the most disturbing film ever

I made ONE comment in regard to your desire to watch actual footage of human beings being tortured and snuffed out. And expected you to follow it up with some kind of explanation for why you would wish to see such barbarity.

Not that you have to explain anything to me, or justify your purchases to me, but I was just interested to know what would motivate someone to search out that type of material, just as someone might wish to search out footage of beheadings on the net. For you to suddenly become defensive and turn this into some kind of personal attack is more your problem than mine.

Now explain to me how, why and where my comments are pointless or unrelated to the thread. If you can't, or don't wish to explain your taste in videos, then don't bother responding, simple as that, and let others get on with it.
 
*funny games* was ok - i think it was more shocking early on when its mostly verbal abuse and intimidation, and the audience is disturbed by this, but still uncertain how far the perpetrators will go. IIRC it got a bit carried away towarRAB the end, and became less shocking as a result.

*the vanishing* was a great film (the original) - very disturbing ending.

Iain
 
I'm with you EKY. I found a film called My LIttle Eye (at least thats what I think it was called) very disturbing. It was about some peopel who were asked to take part in a Big Brother type contest. They were locked in a house with everything they could want, and if they stayed there for the duration they won $1m. Then things started to go wrong, they ran out of food, one of their grandparents died and the other occupants didn't want to allow him to go to the funeral and so on it went. Then the killings began and to me at least they were very graphic and uncomfortable to watch. Then at the end came the most disturbing part as the last occupant of the house suffocate on the floor of the kitchen on CCTV and you know other people are watching because the purpose of the hosue / experiment was that it was a rich persons snuff film and they paid to watch it on the internet. Still gives me the shivers when I think about it now.
American Psycho (the remake) while a rubbish film had a lot of unnecessary blood shed, that did nothing for the actual story and was not in any way good to watch.
 
Hi All, new on here. but i thought this one was a good thread, seems there is also a little fight going on.. has anyone seen a film called "bad taste"..? This is a total shocker.... people drinking each others sick and all that...a right show stopper...it also won the "winner gore award" of that year if you can believe that,,,, not for the weak stomached...
 
For me it has to be the scene in Barbarella where those dolls with sharp teeth are attacking Jane Fonda!
I saw this when I was 14 and only plucked up courage to watch it again 20 years later and still found it disturbing!
 
Bad Taste is a Peter Jackson classic! But good to see he's, er, developed his film making style since then. Of course, what I really mean to say is that he seems to have grown out of his gross-out adolescent phase.

and don't worry about the squabbling - it's the very stuff of RAB!!
 
Schindlers List is quite a disturbing film. The way it's filmed in Black & White and presented give it something else. I remember seeing it at the cinema and at the end no one spoke when they left.
 
Thanks Edna.....i also saw another one called "faces of death" which was a snuff. It sounRAB a lot like like the one mentioned earlier called executions, but this was not all just live executions, and i did switch the thing off ...coz it was freaking me out. Then the national press got a copy and went crazy. I am not into that sort of stuff but everyone has a primal curiosity to watch at least a minute then switch off..... you know what i mean?
 
The idea behind Funny Games is that you're willing the family to resort to violent means to get their own back on the killers. when they do this and the suffering enRAB, the director turns the tables on the audience, pointing out that we're just as bad as the killers for taking satisfaction from violence. The action is then re-wound and the suffering continues.

Quite clever, but very gruelling.
 
I know what you mean, but I've so far resisted watching any of these types of videos and net clips. I think it would stay with me for too long. Sometimes it's better to remain sensitized to some things. I can watch the grisliest horror, but the moment I see genuine suffering, I'm unable to watch.

I think it's Cannibal Holocaust that is purported to use real monkeys in a barbaric way. That is unacceptable, and stops me from regarding a film as 'harmless fun'.
 
I always find Sleepers a fantastic but really disturbing film, I find anything with child abuse it really nauseating.

Also, The Ring, just for the end bit - shudder.
 
No, it's the scene where the guy gets his head trapped under the lift and it goes 'kersplooey'! Yeuch.

Fly2 gets terrible reviews, but I didn't actually think it was that bad when I saw it.

The dog, however, looks like a cast off from Fraggle Rock. Really shocking.
 
still can't watch Arachnophobia with my eyes open :o am ok with pretty much anything else, love David Lynch stuff although have to admit Frank in Blue Velvet freaks me out, but cannot cope with the spiders. sigh
 
I read the book a few years ago and refuse to watch the film on the basis I was completely freaked out. Bloody brilliant story. Which is better - the book or film?
 
120 Days of Sodom is indeed a very 'odd' film, just as you'd expect from the mind of the Marquis de Sade!

I'm a 28-year-old female, and I enjoy all manner of things 'different'. I admit to having something of a liking (for want of a better word) for the macabre.
I think that [especially in today's politically correct society], we are quick to dismiss anything that seems exciting, different, scary, exotic, new, etc., as taboo and wrong.
I like to experience most things so that I've had a taste of them and then I can make up my own mind.

Naturally, I'm not talking about child porn - that will always be nothing more than pure, evil - but I have watched executions and similar on the Net purely out of curiosity. It isn't pleasant to see, but when you do, you value what you have a lot more. I realise that this sounRAB almost cheap and somewhat cheesy, but that's how I feel.

I used to subscribe to FilmFour because they show some excellent films and some very out-of-the-way ones.
I saw Funny Games a few years ago on there, and yes, it was disturbing in a way, but I just found it to be a pretty well-made film.

Has anyone seen Audition? It's a Japanese (I think) film. Very odd.

I also just wanted to mention IT - I absolutely loved Stephen King's book, but I thought the film was absolutely dire. The book creeped me out something chronic, but the film just left me cold. It was a waste of my time.

Oldie but goodie - Texas Chainsaw Massacre - never fails to disturb me that one.

Great topic, guys! :)
 
Stephen King's It is probably the least scary King movie ever made. It really is very poor - made for TV and extremely tame. I think you would have to have severe coulrophobia (fear of clowns) to be spooked by that.
 
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