What is the most disturbing/shocking movie you've ever seen?

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Oh boy did you bring me back. I first saw that movie - oh - years ago, high school or maybe college. Can't remember when exactly. But I think it was late night. I was up, watching TV. Well when I saw that party scene where Tim Robbins goes to see the fortune teller (who says to Tim's character that he's dead - freaky moment there), and then he starts seeing those weird people with those heads moving like that. Let's just say I went to bed with my imagination on over-drive. And especially at the end, what a twist!

My pick for freaky, disturbing movie, however, is Altered States. That bit where he was seriously de-evolving into some weird shape or another... Well...it got me actually wanting to enter a sensory deprivation tank. LOL! Of course, it won't make me go all ape, like it did for him, but I've always wondered what sort of mind trips one can go on in one of those things.

Oh and another -- Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The scene in the house with the UFO just appearing from the clouds, and then those aliens coming for the kid. I never wanted to be near a floor-air-conditioning vent ever again. Eventually, I grew out of that fear. But for the longest time, I was scared out of my pants!

And another - Videodrome!! !! ! Geez, that takes a top ten on the freaky meter with me there!

Henry:Portrait of A Serial Killer-Somewhat based on the story of Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole, what I find disturbing is how easily Henry, the main character, goes from polite and soft-spoken to aggressive and cold-blooded, how randomly he picks out his victims, and the fact that such people exist in real life. First movie I've ever watched that chills me to the bone.

I dunno if I was really disturbed but I was scared to death by the Fritz Lang silent film "Metropolis". I had trouble sleeping after watching parts of this film with my dad (for a year). My dad being an affectionado of classic sci-fi films like this thought it was funny that a 12 year old girl would be freaked out by a silent film but I just couldn't handle it. I was really terrified of it. The use of robotic music, the color tones, the motion of the silent film, the futuristic setting, Maria as a robot was freaking terrifying. I cant even look at movie posters or video covers because they have the robot on them. It was the freakiest thing I ever saw back in the day.

I stopped being creeped out by silent films and now appreciate them but I still REFUSE to watch Metropolis.

I agree that it was a very disturbing death scene... The part at the end, where one of the crooks gets toxic waste dumped on him, is up there too, though it was a lot more difficult to feel for that guy considering his demeanor.

I saw "Happiness" when I was about 22. It didn't really shock me that much, to be honest. Back then I often sought out the most shockingly misanthropic films and TV programmes I could find. "Happiness" was pretty extreme in terms of the subject matter, but the storyline was nothing I couldn't have dreamed up myself.

I saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre when I was 22 or 23, and I found that pretty disturbing. I was quite surprised, because I expected to find it darkly amusing.

Probably the most disturbing thing I ever watched was the infamous hoax documentary Ghostwatch. I switched off halfway through, believing it to be real. I was 14 at the time.

Bruno.

I thought it would be like Zoolander, which is one of my favorite movies. My dad also has AS and he also loves Zoolander, and my brother is Neurotypical, but I thought they'd both enjoy it.

It's basically porn. Everyone was ashamed and unentertained, but we kept hoping it would get funnier, so we stayed until my dad got up and walked out during the scene with the swingers' party.

BASEketball

"Dancer in the dark". All Von Trier's films say the same story: if you treat people with kindness, most will reciprocate if it costs them little or nothing. If what you are or what you ask endangers in any way their perception of themselves or the world, they will tear you to pieces and feel fully entitled to do so. There's no room for hope or faith in human nature in this film.

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With out a doubt.."when a stranger calls" it is really creepy and i have never stayed in a house in the middle of nowhere ever since and that was 3 years ago.

tip: never see thriller movies if you are a scarydy cat

Angel heart with mickey rourke. I don't want to explain why.

This is slightly off-topic, but I went to see "The Patriot" and some dumb-dumb brought their small child (four or five years old). I'm pretty sure that movie is rated R. Anyway, there's a scene where this soldier gets his head ripped off by a cannonball, and it's very up-close and bloody. The little kid went, "Yeah!" at the top of his lungs. Well, everyone laughed, but later I thought what terrible parents that kid had. Imagine being that desensitized to violence at such a young age.

Umm...also I was quite disturbed when, in "War of the Worlds", a man got scooped up and then liquified and his blood sprayed all over the ground. Horrible.

The beginning of the latest Dawn of the Dead movie. I'm thankful it lightened up after that, but there were still some intense moments after that.

Had to walk away from Irreversible.

BlackHawk Down left me stunned, although I was able to sit through it. But I just felt shell shocked. Completely numb when it was all over. Probably had the thousand yard stare going on.

agreed with irreversible, movie put me in a bad place... ive had another of the director's movies I Stand Alone on my comp for about two years now but still havent watched it cause irrev makes me cringe

Wrong Turn

cannibal holocaust. They literally killed multiple animals just to make a b horror movie. They killed a columbian red tail boa, a real live monkey (and they got in trouble for it), and some other animals. Did I mention it had a lot of torture and rape scenes, often together. I saw this movie the first time I hung out with an ex, oh I should have seen the direction that relationship was going to go...

Martyrs, the most impressively brutal film made to date