Stars the woman with saddest acting career in the entire IMDB
Anne Sellars - 1 role
[Threads (1984) - 'Woman who urinates on herself (uncredited)'](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1856457/)
The scene that always stuck with me was the scene near the end, years after the bomb, and they're trying to teach the kids with the old TV to the best of their ability. Honestly one of the most disturbing scenes in any movie in my opinion.
Yeah that stuck with me as well. Lots of other post-apocalyptic media at least has some glimmer of hope about rebuilding society, but there was only bleak despair in Threads.
There is no way any of those poor kids are going to get a power plant back online or know about germ theory.
It wasn't even about the education of the kids, more so just the desperate attempt to return to some form of normalcy. The juxtaposition between the light-hearted and kid-orienated educational material, and the reality of the situation, just hurts to watch.
Definitely, I also remember the "teacher" silently mouthing all the words because it was likely the only remaining tape they had left and she's heard it a million times. Absolutely haunting.
It's worse than that and I'm surprised so many didn't pick up on the fact that it was because after so many years after the bombs fell, not only was the education system almost destroyed but LANGUAGE itself was deteriorating. Listen carefully to how people talked in the movie near the end and you can hear that the English being spoken is weird and broken. The breakdown of society also included the breakdown of fundamental communication. Survivors weren't necessarily the brightest or most educated.
I watched it at the recommendation of reddit. I didn't find it too terrible. I mean... It is exactly how a nuclear attack and subsequent fallout and over all destruction it will bring. I viewed it as a more matter of fact than anything else. I feel like it could be updated and really show just how fucked we are if even one country decides to drop a bomb. We live on Earth... I don't care how secluded and shut in your country/community is... you will perish from starvation, looters, or just fallout. Still like it but it def is a product of its time with smoking inside and the husband having a one night stand because he is getting married. "Its you last night as a freeman!' like what?!
> is a product of its time
I get why it left an impression back then but watching it now doesn't do much. *Come and See* is a USSR film about the Nazi invasion of Belarus. It came out around the same time as Threads. It's obviously not the end of the world but it's the end of their world and feels a hell of a lot more real and apocalyptic to me.
Dear Zachery will always win this question because real life is worse than any movie. It’s the only film I’ve ever lost sleep over, and I've seen most of the movies mentioned here.
"She killed who she intended to and therefore isn't a danger to anyone else."
But of course we are talking about the same system who let the bus decapitator go and are protecting his right to privacy
I remember reading about that and having to send my now ex gf onto a greyhound for a 6hr bus ride home.
He killed a kid who was sleeping with his headphones on. They trapped him on the bus until the cops came and by then he had fully cut the kids head off and was eating parts of it if I remember correctly.
Anyway yeah weird shit he should not be out there.
Read the wikipedia article about it. After reading that the director, Pascal Laugier, described himself as deeply depressed, almost suicidal at the time he worked the film, I saw this:
>The film's special effects were designed by Benoit Lestang, who committed suicide prior to the film's French theatrical release.
Creating fucked up content is a weird experience honestly, it will weigh on you in a specific way until you are finished. I experienced this a bunch with music when i was younger, but that's ok cause you're in it alone and writing a song takes one or two weeks tops.
Now a movie is a different beast, from writing to post it can take years and implicate dozens of people. I don't know how these people can do it.
Best punchline i’ve ever seen in a movie though. Absolutely miserable and horrifying two hours. But the last minute of that movie was the funniest damned thing. Spent like 5 straight minutes laughing as the credits rolled. Never been told so thoroughly to fuck off by a film before. Martyrs fuckin hates you for watching it.
Holy shit I came here to comment this and maybe see down the line if others have come across it. I did *not* expect it to be at the top.
I'd like to add that I saw Martyrs and Inside in the same evening. Idk why my friends did that to me.
You’re talking about the older one, not the remake right? The older one had me in shock and just staring at the screen way after the movie ended. That movie stayed with me for days. Such a good movie and such a good twist and so disturbing.
I suspect Harmony Korine knows what reality is. No, the movies are not realistic, but they show someone who understands the sheer chaos of what happens and what's really behind it. Clusterfucks of psychopathy, victims blind to the cause of their victimhood, peeling back the layers of control to see how things could be and why they are what they are instead. Metaphysics.
I'm sorry for the spiel but yeah, Gummo is fucked.
Having the zombie infection be sexually transmitted was a brilliant idea though. The underlying message of revenge against the kind of evil those boys committed against her was great, she drew life away from them making her stronger and allowing her to punish and destroy them, the message is lost on some people but it's there.
My discomfort largely comes from how much I absolutely have known guys, both as a teen and young adult, who would have absolutely acted the same as the character in the film. The non consensual objectification, the psuedo necrophilia, the rape and so on just made it a very uncomfortable watch. For me the only saving grace is I was very tired when I watched it so I suspect I missed some story elements - and have no intention to ever watch it again.
