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The other night I re-watched 'The Tin Drum', a film based on the Gunter Grass novel of the same name.
The book is disturbing enough, the film somehow manages to re-create that feeling of uneasyness and makes for a thoroughly disturbing experiance.
Which made me think of other films that have left me feeling uneasy/disturbed....not in a scary sense, more an 'unpleasant' feeling after having watched them.
I came up with...
The Tin Drum(as mentioned)
Eraserhead...shite film, but still horrible to watch.
Wolf Creek...not sure why, but this film had something about it.
Blue Velvet...another deranged bit of cinema.
The book is disturbing enough, the film somehow manages to re-create that feeling of uneasyness and makes for a thoroughly disturbing experiance.
Which made me think of other films that have left me feeling uneasy/disturbed....not in a scary sense, more an 'unpleasant' feeling after having watched them.
I came up with...
The Tin Drum(as mentioned)
Eraserhead...shite film, but still horrible to watch.
Wolf Creek...not sure why, but this film had something about it.
Blue Velvet...another deranged bit of cinema.
In reply to wcdave:
The Machinist starring Christian Bale was pretty disturbing. That's the one where he lost 5 stone or something for the role as the insomniac machine shop worker.
Davie
The Machinist starring Christian Bale was pretty disturbing. That's the one where he lost 5 stone or something for the role as the insomniac machine shop worker.
Davie
In reply to wcdave:
It has to be 8mm.
It's the only film i would never sit and watch again.
It's not a scary film just very unsettling.
Kev
It has to be 8mm.
It's the only film i would never sit and watch again.
It's not a scary film just very unsettling.
Kev
In reply to wcdave: Clock Work Orange
In reply to Kev on the road: yeah, good call. freak me out completely, the fact people would do this. And now we have 15 years olds and older doing all this "happy-slapping" shite. Hmmm!
In reply to sasmojo: oo, American History X. brilliant movie, but so brutual.
In reply to Kev on the road: Added it to my 'Family light Entertainment Night list of films.
In reply to I am the God of Strathyre:
machinist is fantastic. A must see. Haunting.
On disturbing films, I've seen nothing more disturbing that Irreversible. A brutal masterpiece that gets under your skin. Another must see.
machinist is fantastic. A must see. Haunting.
On disturbing films, I've seen nothing more disturbing that Irreversible. A brutal masterpiece that gets under your skin. Another must see.
In reply to wcdave: One I've heard about but can never bring myself to watch is "Funny Games". Just reading the premise of the film when it was released horrified me. I would be interested if anyone has watched it.
Bob
Bob
In reply to wcdave:
That's so wrong.
That's so wrong.
In reply to Robert Dickson:
Funny Games is brilliant. Its actually being remade in English right now.
Its an edge of the seat title for sure. Not gratuitous though. Psychologically unsettling and never graphic.
Funny Games is brilliant. Its actually being remade in English right now.
Its an edge of the seat title for sure. Not gratuitous though. Psychologically unsettling and never graphic.
In reply to DougG: Man Bites Dog.
In reply to wcdave:
the audition, man bites dog (actually truely funny but disturbing at the same time), requim for a dream. sure there are a lot more but these spring to mind.
i also once attended this really arty farty trendy church hall film thing in holborn where they showed a number of japanese movies. one was a fifties porn thing all a bit dodge the other utterly disturbing one was a kind of snuff movie where thisd woman was tortured in loads of different ways by two guys. in the end they killed her with a brick.
now what was even more disturbing was the audience all these trendy types were just sat watching this like it was normal. i found the whole experience hilarious and on a number of occasions actually burst into loud peels of luaghter with regards the surreality of it all as i sat there munching me carrot cake i had bought from the shop across the road cos they didnt have any popcorn.
it did leave me rather disturbed though as i journeyed home on the tube.
the audition, man bites dog (actually truely funny but disturbing at the same time), requim for a dream. sure there are a lot more but these spring to mind.
i also once attended this really arty farty trendy church hall film thing in holborn where they showed a number of japanese movies. one was a fifties porn thing all a bit dodge the other utterly disturbing one was a kind of snuff movie where thisd woman was tortured in loads of different ways by two guys. in the end they killed her with a brick.
now what was even more disturbing was the audience all these trendy types were just sat watching this like it was normal. i found the whole experience hilarious and on a number of occasions actually burst into loud peels of luaghter with regards the surreality of it all as i sat there munching me carrot cake i had bought from the shop across the road cos they didnt have any popcorn.
it did leave me rather disturbed though as i journeyed home on the tube.
In reply to jazzyjackson: yes funny games is a good movie as is american history x. knew there was more.
In reply to jazzyjackson:
I still haven't finished watching Irreversible. i got to the 'fire extinguisher' scene (or was it the 'head out of the car' scene? I can't remember) and had to stop the DVD. And I hear it actually gets worse. I am not sure I can finish watching it.
In reply to Lummox - yes, Man Bites Dog is really disturbing. That was my 'most disturbing' film until I saw (part of) Irreversible.
I still haven't finished watching Irreversible. i got to the 'fire extinguisher' scene (or was it the 'head out of the car' scene? I can't remember) and had to stop the DVD. And I hear it actually gets worse. I am not sure I can finish watching it.
