For me Eraserhead takes the cake. I saw it a few years ago on TCM and boy did my head practically explode. Same thing came close to happening when I rented Yellow Submarine for the first time last year. The imagery in that film almost makes Eraserhead seem normal, almost.
That Victoriana animation style that was the bees knees during the bottom end of the sixties was pretty creepy.. see Terry Gilliam's cut and paste work in Monty Python as well.. also, Fantastic Planet (1973) had similarly unsettling characters. Maybe there was something in the water in those days..
On Netflix, I justed watched the French horror movie Raw: Raw (film) - Wikipedia If you don't find this movie disturbing, I hope we never meet. Perhaps you are aware of the 2021 movie Titane (which I haven't seen . . . perhaps yet). Both movies are directed by the French director Julia Ducournau. She definitely gets high marks for originality and boldness.
absolutely. The ending has unspeakable depravity going on that could never be filmed directly, thank God.
John Lennon telling us: "I knew this would happen.....YOU knew this would happen, didn't ya?" as he dies in "How I Won The War"
I was pretty underwhelmed by Raw. I didn't really care much for the film and I didn't find it so shocking that I would be puking in the aisles of a movie theater either.
Disturbing in what way? Just curious...I found it to be rather heart-warming and it's now among my top five PTA films.
I was watching the film and I couldn't get over the legality of a 25-year old woman having anything to do with a 15-year old male, even if it was strictly plutonic (which it wasn't). Then I thought, if this story was a 25-year old male and a 15-year old female, people would have pulled their hair out, even though, in the eyes of the law, gender is irrelevant; if one sex is under the age of consent, somebody is breaking the law, regardless. It's not like they were enrolled in a Big Brother/Big Sister program. But hey, this is just one person's subjective slant.
I understood the relationship in a 70s context: I was dating a 26-year-old woman a little before I turned 18 in 1973. Nobody went to jail.
I love Fantastic Planet. I first watched it on Night Flight when I was a kid, and I was mesmerized and a little frightened. I didn't completely understand what I was watching, but I loved it. I didn't figure out the anti-colonial message until I re-watched the movie as an adult.
Right! I was 16 when I lost my virginity to a chick who was 23 to 26, something like that. I forgot her exact age. Nobody went to jail. However, I was smart enough not to tell an adult, because if I did, who knows what could have happened. Of course people get up to all sorts of things that are against the law, and never get caught, from speeding to murder, but it's still breaking the law, where there's always that risk.
I love it now, but I was _scared_ of Yellow Submarine as a kid. I was afraid that I'd accidentally see it on TV.
I saw it. Really bad. Howard Hessman probably never lived that down. Poor Earl Klugh, one of his songs was prominently featured
So, on this front: have you seen Megan Is Missing yet? Going through my older posts in this thread, it seems I still need advice on whether this is actually disturbing or not.
Lengthy video about the different "tiers" of disturbing movies... (no film clips, just discussion)... I thought i was quite the "ďisturbing movie connoisseur", but of the 70 or so films he mentions, I've only seen about 21... and based on his descriptions of some of the others, I wouldn't want to see them.
I know people always had morbid curiosity, but as of late I noticed a lot of younger Youtuber/Tik-toker types devoting a lot of time to disturbing media. No idea what this says about society, probably some weird Videodrome stuff going down we'll never know. I'll throw a few titles in the bucket of filth: Midori 1992 (Awkward stiff animation, and nearly every upsetting thing imaginable in one movie! The production is fairly interesting all things considered. I can't stomach it, but there is artistry in there somewhere.) Nekromantik 1+2 (88/91) (Once met someone who said this was one of their favorites. Safe to say I kept my distance from them for the rest of my life. Years later I found out he was clinically insane and had a few psychotic breakdowns... Gotta love working in the arts.) Guinea Pig Series (1985-89?) (Who are these films even for? Maybe because I live in Japan I come across more international oddities, regardless, Herschell Gordon Lewis had some self-awareness that made his splatter kinda amusing. This? Lifeless no pun intended. I read somewhere Charlie Sheen saw these and called the FBI as he thought he witnessed a real murder. What was Charlie Sheen doing watching this?) Concrete (2004) (Staying on the Japan topic, don't go down the rabbit hole surrounding this one, you won't sleep and hate humanity. Creepily enough, I had a family friend who worked in Tokyo where this all went down. She had no idea and once she knew immediately started praying for the ghost of the girl to be at rest... The film itself is exploitative trash, doesn't touch on the justice system or systematic failures.) The baby (1973) (This just freaks me out, gives me weird Pulp Fiction gimp energy. Yikes. Well made movie regardless.) August Underground series (01-07?) (There's plenty of room for low-fi experimental horror, yet this just drops the ball every chance imaginable. The film equivalent of a Marilyn Manson or ICP fan's trapper keeper.) Slow Torture Puke (2010) (99.9% sure this qualifies as porn. which also brings into question, who is this even for?! If you ever had food poisoning, you've seen this film. Just another weekend for GG Allin! Not really disturbing as it is just poor film making, which in itself is disturbing.) Weirdly enough, I ended up knowing a guy who did technical work for Serbian film. They retired from the film industry after it saying "people in the movie industry are jerks" and it destroyed their love of movie making. Serbian Film ladies and gentlemen. Weirdly enough, Irreversible has an amazing soundtrack by Thomas from Daft Punk... I kind of recommend anyone giving it a listen with the film itself being a tough watch. I thought there was artistry there, but wow is it not for everyone and just ugly stuff. This and the 1980s movie Maniac made me an insomniac for a few nights. Scared the daylights out of me. Weirdly enough, when you start researching the true story, the movie looks WAY more optimistic in comparison. Weird I know. Salo sure was a CRAPPY movie...