# Movies That Really Disturbed You **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2002, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066 "2002-07-21T06:30:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![p\_cific\_812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@p\_cific\_812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/p_cific_812)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/61 "2002-07-22T18:57:26Z")
I found **Event Horizon** disturbing. The _“We don’t need eyes where we’re going.”_ scene in particular. Sam Neill can be a rather disturbing guy when he puts his mind to it. In the already mentioned but notable category… **Cube** and **Pi** were also a bit disconcerting to me at times. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/62 "2002-07-22T20:06:32Z")
Well, another vote for **American History X** … “the best movie I’ll never watch again.” ---
**Author:** ![airdisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@airdisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/airdisc)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/63 "2002-07-22T20:17:24Z")
Another vote for Event Horizon. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/64 "2002-07-22T20:31:36Z")
American Psycho Natural Born Killers Se7en Hannibal ---
**Author:** ![Ich\_Bin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/65 "2002-07-22T20:37:25Z")
Vote number two for **Man Bites Dog**. One of the few movies I would actively refuse to watch again. When I saw the thread title it was the only movie that came to mind. I supose **Funny Games** and **Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer** should be on there as well. See a pattern? Home invasion kind of freaks me out… ---
**Author:** ![RedDevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ec8ea/32.png) [@RedDevil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedDevil)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/66 "2002-07-22T20:51:48Z")
A television adaptation about 25 years ago. It was called “As Quiet as a Nun” and I was about 5 or 6 when I saw it. Nothing has ever scared me as much as that; it had a nun with no face and was _the_ talking point at school the next day (I can’t believe the type of scary rubbish we were allowed to watch then!). I couldn’t have anything like a dressing-gown or coat hanging on the back of my bedroom door for years, looked too much like a nun in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![Jaakko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@Jaakko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaakko)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/67 "2002-07-22T21:21:51Z")
Event Horizon does it for me too. Aliens was scary as hell when I first saw it when I was 12, I just couldn’t watch it again until several years later. But for sheer weirdness, I have to vote for Talented Mr. Ripley. First you start to like the main character, but then he turns out to be an utter madman. I was yelling at him for the rest of the movie when he just sank deeper and deeper. ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/68 "2002-07-22T23:07:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\ ***The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover** – never again. > \*\* WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with this. Most disturbing thing I have ever seen. It is evil. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/69 "2002-07-22T23:12:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by p@cific@812 \* > \*\* Sam Neill can be a rather disturbing guy when he puts his mind to it. \*\* Well, he WAS the Devil once, you know. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/70 "2002-07-22T23:16:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by G. Nome \* > \*\*Disturbance by poor special effects: In Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil there was a character who attracted flies and always had a few buzzing around. In one scene he sat in a bar talking to John Cusack with his back to a window. You could see that the flies, rather than being naturally attracted to this man, were attached to him by means of little black springy wires. > \*\* Wait! No! Actually, the character “leashes” flies, to the degree to which that’s possible. The book goes into how the guy carefully catches flies, ties string to their abdomen, and then ties the other end to his buttons or whatnot. :shrug: We Southerners have some freaky eccentrics and tall tales! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/71 "2002-07-22T23:25:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Winnie \* > **American Psycho** That was pretty disturbing, and quite good. Most disturbing about it, though, is the new sequel recently released, _American Psycho 2_, starring one of the girls from “That 70’s Show” as the new killer… haven’t seen it yet. Not sure if I want to. I just know it’s gonna be bad… _Hannibal_, though… that was a non-event for me. I was pretty frankly bored during that movie. Just dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/72 "2002-07-23T02:38:51Z")
