# Movies that disturbed/sickened you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706 "2010-04-11T05:57:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/61 "2010-04-12T12:49:14Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Clerks 2. I’m sorry I watched the 20 minutes of it that I did. By not watching it all, you missed the point of the movie. Well, I won’t say you \*MISSED \*it 😃 , but the point of Clerks 2 was, to me, the jail cell scene near the end. I think the whole movie was made just to get to that scene, that emotional honesty between 2 old friends who never let that wall down. I understand if the journey wasn’t worth it to you, but I was impressed by the surprising emotion from such stunted ppl in an otherwise silly movie with a donkey sex-scene. A silly, funny movie with that delivers more than gross-out humor. And what was so disturbing in the first 20 minutes of that movie anyway? The donkey sex isn’t until later! And how does it even make this list? Have you seen _Eraserhead_ 😃 ? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/62 "2010-04-12T15:14:10Z")
**The Passion of the Christ** was one of the few films I’ve seen that made me sick to my stomach. Stuff like _A Clockwork Orange_ and _Requiem for a Dream_ did sort of make me feel funny, but _PotC_ was just…graphic. I don’t know many people who have seen it, as most of my friends are not Christians. A few have asked me what I thought about it and I said that if you’re a Christian it’s powerful and moving. If you’re not a Christian it’s just gory, and long. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/63 "2010-04-12T15:39:34Z")
_I Spit On Your Grave_. I understand what the director was trying to say, according to his commentary, but the rape scene is so long and unpleasant you feel drained after watching it. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/64 "2010-04-12T16:04:54Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > You can watch **Sunday’s Game** for yourself on the web. It is just a short film of a group of old ladies getting together for a friendly weekend gathering. Warning: it is disturbing by any measure but that is what you asked for but the acting is incredibly realistic at the same time. I’d put that one out of my mind - my boyfriend showed it to me because he thought it was _hilarious._ Man, was he in trouble. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/65 "2010-04-12T16:18:02Z")
> [@Random\_Design](#): > > There was another film, the name of which I’ve successfully blanked out - it was French I think, I saw several years ago, had a graphic rape scene and later a graphic vengeance scene. I believe you are thinking of **Irreversible**. I agree, it is quite disturbing. For me, the worst is a Korean film called **Bad Guy**. The director is Ki-duk Kim, who is quite popular (though I certainly don’t see why). The movie is not gory, nor especially violent in the slasher sense. Just the circumstances a young woman finds herself in and how the film ends is just vile. Reprehensible piece of trash movie. (But I though \*\*Oldboy \*\*was very very good.) ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/66 "2010-04-12T17:32:54Z")
A couple worth mentioning. I saw [_Soldier Blue_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066390/), an extremely graphic dramatization of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, when I was in junior high. I had been raised on war movies and westerns, but I simply wasn’t prepared for anything this brutal. Limbs being hacked off, a woman being stripped and then slashed open, and a slow-motion closeup of a child being shot in the head. That I was only vaguely aware at the time of the kinds of atrocities historically committed by the U.S. Government against Native Americans certainly did not help. While normally immune to the excesses of horror films, there was one moment of the 1988 remake of [The Blob](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094761/) that gave me nightmares for weeks. The girl who (IIRC) turns out to be the hero of the film witnesses her own little brother being engulfed by the blob. A moment later, his body, still alive but half skeletonized, bursts out towards her. There’s nothing else of the film I remember – just my own thoughts as to how I’d react had the still screaming remains of someone I loved been dangled in front of my face. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/67 "2010-04-12T17:40:14Z")
I’ve seen a lot of horror movies, and some have affected me more than others, depending on how young I was when I watched them. But there is one movie that I watched recently that I felt killed a part of my soul. (And I don’t believe in souls.) _Martyrs_, which has been mentioned a few times in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/68 "2010-04-12T18:02:01Z")
I would say the first time I saw **Saving Private Ryan** I found it pretty distubing. Same with **Full Metal Jacket**. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/69 "2010-04-12T18:21:15Z")
Dont know if audio only qualifys: The beheading of Daniel Pearl. For a few days, the audio of this was played on news radio. Listening to the man gargle on his own blood was/is horrifying to me. I have avoided the video, as I don’t think I would enjoy snuff film. ---
**Author:** ![jordanr2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jordanr2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordanr2)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/70 "2010-04-13T03:46:26Z")
plenty of movies being called “pseudo-intellectual” here, like _Martyrs_ and _Anatomy of Hell_, are among my all-time favorites. I think there may be more to those than meets the eye :-/ Anyway, on a similar wavelength _Trouble Every Day_ is deeply disturbing - not just for the gore, but also for a certain queasy unsettling quality to the whole way it’s made - the photography, the dreamlike acting and especially the fantastic musical score by Tindersticks in combination with all this. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/71 "2010-04-13T04:49:17Z")
**Once were warriors** disturbing and powerful. Glad I seen it once don’t ever want to see it again. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/72 "2010-04-13T07:35:36Z")
Probably the grossest film I’ve seen was _August Underground Mordum_. The only point of that film is to be as shocking as possible, so it’s not like I wasn’t expecting it. There’s no plot to it, it’s just a hand held camera showing people doing incredibly sick things. I also saw this short film called \*Aftermath \*that was pretty disturbing. About a morgue technician performing an autopsy who gets turned on and fucks a female corpse who had it’s torso cut open & exposed. That’s the whole film. What made it disturbing was that it had high production values, and was extremely realistic, it wasn’t just cheesy special effects & bad lighting. And if I remember right, there was no dialogue, just ambient noises. I’m curious to see \*Martyrs \*now. ---
