What's the most disturbing movie you've ever seen?

Don't Go in the House. The serial killer burns a victim alive.

One movie that truly traumatized me was "The Prince of Tides".

I mean, you are watching a story full of romance, passion and all that stuff and then, halfway through the film... BAM... you have to stomach the scene in which Kate Nelligan and her two kids are getting raped at the same time.

Right away I thought about " The Killing Fields." I've only watched it twice, and I'll never forget it.

The Bridge, without question

Probably Come and See. It was a while ago and not something I have any desire to revisit.

Everyone should watch it, at least once, especially citizens of any nation caught up in war fever

I couldn't sleep after watching "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover."

Freaks (1932).

Apocalypse Now, specifically, the scene where they behead a water buffalo.

A tie between Threads and The Vanishing. They’re both excellent films, but I would never suggest them to my friends.

POISON (1991)

The Gene Genet prison sequence

Stomach turning!

“I Spit On Your Grave”. I don’t like portrayals of sexual violence and this walks the line between condemnation and titillation in a big way. Every time I thought the worst was over, she gets brutally raped again.

Mame

"Albert Nobbs"

Wow! You have some good choices!

Anything by Paul Verhoeven or Michael Haneke.

This is built for Requiem for a Dream. If you feel normal after watching that and want to watch perhaps again, you likely want to blow up buildings or kill a bunch of people. One and done but regret it.

Michael Haneke has said he thinks "120 Days of Sodom" was the greatest film of all time.

In the Realm of the Senses. That egg scene is...something

[quote] The Gene Genet prison sequence

Any relation to Jean?

[quote] Every time I thought the worst was over, she gets brutally raped again.

Sounds like a normal Saturday night for me.

Mr. Mom (see below)

Night and Fog

For kindertrauma, this scene from The Manster

Last House on the Left

The Deer Hunter

[quote]This is built for Requiem for a Dream.

R17 As well as Last Exit to Brooklyn. Both based on books by Hubert Selby, Jr.

House of Sand and Fog. It was gut wrenching and shattering and I will never watch it again.

OP again, still impressed with your choices. Mine is "Forced Entry," the only film Harry Reems (who was a gentle, fun-loving man) ever regrets making.

As was common in the early '70's in New York, the Mob gave a guy a few thousand bucks to make an X-rated movie. The director cast Harry as a gas station attendant and deranged Vietnam vet who tracks down his woman customers, rapes, and kills them.

Already troublesome, but the director made a worse decision: he cast a female porn star who actually could act, and the second rape/murder is absolutely harrowing. It's violent, unsimulated anal sex at gunpoint and knifepoint, shot in a filthy apartment with no budget, Harry verbally abusing her while she screams and begs, and the girl makes it totally believable. It ends when Harry cums and then kills her while war noises play in his head. On top of all this, the picture/sound quality are so bad that you feel like you could actually be watching a crime.

I can't imagine the sickest weenie-wacker sitting through the violence to see the sex in a porn theater, and the extremely hardcore content kept it out of drive-ins and grindhouses. Truly upsetting.

Recently The Coffee Table is a hard sit.

Silence of the Lambs

I was only willing to read its Wiki entry, r30.

Jill Learns about Periods

R32, Thanks for the warning.

No Country For Old Men

The Coffee Table is a hard sit.

Not for me - Danny Thomas.

Eden Lake

[quote]I was only willing to read its Wiki entry

That's smart, r32. It's as bad as you think.

Don't get me wrong — 99% of my viewing is vintage monster movies, women in prison movies, drive-in fare. But this was a thread about the most disturbing movies, and "Forced Entry" is the first one I thought of.

Good lord, r37, that's a firm no from me. Watched a recap and there's no way.

The Hitcher (1986).

The movie isn’t especially good, but towards the end one of the protagonists dies in a REALLY horrible way.

You don’t see it happen, but I remember being really horrified.

[quote]Good lord, [R37], that's a firm no from me. Watched a recap and there's no way.

