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.
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.
Un Chien Andalou. 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.
For me it was “The Vanishing”. 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.
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.
Another vote here for Freaks.
Also, if you like disturbing movies check out Bad Lieutenant. 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.
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.
Gee, I think it’s kinda cute!
(“Oh, Babs, what if someday there are no more eggs?!”)
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.
I will third Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. The previously mentioned “home movie” scene was with me for weeks.
Heh.
I nominate Dr. Seuss’s oddest work “the 5,000 fingers of Dr. T”, by far the creepiest movie I have ever seen!
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