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… <shudder>
S. Norman
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.
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.
“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.
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…
Oh, on a happier note,<evil grin> “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.
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)
Disney’s Hercules.
I did have nightmares and will no go to anymore disney animation.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!