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

[TheDenizen]

hmmmm. disturbing?

Cannibal Holocaust for sure. It's genuinely terrifying and left a most unpleasant feeling in my stomach. I'm no antivivisectionist, but the live animal slaughter was just fucking sick, and the finale where the humans are similarly butchered is disturbingly effective.

I Spit on your Grave. The revenge is sweet and it can easily be argued that this film is about female empowerment more than it is about exploitation, but damn, that 20+ minute multiple rape sequence is just so harsh. Camille Keaton lets out a few screams during that scene that sometimes haunt my nightmares.

Pink Flamingoes. I got dragged to an arthouse theater showing of this film in University, my only other John Waters experience at the time was Cry Baby. I had no idea what to expect, and when Divine starting blowing the dude playing his son, I almost checked out completely...but I did stick it out to the end (and even enjoyed a bunch of it).

Eastern Promises. I can't remember the last time a single scene made me squirm so much. The "naked knife fight in a bathhouse" scene in this film literally made my balls retract. The rest of the film is excellent, and not so disturbing.

Audition. I managed to see this movie completely cold (I had no idea what it was about, and had seen almost none of the promotional images), and I was enjoying it but starting to wonder what the fuss was about when the shit hit the fan. This flick was like a suckerpunch that delivered a solid and sick shock at the end. Not particularly disturbing compared to other, gorier films, but this one disturbed me since it seemed to come out of nowhere.

[Hopscotch]

Well disturbing is something I usually avoid so my picks might be a little tame.

The Zombie Diaries: It's a mockumentary about some sort of zombie plague, but the disturbing part actually comes in the form of one of the survivors who is a pyschopath raping, torturing, murderer; he chains a naked zombie to a wall imagine that smiley being green...

Jiminy Glick in La La Wood: Well it's ignorant for one, which to the level it was disturbed me mildly, but Martin Short humping around in a fat suit, making fun of film festivals and the obese in a weird horror like story was one of the most disgusting things I've personally seen...

Jackass: The Movie: First off, my brother made me watch, secondly, paper cuts!!!

[TheDenizen]

The Zombie Diaries: It's a mockumentary about some sort of zombie plague, but the disturbing part actually comes in the form of one of the survivors who is a pyschopath raping, torturing, murderer; he chains a naked zombie to a wall imagine that smiley being green...

Deadgirl is based on kind of a similar idea...three guys find a zombie girl chained to a bed in an old, abandoned hospital and proceed to rape the crap out of her for fun. It wasn't as disturbing as you might imagine, but it sure wasn't pretty (it was also pointless and stupid and horribly written).

What thought process led someone to believe a zombie rape film would be a good thing?

[ShogunRua]

The Zombie Diaries: It's a mockumentary about some sort of zombie plague, but the disturbing part actually comes in the form of one of the survivors who is a pyschopath raping, torturing, murderer; he chains a naked zombie to a wall imagine that smiley being green...

Deadgirl is based on kind of a similar idea...three guys find a zombie girl chained to a bed in an old, abandoned hospital and proceed to rape the crap out of her for fun. It wasn't as disturbing as you might imagine, but it sure wasn't pretty (it was also pointless and stupid and horribly written).

What thought process led someone to believe a zombie rape film would be a good thing?

The one where someone desperately wants to make a movie, but can't think of a single quality idea.

Same reason behind remakes of extremely recent foreign films, too. (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Let the Right One In)

[Stewball]

I usually avoid horror/suspense stuff, don't see the point.

Top of the list for me, by a long shot, Schindler's List. I think it's so disturbing (and heroic, and uplifting) because it is a very realistic depiction of a horror that actually happened. Nothing else comes close. I knew when I left the theater that it was a one-timer.

[KGB]

Eastern Promises. I can't remember the last time a single scene made me squirm so much. The "naked knife fight in a bathhouse" scene in this film literally made my balls retract. The rest of the film is excellent, and not so disturbing.

Nevertheless I think it's one of the best fight scenes I've ever seen. Gritty as fuck, as a film like 'Eastern Promises' should be.

[TheDenizen]

Indeed, it was heart pounding. An excellent fight.

[Anomaly1]

Irreversible. But damn is it great, looking forward to Enter the Void.

[Prismatic]

The films "Men Behind The Sun" and "Philosophy Of A Knife" are more disturbing than any other movie mentioned in this thread. "Men Behind The Sun" probably has the hardest scene for me to sit through involving a cat facing 1000 rats, particularly because it was real. "Philosophy Of A Knife" is very, very long; but you'd be hard pressed to find anything so brutally bleak.

Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door is a very disturbing story of a girl who is tortured and raped by her neighbors; based on a real case.

The Isle is the one film besides the first two I mentioned above where I actually said out loud, "Oh no PLEASE DON'T!"

In My Skin takes self-mutilation to a WHOLE 'nother level.

And why has no mentioned "A Serbian Film"(a film which Criticker won't enter into its database for some reason)???