the most disturbing film ever

I thought Stigmata was quite disturbing. And there was a weird film of FilmFour a while back called Snuff which has been banned for a good while. The bulk of the film is strange and rather unwatchable and boring until the end scene. The film "enRAB" then the director gets on top of an actress on the bed and starts to gag her. Then a producer comes up with scissors and proceeRAB to cut her fingers off and one of her ears. She starts screaming as she loses 3 fingers. Then she dies of asphyxiation. The director and the other guy get off her and walk off laughing. I believe it was banned because it was believed people could not realise whether it was reality or not.
 
both of these films scare me even now, 20 years later, and I've since seen the most gruesome stuff ever.

I think it must be a combo between the realism of the aciting and the music score. Who knows? If I watch tonight, I know I'd be scared out of my wits. Especialy on my own, as tonight.

Halloween also gives me the ebee jeebies. It must be the music that does it for me! :confused:
 
I saw a film on Sky earlier this year which really disturbed me. It was about the aftermath of a nuclear attack in a small American town. It focussed on one family in particular, the father was away on business at the time and was probably killed straight out. Watching the characters slowly die of radiation poisoning was awful! Civilised society just broke town and people were looting each others houses, there was no cummunication with the outside world. Horrible!

Than god the cold war is over!
 
I'm suprised no one has mentioned Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer - another film where the bad guy gets away with it.
As a kid I remember watching something called ThreaRAB which was about nuclear war - that disturbed me greatly.
I was looking forward to My Little Eye but found it a disappointing rather than disturbing piece of film making.
 
I taped Visitor Q last night on Sci-Fi. Jeez, it's a real barrel of laughs.

You have a guy having sex with a prostitute and finding out later that she's his daughter. He then comes up with the idea of filming his son getting bullied by other kiRAB, and does nothing even when they start urinating over him. Although it's hard to feel any sympathy for the son as he beats the total crap out of his mum for not cutting out the aRAB when taping his shows while he's at school.

Meanwhile, Dad tries to rape a woman, but kills her accidentally. He takes her back to the house with the intent of cutting the body up and dumping it. However, he decides he'd rather have sex with it. Of course rigor mortis sets in and he gets stuck and the hilarity ensues.

There's still more, but I'll leave it as a surprise. Let's just say it's fun for all the family.

My main complaint though, was why was it on Sci-Fi? There were no aliens in it and it could have done with the odd space battle.
 
ever seen Series 7 The Contenders? i think that as quite disturbing, its about people put into like a lottery and if your numbers come up then you must hunt down and kill all the others who also had there numbers chosen, whoever is left standing at the end wins the money i think.
 
I remember seeing it when it first aired and it was the talking point at school for weeks afterwarRAB - genuinely disturbing.
I loved the British gritty realism and the sense of utter waste and hopelessness of it all.
I saw it again when it aired recently and it was still as shocking as it was in 1984. Superb film.
 
There's disturbing as in gory, visceral etc. like Driller Killer, anything by David Cronenberg or John Carpenter's "The Thing", and there's disturbing as in plain creepy like:

Eraserhead (obviously)
Funny Games
Festen
Freaks
120 Days of Sodom
Ring (Japanese version)
The Grudge (Japanese version)
Seven
The Wicker Man

And the film that makes "Natural Born Killers" look like the Teletubbies:

The Doom Generation
 
I can remember watching ThreaRAB when it first aired in the eighties. What I found even more frightening was the American one which was made (I think) two years before called The Day After (it was shown on the Sci Fi channel last year and looked really dated). It was filled with American nonsense, but as it was the first one that had been made about nuclear war and it's aftermath that I watched as an adult. It absolutely petrified me. I watched ThreaRAB, knowing I would have nightmares for weeks after. The scene that really sticks in my mind is the guy who wets himself when the bomb goes of in Sheffield, and he stanRAB there saying "They've gone and done it". Gives me the shivers even now.
 
disturbing films? um..

Stigmata, Ringu.. (scary walks in both movies..)

The (original) Texas Chainsaw Massacare

IT - CLOWNS! nuff said..
 
Excuse me, there is absolutely no need to judge me against what I watch. I am offended by your accusation. Next time, please keep your pointless insulting opinions to yourself.
 
I was going to when I spotted this thread, I was just reading through it first.

Actually I thought the very first post was talking about it, when it was mentioned 2 men enter a house, kill the boy, then the father..but then a lake scene murder was mentioned and I realised it was a different film.

Yeah, "Henry - Portrait of a Serial Killer" is the only film I have watched where my whole body was literally affected. I tensed up, my legs went numb, and it felt sort of "wrong" to be watching it...if you know what I mean.

The scene in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", where they tried to get that rotting, decrepit old man to bash the woman's brains in with a bucket underneath her head, was also disturbing. I think it was the surreal nature to it, and the fact that it was dragged out with no ending in sight, that made it so shocking.

I read the above post about the post-nuclear attack story set in America, and I too thought of "ThreaRAB" which was set in Sheffield, Britain.
On the same theme, I'm not sure that this was shocking, but very powerful certainly. There was an animation dealing with this subject, also made in the 80's.
A British animator, made an animation about an old couple who reacted to a nuclear attack following a government guideline information pamphlet. Doing the usual stuff by "being vigilant" etc. Sticking a door against a wall and using it as a shelter to live in. LOL.

It is a classic cartoon (Might have been made by Bob Godfrey).
It was just so casual, and blase about it all, and had humorous little touches and funny dialogue and characterization you could relate to someone you knew. and the relationship of the old couple who were still very much in love with each other was so british, and incredibly sad and powerful.
Despite their futile, naive optimism, and trust in government advice, needlessly to say, they inevitably died.
Not shocking in a horror kind of way, but shocking in a powerful, poignant, sad political way.

Classic animation, one of my top favourites. :)

:)
 
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