Oh, man. That’s just evil. 
Wilder’s Charlie and the C Factory was the very first movie I ever saw in a theatre (I was four years old +/-) and it seriously scared the crap out of me. Children turning into weird candy? Little things running around singing “oompa loompa”? What the Hell?!!
A film that was meant to be creepy but really went the extra mile with me was been Jacob’s Ladder. It has stayed with me for years, I still have nightmares featuring delapidated hospitals with piles of guts and limbs here and there. Another is Disney’s Watcher in the Woods creepy point of view camera stuff shot from the woods.
To go off the rails a bit, there have been a few TV shows that freaked me out. The last (?) episode of Six Feet Under had a sequence when Claire was out in the dark woods sitting next to dead brother’s grave and an unseen animal/thing scared her and she screeched out of the woods in the car and wrecked. An image that has stuck with me is from some stupid TLC or Discovery ordinary-people-haunted-by-stuff series. It was an episode titled “A Haunting in Connecticut” that featured a male demon dressed in a white suit with black eyes. Shudder!
Oh, and of course Showgirls!
No shit. This movie left me squirming in my seat. Just eeeeewwwww.
Forgot to add…“Dead Ringers.” Total creep-fest.
When it first came out in theaters, Fight Club was promoted as if it were a formulaic male beat-em-up movie, which is what I expected when hubby dragged me to see it. I was astonished and delighted to find that it was actually a surrealistic, weird, psychologically twisty thriller. I bet all the Chuck Norris fans who went to see it were astonished, too, but not in a good way.
While it was supposed to be creepy, of course, the movie Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows was far creepier and more atmospheric than I would have expected. I was expecting more of a slasher movie due to the reviews and only saw it because it was on HBO when I was in a hotel, but it was not a bad movie at all. Of course Joe Berlinger had cut his teeth making the documentary Paradise Lost, which though true and set in modern day Arkansas with no supernatural plotlines (other than the Satanic panic in court) was creepy as all hell and, along with its sequel, as creepy as you can get for a documentary set primarily in trailer parks and public housing.
The Rapture was one hell of a weird and fascinating movie, but it took a sharply nasty turn toward the end whenMimi pulled a gun and murdered her little girl in the desert because she had just gone around the bend with apocalyptic religious fanaticism. Eeeewww.That was awfully hard to take and while I appreciate the bizarre, daring movie, and Mimi’s great job in the lead role, I still can’t quite deal with that scene… 
Like Jennshark, the original version was severly creepy. (The original film was actually entitled Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, presumably for marketing reasons.) Johnny Depp has always struck me as being…well, someone you wouldn’t want to leave the kids with; not necessarily a pedophile or anything, just a very peculiar person with some unsavory attitudes.
I knew The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover was going to be depraved, but it turned my stomach still, even before the cannibalism scene. Santa Sangre turned me off just with the trailer. I’ve never seen the film and wish to never do so.
Someone mentioned Monkey Business; in fact, many of Howard Hawks’ comedies have some rather nasty undercurrents. Unlike, say, Wodehouse’s lightweight romps (in which the deception and subterfuge all seems to be earnest and well-intentioned), many of the early screwball comedies involved suggestion of the darkest human impulses, including rape and murder. And the proported heros of Some Like It Hot are definitely anti-heros of the most definitive sort; cheap grifters who are willing to take advantage of dim-witted bombshells and lonely old men. At least in The Apartment Wilder made his characters’ compromised ethics a centerpiece rather than an aside. (Mind you, I like both films, and the former is one of the funniest ever made…but when you stop laughing, you realize how twisted it is, and how easily Wilder could move from comedy to film noirs like Double Indemnity and Sunset Blvd.)
And this differs from reality in what material way?
Stranger
:eek:
…are you shitting me?
That’s a terrible terrible movie. Did you watch in rewind first or something?
:eek: I haven’t seen this one yet, but someone recommended it to me.
I have seen Audtition / Odishon, though… and it was the only movie I ever had to close my eyes during. Only for a second, but I still did.
