I’ve seen most of the movies mentioned here 🫠
IMHO, A Serbian Film and Human Centipede 2 have some of the most disturbing scenes I’ve ever seen. Realizing that they are made for shock value kind of make them laughable though.
SALO is often mentioned in lists of fucked up movies, but it’s really not much. There’s some poop eating, light rape and someone’s tongue is pulled/cut out. It might have been shocking back in the day.
Irreversible made me feel nauseous and had an unsettling feeling from start to end. (Made me vary about Climax, which kind of have a similar feel, but is only fucked up to a much smaller degree). That one for too long scene that just foes on forever makes it the most disturbing film I have ever watched.
Heriditary has some fucked up scenes too and truly scared me. (But Midsommar bearly made an impression on me. Bearly).
Requiem for a Dream made me feel bad about drugs.
Bone Tomahawk kind of seems like an average action/adventurish movie in a western setting until… stuff happens.
Also worth a mention are Martyrs, Ôdishon, The Woman, Inside, The Girl Next Door (not the comedy) and either versions of Funny Games.
May have forgotten some.
(I have no plans to watch any of the Terrifier movies).
Martyrs (assuming you mean the original) I found fascinating. While it may not be particularly deep, at least there was a point to it, even if that point is all encompassing nihilism.
For me, that is the point in horror as a genre, to confront you with philosophy. Zombie movies aren’t really about zombies, etc…
IMHO, A Serbian Film and Human Centipede 2 have some of the most disturbing scenes I’ve ever seen. Realizing that they are made for shock value kind of make them laughable though.
…which is why I agree with you completely here, they are just gore for the sake of gore. The best bit about HC2 is how HC exists as a film within in, which opens the possibility that it’s also a part of St Elsewhere.
Fun story, Salo was required reading (I guess watching?) for a few friends of mine at uni on different courses. I guess the lecturers were having fun messing with freshers. I already had a copy (ahoy) and was known as “the guy that watches weird films” so I ended up being a watch buddy for various people who really, really, didn’t like gore. I ended up dating one of them for a bit, which was always a fun “how did you meet?” story.
Bone Tomahawk, heh, very few of us knew what we were getting into when we started watching. My partner went to bed and I just put something on. “Oh, look, a western. This should be nice and light”
Same here. I love a good western, so this caught me by surprise as I didn’t check the name of the movie beforehand.
I immediately recognized the name from the “most fucked up movies” lists that litter the web.
I’d love to compare lists of (potentially) disturbing movies. Feel free to message me if you’d like.
Also the first Terrifier (although called something else I think?) was shitty (in my opinion) and I didn’t finish it. Haven’t tried the others.
I found Terrifier and its sequel to be pretty good for what it is. A violent modern take on the classic slasher movies. It’s schlocky, but that’s because slasher movies are a bit schlocky.
The actor does a great job hamming it up and making it all a bit more than a classic slasher, too, entertainment wise. If he tried to play it more serious scary clown style, it’d probably have faceplanted for me.
Yeah. I don’t think I gave it a good try. After your, and another’s comments. I’ll give it a fair try at some point soon.
Honestly, I would skip straight to Terrifier 2. It’s a much more polished film with developed characters than Terrifier 1, and you’d only have missed details about a minor side character who was also in the first movie. If you like 2, you can go back and watch Terrifier 1 (and All Hallows Eve, even though that one hardly counts as a movie or a Terrifier movie).
I’ve kind of mellowed out for a while. I’m still into horror, but the truly disturbing stuff doesn’t just doesn’t speak to me any longer.
It’s great, IF you really love that old, low-budget, late-80s horror. It’s a love-letter to classic slasher films, just like Kill Bill was a tribute to Hong Kong martial arts films and Japanese chanbara. If you don’t like the source material, you’re probably not going to like them.
Good point. It was quite a while ago and didn’t really approach it from that angle. With all the sequels, I should try the first again.
It’s complete schlock. But it’s fun schlock.
I do like that. Also my original comment was based on “all hallows eve” which someone pointed out. My fault. I’m gonna give both another try though.
