What is the most disturbing movie you've see

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The Waterhole

There's this one I saw called "Show Hole" about a girl who couldn't be happy unless she could relate things to a TV show, then once she lost interest in her favorite show she had nothing to live for. It's disturbing because that's actually something that some people actually go through. In fact it was something I went through myself

un chien andalou [the sliced eyeball scene]

I haven't seen most of the ones that have been mentioned in this thread. I've seen enough about several to know I'm never going to knowingly watch them (any Human Centipede movie, A Serbian Film, Salo, Cannibal Holocaust). Recently I've been watching the Saw movies, and I must say, the part in Saw III with the decaying-pig slurry really stuck with me.

When I was a kid, I was frightened by The Mummy (1999 version), because I started watching it partway through and had no idea what was going on, so I thought the scarab beetles were turning people into mummies. The image of partially-fleshed Imhotep stuck with me for years. Of course, nowadays I'm a huge Hellraiser fan, so my tolerance is a little bit higher

Blue Velvet
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deliverance

the original "cape fear" from 1962

I can't necessarily recommend them, but they're certainly a shock to the system

mean streets

A clockwork orange my favourite movie but most people find it to disturbing
Under the skin in my top ten pretty weird

the incident

Honestly, the most disturbing movie I've seen is Alpha Dog. I was staying over at a girl's house, and she flipped through the TV channels for a bit, and we watched a good portion of it. I don't know why, but that scene where they murder the kid just completely ruined me, and we had to watch something else instead. I felt so awful, I couldn't even sleep, I just kept replaying the scene in my mind.

Oh great, as if that wasn't bad enough, I had to look up the film (because I always forget the title of it), and the kid was played by Anton Yelchin Well that settles it, there is no way I can ever watch that movie again.


Other nominations:
Fast Food Nation had a scene that looked awfully real (I couldn't find any confirmation) where they showed a cow being killed, skinned, and chopped up.

Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky traumatized me as a kid, watching it as an adult I can see why.

There are some I don't really want to see, like Antichrist, A Serbian Film, Gummo (for the cat torture scene)...one day I'd like to get some guts and watch some of Takashi Miike's stuff.

I didn't think Requiem for a Dream was that disturbing, I was more depressed than anything. Either way, I don't want to see it again.

I don't remember Eraserhead being disturbing?

Donnie Darko I liked a lot. The car accident near the end really shocked me, but it never stopped me from rewatching it.

I didn't know Hobo With a Shotgun was supposed to be disturbing...I have it, but haven't watched it yet.

You definitely wouldn't like the second movie, then =) It's very messed up. Some parts are kind of cheesy, but...I don't know...on the whole it's just crazy. I liked it a lot.


The first Human Centipede is really good, if you like 80s horror movies, and there's actually very little gore in it. The only scene that gets me is a brief shot of the doctor snipping the tendons in their knees. The second movie is really really disgusting. The whole thing looks like a very artfully shot B&W film, but it's clear that Tom Six put his all into grossing out the audience as much as possible. I haven't seen the third one yet.

Too afraid to watch A Serbian Film, even though I've heard it's not as bad as you think it will be.

There's supposed to be a feature on the Cannibal Holocaust DVD that lets you watch it without the animal slaughter, but I think I would still be too chicken to see it.


I saw about that film in a YouTube video the other day, about how they used a dead calf for that scene. It got me real curious to see it, though I'm sure I'll cover my eyes for that bit.


What reasons would those be? o_O


...oops, I just realized some of those posts are a few years old, I may not get replies from them...

have you ever seen "seconds...."?

I forgot, I had to watch Food Inc. for one of my classes in high school, and I found that highly disturbing. That's a significant part of why I'm vegetarian now.




Hmm, I think The Human Centipede is still on Netflix, so I guess I could give it a try. I can always stop it if I don't like it. And yeah, I've heard that the goal was to make the movies extremely and increasingly disgusting. I don't like watching anything involving intense sexual stuff, is why I won't watch A Serbian Film or Salo. I might watch Cannibal Holocaust if there's a version without the animal stuff, but I don't want to give any money that might support that kind of treatment of animals by buying the DVD.

No, I haven't. 1966?


I haven't seen that one, but it sounds similar. Fast Food Nation is filmed in a documentary style, but it's all fictionalized, with Hollywood actors and a fast food franchise called "Mickey's". I think I must've gone a week without eating any beef after that (although I've never liked beef that much anyway).


Talking with friends, I know most people get grossed out at the "feed her!" scene. But if you listen to the Doctor explaining the procedure...I won't go into too much detail here, but he says that the intestines are connected directly to the next esophagus, so it's not quite as gross as people imagine it to be.


You wouldn't like the second Human Centipede, then =) The main character is constantly sexually abused, and so he takes it out on himself and on others. The Netflix version censors some of it, but it's still quite graphic.


Yeah, I think I would rather just not watch it. Seems like the only reason I would is for bragging rights, and I'm okay there.

yup. definitely a 60s vibe, but also a chilling vibe it was not like Hollywood product from the earlier 60s, definitely more adult in theme compared to what was allowed earlier on.