Favorite "Disturbing" Films?- Page 2

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 2:36pm

I don't consider Le Chien Andalou that disturbing because Bunuel is using surrealism for effect. The things that disturb me the most are those that are, or could be true life.

[chris d]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 3:08pm

SherryBaby, which I just saw last week.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 3:32pm

Marathon Man.


...dear god as if I already wasn't terrified of the dentist!

[tazber]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 3:34pm

Oh, is IN A GLASS CAGE the one where the guy is in an iron lung and his caretaker tries to recreate his crimes?

That was a messed up movie.

Also - an early film by Haneke called Benny's Video.

Updated On: 2/16/08 at 03:34 PM

Posted: 2/16/08 at 3:34pm

"Trainspotting" is disturbing, but still funny.


"Shallow Grave" Ugh.

[chris d]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 3:46pm

speaking of early films, I found Francois Ozon's Regarde La Mer pretty disturbing. to me, realistic movies are often much more disturbing.

[nmartin]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 4:10pm

I have never heard of In a Glass Cage and just looked it up. Hell, the synopsis disturbed me.

[kooky]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 4:59pm

For me it was Fargo, and There Will Be Blood.

[Magical_Ms._Mistoffeles_72]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 5:01pm

Secret Window

[broadway86]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 8:20pm

Certainly not for everyone, but I think Mulholland Drive is destined to be a classic. Stupifying at first, but if you peel back all the layers, it is clear that not ONE frame of the movie hasn't been carefully thought out.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 8:25pm

That was a fascinating movie and I wish someone could explain it to me. I've read a lot about it, and I came away with feeling that no one really understood it, including Lynch.

I read something about it originally being a tv series, but that fell through, and all loose ends had to be tied up quickly for the film, and that's why it made no sense?

Sense or nonsense, I enjoyed it. But wasn't disturbed!

[broadway86]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 8:38pm

Jane-

Sent you a PM.

[Revolutionary]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 9:24pm

Shallow Grave and Trainspotting are two of my top five, maybe top three movies of all time.

I guess I'm a disturbed person. :)

[Roscoe]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 9:51pm

I can't imagine finding anything about FARGO disturbing, except how wildly surrealistically over-rated it is. Same for MULHOLLAND DRIVE, the first proof that there's less to David Lynch than I had originally thought.

I'll agree about IRREVERSIBLE, for the most part, until that unfortunate ending. The original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and ERASERHEAD are still the ones that get to me the most, the films that come closest to being pure nightmares.

[lovelyspotlight]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 10:54pm

Definitely Requiem for a Dream...

I'd also say Children of Men.

[broadway86]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 3:56am

Same for MULHOLLAND DRIVE, the first proof that there's less to David Lynch than I had originally thought.

Proof? I'd agree with you if Mulholland Drive wasn't so damn good.

[Kasie]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 4:09am

im also going to have to agree with Requiem for a Dream, also...

ZODIAC

TRAINSPOTTING

AMERICAN PSYCHO

[Jonny boy]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 1:58pm

Anyone ever seen a movie called Shrooms? I rented it the other night and it is extremely disturbing.

[tazber]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 2:28pm

The original Funny Games was messed up, and it looks like the remake will be too.

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[Jane2]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 4:32pm

If anyone here hasn't seen Requiem for a Dream yet, I just want to urge you to see it. Yes, it's very disturbing-especially the end. After the last credit rolled, the entire audience sat still, unable to move, for quite a long time. And when they did start moving, there still wasn't a sound in the house. You could hear a pin drop.

Disturbing yes, but such an important message that I think everyone could heed.

I was so spellbound during this film, I totally forgot that I was in it.

I feel that this was one gem of a film, and that Ellen Burstyn was ROBBED of the oscar. ROBBED! More than anyone else was ever ROBBED I tell you!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 4:47pm

I actually think Le Chien Andalou is fascinating. A little bit weird? Sure. But not particularly disturbing, probably because, like Jane said, it's for effect. I mean, it's Dalí. Not that things for effect can't be disturbing, but this didn't particularly bother me. It was surreal enough that I could just go, "wow, that's cool," and not really be "disturbed" by it.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 5:51pm

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/18/08 at 2:16pm

I love Delicatessin!

Also:

City of Lost Children
Mulholland Drive
Lost Highway
Blue Velvet
No Country for Old Men
The Tale of Two Sisters
Requiem for a Dream
Memento
Kalifornia
Children of Men
The Blair Witch Project
Cloverfield
The Exorcist

I don't think I could ever bring myself to watch Irreversible. I'm not into realistic torture flicks. I've read about it extensively and it's not the sort of thing I could bear to watch.

[blueroses]

Posted: 2/18/08 at 3:29pm

Freeway and The Vanishing (the original) were pretty disturbing.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 2/18/08 at 3:57pm

My family's home movies are about as disturbing as films can get!