# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/41 "2000-09-28T09:02:10Z")
The D-day landing scene from Pvt. Ryan. I remember thinking “this can’t go on much longer” at least 20 times. That guy picking up his arm… \ S. Norman ---
**Author:** ![Charley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Charley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charley)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/42 "2000-09-28T09:30:12Z")
Eraserhead 8MM Saving Private Ryan Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3, I think) was nasty Also, bizarrely, the first 10 minutes of Scream - I kept waiting for the punchline, I was so convinced that whole thing would be a joke. I also once went to an overnight showing of Night of the Living Dead, then Dawn of the Dead, then Day of the Dead. I made it through about half an hour of the last one before leaving feeling very queasy. I don’t think it was the film itself so much as the cumulative effect of the three at once. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/43 "2000-09-28T09:42:29Z")
I’ll give another vote each for **Natural Born Killers** and **Henry : Portrait of a Serial Killer**. Coupla more … \*\* I Spit on Your Grave \*\* wherein a young girl is alone in the woods and is raped and tortured continuously for what seems like the first whole hour of the film. I’ve heard that she gets her revenge in the last hour, but I could never stand to make it that far. Peter Jackson’s **Dead Alive** (also released as **Brain Dead**.) Really kind of funny, but the gore is so over the top that you won’t forget it for a while. Especially if you ever wanted to know what a lawn mower can do to a room full of zombies. And there’s another one that I can’t remember the title of, but it concerns a group of anthropologists who find a band of natives in, I think Africa somewhere and basically have thier way with them. The natives get their revenge in some pretty nasty ways. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/44 "2000-09-28T09:45:04Z")
“Schindlers List” This movie blew me away. I teared up several times, and was disturbed for a few days after the first time I saw it. I don’t know how realistic it was, but have heard that Holocaust survivors said it was fairly accurate. The scenes of the psycho Kommandant (Ralph Fiennes?sp) arbitrarily shooting people in the camp yard from his balcony…the little girl in red walking through the ghetto amid Nazi horror…the old man who was timed to see if he could fabricate a hinge fast enough…the trains pulling up to the camp, on and on… Anyway, it makes me sick just typing this. ---
**Author:** ![Biffer\_Spice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Biffer\_Spice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffer_Spice)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/45 "2000-09-28T09:48:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HalberMensch242 \* > **Not only disturbing, but creepy and unerving a kind of movie that makes you feel all dirty inside** Titanic fits that description totally. Kate Winslet and Leo grinning inanely with that witch warbling away. _shudder_ Other than that, Happiness was evil, pure depression. And Rogue Trader (the probably fictional account of Nick Leeson bankrupting the Barings Bank). Seeing someone just dig themselves more and more into trouble, when they’re just trying to do the right thing makes you leave the cinema with a real nasty feeling inside… ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/46 "2000-09-28T09:57:06Z")
Oh, on a happier note,\ “Motel Hell” was pretty unreal, with the guy making bbq sauce and chili, I believe, out of the poor souls buried up to their heads in the back 40. ---
**Author:** ![plastiktom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@plastiktom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plastiktom)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/47 "2000-09-28T09:57:18Z")
I agree with Happiness-very depressing I should say “American history X” as I stayed in a daze for an hour after seeing the movie. Ho and maybe the “come to daddy” aphex twin video (the one with the kids) ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/48 "2000-09-28T10:03:19Z")
Disney’s Hercules. I did have nightmares and will no go to anymore disney animation. ---
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/49 "2000-09-28T10:41:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by plastiktom \* > **I should say “American history X” as I stayed in a daze for an hour after seeing the movie.** American History X certainly has my vote. I also got a little unsettled after watching **Soylent Green** and Pink Floyd’s **The Wall**. Brrr… creepy. ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/50 "2000-09-28T13:39:49Z")
Dido on the Cell too…just that one scene with the horse…is just…just…unbareable…i couldn’t get the image out of my head for weeks. i can’t belive i forgot to mention Lost Highway…the 1st 20 mins of the movie are unforgetable…in an uneasy way, damn Lynch for making us feel uncomfortable…and us liking feeling that way…hehe ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/51 "2000-09-28T13:52:14Z")
