Most Disturbing Movie You've Ever Seen

I've got a bunch of 'disturbing' movies I've watched and even more on my list to somehow get hold of.

Seen:
Mysterious Skin - honestly, so, so, so good. Probably one of my absolute favorite movies made after 2000. It's so realistic and just such a powerful movie and gahhh it's amazing.
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things - very much along the same lines as Mysterious Skin, it's about a little boy and his drug-addicted, prostitute mother and her johns/boyfriends/family/etc. that abuse him. I like Mysterious Skin more, but this one was still really well done.
Requiem For A Dream - I only saw the first hour before I lost internet while I was streaming, but what I saw of it... I loved. It's weird, obviously, and completely blindsiding at times, but it's still really amazing and an awesome presentation of drug addiction.
American Psycho - I honestly didn't like this as much as I thought I would. It was a lot less disturbing than I was expecting, and everything seemed very flat the whole way through. The only part that really made me cringe was when the ATM told him to feed it a stray cat, and that's because I fucking love kittens.
A Clockwork Orange - OH MY GOD. Words cannot describe my love for this movie ever. I actually wasn't freaked out or anything by it, even during the rape scene. I just found it extremely well-done, with amazing acting the whole way through. So awesome.
Karla - honestly, there were some parts in this that I laughed. It's a serial killer movie about a Canadian couple who raped and killed three teenage girls [including the woman's little sister]. Misha Collins is the guy, and there were some parts where I honestly burst out laughing at totally inappropriate times because half of it was really, really lame. Still alright though, I like it.

Going to see:
2:37.
Requiem For A Dream [in full, haha].
Suicide Club.
Ken Park [I found it on IMDB, from what I can gather it's about a group of gay skater kids who fall into drugs and eventual suicide. I think.]
Irreversible.
I Spit On Your Grave.
Last House On The Left.
Salo/120 Days of Sodom.
Murder-Set-Pieces.

And like a shitload more.

A Clockwork Orange.

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'Nuff said.

Jonne Aaron.:

American Psycho - I honestly didn't like this as much as I thought I would. It was a lot less disturbing than I was expecting, and everything seemed very flat the whole way through. The only part that really made me cringe was when the ATM told him to feed it a stray cat, and that's because I fucking love kittens.

The book the film's based on has scenes a few shades darker then the ones shown on screen, for sure, including one involving curious uses of a starving rat and a block of cheese...but if you didn't like the style of it, you probably wouldn't enjoy the book [Those artist reviews he does? Entire chapters.]

Also going to save some people 90 minutes of their life while surprising absolutely no-one by the statement that Human Centipede: Full Sequence is as farcical as the trailer makes it to be. And how!

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^It makes me think that films aiming to be disturbing are going themselves a disservice through the use of excess. Someone said that the modern film audience are 'violent prudes'; lots of murder and violence is the staple of any family-fun action film nowadays, so just violence or murder rarely cuts it, unless you do something entirely out of the box with it. Which is perhaps why a lot of the films more commonly frequenting this list involve lots of rape/sexual depravity; something yet to reach the indifference of the casual watcher.

The more you see of something disturbing in a film, the less it affects you, and the less it shocks you. An example that comes to mind is Audition, which has a single scene of torture in it. Eli Roth and Rob Zombie said they found the scene 'hard to watch'. That is, the makers of the Hostel films, House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, need I go on...were perturbed by a tiny Japanese woman with a handful of acupuncture needles. Horror Hollywood could stand to profit from taking more from Asian horror films then their premises, for sure.

Sheepy:

The book the film's based on has scenes a few shades darker then the ones shown on screen, for sure, including one involving curious uses of a starving rat and a block of cheese...but if you didn't like the style of it, you probably wouldn't enjoy the book [Those artist reviews he does? Entire chapters.]

I've yet to read the book, I do aim to get my hands on it eventually [it's restricted to sales/hires to only those over 18 here]. I'm the sort of person who'd still read it just to see how far I could get before it got too boring or too violent, depending. I didn't midn the darkness of it, I just felt that the film itself - maybe it was the way they shot it, maybe it was just the way it dragged, in parts, to me - was a bit flat and much less horrific and awful than I expected. I was expecting something a lot more than what it was, was all.

What I enjoy reading and what I enjoy watching are kind of different, anyway. I can quite happily read Humbert in Nabokov's Lolita going on for the first quarter or so of the book about his first wife, before anything even begins. I dunno.

And, to add to the list so this isn't spam, the 1971 remake of Nosferatu gave me shivers. It isn't gory or full of sex and violence or anything, it's just that some of the shots of Klaus Kinski in the old-school Orlok-style Dracula getup made me want to sleep with the light on, just because of how it was filmed.

Human Centipede.

Edit: Oh hey I have commented in here already. 2012 is still disturbing though. Still don't ever intend on finishing it.

Twilight.

The last half an hour of The Human Centipede 2... Oh my god.

Lauri Ylonen:

Twilight.

lmao

ditto on the human centipede...just ew

I genuinely don't understand the disgust of movies like Human Centipede and A Serbian Film. Like, I can understand how they're supposed to be disturbing, but to me movies like that just try too hard and then I can't find them disturbing or disgusting even. It's not like I go "aw yay" or anything, but the charm sort of disappears when they try too hard. I get the feeling like the people behind them had a meeting where they went "ok, for next time, everyone bring a list of what you think would be most disturbing and then we'll choose a few ideas" but in the end they just decided "what the heck, we'll use all your ideas!"

To me it sort of ruins it. And for the record I've seen the second Human Centipede too. I just found it silly.

Grave Encounters was to me very disturbing.
So was Paranormal Activity.
I still get scared sometimes from those two.

House of 1000 Corpses. My friend made me watch it at her house for Halloween, and it scared me to death. My friend who loves scary movies watched it and it made her sick to her stomach. It gave me nightmares

Bad Lieutenant.

Quentin Tarantino was right, Harvey Keitel did go just a bit too far...

You guys talking about how disturbing Human Centipede is should watch the 2 xD

Teeth

The Human Centipede
Twilight (ALL OF THEM)

Confessions (kokuhaku) - It's a japanese movie and it's really good! It's not disturbing in a gory kind of way, but psychologically. It's about a woman who gives her students HIV tainted milk to punish them for the death of her daughter.

"I Spit On Your Grave" {the remake version}

I haven't seen the original, but.. it made me cringe for the whole last half of the film.

The most disturbing movie I've seen would have to be the first Final Destination. I was about 7 when I first saw it with my grandfather, and that movie just screwed with my mind.

Even though now I'm interested in that kind of genre, I'd never touch the Final Destination series. Maybe someday, but not any time soon.

The unrated version of the Last House on the Left (2009) disturbed me greatly. If a movie has a rape scene in it, I won't watch it because I'm scarred by that graphic scene and ugh, I just can't do it.