Weirdest, most chilling, most ****ed up film you've seen?

I watched Possession recently which was very weird. A man suffering a mental breakdown (Sam Neill) is married to a possessed woman (Isabelle Adjani). It all kicks off! It's very surreal with shades of the film "Society".
Enjoyable but David Lynch type weird. Thought the acting style was pretty weird also. More strange and obscure though than Gorey.


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Unfortunately, the one thing that makes this film work is not knowing that what initially appears to be a light-hearted comedy turns into one of the most horrible things imaginable.
Why it worked for the people who chanced upon it when it was shown on TV back in the 70s/80s was cos we were clueless about what it was and simply fascinated by the humourous situation.

The moment anybody reveals that it's very dark, it loses a lot of its punch.

Problem is, it's the only way to actually recommend someone to watch it.
 
The film The Eye scared me, the original Japanese version of course. I love their viewpoint of - sod the plot, if we want to show something that will scare the living crap out of you and not make sense then we'll do it.

One scene where the girl is wondering round the hospital at night and a ghost of a dead woman is wondering around complaining of being cold.
But the worst bit for me is when she is in the lift where there's a guy floating across the floor behind her, then you see his head is mashed in. He slowly reaches out to grab her but thankfully she stops the lift on a random floor and runs out.

Then there's the end of the film with the gas leak and all those people die. Did they really have to have such a dramatic event just so that she would end up blind again.

Thinking of how scared I was after seeing it, why did I run out and get it on DVD as soon as I could. :o
 
It sounRAB like 'Last House On The Left' to me but as you say could be anything. Madman maybe?

Most f*****up film I ever saw (not horror) is 'A Z and 2 Noughts (ZOO)'. I think you must have to be on drugs to watch it.
 
This is indeed a very good recommendation thread :).

I've just got Men Behind the Sun to watch this weekend. There's a sequel too that I got just in case I need more.

I tried watching Antichrist but just got bored and actually turned it off and I almost never do that to movies. I even managed to keep Grotesque going all the way through.

But really, there's a difference between interesting legitimate movies like - I say again - Martyres and Inside and just crap f'cked up shit. We should distinguish between these types of movies because they don't deserve to be tarred the same.
 
Already been said Heavenly Creatures.The end scenes gah!!And just as you think 'that was disturbing and horrible' you then remember that it actully did happen

Oooo yeh same about the Eye.Kept looking at the subtitles then looking at what was happening and then then just felt the need to hide lol
 
I have been meaning to look into Pasolini for a while, he seems quite interesting and critics bang on about him in theory/essays

and apart from that, there are menat to be aome "beautiful sequences" filmed in Salo

???

Did anyone find this the case?

Oh and just to add, i would agree with Vistor Q, not entirely sure what it was saying but i assume it was just meant to be anarchic and absurd [which it is very successful at]

it is also great to look at, i believe it is filmed on a digital cam, or certainly has that feel to it, there's something metallic about digitally filmed films, i can't quite put my finger on it
 
Great thread. I've watched some films that have been recommended here that I would not have known about. Despite watching horror since the video nasties.

I caught Martyrs and Inside last week. Martyrs is well forked up. Inside started off really well but then just turned silly. The twist was obvious too.

Neither have anything on Kelly Brook's performance in School for Seduction. Which I thought was truly forked up.
 
Eden Lake. One of the best films I've seen in recent years, but it was extremely chilling and one of the most disturbing films I've seen.
 
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