Way OT: Most disturbing movie you have ever watched?
February 1st, 2018 at 12:53 PM ^
February 1st, 2018 at 12:44 PM ^
Irreversible is a decent movie, a little gimmicky with the direction of time, but that uh one scene, seemed just unnecessary, no?
I'll also add to your list Antichrist.
February 1st, 2018 at 12:54 PM ^
is an examination of the destructiveness of interpersonal violence. The reverse chronology wasn't a gimmick, it serves the purpose of eliminating the urge to view violence as the "payoff" in the movie and forces you to watch it with no context to examine it as it is, bare and purposeless.
And that scene itself was not unnecessary, but it was to a certain degree unnecessarily unrelenting, and why I tell people who haven't seen it not to watch it.
February 1st, 2018 at 1:07 PM ^
Yes, I meant unnecessary in gratuity. I don't think it adds to the movie in fact the opposite. It's pushing boundaries for the sake of pushing boundaries. And yes, I understand why Noe chose to do it backwards, certainly clear from the title itself. Regardless, I still find it gimmicky. It's not like he came up with the idea.
All in all, still a pretty good movie in my view, as I said before, but it's got some flaws, just like all three of his movies I've seen. The biggest to me that is he seems to care more about pushing boundaries than making a good film.
February 1st, 2018 at 1:14 PM ^
Antichrist. I've seen a few of the ones mentioned previously and while some gave me pause to put at the top, Antichrist still takes the cake.
February 1st, 2018 at 1:22 PM ^
is particularly sinister because it hides its true intentions until it is too late to opt out. From the very outset of the movie, you get the feeling that something is amiss (the color and sound is muted, all of the dialogue is really hushed and almost inaudible, just generally disorienting) but it is not until well into the second act that you realize you may be getting more than you bargained for.
February 1st, 2018 at 1:50 PM ^
From wikipedia:
She attacks him, accuses him of planning to leave her, mounts him, and then smashes a large block of wood onto his testicles, causing him to lose consciousness. The woman then masturbates the unconscious man, culminating in an ejaculation of blood.
We may have a winner here.
February 1st, 2018 at 1:05 PM ^
February 1st, 2018 at 12:36 PM ^
It's a childern's film. About beastiality. Super fucked-up.
February 1st, 2018 at 12:43 PM ^
February 1st, 2018 at 1:00 PM ^
It's actually a film about Stockholm Syndrome.
February 1st, 2018 at 1:43 PM ^
...where the victim kept making sex eyes at an anthropomorphic grizzly bear.
February 1st, 2018 at 12:36 PM ^
The Road.
It's not, like, over the top depravity (which I can usually dismiss), it's just sad. Very. Sad.
Great. Now I need a hug.
February 1st, 2018 at 12:40 PM ^
So damn sad. I want to hug my son whenever I even think about it.
February 1st, 2018 at 12:54 PM ^
February 1st, 2018 at 2:34 PM ^
This is my pick as well. Not gory or anything, but it's impactful because something like that could potentially happen one day.
One of those movies that I still think about from time to time.
February 1st, 2018 at 2:47 PM ^
Yeah, I don't know why they decided to make a film based on The Road. It's not really a story as much as it's just an awful situation. The book is bleak, but at least you have the pleasure of reading McCarthy's haunting prose and pitch-perfect dialogue. No Country for Old Men is the best film made from a Cormac McCarthy novel, and it is also IMO the most accessible novel he's written. The soliloquies of Sheriff Ed Tom in that novel are pure prose magic.
February 1st, 2018 at 3:53 PM ^
2 years after No Country so probably because McCarthy was a hot commodity. Thought he wrote The Road specifically expecting it to be made into a movie. I thought both book & movie were solid. I felt like Blood Meridian was a much bleaker book compared to The Road but that seems really counterintuitive given the difference in subject matter.
February 1st, 2018 at 4:20 PM ^
Yeah I warn people about McCarthy's hard lens and they still read it and get pissed off at me! But I guess I'm a sick bastard because I can handle the dark stuff though The Road at times was tough even for me. I was an English major ('85) and I just really enjoy beautifully written and economical prose and McCarthy is the modern master of it.
