Most Disturbing Movie Endings You've Ever Seen- Page 4

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 3:43pm

Crimes and Misdemeanors

[east side story]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 4:00pm

Why the hell is Looking for Mr. Goodbar NOT on Blu Ray/DVD?

[tazber]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 4:27pm

As I understand it, soundtrack issues.

The link below is from a site called rockandrollondvd.com

They somehow have dvds and are selling them.
Link

[Addison D.]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 4:28pm

This thread is like a bus-tour of some of my most traumatic movie moments. Fun!

When the words "Movie" and "Disturbing" are used in one sentence, however, my answer is always the same:

Eraserhead.

My brother exposed me to that film way too soon. Yikes...

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 5:22pm

Definitely. But Eraserhead was not only disturbing at the end. THE WHOLE DAMN THING! I still think it was the work of genius.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 5:42pm

My mother and I watched Eraserhead when it was released on VHS in the 80s when I was a teenager and we couldn't stop laughing.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 5:44pm

The ending of INSIDE and MARTYRS are...jarring. Oh, those French!

[strummergirl]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 5:53pm

Yeah, I still don't know what is the most disturbing about Eraserhead as the whole thing is so heightened and effective. It is just is relentlessly weird and never stops. Really a masterpiece.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 6:33pm

Has anyone mentioned Descent yet? The unrated version is even more disturbing. Only saw it a few weeks ago.

[VeraCharles3]

Posted: 2/28/14 at 6:21am

I agree about Requiem for a Dream - that movie depressed me for days after I saw it. Will never watch it again. What a waste of all those lives. I know that was the point but I wanted a little glimmer of hope.

Also Martyrs, the French Horror movie - gosh that was a hard watch. What a horrific ending. And after sitting through all that, I still don't understand what the ending meant!

[HorseTears]

Posted: 2/28/14 at 1:45pm

I don't think I've seen these mentioned...

The 10 minute rape scene in Irreversible is excruciating. The whole film is rather difficult to take and incredibly tense, though it's not without its merits.

Watching Charlotte Gainsbourg crush Willem Dafoe's testicles and than masturbate his bloodied penis in Lars Von Trier's Antichrist was a lovely way to spend an afternoon.

I haven't seen Salo Or The 120 Days of Sodom or A Serbian Film, but I've heard they are both often considered the two most disturbing and disgusting fictional films made. I don't think I have any interest in seeing either one. Google them and you'll see why.

I'm ashamed to admit what my most disturbing movie experience was. When I was a teenager, I worked in an independent video store (remember those?). One of our regular customers was a guy who always rented obscure horror movies, b-movies and odd foreign curiosities. One day, he was chatting with me at the counter and told me he'd just seen the most intense low budget horror film. I was a teenager, so of course I enjoyed a good horror flick. He mentioned the name and said it had several sequels, but we didn't have a listing for the film, nor could we order it from our catalog. He said he had a copy at home and would loan it to me. He came back the next day with the VHS and I invited a friend over to watch it that night.

As I recall, the film opened with an all black screen and some low, ominous synth music. Then a graphic overlay read "1997, Afghanistan" and then with very shaky, almost amateurish camera work revealed a loud mob scene in the middle of what looked like a dessert. As the camera moved through the noisy agitated crowd of Afghanis, it revealed a man blindfolded, hand and feet bound together and face bloodied sitting in an empty space in the center of the crowd. Then a man in uniform yelled something in a foreign language and the crowd lunged forward and began beating the man mercilessly until he collapsed bloodied and limp and his face beaten into a pulp. The screen goes black and another graphic overlay says "Congo, 1994" and another, seemingly unrelated, scene begins. A thin African man, shirtless, is lying on a dusty floor. Each hand and foot is tied to a peg and stretched out to the extremes (the way you would position your body if doing a jumping jack while lying on the ground). The man looks terrified and is weeping and appears to be begging the men standing over him for some kind of mercy. Another graphic overlay appears and says something about the man being found guilty of stealing food from a street vendor. We then cut back to the scene of the supposed thief on the ground and without any warning, another man enters the frame with a machete in his hand. As he raised the machete and it sliced through the thief's arm below the elbow, my friend and I both turned to each other with horror as we both instantly realized we were not watching a "low budget horror film" as we'd been told but a snuff film featuring real amateur video of murders, executions and brutal torture. We quickly turned the tape off and just sat there in horrified silence for ages. It's still the most shocking and disturbing thing I've seen. And, yes, we reported the guy to my manager who called the police. He never came back to the store and probably owes thousands of dollars of late fees on whatever film he rented that night.

[Addison D.]

Posted: 2/28/14 at 1:50pm

Ummmmm.......wow.

HorseTears wins.

>curls up in fetal position<

[tazber]

Posted: 2/28/14 at 1:54pm

It sounds like those "Faces of Death" movies (which aren't actually real).

Or the infamous Mondo Cane films.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 2/28/14 at 2:40pm

No, it wasn't "Faces of Death" and was definitely real. Whether the locations/dates were accurate, I can't say.

[ChgoTheatreGuy]

Posted: 2/28/14 at 8:08pm

"The Boy in Striped Pajamas"...

[strummergirl]

Posted: 2/28/14 at 9:41pm

"I haven't seen Salo Or The 120 Days of Sodom or A Serbian Film..."

Well, one is an artistic masterpiece that articulates artistry amid its explicitness and the other is A Serbian Film that if I believed in torture, I would constantly use on enemies.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 2/28/14 at 11:00pm

I nearly passed out at the fire extinguisher scene in Irreversible. The rape scene was awful but the fire extinguisher scene was so in your face. I don't even care if that was digital effects, it's not like you see a guy's face smashed in everyday.

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/1/14 at 7:16am

There was one of the Christopher Lee Dracula movies where he slipped on a chunk of ice and fell under it into the water. He flailed around (apparently vampires hate water and can't swim) so he was stuck under the ice and drowned. It was very disturbing to me as a teen, even though I was into horror movies back then.

I have to say the ending to the Sweeney Todd movie with Johnny Depp bleeding to death over the Beggar Woman was pretty dang disturbing.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 3/1/14 at 7:56am

Brazil.

[tazber]

Posted: 3/1/14 at 8:28am

I just realized nobody mentioned the last 15 minutes of Audition.

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/1/14 at 8:36am

I always thought the final shot of the zipped body bag in All That Jazz was pretty disturbing.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 3/1/14 at 10:39am

"I just realized nobody mentioned the last 15 minutes of Audition."

I get sick just thinking about when we actually see the man in the bag and what he is fed.