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/

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?
 
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Your op is faggoty as fuck but the topic of disturbing films is interesting.

The films that always fucked me up as a kid was Threads, a movie produced her in the UK that highlights how grim British film making can be. The entire movie is a documentary style look at the build up and post-reality of a complete nuclear exchange. There's literally nothing happy or positive about that movie.

I remember seeing A Serbian Film when I was younger, and while I don't normally advocate for censorship of media... well A Serbian Film is one of the few exceptions because it's ultimately just a snuff film that intentionally uses child rape as a point of disturbance with absolutely zero rationale beyond to simply shock the audience.
 
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I remember seeing A Serbian Film when I was younger, and while I don't normally advocate for censorship of media... well A Serbian Film is one of the few exceptions because it's ultimately just a snuff film that intentionally uses child rape as a point of disturbance with absolutely zero rationale beyond to simply shock the audience.
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OI M8 DA GUB'MINT S'POSED TA BE PROTEC'IN' US FROM DIS SICK FILF INNIT BRUV

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Censoring fictional films won't make your country any less of a haven for actual pedophiles, Nigel. The producers of A Serbian Film were very careful to make sure that none of the actual kids working on the film were exposed to the film's content. Whatever you think of it, it is not child pornography, and no children were harmed in the making of it.
 
Writer/Director S. Craig Zahler has made some movies like that. Dragged Across Concrete, and Bone Tomahawk come to mind.
 
When discussing the most disturbing films, I think it's important to clarify what a film is. Does it need to be given an official age rating? Does it need to be widely projected in a country? Does it need to have an official media release like cassette or DVD? Case in point, these kind of lists largely ignore mondo films presumably because most of them don't satisfy at least one of the aforementioned criteria, for example, Traces of Death never got a BBFC rating.
 
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I’m not touching the second or third ones with a ten foot pole.
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The second is nightmare fuel. It's such an uncomfortable viewing experience, and has some of the worst depictions of body horror I've seen in mainstream media. It's actually impressive in how effective it is at making every frame disturbing.
 
Testacles Maximus dijo:
The Human Centipede is one of the few scenarios I genuinelly believe is a fate worse than death.
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The Human Centipede trilogy is so lost up its own ass (pun very much intended) that it fails even at being a shock film imo. Is a one trick pony, a very fucked up one trick pony, but still just that.

I think what each of us understand as disturbing is the true litmus test of our age. New Extremity films and shit like Last house on the left or I saw the devil are very easy choices but there are people nowadays that hold those movies in the same respect as the HC franchise because of them being shocking regardless of the artistry on display.
Then you have psychedelic horror, which crosses over to other genres and derives scares from implication and themes. This one subgenre has been championed a lot by A24 and basically is all we get nowadays

You guys have definitely seen at least 3 movies from both subgenres so you know that sometimes what scares one person may look very goofy to others.
 
One of my favorites is Gozu which has very disturbing events but its presents them in a way that's fucking hilarious. The first thing that happens is a man beats a tiny dog to death and I laugh every time. On paper its should be disturbing and creepy but its weird lynchian tone, everybody just reacting so straight faced to all the weird bullshit and sho aikawa being so ridiculously crazy makes the movie hysterical.
A movie that actually disturbs and creeps me the fuck out is Cure. It doesn't have over the top gore or body horror just a creepy fucking Drifter, a slow suffocating atmosphere and things you probably don't want to think about. also i guess that doc did get his face peeled off and theres that monkey thing.
 
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One movie that comes to mind is David Fincher's Zodiac, a film from the late-2000's based on the events of the Zodiac murders.

What made the film really disturbing to me is that it was based on a real story. There was a serial killer that went by the pseudonym 'Zodiac', he murdered real people, and sadly the case went cold and it's still a cold case to this very day. The scene where Zodiac attacked those two people at the lake was very disturbing to watch because that actually happened in real life.

I find that movie more scary than something like Friday the 13th or Halloween because Zodiac was a real person that killed and his victims are real. If you ask me, real life is often more scary than a movie about ghosts and goblins and a movie about something that actually happened is what makes Zodiac a disturbing film. Real people scare me more than a monster with claws on screen. It's a great film, it kept me on the edge of my seat and not too many thriller horror films can do that for me.
 
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House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects - disturbing albeit with a lot of comedic relief. TDR in particular is a mindfuck, because if you get sucked into it as Rob Zombie intends you to, by the end you're rooting for the bad guys and it catches you off guard emotionally. It's truly conflicting because the Firefly clan are without question absolute pieces of shit.

Mandy - Everything that happens in this film feels like a really bad acid trip. One of Nic Cage's finer indie efforts.

NONFICTION

Looking for Mr. Goodbar - Based on a novel about a real murder. Without giving anything away, the final 10 minutes of this film are nearly unwatchable. Leaves you absolutely sick to your stomach.

A Killing In A Small Town - 1990 made for TV (CBS) movie with Barbara Hershey and Brian Dennehy. Based on a real crime, this movie's climactic scene is absolutely appalling, especially considering that it actually happened exactly as depicted (if all the courtroom testimony is to be believed). Also nearly unwatchable. To this day I still don't know how this film found its way onto a network channel; beyond R-rated.

A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story - 1989 made for TV (NBC) movie about a woman crippled by her ex husband, and the resulting lawsuit against a negligent small-town police department. Also based on a real crime, this movie is utterly infuriating as well as disturbing because of its accurate depictions of the inept, bumbling, incompetent, and apathetic failures of the Torrington, CT police department to do its motherfucking job.
 
Lot of movies that try to be disturbing are just too over the top they are comical, see Human Centipede or A Serbian Film.

Documentaries are where I find the most disturbing movies, something like Dear Zachary really gets under my skin.
 
I suggest two more far more normie films, that will still live in my head rent free forever. Buried (2016) and The Last Horror Movie (2003). Both have a mid premise, but the execution was good enough to give me nightmares.
 
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