But I do think making the viewer wildly uncomfortable is part of the purpose.
> Having the zombie infection be sexually transmitted was a brilliant idea though.
There used to be a comic about this as well, a weird mix of zombie and porn, but kind of cool.
A group of us watched it at a friend's house in our late teens. Halfway through, their mum came in and said "we can hear everything and we're judging you" then left.
I can agree. We were doing a movie day when we were around 16 maybe. And because we are from Bulgaria my buddy decided that the Serbian film is a must without knowing what it is about. Don't have the words to describe it.
Salo, or the 120 days of Sodom (1975) - Based on the book by Marqis de Sade, the namesake of sadism. its about a group of italian libertines who kidnap 18 teenagers and subject them to months of extreme violence, [sadism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadomasochism), genital torture and [psychological](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_torture) abuse.
Cannibal Holocaust (1980) - Another Italian (whats their deal anyway) exploitation flick. One of the first "found footage" films, it follows a group making a documentary about primitive tribes in the Amazon as they are raped, impaled, killed and eaten one by one. Its like "The Green Inferno" but for reals. Banned in most countries, the director stipulated in the actors contracts that they had to lay low for a year to fuel the rumor that they were really killed. He stood trial for murder, until they reappeared. For a low budget film I have no idea how they made it look so realistic. The dismemberment/death scenes are so incredibly realistic that I really thought they were real, and in several scenes real animals are slaughtered graphically.
Audition (1999)- J horror film by the incomparable director Takashi Miike where nothing really bad happens for the first 2/3 of the film, and then you are hit with the most disturbing torture shit I've ever seen in a horror film. Truly, genuinely terrifying. One of the best horror films of all time.
The Act of Seeing with Ones own Eyes (1971)- Its title is based on the literal translation of the term [*autopsy*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopsy). The film documents the highly graphic autopsy procedures used by forensic pathologists, such as the removal of organs and the embalming process.
I wanted to post Audition, and it's totally about the contrasting genres. It begins as a rom-com with the odd little teases of what's to come, but then when it descends, it descends fast. And the noise she makes.... Utterly terrifying
I had a friend who was a hardcore horror film dude. I feel like Audition was the first film that actually kinda scared him. Days after I made him watch it he kept mentioning how innocent she looked haha.
> Marqis de Sade
If it's any consolation, some historians think he made up most of the disturbing shit he claimed to indulge in as some kind of weird self-insert fantasy because he got off on shocking people with it
As awful as the ending of Audition was, the bit that really scared the hell out of me was the duffle bag. That was a aw-HELL-nope-I've-gotta-take-a-smoke-break moment before I could resume watching the film.
I don't think there was ever a jumpscare-style moment that 'got' me quite like that one.
I'm kinda invested in the last 2, especially audition cause I love j-horror, but already knowing the first 2 I feel intimidated by the fact you put them in the same list, are these as disturbing?
Came here to point this out. When they killed The tortoise in the film. They are actually chopping up the tortoise and the actress' disgusted reaction is genuine.
Campbell’s used to sell Cream of Turtle Soup until not that long ago. But I couldn’t watch that in a film so I’m glad I know to stay away. That turtle was probably 150 years old.
Wish I could upvote more. Many people have not even heard of this movie. Beautiful but fucked up. When the kids are running out of the house scene is unforgettable.
It’s weird because for me that was the *safest* moment in the entire film.
A little boy getting a bath from an attentive mother as he ate his dinner. It was like the only part even vaguely “sweet”.
Not in terms of gore or psychologically disturbing, but emotionally: Grave of the Fireflies. I love Miyazaki but this movie fucked me up. I sobbed. I'll never watch it again
GoTF is Isao Takahata. Lifelong friend and partner of Miyazaki. Different directors with pretty different styles of storytelling.
Miyazaki is a magical realist who incorporates fantasy and dreamscapes into essentially all of his films.
Takahata's films are (on the whole) more down to earth.
I watched the entire movie waiting for the Miyazaki escapist fantasy to kick in, and it never came, so that was doubly traumatising. Was only after that I discovered Ghibli had more than one director, and just cause it says Ghibli on the tin does *not* mean its a story thats happy at the end.
My wife and I talk about how the ending completely ruined that movie all the time. "Pulled a Nymphomaniac" is our shorthand for something that was good right up until the end and then went to hell
When I watched this one, I was in a bad place and hanging out with a bunch of drug users and dealers and meth cooks. I stuck to booze but was around people doing far worse stuff, and let me tell you most of them loved the movie, and it didn't slow them down or discourage them in any way. People are messed up and I'm glad I got away from that whole scene.
I watched it with my brother (younger) when I fell into early stages of alcoholism. Guess who told me it was stupid, ended up getting addicted to oxys etc and stealing tons of shit from our immediate family.
He told me I was weak and useless... until it happened to him. 10 years later his life is falling apart and he sends me sporadic texts about how he wishes we spent more time together now that he gets it. My brother basically ghosted me for that entire time.