Yeah. I watch really gruesome horror movies all the time no problem but Eden Lake is the only one I can't bring myself to rewatch. Only film that has ever scared me - it's traumatic.

I got towards the end of the recap, r41, and when I realized where it was going I stopped watching. I thought it was an incredibly sadistic thing to do to the audience.

Thank you for the advise on Coffee Table and Forced Entry. Won't watch either or look for more information. I don't need more shit in my head.

Exit To Eden.

R43, Very wise. We need to be careful what we feed our brains.

I don't really understand the need to MAKE torture porn movies or WATCH them.

"Ha ha...it's just in fun! It's SATIRE!!! Ha ha!!!!"

Jeanne Genet

"Martyrs"

Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood's boxing martyr movie. Hillary Swank is terrific, but the fatal beatdown of her character is something I will never watch again. Gruesome and disturbing.

Riding the Bus With My Sister

I started The Coffee Table this morning due to this thread. Had no idea what it was about going in.

YIKES!!

Irreversible- a French film. Horrifying

Midsommar.

Just a sick film from beginning to end. Truly disturbing.

From the New York Times review:

.For all of Mr. Pasolini's desire to make "Salo" an abstract statement, one cannot look at images of people being scalped, whipped, gouged, slashed, covered with excrement and sometimes eating it and react abstractedly unless one shares the director's obsessions.Far from being the "agonized scream of total despair" the New York Film Festival calls the film, it is a demonstration of nearly absolute impotency, if there is such a thing. Ideas get lost in a spectacle of such immediate reality and cruelty."Salo" will be shown at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center today at 1 P.M. and repeated there tomorrow evening at 6. It opens its regular commercial engagement Monday at the Festival

Oct. 1, 1977

The Divide (2011) - An obscure low budget post-apocalyptic thriller. It fucked with my head for days after seeing it

R19 THAT'S where I've seen it! I couldn't remember the name of the movie, but that scene with the egg has been emblazoned in my mind for DECADES.

At the time, Eraserhead was pretty disturbing.

Lucille Ball in MAIM.

When Lucille stabs the kids to death and cackles with that laugh? It can never ben unseen

A Serbian Film.

Audition.

In My Skin.

Irreversible.

Ichi the Killer.

I still can’t repeat watch “Jacob’s Ladder” from 1990 with Tim Robbins. Disturbing to say the least.

Probably A Serbian Film. Most of it is just edgy like a Ramstein video until... that scene. I do NOT want to vacation in Serbia.

HENRY, PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER.

It's hard to forget it isn't an actual snuff film when you're watching it.

EO, movie by Jerzy Skolimowski, about a donkey encountering terrible people. It's a masterpiece but one of the most traumatic movie experiences of my life. I saw it two years ago and still can't get it out of my head and it makes me incredibly sad and hating humans so much.

This same thread every few months.

[quote]I mean, you are watching a story full of romance, passion and all that stuff and then, halfway through the film... BAM... you have to stomach the scene in which Kate Nelligan and her two kids are getting raped at the same time.

But the Academy thought this scene and the rest of the movie directed itself. Sure - if Costner or Gibson directed, you think they'd be ignored by the Academy ?

Tusk

Dear Zachary

The original "The Wicker Man".

MAME starring Lucille Ball.

Santa Sangre directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky (1989):

"In Mexico, the traumatized son (Axel Jodorowsky) of a knife-thrower (Guy Stockwell) and a trapeze artist bonds grotesquely with his now-armless mother (Blanca Guerra)."

The Human Centipede

What did I just watch at r70?

at one time I would have said LUNA

I have seen The Holy Mountain and now want to see r70

I'm the one who first mentioned The Coffee Table and I actually think it succeeds at what it's doing, and it is the DARKEST comedy imaginable. Like just reading a plot synopsis won't fill in the experience of how they manage to walk a tightrope of actually making it a genuine comedy, just for sickos. Among which I count myself I guess because I was laughing. And also simultaneously horrified. It's like slapstick somehow, just from Hell.

I'm the one who could only read the Wiki synopsis, r75. For some reason I'd missed the part about it being a dark comedy, so the tone of the film sounds less disturbing than I'd imagined.

Wrote about it on another thread....

"Beneath the Planet of the Apes." when I was a kid. Scared the living daylights out of me.

It's not loud, in-your-face disturbing, but as a lifelong sufferer of depression and harborer of suicidal thoughts, 'Night Mother had a profound effect on me.

Inside- 2007 French Horror Fiilm- It is brilliant "Le Interieur" (SP)

The Danish version of Speak No Evil- Absolutely fanatastic film.

Haneke's The Seventh Continent

Recently- Magazine Dreams

Dear Evan Hansen

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, especially the meat hook scene.

The House That Jack Built

Hereditary.

Another vote for Last House on the Left. A friend’s “bad seed” older sister dared us all to watch it in their basement one noght when I was 17. I lasted two thirds through and was profoundly disturbed and agitated inside. I stood up and left. Walked home a half mile in the dark and my parents said I looked like I’d seen a ghost. I lied and mumbled something about hearing an animal in the woods while I was walking.

Shoah. Documentaries spliced together from hours of interviews with Holocaust survivors. Released like 30 years after the interviews took place. What they endured was harrowing and inhumane. That anyone survived at all is a miracle. But how to live as a survivor? No easy task.

Link

r84 -

Torta, you were supposed to keep telling yourself "It's only a movie, it's only a movie."

Good choice r85

Torta how are your friends, the houseguests with such strict dietary restrictions.

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Their father died somewhere in war, and their mother was burned to death by a bomb raid. The start off living with an awful aunt who steals their food for herself, and they eventually decide to be homeless beside stay with her.

But, the most haunting thing was that Setsuko, 4, was entirely dependent on her older brother, Seita, who is just 14. Seita has to beg and steal for food and water. The entire time Setsuko has no idea the gravity of what is going on.

The Witches

The Bridge is so disturbing - I caught it one late night and didn't know what I was watching at first. Is this a recreation or am I actually watching people jump off bridges to their deaths?

Yes, I'm watching people suicidal people the moments before their deaths and seeing them jump.

I would put Magdalene Sisters up there - a film created from 4 women's stories about how they were forced into manual labor without pay for the Catholic Church in Ireland. It's rage-inducing. And the last one closed in 1996 (!). Some women spent their entire lives behind the walls doing laundry without pay and could not leave. The few women who were pregnant had their babies taken from them and sold for adoption.

Johnny Got His Gun.

Any documentary about the Twin Towers during 9/11. People on the top floors decided to jump to death over being burned alive.

Kiss Me Kate (1953). The hyper-bright colors . . . the self-conscious and overwrought choreography . . . the smug cheerfulness . . . the shallowness . . . HELPMEHELPMEICANNEVERUNSEEITGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH . . .

R29 In that same vein, another Harry Reems movie called "Fleshpot on 42nd Street" from 1972.

It's an ultra low budget softcore movie that I believe also features Laura Cannon, one of the actresses from "Forced Entry." It's a dark, depressing story of a Times Square prostitute headed nowhere fast. She happens to meet a nice man with a good job and a future who treats her well (Reems), and just when it seems like things are going to work out for her, something tragic happens. The movie's ending is incredibly sad and disturbing.

I actually saw this one on TMC a few years ago, back when they had the still had that late night "TCM Underground" programming. I can't believe they actually showed it, what with all the penises and vaginas on display.

The Green Inferno. I love horror movies, but this one was traumatizing.

Megan Is Missing. It starts off slow but the ending is horrific.

Dahmer- Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. This Netflix series was so disturbing I had to put it on pause a few times during every episode and had to wait a few days before I watched the next episode.

"Mother," that horrific Darren Aronofsky mess with Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem.

I found Megan is Missing absolutely disgusting, r97. I also couldn't get through Soft and Quiet.

Lilya 4-ever, Happiness, I stand alone, A Serbian Film. Each for a different reason.

[quote]In that same vein, another Harry Reems movie called "Fleshpot on 42nd Street" from 1972. It's an ultra low budget softcore movie that I believe also features Laura Cannon, one of the actresses from "Forced Entry." It's a dark, depressing story of a Times Square prostitute headed nowhere fast. She happens to meet a nice man with a good job and a future who treats her well (Reems), and just when it seems like things are going to work out for her, something tragic happens.

Good find, r96! "Fleshpot" has great footage of seedy old Times Square, including a couple of gay bars. Laura's roommate is a drag queen. It was directed by Z-list cult filmmaker Andy Milligan and is the only Milligan film I've ever been able to sit through. Of Milligan, John Waters said, "Is it possible to be a genius with absolutely no talent?"

Audrey Rose. Freaked me the fuck out. Rosemary Baby. Just because. Jaws. I was too young. Still have an unusual fear of water nearly 50 years later. Thank you uncle 😀

Any of the August Underground films. Vile, bloody, and disturbing. A Serbian Film is almost unwatchable. But I've watched it a few times. It is truly not for anyone.

The 2001 Japanese film Suicide Club.

Opening scene is a bunch of Japanese school girls jumping in front of a commuter train. Body parts flying everywhere. It's actually sickly funny, at first because it's so blatantly fake, but the film gets more and more vile.

Worst scene: puppies in sacks being stomped to death at an underground bowling alley.

R92 I remember thinking The Bridge was going to be so disturbing, and then when I saw it it didn’t bother me that much. I remember the one young guy who survived tell the entire tale of his jump in complete detail and I thought it was fascinating.

The 911 jumpers disturbed me much more.

[quote] Worst scene: puppies in sacks being stomped to death at an underground bowling alley.

Sounds hot!

The 70s Watership Down. An animated movie, promoted for kids with some pretty brutal deaths is a tough watch at 7 or later in life.

Some of these films feature such sick and brutal acts that I have to question the screenwriter/director’s intent and sanity. Who thinks of portraying such horrible things?

Salo is ok , just rewatched & it's kind of tame imo. If you watched saw, salo is child play

r109 is oh so edgy.

Mame

There's late and then there's r111.

“Last House on the Left” is such a weirdly inconsistent movie. The rape and murders are very sad and bleak. I do like Joe there’s no real blame assigned to the victims. But we spend too much time getting to know the killers before the crime. Then we have bizarre slapstick moments with the cops and that country music. We have the least concerned mom in movie history as when her daughter is dying in front of her, she asks her husband, “Isn’t there anything we can do?” with all the concern of a mom whose daughter has a boo-boo.

Then we get those closing credits with chipper music as we get to see who played which terrible character. Yay!

Irreversible with Monica Belucci

Albert Noobs

[quote] “Last House on the Left” is such a weirdly inconsistent movie. The rape and murders are very sad and bleak. I do like Joe there’s no real blame assigned to the victims.

I do like you too.

I second "Martyrs". That film is a grueling masterpiece. "Wolf Creek" is also extremely disturbing because it feels so realistic.

Nope, you couldn't get me to sit through Martyrs, r117.

[quote] The 911 jumpers disturbed me much more.

They weren't the typical suicide. They were choosing a way to die. Death was inevitable.

Gaspar Noe's "Climax" is extremely fucked up

R105 and R119 the people had a choice to burn to death or jump to their deaths.

Horrifying.

R118 fair enough, but I think it is a masterpiece that's worth watching if you can swing it. It's a well-constructed film with some interesting, deep themes. It's easily one of the best horror films of the 21st century IMO. For most people, I think it's a one and done viewing, though—obviously not a pleasant popcorn flick.

The human slaughterhouse in Cloud Atlas really disturbed me.

R121 / R105 / R119 These people were real not characters in a film. It was terrifying watching them in real time, jumping to their deaths. What would you do if faced with that choice - burn to death or fall to death? What went through their minds at the time?

[quote] What would you do if faced with that choice - burn to death or fall to death?

Kobayashi Maru!

I started watching Audrey Rose for the first time thanks to this thread!

Both the 9/11 jumpers and The Bridge jumpers were horrifying to witness, of course.

But the utter despair of the bridge jumpers disturbed me more. Their suffering did not begin on the bridge, and the jump itself was the culmination of weeks, months, years, entire lifetimes of disappointments, losses, rejections, shame, guilt, grief, anger. As someone who has struggled with such feelings for great stretches of my life, I am pretty familiar with the thoughts that lead someone up to that point. They are utterly exhausting and soul-killing. But even those thoughts are hard to articulate or even define.

The fear of a fiery death, on the other hand, is immediate, tangible, and understandable. Their decision to jump from the towers involved a horrifying calculus made in moments. But the bridge jumpers had been struggling with the decision -- live or die, jump or continue on down the bridge -- for a very long time. It's one thing to jump when you know the physical alternative will be worse and just as fatal. It's quite another to be in such quiet, unspeakable despair that jumping seems the only viable alternative.

Earthlings (2005 documentary). I've never eaten meat since.

Runner up: The Cove.

The Road - the scene where they go into the cellar. I was not expecting that.

It was so disturbing I came out of the cinema and it was grey and raining and I felt so ugh I went back in to the cinema and watched It's Complicated where Meryl loves a lot of semen.

I'm torn between "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" and "Audition."

One of them - or maybe it's both - has the sound (but not the sight) of a severed head dropping on the floor, and that sound was the most unsettling thing I ever experienced hearing in a movie.

R78 - a number of years ago, I saw "'Night Mother" on Broadway (starring Edie Falco) and the guy sitting in front of me was SO distraught during the last half hour of the play, I thought they were going to need an ambulance to take him to a hospital.

r130 I think it's Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer (which I have only watched once)

For me, the most disturbing scene was the home invasion scene. It's extended and has a very unsettling documentary feel to it

I know a lot of people thought the movie Seven with Brad Pitt was good. Perhaps it was well made/acted. I was absolutely disgusted and disturbed by it. It weighed on my mind for days and I wish that I hadn't seen it. Fake horror things like vampire movies don't bother me, but Seven seemed to real and disturbing.

I can't watch The Bridge. A friend of mine drove his car onto the Golden Gate Bridge, parked it in the middle of the right lane, got out of the car, then ran to the railing and threw himself off.

The Bridge would be too much for me to handle.

[quote]It's Complicated where Meryl loves a lot of semen

Thank you, r129, for the most disturbing sentence I've ever read on Datalounge

The moment in Last House in the Left that upset me the worst was the moment where the girl being brutalized pees her pants and the killers all point and laugh at her. I've only watched the movie once because that moment of humuliation was too cruel and the actress played it too well. I've watched Texas Chain Saw Massacre a hundred times but LHOTL feels somehow even.scuzzier. I think the weird tonal shifts are part of it. The juxtaposition of goofiness and absolute bleakness is jarring and off-putting in a way I think Craven meant intentionally. He was a very smart man - a lit professor before turning to movies. It's a remake of Bergman! lol

I love that "Last House on the Left" and "Little House on the Prairie" have nearly the same acronyms.

Now there's a mash-up I'd watch, r136

Michael Landon with a chainsaw !

Where do you think Michael Landon got the idea for the rape clown, r136?

R127 In a strange way, that’s the exact reasoning I kind of had the opposite feeling. I almost saw the Bridge people as ending their long suffering. Almost like euthanasia. Sad for sure. Suicide is a difficult issue, but doing it from a bridge or a gun result in the same ending. My father committed suicide, so I’m not speaking from a hypothetical. We knew he was suffering and it was oddly not traumatic to us when it happened.

The 911 jumpers OTOH presented people with an absolutely horrific choice to make, immediately. I can actually put myself into envisioning that situation and it terrifies me to the bone.

Girl Lost and Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story. They're about how girls start off as Webcam girls but then get trafficked.

Not the Sinister movies, but the films found within the movies.

Cronenberg's Dead Ringers

Gynecological instruments for alien women . . . OMG

^^^ oops gynecological instruments for mutant women

Any Nancy Myer or Nora Ephron movie.

Pretty much every Diane Keaton movie made in the last 35 years.

Martyrs

There’s some German horror film where a woman in a wheelchair is tortured. A guy rips her colostomy bag out and fucks the hole.

This is the movie.

That's what we call a good time, r146!

The only movie to be banned in Britain for language alone during the "video nasties" period was a grindhouse feature called "Fight For Your Life."

Three racist thugs (led by William Sanderson of Larry, Darryl, and Darryl — who is terrifying) break out of prison and take refuge in the remote home of a black preacher and his family. Every slur possible is used in this movie, starting with the N-word and going from there. At one point, they make the father do a minstrel routine at gunpoint.

It's still a rough watch, even today. I've read that it had two different trailers: one for the Southern drive-in audience (heavy on the racial slurs) and an inner-city grindhouse trailer that emphasized the black man getting even with the racists.

r149 fascinating. I thought I knew a lot about film, and never encountered that one

"When the wind blows". It's an animated story of an oblivious, sweet but ignorant old british couple living in the country that slowly rot to death with radiation while naively waiting for the government to rescue them after a nuclear strike. Fun stuff. Here's a little preview:

1969 Film short of Shirley Jacksons book “ The Lottery” . Still looking for the right support group.

R152 I read the story years ago and remember being jolted by the ending. I never knew it was a film. Don't know if I can watch it now even if I can find it.

R146 only a German would make a film like this

[quote]1969 Film short of Shirley Jacksons book “ The Lottery”

This was a good CSI Miami.

"Joe," with Peter Boyle and Susan Sarandon from 1970.

The ending shocked the hell out of me when I saw it on TV at the tender age of 10. To this day, I'll never understand why my parents let me watch it.

Hostel 2, more so than the first one. (I wouldn't watch the 3rd). Especially the scenes where the Heather Mattarrazzo character is being tortured. Part of the problem being it was so realistic, especially her character and her convincing performance.

I kept thinking "I'm supposed to be enjoying this?" Totally understood why it was deemed Torture Porn.

R157 With a name like Hostel, I would have hoped it was a porn about young men in a dorm style all male youth hostel. Also with open showers.

Independence Day

Dementia was considered very disturbing...in 1955.

Possum

I am watching Dementia now!!

It's the devaluation of human life and the cruelty from which the true horror stems...

Like Trump.

R151 I was in TEARS watching that.

I just watched The Coffee Table. It felt like watching an episode of Three's Company written by David Lynch.

"NO, you can't go in there....

"Why not"?

"Because...uh...Jack's sleeping."

The first disturbing movie I saw was Silent Night, Deadly Night, about the killer Santa Claus. I was about ten years old. My parents were super strict and would not let me watch anything over PG, but my friend's parents had no such restrictions, and he could watch anything R-rated. The movie was stupid, but also abhorrent in every way, and people were justified in picketing theatres during its release.

Oh I'm the one that brought up The Coffee Table earlier and I just remembered another one that fucked me up (since Germans were brought up) -- the 2019 serial killer movie The Golden Glove. It's about a real life serial killer in the 1970s who hid the women's body parts inside his apartment and you can p[ractically smell the rotting bodies through the screen. The lead actor is foul, just disgusting (but I actually think if I'm not mistaken he's kind of hot under the make-up). But the director is really very talented and the movie is extremely hard to watch. Enjoy!

R127 confuses the matter for no good reason.

R165, your baby gay heart wasn’t even slightly moved by the hotness that was Robert Brian Wilson?

He was gorgeous, R168. Thanks for pointing that out.

Martyrs. The only movie that made me feel ashamed for watching it. Mary! But honestly it did.

(15) 40s Noir Mysteries So Dark They Vanished From Reels

I can watch many of the films mentioned, but for some reason Rituals (starring Hal Holbrook) always seems to depress the hell out of me.

Boxing Helena - 1993 release - about a surgeon who amputates the limbs of a woman he once had an affair with. A bit unusual to say the least.

So, what did you think of Dementia, r162?

R168 His brother Ricky from the sequel is much hotter.

r174 I've been busy preparing for a conference so haven't made it through yet.

But from what I have seen it is PURE CAMP. It feels like John Waters and Mel Brooks collaborated on a spoof of a noir psychological thriller.

R159 what is disturbing about Independence Day?

I am not r177, but there is this scene:

Someone probably mentioned this one but the original Funny Games. That one was a gut punch.

Glenn Greenwald's home videos

R177 - I believe what disturbed me the most is that the story seemed so real. Incidents like this happen every day, all over the planet. Not to mention that I became invested in the characters.

I'm not a crier, but I sobbed, the same way I sobbed at Sophie's Choice. Both of those films have lived rent free in my head for decades.

[quote]Boxing Helena - 1993 release - about a surgeon who amputates the limbs of a woman he once had an affair with. A bit unusual to say the least.

R173 I would actually like to see this again. I wasn't paying attention the first time (no, I wasn't blowing some guy) and missed a lot. Also, did you know Madonna considered the role of Helena?

Antichrist-sick

Creep-a videographer is hired by one to film his life

[quote]r181 what disturbed me the most is that the story seemed so real. Incidents like this happen every day, all over the planet. Not to mention that I became invested in the characters.

Independence Day (1983) is the only movie they managed to make Diane Wiest look halfway pretty in.

She's a very special actress, but often a tiny bit troll-doll-like.

Thank you for clarifying with the year, r184. I thought everyone was talking about the Will Smith movie and couldn't imagine anyone being traumatized by that

"Creep" is distrubing. Especially, since I've had a crush on Duplass since "The Puffy Chair"

[quote] 1969 Film short of Shirley Jacksons book “ The Lottery” . Still looking for the right support group.

Back in the 70s my 5th grade teacher showed this to our class.

Pure psychological trauma

Happiness (1998) is quite fucked for the lines they made a child actor recite.

"Dad?"

"Yes, Billy?"

Kindertrauma is such an interesting concept. My kindertrauma is a movie where a grown man fucks a puppet on the grass. It's a scene I only remember watching as a child but it's stuck with me. I was asking ChatGPT what movie it could have been and the closest I've gotten to is The Item. And the plot rings familiar. I will watch and see if it's the scene I saw.

r188, That's such a difficult film. Yes, I laughed whole-heartedly at it, but it's a disturbing film.

R4, you really nailed it. I’ve seen it about 20 times, because it’s really so fascinating — once you get past the shock of the film’s conceit.

The most compelling parts are the surviving families’ denial, acceptance, hurt, peace with what happened. There’s psychology and wildly mixed feelings in the wake (sorry) of the passings.

There’s a woman who appears in silhouette— she’s a real villain in her indifference and unwillingness to help. That was really devastating.

The parents of the young man who are so pure and good, talking about how they understand their son’s decision and had to let him go. Oooph.

And the survivor. His story is really powerful.

Thanks for reminding me of it. I have the DVD. I’ll watch today.

r191 I think the parents of the guy who jumped are the most devastating. The utter shock combined with resignation is haunting, and I remember them petting the dog to comfort themselves. The friend of Gene is haunting too, especially when he says, "I wanted to go down to the morgue, bring him back to life, and ask, "Why did you do this?" I never thought he would hurt me. And he hurt me.

I suppose it's a film as much about grief as it is about suicide.