**Author:** ![Camus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ba8739/32.png) [@Camus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Camus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/73 "2010-04-13T10:27:54Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Probably the grossest film I’ve seen was _August Underground Mordum_. The only point of that film is to be as shocking as possible, so it’s not like I wasn’t expecting it. There’s no plot to it, it’s just a hand held camera showing people doing incredibly sick things. > > I also saw this short film called \*Aftermath \*that was pretty disturbing. > (snip) > > I’m curious to see \*Martyrs \*now. This is what I’m curious about. Why did you see the first two movies, particularly since it seems you had at least a faint notion what they were about or what they involved (gore, disturbing or shocking scenes). And why are you curious to see “Martyrs” now? Are you just trying to see if you can shock yourself? Have any of these movies had any deeper meaning through the use of gore or extreme scenes to you? ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/74 "2010-04-13T19:25:00Z")
I know _Se7en_ was mentioned, and that really disturbed me. _Slither_ was another. Yick. Yick. Yick. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/75 "2010-04-13T21:51:39Z")
Leaving Las Vegas - Mainly for personal reasons but damn that movie put a dark cloud over me for days. Irreversible - I knew what to expect but I was still shocked by how graphic the rape was. ---
**Author:** ![pope\_hentai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@pope\_hentai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pope_hentai)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/76 "2010-04-13T22:09:55Z")
“jesus camp” something about 10yr olds being taught to be ready to die for their god… i can’t watch the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Scoobysnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Scoobysnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoobysnax)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/77 "2010-04-13T22:40:03Z")
The blood and violence in **Sin City** didn’t bother me, but for some reason Carla Gugino describing Elijah Wood’s character eating her hand tweaked me right out. I also can’t watch the papercut scene in the first **Jackass** movie ---
**Author:** ![jordanr2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jordanr2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordanr2)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/78 "2010-04-13T22:56:11Z")
> [@Camus](#): > > This is what I’m curious about. Why did you see the first two movies, particularly since it seems you had at least a faint notion what they were about or what they involved (gore, disturbing or shocking scenes). And why are you curious to see “Martyrs” now? Are you just trying to see if you can shock yourself? Have any of these movies had any deeper meaning through the use of gore or extreme scenes to you? Not to answer for him, but re: the August Underground films, I think a lot of people seek them out by reputation to see if they’re really as bad as is often claimed. They’re not unique films in that respect, just in the extremity of their content. Aesthetically they’re not worth much, but as a friend of mine pointed out, there’s something unnerving about seeing this behavior from realistically-depicted American white trash rather than French _femmes fatales_, Italian black-gloved psychos, geographically-isolated cults or Japanese samurai ghouls, which is the kind of cultural background a lot of extreme horror has. (I guess this is why a lot of people found _Eden Lake_ so intriguing - seeing this behavior from chavs - but I disliked that film too.) The realism of the August Underground stuff also has a lot to do with its uniqueness: it’s literally like those internet shock films, only fictitious. I suppose there’s some level of “deeper meaning” in relation to the fictionalization of things that voyeurs seek out, but it’s not a particularly interesting message: voyeurism has been implicated for years in films like _Cannibal Holocaust_ and even stuff like the second _Saw_ movie. As for _Martyrs_, there can be no question that the gore has a _lot_ to do with the film’s effectiveness: we’re inhabiting the mind of a particular character, and forced to take her journey vicariously in as unflinching a way as cinema can possibly represent. (And it’s not like they don’t back down on the gore here: there are places where this film could have gone a lot further, but Laugier took the road of art rather than that of exploitation.) Someone else in the thread calls _Martyrs_ “pseudo-intellectual,” which I think pretty clearly misses the point: there are currents of thought at work on the part of some of this film’s characters that are pretty clearly intended to be shown as morally depraved and pointless, but that has little to do with the human experience at the center of the film, what the protagonists go through, which is the real emotional core of it all. It’s hard to say more without spoilers, though. I’ve been thinking of dedicating a new thread to discussion of this film on its own, but I’m not sure how many folks have seen it. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/79 "2010-04-13T23:04:13Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > For me, the worst is a Korean film called **Bad Guy**. The director is Ki-duk Kim, who is quite popular (though I certainly don’t see why). The movie is not gory, nor especially violent in the slasher sense. Just the circumstances a young woman finds herself in and how the film ends is just vile. Reprehensible piece of trash movie. In that case, I wouldn’t suggest watching **The Isle**. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706/80 "2010-04-13T23:29:07Z")
Meet The Feebles- Peter Jackson goes backstage at a Muppets-like show. There are graphic rape and shit eating scenes. Born On The Fourth Of July- There are no really graphic scenes. But there is an overall unpleasantness that’s hard to wipe away. Jacob’s Ladder- Everything about the film is meant to make you feel nervous, nauseous (again without being graphic) and ill at ease. It does all this VERY well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-disturbed-sickened-you/535706.md?page=5)