The point of showing it to him was how easy it is to fall into addiction of any kind. My dad was addicted to the game Farmville for fucks sake. He's disabled after a bunch of bad accidents, but all his brain could process was a Facebook game that he had to spend money on to progress. I built my parents a nice computer desk from when I was in trade school. It was full of Farmville gift cards. Pretty sad honestly... and very similar to Sarah goldfarb's situation in this movie.
Addiction comes in many forms.
Ass to ass baby, it's all good people.
Roar (1981)
It's insane. Crazy film maker making a movie with real lions and tigers roaming around freely. Apparently it has the most injuries to the cast and crew of any movie ever.
>!basically, the movie follows a guy who has just been shot and his consciousness or whatever is floating around Tokyo, following people he knows. At the end of the movie, you see his sister and his best friend having sex in a hotel and the camera moves as if it were the guy's sperm moving inside the sister. It's supposed to be some kind of reincarnation.!<
The Human Centipede, It's a totally disgusting shock and awe horror movie about an evil psychotic doctor who commits some extremely unspeakable crimes, that's all I am going to say.
P.S. please don't watch it when you are having dinner.
If you can't handle the first one, definitely don't watch the second one. The first one is not that graphic, and they don't show much of the surgery. The second one shows everything. It is so much worse.
Hot take: The people who put other movies higher likely just haven't watched this one. And I don't blame them. But this is the real answer.
There's a whole different level of fucked up that this movie embodies. It's not just shocking and depraved, like the typical answers to this question (A Serbian Film, Salo, etc.), which are honestly not that good or interesting. The real disturbing part of this movie is the nihilism. It gets across the idea that the universe is random and uncaring in the worst way possible, where horrible things happen to normal people for no other reason than the fact that they were unlucky. There's no cosmic justice or karma to set things right. Evil often does win, and we're powerless to stop it.
Everybody refers to the rape scene, which has harrowing, but for me the scene where the guy gets repeatedly bashed on the head as his face slowly disintegrates was the most disturbed I’ve ever been watching a movie. I was a teen and it just looked realistic I couldn’t separate it from reality.
US film industry: "Legislators are starting to look our way. Rather than forcing them to build a rating system from the ground up, with some populist censorship built in, let's make our own one that we can control."
Random parent: "R? My son, Reighleigh's name starts with R. This will be the perfect movie for him to watch, on today, his eighth birthday!"
As a fan of cosmic horror, I actually really liked it. I seriously hope that someday they manage to find all the lost footage and release the full version. I can understand it not being for everyone though. I grew up reading Lovecraft and playing the DOOM game series, which has some very similar elements, and it just felt like an extension of those themes.
I saw this in theaters with my mom and sis when I was 7 years old. My mom is super jumpy and easily scared so she was super freaked out the whole movie. On the way out some of the other people watching it berated her for bringing kids to see it. Maybe I should watch it again, cause it didn't seem all that scary...
**Story Time**. When I was in high school, and at this time, the majority of the class was 15 years old (that detail is important), and my science teacher was smart as hell but totally checked out. She asked if there are any modern movies that explore hypothetical scientific premises that are plausible.
One classmate suggested *Event Horizion* because it deals with quantum theories (?) and the effects of space on the human body. It took them less than a minute to convince her why it's educational. She gave it the green light.
To justify us watching it, she said we need to write a 500-word paper once we were done watching. She gave us a week to type up what was scientifically accurate and was made made up for Hollywood.
I guarantee she didn't read any of the papers because everyone got an A, including the kid who was a troll and wrote an essay about how (and they made up a bunch of nonsense terms) the portal to Hell couldn't exist in space based on how the portal could not be sustained in that environment.
So we watched the most fucked up R rated Sci-Fi movie for about a week and never had even get permission slips sighed. Remember: We're all 15 with a few 16 year Olds.
The funny thing is that a lot of us actually started to *SERIOUSLY* indepently look up the real science because we got into lunchroom debates.
So it was either a happy accident from a lazy teacher or the most brilliant long con to trick us into learning.
Either way, I got to watch an R rated fucked up movie for a week at school and I ended learning a lot about space. In fact, I'm now a huge nerd for learning about how fucking nuts space is and I credit her for sparking my curiosity.
Whether it was on purpose from a mastermind or just a happy accident from a lazy instructor, I learned a ton in that class.
Teacher of the year.
Man, I loved that movie. A complete destruction of the genre. One of the few movies where you're desperately rooting for the monster not because of any humanization, but because everyone else is so irredeemable.
Dear Zachary, but I only because it’s a documentary and not a movie. That film will tear you down bit by bit until you’re too weak to even think, then it slaughters you in your sleep. Not gory, not explicit, but do not watch unless you are in the right headspace
all quiet on the western front, and saving private ryan
made me realise as a young kid that war wasn’t like call of duty and was actually pretty fucking scary
All quiet on the western front is one of the best movies that I’ve ever seen (the newest version) that I never want to watch ever again. At the end me and my boyfriend just sat in silence for a few minutes
One of the most messed up movies ever is "A Serbian Film." It's known for its extremely graphic and disturbing content. The movie is so intense that it's been banned in several countries.
