Disturbing Films Megathread

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This is a thread dedicated to discussing the most disturbing, horrifying, gruesome, and just plain fucked up films in existence.

The largest lists that I could find of disturbing films are below:

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls009209730/ (this one was, obviously, made by yours truly, and it is the largest list of disturbing films that currently exists)

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls006707604/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...zuGsAxZXNt3_4SDDeIVKmgK1k/edit#gid=2103251208 (this one was made by Redditards, so it's filled with films that don't even remotely belong on a list of disturbing movies, like Watership Down and The Dark Crystal)

http://thelastexit.net/cinema/index.html

There also used to be a massive list of disturbing films located at https://public.sheet.zoho.com/public/mostdisturbedperson/most-disturbed-list-03-01-12c - alas, however, it is now gone (and I can't find a working archive of it).

In terms of depicting on-screen depravity - being "the sickest movie ever made" - the undisputed reigning champion is A Serbian Film (2010), followed by August Underground's Mordum (2003). However, neither of those films (in my view, at least) are genuinely disturbing because their overall tone is not disturbing - especially not August Underground's Mordum, which is just a plotless, amateurish concatenation of random over-the-top depravity that features absolutely no redeeming value of any sort (A Serbian Film is a decent film, IMO, but not a truly disturbing one).

The most genuinely disturbing film that I've seen is the 2007 film The Girl Next Door, followed by Martyrs (2008). Both are films that leave you feeling like you need to crawl into a corner and die, and both are films that almost any sane person will immediately wish they hadn't watched, as you are never getting their harrowing images out of your head. In terms of what is depicted on screen, they are nowhere near "the sickest movies ever made", but they do masterful jobs of making you actually care about the characters, which makes what happens to them far more legitimately upsetting. Being truly disturbing is not just about grossing people out - you have to create an oppressively bleak, soul-crushing, life-denying tone with an emotional core that really rips your heart out, throws it into a blender, and drinks it.

A little while ago, I wrote a detailed outline for my own attempt at creating the most disturbing film ever made - one that would not only far exceed every other "sickest movie ever made" in terms of on-screen depravity, but would also tell an emotionally devastating story filled with truly heartbreaking pathos. The reactions that it got from the very few people who read it (one of whom said that she couldn't even read all of it) told me that I did exactly what I set out to do.

What would you consider to be the most disturbing films you've seen?
 
  • Irreversible - Girl gets assraped by a gay pimp for five minutes straight
  • Happiness - There's a subplot based on a guy who drugs and rapes two kids, I even made a basedjak off him. Rest of the movie is relatively tame thoughever.
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There's also some obscure Japanese films I watched that I'd consider more disturbing, but tbh they're barely movies and more so just autistic rape porn
 
lifesucksthenyoudie said:
  • Irreversible - Girl gets assraped by a gay pimp for five minutes straight
  • Happiness - There's a subplot based on a guy who drugs and rapes two kids, I even made a basedjak off him. Rest of the movie is relatively tame thoughever.
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There's also some obscure Japanese films I watched that I'd consider more disturbing, but tbh they're barely movies and more so just autistic rape porn
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When I took a film theory class in college, I remember opting to write something about the 2002 New French Extremity film Irreversible, which is told in reverse-chronological order, going backwards in time as the film progresses. The film is best known for the extremely graphic 9-minute scene where Monica Bellucci's character is savagely raped and beaten (possibly to death), which ranks among the nastiest rape scenes in cinema history. In a standard "rape-and-revenge" film, we see the rape first, so we are encouraged to cheer on the revenge. In this film, however, we see the woman's friends getting "revenge" first - bashing someone's face in with a fire extinguisher - before we see the rape, which makes us view the violence in a completely different light. And, it turns out, the person who gets his face bashed in isn't even the rapist - they killed the wrong guy. Upon close inspection, you can see the rapist watching the guy get killed, then walking off. After we see the rape scene, we learn that the woman who got raped and beaten was this loving fiancee who had a baby on the way (the last scene is her in a field, finding out that she was pregnant, followed by the message "TIME HEALS ALL"). We also see scenes of her dirty dancing and a sex scene of her, and it's almost like director Gaspar Noe is daring the viewer to find this titillating after seeing the infamous rape scene. By the end of the story - which is really the beginning of the film - everyone's life has been completely destroyed except for the rapist, who gets away scot-free. Irreversible is always cited as being one of the most disturbing films ever made - maybe not to someone like me, but certainly to any remotely normal person. This extremely polarizing film has been called exploitation trash (accusations of homophobia have been made as well) and has also been called a masterpiece, but nobody has ever said that it wasn't provocative. In fact, few films provoke as much fierce discussion and debate as this one does. I figured that my film theory would probably not want to watch this movie, but I thought that he might be interested in hearing an analysis of it regardless. The only other films I can think of that are told in reverse-chronological order are Memento (2000) and Betrayal (1983).

Regarding Happiness: I like movies that take a neutral view of truly evil and horrible people, portraying them as fully fleshed-out, three-dimensional human beings (rather than cardboard cutout monsters) and letting the viewers decide for themselves. The 1998 Todd Solondz film Happiness - featuring an ensemble cast of numerous truly messed-up individuals - boldly portrays a child molester with a young son in a three-dimensional manner (with a memorable scene where he is forced to have an emotional talk with his son about how he's a pedophile), but, while that film had a lot of potential to be something truly great, it ultimately amounts to little more than a sordid wallow in the gutter that provides absolutely no insights of any sort. On top of that, there's an unpleasant undercurrent of mean-spirited nastiness running throughout the entire film. The critics loved it, though.
 

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