Okay - Can someone spoiler Sunday Game? I don’t think I want to watch it, but the curiosity is killing me…
That is really strange. I’m definitely not sorry I decided not to watch it.
Incidentally, I, too, was looking for a summary of Sunday’s Game. Sorry for the confusion.
You know, I am not a fan of Kubrick and hate this film in particular, but I admit you have a good point. I don’t remember much explicit violence in this film, and though I wouldn’t rank it as highly disturbing, I do remember feeling queasy throughout most of it. I guess that takes a certain skill.
Isn’t the whole movie ripped off from the Live Organ Donation bit from The Meaning of Life?
As for creepy ass movies, how about Audition? A decent movie but one I have no desire to see again.
Meet The Feebles was just too weird and OTT to be truly disgusting. Besides, I think Jackson raised the bar pretty high for himself with his first film, Bad Taste. I’ve owned this film for 20 years now (VHS and DVD) and every time I see
Derek touch his own brain with his dirty finger, poke around a bit and then slap his flapping skull back downI get all freakishly freaked out and stuff. Like for days afterward I’ll get that same feeling for no real reason and see the scene again in my head causing the same freakishly freaked out feeling again only worse cause I’m already drained from the first time ya know what I’m sayin’?
And then there’s the wholeliquifying people’s brains as a beverage drunk from half-cut skulls oh and carefully skinning a corpse to be able to wear it as a disguise so that later Derek can burst out of it with chainsaws dismembering and hacking with brain-infected xenophobic genocidal intent
but I digress because those things are gut-wrenchingly disturbing, but they’re also fairly over the top and in a black comedy way I can laugh along haha with the joke but the whole touching his own freaking brain with a dirty finger part :eek:. Damn! Even writing about it skwiks me out. Great movie, even so.
I’m surprised no one has yet mentioned a favorite of mine that lots of people hate because it confuses/sickens/disturbs/enrages them: * Santa Sangre* by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
I admit it’s somewhat disturbing, but I just can’t describe the feeling I had after I first saw it. I turned to my friend and said “What the fuck was all that?” and put the tape on rewind. We watched it again. Then we went and saw George Clinton and P-Funk All-Stars. The next morning I could not get the damn movie out my mind, eventually getting a copy on VHS. I got it on DVD a couple of years ago when it was released, and I still love it even tho it makes me think “what the fuck is going on?” quite a lot. But I know some people have violently negative reactions to it, just like I’ve seen some people do with Kids.
Oh, and no mention yet of Liquid Sky? I actually got slapped for recommending that to someone. That is, I got slapped after she saw it. I mean, she didn’t slap me for recommending it to her, not at that time. I prolly wouldn’t recommend many movies or books or anything much at all really to someone who was gonna slap me every time I gave my opinion on some facet of the arts ya know what I’m sayin’?
Ransom, with Mel Gibson.
I am always deeply disturbed by movies where children are terrorized or frightened, so I should have known better when I heard the movie was about a man whose young son is kidnapped. I saw it when it first came out, and I have not been able to bring myself to watch it again, so I’m going by memory here…I’m doing a spoiler in case anyone here has not seen this 20-year old movie…
[spoiler]The boy, probably 7 or 8 years old, is held and terrorized by kidnappers, but never sees their faces. Eventually he gets away from the kidnappers (I forget how) and is back home with his parents. The kidnapper comes to the parents’ apartment on some pretense, and the boy hears his voice from the next room; the boy recognizes the voice of the kidnapper, and is so freaked out he is frozen in place and then wets himself, which tips off the mother that something is wrong with the visitor.
I know this is fictional, but seeing a boy (not a baby, an older child) so traumatized that he would actually just pee his pants was incredibly upsetting to me, twenty years later I still can’t ever watch that movie again. [/spoiler]
I haven’t seen it but here the IMDB listing- the comments pretty much give it away.
I shut it off after watching 20 minutes of it. The glorification of murder was sickening.
This was a tremendous waste of everything involved. I saw no “artistic quality” of any kind. Utterly vile and reprehensible.