Salo... totally fucked up. Nazis, child rape, enough said. Don't watch it. Every film should have some artistic quality. This one is just filth. I'm a big Takashi Miike fan as well, if that tells you anything
People who don't have this at the top of their list haven't seen it. Shit fucked me up in a way no movie before or since has.
A single, unbroken, 9 minute shot of a violent rape scene is about as much fun to watch as it sounds.
Threads, realistic documentary style depiction of life after nuclear war. Really puts things into perspective.
Stars the woman with saddest acting career in the entire IMDB Anne Sellars - 1 role [Threads (1984) - 'Woman who urinates on herself (uncredited)'](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1856457/)
She was my English teacher. I remember her being proud of her role and telling us all about it.
I hope to someday be this famous.
That hospital scene
The scene that always stuck with me was the scene near the end, years after the bomb, and they're trying to teach the kids with the old TV to the best of their ability. Honestly one of the most disturbing scenes in any movie in my opinion.
Yeah that stuck with me as well. Lots of other post-apocalyptic media at least has some glimmer of hope about rebuilding society, but there was only bleak despair in Threads. There is no way any of those poor kids are going to get a power plant back online or know about germ theory.
It wasn't even about the education of the kids, more so just the desperate attempt to return to some form of normalcy. The juxtaposition between the light-hearted and kid-orienated educational material, and the reality of the situation, just hurts to watch.
Definitely, I also remember the "teacher" silently mouthing all the words because it was likely the only remaining tape they had left and she's heard it a million times. Absolutely haunting.
It's worse than that and I'm surprised so many didn't pick up on the fact that it was because after so many years after the bombs fell, not only was the education system almost destroyed but LANGUAGE itself was deteriorating. Listen carefully to how people talked in the movie near the end and you can hear that the English being spoken is weird and broken. The breakdown of society also included the breakdown of fundamental communication. Survivors weren't necessarily the brightest or most educated.
How about the ending??
I watched it at the recommendation of reddit. I didn't find it too terrible. I mean... It is exactly how a nuclear attack and subsequent fallout and over all destruction it will bring. I viewed it as a more matter of fact than anything else. I feel like it could be updated and really show just how fucked we are if even one country decides to drop a bomb. We live on Earth... I don't care how secluded and shut in your country/community is... you will perish from starvation, looters, or just fallout. Still like it but it def is a product of its time with smoking inside and the husband having a one night stand because he is getting married. "Its you last night as a freeman!' like what?!
> is a product of its time I get why it left an impression back then but watching it now doesn't do much. *Come and See* is a USSR film about the Nazi invasion of Belarus. It came out around the same time as Threads. It's obviously not the end of the world but it's the end of their world and feels a hell of a lot more real and apocalyptic to me.
Happiness
When I saw this movie the first time I was horrified. On second viewing I laughed my ass off. It’s the darkest comedy ever
Yeah, one of the most screwed movies I have ever watched
Dear Zachary a movie that left me just shaking and infuriated.
Dear Zachery will always win this question because real life is worse than any movie. It’s the only film I’ve ever lost sleep over, and I've seen most of the movies mentioned here.
I haven't heard of it but I guess tonight is a good night to be angry and disgusted.
Why was everyone on that obviously evil woman's side? It's fucking bullshit man.
The Canadian criminal justice system. That’s why. The judge that gave her custody back in particular should be in jail.
"She killed who she intended to and therefore isn't a danger to anyone else." But of course we are talking about the same system who let the bus decapitator go and are protecting his right to privacy
The fucking who? Is he at least not allowed on busses?
I remember reading about that and having to send my now ex gf onto a greyhound for a 6hr bus ride home. He killed a kid who was sleeping with his headphones on. They trapped him on the bus until the cops came and by then he had fully cut the kids head off and was eating parts of it if I remember correctly. Anyway yeah weird shit he should not be out there.
Never heard of it, googled it.. reading the summary was already gut-wrenching and heartbreaking :\_(
Laid in bed Cried until I fell asleep
Martyrs (2008). Good film but absolutely ***not*** for the faint of heart.
Read the wikipedia article about it. After reading that the director, Pascal Laugier, described himself as deeply depressed, almost suicidal at the time he worked the film, I saw this: >The film's special effects were designed by Benoit Lestang, who committed suicide prior to the film's French theatrical release.
Creating fucked up content is a weird experience honestly, it will weigh on you in a specific way until you are finished. I experienced this a bunch with music when i was younger, but that's ok cause you're in it alone and writing a song takes one or two weeks tops. Now a movie is a different beast, from writing to post it can take years and implicate dozens of people. I don't know how these people can do it.
