Not only disturbing, but creepy and unerving a kind of movie that makes you feel all dirty inside…and without further adeu…here are my nominations:
-Seven
-The Kingdom
-Stalker
-Eraserhead
-The Seventh Seal
-Welcome to the Dollhouse(this could be the inncorrect
name…i always forget the name of this creepy-ass movie)
…Be free to include non-films…cause i am about to…
weird/creepy music videos:
-NIN- happiness in slavery
-Skinny Puppy- Testure, worlock…basically any sp video will
do
-Brighter Death Now- little baby.
I wanted to scrub my brain with a Brillo pad after seeing “Rosemarys Baby”
Also, any movie with graphic violence against women- rapes and such. If something like that is important to the plot, it can be depicted without showing the poor woman screaming and shrieking. That shit sticks with me for a long, long time.
Besides those mentioned above, let me suggest (as I often have on this board) Tod Browning’s “Freaks”.
I’d also suggest “The War Game” (NOT the Matthew Broderick “Wargames”), easily the scariest of atomic-war films. It was made in the 1960s for the BBC, but never broadcast. It depicts the scary aftereffects of nuclear war far more realistically than the sanitized “The Day After” (Which I also liked, I admit). Shot on a shoestring budget, the camera is hand-held as it “dollies” in on a group of survivors. They are shaking and lost, their eyes open but no cognition there. They are coated with something that looks black on the black and white film – dirt? Blood? Scabs? The police and military are shown shooting looters in the aftermath. Scary and disturbing stuff.
I love horror/slasher movies, etc. The creepier the better. I read the book for this one and it was, hands down, the most disturbing book I have ever read.
A terrifying realist account of family violence in the Maori community in New Zealand. It is a film that is so well made and acted that once seen it can never be forgotten.
All good films. All creepy. But none can even compare to the sheer disturbing nature of Gaspar Noe’s I Stand Alone. It’s a recent french film, and it made me seriously ant to wash out my brain, and maybe retch. And the worst/best part? No actuall acts of violence. All of it is psychological. And then, just when I thought I had recovered from the film, I learned that the lead actor ad-libbed most of his dialogue. Ahhhhhhh!!! Scary!!!
All I can say is that this film will realy make you question you’re nature as a person. While I was seeing it several people left the theater, and when it was ver there was complete silence from the audience. No one talked while exiting the theater. And this is in SF, where shocking and disturbing is a way of life.
Well, I walked out on Eraserhead at about the point where the Lady in the Radiator started squishing the sperm-like things under her high heels.
Of movies I was able to FINISH, I suppose Woman in the Dunes was one of the worst. The idea of the community-sanctioned, lifelong imprisonment and drudgery was disturbingly…like real life.
The French version of The Vanishing. Much more disturbing than the American remake. Then there’s Silence of the Lambs, Bad Lieutenant, Seven, and some others that don’t come to mind right now.
Trying to seperate “scary” and “disturbing”. Okay, here are the ones that have disturbed me, but not necessarily scared me:
Fallen (Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland)
Brazil (Jonathan Pryce, Katherine Helmond, Robert DeNiro)
City of Lost Children (Ron Perlman)
The Thing (John Carpenter’s version)
Closetland (Alan Rickman, Madeline Stowe)
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro)
All of these had images and/or situations that still disturb me when I think about them.