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That’s what made you squirm?
For me it was:The wife’ vengence when she presents the Thief with her lover’s roasted body to force hiim to eat it and tells him to start with the penis.Jeepers!
Nope. I think the torture of the young boy was worse.
Way worse. So was the paper stuffing.
Came in here to say this.
It’s currently playing on a loop at NY’s MOMA, if you’d like to experience a tandem shudder.
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Oh, I agree the scene was worse. But the later scene had a much longer drawn out sense of anticipation. The very moment I realized how it would play out I started squirming before anything was being actualized on the screen yet, whereas I was reacting to the scene of the boy as it happened. Although the scene was more dreadful in a way, the squirminess didn’t seem as long and drawn out with the boy as it did with the… er… buffet.
Michael’s death in his bookshop made me squirm too.
Actually the whole movie was uncomfortable.
The Passion of the Christ. I’ve never watched it again.
On my classic rock radio station, they have these “Birthday Scams” they run every day. They call up people and pretend to be different people, all in an effort to get the victim to get pissed off. Different scenarios, like a bill collector that the victim doesn’t really owe money to - stuff like that. I absolutely squirm when I hear them, and turn to another channel.
I see your point, however, I was unfamiliar with this method. Also, a scene like this in a movie about racism and hate in America is going to make me squirm a little more than, say, an orc getting a spike through his head in Middle Earth. It’s not that it’s worse than the violence in any other movie. This was just the first thing that came to mind, and IMHO, it was done effectively.
“Sybil” had its moments. It’s very difficult to watch child abuse.
The first thing that came to mind was the “paper cut” scenes in “Jackass 1”. I tend not to watch movies with squirmy content, but once and awahile I get surprised. For me its scenes depecting violence against the innocent or helpless. Child abuse, rape, genocide and such are all just things I tend to avaoid in movies, television and such…
Regards
FML
I feel the same way about these types of movies. After seeing Hostel… no more of that shit for me. It is simply a version of violent porn without the sex. I know I’m not describing this right but these movies just piss me off.
I only watched Hostel because of the curious factor. I turned off Saw after the first 30 minutes. No thanks.
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If I had to pick one that had the biggest errgh factor it would be this movie. When it was released, the beautiful people of the day raved about it and said all sorts of deep and meaningless shit about it. I watched it on VHS one night by myself and couldn’t for the life of me explain what it was about to anyone else. “It’s about this woman and this guy and they shag in a toilet at a restaurant, and bad stuff happens and and and … you’ll have to watch it for yourself”. It was a pointless attempt at arthouse with a twisted script. (Of course this only my opinion, but that’s what we’re here for).
I saw Seven at the cinema when it opened and was so disturbed by it, that I made my husband go and rent ‘Clueless’ so that I could forget about it. I didn’t. That was one horrible movie.
Oh yeah, not so much now, since we’ve all seen it a bajillion times, but the Zapruder film was a squirmer when I first encountered it at 14, maybe, on Geraldo or some other sensationalist broadcast in the seventies. I remember the descriptions–over and over and over–of the brain matter, and look! Jackie’s trying to retrieve pieces of… well anyway.
“Seven” was a brilliant movie that has nothing in common with the “Saw” or “Hostel” films beyond being about a serial killer.
I disagree. It was a movie that moved the boundaries for disturbing deaths - lots of them. The man forcefed to death was awful, but more horrible in the ‘torture porn’ genre was the john with the bowie knife force to rape the prostitute. I remember thinking at the time ‘it’s only a movie - but someone wrote the fucking script!’ It was really the first to launch the creative deaths genre using big name stars in a mainstream film. But that’s only my opinion.
I’d go so far as to say that “Saw” isn’t really like “Hostel.” Okay, maybe all the legions of sequels…but the first “Saw” movie is a brilliantly plotted movie and genuinely suspenseful, that happens to have a few gory bits, but it’s not torture porn the same way “Hostel” is.