Gilligan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 4973 times:
I saw the other thread about worst film and that's kind of subjective, more interesting to me anyway is one that most disturbed you.
I don't even know the title of mine. It was on tv and I got into it right after the start. I only watched about 15 minutes of it before I just had to turn it off. It still gives me the shivers. It was about a soldier in WW1 that had been hit by an artillery shell. He lost his face, arms, and legs. So in essence he was nothing but a torso and head and even that was paralysed. But his mind is still alive. I joined when the doctor was telling the nurse that if he thought in anyway there was a possibility that this soldier was still capable of conscious thought or if they knew who he was he would administer the morphine himself. But since he was sure he wasn't this was just an interesting experiment. It took a little bit but I had to turn it off when the soldier finally realizes what has happened to him and he's trapped in his own mind with just a few sensory inputs like the sun on his skin. I had a nightmare about the movie that night and have had several since. That would truly be a fate worse than death.
Cxsjr From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 4953 times:
The most disturbing film I haven't seen is 'The Ring' - my other half keeps telling me we should wait for a typically rainy Sunday afternoon, crash on the sofa and watch it on DVD.
We've had plenty of rainy afternoons but have yet to watch it and apparently it's really scary?
TedTAce From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 4944 times:
Quoting Gilligan (Thread starter): It was about a soldier in WW1 that had been hit by an artillery shell. He lost his face, arms, and legs. So in essence he was nothing but a torso and head and even that was paralysed.
AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18832 posts, RR: 64 Reply 5, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 4937 times:
Back when it was chic to go see movies other countries had banned, Pasolini's Salo
N174UA From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 993 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 4914 times:
I would have to say "Downfall" (Der Untergang)....the entire situation was totally f--ked up, but the Magda Goebbels scene showing her poisoning her kids because she didn't want them to live in a world without national socialism...talk about being in a trance.
MBMBOS From United States of America, joined May 2000, 2561 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 4908 times:
"Portrait of Henry: A Serial Killer"
Very graphic, very real. Some scenes were filmed with a handheld video camera, so it seems authentic. Waaay too authentic.
AGC525 From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 989 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 4897 times:
For any Metallica fan, here's the video. Most consider this one of the best videos of all time.
JetsGo From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 2964 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 4878 times:
The Hills Have Eyes was pretty fucked up in my opinion. A father is burned alive, the mother shot in the head, a teen girl is raped, and a baby is kidnapped....all in a matter of like 10 minutes while the rest of the family watches. Oh and dont forget the family dog is eaten alive.
I know it was a total Hollywood movie, but it still bothered me. The only other movie that really bothered me was United 93. Some how, some way, the movie just seemed so realistic. Being so, it really got to me.
Stlgph From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8977 posts, RR: 27 Reply 11, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 4869 times:
Eternal darkness we all should dread. It's hard to party when you're dead.
Garnetpalmetto From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 5244 posts, RR: 55 Reply 14, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 4857 times:
Great movie, but man...after watching it the first thought in my mind is "That's messed up."
South Carolina - too small to be its own country, too big to be a mental asylum.
SmithAir747 From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 1599 posts, RR: 33 Reply 15, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 4851 times:
One of the most disturbing movies I have seen is one made in 1983, during the Cold War.
The movie, "The Day After", was shown on ABC-TV in 1983, when relations between the US and USSR were strained (understatement, I know); that was the year the Soviets shot down the Korean 747 and Reagan responded with his "Evil Empire" speech, and this was 2 years before the more moderate Soviet leader Gorbachev came to power.
The movie "The Day After" takes place in Kansas City, and the surrounding small towns (especially Lawrence, KS, where it was filmed) and the farms around it. There were also a lot of ICBM silos in that area. The movie starts out innocently, with its background music being an old Southern hymn and vignettes of farm life and city scenes.
All too soon, in the story, World War III starts in Europe as the Soviets begin their push into western Europe. Scattered news reports describe "MiG-25 Foxbats intruding in German airspace" and "action in the Fulda Gap" and explosions of tactical nuclear weapons on the front. Nuclear war suddenly appears all too imminent, and the Kansas population panics--as the ICBMs begin launching from their solos amidst the Kansas farms!
Emergency news broadcasts begin on TV and radio--with that ominous "BUZZ" sound we all remember hearing from the EBS (Emergency Broadcast System)!
EMP wipes out all electricity and power, just before the first Soviet warheads explode over Kansas City.
The middle of the movie is the most graphic, harrowing part of the movie--bright, blinding flashes followed by people vaporising as their bones flash like neon tubes. Nuclear explosions galore, incinerating buildings, flying debris, etc--all in graphic detail.