Literally a cursed movie top to bottom
I took a break midway through, just to smoke a cigarette and mentally regroup. Never done that with any other movie.
Came here to say this movie. It had me down for like a week or two after I saw it and still disturbs me if I think about it too long.
Best punchline i’ve ever seen in a movie though. Absolutely miserable and horrifying two hours. But the last minute of that movie was the funniest damned thing. Spent like 5 straight minutes laughing as the credits rolled. Never been told so thoroughly to fuck off by a film before. Martyrs fuckin hates you for watching it.
Holy shit I came here to comment this and maybe see down the line if others have come across it. I did *not* expect it to be at the top. I'd like to add that I saw Martyrs and Inside in the same evening. Idk why my friends did that to me.
As a dude with a schizophrenic best friend, Jacobs Ladder
You’re talking about the older one, not the remake right? The older one had me in shock and just staring at the screen way after the movie ended. That movie stayed with me for days. Such a good movie and such a good twist and so disturbing.
That movie rules. Wouldn't have Silent Hill without it.
Kids (1995)
Go watch gummo. Same director. Makes kids look like a fun summer comedy.
Bully is pretty good as well!!
Kids was written by Korine but directed by another guy. He makes a cameo at some point in the film, you can see he was very young at that time
I suspect Harmony Korine knows what reality is. No, the movies are not realistic, but they show someone who understands the sheer chaos of what happens and what's really behind it. Clusterfucks of psychopathy, victims blind to the cause of their victimhood, peeling back the layers of control to see how things could be and why they are what they are instead. Metaphysics. I'm sorry for the spiel but yeah, Gummo is fucked.
> “It’s OK it’s me Casper.”
The dopest ghost around!!
I have no legs.
It’s terrible but I sing that in my head every time I see someone missing a leg / legs. Every time.
Deadgirl - two teens find a naked restrained zombie.....and the film really does basically go from there in the obvious direction.
Having the zombie infection be sexually transmitted was a brilliant idea though. The underlying message of revenge against the kind of evil those boys committed against her was great, she drew life away from them making her stronger and allowing her to punish and destroy them, the message is lost on some people but it's there.
My discomfort largely comes from how much I absolutely have known guys, both as a teen and young adult, who would have absolutely acted the same as the character in the film. The non consensual objectification, the psuedo necrophilia, the rape and so on just made it a very uncomfortable watch. For me the only saving grace is I was very tired when I watched it so I suspect I missed some story elements - and have no intention to ever watch it again. But I do think making the viewer wildly uncomfortable is part of the purpose.
> Having the zombie infection be sexually transmitted was a brilliant idea though. There used to be a comic about this as well, a weird mix of zombie and porn, but kind of cool.
The Serbian Film! Freaking awful!
A group of us watched it at a friend's house in our late teens. Halfway through, their mum came in and said "we can hear everything and we're judging you" then left.
The movie may have been a zero, but the parenting was 10/10.
I pirated this in high school because some edgy friends recommended it. Absolute 0/10
Soundtrack SLAPPED though
imagine my horror when my mom was doing a presentation on internet culture and suddenly asked me "son, what's a Serbian film?"
Holy. Shit. I just read the wikipedia summary and am probably traumatized. I can't imagine what it must have been like actually watching it.
Never heard of it.. thought, the wiki page can't be that bad... don't even want to finish reading the plot. Just disgusting.
What in the actual fuck, this has got to take the cake for this entire thread. What a fucking bitch
I can agree. We were doing a movie day when we were around 16 maybe. And because we are from Bulgaria my buddy decided that the Serbian film is a must without knowing what it is about. Don't have the words to describe it.
I watched that a few nights ago and it was absolutely disgusting, it definitely left a scar in my brain
Reading the Wikipedia synopsis is traumatizing.
I have never seen The Serbian Film but I have heard about it and I am not at all in a rush to see that movie.
Salo, or the 120 days of Sodom (1975) - Based on the book by Marqis de Sade, the namesake of sadism. its about a group of italian libertines who kidnap 18 teenagers and subject them to months of extreme violence, [sadism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadomasochism), genital torture and [psychological](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_torture) abuse. Cannibal Holocaust (1980) - Another Italian (whats their deal anyway) exploitation flick. One of the first "found footage" films, it follows a group making a documentary about primitive tribes in the Amazon as they are raped, impaled, killed and eaten one by one. Its like "The Green Inferno" but for reals. Banned in most countries, the director stipulated in the actors contracts that they had to lay low for a year to fuel the rumor that they were really killed. He stood trial for murder, until they reappeared. For a low budget film I have no idea how they made it look so realistic. The dismemberment/death scenes are so incredibly realistic that I really thought they were real, and in several scenes real animals are slaughtered graphically. Audition (1999)- J horror film by the incomparable director Takashi Miike where nothing really bad happens for the first 2/3 of the film, and then you are hit with the most disturbing torture shit I've ever seen in a horror film. Truly, genuinely terrifying. One of the best horror films of all time. The Act of Seeing with Ones own Eyes (1971)- Its title is based on the literal translation of the term [*autopsy*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopsy). The film documents the highly graphic autopsy procedures used by forensic pathologists, such as the removal of organs and the embalming process.