In reply to Lummox - yes, Man Bites Dog is really disturbing. That was my 'most disturbing' film until I saw (part of) Irreversible.
In reply to TN:
I think someone mentioned Audition already? I found that pretty weird but mostly because I have a 'thing' about eyeballs...
I think someone mentioned Audition already? I found that pretty weird but mostly because I have a 'thing' about eyeballs...
In reply to wcdave:
Try some of the videos on the youtube type site such as orgish.com(SP). They are very real and will make you feel uneasy for sure.
Try some of the videos on the youtube type site such as orgish.com(SP). They are very real and will make you feel uneasy for sure.
In reply to wcdave:
Das Experiment
based upon an actual psychological experiment, recreated a couple of years ago on bbc2 with similar results, but to a lesser degree...
Das Experiment
based upon an actual psychological experiment, recreated a couple of years ago on bbc2 with similar results, but to a lesser degree...
In reply to wcdave:
The Woodsman with Kevin Bacon in is very disturbing. It's about a paedophile on parole, returning to his old town and trying to make a new life for himself.
The person I was watching it with actually couldn't continue watching it because it was so disturbing. I thought it was a very thought-provoking film. Possibly the most disturbing bit about it is that you begin to sympathise with the paedophile, which is something that most people don't feel comfortable doing.
Have also seen The Machinist. I didn't find it that disturbing... odd, yes, and a bit long-winded (possible style over substance? There's no denying his weight loss is disturbing though).
That Blue Velvet one is something I just can't watch because it's so horrible.
The Woodsman with Kevin Bacon in is very disturbing. It's about a paedophile on parole, returning to his old town and trying to make a new life for himself.
The person I was watching it with actually couldn't continue watching it because it was so disturbing. I thought it was a very thought-provoking film. Possibly the most disturbing bit about it is that you begin to sympathise with the paedophile, which is something that most people don't feel comfortable doing.
Have also seen The Machinist. I didn't find it that disturbing... odd, yes, and a bit long-winded (possible style over substance? There's no denying his weight loss is disturbing though).
That Blue Velvet one is something I just can't watch because it's so horrible.
In reply to wcdave:
I was going to say Eraserhead when I saw the title of the thread.
Another film I saw with the kids which for some reason I found nauseating was The Grinch.
Straw Dogs was disturbing. How many people were turned on by the rape scene ? Ditto Clockwork Orange.
I was going to say Eraserhead when I saw the title of the thread.
Another film I saw with the kids which for some reason I found nauseating was The Grinch.
Straw Dogs was disturbing. How many people were turned on by the rape scene ? Ditto Clockwork Orange.
In reply to wcdave: try 'the idiots' and 'the celebration'
Well dodgy
Well dodgy
In reply to wcdave: Ach, some great suggestions, most I've never seen. All duly added to my 'must watch' list.
Another one I thought of which I mind finding deeply unsettling at the time is 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'.
Another one I thought of which I mind finding deeply unsettling at the time is 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'.
In reply to wcdave: Ichi the Killer is not for the faint hearted. Watch it, be shocked but dont blame me if you lose your breakfast whilst doing so.
Anyone sen IREEVERSIBLE. Check it out if you want to see a disturbing film. Just don't watch it with your significant other as it is brutal....cannot say anythign good about it whatsoever, just scary, evil to the core with a pervasive sickening dub sound throughout.
In reply to wcdave:
There was a Jack Nicolson film where he played a retired cop trying to catch a paedophile. Can't remember its name but it wasn't particularly disturbing just left you feeling gutted.
There was a Jack Nicolson film where he played a retired cop trying to catch a paedophile. Can't remember its name but it wasn't particularly disturbing just left you feeling gutted.
In reply to wcdave:
Maybe the combination of hunting knives and spinal columns?
Jacob's Ladder always bothers me, maybe because I never really understand it?
> Wolf Creek...not sure why, but this film had something about it.
Maybe the combination of hunting knives and spinal columns?
Jacob's Ladder always bothers me, maybe because I never really understand it?
In reply to wcdave:
American history X - Brilliant and very uncomfortable
Mothman prophecies - No idea why but I find this really really unsettling
There's a film from the 60s (perhaps called El Cap?) about an early repeat of either the Nose or Salathe, it's black and white, shot on film (what an achievement!) and really rather disturbing at times. At one point during the night there's a rockfall and loads of screaming and spinning points of light (torches?). The whole film is really strange with a weird experimental soundtrack that adds tension. I suspect it would lack impact on a TV, I saw it in a cinama.
American history X - Brilliant and very uncomfortable
Mothman prophecies - No idea why but I find this really really unsettling
There's a film from the 60s (perhaps called El Cap?) about an early repeat of either the Nose or Salathe, it's black and white, shot on film (what an achievement!) and really rather disturbing at times. At one point during the night there's a rockfall and loads of screaming and spinning points of light (torches?). The whole film is really strange with a weird experimental soundtrack that adds tension. I suspect it would lack impact on a TV, I saw it in a cinama.