February 1st, 2018 at 5:09 PM ^
I just hope he never writes an original screenplay himself ever again. The Counselor was about the biggest piece of shit I ever had the misfortune of paying for to go see. I got more out of The Phantom Menace (actually, quite a bit more!)
February 1st, 2018 at 6:53 PM ^
February 2nd, 2018 at 12:26 AM ^
I was truly moved by it. And I think it had the greatest final paragraph to a book I've ever read.
It's a quick read, a must read.
The movie was unbearably depressing. Good. But I couldn't finish it.
February 1st, 2018 at 12:37 PM ^
K now I'm buying in. Tampa 2 = Orlando 2 = Cool Guy
February 1st, 2018 at 12:51 PM ^
February 1st, 2018 at 1:18 PM ^
That's EXACTLY what you'd say if you were that guy...... /s
February 1st, 2018 at 12:40 PM ^
2. AntiChrist
3. The Killer Inside Me
(Salo would actually be #1, but after watching about 1/3 of it I determined that I didn't consider it to have any redeeming artistic and/or cultural features and I don't think it should qualify).
February 1st, 2018 at 12:55 PM ^
February 1st, 2018 at 1:01 PM ^
and honestly I had never heard of it until this post. I have much less time now to watch very much of anything and have kind of put film to the side as something "I used to be able to do." After reading some of the comments on this post, even with a solid disturbing movie pedigree, I have to say I am a little uneasy about watching it.
February 1st, 2018 at 1:28 PM ^
February 1st, 2018 at 1:37 PM ^
yeah, I think I will opt out of that one.
February 1st, 2018 at 1:35 PM ^
Salo was awful, I made it about as far as you did and am still mad at myself for it,
February 1st, 2018 at 1:40 PM ^
can find all kinds of essays and analysis of it where scholars will pine about how it is commentary and fascism, the constructs of systemic class systems and blah blah blah. I say, nope, it was merely a really really sick deal that should never have been put on film.
February 1st, 2018 at 1:53 PM ^
Agreed. Supposedly it was a political statement about the Italian government at the time, or something. To me, that is far less of an artistic statement than making something that's actually watchable but delivers a similar message. To me that was just "let's see how gross and disgusting we can be and pretend it's about politics."
February 1st, 2018 at 2:08 PM ^
is exactly what it was.
February 1st, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
dark movies, but The Road was a little much for me too. Maybe because my son at the time was about the same age as the kid in the movie....
February 1st, 2018 at 12:37 PM ^
February 1st, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
Unexplained Alien invasion, aliens who can defy the laws of gravity, making the good people of the US Governement look evil. Just one big Alien propaganda film that never answers why the Aliens came to Earth.
February 1st, 2018 at 12:42 PM ^
February 1st, 2018 at 1:33 PM ^
February 1st, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
Requiem For a Dream, probably. Or the parts of Saw that I've seen. I don't watch movies in order to spend two hours of my life disturbed, so you can count on me never seeing any more Saw movies or Eraserhead or mother! or anything like that. And I hated Requiem For a Dream because it was basically "let's watch silly people pile up stupid decisions one on top of the last like cars on a whited-out freeway."
February 1st, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
February 1st, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
February 1st, 2018 at 12:39 PM ^
At the time, it was probably Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer -- which by the way, stars Michael Rooker, whom you may better know as Merle from The Walking Dead, or Yondu, from Guardians of the Galaxy.
Yeah. I never want to see that movie again -- even though I saw it in the late 80s, and there's undoubtedly more disturbing movies I've seen since then, I always will remember THAT ONE. Ugh.
February 1st, 2018 at 5:18 PM ^
That's my choice, too. Rooker did such a fantastic job acting in that movie. Chilling.
Another disturbing movie from that time period is The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover.
February 1st, 2018 at 12:39 PM ^
February 1st, 2018 at 12:44 PM ^
Yeah. That one just weirded me out, more than anything else. Kinda set the tone right away, though, with the cat-drowning scene. A truly uncomfortable movie experience, for sure.
February 1st, 2018 at 12:40 PM ^
February 1st, 2018 at 12:48 PM ^
Anything that makes Notre Dame look good is highly disturbing.
To hell with Notre Dame...
February 1st, 2018 at 12:52 PM ^
where he was offsides.