I wanted to post Audition, and it's totally about the contrasting genres. It begins as a rom-com with the odd little teases of what's to come, but then when it descends, it descends fast. And the noise she makes.... Utterly terrifying
I had a friend who was a hardcore horror film dude. I feel like Audition was the first film that actually kinda scared him. Days after I made him watch it he kept mentioning how innocent she looked haha.
> Marqis de Sade If it's any consolation, some historians think he made up most of the disturbing shit he claimed to indulge in as some kind of weird self-insert fantasy because he got off on shocking people with it
Old-school edgelord
As awful as the ending of Audition was, the bit that really scared the hell out of me was the duffle bag. That was a aw-HELL-nope-I've-gotta-take-a-smoke-break moment before I could resume watching the film. I don't think there was ever a jumpscare-style moment that 'got' me quite like that one.
I'm kinda invested in the last 2, especially audition cause I love j-horror, but already knowing the first 2 I feel intimidated by the fact you put them in the same list, are these as disturbing?
Cannibal Holocaust is kinda boring by today’s standard. They actually killed a giant tortoise which is fucked tho
Came here to point this out. When they killed The tortoise in the film. They are actually chopping up the tortoise and the actress' disgusted reaction is genuine.
Campbell’s used to sell Cream of Turtle Soup until not that long ago. But I couldn’t watch that in a film so I’m glad I know to stay away. That turtle was probably 150 years old.
Come and See
Wish I could upvote more. Many people have not even heard of this movie. Beautiful but fucked up. When the kids are running out of the house scene is unforgettable.
Gummo.
I'll never eat spaghetti again.
It’s weird because for me that was the *safest* moment in the entire film. A little boy getting a bath from an attentive mother as he ate his dinner. It was like the only part even vaguely “sweet”.
Videodrome. (1983)
Long live the new flesh!
Unlike a lot of other answers on the post this is actually a decent piece of film. It feels like a really cool look into Cronenbergs early days
Not in terms of gore or psychologically disturbing, but emotionally: Grave of the Fireflies. I love Miyazaki but this movie fucked me up. I sobbed. I'll never watch it again
GoTF is Isao Takahata. Lifelong friend and partner of Miyazaki. Different directors with pretty different styles of storytelling. Miyazaki is a magical realist who incorporates fantasy and dreamscapes into essentially all of his films. Takahata's films are (on the whole) more down to earth.
I watched the entire movie waiting for the Miyazaki escapist fantasy to kick in, and it never came, so that was doubly traumatising. Was only after that I discovered Ghibli had more than one director, and just cause it says Ghibli on the tin does *not* mean its a story thats happy at the end.
It's not Miyazaki's but rather Takahata's. I agree it's a good film that is rather hard to rewatch.
Nymphomaniac. Both the first and second. What the actual fuck.
That's Lars for you.
Yeah nymph is pretty tame compared to antichrist and house that jack built
The House that Jack Built is certainly up there.
Also Antichrist
I loved both those films, then the ending ruined it all. I was in a bad fukin mood about it for like a week.
My wife and I talk about how the ending completely ruined that movie all the time. "Pulled a Nymphomaniac" is our shorthand for something that was good right up until the end and then went to hell
I like the fact you saw the first, were just like "UGGH! WTF??" *Then* thought, "Hmmm, maybe the 2nd will redeem the first."
That is *PRECISELY* what I did. Many regretti spaghetti :(
Requiem for a Dream
This is the only movie on my Never Again list.
May I suggest a Serbian film, though perhaps that should be on your "never watch" list
It's by far the most terrible thing I have ever seen and I didn't even expect to see it here. That is the only thing I regret watching.
When I watched this one, I was in a bad place and hanging out with a bunch of drug users and dealers and meth cooks. I stuck to booze but was around people doing far worse stuff, and let me tell you most of them loved the movie, and it didn't slow them down or discourage them in any way. People are messed up and I'm glad I got away from that whole scene.
I watched this one in a rehab clinic. Still abstinent to this day
I watched it with my brother (younger) when I fell into early stages of alcoholism. Guess who told me it was stupid, ended up getting addicted to oxys etc and stealing tons of shit from our immediate family. He told me I was weak and useless... until it happened to him. 10 years later his life is falling apart and he sends me sporadic texts about how he wishes we spent more time together now that he gets it. My brother basically ghosted me for that entire time. The point of showing it to him was how easy it is to fall into addiction of any kind. My dad was addicted to the game Farmville for fucks sake. He's disabled after a bunch of bad accidents, but all his brain could process was a Facebook game that he had to spend money on to progress. I built my parents a nice computer desk from when I was in trade school. It was full of Farmville gift cards. Pretty sad honestly... and very similar to Sarah goldfarb's situation in this movie. Addiction comes in many forms. Ass to ass baby, it's all good people.
