Most disturbing movies you've ever seen

[AtGiza]

Antichrist. The beautiful Charlotte Gainsbourg clips off her clit with scissors.

[begoniabol]

Earthlings - This documentary made me depressed for a couple of days. I even had to pause it to give myself a break. No movie has ever done that to me.
Night and fog - The fact that it's all true is just horrible.
Jesus Camp - Wtf, scary to see kids so 'brainwashed'.
Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple - Just pretty sick

[ayall]

requiem for a dream


that movie left in horrors... amazing score - masterpiece to the movie.

@$$-2-@$$

[Kopenhaver]

Eastern Promises. I can't remember the last time a single scene made me squirm so much. The "naked knife fight in a bathhouse" scene in this film literally made my balls retract. The rest of the film is excellent, and not so disturbing.

Nevertheless I think it's one of the best fight scenes I've ever seen. Gritty as fuck, as a film like 'Eastern Promises' should be.

I love the [spoiler]knife in the eye[/spoiler] part purely because it was so out of no where. You didn't expect it because you thought there would be no way they could do that out in the open like that. Great stuff.

[astrakhan]

The most difficult scene I have ever had to watch is this one scene that comes about 2/3 of the way into the comedy She's Out Of My League, involving two men, a bathroom, hair removal, and a classic through-the-legs shot...

[Prismatic]

Antichrist. The beautiful Charlotte Gainsbourg clips off her clit with scissors.

The Isle involves an even worse version of this act involving fishhooks.

[miss jesus]

1. Threads - Saw this when I was 7 or something, my school was still having nuclear strike drills. Grave of the Fireflies is a laugh riot compared to this movie.
2. Slither - This movie felt like a huge allegory for violence against women, and specifically domestic violence and rape. I can't even describe how disgusted I was by it.
3. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - a really heartless film. I don't know how else to describe it. Most films with killers at least go out of their way to say--through music etc--that violence is horrible and then make you feel better at the end of the movie. This one does none of that, and the performances are really convincing. Thanks again, Rooker.
4. Akira - I still can't watch the ending. It's too horrible.

There are a bunch of films that are disturbing on another level, that are more realistic. I can't say exactly what the directors intended for you to feel and think about these movies, but they disturb me even though I really enjoy them: Naked, A Clockwork Orange, Antichrist, Straw Dogs, Bad Lieutenant.

[TheDenizen]

Threads, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Naked, A Clockwork Orange, Straw Dogs, Bad Lieutenant.

All excellent films and all highly disturbing (for different reasons). Naked is actually one of my top 5 fave films ever, but it's very difficult to watch.

I think Henry: POASK is so effective because the director shoots Rooker committing murder with the same cold detachment as he uses to shoot Rooker eating breakfast....death and dismemberment as a routine part of your day. Plus he also makes the choice to have a lot of the violence take place offscreen...lingering shots of the aftermath (still, bloody corpses lying half submerged) allow your brain to fill in much more gory details of the crime than if they had been graphically shown.

[Prismatic]

Naked is actually one of my top 5 fave films ever, but it's very difficult to watch.

I wouldn't call Naked disturbing; but yeah, it can be difficult to watch if you have ADD, are dimwitted, or can't quite catch the Cockney-ese banter. The violent sexuality was much too brief and detached to make this a film to fit into the category of "most disturbing". And there is so much going on this film as well. I found this movie hard to rate precisely because it is pretty unique. The exchanges with the secuity guard are some of the best cinema dialogue out there. The ending was perfectly fitting, I thought. He realizes with clarity and finality that this IS all a joke; but not a very good one. Which is the truth.

86/100

[TheDenizen]

There's more Mancunian and Scottish accents than Cockey in Naked, but I take your meaning I personally find Naked difficult to watch not because I find it disturbing, but because I find it so bleak.

The sexual violence is very brief, but it is also pretty violent. Easily disturbing for many viewers. And yes, the ending was perfect.