In reply to Chris Fryer:
As horrible as that scene was Chris, I found the whole film quite unsettling. Great film mind!
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As horrible as that scene was Chris, I found the whole film quite unsettling. Great film mind!
In reply to wcdave:
Oh and I forgot... I'll second 8mm as one of the most disturbing mainstream Hollywood films I've ever seen.
Oh and I forgot... I'll second 8mm as one of the most disturbing mainstream Hollywood films I've ever seen.
In reply to wcdave:
Another vote for Eraserhead and Blue Velevet. BV is a brilliant film, but it is just too disturbing to watch more than once. However I do really like the ambiguity of the ending - on the face of it a happy ending, but so sweet you know it's false! Eraserhead has less going for it artistically, and the background of industrial noise throughout makes it really unsettling.
Lynch's later stuff, particularly Wild at Heart and Mullholland Drive, are much more enjoyable
Another vote for Eraserhead and Blue Velevet. BV is a brilliant film, but it is just too disturbing to watch more than once. However I do really like the ambiguity of the ending - on the face of it a happy ending, but so sweet you know it's false! Eraserhead has less going for it artistically, and the background of industrial noise throughout makes it really unsettling.
Lynch's later stuff, particularly Wild at Heart and Mullholland Drive, are much more enjoyable
In reply to Chris Fryer:
I think it is down to there never being any respite in the film. Just as you think it is going to get that little bit better for them it just gets worse.
bluebrad
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I think it is down to there never being any respite in the film. Just as you think it is going to get that little bit better for them it just gets worse.
bluebrad
In reply to wcdave: Would have to be The Vanishing (the original French-Dutch version). Absolutely horrifying.
In reply to wcdave:
Salo.
"Come to this art house cimema to see this banned Marquis de Sade film" said my mate. Half the audience walked out in the first 15 mins. We stayed 'cos we were liberal intellectuals, apparently.
Rape, torture, murder, scatology and fascism. We sat in the pub afterwards in silence and decided not to go for food.
Salo.
"Come to this art house cimema to see this banned Marquis de Sade film" said my mate. Half the audience walked out in the first 15 mins. We stayed 'cos we were liberal intellectuals, apparently.
Rape, torture, murder, scatology and fascism. We sat in the pub afterwards in silence and decided not to go for food.
In reply to wcdave: Most disturbing? Must be "Night Of The Return Of The Son Of I Was A Teenage Acne Blemish".......(shudder).
In reply to wcdave:
Irreversible has to get the top slot. It leaves you feeling quite disturbed, but its a very well made film, very cleverly shot and edited, with great performances from the lead actors. Dont know if Id want to watch it again in a hurry, but it is very good. Well made and tackles a powerful subject. Id recommend you watch it ..once.
The most disturbing film ever.
Irreversible has to get the top slot. It leaves you feeling quite disturbed, but its a very well made film, very cleverly shot and edited, with great performances from the lead actors. Dont know if Id want to watch it again in a hurry, but it is very good. Well made and tackles a powerful subject. Id recommend you watch it ..once.
The most disturbing film ever.
In reply to wcdave:
several films mentioned above, but also 'The Cement Garden' -
two teenage siblings are left alone in a house for the summer as their parent dies and they don't tell anyone, and they end up have sex with each other. Based on an Iain Banks novel.
several films mentioned above, but also 'The Cement Garden' -
two teenage siblings are left alone in a house for the summer as their parent dies and they don't tell anyone, and they end up have sex with each other. Based on an Iain Banks novel.
In reply to Wingman@work:
Wrong Ia(i)n - it's McEwan. Though could equally be a Banks plot synopsis.
> Based on an Iain Banks novel.
Wrong Ia(i)n - it's McEwan. Though could equally be a Banks plot synopsis.
In reply to wcdave: couldn't be bothered reading this the thread again. not sure it this made it to UK shores, but a movie called Bad Boy Bubby, can't believe I fogot it. could only watch that once.
In reply to sasmojo:
Bad Boy Bubby - yes that has made it to the UK and yes, it is really f*cked up!
Bad Boy Bubby - yes that has made it to the UK and yes, it is really f*cked up!
In reply to Marc C:
Is that the one with the girlfriend disappearing and someone buried alive?
Think I saw it years and years ago.
I found the ending of The Wicker Man extremely disturbing.
Most recent disturbing film I've seen was - The Proposition, with Ray Winstone - felt like being caught up in a shoot-out and covered in blood and dust, just from watching it.
Is that the one with the girlfriend disappearing and someone buried alive?
Think I saw it years and years ago.
I found the ending of The Wicker Man extremely disturbing.
Most recent disturbing film I've seen was - The Proposition, with Ray Winstone - felt like being caught up in a shoot-out and covered in blood and dust, just from watching it.
thought 8mm was a good film but didn't find it disturbing
eraserhead i will agree as being disturbing
seem to remember driller killer was pretty dam disturbing
eraserhead i will agree as being disturbing
seem to remember driller killer was pretty dam disturbing
In reply to lost1977:
All I remember about Driller Killer, apart from it being banned, is a lot of killing in silhouette going on - watched it in 1981/2 or thereabouts and memory of it is vague, but didn't scare me as much as The Shining.
