# What is the most shocking, horrifying (but not necessarily scariest) movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-shocking-horrifying-but-not-necessarily-scariest-movie/299787 "2005-04-17T20:16:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-shocking-horrifying-but-not-necessarily-scariest-movie/299787/41 "2005-04-19T15:50:40Z")
Add me to the list for **Last House on the Left**. The worst part is that I rented it thinking it was going to be some cheesy fun horror movie, a la _Sleepaway Camp_. _Wrong_. I’m still traumatized. And something about the clamps holding Alex’s eyes open in **A Clockwork Orange** gets me every time. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-shocking-horrifying-but-not-necessarily-scariest-movie/299787/42 "2005-04-19T15:55:07Z")
I agree with _Funny Games_. I had never heard of it until I saw it on IFC, which made it even more shocking. I was just sippin’ beer expecting a pleasant little tale of a family on vacation. Shocking, disturbing for other reasons: _Gummo_ and any movie in which Kathy Bates decides to bare all. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-shocking-horrifying-but-not-necessarily-scariest-movie/299787/43 "2005-04-19T17:15:05Z")
[Un Chien Andalou](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/). Luis Bunuel and Salvadore Dali; the opening scene still shocks after over 75 years and countless replays, and the rest of the film is about as creepy as a film has ever been. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-shocking-horrifying-but-not-necessarily-scariest-movie/299787/44 "2005-04-19T17:35:35Z")
For me it was [“The Vanishing”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096163/). The Dutch (I think :dubious: ) version, not the horrible American remake. Very effective use of flashbacks. The pacing is almost glacial, which will probably irritate most folks. But the payoff, in the end, brought ice cold shudders. After seeing this, it is easy to see how none of the BTK killer’s family and friends had any idea what he was up to. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-shocking-horrifying-but-not-necessarily-scariest-movie/299787/45 "2005-04-19T17:51:16Z")
I can’t believe no one has mentioned **Pink Flamingos** by John Waters. It is the most disgusting awful horrifying make-you-want-to-vomit movie I have ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-shocking-horrifying-but-not-necessarily-scariest-movie/299787/46 "2005-04-19T17:58:08Z")
Another vote here for **Freaks**. Also, if you like disturbing movies check out **[Bad Lieutenant](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103759/)**. Harvey Keitel as a crooked, drug addicted, gambling and just bad cop. Highlights include nuns being raped by crusifix’s and Keitel masturbating onto a couple of teenyboppers he has pulled over on the side of the highway. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-shocking-horrifying-but-not-necessarily-scariest-movie/299787/47 "2005-04-19T18:01:31Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > I can’t believe no one has mentioned **Pink Flamingos** by John Waters. It is the most disgusting awful horrifying make-you-want-to-vomit movie I have ever seen. Good call. Maybe the most disgusting and worst movie I’ve ever seen, although The Doom Generation and Happiness are close contenders. None are scary, but all are disconcerting, nasty, and without much redeeming value. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-shocking-horrifying-but-not-necessarily-scariest-movie/299787/48 "2005-04-19T19:27:45Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > I can’t believe no one has mentioned **Pink Flamingos** by John Waters. It is the most disgusting awful horrifying make-you-want-to-vomit movie I have ever seen. Gee, I think it’s kinda cute! (“Oh, Babs, what if someday there _are_ no more eggs?!”) ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@Guy\_Incognito\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito_1)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-shocking-horrifying-but-not-necessarily-scariest-movie/299787/49 "2005-04-19T19:49:03Z")
**Natural Born Killers: The Directors Cut** , particularly the scene in which they show a detailed, explicit close-up of of a prison guard having his head cut off and put on a pike. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-shocking-horrifying-but-not-necessarily-scariest-movie/299787/50 "2005-04-19T19:59:45Z")
I will third **Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer**. The previously mentioned “home movie” scene was with me for weeks. > [@Debaser](#): > > Also, if you like disturbing movies check out **[Bad Lieutenant](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103759/)**. Harvey Keitel as a crooked, drug addicted, gambling and just bad cop. Highlights include nuns being raped by crusifix’s and Keitel masturbating onto a couple of teenyboppers he has pulled over on the side of the highway. [Heh](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=5934285#post5934285). ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-shocking-horrifying-but-not-necessarily-scariest-movie/299787/51 "2005-04-19T20:48:42Z")
I nominate Dr. Seuss’s oddest work “the 5,000 fingers of Dr. T”, by far the creepiest movie I have ever seen! Unclviny [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-shocking-horrifying-but-not-necessarily-scariest-movie/299787.md?page=2)