# 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:** 5
**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, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/81 "2002-07-23T19:26:29Z")
err, that should be **The Cell**. I guess the hamsters were statisfied with just a couple L’s, rather than the whole post. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/82 "2002-07-23T19:48:45Z")
**Leaving Las Vegas** was depressing as hell even before Elizabeth Shue was assaulted. What a tough one to watch, had me cringing. ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/83 "2002-07-23T22:36:16Z")
I second those who have mentioned **A Clockwork Orange** (I’ll never be able to hear the song “Singin’ in the Rain” the same way again) and **Requiem for a Dream** , but I was disturbed in a really _good_ way by **Mulholland Dr.** I was disturbed, agitated, inspired. I found it to be a mind-bendingly beautiful film. Sometimes it’s good to get a little disturbed. ---
**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, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/84 "2002-07-23T23:58:54Z")
When I was little, I remember being terrified after catching part of _North and South_ on television. The part where they brand the slave’s forehead? I ran to my bedroom crying. ---
**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/85 "2002-07-24T00:23:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sidle \* > \*\* > > 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! > 😃 \*\* The movie director must have thought the flies would look more attractive bouncing around movie character’s head. That’s what they were doing. On sticks. A good southern gothic movie is long overdue. Suddenly Last Summer was always worthwhile but something new would be welcome. Disturb me, disturb me. I want to be disturbed. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/86 "2002-07-24T00:42:50Z")
I was 10 years old when I watched **Straight On Til Morning**. Yeh, I shouldn’t have been watching a movie like this at 10 but, I was alone a lot as a kid. Just thinking about this movie seriously screws up my head. I was fascinated by the sexual aspect (at 10 years old I was not knowing but, was still fascinated). I have never seen the movie again. Perhaps seeing it 1 more time would put to rest some demons. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/87 "2002-07-24T00:43:51Z")
A lot of these movies I really want to see now. In particular, “Baby of Macon” (and "The Cook the…er, you know), and “Farewell, My Concubine.” I just hope my local Blockbuster’s will have them… ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/88 "2002-07-24T00:43:53Z")
I’ll fifth or sixth **Kids**. I felt like I needed a shower after watching that. I guess I’m the only person who was horrified by **Scream**. Probably because I expected more of a comedy and less of a horror film, I was really disturbed by the ending. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/89 "2002-07-24T01:34:20Z")
I just watched the Japanese film _Audition_ the other day. That shook me up more than I would have figure on. Not that graphic (which rarely bothers me), but intense in the casualness of the violence. That someone so outwardly calm and meek could be capable of such acts was jarring. SLIGHT SPOILER: When the bag moved while the girl was on the phone, I jumped. I can’t remember the last time a flick made me do that. I even knew it was going to move, and I still jumped. ---
**Author:** ![rsvp9146](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rsvp9146](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsvp9146)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/90 "2002-07-24T02:06:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by G. Nome \* > \*\*Close Encounters of the Third Kind was on television again recently. I loved it in the seventies but something about the ending seems disturbing to me now after September 11, 2001. (I’m going to beone of the first to put 2001. In one and half months everyone will have to do it). > > Ok, since September 11, 2001 there have been millions of words written on the WTC attacks and some of them have been for the purpose of trying to understand Moslems and their points of views. Essentially, they see America as too dominant a player on the world stage. They see Americans as self-centred and arrogant. > > They must have seen the last 30 minutes of Close Encounters. Only Americans were chosen to go with the aliens. Only they were good enough. There were no other contenders. It’s a bit worrying. \*\* I’ll get flak for this, but do you want fundamentalists speaking for you? I sure as hell dont. I dont want ANY religious figures speaking for humanity. Religion is what caused this mess in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/91 "2002-07-24T02:31:33Z")
[Suburbia](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086589) (1984) bothered me quite a bit. I’ve seen a lot of the movies mentioned, and enjoyed most of them. It takes a lot to disturb me. However, and this is just ridiculous, I was disturbed by the ending to _West Side Story_. I really hate that Tony was killed. They were so close to making it out of there! I hated Rita Moreno’s part in setting the chain of events in motion. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/92 "2002-07-24T04:42:32Z")
As a child, I was deeply disturbed by Night of the Living Dead, a nuclear bomb movie called Testament, and an Oz-like pic with Shirley Temple, the Blue Bird or something like that. As for recent disturbances, I second (or third) Requiem for a Dream. As for those of you who thought Kids was creepy (personally, I found it a little boring and laughable), try Harmony Korine’s next flic- Gummo. Haunting and horrifying. You’ll want to wretch after you see it, but, somehow, it becomes quite beautiful after a few more viewings. ---