All I remember about Driller Killer, apart from it being banned, is a lot of killing in silhouette going on - watched it in 1981/2 or thereabouts and memory of it is vague, but didn't scare me as much as The Shining.
In reply to wcdave: Erm, there was some french film I seen on tv once, about two young sisters, one good looking and the other put-upon, who went on holiday with their mother. The younger good-looking one was with her boyfriend most of the time and the boyfriend gave her his grandmothers jewelery to facilitate sleeping with her (his mother got it back at the end).
There was nothing really that disturbing about it, until the end, which I don't think i'll ever forget as long as I live (i'm getting goosebumps now just writing this). I'm being deliberately vague because I don't want to spoil it for anyone else. Does anyone know the name of the film I'm talking about?
(The end involved a stop at a service station)?
There was nothing really that disturbing about it, until the end, which I don't think i'll ever forget as long as I live (i'm getting goosebumps now just writing this). I'm being deliberately vague because I don't want to spoil it for anyone else. Does anyone know the name of the film I'm talking about?
(The end involved a stop at a service station)?
In reply to wcdave:
Just watched Hostel this weekend, has made me think twice about staying in hostels
very disturbing + graphic
Just watched Hostel this weekend, has made me think twice about staying in hostels
very disturbing + graphic
In reply to wcdave:
Wild at Heart - big David Lynch fan, but couldn't finish watching this one. Only film I ever had to turn off the first time. Did manage to sit through it on a second go.
Wild at Heart - big David Lynch fan, but couldn't finish watching this one. Only film I ever had to turn off the first time. Did manage to sit through it on a second go.
In reply to wcdave:
Cannibal Holocaust. Tried to watch it but it made me feel a bit sick! People being impaled on stuff. Looked a bit too realistic.
Spit on my Grave and Last House on The Left, I've been told are bad, think I'll steer clear.
Cannibal Holocaust. Tried to watch it but it made me feel a bit sick! People being impaled on stuff. Looked a bit too realistic.
Spit on my Grave and Last House on The Left, I've been told are bad, think I'll steer clear.
In reply to wcdave:
As a child, the most disturbing film for me was the Beatles' 'Yellow Submarine'. I have no idea why.
I still can't watch that type of 'cartoon' though.
As a child, the most disturbing film for me was the Beatles' 'Yellow Submarine'. I have no idea why.
I still can't watch that type of 'cartoon' though.
In reply to Removed User:
I could never forget the opening scene of Born free where the woman is killed by the maneating lion
I could never forget the opening scene of Born free where the woman is killed by the maneating lion
In reply to wcdave: Bambi - the hero's mother gets shot early on. Quite unsettling at the time.
In reply to Removed User and OP:
That film is called The Pledge. Very affecting.
Tin Drum is indeed disturbing, but a great film, not seen it for years.
Come and See, Deliverance, Pretty Village Pretty Flame and Baise Moi all made me wonder how much of a good idea it was to keep watching.
That film is called The Pledge. Very affecting.
Tin Drum is indeed disturbing, but a great film, not seen it for years.
Come and See, Deliverance, Pretty Village Pretty Flame and Baise Moi all made me wonder how much of a good idea it was to keep watching.
In reply to wcdave:
Several of the above movies for sure and I'd say 'A Warning to the Curious', an old BBC short film. Not sick but definitely disturbing.
Several of the above movies for sure and I'd say 'A Warning to the Curious', an old BBC short film. Not sick but definitely disturbing.
In reply to Kev on the road:
I have to say over the last few years I've had a bit of a harp on and a bee in my bonnet about this.
I think films like Wolf Creek, 8mm and My Little Eye (may have mis-titled last) are as bad as Childs Play.
I have to say I've never seen any Childs Play movies BUT the other three... Let's just put into the minds of the masses, populated by the lowest common denominator, the concepts of "If you find a big enough open space you can get away with anything", "The only thing better than a porn movie is a snuff movie - noone will report it as suspicious" and again "If you find a big enough open space you can get away with anything"!
I just think it's a bit worrying that we are living in a time when the worst members of society no longer look to rumours and vague concepts of Jack the Ripper - no instead we live in a time when the ideas put to them are visual, well-thought and distinct... like wouldn't it be FUN to make a "head on a stick" or if you had enough money make a snuff movie or podcast!!!
I'm not saying that watching these films warps minds - I'm just saying that minds that are naturally/already warped through illness or lack of intellegence or money and boredom are being given ideas they would never have thought to explore 100 yrs ago. So many new ways to inflict pain and get away with it.
It's the same thing with child porn on the net... I think the internet is fantastic but I WISH that it wasn't enabling "networks" of traders to develop.
Sorry to rant but it's a subject that really stresses me out. I dont think we can solve either problem. If you get rid of all the horror films people will just make their own, even on their mobiles - If we get rid of the internet we wont get rid of the pedos!
Agh!
I have to say over the last few years I've had a bit of a harp on and a bee in my bonnet about this.
I think films like Wolf Creek, 8mm and My Little Eye (may have mis-titled last) are as bad as Childs Play.
