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[The Artisan]

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[Mobius 1]

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It's the most nerve-wracking, affecting film I've ever seen, and its bite hasn't dulled a bit over the years.

This by far.

 

[Peotical Injection]

Has anyone posted 3 Extremes? That movie is pretty fucked up. Especially the Dumplings opening.

I saw someone post Inside. That movie is really fucked up.

Martyrs is great.
I Saw the Devil.

 

[Lambtron]

Nekromantik I suppose. But Requiem for a Dream and Vengeance is Mine probably made me feel the worst.

 

[Burgess_101]

Just to throw something a bit different out there Martin Scorsese's Bringing out the Dead is some weird descent into madness. I watched it late at night and was engrossed. Absolutely fantastic performances from Nicolas Cage and John Goodman.

Another would be The World of Kanako, it went to places I really wasn't expecting. The film was alright nothing special.

Dogtooth is another good choice.

Aftermath: Genesis is a short film about a necrophile who works as a late night mortician.

Marquis an oddly put together film about the author.

R100 is hilarious to me but it has some really weird sexual stuff in it.

The Neon Demon is quite interesting too.

I have seen a lot of the stuff mentioned here, a few years ago I just spent ages going through and trying to find these strange films.

 

[Zeusy]

Begotten
A Serbian Film

 

[rashbeep]

Well, I watched it for the first time last night. A pretty bad film but wasn't nearly as gross or disturbing as some of you guys make it out to be. I was laughing most of the way through it honestly.

Pretty much

It was too absurd to take seriously or be affected by it in any way.

 

[janoDX]

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/08/the-50-most-disturbing-movies

Here's a list! A 2012 one. I hope they update it for 2017

 

[Bluemongoose]

Oldboy

 

[themaskedndi]

I don't know if it's the most disturbing film I've ever seen, but I had a pretty intense reaction to Dancer in the Dark. I have always been the kind of person that cries at movies, but I got pretty hysterical when the movie came to a close. My reaction kind of caught me off guard -- I wasn't that into the movie -- and that made the whole experience weirder.

 

[Widdle Puppy]

Of all these movies posted which would you guys say are actually genuinely good works of film?

I hear Martyrs is a good movie. Why is it so messed up?

I'm fine with disturbing if it is a good movie. Something that is just violent and disturbing for the sake of it usually is trash.

 

[Speevy]

Of all these movies posted which would you guys say are actually genuinely good works of film?

I hear Martyrs is a good movie. Why is it so messed up?

I'm fine with disturbing if it is a good movie. Something that is just violent and disturbing for the sake of it usually is trash.

Most of the time, a movie that fits into this thread could be substituted by a better film. I don't think anyone is going to make a top 100 list with more than one or two films from this thread for example.

If you just like to watch people getting flayed or whatever, well, this is your thread.

 

[Invictus]

The Dark Backward.
A truly bizarre film that features Judd Nelson growing a third arm out of his back, Bill Paxton eating shit, making love to a corpse he has stashed at a landfill, and multiple actors that make you wonder what dirt the director had on these actors. It's worth watching just for the disturbing Bill Paxton scenes.

 

[Morgoth]

Of all these movies posted which would you guys say are actually genuinely good works of film?

I hear Martyrs is a good movie. Why is it so messed up?

I'm fine with disturbing if it is a good movie. Something that is just violent and disturbing for the sake of it usually is trash.

Cannibal Holocaust is a fucking masterpiece

 

[WolfeTone]

Probably tame compared to some of the hardcore gore being posted in here, but I was highly disturbed by Mulholland Drive, to the extent that I'm slightly afraid to watch more of David Lynch's filmography. I was incredibly unsettled during several scenes in the movie, it's a feeling I've never experience during films or TV.

 

[17 Seconds]

The Day After


It's a very understated depiction of life after a nuclear war, which makes it much more disturbing than the usual Mad Max-type stuff, imo.

is this the one that they showed in the americans?

 

[Aske]

Of all these movies posted which would you guys say are actually genuinely good works of film?

I hear Martyrs is a good movie. Why is it so messed up?

I'm fine with disturbing if it is a good movie. Something that is just violent and disturbing for the sake of it usually is trash.

Actually I'd say most of the films in this thread stand up extremely well when judged by the typical metrics of film criticism. Most people aren't listing gore porn flicks like Adam Chaplin. For a movie to truly disturb a viewer, it generally needs to be somewhat cinematically competent, or it's going to be emotionally flaccid.

Martyrs is superb. I also defy anyone to watch Human Centipede: Second Sequence (or the trilogy as a collection of connected films) and try to claim it's anything but groundbreaking.


Edit: I'll also say Kill List is far superior to A Serbian Film. Despite the content, the latter wasn't strong enough to make me truly empathise with the protag in the way it wanted me to. The former is much more emotionally complex, and draws you into a relationship with the protagonist insidiously. Very grey. Far more effective.