Jacob’s Ladder scared the living crap out of me. For some reason I watched it one weekend when I was home alone. What are the odds of picking THAT one, out of the thousands of other movies at the video store?
Others that had moments that queased me out: Monster, which won Charlize T. her Oscar. Five Million Miles to Earth. Cold Mountain (an awful off camera rape and a poor old Mom being tortured so as to bring her Civil War deserter sons out of hiding, to be captured and hauled away).
Little old ladies gather at one of their houses for a game afternoon. One nonchalantly opens a wooden box, and instead of a mahjongg set, she pulls out a revolver, inserts one bullet, spins the cylinder, points it at her head, and pulls the trigger. Click. Passes it around. They chatter on about people they know, the cookies, etc. The first death causes some dismay about blood on the tablecloth staining it, and the declaration that they should put the gun barrel in their mouths instead as that may avoid the cloth. Meanwhile one woman idly wipes bloody bits off the side of her face. The gun is reloaded. Tea is spilled when handing the gun over, which causes the hostess to jump up and get club soda to avoid staining; she dabs delicately at the stain, right next to a big blood stain, and comments approvingly at the tea going away. One woman shows up late, takes the gun when it’s handed to her. Blam. Again, the gun is reloaded and passed, and you listen to them talk, and watch the camera pan over the very normal little old lady stuff in the room - which soon gets splattered with blood and brain matter. Eventually, only the hostess is left, and the kettle is sounding. She puts down the gun.
I have to agree with the IMDb comments that the setting and actresses were extremely realistic. You could imagine meeting any of them on the street, or having one as an aunt or grandma. Very surreal and somewhat disturbing.
Thanks… I think.
One of the weirdest parts was about the motivation.
In that there wasn’t any mention of it at all. It seemed like they were getting together for a regular game-playing outing at one of their houses; the hostess and the first guest set out cookies and talked about who else was coming. The next two talked about how their fifth was going to be late because her son was bringing her. It was just so nonchalant, almost like they’d played every other game that was out there and so today’s remaining option was Russian roulette. Plus, they didn’t stop after the first one shot herself. Very weird!
Jacob’s Ladder sort of weirded me out when I saw it years ago. It had a gloomy, creepy vibe that gave me the willies.
The only film to have ever affected me so strongly that I had to pause it and leave the room for a couple minutes, nearly hyperventilating, was Babel. It was the scene where the caretaker/nanny was wandering around the desert with the two kids- everything that led to her situation up to that point seemed reasonable and realistic, and the bad situation was just the result of a couple bad decisions. I was so worried for the kids that I started hyperventilating.
I’ve never had such a visceral reaction to a movie. And I’ve seen videos of people doing some pretty sick shit.
Napoleon Dynamite.
I’m not joking.
The *description *for **Requiem for a Dream **disturbed me enough that I knew I never wanted to see it (I love the music–some skating pair used it as their music during the Olympics, and searching for that led me to the description of the movie.)
As for movies I actually saw that disturbed me: Beyond the Mat, the wrestling documentary. The combination of the crappy lives these guys live (addicts, broken down physically, little or no health insurance) and the final scene with Mankind’s young children watching in horror while their dad gets the shit kicked out of him in the ring (little kids, too young to know that everything’s fake) just depressed the hell out of me. I had to get up and wait in the lobby until the movies was over.
I have to ask, after reading the spoiler for **The Human Centipede **- why? What would even be the *point *of making a movie like that? To be as shocking as possible?
One of the keywords for Sunday’s Game on IMDB was “cat,” but the description here didn’t say anything about a cat. I’m tempted to watch it, but not if any cats are harmed. Are they?
eXistenZ completely sickened me. I’m squeamish about anything spine surgery related. Add to that grime and a creepy umbilical cord? No thank you. Also, I’m not a big fan of eye surgery so THAT SCENE in Minority Report was horrible.
Nope. Kitty watches the goings-on.
Stay away from Un chien andalou.
As noted, they just show a pretty cat in the beginning of the short film. I promise you the cat isn’t hurt in any way and the cat isn’t really involved after that. If you care most about cats, you may get a warm and fuzzy feeling from Sunday’s Game. Watch it. You can never see too many pretty kitties.