I have to say I've never seen any Childs Play movies BUT the other three... Let's just put into the minds of the masses, populated by the lowest common denominator, the concepts of "If you find a big enough open space you can get away with anything", "The only thing better than a porn movie is a snuff movie - noone will report it as suspicious" and again "If you find a big enough open space you can get away with anything"!
I just think it's a bit worrying that we are living in a time when the worst members of society no longer look to rumours and vague concepts of Jack the Ripper - no instead we live in a time when the ideas put to them are visual, well-thought and distinct... like wouldn't it be FUN to make a "head on a stick" or if you had enough money make a snuff movie or podcast!!!
I'm not saying that watching these films warps minds - I'm just saying that minds that are naturally/already warped through illness or lack of intellegence or money and boredom are being given ideas they would never have thought to explore 100 yrs ago. So many new ways to inflict pain and get away with it.
It's the same thing with child porn on the net... I think the internet is fantastic but I WISH that it wasn't enabling "networks" of traders to develop.
Sorry to rant but it's a subject that really stresses me out. I dont think we can solve either problem. If you get rid of all the horror films people will just make their own, even on their mobiles - If we get rid of the internet we wont get rid of the pedos!
Agh!
In reply to wcdave: Bodysong ch4 now
In reply to prana: very disturbing.
In reply to wcdave:
Pi. I think its a Aranofsky one.
Maths, the stock market, and drilling yourslef in the head......nice.
Also, atho its a music video and not a film. The mouse in the tube scene from the uncut version of Gay Bar by Electric-6
Pi. I think its a Aranofsky one.
Maths, the stock market, and drilling yourslef in the head......nice.
Also, atho its a music video and not a film. The mouse in the tube scene from the uncut version of Gay Bar by Electric-6
In reply to wcdave:
Off the top of my head:
The Reflecting Skin.
Wiseblood.
Blood Simple.
Naked.
Fire Walk With Me.
Off the top of my head:
The Reflecting Skin.
Wiseblood.
Blood Simple.
Naked.
Fire Walk With Me.
In reply to wcdave:
Hmm,no one mentioned Lost Highway yet? Another Lynch one. Very dark and unsettling with a soundtrack to match. As a point of interest, the sinister Mystery Man (Robert Blake) was arrested a few laters for the murder of his wife. Was found not guilty though.
Anyway, probably my favourite film; just don't expect it to make much sense.
Hmm,no one mentioned Lost Highway yet? Another Lynch one. Very dark and unsettling with a soundtrack to match. As a point of interest, the sinister Mystery Man (Robert Blake) was arrested a few laters for the murder of his wife. Was found not guilty though.
Anyway, probably my favourite film; just don't expect it to make much sense.
In reply to wcdave:
The original of Texas Chainsaw Massacre is pretty disturbing - it was on Film 4 last night.
Although classic ridiculous horror formula of:
<Knock on door of house of extreme creepiness>
<No answer>
<Push door open and peer in>
<Call name a few times>
("Don't go in!")
<Go in>
Wait for big bad wolf to strike.
The original of Texas Chainsaw Massacre is pretty disturbing - it was on Film 4 last night.
Although classic ridiculous horror formula of:
<Knock on door of house of extreme creepiness>
<No answer>
<Push door open and peer in>
<Call name a few times>
("Don't go in!")
<Go in>
Wait for big bad wolf to strike.
In reply to wcdave: The Killing Fields, because it was virtually a documentary. Those blue plastic bags. Only watched it once, 20? years ago, don't want to watch it again.
Now Man Bites Dog, top film, not in the least bit disturbing. Sort of light hearted romantic comedy in comparison.
Now Man Bites Dog, top film, not in the least bit disturbing. Sort of light hearted romantic comedy in comparison.
In reply to wcdave:
Strange... mine are exactly the same, although I have only heard about Wolf Creek and that was bad enough.
Strange... mine are exactly the same, although I have only heard about Wolf Creek and that was bad enough.
In reply to wcdave: Roal Dahls the witches, never been the same since the age of about 5 when we watched it in school, still refuse to watch scary films, an im near 21 years young!
In reply to wcdave:
Given the nature of this forum, I have to say this is the most disturbing film I have ever seen. Broadcast on a national station!!!!
Watch at your peril......
youtube.com/watch?v=e8gTk-Pag3E&
Given the nature of this forum, I have to say this is the most disturbing film I have ever seen. Broadcast on a national station!!!!
Watch at your peril......
youtube.com/watch?v=e8gTk-Pag3E&
Schindlers list - because (unlike most of the rubbish above)the horror actually happened.
In reply to wcdave: Wolf Creek definitley most disturbing film I've seen in a long time.
Others that spring to mind:
The Birds,
Walkabout,
The Ring,
Whistle and I'll come to you, another one in the series of those perfect 1970s BBC "Ghost Story for Christmas"
And the naked wrestling scene in Borat was pretty gruesome and disturbing too!
Others that spring to mind:
The Birds,
Walkabout,
The Ring,
Whistle and I'll come to you, another one in the series of those perfect 1970s BBC "Ghost Story for Christmas"
And the naked wrestling scene in Borat was pretty gruesome and disturbing too!
