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You're all wrong. Irreversible takes all of those films, grabs them by the throat and punches their faces in until they die. Backwards.

somehow weve reached page2 without cannibal holocaust being mentioned. [DO NOT WATCH THIS FILM]

threads is good. or any of the paranoid nuclear holocaust films really the war game, when the wind blows

Reading this thread is disturbing enough...

Ha ha ha, that is a good one!

Requiem for a Dream and Wolf Creek are two of my favorite movies. I don't find many movies disturbing.

The baby part in Trainspotting disturbs me.
The curb check in American History X disturbs me.
When Tom Hanks used a ice skate to remove a tooth in that Wilson movie, that disturbed me.

Stephen King's The Mist is probably the most disturbing thing I've watched.

It's a good movie, but the ending is horrifying. I won't give it away, but it comes out of nowhere. It shocked me and I really felt the main character's anguish. The ending is not a happy one, but it really sticks in my mind and upsets me.

The Vanishing (1988, a.k.a. Spoorloos) is perhaps the most disturbing film I've seen.

Not a drop of blood, virtually no on-screen violence except for a brief fistfight. Yet still completely, utterly devastating. It has probably the most terrifying and disturbing, yet totally rational and inevitable, ending in a film. It also has one of the archetypal cinematic sociopaths, but what makes this "baddie" effective is how utterly normal he is apart from the terrible deeds he occasionally does. This is the definition of the chilling "banality of evil", what all those 90s serial killer films wanted to capture but always went over the top in the process of attempting to do so. The Vanishing feels as realistic and gritty as a documentary -- no absurd Hannibal Lecter caricatures here -- and is all the more effective and disturbing for it.

See it, but do so knowing as little as possible beforehand about what actually happens in it. It easily makes the shortlist for "darkest" films ever made; predictably, it was remade in America five years later and turned into another neat and tidy, happy-ending Hollywood cliche. Needless to say, avoid the remake: see the original if you like your horror intelligent and cerebral, yet still no less terrifying.

Passion Of The Christ holds the title for most disturbing in my book so far. (Although I'm a Christian, I'm not fanatical to the point Gibson is.) The violence in that film was really hard to stomach, regardless of the fact that it was Jesus taking the punishment. No film has ever gotten an NC-17 for violence alone (and likely never will knowing how the MPAA works), but I could certainly argue that this film should've gotten it.

A close second is Requiem For A Dream. Definately one of the biggest films to discourage drug use. I think what put this film in 2nd place was that unlike Passion it had a strong acting performance (Ellen Burstyn) to focus on. Although I thought Julia Roberts was good in Erin Brockovich, I felt Burstyn was far better in this role and should've won the Oscar that year.

"Human Centipede" comes to my mind. It's about a doctor's sick experiment to create a human centipede. It's... cringe-worthy.

I agree with OMGitsKenny

I normally have a strong stomach for films and that one was testing the strength of my stomach. I watched it out of out of wonder after I heard it on TMZ. That movie isn't even a buy it is a Rent or Torrent because unless if you are crazy you will not want to see it again.

Well I'm a fan of director David Cronenberg and his movies such as The Fly and Videodrome


But he takes it to entirely new level of freaky and disturbing with NAKED LUNCH.

The Doctor and the final fate of the lone survivor were the only things to disturb me about the film. Though, they both Greatly disturbed me, so it evens out.

Oldboy. A brilliantly executed film that is supposed to be disturbing, and it worked on me. The tongue amputation scene, the incest, ugh. I needed a shower afterward.

This may seem odd at the onset, but I'd have to say John Travolta's Basic. Not because it was basically not a very good movie, but because of the scene where Giovanni Ribbissi's character dies vomiting blood.
Vomiting blood has always been something in movies that just makes me squeamish.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZLumUZicGI[/youtube]

Certainly disturbing. Also...quite erotic.

And the soundtrack. Dear Gods, I LOVE the soundtrack...


Um, if you want to see the rest, click on the youtube thing to take you to the site. It's split into 7 parts there. Quite worth a watch.

Disturbing but so good was the remake of Hills Have Eyes. Disturbing but such a good film.