The top ten most disturbing films

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

This differs from just horror films. I'm talking films that are really disturbing, totally hits you in the gut and shocks you, maybe throughout or for simply having a scene which will forever stay with you.

1/ Man bites dog

2/ Nil by Mouth

3/ Scum ( I think mainly british patrons would have seen this but that scene in the green house has to one of the most horrible scenes ever to be recorded in the history of cinema)

4/ Society( the final scene which just has to be seen to be believed)

5/ Romper Stomper

6/ Once Were Warriors ( a great film but very disturbing. Domestic violence in film can just hit home alot more than horror violence can)

7/ Dead Mans Shoes ( Probably only British patrons might have seen this but it is so disturbing i can't put it into words)

8/ Happiness ( without doubt the most effed up film i have ever seen)

9/ Cannibal Holocaust ( totally insane but for some reason very watchable)

10/ The War Zone ( Vile, sickening and fantastic)


For an ending of a film the most vivid for me is Boys don't Cry. Really warped stuff.

[Papewaio]

0/ Showgirls.

[Moros]

never seen any of the films you listed above, damn it!

well no film has ever really shocked me. tough there was a movie called braindead, mend to be horror but it wasn't scary at all. But just let us say I never finished the pudding I was eating while seeing it. (I always eat while I look tv, I'm eating right now really...pie...)
anyway the movie was horrible.
Reqiuem for a day: well I wasn't shocked much, my sister and mum on the other hand...
those were the most "shocking" movies I've seen not that they were very shocking.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Braindead is one of my fav all time films, made by the great Peter Jackson. Great, stupid and funny all piled together. I have never laughed at a film so much when i first saw it

You mentioned Reqiuem for a dream, i haven't seen it but i have heard alot about it. Is it worth seeing?

Also Aguirre: Wrath of God is very weird and vivid piece of filming, disturbing but not very good.

[Geoffrey S]

Requiem for a Dream, Der Untergang, Brazil, Falling Down and The Grinch.

[Dutch_guy]

GS , do you by any chance mean The boys from Brazil ?, about the escaped Nazi's trying to recreate a new Hitler ?

[Aenlic]

Once Were Warriors is a wonderful film; but you're right, the family violence is gut-wrenching. It's the point of the film, though. Fans of Star War's Jango Fett will instantly recognize the film's anti-hero as Temuera Morrison.

Some others not mentioned:

Basket Case --- A sick film; but entertaining in a sick, twisted sort of way

Mondo Cane --- The grandfather of the 70's shock schlock films. Must see.

[Moros]

You mentioned Reqiuem for a dream, i haven't seen it but i have heard alot about it. Is it worth seeing?

well I'd rate it a 77/100, not that shocking but it's not a bad movie.

[Mikeus Caesar]

*~~Spoiler alert!~~*

Pet Sematary. Nothing bad about it up until the point where the undead Gage kills the friendly old man who lives across the road. The way he was killed was quite nasty, but by an undead two year old? Yuck...

[_Martyr_]

I thought Requim for a Dream was a damn good film. It is pretty shocking though.

[Ser Clegane]

GS , do you by any chance mean The boys from Brazil ?, about the escaped Nazi's trying to recreate a new Hitler ?

Not that's also a weird movie

But I think GS really meant Brazil (the movie by Terry Gilliam)

[Moros]

*~~Spoiler alert!~~*

Pet Sematary. Nothing bad about it up until the point where the undead Gage kills the friendly old man who lives across the road. The way he was killed was quite nasty, but by an undead two year old? Yuck...

read the book never saw the movie but I can imagine it didn't look nice...
I think I'm gonna rend this movie before my vacation ends.

Didn't find Req. for a dream really shocking. But it's quite good.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

I didn't find that film that good, i prefered the book (but that seen with Gage you mentioned was a good bit in it). For me, my fav Stephen King book brought to screen was Salems Lot. The vampires in that are probably the most scary in any vampire film.

Also the ending of Don't Look Now is very disturbing as is the start when donald sutherlands daughter drowns.

[scooter_the_shooter]

All of the exorsist movies.....scared me very much. Even more so then most people because I am christian.