**Once Were Warriors**. Violence in movies usually doesn’t bother me, but this was just too realistic. It made me ill to watch it. **Man Bites Dog** was also pretty disturbing, although I think the thing that bothered me the most was how much of it I laughed at. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/52 "2000-09-28T14:12:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kodyn \* > \*\* > > I noticed that Dogzilla mentioned ‘American Psycho.’ I haven’t read the book, but I didn’t find the movie very disturbing, just staggeringly violent. Is the movie dead-on to the book, or is the book a genuinely disturbing read? > > \*\* The movie watered down some of the more disturbing scenes. The book also gave slightly more insight to the real sickness the main character was sinking into. At the beginning, he was kinda in control of his impulses… by the end, I could barely keep the book open without retching… The staggering violence is the part that disturbs me, especially as a writer. I know how a writer has to get inside the heads of her/his characters… so Bret Easton Ellis must be one sick and twisted dude! This is the same guy who wrote “Less Than Zero,” FYI. ---
**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 28, 2000, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/53 "2000-09-28T23:24:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus55 \* > **And there’s another one that I can’t remember the title of, but it concerns a group of anthropologists who find a band of natives in, I think Africa somewhere and basically have thier way with them. The natives get their revenge in some pretty nasty ways.** Odds are you’re thinking of _Cannibal Holocaust_. _Cannibal Feroux_, a.k.a. _Make Them Die Slowly_, is similar in some ways, but you’re probably thinking of _Holocaust_. Many credit _Holocaust_ with the idea for the film style of _The Blair Witch Project_. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/54 "2000-09-28T23:45:29Z")
It’s kinda silly, seeing as how I have seen (and enjoyed) a number of other films mentioned here that others found disturbing, but the first movie that popped into my head reading the title of this thread was ‘Final Destination’. Yes, it’s basically just another dead teenager flick, but the plane accident scene at the beginning was very stressful and realistic seeming, and then the later deaths stuck with me because they were things that could happen to anybody, in their own home. In many of the scenes you knew someone was about to get killed, and the way the scenes were set up you would see many different horrible ways the person might die and imagine them, and then they would top it with a way you didn’t even think of. For several days after that movie I was very cautious and saw death all around me. ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/55 "2000-09-29T03:09:55Z")
As for the most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen – definitely “8mm” – the world was a better place w/o this movie. The scariest movie, “Event Horizon”, with out a doubt. I am surprised it had not gotten a nomination yet. It is the only movie I’ve ever left the theater w/o that nice warm fuzzy feeling that the good guys won… ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/56 "2000-09-29T13:34:28Z")
Yeah…the 1st time i saw Even Horizon i was so freaked by it…this was the 1st time that a movie really frightened me…i kept repeating that one Latin phrase( i forget what it is at the moment). The reason that is wasn;t mentione before is…that it wasn’t really disturbing…just damn frightening. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/57 "2000-09-29T13:48:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kinoons \* > \*\*As for the most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen – definitely “8mm” – the world was a better place w/o this movie. > > \*\* I’ll have to second, or third, or forth or whatever. a friend of mine who I went with walked out during one part. The only other movie that gave me the shivers that I can remember was Night of the Living Dead, I think it was because I was watching this movie over Halloween in the middle of the night by myself with the lights out. guess I did a good job scaring myself. The rest of that series was pretty tame even in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/58 "2000-09-29T13:58:35Z")
Films I liked: Seven a Clockwork Orange John Carpenter’s Prince Of Darkness a Nightmare On Elm Street Something Wicked This Way Comes (I haven’t seen it since I was a kid: Had nightmares about carosel horses coming to life for a week) All That Jazz Fight Club (Disturbing in a very good way) Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (I sorta liked this one, but not really). Being John Malcovich Silence Of The Lambs Trainspotting Jacob’s Ladder Disturbing films I did not like: The Thin Red Line Natural Born Killers There was a certain horror movie about a baby mutant that crawls around eating people. It was called It lives, or something like that. Creeped the hell out of me. ---
**Author:** ![aztec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@aztec](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aztec)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/59 "2000-09-29T14:09:01Z")
The three most disturbing movies I have ever seen are Rosemary’s Baby, The Prophecy, and The Exorcist. I think it’s the whole Satan thing that creeps me out. ---
**Author:** ![h\_thur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@h\_thur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h_thur)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784/60 "2000-09-29T16:07:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brachyrhynchos \* > \*\* > On the other hand, when people ask me what the strangest film I ever saw was, I tell them about _Tetsuo: the Iron Man_. This 1989 Japanese film is about a guy that becomes infected from a piece of metal, and mutates into an infective metal man with weird sexual fantasies. There is a battle between himself and another metal man. A woman mutates into a metal woman. [This page here](http://www.dark-waters.com/reviews/tetsuo1.html) has an excellent description of the film. I think I’ve thought about this film more than any one I’ve seen. \*\* That movie is by far the most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen 8mm, Seven, and most of the other movies y’all call disturbing without flinching). This is the only movie I couldn’t finish watching! The scene when he has that metal drill for a penis really disturbed me. I had to turn it off - I couldn’t watch the rest. Thanks for posting that - I couldn’t remember the name of the film. Yeeech!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-distrubing-movie-youve-seen/34784.md?page=4)