Most genuinely disturbing movie you've ever seen?

[plan_9]

Originally Posted by jonnyjo

When I was, I wanna say 13 or 14 I bought a vhs of Last House on the Left, and it absolutely repulsed and sickened me, the acts that were forced on the girls in the movie. I felt filthy for watching it. I watched it since then and it was no biggie, even tho the villains still got a lot of heat from me while I was watching it

i quite like last house on the left, i did not like the remake tho. try serbian movie that is sick but quite a good movie if you can stomach it lol.

[Tenebraeuk]

Cannibal Holocaust, nothing else compares, and I've seen loads of the extreme stuff, but they don't grab me in the same way, I suppose The Human Centipede comes close...but I'm sure a lot of people hated it. Watership Down still has the most disturbing scene in it though...and I'm not joking haha.

[JohnShaft]

Originally Posted by Tenebraeuk

Cannibal Holocaust, nothing else compares, and I've seen loads of the extreme stuff, but they don't grab me in the same way

Hey Tenebrae, nice to see you posting again.

I'm still a pussy about CH, and have not seen it. I don't think I could stomach the animal violence cut, and I've sat on the fence about watching the watered down version for a couple of years.

What are your thoughts? Is it original or nothing?

And does it hold up well these days?

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And Watership Down is a killer, I'm in full agreement.

[GORE]

I am surprised no one has mentioned EDEN LAKE yet. Is it because you guys haven't seen it, or did it not, for whatever reason, shock you? That movie is intense.

[Tenebraeuk]

I thought Eden Lake was ok, but like loads of modern horrors it didn't really shock me, I suppose Antichrist was pretty grim, can't say I enjoyed it at all. As for CH, get it watched man, you'll probably come away thinking "what's the fuss?", like most horrors it depends on your age and frame of mind when you watch them. Only The Exorcist and that Bigfoot thing, Night of the Demon, kept me awake as an early teen...but that scene in Watership Down where the diggers destroy the rabbit warren...brrr.

[Francesco Dellamorte]

Originally Posted by GORE

I am surprised no one has mentioned EDEN LAKE yet. Is it because you guys haven't seen it, or did it not, for whatever reason, shock you? That movie is intense.

Eden Lake is ok, I have seen too many films with a similar theme like Ils & the dreadful Funny Games.

By far the most disturbing is A Serbian Film. I have seen my fair share of shocking inc Cannibal Holocaust, Men Behind The Sun, The August Underground Trilogy, Snuff 102, Slaughtered Vomit Dolls etc but they all pale next to A Serbian Film.
A wonderful film, I highly recomend it but it's imagery is shocking (sometimes I think it even crosses the line of what should & should not be filmed)

[Tenebraeuk]

I've read about A Serbian film and I just don't fancy watching it, I'm interested in seeing V/H/S, but since the initial hype surrounding it I haven't heard anything about it.

[JohnShaft]

Originally Posted by Tenebraeuk

I suppose Antichrist was pretty grim, can't say I enjoyed it at all.

That the Von Trier one (which Franc warned me off). I got through like 30 minutes before I had to turn it off to preserve my sanity. Still can't get over that "cock and balls in slow motion" shot.

As for CH, get it watched man, you'll probably come away thinking "what's the fuss?", like most horrors it depends on your age and frame of mind when you watch them.

I do think that's super true. Which is why I hold no truck with younger audiences saying "What's with all the hype about [old film]? It was awful". Definitely have to be taken as of their period.

Night of the Demon is another of those films I've yet to get around to watching. I really wish I could go back in time to 13 years old and watch all this stuff for the first time. If only I'd had the internet back then, my horror viewing wouldn't have been so closeted.

Originally Posted by Francesco Dellamorte

By far the most disturbing is A Serbian Film.
A wonderful film, I highly recommend it but it's imagery is shocking (sometimes I think it even crosses the line of what should & should not be filmed)

Another one I'm waiting to commit to. From your discourse on it I don't think it will turn out to be "one of my films", but I still want to see it.

Forgive my laziness Franc, but did you review it?

[Francesco Dellamorte]

Originally Posted by Tenebraeuk

I've read about A Serbian film and I just don't fancy watching it, I'm interested in seeing V/H/S, but since the initial hype surrounding it I haven't heard anything about it.

It is hard going but it does have a plot (unlike AU Trilogy) & is well made, but I can understand anyone not wishing to watch it.
I'm not sure about V/H/S I think horror is oversaturated with found footage movies & for every [REC] or Trollhunter there are 5 times as many poor movies like The Tunnel or The Butcher.

[Tenebraeuk]

I'm still interested in it, after all CH was in essence a found footage film and I'm not totally against the sub genre as a whole.

[Francesco Dellamorte]

Originally Posted by Tenebraeuk

I'm still interested in it, after all CH was in essence a found footage film and I'm not totally against the sub genre as a whole.

I have nothing against found footage movies, if they are done well they can be amazing. Noroi & [REC] are two of my all time favourite movies & they both fall into the found footage genre & Cannibal Holocaust is a stunning movie too. It just seems horror is flooded with these movies at the moment & a lot of them are poor movies. I dare say I will watch V/H/S at some stage.

[Tenebraeuk]

The problem with most found footage movies is the limitations imposed by its own film technique, they tend to only be good for the last five minutes then end too abruptly, as is the very nature of the film being lost then found, so the genre kind of hamstrings itself from the outset, if you follow my meaning. A good example is The Last Exorcism, a so so film until the last few minutes where it REALLY looked like it was going somewhere...then it just ended the same way as they all do.

[fromhell]

unfortunately nothing disturbs me anymore i have become quite numb and for all those infamous ones out there which i enjoyed so much watching like a serbian film, frontiers, martyrs, murder set pieces, and on and on all great in my book but none of them genuinely disturb me

even the guinea pig series was fascinating to watch and again enjoyable did nothing to disturb me

i guess if anything that could be disturbing watching all of those and so many countless others and not being disturbed at all

[JohnShaft]

Originally Posted by Tenebraeuk

The problem with most found footage movies is the limitations imposed by its own film technique, they tend to only be good for the last five minutes then end too abruptly

One of my issues with them is the sheer unbelievability of someone walking around with a camera filming 90 minutes of terror. The only series I've seen get past this is REC, where they used the camera as a light, and later in the dark for the infra-red. That was pretty inspired.

I think Cloverfield even had a guy say "put the fucking camera down!", with a response amounting to not much more than "naaaaah".

They'll play found footage out to hell before they stop using it.

I though NOROI's documentary realism made excellent use of the technique - particularly as they cut across days with it, and inserted TV clips into it.

[Stygian Underground]

Actually some of that is rather realistic these days. You see people staring at horrible events through the lens of their camera or camera phone. People are so absorbed in their texting and what not that they walk into traffic or telephone poles. With that level of obliviousness in society it isn't that far of a stretch to have some dumbass with a camera glued to his eye socket as a giant alien what ya ma whose it bears down on him.