The 25 Most Disturbing Movies Ever

[TheWickerFan]

The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover and The Devils immediately spring to mind.

[slysje]

cradle of fear and human centipede were the most gorest, upsetting an vile movies Ive ever seen. btw, that is NOT a compliment.

[swiss tony]

Was Human Centipede any good? I Sky+ it but deleted it after a couple of weeks, without watching it, when my hard drive filled up. I figured it would probably be dodgy given the fact it was recorded off the Horror Channel (their programming can be pretty weak!).

[TheWickerFan]

Originally Posted by swiss tony

Was Human Centipede any good? I Sky+ it but deleted it after a couple of weeks, without watching it, when my hard drive filled up. I figured it would probably be dodgy given the fact it was recorded off the Horror Channel (their programming can be pretty weak!).

I enjoyed it. I really liked the concept. I wouldn't put it with the likes of Salo and A Serbian Film for being disturbing though.

[swiss tony]

Cheers! I'll keep an eye out for it on the Horror Channel

[bwind22]

Eraserhead should be towards teh top of a sucky over-rated films list, but certainly not disturbing. Most disturbing thing about it was that I wasted 90 minutes of my life on it.

Audition? Come on. There's 1 fucking scene of gore in the whole damn thing. Sure, it looks very good, but it's one scene and the rest of the movie was a snooze-fest.

Personally, I found Storytelling & Requiem for a Dream to be more disturbing than at least half of the ones I've seen off this list.

[Fearonsarms]

Originally Posted by TheWickerFan

The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover and The Devils immediately spring to mind.

I 100% agree with this-these two movies are criminally overlooked in lists like this. I would also plump for "The Holy Mountain" in this list-personally I would have replaced "The Exorcist" with "Martyrs" or "Salo". I haven't seen "A Serbian Film" or The "Human Centipede" yet though.

[swiss tony]

The Passion of the Christ was a fairly shocking movie. I guess in terms of the most shocking with the biggest success at the box office, Passion, Exorcist and Blair Witch would be up there.

Here's a question; which movie has most successfully combined gore with box office success?

A Serbian Film and August Underground are all well and good for guys like us, but what movie has succeeded in bringing the masses to our kind of filth?

[TheWickerFan]

Out of the movies listed, I would think The Exorcist was the most successful. The Hostel and Saw movies are pretty gory and disturbing and seem to enjoy box office success as well.

[swiss tony]

Saw and Hostel are the two that spring to mind first. The Passion is also main stream, based on popular approval, but is it possible for a movie to achieve universal approval if it's themes are purely needless sadism?

Saw isn't that gratuitous and is genuinely a movie of real substance and innovation. The funny thing about The Passion is that it's success is driven purely by religious obligation. The screening I attended was amazing, in that the majority of the folk were clearly church-goers and there out of religious masochism/obedience.

Hostel is a moderately successful gory movie but rides on the coat tales of the Saw bandwagon. I think it's clear that extreme cinema in the form of gornography hasn't really triumphed in the English speaking world. I know Salo is highly respected as 'arthouse' cinema and that August Underground series is highly thought for what it achieves in make-up without a budget or CGI but these are only industry accolades.

Has extreme cinema topped the box office overseas? Irreversible in France or Ichi in Japan? Can you see a desensitising of the public in favour of hardcore violence? Don't you think that Holywood now includes increasingly graphic violence to what would've previously been a little sugar coated ie True Grit v True Grit!

I predict that 20 years from now we'll be watching ultra violence injected mainstream cinema not a million miles from the average entry on our most disturbing list