Disturbing Films

[Dionysus]

Europa! Europa!
Diary of Anne Franke
Single White Female

[lilsnakeyk]

Stephen King's It. Just the thought of that movie makes me want to curl up into the fetal position.

[Jaggergirl]

Ugh, Vanilla Sky was disturbing in that it left me feeling really pissed off and cheated. Did the people who made the trailers even see the movie? Sheesh.

Overall, it's almost always the rape scenes that get to me. It could be a great movie otherwise but that just ruins it.

Goodfellas was a well done movie but left me feeling... dirty. Like I should go out and do volunteer work at my church.

American History X was tough, but a great movie overall.

[Angelic]

Movies I will never see again:
Event Horizon

This movie scared the crap out of me and I had nightmares for a week!

[pbpck]

Originally posted by DWAlphaGam


I think that A Clockwork Orange ranks up there with the most disturbing movies I've ever seen, although I really like that movie, too. Kulbrick was a strange guy.

I never saw the movie, but I read the book randomly my freshman year of high shool and found it fascinating, but yes, truly disturbing. I almost don't want to see the movie for fear of how someone else's nightmare of that book manifests visually.

But then again, isn't it the most unsettling propositions that artists set forth that cause us to actually think and question the ordinary, meriting true artistic value?

I have found that there are two types of "disiturbing movies"-those that motivate you and those that leave you feeling incredibly empty and just plain scarred.

8mm was definitely one that left me just plain scarred. And Cory, I should warn you that Virgin Suicides may leave you with the latter emotion as well. But do see it!

And anything with violence against animals seems to leave me livid. I saw a Spanish film that has now been put out on video with subtitles called Amores Perros which involved a lot of dog fighting set in poverty stricken Mexico and I couldn't stomach certain scenes. You know, basically anything where some innocent animal dies is just awful.

[Tom Earp]

Cannot remember the name of it but starred Burt Renolyds and Ned Betty and the dueling banjos!

My ex wife had to get up and leave and I was damn near behind her!

What what was that movie!

Of course Top Gun was a great up movie until Goose gets killed! I still cry everytime I see that part!

OOPs, "Deliverence"! God did I hate that show!

[justamom]

Cannot remember the name of it but starred Burt Renolyds and Ned Betty and the dueling banjos!
Tom, that was "Deliverance", talk about making an impression!

[bcdphie]

As much as I enjoy Stanley Kubrick's movies I also find them incredibly disturbing, after I saw AI and Eyes Wide Shut in the theatre I felt very strange coming out of it - I can't really describe the feeling - the same goes for watching A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket to name a few.

[lionlove]

Eyes Wide Shut with Tom and Nicole. I love Tom Cruise and I think Nicole Kidman is a great actress too but that movie was so unerotic, devoid of emotion and just generally painful to watch.

There's a movie that I had to watch for a government class that my friends and I still joke about. I don't remember the name but it's about a midget and his toy drum. The midget joins the circus and falls in love with another midget and they get married. The movie was supposed to have something to do with Hitler's control over Eastern Europe but the message was overshadowed by these circus midgets having sex.

[ROWDYsister]

I've been pretty desensitized to violence in movies lately but recently watched "American History X" and that was a stunner. A bunch of us were watching it at my apt. and I got into an argument with one of the guys right smack in the middle of the movie...over what, I don't remember, but the movie was definitely thought-provoking.

I tried to watch "Clockwork Orange" but my friend warned me it was graphic...I stopped it right before the first rape scene.

[PiKA2001]

I would have to say Pink Flamingos is the most disturbing movie ever.

[Enna05]

Was the movie that you're talking about The Tin Drum?

A bit of history... It's actually a highly influential German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. The director actually first gained notoriety as an innovator of the "New German Cinema." He severely criticized German society with his earlier films, but by the time he made The Tin Drum, his movies lost most of the radical edge... instead, this film was embraced by the European Art Cinema and eventually the world. However, the film was still a biting social satire of Nazism.

The movie's plot concerns a young boy who refuses to grow up. It's really disturbing... his mother has a tendency to eat whole fish, a fisherman uses a horse's head as bait for eels, Oskar (who looks like an 3 year old) has sex with much older looking women...

We watched it in one of my film classes... imagine 350 19 year olds as the audience. Scary, scary stuff. But I have to say, no one fell asleep in that class!

I also though the Poseidon Adventure was really disturbing when I was younger. I was expecting a light comedy... not the deathfest that it was!

~Enna

(edited for spelling)

[PM_Mama00]

The Shining.... ugh can't even thinka bout that now!

Clockwork Orange... saw it in 8th grade and I remember thinking WTF?

I wana see Kids so bad!

American History X is disturbing, but I thought it was a great movie and it taught me alot about the world outside of what I know. We had to watch it for my Comm class and then write a paper. That was one of the hardest and best papers I wrote.

[PhiSigSandy]

Requiem for a Dream is pretty disturbing, Donnie Darko is a really good movie has anyone seen it? but it does leave u feeling funny,
also Mulholland Drive WTF????
The Shinning, and It ugh! (hate clowns)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre( the original not the stupid new one) pretty disturbing

[PiKA2001]

Donnie Darko is an awesome movie!!!! mulholland drive is also a great film( all lynch films are superb)