Especially when she’s sticking needles into the guy’s eyes and sawing his legs off with piano wire, as nonchalantly as she’d bone chicken for dinner.
I’m a fan of the Japanese Horror / Psychological Thriller / Etc. genre, and although I didn’t have any problems with it, my friends gave me a big :eek: look when they saw me watching Aoi Haru / Blue Spring. It’s toted as a movie about angsty, violent schoolboys… which it kind of is. But, it’s pretty dark.
Specifically:
When one boy puts an aluminum can between another boy’s teeth and smashes his face into the floor with the can still in his mouth. I’m sure he needed extensive dental work afterward.
It wasn’t nauseating, but it was brutal and gratuitous, even though the violence was always ‘offscreen’.
I had intended on both movies being possibly ‘scary’ or ‘weird’, but not as ‘disturbing’ as they managed to be. Audition is quite possibly the most disturbing movie in existence. I know they even showed it on American Television this year for some Halloween Promotion, although I forget the station. It might have been Bravo.
It’s been on IFC or Bravo a couple times this year. DVRed! (The DVD is unavailable and goes for big bucks on eBay.)
It’s one of those movies I’d watch once just to see it… and probably never ever watch again. Maybe whip it out on Halloween for an all-night creepfest or to make my friends suffer.
A second for Falling Down, for the same reasons that have been mentioned already.
Also agree with Pulp Fiction, Oldboy (I knew nothing about this one, my wife rented it because she likes Asian dramas. I think she spent most of the film with her face buried in a pillow) and Funny Games. Even though I rented the last one based on its appearance in SDMB threads about “The most disturbing movie ever,” it was still over the top. The scene with the remote control, rather than breaking the reality for me, just hit home the fact that nobody was going to escape.
Homebodies wasn’t particularly disturbing, but my mom and I rented it from Blockbuster back when I was a wee lad, seeing it on the Comedy shelf and thinking it was a Fawlty Towers-ish 70’s British comedy. It turned out to be about a group of pensioners who protect their retirement home from developers by systematically murdering everyone involved before they start turning on each other. It couldn’t even have been called a black comedy.
The Shipping News was also creepier than expected, since all I knew about it going in was that it had Kevin Spacey and Judi Dench, and had gotten good reviews from a lot of people. Good movie, but yeech.
Seconded. For me, the distilled essence of creep.
I can’t believe someone else knows that movie. A well-meaning relative bought the VHS (actually, I think it was Betamax) of it for me when I was a kid, it creeped me the hell out so I secretly tossed it into the canal behind our house. Haven’t thought of that in years.
Far from Heaven is one of the creepiest little movies I’ve ever seen. The makeup, the lighting, and the performances all came to give me the feeling I was watching a wax museum come to life.
The Brothers Grimm. Pretty much a fluff movie, but there’s a jarringly disturbing scene involving novel kind of monster and a child.
Some kind of slime comes out of a dead bird from a well and after moving about as if alive, it engulfs the child and steals her eyeballs, running off as, apparently, a gingerbread man, and leaving the blankly eyeless child behind.
Considering that the tone of the movie was, IMHO,
“cheerful charlatans discover that real fairy tale magic is more than they bargained for, but they muddle through”
I had a hard time wrapping my head around this scene.
Sailboat
I agree, but I found another scene in that movie just as bad, if not even creepier:
When the enchanted horse swallows a child with cobwebs from its mouth
Re: Watcher in the Woods…
I’m fairly certain it was this movie I’m thinking of… a friend brought over and we watched it together. The DVD had an alternate rejected ending that was heinously creepy… but so absolutely outlandish I burst out laughing at the screen.
I won’t spoil it, but it involves horrid special effects and things that look like alien seaweed or something to that effect.
The character Kaonashi (No-face?) in Spirited Away was pretty creepy, especially when he began his transformation. Among other things, the fact that his mouth was not where you’d expect it to be based on the mask he was wearing.