Apparently Terrifier 2 is much better, still mostly shit, but has some of the best gore in any horror movie.
Definitely gonna watch that and 1. Apparently I was mistaken in my original comment, my opinion was based on “all hallows eve” and not Terrifier 1. I will watch both again. Love that horror movie gore that’s over the top.
The divide 2011
Slither (2006) fucked me up the first time I watched it. Now I can watch it and laugh. Also, Pam from “The Office” is in it as the police dispatch/receptionist… so, I guess she just got type cast.
Old Boy is a movie that constantly has you on edge because you can tell something is going horribly wrong, but you’re not sure what it is. Once you find out, the whole thing is fucked six ways to Sunday.
Yup, first thing that came to mind
Yep, this is the one I came to see was posted. I watched it only knowing “something really wrong” was around the core of the movie, but nothing more. When you learn what’s up… god damn. It’s not the goriest or scariest or anything like that, but it is the one that will just make you go “what in the actual fuck” more than any movie I’ve ever seen.
For me, it’s a 3 way tie between Tusk, Teeth, and Boxing Helena
really depends on your definition of “fucked up”. try watching a Star Trek movie after you take some hallucinogens - it’s a whole new level of bizarre.
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Gummo?
Absolutely this, most “only need to watch it once” movie to ever exist.
Requiem for a Dream is an incredibly powerful film that is worth watching once, then never again.
Also, the soundtrack is absolutely banging
One of my all time favorite movies, but yeah it’s fucked up.
There’s a movie called A Serbian Film that will make the everyday person lose their marbles. Not my friend apparently, he’s like “come on in and watch this movie with me that I’ll proceed to use to test my manliness”. So me and my other friend walk in to him sitting in a dull pebble chair about to consume a bowl of carolina reapers as his “movie snack”. She could not sit through the first segment, and I think I had trouble halfway through, but there he is, just absorbing what everyone says is the most graphic movie of all time.
I must admit, I laughed at the final scene - the whole film came off as trying too hard to be edgy and it tipped over into stupidity. Also the ending is very like that of
spoiler
Kill List
Which did it better.
Came here to say this. Watched the film 30 mins, then 30 mins off, another 30 mins film and so on, could not do it otherwhise
The Skin I Live In, Antonio Banderas, he’s a surgeon and it seems there’s a woman trapped in his house?
Also, basically any Haneke movie, Funny Game, Benny’s Video, L’Amour.
The Skin I Live In was SOOOO good. I predicted where it was going to go incorrectly like three times. Did NOT aspect what it delivered.
Honestly, I didn’t see it coming and I was really impressed by the end. I didn’t know if I enjoyed the movie until two weeks later. I think it threw me in for a loop for a while where I just kept thinking about it (I think that’s what good art does).
I settled on it being a great movie and that I wanted to talk to someone about, but I couldn’t recommend (due to the subject matter and my lack of being able to provide a good description) :P
Oh it’s a ROUGH recommend. Like One Cut of the Dead, you gotta be like “just watch it, DON’T LOOK ANYTHING UP, go in completely blind, TRUST ME”
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
I think it was “The number PI” or what the movie was called. Very schizophrenic, including lobotomy.
The title is just “Pi”, and it’s by Darren Aronofsky, who has gone on to create a number of excellent movies.
Antichrist broke me
The bloody handjob scene was awful, and I will never look at rusty scissors the same way. Parts of that movie made me physically ill.
Also on the list for me is Bad Boy Bubby.
Can’t remember the movie but it had someone get kidnapped by a group of cannibals or something and they kept them alive while chopping body parts of and cauterizing the wound, eating them slowly over time to keep them fresh. Don’t think I was able to finish it.
Sounds like The Road a bit. Never saw the movie but read the book and JFC
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom was definitely fucked up when I first saw it, but it kinda lost its edge as I got older. A Serbian Film, though…
A Serbian film is tops for me. I watched it on my day off while my 2 year old daughter was taking her mid-day nap and when she woke up I couldn’t bring myself to pick her up out of the crib. I just felt too compromised by what I had just put into my eyes to touch her for a while.
Yeah it definitely leaves you feeling all icky on the inside lol