Perhaps most harrowing is the aftermath (hence the movie's title, "The Day After") of this nuclear war. Society has disintegrated, America is a third-world/stone-age landscape (no technology or basic medical care), food is scare (due to radiation wiping everything out, including farms), etc. People are so hungry and thirsty that they eat a candy bar whole--including its wrapper! People fight over water, and shoot people who intrude upon their homes. In a roofless, wrecked church, a pastor loudly questions his faith to a ragged congregation.
This movie was a controversial movie in its day, and even to this day, is a sobering reminder of what could have happened (and STILL could happen). It's a chilling reminder of the danger of nuclear weapons.
SmithAir747
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made... (Psalm 139:14)
Jafa39 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 16, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 4843 times:
"The Hustler" starring Paul Newman had a profound effect on me, the scene where they break his thumbs....uuurrrggghh! Any scene where someone is held and either raped or beaten gives me the willies.
I saw a trailer for "Hostel"...I never, ever want to see that film!
AA61Hvy From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 13975 posts, RR: 59 Reply 17, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 4812 times:
AsstChiefMark From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 21, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 4779 times:
Quoting SmithAir747 (Reply 15): Emergency news broadcasts begin on TV and radio--with that ominous "BUZZ" sound we all remember hearing from the EBS (Emergency Broadcast System)!
You mean this? To this day it makes my skin crawl. Whenever you heard it on TV or radio you just prayed that the signal ended in ten seconds with someone saying, "This is a test." If it went for 25 seconds, it meant the real thing. I remember when they accidentally activated the Emergency Broadcast System in February 1971. Mom rounded up us kids and started to bring us to the nearby government fallout shelter.
Go3Team From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 3266 posts, RR: 22 Reply 22, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 4757 times:
Quoting IFEMaster (Reply 2): That Kathy Bates full frontal nudity scene
That sounds hot.
When I saw it, The Ring would have been my choice. House of 1000 Corpses rates up there as well. The Saw movies. I hear Hostel is pretty f-ed up, I may have to check that out.
Srbmod From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 16888 posts, RR: 51 Reply 23, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 4757 times:
I have a double feature that left me disturbed for a time:
Slider From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6518 posts, RR: 37 Reply 24, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 4757 times:
Quoting SmithAir747 (Reply 15): The movie, "The Day After", was shown on ABC-TV in 1983, when relations between the US and USSR were strained (understatement, I know); that was the year the Soviets shot down the Korean 747 and Reagan responded with his "Evil Empire" speech, and this was 2 years before the more moderate Soviet leader Gorbachev came to power.
I remember that one vividly....there was a major freak-out factor after that.
Speaking of TV movies, "The Burning Bed" was another one that had a major effect like few other TV movies have--I think that really opened a lot of people's eyes to domestic abuse. Don't know how disturbing it was necessarily, but certainly influential.
I thought "Hostel" was pretty damned disturbing.
25 AA61Hvy: Srbmod-Tommy is awesome man..You just have to be in the right state of mind to see it.
27 Dtwclipper: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma Set in the Nazi-controlled, northern Italian state of Salo in 1944, four dignitaries round up sixteen perfect speci
28 Gilligan: I guess "The Shining" would be another. It's the only Stephen King book made into a movie that made the jump successfully if you ask me. When Shelley
30 SmithAir747: Yes, I believe that is the sound! I still remember that sound vividly to this day. I used to hear it often on my local radio station (WBCL, Fort Wayn
31 LO231: "La Vita e bella" (sp?) Funny, yet tragic. Regards, LO231
32 Travelin man: I thought "Seven" was really disturbing. Yeah, Brad Pitt is in it, but that's not the MOST disturbing thing. It's a really twisted movie about some gu
33 Aircraft: Faces of Death. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077533/ I saw several of these movies as a teen, not knowing that most of the segments where staged.
34 CVG777: I have to throw my vote in for Requiem For a Dream. While it is an excellent movie and the cinematography is great, the ending presents such an f***e
35 Garnetpalmetto: And what makes it even more disturbing is that there are many people's lives who get that far in the hole
36 NoUFO: Yes, that scene was truly difficult to watch, and it is mercilessly long on top of that. Would be on my short-list. Ouch, now THAT is disturbing to s
37 Halls120: Seven and Clockwork Orange. Both are very difficult to watch.
39 UALPHLCS: Seven ranks up there for me. I liked the movie it was incredibly well done but I will never see it again. Hannibal was very disturbing. Espesially the
40 Alphafloor: Almost all films by Stanley Kubrick really...
41 BCAL: There comes a point in movies that are supposed to be horrifying, like The Hills Have Eyes, Saw etc, that they go too far and become totally unbeliev
42 MetalInyoni: event Horizon It really freaked me out. I never wanted a poo during a movie as much as i did during that one!
