Disturbing films...

ozpass

What films that you have seen evoked an emotional response beyond the ordinary?

Leaning toward the dark side, I'm not talking about films that excited you, or sent you on your way with a 'feel good factor'. I'm talking about the strong stuff: a film that makes you almost uneasy- a 'disturbing film'.

My nominations in this category are: "Requiem for a Dream" and the classic "Blue Velvet".

What are yours?:eek:

Mr E

Event Horizon, and Ring (Japanese Version).....

- Dave.

TwoShedsJackson

Funny Games.

Asuka

I just saw Ring last night - fucking excellent movie. Ive heard Requiem for a Dream is quite disturbing. To tell the truth though, I dont think ive been disturbed by a film since I watched 'The Last Unicorn' when I was 4 - the red bull scared me shitless (probably still would if i saw it again). Ive probably been desensitised by the internet.

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DrizztIE

Originally posted by Asuka
Requiem for a Dream is quite disturbing.

...really done my head in... and after that I had to have a smoke...

Mr. Fancypants

Audition
Man Bites Dog
Bowling For Columbine



Audition has the nastiest scene i have ever seen in a movie.
Man Bites Dog lures you in and smacks you hard near the end.
Bowling For Columbine, maybe because i only saw it last night, but it brought a lot of emotions to the surface.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Ring *really* freaked me out.. *shudder*

koneko

Ichi The Killer.

Sick! But good.

Lemming

Event Horizon.

it's alll in the mind......

and the ending of the last "Planet of the Apes" film (where the apes go to earth).

The little kid voice at the end with the black screen


that haunts me every time I recollect it.

davej

I'd agree with "man bites dog".

Also "Crumb" is pretty f*cked up.
As is "Bad boy bubby".

"Henry - Portrait of a serial killer" is very grim and leaves a pretty bad taste in your mouth.

"The idiots" is quite off putting. In fact most things by Lars von trier are disturbing. "Breaking the waves" and "Dancer in the Dark".

davej

festivala

Eraserhead


..brrrr...

Bard

Originally posted by ozpass
What films that you have seen evoked an emotional response beyond the ordinary?

Man Bites Dog
- made me literally vomit in disgust...

Jaws
- terrified me enough that I didn't sleep for 3 or 4 days... mind you, I was only 4 or 5 years old at the time...

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by davej
"The idiots" is quite off putting. In fact most things by Lars von trier are disturbing. "Breaking the waves" and "Dancer in the Dark".

"The Kingdom" is also pretty insane - think of crossing ER with the Shining - a ghostly hospital run from the deeps by a couple of kids with down syndrome.

Mutz

- 8mm
- Apt pupil
- Requim for a Dream


probably a few more to come.... good thread btw

DiscoStu

Angel Heart, christ that is one seriously messed up film.

Gordon

No full fims except for Jaws I guess as it also scared me sitless for years. For some wierd reason we would watch it every week just before we went swimming in the sea. Probably watched it every week for 5 years.

The scene that has disturbed me the most is the brain scene from silence of the Lambs 2. Crap film but that scene really got to me for quite a while. *shudder*

MarVeL

3 films leapt to mind here. The Ring was a particularily disturbing film. I'd have to admit to sleeping very uneasily after that.

The other 2 are the original version of The Fly (in particular the end : "Help me! Help me!" <shudder>) and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. That boat scene was nasty. Grand when I was a kid but not so nice as an adult for some reason.

ykt0di9url7bc3

The crying game ****ing disturbed meh!

fringe 80's vampire flicks are not good to be watched when you are 12 years old!

Ring and to a lesser extent Ring 2

Videodrome was the first david croeneburg??? film i saw and i was a bit shook when thinking back over it

TinCool

Films that gave me the willies are as follows:

1. Event Horizon
I went to see this film knowing absolutely nothing about it. Man, scared the bejaysus out of me.

2. Scanners
Saw this when I was about 12 or so. Very disturbing film

3. Hellraiser,
Again, I was young when I first saw it. Gross movie even by todays standards.

3. The Dead Zone
Good movie, Christopher Walken was class. Again, saw this when I was younger. The scene where the guy commits suicide by head butting a scisors. Not very pleasant.

4. The Shining
I saw this when I was about 22. It's a really disturbing movie.

There are others, but these are the ones that spring to mind.

Repli

Oliver Stone's first movie, Seizure (scared the crap out of me 1st time i watched it)
Jacob's Ladder was also disturbing at times

chopster

One film that always sticks in my mind in this category is The Cook , The Thief and Her Lover ( or something like that ...... ) Michael Gambon was sensational as the evil b****** !

The dinner scene was the best.............

Mr E

Originally posted by TinCool
2. Scanners
Saw this when I was about 12 or so. Very disturbing film

The exploding head freaked me out... totally unexpected when I saw it first! I think it was on late one night on Channel 4 (when C4 was 'cool'!)

- Dave.

The_Scary_Man

Naked - Mike Leigh, David Thewlis is excellent as Johnny, I saw this a few years ago and have been having a hard time trying to get a hold of a copy of it on video.

Naked Lunch - David Cronenburg, Jesus those phucked up typewriters eeeuuuwww!!

I know I have more but I just can't think of them now

Shinji

Event Horizon and Ring - for obvious, conventional reasons.

I watched The Omen when I was about 10 or so and it scared the bejesus out of me. The joys of a catholic upbringing

In terms of films I just found disturbing, rather than frightening as such... 8mm, Grave of the Fireflies and Battle Royale are up there. BR less so - it's a lot more fundamentally entertaining than the other two and hence has less impact on the "disturbing" front, but it's still up there in a lot of ways. I have a couple of friends who were VERY freaked out by it.

johnnynolegs

watched ring last nite jesus what a film

Beruthiel

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
horrible!

