What is the most disturbing Movie you've ever seen?

There are many out there, which one takes the cake?

Permalink Reply by ILoveYouHeCried on April 4, 2008 at 9:03pm: Again, not shocked. But I am not all the way through it yet. Hopefully this weekend. Do you think I am just a sick individual? ;); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by joeoftexas on April 4, 2008 at 9:39pm: Sick for watching ?

Not necessarily... Pasolini is an important Italian filmmaker.
Here's a good essay about the film Salo, written by John Powers for The Criterion Collection:

http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=17&eid=40&secti...

BTW - Which version of the film are you screening ? :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal%C3%B2_o_le_120_giornate_di_Sodoma#...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by ILoveYouHeCried on April 4, 2008 at 10:40pm: I am watching the Criterion Collection one.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Microwaved on May 15, 2008 at 7:52pm: You know I don't! I'm jealous that you even have it!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by photo heathen on April 4, 2008 at 6:26pm: Deliverance. Sure, not an overly disturbing movie, but context is important. Let's just say that certain college experimentation + watching creepy hillbillies ≠ good times.

Context is equally important when considering that an 9-year-old should not be watching a poor quality bootleg copy of Freaks that his sister's boyfriend brought over one night while the parents were out to dinner. Freakin' freaks freaked me out, man!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Spindaddydad on May 15, 2008 at 8:56pm: Freakin' freaks freaked me out, man!
I agree. I still have bad dreams thinking about The Human Torso crawling in the mud with that knife in his teeth. *shivers*; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mort in Detroit on April 4, 2008 at 6:48pm: Dans ma peau, or In My Skin. It's about a woman who becomes fascinated with self-mutilation. It's very graphic, very real and even shows her eating interior bits of herself. If I'd known, I probably wouldn't have seen it. It's very well done, but it'll make your skin crawl so much it aches.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Aces on April 4, 2008 at 6:49pm: Documentaries and true stories are the most disturbing to me. Two of the most horrifying films I've ever seen are documentaries about how our food animals are "processed".
1. Our Daily Bread. The animal treatment was so inhumane that I had to stop watching it.
2. Meat - I don't think this is on DVD but the description of it is Here ib INDB. It follows cattle into a slaughterhouse and through the process to the little package of meat in the store.

I have a list of films from Netflix I found disturbing here - Disturbing, yes - But I Like It When I say I liked these I don't mean I like what happened but I liked that they were available for us to see. Some on the list are based on true stories. Irreversible and Baxter, from the list, which are fiction are probably the most disturbing I've seen. Soldier's Girl and Jasper Texas are true stories and films I will never get out of my head. Another one that isn't on the list that I found upsetting is Cache.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by joeoftexas on April 4, 2008 at 7:02pm: You're so right.
Documentaries can be quite disturbing... and often. downright horrifying !

Alain Resnais' Night and Fog (1955) & the docu footage during the opening sequence of his masterpiece Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) disturb me to this very day -- many years after seeing them for the very first time.

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Night_and_Fog/60028528?trkid=222336&am...

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Hiroshima_Mon_Amour/60028873?trkid=222...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Aces on April 4, 2008 at 9:34pm: I saw it on TV - probably the Independent Channel. I saw it some time ago but it was on about a month ago and I couldn't watch it. It's horrible what happens to those animals.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Evil Herbivore on April 4, 2008 at 6:52pm: Funny Games, by Haneke (both versions) about truly psychopathic "yuppies" who torture & torment a family, "for fun" - it also messes w/ you and the 4th wall...
and
Clean, Shaven by Lodge Kerrigan truly horrific film about mental illness w/ Peter Greene; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jo17ie on April 4, 2008 at 7:00pm: "Jacob's Ladder". It's not that disturbing for others, but I saw it young, and I had dreams for a week that I was stuck in a glass box and didn't have a face.; ▶ Reply to This