# What's the most distrubing movie you've seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784 "2000-09-27T18:23:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/1 "2000-09-27T18:23:23Z")
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. …alrighty…i’m through ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/2 "2000-09-27T18:33:38Z")
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. Zette ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/3 "2000-09-27T18:35:47Z")
guess you didn’t enjoy A Clockwork Orange all that much then… ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/4 "2000-09-27T18:40:09Z")
[The Conversation](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0071360) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/5 "2000-09-27T18:52:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/6 "2000-09-27T18:52:55Z")
American Psycho. 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. Then I just HAD to go see the movie. Eeeyyyeewwww ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/7 "2000-09-27T18:52:58Z")
I’ll second -Seven and add: -Dead Ringers, ewww ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/8 "2000-09-27T18:53:55Z")
[Once Were Warriors](http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/o/once_warriors.html) 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. ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/9 "2000-09-27T19:05:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/10 "2000-09-27T19:10:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/11 "2000-09-27T19:10:48Z")
**Being John Malkovich**. By the end of the movie the only sympathetic character left was Malkovich himself, and look what happened to him… ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/12 "2000-09-27T19:26:59Z")
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. [The ABSOLUTE creepiest movie](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=34201) ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/13 "2000-09-27T19:28:27Z")
Whoops. I meant to say the Dutch version. ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/14 "2000-09-27T19:30:37Z")
On a completely related note french version of Little Indian, Big City isn’t nearly as creepy as the American version. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/15 "2000-09-27T19:35:18Z")
In the Mouth of Madness, The Shining, 8MM. These were all mentioned in the thread linked by vandal. ---
**Author:** ![lucie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@lucie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucie)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/16 "2000-09-27T19:57:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Starbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Starbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starbury)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/17 "2000-09-27T20:03:59Z")
I always thought the ending of Kids was really disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/18 "2000-09-27T20:05:58Z")
Creepiest/most disturbing movie (that haven’t yet been mentioned): Henry:portrait of a serial killer man bites dog most disturbing scene: In “Amistad” when they are throwing the slaves overboard chained to the anchor. God, I had dreams about that for a while!! ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/19 "2000-09-27T20:08:55Z")
How’d that damn smiley face get in there? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/20 "2000-09-27T21:48:05Z")
The one movie that makes me feel like I need a shower is _Last House on the Left_. Ugh. By the way, if you’re planning to rent it, Vestron Video’s version is the uncut version. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784.md?page=2)