No contest here: Pulp Fiction. Even paid money to see it in a theater.
Especially disgusting because it was an instant classic, and genuinely has good acting and plot. And it’s one gratuitously disturbing scene after another.
I have refused to see anything Quentin Tarantino has been involved with ever since.
I have never really been that shocked or disgusted by a regular movie, but the movie that I thought was the most disturbing was Antichrist with William Dafoe.
I won’t go into detail for anyone who may want to watch it, and the sex scenes and mutilation scenes are pretty explicit and bizarre, especially considering the scenes are one and the same.
I didn’t think it was a bad movie, but I don’t care to ever watch it again.
It takes quite a lot to shock me and not many movies do.
That being said, I once saw a short movie called Aftermath Genesis (made in 1994) and it was pretty graphic.
It’s on a few sites (like Youtube) if one is interested enough to go looking for it, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Kids and The Human Centipede seconded.
Kids I knew what to expect.
HC, I knew the premise but was expecting more of a satire/parody/wink and a nod type movie. Instead I got mutilation porn, played absolutely straight. It was one of the first things I watched when I got Netflix, watched about halfway.
Although I never saw that film, from what I’ve heard it has to be on the top of the list.
More mainstream, I would nominate Bad Lieutenant. Came out right around the same time as Reservoir Dogs, and I was hoping for something similar. But no…
I don’t watch horror films, so I have to go with The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover. Which is gross and beautiful at the same time, so I don’t know if it counts.
(Also, best punchline of any movie ever.)
This was going to be my choice.
Oh yes, good one. I think this is the only movie my mom ever walked out of. It’s one that I don’t think I can ever watch again, but you are right–it was beautiful.
This movie probably isn’t in the same league as the ones discussed but I think Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange deserves mention. I actually like the film and think it’s one the better cinematic depictions of a dystopian society but I found there was at least one scene in the movie that I found too disturbing to watch more than once.
I haven’t seen “Kids”, but that is how I felt about “Death and the Maiden.”
Nekromantik was rather disturbing. As was the sequel. I was younger then, and placed less value on my time…
“Stalag 17.” Man-to-man dancing, yuck!
One that comes to mind and I hope a fellow Doper can I.D it for me not because I want to watch it but just to know the title.
It’s about a guy that is a vampire who needs to stay alive not by sucking blood but disturbingly, by eating the flesh of humans. In one scene he is eating the flesh of the guy while that is talking and what not. Then in another scene that rubbed me the wrong way, the guy’s family brings him a child home for him to eat and the kid is sitting there, sucking on a lollipop(if I remember correctly). The guy refuses even though he knows he depends on it.
Another scene I remember his girlfriend remarks something like how he is so dedicated to her that he eats someone for her.
The movie is not a regular horror film but more of a black comedy movie. If I had to put a time period to it, I would guess late 1980’s.
Anyone can I.D this atrocity of a film for me? If so have you seen it?
Sleepers? Didn’t watch it so I’m not sure.
Disgusting? I have nothing, I simply prefer not to watch those type of movies.
Disturbing? Two come to mind, Threads a British film about post-WWIII ‘life’, and a short film "The Lottery", which I still remember after 45 years (saw it in a HS English class) and have no particular wish to see it again.
The Lottery: (part 1 of 2 parts): The Lottery - Part 1 of 2 - YouTube
You need to watch it to the conclusion.
Yep.
Also, Bloodsucking Freaks. Pretty dreadful in a number of ways.
The short story is a pretty standard junior/high school reading assignment, in my school system at least. Now I want to start a poll to see how many people know how it ends.
2 Girls 1 Cup.
The Grey Zone. A Holocaust film so relentlessly bleak and dark that it made Schindler’s List look almost cheerful by comparison. I saw it as part of a course in college and when it was over, I had to wander aimlessly around campus by myself for a full hour, trying to get out of that headspace, before I was ready to face other people.
I’ve not seen it, but I don’t even know why this thread continues after this. You do win.
Just kidding, but I doubt anyone will beat A Serbian Film.