Movie-Specific : Most disturbing movies you've ever seen

[by Devol]

El Topo (1970)

oh come on!
disturbing?!
the thing was too much of a romp, if anything, surely

Hour of the Wolf (1968)

I forgot about that one. There's a particularly nasty image of a drowned child, slowly sinking, further and further, down into the depths. Definitely not one of your "feel-good movies of the year". One of those few flicks where, by the end, I felt like the soul was drained out of me. I'm sure we've all felt that. Black and white never looked so mindbogglingly fucking powerful - like a nightmare that you're kinda stuck seeing.

[aaronwhat]

i agree el topo isn't disturbing but i just copied and pasted a list i didn't tinker it to abide by this thread. its a great film either way

[barney76]

All my buddy had to do was explain the premise of "The Human Centipede" and I was bothered by it for days , it still messes with me sometimes. I doubt even watching it would mess with me as much as what my own mental imagery has done and it might actually put a silly face on the horrors that my mind invents. I will never watch it however. "Tosh.0"(great show btw) made it a little easier to know of its existence though.

+1.

What my brain imagined with the premise is, probably (and from what I've heard from friends), far worse than the film itself.

That's a +1 from me as well, along with a +1 on your use of the word "nonchalant" in your description of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre scene.
I think it was a dude, though, but the way he

Spoiler: show

stuffed the woman back in the freezer

was also just ... nasty.

[Ibn Salami]

Na Wylot

Troll 2

[Baby Fish]

Has anyone mentioned:
Titicut Follies
The Holy Mountain
Everything Will Be Ok and I Am So Proud Of You

Not the traditional disturbing, but like someone already said after watching enough torture porn you just get desensitized to it Although having said that August Underground has a special place in my heart for being the first ever truly sickening film my innocent 12 year old eyes ever saw. ^-^

[Svengali]

Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Nekromantik both made me physically ill, they're fairly disturbing I suppose. The Baby of Mâcon as well, left me more astounded than disturbed though but I found it disturbing in a way as well. A fair bit of Lynch's stuff is pretty disturbing also...

[McCorpse]

caligulla and a serbian film

[portwa6]

I felt unclean after watching Craven's original Last House on the Left.

A close second would be Funny Games (or at least the German version) - had to take a shower after that one...

[tinysausage]

Twentynine Palms
Cannibal Holocaust
Eraserhead
Kill List
Snowtown

My stomach for this sort of thing seems to have got weaker as I've got older, especially since having kids. I actively avoid notorious films - you can't unsee things you wish you'd never seen.

For different reasons, I find these pretty disturbing for their verdict on human nature:

In the Company of Men
Your Friends and Neighbors
Happiness

[ferked]

long pigs
aftermath