In reply to wcdave:
The Idiots by von Trier. A group of spoilt rich kids go round pretending to be mentally ill, drooling into their food and so on. For the whole film. Then they have group sex, then it ends.
8 1/2 Women by Greenaway. Son shags dad, and it's all downhill thereafter. Thanks for that Pete.
And in the horror genre, Cannibal Holocaust. Gang rape, impalings, giant cheese graters, primitive abortion techniques, and real animals killed.
The Idiots by von Trier. A group of spoilt rich kids go round pretending to be mentally ill, drooling into their food and so on. For the whole film. Then they have group sex, then it ends.
8 1/2 Women by Greenaway. Son shags dad, and it's all downhill thereafter. Thanks for that Pete.
And in the horror genre, Cannibal Holocaust. Gang rape, impalings, giant cheese graters, primitive abortion techniques, and real animals killed.
In reply to Jules B:
Good call with the ring and the walkabout
I just watched Lord of the flies that was a freebie in the sunday paper, i imagaine it was quite a shocker in 1968! (as opposed to lord of the rings that was pap!)
8 mm has been mentioned too - very unsettling
Good call with the ring and the walkabout
I just watched Lord of the flies that was a freebie in the sunday paper, i imagaine it was quite a shocker in 1968! (as opposed to lord of the rings that was pap!)
8 mm has been mentioned too - very unsettling
In reply to blanchie14c: Yeah, the scene in Walkabout where the dead dad is in his burnt out car up a tree haunted me as a child.
In reply to wcdave:
The Accused
Nil by Mouth
And a film by Tim Roth that i can't remember the name of
The Accused
Nil by Mouth
And a film by Tim Roth that i can't remember the name of
In reply to wcdave:
Have to agree with Irreversible, amazing, yet very disturbing film.
Anyone else remember 'Threads' - very scary account of what might happen in the event of a nuclear war. Filmed in Sheffield in the 80s, disturbed a whole generation of local teenagers, but no-one else seems to have ever heard of it.
Have to agree with Irreversible, amazing, yet very disturbing film.
Anyone else remember 'Threads' - very scary account of what might happen in the event of a nuclear war. Filmed in Sheffield in the 80s, disturbed a whole generation of local teenagers, but no-one else seems to have ever heard of it.
In reply to lanky_suction1: I remember "Threads" think you can get this on Amazon. Yes, was indeed disturbing, remember discussing it at school afterwards....oh us poor, disturbed children of the 80s.
In reply to wcdave:
I can't beleive no-one has thought of Dead Ringers. Jeremy Irons plays twin gynacologists (I know the spelling is wrong). Intriguing but also disturbing
I can't beleive no-one has thought of Dead Ringers. Jeremy Irons plays twin gynacologists (I know the spelling is wrong). Intriguing but also disturbing
In reply to wcdave:
Dogville
Overlong maybe, but powerful stuff nonetheless. The human condition isn't a healthy one.
Dogville
Overlong maybe, but powerful stuff nonetheless. The human condition isn't a healthy one.
In reply to Chris Fryer: Good call - Jacobs Ladder.
Supposedly about the US army experimenting with drugs on their own guys to increase aggression.
The dream sequences / hallucinations (spelling)happen after the guy is mortally wounded, possibly by one of his own men....
Well that's how I see it anyways.....
Supposedly about the US army experimenting with drugs on their own guys to increase aggression.
The dream sequences / hallucinations (spelling)happen after the guy is mortally wounded, possibly by one of his own men....
Well that's how I see it anyways.....
In reply to gourd: I saw this...not knowing what it was....bloody awful.....where, when, did either survive? This was bad, some things should not make the news
In reply to Ron Allan:
I guess it's affected you having watched it?
Pretty Villiage Pretty Flame is quite good,it's about the Bosnian war and has footage of villages burning during the ethnic clensing,though that's all you see of the burning villages,there isn't any gore or anything,and it keeps switching between the past when a couple of the soliders were boyhood friends,because one is a Serb and one is a Muslim,and then back to when they're fighting each other as soliders,it's effective in showing how senseless war nearly always is because you keep seeing them as friends as children,and then as adults on opposing sides. I didn't know about the footage when i saw it on TV and just thought it was a powerfull film,it's only having googled it that i found out that it's actual burning villages that you see in the film.
Cheers
Tim
> Schindlers list - because (unlike most of the rubbish above)the horror actually happened.
I guess it's affected you having watched it?
Pretty Villiage Pretty Flame is quite good,it's about the Bosnian war and has footage of villages burning during the ethnic clensing,though that's all you see of the burning villages,there isn't any gore or anything,and it keeps switching between the past when a couple of the soliders were boyhood friends,because one is a Serb and one is a Muslim,and then back to when they're fighting each other as soliders,it's effective in showing how senseless war nearly always is because you keep seeing them as friends as children,and then as adults on opposing sides. I didn't know about the footage when i saw it on TV and just thought it was a powerfull film,it's only having googled it that i found out that it's actual burning villages that you see in the film.
Cheers
Tim
In reply to wcdave:
Another vote for Irriversible!
Most disturbing film i've seen! It's a film with the end at the beginning...i.e. it's in reverse.
