Most Disturbing Film You've Seen

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  1. pettyfog

    pettyfog Well-Known Member

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    Note that I dont mean BAD movies, I mean Mentally and Emotionally DISTURBING movies.
    I was looking up current film releases on IMDB after panning 'The Son of the Mask' in user comments. {Good CGI effects, but that's it.. bad writing and over-done scenario.}

    I looked at 'Last House on the Left' because its trailer is the most enticing in what it promises. Overall reviews from IMDB users are good, but one media critic wrote that the rape scene was 'over-exposed' and too graphic and took your mind off the story. Another commenter noted the person evidently had never seen "Day of The Woman" aka "I Spit on Your Grave".

    Oh, hell... I've been trying to forget that movie ever since I saw it. It was sickening in its brutality and the rape scene{s} made you want to go somewhere and throw up.
    Now that was obviously the result the makers wanted but it occurred to me, even while trying to get through it that, somewhere, some sick twisted freak was watching that and enjoying it immensely... probably to the point of orgasm.
    When asked the subject line question, I have normally put 'A Clockwork Orange' top of my list, but "I Spit on Your Grave" is in a whole new realm of its own when thinking of movies you wish you'd never watched.

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  2. SteveM19

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    I never wanted to see I Spit on your Grave, I don't need to see that scene.

    The one for me was Angel Heart, circa 1987, with Mickey Rourke and Lisa Bonet. Maybe it was because I was 18-19 at the time, but it was far and away the most disturbing movie I ever saw. Lucious Sanford. For you young uns who will never see the movie, roll that name around in your minds a few times to get the reference.
     
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  3. HatterDon

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    Pettyfog already picked the worst movie, ISPOYG, so I'll move on to second most.

    Midnight Cowboy was very disturbing, albeit brilliant. I remember telling someone that I thought it was a product of genius, and I never wanted to see it again. Kalifornia just was one degradation after the other, and Chinatown still roils my stomach.
     
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  4. pettyfog

    pettyfog Well-Known Member

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    Good choice Don.
    I bet we could go down a layer or two of 'message' analysis on Midnight Cowboy before our opinions diverged... but I bet they would diverge.
    Chinatown, though... dunno. Seemed to me it was a 'grittier' throwback to the late thirties genre. Polanski, himself, now HE is disturbing.
     
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  6. SteveM19

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    Forgot about Kalifornia -- I quit watching after 45 minutes or so, I had seen enough -- very good choice.

    My wife said Monster's Ball, I had to disagree. There was some redemption in that movie. And some first rate disturbing scenes in that movie. By fortunate circumstances, we happened to see it at different times, as that is about the worst date movie ever that is not named ISOYG or The Accused.
     
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  7. pettyfog

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    In my case, I'd heard enough to avoid it
    I disagree, too. I thought it was pretty good.
    As opposed to: 'Message in a Bottle' in which only the discerning male of the pair wants to cut his -or someone else's- throat.

    If it happens that your date picks that to watch together, ignore screen and dialogue, and if date wants to discuss throw in general comments like 'emotive'... concentrate on 'End Game'. Probably worth the slow torture.
     
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    Reservoir Dogs was the most brutal movie I remember. I don't go to the movies or rent much, maybe once a year and it usually is for the kids so some of these newer ones I have heard of but how about The Shining or Cuckoo's nest for those of you who have 'lived a little'?
     
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    The Excorcist . when I first watched that in the 70s was a really scary film.

    The Omen on the other hand I could never find scary, as the church they used is the one in Bishops Park.
     
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  10. Clevelandmo

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    I try to avoid disturbing movies, regardless of how good it is suppose to be, so I havent seen several of those mentioned. However, mine would be A Clockwork Orange and American Psycho
     
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    Spencer, under almost any other topic, I wouldnt accuse you of being a lightweight, but you are when it comes to disturbing films. Thankfully, you make me seem steely.
     
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  12. HatterDon

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    Don't feel too bad, Spencer, HatterMom was terrified at the age of 8 by a stocking -- namely the one that portrayed the twister [Auntie Em!!] in the Wizard of Oz. She's still uncomfortable at the tornado scene whenever that movie airs and she is now ... uh ... no longer 8.
     
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  13. SteveM19

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    I can't believe I forgot this one, I got to see it thanks to my roommates in the barracks at the time -- Trainspotting.

    There's a movie I never need to think of again.
     
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    I haven't seen that one, Roger, but I have seen Bully, which is also a Larry Clark movie, and which I'd have included in my first post here if I'd remembered it. He seems far too interested in showing 15 and 16-year-olds getting nekkid and screwing. Just the words "Larry Clark" are enough to make me want to take a shower. It produces the same skin-crawling effect as watching three consecutive episodes of Law and Order SVU.
     
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  16. dtwondough

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    Haven't seen that one Don, and from the looks of it, I have no desire to add it to the queue
     
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  17. SteveM19

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    Let's see..

    I Spit on your Grave
    Kaliforna
    Angel Heart
    Midnight Cowboy
    Chinatown
    Monster's Ball
    The Accused
    Reservior Dogs
    The Shining
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    The Exorcist
    A Clockwork Orange
    American Psycho
    Trainspotting (hurl)
    Kids
    Bully

    Yep, it's the Cinema from the eighth circle of Dante's Inferno.
     
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