Beaches… Bette Midler… 'nuf said…
There’s always Jackass 2 in which he dresses his penis in a mouse costume and taunts a snake with it…
Cannibal Holocaust was so earthily bad that its makers were brought up on snuff-film charges - it was thought that the on-screen murders were real. The director had to produce the stars of the movie to prove nothing had happened to them (they had been hidden away so as to heighten the mystery of the film, or something).
I read Lynch on Lynch years ago, which is a book of compiled interviews. His favorite word for the feeling he was aiming for in his films was “uncanny”.
First three movies that came to my mind were: *Kids, Gummo, *and Man Bites Dog.
Don’t watch Gummo. Please.
Unless you happen to encouter the original ending.
Oh god.
They showed that movie in public, in the large central room of the Campus Centre at Waterloo, when I was in first year. Goung to the pub. Arcade? Payphone? Come around the corner and be confronted by Divine. I watched part of the movie, but left at the scene where she’s in the crib covered in raw eggs.
You’re telling me it got worse?
shudder
I think it’s pretty well understood at this point that that was a publicity stunt.
I put it to you that your taste in films is the equivalent of a hot sauce fetish - that it releases endorphins that can only be supplied consistently by more, hotter, and more outrageous.
Another dimension the two passions share is that they both value “endurance,” assigning man-points to the “survivor” who can take the most.
Hey- those of you out there w/ a penchant for these sorts of things- please watch Header, and let me know what you think. My group of friends got this movie for a bad movie night and they all immediately shouted me down and voted to stop watching the film w/in the first 20 mins or so right when the antagonist’s grandpappy from West Virginia started to explain just what a Header was while they held the victim down…
So I have no idea where the movie was going to go in the next hour or so, and would love for someone else to fill me in on what happens AFTER the first victim pretty much.
It looks like “I Spit on Your Grave” is being re-made by a director who has been busy doing SciFi, excuse me SyFy…:rolleyes:, movies.
I recently watched Antichristand was not pleased. It was disturbing with no point to it, as far as I could see. (Although certain parts of it worked.)
The point is there, but Von Trier is not interested in leaving you unmarked. So it’s valid to be “not pleased.”
Pretty harrowing though. Read Ebert’s take on it, if you’re curious; he’s kind of obsessed with it and has written at least three pieces about it. The Village Voice review is interesting as well.
I usually think of it in roller coaster terms, but yeah, similar.
I’m sure he had a point in mind while making it. By the end I didn’t care to try and figure out what it was. And after the scene with the “chaos reigns” fox I couldn’t take any of it seriously anyway.
I recently saw an ad for Von Trier’s Antichrist on TV (!) and was intrigued because it looked visually stunning and freaky as hell. However, after reading lissener’s previous thread (which, annoyingly, doesn’t come up in searches because he titled it “-Antichrist-” with dashes) and Ebert’s blogs about it, I decided I’d better read the IMDB synopsis first before I ran out and watched it.
All I can say is “Oh, HELL no.”
Several new things were added to my “I won’t watch a movie that has the plot X” list.
True. It was my understanding that this was lost to history, though. Is that not true? I’d love to see it.
The woman in the crib with the eggs was Edith Massey, not Divine. Massey later sang for a punk band called Edie and the Eggs, actually.
Far as everyone knows, unless it turns up in a vault somewhere.
May I nominate
I’ve heard that Santa Sangre is quite disturbing also, but never saw it.