The scene in the underpass which IIRC is at the end shocked me!
Another vote for Irriversible!
Most disturbing film i've seen! It's a film with the end at the beginning...i.e. it's in reverse.
The scene in the underpass which IIRC is at the end shocked me!
In reply to lanky_suction1:
It's LEGENDARY.
I've never seen it but know plenty about it and its effect on people - I'd say that indicates that it is pretty well known. In fact I had hoped to see a rare big-screen showing of it last week but got waylaid. Will prob just get the DVD (it was never repeated and only recently became available - it's one of those things that BBC, for years, liked to try to "cover up")
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> Anyone else remember 'Threads' [...] but no-one else seems to have ever heard of it.
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> Anyone else remember 'Threads' [...] but no-one else seems to have ever heard of it.
It's LEGENDARY.
I've never seen it but know plenty about it and its effect on people - I'd say that indicates that it is pretty well known. In fact I had hoped to see a rare big-screen showing of it last week but got waylaid. Will prob just get the DVD (it was never repeated and only recently became available - it's one of those things that BBC, for years, liked to try to "cover up")
In reply to Steve Parker:
That may be the first mention of "Jhon" Huston's film adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood", on UKC.
I didn't think it "disturbing", perhaps "though-provoking". It is good though!
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> Wiseblood.
> Wiseblood.
That may be the first mention of "Jhon" Huston's film adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood", on UKC.
I didn't think it "disturbing", perhaps "though-provoking". It is good though!
In reply to Ron Allan:
Do you really think a basis in historical fact renders a film more disturbing than a completely fictional one? Schindler's List is moving and thought-provoking but I'd argue that it is NOT disturbing, the facts are quite well documented
Don't you think that realistic dystopian films are pretty disturbing?
I remember a policeman friend of mine found RoboCop actually scary and disturbing (whereas we plebs just thought it was "cool")
> Schindlers list - because (unlike most of the rubbish above)the horror actually happened.
Do you really think a basis in historical fact renders a film more disturbing than a completely fictional one? Schindler's List is moving and thought-provoking but I'd argue that it is NOT disturbing, the facts are quite well documented
Don't you think that realistic dystopian films are pretty disturbing?
I remember a policeman friend of mine found RoboCop actually scary and disturbing (whereas we plebs just thought it was "cool")
In reply to wcdave:
I can't believe nobody's mentioned "Old Boy"... I've got a failry strong constitution but the whole premise made me a bit uneasy...
I can't believe nobody's mentioned "Old Boy"... I've got a failry strong constitution but the whole premise made me a bit uneasy...
In reply to wcdave:
I haven't read the thread but Audition disturbed me, as did The Grudge (although that was disturbing and crap at the same time). In fact, most Japanese horror films could go in there.
I haven't read the thread but Audition disturbed me, as did The Grudge (although that was disturbing and crap at the same time). In fact, most Japanese horror films could go in there.
In reply to wcdave:
Mine has to be Battlefield Earth with John Travolta, not for it's contents but for the disturbing fact that I actually sat all the way through this drivel.
Thats 2 hours of my life I want back Mr Travolta.
Mine has to be Battlefield Earth with John Travolta, not for it's contents but for the disturbing fact that I actually sat all the way through this drivel.
Thats 2 hours of my life I want back Mr Travolta.
In reply to gourd: Watch at your peril...... Why did I watch that? Oh God that was horrible. And STILL I want to go climbing. I had a 400+ footer 16 years ago on the Ben (factor two onto a crap belay- two 9 mils tied together), and amnesia re. the seriousness soon set in, after initial "never climbing again" promises. Weird.
In reply to wcdave:
I found Top Gun and Rambo very disturbing because they were so utterly childish (the kind of stuff I guess Dubya was brought up on).
I found Top Gun and Rambo very disturbing because they were so utterly childish (the kind of stuff I guess Dubya was brought up on).
In reply to Masood:
>> can't believe nobody's mentioned "Old Boy"...
Seconded, that was an unsettling film but really brilliant also.
The other two in that trilogy ( Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Lady Vengeance?) aren't exactly The Lion King either...
>> can't believe nobody's mentioned "Old Boy"...
Seconded, that was an unsettling film but really brilliant also.
The other two in that trilogy ( Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Lady Vengeance?) aren't exactly The Lion King either...
In reply to wcdave:
just looking at a thread on another forum and can't beleive i forgot a truely disturbing film
Scum
just looking at a thread on another forum and can't beleive i forgot a truely disturbing film
Scum
In reply to wcdave: Last Exit to Brooklyn
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:
"I found Top Gun and Rambo very disturbing because they were so utterly childish (the kind of stuff I guess Dubya was brought up on)."
Personally, I found THIS statement VERY DISTURBING because not only did Gordon NOT read the OP but he tried to include a political undertone! (Not sure why?)
"I found Top Gun and Rambo very disturbing because they were so utterly childish (the kind of stuff I guess Dubya was brought up on)."
Personally, I found THIS statement VERY DISTURBING because not only did Gordon NOT read the OP but he tried to include a political undertone! (Not sure why?)
In reply to Padraig:
Eh?