[Geoffrey S]

But I think GS really meant Brazil (the movie by Terry Gilliam)

That's the one. Brilliant.
Just saw the mention of Once Were Warriors. Should have put that on my list in the first place. Same for the Exorcist.

[lancelot]

Requiem for a dream is one film that can give a person a headache by watching it. Other than that I didnt think it was that bad.

[Byzantine Prince]

I've seen the movie Man bite Dog, or It happened in Your Neighbourhood as i's known in Belgium. It made me sick the first time I saw it, because it's so depicable but hillarious. You like the serial killer but it's realistic that it's painful to laugh at how funny it is. Pretty disturbing for that alone.

I'm also a big fan of the movie Se7en which is IMO one of the most disturbing movie ever. Doesn't have the twist of reality if Man bite Dog though.

[ShadesPanther]

9/ Cannibal Holocaust ( totally insane but for some reason very watchable)

Is that the one that was banned in almost every country it was shown in and the cannibals ate a man's manly bits?

[King Ragnar]

The first Exorcist none of those embarrsing sequels. Also one moment which was a bit disturbing, in Full Metal Jacket where sergant piles kills himself, i just didnt like the stare he had and the things he was saying.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

I love the Exorcist, the first one is just great imo. Its the little things such as when she starts to get possessed that give me the shivers, even the spider sequence freaked me out when i first saw it.

Cannibal holocaust did have the natives hack off a blokes bits, not sure if they ate them. The reason why it was banned was due mainly to the killing of animals in thefilm such as a sea turtle which has its head hacked off then body tore apart, a jungle rat that is slowly stabbed and a pig that is dispatched with a rifle. Quite a nutcase of a film by all accounts

The dinner table scene in Texas Chainsaw is disturbing just for the womans screams and the look of her eyes and how she looks ready to explode with madness

[GoreBag]

I've not yet seen Man Bites Dog, but it's been recommended to me more than once. I didn't think Romper Stomper was that disturbing...or disturbing at all, actually.

Cannibal Holocaust..was that the one where a man says "...and they tied to him a stake and they...ate his genitals."? I don't quite remember.

I also haven't had the chance to watch Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer just yet either, but it's basically a must. It's the only film to receive a rating of X in the US that wasn't pornography.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

[Hurin_Rules]

I'd have to go with Man bites Dog too.

[Paul Peru]

I knew I couldn't see Happiness.
Romper Stomper was nasty, but it didn't affect me much.
(I was quite drunk)
Once were warriors was not a feelgood-flick.

The most disturbing film I've seen lately was Kill Bill Vol 2.
It totally made me ... uneasy.
And made me think.
(Not in a way Tarantino had in anyway intended or foreseen, he's just a dumb brat (mentally))
I'm wiser, but still bruised.

[The Stranger]

hmmm, City of God was awesome but really scary.

[edyzmedieval]

I'd have to go with The Ring 2.

Scared the pants off me

[Azi Tohak]

Reqium for a Dream. Mullholland Drive.

That drug movie from a few years ago with a bunch of related but not tangling stories... I can't remember what it was called.

Azi

[Crazed Rabbit]

1) Sin City
2) Titus

Crazed Rabbit

[Beirut]

Eraserhead.

The Exorcist.

Scum was excellent. It certainly had aftereffects.

Requiem For A Dream was great, but not disturbing.

I might order the fantasy flick Magical Flowers:The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb. It's supposed to be mind wrenching. Live action, clay animation, digital animation, all sorts of things thrown together. The movie reviewer said he was glad this guy was making movies because he'd probably be a serial killer otherwise.

[Byzantine Prince]

I once watched this 3 hour documentery about the aftermath of the holocaust. All the German officers were made to clean up the mess, and it is some of the most despicable things I have ever seen. Endless bodies were being dragged through the street and through the mud to reach the mass graves. All of the so skinny and decomposed you could see some of their bones and entistines. Talk about sick!

You hear the numbers, but it's only when you see the actual effects for yourself that you realize what inhumanity is.

Now that I think about it, it might be the most disturbing thing I've ever seen.

[Quietus]

Fictional films:

Deer Hunter. The scenes with Christopher Walken and the roulette games are disturbing to watch.

Hannibal. Anthony Hopkins and Ray Liotta at the dinner table was sick.

Ichi the Killer. I've only seen parts, but it's a violent movie.