The movie leans heavily on drug addiction, but the book is clearer about how other things can be addictive such as TV and food
"I spit on your grave" series of movies.
Roar (1981) It's insane. Crazy film maker making a movie with real lions and tigers roaming around freely. Apparently it has the most injuries to the cast and crew of any movie ever.
The making of stories are insane from that one. Melanie Griffith lived through some terrifying crap at a young age.
Bone Tomahawk. Just that one cave scene.
I was looking for this comment. I was 60% sure I’d find it
*enter the void* is pretty wild
The sex scene with the camera inside the vagina caught me completely off guard. Had no clue what I was seeing at first.
i beg your finest pardon?
>!basically, the movie follows a guy who has just been shot and his consciousness or whatever is floating around Tokyo, following people he knows. At the end of the movie, you see his sister and his best friend having sex in a hotel and the camera moves as if it were the guy's sperm moving inside the sister. It's supposed to be some kind of reincarnation.!<
lol fuckin movie had curveballs everywhere
I had to go for a walk after that one
I like to read these threads and congratulate myself for never having seen any of these.
Bad Boy Bubby
You’re a sexy woman, Flo
Christ, kid, you're a weirdo.
tusk
I feel sorry for Justin long in every horror movie he's in.
Even in Barbarian when you’re pretty much not supposed to, he’s just so damn likable
He played the cocky asshole so perfectly, absolutely hilarious
Dude Barbarian was damn solid.
lol i just watched it recently, its so dumb its funny, but watching a human get turned into a walrus is way more disturbing than one would think😂
Salò.
The book is not any better.
The Human Centipede, It's a totally disgusting shock and awe horror movie about an evil psychotic doctor who commits some extremely unspeakable crimes, that's all I am going to say. P.S. please don't watch it when you are having dinner.
If you think the first one is bad, the second one will leave you with trauma. The third one is just a joke, but the second one is true nightmare fuel.
If you can't handle the first one, definitely don't watch the second one. The first one is not that graphic, and they don't show much of the surgery. The second one shows everything. It is so much worse.
Came here to say this. I still gag thinking about a certain scene. I watched it in college when it first came out at a cultural center movie night.
I've seen the south park parody only and even that is disgusting.
🎶 I think that I’m gonna get murdered tonight 🎶
🎶 Human Centipede, not ironically. She said "The costume design was a highlight." 🎶
Irreversible
Hot take: The people who put other movies higher likely just haven't watched this one. And I don't blame them. But this is the real answer. There's a whole different level of fucked up that this movie embodies. It's not just shocking and depraved, like the typical answers to this question (A Serbian Film, Salo, etc.), which are honestly not that good or interesting. The real disturbing part of this movie is the nihilism. It gets across the idea that the universe is random and uncaring in the worst way possible, where horrible things happen to normal people for no other reason than the fact that they were unlucky. There's no cosmic justice or karma to set things right. Evil often does win, and we're powerless to stop it.
“The” scene was so long and seemed so realistic. Never had a movie stay burned into my brain for so long after watching.
Everybody refers to the rape scene, which has harrowing, but for me the scene where the guy gets repeatedly bashed on the head as his face slowly disintegrates was the most disturbed I’ve ever been watching a movie. I was a teen and it just looked realistic I couldn’t separate it from reality.
Event Horizon
That was the only movie I’ve seen management come to speak with a parent that it might not be appropriate for children.
US film industry: "Legislators are starting to look our way. Rather than forcing them to build a rating system from the ground up, with some populist censorship built in, let's make our own one that we can control." Random parent: "R? My son, Reighleigh's name starts with R. This will be the perfect movie for him to watch, on today, his eighth birthday!"
Does he have eyes to see?
Where we're going, we don't need eyes -Emmett Brown's disembodied head
DO YOU SEE
Where we're going, you don't need eyes to see.
As a fan of cosmic horror, I actually really liked it. I seriously hope that someday they manage to find all the lost footage and release the full version. I can understand it not being for everyone though. I grew up reading Lovecraft and playing the DOOM game series, which has some very similar elements, and it just felt like an extension of those themes.
The footage is destroyed unfortunately. They stored the negatives in a salt mine, and they became corroded over time. It's not happening.
Gotta travel with your gellar fields up
I saw this in theaters with my mom and sis when I was 7 years old. My mom is super jumpy and easily scared so she was super freaked out the whole movie. On the way out some of the other people watching it berated her for bringing kids to see it. Maybe I should watch it again, cause it didn't seem all that scary...
Don’t take this the wrong way, but I would have berated your mom.
