Most disturbing films you have seen

[Brightonfan1983]

"Funny Games" is an amazing film - horrible to watch and there is ZERO violence on screen. By the fella who made "The Piano Teacher" which is also a grippingly disturbing film.

I saw "Zombie Flesh Eaters" when I was about 11 - bloody horrible, put me off slasher films for life.

 

[Easy 10]

EXCELLENT call Easy on 'Night of the Demon' I saw it when I was quite young and it's the only film ever to give me nightmares. I was trying to find out about it only the other day but I couldn't remember the title. (I'm not sure if I imagined it or not as it was so long ago when I saw it)

I'm kind of glad its not just me who has been damaged by this film then. I havn't seen it since I was a kid - perhaps they know its just too disturbing. Being in black and white seemed to make it all the more eery as well.

 

[graz126]

strange days,
shallow grave,
and hannibal

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

gotta say cold mountain, some of it is just horrible

 

[The Orange Seagull]

ANIMAL FARM !!

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I was forced to watch this awful film once when In was 20 and particularly hated it.

 

[Blackadder]

Agree about "Shindlers List" and "a short film about killing".


I found a film about the problems in Bosnia/Serbia called Savior, very disturbing.

It starred Dennis Quaid and was made in 1998.

It showed the attrocities of war made by both Serbs and Muslims.

There was a scene towards the end where a bus load of serbs were executed by muslims. A young boy had his head smashed in by a hammer wielding strongman. Not nice!!

 

[hooker]

Irreversable was sickening

saw that film 2 harsh. but filmed well

 

[spidey]

Schindlers list - emotional roller coaster

Salems Lot, scared the shit out of me when the vampire jumped through the window (I was 12)

Agree Michael Berryman was well scary in 'The hills have eyes'

 

[Beach Hut]

Full Metal Jacket to me is one of the most disturbing films I have ever seen - very full on

 

[poke]

i can't remember what the film is called but it was about people in cars who were having a race and they got points for knocking people over.
and the whole film was just them killing people which was weird

 

[spidey]

Death Race 2000

 

[Strike]

Hannibal and Polterguist films. I watched a bit of Poltergeist 2, I have seen Poltergeist 3 that is the most disturbing film for me.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

The Shining always shits me up, have a fear of seventies carpets and long hotel corridors even now. But think that Mel Gibson's Passion of Christ is the most disturbing. The 20 minute meat hooks ripping-out flesh scene really blew me away.

Plus thinking about it, the scene near the beginning of the first RoboCop when the cop is gradually blown to bits, limb by limb while the baddies laugh and jeer at him. Nasty.

 

[timseagull]

There is a vicous rape scene in Baise Moi which is quite disturbing,

and then it turns into Thelma and Lousie with guns

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

The Hellraiser films. What the f***.

I have in my possession an excellent replica of the Lament Configuration Puzzle Box that was used in the 'Hellraiser' films. It looks great, but I haven't managed to get it to open the gates of Hell yet.

One of the most disturbing films I ever saw was a surreal short Spanish film from 1972 called 'La Cabina'.

The story was about a man who finds a telephone booth with its door slightly ajar. He walks in to make a call, but the phone is out of order. When he walked into the booth the door closed behind him, and he finds that he can't get back out of it when he tries.

He does his best to escape and a crowd of people builds up to watch his efforts. Just when it looks like a fireman with an axe is going to smash the glass and let him out, a truck from the phone company turns up. They use a small crane to lift the phone booth onto the back of the truck with the man still inside it, and drive off.

As they travel through the streets they stop at some traffic lights and the guy in the phone booth sees another truck with another phone booth on it pull up alongside. Inside it is another trapped guy.

The truck goes on a lengthy journey which ends up in a big underground cave where there are loads of rows of phone booths full of dead people. Some look to have strangled themselves with the phone cords.

The film ends with the phone company guys putting another phone booth in place of the one they have removed. They leave the door slightly ajar......

I only saw this film once, many years ago, but I can still remember it very clearly. It starts off like a comedy, but gets more and more disturbing as it goes on.

Weird as f***.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Herbie

 

[moggy]

braindamage

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

'Watership Down' - not at all the ickle bitty fluffy bunny movie I was expecting when I got it out of blockbusters for me kids, then aged two and four. Nooooooooo... (dives in slow motion to press the eject button on the VCR about twenty minutes in). Makes 'Kill Bill' look like a fluffy bunny movie...

 

[m20gull]

"City of God" - the scene where a member of the gang is ordered to shoot a child quite sickening.

Defintiely - I'm still troubled by that scene. Rest of the film is disappointing, apart from the bananas.