**Author:** ![rsvp9146](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rsvp9146](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsvp9146)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/93 "2002-07-24T05:04:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cat Fight \* > \*\*As a child, I was deeply disturbed by Night of the Living Dead, a nuclear bomb movie called Testament, and an Oz-like pic with Shirley Temple, the Blue Bird or something like that. > As for recent disturbances, I second (or third) Requiem for a Dream. > As for those of you who thought Kids was creepy (personally, I found it a little boring and laughable), try Harmony Korine’s next flic- Gummo. Haunting and horrifying. You’ll want to wretch after you see it, but, somehow, it becomes quite beautiful after a few more viewings. \*\* Oh man, Gummo is twisted! Yet, you’re right, it does become beautiful ---
**Author:** ![KittyCat444](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/848f3c/32.png) [@KittyCat444](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KittyCat444)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/94 "2002-07-24T06:56:06Z")
Amistad - had to watch it for a history assignment in high school. There’s a scene bringing slaves from Africa on a boat, and several slaves are chained together and attached to an anchor. The captain orders the anchor thrown overboard. Also, a few disturbing slave suicides, like where a woman jumps overboard with her baby in her arms and no expression on her face. Rosewood - another history assignment. So many dead people, hanging on trees… ---
**Author:** ![Sagasumono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Sagasumono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sagasumono)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/95 "2002-07-24T11:57:40Z")
Another for Rosewood here. I was younger when I saw it,and it disturbed me to the core. It bothered me how some people could be so savage and vicious (espically the scene where they cut the ears off the hanging man for “fun”) I coundn’t look at some people the same way for about 2 weeks. And my mom had to throw n an extra ditty by saying “You know,there was no Ving Rames hero in the real life incident right?” ☹ I definitely agree with Kittycat on the La Amistad suicide scenes as well. I was actullay thinking about disturbing movies I’ve seen before seeing this thread and 2 stuck out in mind from my younger days. One was about how a nuculear war could happen. It used to show on HBO a lot,and they actullay showed it not too long after the Persian Gulf war happened. The thing that was scary about it was,aside from ovious scenes, the moive was basically like watching CNN and was shown in the format of a live news broadcast. It was so realistic, the first time I saw it (during the end when the missles were being launched) I thought it was actullay going down! Then it dawned on me…“Wait a minuet,HBO dosen’t HAVE a news station!” 🙂 The next one,goffy or not as this is, was a movie I saw on Elvira’s mitress of the dark movie show,Initally of course I was watching it for her 🙂 But then the movie came on…once again,I cannot recall the name (Prehaps “The Butcher”) But it was basically about a guy who would murder women and toss them into his sausage producing machine and would sell them…It would actullay show the sausage coming out after the tossed the women in! That movie gave me nightmares for a month,and my mom thought I had converted to Islam because I REFUSED to eat sausage and even gave beef the “People’s eyebrow” I dunno why but I was thinking about that movie the other day,and remembering how much it tramatizued me _L_ ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Venom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Lady\_Venom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Venom)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/96 "2002-07-24T15:52:38Z")
**In Dreams** to me was a VERY disturbing movie. It has Annette Benning and Robert Downey Jr. I didn’t watch it all, I had to turn it off. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/97 "2002-07-24T16:31:14Z")
The Vanishing has, possibly, the scariest 30 seconds of film in any movie. The Cook, The Thief, blah blah blah, is the only movie I walked out on because it was creeping me out too much. It reminds me too much of my first romantic relationship. (Which wasn’t, of course, that severe). There’s a scene in Reservoir Dogs that I can’t stomach. It’s a good movie, but there’s that one scene. You know which one. And then there’s that “what’s wrong with this picture?” movie that someone sent me by email… 😉 Daniel ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/98 "2002-07-24T18:15:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JohnBckWLD \* > \*\* **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. \*\* Um, I think you might need to re-watch the movie: The boy was a kidnapped after his father was brutally murdered and his real mother was left for dead by his kidnapper. The woman he was having sex with only his “mother” in the sense that she was married to his kidnapper. That they don’t tell you that until over halfway through the movie…yeah, that’s sort of disturbing. Great movie, though. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Fool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Green\_Fool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Fool)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/99 "2002-07-25T02:03:48Z")
KIDS disturbed me because IMO it was a terribly made movie. It seemed like student film from the directing, the acting, the sound and the story. Ooooohhh, clever doing a retelling of Dracula with stupid stupid stupid kids. I hated all these characters, why should I want to watch them? It would be different if they actually were doing interesting things. As far as the truly disturbing I’d go with Blair Witch Project. I saw it before the hype had built up and before it became “cool” to dislike it. Seeing the Curse of the Blair Witch Special on SCI-FI helped since they never broke kayfabe on it. So I originally thought everything about the Blair Witch legend was true even if the movie was not. Last Broadcast (which Blair Witch was partially based on) was also somewhat disturbing in parts. ---
**Author:** ![Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-disturbed-you/120066/100 "2002-07-25T02:46:38Z")
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