_Carrie_ also disturbed me-because through the whole movie, you really care about her, and want her to get away from her fundy nutball of a mother, and be happy-and then it just blows up. It makes me feel dirty. ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/73 "2002-07-23T07:02:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sidle \* > \*\* > > The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and her Lover > > WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with this. Most disturbing thing I have ever seen. > It is evil. \*\* OK. Strongly recommend you don’t see Baby of Macon by the same director. I’ve never turned off a movie 'cause it is too disturbing, and I even watched the whole of Salo, but Baby of Macon is some very wierd shit. ---
**Author:** ![fallom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@fallom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fallom)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/74 "2002-07-23T07:20:55Z")
I watched The Talented Mr. Ripley up until Ripley murdered his friend with an oar. Someone please tell me he wasnt screaming “my brains” before he died. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/75 "2002-07-23T07:47:03Z")
I don’t know if anyone remembers The Day After. I think it was a made-for-tv movie? About nuclear war. My mother should not have let a child watch this. It stole my innocence, I kid you not. I can still see the x-ray effect before people literally disappeared. Gah! As an adult, the only movie I really have problems watching is The Exorcist. It just gives me the willies every time. American Beauty disturbed me too because it was an ugly reflection of my own life. My husband and I separated the next day. I think we BOTH saw ourselves as the lead character. ---
**Author:** ![Phoenix\_Dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Phoenix\_Dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phoenix_Dragon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/76 "2002-07-23T10:28:36Z")
The only movie that ever got to me was the original _Nightmare on Elm Street_. But I have good reason! I was about 8 years old, in a cabin, in the woods, miles and miles from town, all the adults asleep for the past several hours, no lights on, and in the middle of a 3-day-long rainstorm. I had nightmares for _weeks_. After that, there really hasn’t been anything that truely disturbs me, wether it’s a movie or not. And after adding about ten years, the movie actually seemed rather good 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pink\_Pussycat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Pink\_Pussycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pink_Pussycat)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/77 "2002-07-23T13:45:52Z")
**Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer** - I wish I had never seen this movie. Some things you just don’t need in your head. Very realistic noises of terrible things. I wouldn’t get near this movie now. My #1 vote. **A Clockwork Orange** - Tried to see this in the theatre when I was 17. I walked out in the middle crying hysterically. The concepts were too much for my young brain to handle. (I’ve seen it since.) **Jaws** - I swear, was I disturbed? I guess so, I couldn’t even use the toilet without thinking a shark was going to bite my butt. Couldn’t do the water for YEARS. Another vote for\*\* A Cook, the Thief, His wife and Her Lover \*\* - The ending is so repulsive, it made me want to throw up even though the movie was visually fascinating. Yuck! -pinky ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/78 "2002-07-23T14:00:59Z")
Another vote for **Welcome to Sarajevo**. The most disturbing aspect? A lot of the footage of the violence is _real_. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/79 "2002-07-23T18:10:54Z")
I can’t believe only 1 concurring selection (from Ich Bin’s) out of almost 80 posts! You want disturbing: [ol][_] **Soldier Blue** : Candice Bergen, John Anderson, Donald Pleasence, & Peter Strauss star in this [Cavalry drama](http://www.eonline.com/Facts/Movies/0,60,15865,00.html). The last sequence depicts the ruthless slaughter of an Indian Tribe. One of the most haunting & “unwatchable” scenes I’ve ever witnessed.[_] **Little Boy Blue** : Ryan Phillipe growing up in rural Texas discovering his abusive ‘Nam Vet father forced him to have sex with his mother. [A very disturbing tale of incest](http://www.hollywood.com/movies/detail/movie/181542) with a “could this really happen?” summation. **Funny Games** Definitely have to second **Ich Bin’s** _nomination_ for this German, subtitled art house film. Recently saw it on IFC. It was so much more disturbing than A Clockwork Orange that I made a [thread about it in Cafe Society](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116204).[/ol] ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/80 "2002-07-23T19:20:03Z")
**The Ce** –great imagery. In fact, a little too good–seeing some of the killer’s fantasies was disturbing. Also, his flashbacks of his abusive father. Also, **Citizen X**. It’s an HBO movie about a serial killer in the USSR. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066.md?page=5)