The OP said: "Which made me think of other films that have left me feeling uneasy/disturbed....not in a scary sense, more an 'unpleasant' feeling after having watched them."
That was exactly how I felt after watching both Top Gun and Rambo.
My comment about Dubya was probably, well certainly, a mistake - because it was immediately misconstrued by you as a political point (though I've no idea quite what). What I was talking about, if you haven't got it already, was the extremely disturbing warmongering, 'cowboy' culture that those films champion, that still pervades much of America and has led to many of their present problems at home and abroad.
I would be very disturbed myself (though wouldn't resort to screaming in capitals) if you were to tell me that neither of those films 'left you feeling uneasy', to use the OP's original terminology.
Eh?
The OP said: "Which made me think of other films that have left me feeling uneasy/disturbed....not in a scary sense, more an 'unpleasant' feeling after having watched them."
That was exactly how I felt after watching both Top Gun and Rambo.
My comment about Dubya was probably, well certainly, a mistake - because it was immediately misconstrued by you as a political point (though I've no idea quite what). What I was talking about, if you haven't got it already, was the extremely disturbing warmongering, 'cowboy' culture that those films champion, that still pervades much of America and has led to many of their present problems at home and abroad.
I would be very disturbed myself (though wouldn't resort to screaming in capitals) if you were to tell me that neither of those films 'left you feeling uneasy', to use the OP's original terminology.
In reply to wcdave:
Aye dave,
I've only found one film disturbing, that was Matador by Pedro Almodovar. Billed as an amoral dark comedy but I didn't find any of it funny, at all.
BTW, what are your plans over the New Year?
Aye dave,
I've only found one film disturbing, that was Matador by Pedro Almodovar. Billed as an amoral dark comedy but I didn't find any of it funny, at all.
BTW, what are your plans over the New Year?
In reply to wcdave: I recall attempting to watch "Henry; Portrait of a Serial Killer" and had to turn it off. Far too realistic and...dispassionate. Had the effect of making me feel as if I were watching home movies. Genuinely disturbing. And me, a horror maven. Oh well. Any film with graphic depictions of violence against women I find not only disturbing but repulsive. When the bloke explodes a chest burster alien, it doesnt bother me so much. Go figure.
In reply to Removed User:
Not entirely sure yet Eric. Are you up this way?
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> BTW, what are your plans over the New Year?
> BTW, what are your plans over the New Year?
Not entirely sure yet Eric. Are you up this way?
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:
On a tangent, Gordon, what did you think of 'First Blood'?
(sorry for the hijack)
On a tangent, Gordon, what did you think of 'First Blood'?
(sorry for the hijack)
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:
eh?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083944/
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> Don't think I ever saw it.
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> Don't think I ever saw it.
eh?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083944/
In reply to wcdave: i saw a film called executions the other day which was apparntly very disturbing although i thought it was more interesting than disturbing.
In reply to wcdave: may be already nominated but "man bites dog" is evil, so awkward to watch.
In reply to paulguy:
I had completely forgotten that it was called that as well. Which is weird, because I am about 99 per cent certain that Rambo 1 was simply called Rambo when it first came out in the UK in 1982. Or maybe it had that subtitle, but it was certainly billed as 'Rambo'. Seems like a bit of re-branding went on later. I mean we never called it anything other than Rambo. A bit like saying did you ever see 'A Space Odyssey'?, when we all know it as 2001.
I had completely forgotten that it was called that as well. Which is weird, because I am about 99 per cent certain that Rambo 1 was simply called Rambo when it first came out in the UK in 1982. Or maybe it had that subtitle, but it was certainly billed as 'Rambo'. Seems like a bit of re-branding went on later. I mean we never called it anything other than Rambo. A bit like saying did you ever see 'A Space Odyssey'?, when we all know it as 2001.
In reply to wcdave: Battle for?(of) Algiers.
I think the first film ever to be given an an award by the UN. Given the ongoing political arguments about torture probably still valid today.
If you haven`t seen it make an effort to find it.
You won`t like it, but it will make you think.
I saw it twenty five years ago at the Bluecoat in Liverpool.
At that time it had not been shown in France because of death threats to anyone who was prepared to show it.
All the best
Rob
I think the first film ever to be given an an award by the UN. Given the ongoing political arguments about torture probably still valid today.
If you haven`t seen it make an effort to find it.
You won`t like it, but it will make you think.
I saw it twenty five years ago at the Bluecoat in Liverpool.
At that time it had not been shown in France because of death threats to anyone who was prepared to show it.
All the best
Rob
In reply to wcdave:
"Freaks" by Tod Browning, oldie but goldy,
"Un chien andalou" by Luis Buñuel - but I've never watched it through to the end... the bit when the eye-ball is sliced is pretty horrific, considering it was made in 1929!
A Russian fim called "Siberiada" was pretty impressive in an odd sort of way, but not like the other two.
"Freaks" by Tod Browning, oldie but goldy,
"Un chien andalou" by Luis Buñuel - but I've never watched it through to the end... the bit when the eye-ball is sliced is pretty horrific, considering it was made in 1929!
A Russian fim called "Siberiada" was pretty impressive in an odd sort of way, but not like the other two.
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