Wook

'once were warriors'
'Jesus christ superstar'

yellum

Ring was bland

Eraserhead , Requiem for a Dream, Ichi the Killer, Dancer in the Dark almost made me cry , Man Bites dog is good too

I have most of these on dvd, I also have Audition and must get round to seeing it.

plastic membrane

Anything by David Lynch. Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive especially. Its just so menacing.

puntosporting

Sleepy hollow made me feel weird the other night on tv!
Also as a kid jaws freaked me a little,full metal jacket springs to mind too!

Kalina

"Girl, Interrupted" definitely had an effect on me. I enjoyed it but found parts of it difficult to watch.

lamda

Dont Look Now - god that little woman in the red coat......
The Shining - those twins are particularly awful.. the splice of them in the hall chopped up... nice..
Full Metal Jacket - still freaks me out every time
The Birds - so scared of crows now
2001 A Space Odyssey - the end messed with my head to a serious extent
A Clockwork Orange

mike65

Nothing I have watched ever gave me the willies, but one did cause me to stop the tape and take 5 mins then press play. And I still
dont know why it had the effect it did.

Being a Nic Roeg film might explain it, the film was Insignificance
and the moment in question was when Senator McCarthy hit Marilyn Monroe in the stomach out of the blue. If this sounds strange you're right, you dont know what the film, look it up. I felt it myself, it was a shocking moment.

Mike.

fisty

the cell with jennifer lopez made me feel wierd...
not really scared but more anxious and just wierd.

Nevyn

" The day they gave children away "

set in the deppression in america, The eldest child of 7 has to orgainse the splitting up of his family and ask neighbours and distant relatives to take hims brothers and sisters, for the mother has died and the father went way to find work and never came back.

As the eldest of five it ****ing terrifed me that if anything was to happen to my parents before I was 20 we could all be split up.
Any film that protrays a real life fear will haunt you .

ironape

saw predator when I was a young lad (12?) and that scared the bejeesus out of me. The bit at the end when he takes his mask off....argh. Also the tension in terminator at the end when arnie has all his skin burnt off and he's chasing them down that corridor, excellent.

(your all probably gonna moan about this one) Signs. I thought it was brilliant. Very creepy, the mood was brilliant So tense. As with great horrors you see very little of the bad guy/ghost/alien till the end.

Also agree with event horizon (popular one this one). scareee

Ape

yellum

Originally posted by Thaed
" The day they gave children away "

set in the deppression in america, The eldest child of 7 has to orgainse the splitting up of his family and ask neighbours and distant relatives to take hims brothers and sisters, for the mother has died and the father went way to find work and never came back.

I remember watching some documentary before where they were studying tears and they used this film to make people cry. Holy crap but did it work.

RasTa

ichi the killer is ment to be very disturbing
havent seen it myself
gummo was disturbing

theciscokid

requiem for a dream, ring 1+2 , event horizon and audition

haven't seen it but heard donnie darko was pretty gruesome

p.s. i nearly forgot hee hee MAN BITES DOG :eek:

edit :

beware it's up there with the eraserhead illegals in that shop off talbot street, wes craven's debut film

"LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT" makes all the above look like a walk in the park , scary demented ****

jaggeh

The film that most freaked me out had to be Event horizon, i went to see that in the cinema and walking home through a pitch black field was not the right thing to do.

other than that any movie with jennifer lopez disturbs me as i cant figure out why they still let her try to act.

johnnynolegs

yeah signs actually freaked me out a little aswell

thegills

A Clockwork Orange
City of Lost Children
Midnight Cowboy
Once were warriors
Trainspotting

All for different reasons. Good thread as it has given me a new list of films to see.

I take it that Rings is not available in Chartbusters.

Mr E

I saw Ring about 3 months ago, and I got it from Chartbusters....

- Dave.

tman

Originally posted by thegills
A Clockwork Orange
City of Lost Children
Midnight Cowboy
Once were warriors
Trainspotting

All for different reasons. Good thread as it has given me a new list of films to see.

I take it that Rings is not available in Chartbusters.

once were warriors was pretty disturbing alright.
i think chopper was too, damn memory's not working properly tho

neiko

I thought Lost Highway by David Lynch did it for me.

Bob the Unlucky Octopus

Clockwork Orange
Platoon (was 11 when I first saw this)
La Vie Revee des Anges(dream life of angels)
Schindler's List
The Rat Catcher
Dasvidania Ruska

Illkillya

I found Company of Wolves very disturbing when I was about 7.... watched part of it again recently and I can see why

thedrowner

the general's daughter really disturbed me, some of the scenes in that were horrible

dancer in the dark made me cry like a baby

and yeah, that scene in silence of the lambs 2 horrifies me, even though ill still watch it.

sutty

Cant beleave anyone has said it (from what I have read)

Stephen Kings "IT"


Think I was about 5 or 6 when I first seen it... NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!

azezil

I found it kinda amusing reading down through the thread when people were saying Event horizon n so forth, those films have no effect on me at all... the one film that did get to me was (don't laugh) The Others!

it just reawoke in me some childhood fears which i'd rather not have remebered

eddhorse

requiem for a dream
ring 1+2
event horizon
8mm

these films are just off the scale f**ked up , and now that i think about it "IT" although i havent seen it for years was warped.
and i ask myself why do i have all these films (apart from "IT") on either vhs or dvd , does this make me weird?:eek: