There are 4 movies that I can remember being offended by:
Happiness - Mostly, because of how the pedophile and his son spoke to each other.
The Exorcist - The scene when she [spoiler]"masturbates" with a crucifix, then rubs her moms face in it.[/spoiler] Nonetheless, it's my favorite horror movie.
JFK - The footage of Kennedy being shot.
And, lastly, a porno I accidentally watched a few seconds of when I was a kid.
Most disturbing movies you've ever seen
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hmmmm. disturbing?
Cannibal Holocaust for sure. It's genuinely terrifying and left a most unpleasant feeling in my stomach. I'm no antivivisectionist, but the live animal slaughter was just fucking sick, and the finale where the humans are similarly butchered is disturbingly effective.
I Spit on your Grave. The revenge is sweet and it can easily be argued that this film is about female empowerment more than it is about exploitation, but damn, that 20+ minute multiple rape sequence is just so harsh. Camille Keaton lets out a few screams during that scene that sometimes haunt my nightmares.
Pink Flamingoes. I got dragged to an arthouse theater showing of this film in University, my only other John Waters experience at the time was Cry Baby. I had no idea what to expect, and when Divine starting blowing the dude playing his son, I almost checked out completely...but I did stick it out to the end (and even enjoyed a bunch of it).
Eastern Promises. I can't remember the last time a single scene made me squirm so much. The "naked knife fight in a bathhouse" scene in this film literally made my balls retract. The rest of the film is excellent, and not so disturbing.
Audition. I managed to see this movie completely cold (I had no idea what it was about, and had seen almost none of the promotional images), and I was enjoying it but starting to wonder what the fuss was about when the shit hit the fan. This flick was like a suckerpunch that delivered a solid and sick shock at the end. Not particularly disturbing compared to other, gorier films, but this one disturbed me since it seemed to come out of nowhere.
Cannibal Holocaust for sure. It's genuinely terrifying and left a most unpleasant feeling in my stomach. I'm no antivivisectionist, but the live animal slaughter was just fucking sick, and the finale where the humans are similarly butchered is disturbingly effective.
I Spit on your Grave. The revenge is sweet and it can easily be argued that this film is about female empowerment more than it is about exploitation, but damn, that 20+ minute multiple rape sequence is just so harsh. Camille Keaton lets out a few screams during that scene that sometimes haunt my nightmares.
Pink Flamingoes. I got dragged to an arthouse theater showing of this film in University, my only other John Waters experience at the time was Cry Baby. I had no idea what to expect, and when Divine starting blowing the dude playing his son, I almost checked out completely...but I did stick it out to the end (and even enjoyed a bunch of it).
Eastern Promises. I can't remember the last time a single scene made me squirm so much. The "naked knife fight in a bathhouse" scene in this film literally made my balls retract. The rest of the film is excellent, and not so disturbing.
Audition. I managed to see this movie completely cold (I had no idea what it was about, and had seen almost none of the promotional images), and I was enjoying it but starting to wonder what the fuss was about when the shit hit the fan. This flick was like a suckerpunch that delivered a solid and sick shock at the end. Not particularly disturbing compared to other, gorier films, but this one disturbed me since it seemed to come out of nowhere.
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Hopscotch wrote:The Zombie Diaries: It's a mockumentary about some sort of zombie plague, but the disturbing part actually comes in the form of one of the survivors who is a pyschopath raping, torturing, murderer; he chains a naked zombie to a wallimagine that smiley being green...
Deadgirl is based on kind of a similar idea...three guys find a zombie girl chained to a bed in an old, abandoned hospital and proceed to rape the crap out of her for fun. It wasn't as disturbing as you might imagine, but it sure wasn't pretty (it was also pointless and stupid and horribly written).
What thought process led someone to believe a zombie rape film would be a good thing?
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TheDenizen wrote:Hopscotch wrote:The Zombie Diaries: It's a mockumentary about some sort of zombie plague, but the disturbing part actually comes in the form of one of the survivors who is a pyschopath raping, torturing, murderer; he chains a naked zombie to a wall
Deadgirl is based on kind of a similar idea...three guys find a zombie girl chained to a bed in an old, abandoned hospital and proceed to rape the crap out of her for fun. It wasn't as disturbing as you might imagine, but it sure wasn't pretty (it was also pointless and stupid and horribly written).
What thought process led someone to believe a zombie rape film would be a good thing?
The one where someone desperately wants to make a movie, but can't think of a single quality idea.
Same reason behind remakes of extremely recent foreign films, too. (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Let the Right One In)
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I usually avoid horror/suspense stuff, don't see the point.
Top of the list for me, by a long shot, Schindler's List. I think it's so disturbing (and heroic, and uplifting) because it is a very realistic depiction of a horror that actually happened. Nothing else comes close. I knew when I left the theater that it was a one-timer.
Top of the list for me, by a long shot, Schindler's List. I think it's so disturbing (and heroic, and uplifting) because it is a very realistic depiction of a horror that actually happened. Nothing else comes close. I knew when I left the theater that it was a one-timer.
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TheDenizen wrote:Eastern Promises. I can't remember the last time a single scene made me squirm so much. The "naked knife fight in a bathhouse" scene in this film literally made my balls retract. The rest of the film is excellent, and not so disturbing.
Nevertheless I think it's one of the best fight scenes I've ever seen. Gritty as fuck, as a film like 'Eastern Promises' should be.
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Indeed, it was heart pounding. An excellent fight. 
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Irreversible. But damn is it great, looking forward to Enter the Void.
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The films "Men Behind The Sun" and "Philosophy Of A Knife" are more disturbing than any other movie mentioned in this thread. "Men Behind The Sun" probably has the hardest scene for me to sit through involving a cat facing 1000 rats, particularly because it was real. "Philosophy Of A Knife" is very, very long; but you'd be hard pressed to find anything so brutally bleak.
Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door is a very disturbing story of a girl who is tortured and raped by her neighbors; based on a real case.
The Isle is the one film besides the first two I mentioned above where I actually said out loud, "Oh no PLEASE DON'T!"
In My Skin takes self-mutilation to a WHOLE 'nother level.
And why has no mentioned "A Serbian Film"(a film which Criticker won't enter into its database for some reason)???
Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door is a very disturbing story of a girl who is tortured and raped by her neighbors; based on a real case.
The Isle is the one film besides the first two I mentioned above where I actually said out loud, "Oh no PLEASE DON'T!"
In My Skin takes self-mutilation to a WHOLE 'nother level.
And why has no mentioned "A Serbian Film"(a film which Criticker won't enter into its database for some reason)???
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Prismatic wrote:The films "Men Behind The Sun" and "Philosophy Of A Knife" are more disturbing than any other movie mentioned in this thread. "Men Behind The Sun" probably has the hardest scene for me to sit through involving a cat facing 1000 rats, particularly because it was real. "Philosophy Of A Knife" is very, very long; but you'd be hard pressed to find anything so brutally bleak.
"Men Behind the Sun" has been mentioned a bunch on this forum with regards to goriest/bloodiest film ever, but it's not even close to the most disturbing. Some of the scenes look downright cheesy.
Prismatic wrote:Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door is a very disturbing story of a girl who is tortured and raped by her neighbors; based on a real case.
There also also a couple of Japanese movies based on a similar real-life case, only even more disturbing;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_%28film%29
They're not listed on Criticker, though. Personally, however, I think these kinds of movies (torture death porn) are just a waste of time.