr=8-3). I wasn't even sure if it'd be on DVD. I remember seeing it on tape when I was a kid after my dad bought it, him not realising it was as graphic as it is. My brother nicked the VHS after he saw it and watched it with me. I only remember one part of it, but I'm not bothered about watching it again - as I mentioned earlier I worked a short while with gruesome stuff, kind of has a different meaning now. If I remember rightly it was banned in the UK the day it came out - temporarily of course. Watching real deaths is naturally interesting - it's morbid curiosity, but after my rather grisly six-month employment, I'm sticking to fictional gore.

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[Neversoft]

I dunno, probably something from Miike. Audition was fairly disturbing. The Thing also comes to mind. I tried watching it when I was fifteen but couldn't make it past the dog scene. It's just filthy.

[Wig44.]

When you've seen the video nicknamed spankwire (containing **** and ball torture 100x worse than the BME pain olympics video) no film is capable of disturbing you. I'll try some of these films and see if I've become too desensitsed to this stuff.

[Misawa]

Films don't need immense gore to disturb. In fact, gore itself does nothing to me in movies, it's how violence is shot and particularly who to, etc.

Yes Neversoft, Audition is fantastic.

[Storking]

Most films aren't that disturbing but I remember seeing a few as a child and being freaked out to this day.. There was a film about a killer dentist (forgot the name) and I remember nightmare on elm street freaked me out for a long time when I was younger :P

[Black_Apalachi]

I've hardly ever watched anything like that stuff mentioned in this thread. I can't remember the name of the worst thing I watched but it had some psycho who just went into people's homes and did them in with hammers and stuff. Well, the only scene I remember was where...

he had some woman tied to a chair and he had like an ice pick or hammer and started tapping her head gently and gradually got harder and harder until he was full on smashing her face in.
Films like that just don't interest me. At all.

[Wig44.]

Films don't need immense gore to disturb. In fact, gore itself does nothing to me in movies, it's how violence is shot and particularly who to, etc.

Yes Neversoft, Audition is fantastic.

Things like the coprophagia in Salo don't particularly bother me - it's not pleasant but not really disturbing to me anymore (which is worrying :P). I agree with gore doing nothing in movies, one of the reasons I love films like The Blair Witch Project and The Exorcist (1973). I'll admit I like lots of gorey movies, I liked the Wrong Turn movies and The Hills Have Eyes - partly because I saw them when I was much younger. Cannibal Holocaust I'll go ahead and watch - the impaling scene sounds great. I like how it was so realistic they thought it was a snuff movie.

[Misawa]

I despise Blair Witch.

I love gore movies - hope you were referring to Craven's The Hills Have Eyes rather than the remake and its horrendous sequel.

[Wig44.]

I despise Blair Witch.

I love gore movies - hope you were referring to Craven's The Hills Have Eyes rather than the remake and its horrendous sequel.

I was, the remakes sucked in my opinion. What was your six month employment if I might ask?

[Misawa]

Forensic photographer, in other words I assisted forensics by taking pictures they needed. Wasn't pleasant, but didn't really bother me - I put that down to my "horror upbringing".

[Axel]

I'm gonna go with Begotten. Disturbing in a different sense of the word than this thread, I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toseWcEt-fM

[Black_Apalachi]

Oh **** yeah, Blair Witch was the biggest waste of my time ever. I reckon Dogtooth will be my ultimate answer to this thread, once I see next week or whenever it's out. :/

[Simmzay]

Martyrs and Irreversible

[LuketheDuke]

Cannibal Holocaust is a piece of poor exploitation, having to remove the shell off a giant turtle to provoke response shows how the director could not create an intimidating, warped space to manipulate actors to make a disturbing pic.

but hey thats just my opinion!!

try the War Game for a disturbing film, it was made to detail what would happen if Britain experienced a nuclear attack in the 60's. It was originally banned by the beeb and only released in 1998 I think, thoroughly provoking when you put it in the doomsday rhetoric of cold war britain.

[Misawa]

Cannibal Holocaust is a cinema verite gore movie through and through, so the violence is there to shock and it did. People had never seen such gruesome content in films when that was released, and the tribe in the film were actually real, so the animal killings are pretty organic.

[Simmzay]

I have never seen the film but it sounds pretty horrible.

[Volumise]

mm probably the saw films..
but thats prob not the most disturbing out there

[Fez]

The Brothers Grimm

When the horse eats the boy, and it so explicitly shows him swallowing whole; I had nightmares for weeks.

[Judas]

The Brothers Grimm

When the horse eats the boy, and it so explicitly shows him swallowing whole; I had nightmares for weeks.

oh yeahhh i remember seeing that when i was younger, eww that freaked me out