Am I right in remembering the guy who jumped and survived is hot?

R112 made me laugh out loud so hard that other people in the diner turned to look at me.

R112, you’re a magnificent bitch. Marry me?

I need r146 on a t-shirt.

I thought Sauvage (Wild) was very disturbing - even though it had some hot gay sex, lots of dick, etc.

R193, he is hot! Thank God he survived!

The Bridge 2006 documentary. Stay away from it.

Silverlake Life: The View From Here...a documentary about a gay couple both dying of AIDS. It's a very hard watch.

R199 I watched that to the very bitter end. I did so not out of enjoyment or entertainment or interest but to come close to understanding what Aids victims went through and what that piece of shit disease had the capacity to do. I'm not sorry. But dear god what a hard, bitter watch. RIP to those 2 lovely human beings.

Toughened your nipples, didn’t it R31?

R96 doesn't seem disturbing to me

Sahara (1943) with Humphrey Bogart has a scene where a Nazi soldier is smothered to death in a sandhill when he tries to escape from the American troupe. You don't actually see it done but the idea is very disturbing to me.

Dancer in the Dark.

I was so traumatized by it I can barely remember what it was about, only that it was a tragedy that haunted me for a long time. I believe I ultimately blocked out the memory.

Good movies I usually watch more than once (with some years in between, of course). This one. I won't ever watch again.

The Lake Berryessa stabbings' scene in "Zodiac" always hunt me.

The Hostel franchise made me weary of traveling overseas. It's very disturbing to think about the fact that there are people out in the world who get off on torturing other human beings. Even American Hostels freak me out. I rarely travel alone anyway

NOT the most distrubing but I watched "Terrifer 3" last night. By watched, I mean only half of it becaue it's pretty fucking excessive. The writer needs to be on a government watchlist.

To my dismay, I did laugh a few times.

It's not the most disturbing film I've ever seen, but I watched Dead Ringers (1988) last night, and I found it almost irredeemably bleak.

I almost walked out of The Devil's Rejects during the motel room assault/murder scene. It was so tense and cruel and seemed to go on forever. Poor Terri from Three's Company. The whole movie made me feel dirty for watching

PS I just realized that Dead Ringers was based in part on real-life twin gynecologists Stewart and Cyril Marcus. Yikes!!

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^^The book is even better than the movie!

r212 who wrote it?

Bari Wood & Jack Geasland. I read it many, many years ago. Never wanted to see the movie.

You guys should love it.

Thanks r214!

Wendy and Lucy is another quietly disturbing film. One film I could only ever watch once.

I talked up how depressing Dancer in the Dark is to my boyfriend for years so when we finally sw it together he thought it wasn't very. It still fucked me u though. Bjork is so good in it, such a natural performer, it's a shame that Lars von Trier made her never want to act again.

R181 I felt the same way watching the wife-beating scenes in The Burning Bed. Hard to watch.

"Faces of Death", "Traces of Death" etc. I can watch just about anything, but these actual footage video compilations of people getting killed, animal cruelty, etc are usually where I draw the line.

More of a documentary than a movie, but "The Killing of America" from 1981, basically documenting gun violence (and just pretty much violence in general) in america in possibly it's most violent era. Serious killers, mass murderers, demented cult leaders, some outrageously graphic footage of gun suicide victims (I truly recomend skipping this part)....a hell of a cheer upper....makes you really question the idea of "the good old days" (at least as far as the 60s-80s are concerned). It is very gritty and sleazy and from that era so people who are fascinated by that era as I am might....well, not enjoy it, but certainly be compelled by it.

I’m watching it right now.

Dont Stop The Music

r221 everybody in that movie is coked to the gills (it's great)

I just rewatched The Bridge. There is a 2018 pic of Kevin Hines on his wiki page.

Glad he stopped with the underbeard look.

Last Tango in Paris

The Vanishing, original Dutch one. I thought about the ending for days. Weeks, even.

Me too, r226

The remake was just stupid.