43 CPH-R: Curiously enough, that's also my choice. I wasn't very old the first time I saw it, but even I could see that that boy was fucked up.
44 Pyrex: Kids is totally disturbing to watch but for me I will have to say a strange choice: Dead Poets Society. It does have beautiful settings and Robin Wil
45 UA777300ER: That has got to be the most disturbing film I have ever seen. It's a great movie, but it still freaks me out when I see the scene where you see the g
46 Oly720man: Not me, but my mum was pregnant with me when she saw Rosemary's Baby. Not the world's best idea. A film that left an impression on me was Breaker Mora
47 Bill142: Anything with Tom Cruise has disturbed me. Worst Movie Ever I think that was the point I don't understand what the fuss with Clockwork Orange was abou
49 VHVXB: I agree he is a pathetic actor. Passion of the Christ absolutely horrific
50 QFA380: The most horrific movie I've seen would either be The Sixth Sense or GodSend. GodSend still freaks me out to this day. I was reading about it in the m
51 Ariis: "On the beach" comes to mind. I only saw once the year 2000 version and toward the end it really makes you feel down. FAO
52 Redngold: I have to agree with the people who said Se7en was a disturbing movie. Even more disturbing, in my mind, was Fallen (1998) starring Denzel Washington.
54 Gilligan: The original was even better. You should find a copy. Worth the time. I guess Stanely Kuberick was more of the horror master than I had previously th
55 QANTAS077: Wolf Creek The Bad Lieutenant Der Untergang haven't seen Irreversible as it's really hard to get here...i have heard it's quite horrific though.
56 ABfemme: Brilliant film - very scary - Edge of the seat stuff ! Do you guys remember a film about a group of business men who go on a fishing/canoeing holiday
57 Pyrex: I have only seen a bit of THAT scene and it was indeed sickening... couldn't stand much of it.
58 Garnetpalmetto: If you really think about it, Kubrick's got a good batch of disturbing movies - the two you mentioned sure, but also add on The Shining, 2001, Lolita
60 Jetjack74: By far the most frightening movies of all time. Not for the content, that people actually paid money to see this trash And..... Next time one these "m
62 LSPA: For me it's probably "All quiet on the western fron" (based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque). Other impressing movies: "Black Hawk Down" "Life is
63 ABfemme: Yes that was it - horrific Shrindllers List was also VEry thought provoking, as was The killing Fields.
64 Waterpolodan: For me, it was "Saving Private Ryan", mainly because before I saw it I had been a bit of a WWII buff, building models of the planes and tanks and play
65 AGM100: Just watched " Dead Presidents" again the other night. Its a great movie IMO. Very sad , disturbing and shows the plight of inner city life.
66 CannibalZ3: The Pianist At least, the first 2/3s. Very good movie, a great chronicle of (in part) the change of one guy from brilliant pianist to street rat. What
67 UALPHLCS: Saving Private Ryan was not as bad for me as I thought it would be. I guess the hype about the invasion sequence gave an impression turned out to be o
68 QANTAS077: i'm part way through Irreversible and i've got to say that it's pretty fuken disturbing, from what i can gather it's a story told in reverse...i'm wel
70 Sovietjet: Omg dont get me started on that. I couldnt sleep for 3 weeks after this one. Perhaps one of the most difficult scenes in cinema is during this movie
71 N766UA: Farenheit 9/11 because people actually believe that innuendo-loaded garbage pile of an opinion has a basis in fact.
72 Itsjustme: The Birds. I still shutter when they show the dead guy in the bedroom. First you see just his feet extending out into view and then you see his face w
73 BCAL: When I saw the film at the Vue Leicester Square, the film ended and the few people who were in the cinema did not move or rush out as if the last per
74 QANTAS077: absolutely disgusting film irreversible, what purpose does this film serve? it's nothing short of disgraceful.
75 LTU932: While movies like Full Metal Jacket or The Passion of the Christ didn't shock me that much, the first film that was very disturbing to me (though not
76 Ryangooner: I think if a movie can be made to feel so real with its content and your mind is tricked into believing that for that moment its real then thats what
77 QANTAS077: now i've watched Irreversible again i take back my innitial thoughts, it's definately a brave, well made and great film...it highlights the violence t
78 RichardPrice: For those of you that think 'The Day After' is a good intrepretation of a nuclear war, you should get a copy of the British docufilm 'Threads'. Set in
79 UALPHLCS: I agree The Day After was very disturbing. I was 11 when it came out and made a deep impression. Made me sleepless for many nights. However, when I lo
80 Halls120: You are correct - Fallen WAS very disturbing.....
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