Disturbing Movies

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by Jayski, Mar 4, 2013.

  1. Victor/Victrola

    Victor/Victrola Makng shure its write

    Ya'll gonna laugh, but Old Yeller and Lassie Come Home really did me in when I was a young lad of about 3 or 4. Man, I bawled for DAYS after watching Lassie Come Home.

    As an adult, Schlinder's List really hit me hard, as it did everyone else in the theater. I remember seeing it on a weekday matinee, and a woman behind me began sobbing uncontrollably when the red coat shows up in the pile of clothes, and never stopped until we exited the theater. I had to sit in my car for about ten minutes before I could drive. (I saw it alone, as my fiancee had no interest in seeing it.) Excellent film, totally gut-wrenching.

    I saw bits and pieces of Gummo and couldn't stomach the imagery.

    Hannibal was just stupid, but the scalping special effect kind of grossed me out.

    I'm not one for blood and gore, so I will never see most of the really horrid pictures mentioned.
     
  2. Kubricker

    Kubricker Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…

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    Lake Mungo - pretty creepy Australian film from 2009.
     
  3. mBen989

    mBen989 Senior Member

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    Sorry, I had to change one of the links in this post. Carry on!
     
  4. Paul Saldana

    Paul Saldana jazz vinyl addict

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    Hard Candy (2095) Ellen Page. "Sadist, or victim?"

    The Shape of Things (2003). Rachel Weisz turns Paul Rudd into an art project.

    Manipulative, mean (and perhaps evil) pretty girls is the theme they share.
     
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  5. 80sjunkie

    80sjunkie Forum Resident

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    Not much is more disturbing than the kid-oriented "Fred" movies. I... just... can't......
     
  6. Kubricker

    Kubricker Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…

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    Zodiac. That scene with the stabbing of the couple at the lake - chilling.
     
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  7. LitHum05

    LitHum05 El Disco es Cultura

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    Blood of the Beasts, by Georges Franju. Real slaughterhouse footage as Holocaust metaphor. Enough said.
     
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  8. Dino

    Dino Forum Resident

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    "Afraid of the Dark"

    Academy Award-winner Mark Peploe delivers a terrifying and haunting psychological tale in which all of the frightening circumstances of childhood, both real and imagined, are heightened to extremes. A madman is attacking blind people in their homes, and a small boy with disintegrating eyesight begins his own secret investigation into the brutal assaults. When he finally identifies the monster responsible for the chilling crimes, he finds himself face to face with something that everybody understands... the fear of the unknown.

    Anyway, the only part that I found disturbing was the main character, a young boy, kept fiddling with knitting needles near his eyes. If the film maker was trying to get to the audience with this, it worked on me.

    (Best movie I've seen in quite a while. One has to have a fairly high tolerance for the strange, though.)

    A short trailer: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HYMB7ZO/ref=pd_va_rv_0
     
  9. Ghostworld

    Ghostworld Senior Member

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    If I didn't starting seeing the humor the director subtly put into it, I would have said "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" was pretty awful. I don't know what else I posted in this thread, I see I have, but I guess I said "Chinatown" before?

    Now I see I mentioned "Henry" before!
     
  10. Barnabas Collins

    Barnabas Collins Senior Member

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    Is that the short film that is included on the Criterion "Eyes Without A Face"? I've never been able to bring myself to watch it; as soon as I heard about footage of horses being slaughtered, that was enough for me. The main film is great though.
     
  11. hlennarz

    hlennarz Forum Resident

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    - Watership down
    - Felidae
    - Fritz the cat
     
  12. LitHum05

    LitHum05 El Disco es Cultura

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    Yes, it's on that Criterion DVD of "Eyes without A Face." But that's like Sesame Street in comparison. The interesting thing is that "Blood of the Beasts" is somewhere between an art film and a nasty exploitation film. I saw a 16 mm projection of it about a year ago at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
     
  13. Are you sure it's supposed to be a Holocaust metaphor? My understanding was that it's" just" a straight no-frills documentary on the slaughterhouse, and that any metaphorical edge was speculation and not necessarily Franju's intention.
     
  14. ampmods

    ampmods Forum Resident

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    When I was a cub scout, we all went to this local tv studio to be in the audience for the Big Chuck and Little John show in Cleveland. It was a cool show that played old horror movies and did funny sketches between commercial breaks. At the very end of the show the audience would get up and follow the camera and we all got to be in the picture.

    So I stayed up to watch it the night it was on and instead of an old Dracula or Frankenstein movie, they played this film from 1973 called The Severed Arm.

    It was about some guys who get trapped underground and they end up having to eat the arm of one of the guys (a guy who didn't want to even resort to such a thing). Of course they get saved minutes after digesting the human arm or something. So then years later they start getting killed. It's a really messed up movie. Pretty much b-movie but psychologically freaky.

    After that movie played they showed us waving to the screen all happy. But I was mostly still thinking of that disturbing movie!
     
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  15. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    The Devil's Rejects...
     
  16. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    all victim...
     
  17. A couple years ago I accidentally wound up on the site of a reviewer/blogger and huge fan of gore and torture porn. I have a passing interest in this stuff but can't watch it myself. This guy had seen most of the more recent vintage films being discussed in this thread and loved them but one of his reviews at the time was for a small film made by two veteran horror special effects people. The film was made to look like a serial killer/torture freak decided to film some of his handy work on a shaky lofi VHS recorder. Apparently the effect worked as this reviewer said he had a hard time watching it through. I just cannot fathom such a film, one so disturbing that a veteran of this stuff, someone who has seen many "classic" horror/gore films had trouble digesting it. Cripes, no thanks. Sorry I can't recall the name of the film... or maybe I am.

    -s1m0n-
     
  18. Thomas D

    Thomas D Forum Resident

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    I would say Salo, but it's actually done me some good. I stopped eating junk food.
     
  19. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    Hostel still creeps me out even though I haven't seen it in quite a long time.
     
  20. LitHum05

    LitHum05 El Disco es Cultura

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    Well, that's what the film scholar I heard lecture on the film made a point of linking it to in terms of historical context. Anyway, it's disturbing even straight up.
     
  21. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    never saw Salo nor want to...but what is the connection?
     
  22. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    Huh?
     
  23. michaelscrutchin

    michaelscrutchin Forum Resident

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    Pretty sure you're thinking of August Underground, or the camcorder-shot exploits of two psycho-geeks on a killing spree (the director was an instructor at Tom Savini's makeup FX school). And, yep, it's one of the most disturbing films I've ever seen.

    It makes most of the movies listed in this thread seem like nice walks in the park; Hostel is positively comforting after August Underground.

    They also made some sequels that are even more extreme (so I've heard).
     
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  24. Thomas D

    Thomas D Forum Resident

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    There are certain scenes involving eating which are a metaphor to reveal the true relationship between a government/big business/advertising and the people. In the face of pervasive power we tend subjugate and addict ourselves to the power of the big entities.
     
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  25. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    I see...
     

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