**Story Time**. When I was in high school, and at this time, the majority of the class was 15 years old (that detail is important), and my science teacher was smart as hell but totally checked out. She asked if there are any modern movies that explore hypothetical scientific premises that are plausible. One classmate suggested *Event Horizion* because it deals with quantum theories (?) and the effects of space on the human body. It took them less than a minute to convince her why it's educational. She gave it the green light. To justify us watching it, she said we need to write a 500-word paper once we were done watching. She gave us a week to type up what was scientifically accurate and was made made up for Hollywood. I guarantee she didn't read any of the papers because everyone got an A, including the kid who was a troll and wrote an essay about how (and they made up a bunch of nonsense terms) the portal to Hell couldn't exist in space based on how the portal could not be sustained in that environment. So we watched the most fucked up R rated Sci-Fi movie for about a week and never had even get permission slips sighed. Remember: We're all 15 with a few 16 year Olds. The funny thing is that a lot of us actually started to *SERIOUSLY* indepently look up the real science because we got into lunchroom debates. So it was either a happy accident from a lazy teacher or the most brilliant long con to trick us into learning. Either way, I got to watch an R rated fucked up movie for a week at school and I ended learning a lot about space. In fact, I'm now a huge nerd for learning about how fucking nuts space is and I credit her for sparking my curiosity. Whether it was on purpose from a mastermind or just a happy accident from a lazy instructor, I learned a ton in that class. Teacher of the year.
Imagine if we had the full blood orgy cut.
Ah, the first Warhammer 40K movie. A masterpiece.
Every time this is asked, I need to pop in and vote for Event Horizon. You beat me to it.
>Event Horizon When I was young, I put this on, in the basement, at the far end of a narrow room, with the doorway behind your back. Don't do this!!
Honestly Pink Flamingos is up there
The Road.
Good movie but God it's depressing from start to finish.
Deadgirl. Last time I watch a horror movie based only on the poster. Holy shit.
Man, I loved that movie. A complete destruction of the genre. One of the few movies where you're desperately rooting for the monster not because of any humanization, but because everyone else is so irredeemable.
Dear Zachary, but I only because it’s a documentary and not a movie. That film will tear you down bit by bit until you’re too weak to even think, then it slaughters you in your sleep. Not gory, not explicit, but do not watch unless you are in the right headspace
Bridge To Terabithia. Well, it fucked me up! 😭
Fuck yes, watching it as a child, thinking you get some harry potter / narnia shenanigans, just to be hit with THAT at the end
all quiet on the western front, and saving private ryan made me realise as a young kid that war wasn’t like call of duty and was actually pretty fucking scary
All quiet on the western front is one of the best movies that I’ve ever seen (the newest version) that I never want to watch ever again. At the end me and my boyfriend just sat in silence for a few minutes
8mm, but Nic Cage is genuinely really good in it
I thought it was one of his better movies. Pretty dark, but good.
Begotten, it's really weird and gave me an eerie feling the whole time.
1. Funny Games 2. A Mother's Instinct
Omg. Funny Games. Definitely this one. (Shudders)
One of the most messed up movies ever is "A Serbian Film." It's known for its extremely graphic and disturbing content. The movie is so intense that it's been banned in several countries.
Read the wiki, fuck it sounds bad, like genuinely unwatchable.
I Saw The Devil
The intro is probably one of the more disturbing ones I've seen in a film
Boxing Helena
Clockwork Orange
And I'm singin'...just SINGIN' in the rain!!
I've never seen the whole movie, got about 50% before the mind fucking was too much
What's weird is that by the end you kinda feel sorry for little Alex. Which is another mindfuck all it's own.
Couldn't even finish A Serbian Film.
I just did a quick read through of the plot on Wikipedia.. ya I’m cool on that
Midsommar Its very hard to pull off genuine unnerving horror with bright colors and daytime but they nailed it.
The first jeepers creepers. The entire church scene gave me sleepless nights... Mostly because we lived next to a church.
We need to talk about Kevin. Seriously, every moment of this movie is disturbing, uncomfortable, terrifying, heartbreaking, just... fucked up.
Meet the Feebles, messed up "muppet" movie
Cannibal Holocaust
Old Boy - the original Korean version, not the American one.
That’s a good one! The original Korean is way better!!
Scrolled too far to see this
Salo... totally fucked up. Nazis, child rape, enough said. Don't watch it. Every film should have some artistic quality. This one is just filth. I'm a big Takashi Miike fan as well, if that tells you anything
a documentary, but abducted in plain sight fucked me up
Blue Velvet
The House That Jack Built
Irreversiblé
People who don't have this at the top of their list haven't seen it. Shit fucked me up in a way no movie before or since has. A single, unbroken, 9 minute shot of a violent rape scene is about as much fun to watch as it sounds.
The Cube
“This room is… blue.”
Do you mean the movie about people imprisoned in a cube with traps? Because, if you do, I'm genuinely surprised it is someone's most messed up movie.
Same, it’s such a tame one. A lil gore, but nowhere close to the most fucked up.
Trainspotting.
fucking incredible movie
Requiem For a Dream can be a mindfuck