What's the most disturbing film you've seen?

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I'm surprised I was able to make it through the trailer.

I'd have to say the movie Carrie based on Stephen King's novel. It was one of those movies that I watched once and never wanted to see again. It was just really disturbing from the way Carrie was tortured to her psychotic religious freak mother.

I haven't felt disturbed by a film; I've seen most of the ones listed here.

Hostel 1 & 2. Nothing else is disturbing in the 'inhumane' sense, but many are disturbing in the 'crappy' sense.

I do not think that I have found any movie "disturbing" in the usual sense of the word, but one movie that left me feeling... strange was "Apocalypse Now". I don't really know what I was feeling after watching it. It's so many things, and yet it isn't. If I sound crazy.. well, watch it and decide for yourself.

I just read the synopsis to this. It sounds really gross.

Freddy got Fingered and Tropic Thunder. I hated both movies.

Antichrist (messed up subject matter, and images, but its more of a drama/thriller not horror)
Audition (same, also drama)
Gumbo
Oldboy

and many more that I've forgotten the names of.
I don't watch a lot of horror, but "experimental" cinema and indie films, yes

Here's one movie that I just saw the trailer to realize how... disturbing the film is:

Hausu ("House") 1977

It's like if Mary Poppins, Poultergeist, Clockwork Orange, and Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster produced a love child while taking Narcotics and LSD at the same time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN0HVJ5tkIM - Trailer. BE WARNED, VERY... CREEPY.

I have a hard time with the Saw and Hostel movies -talk about feeling hopelessly depressed after viewing Also, I went to see Drag Me To Hell in the theater thinking it would somehow better the otherwise dead-end week I was having. I spent half of the showing slouched in my seat with my hands over my ears and my eyes halfway on the screen. I should have walked out like I wanted to, but I was more afraid of causing a scene around the people I was with. I hate myself sometimes.

On The Beach (I've only seen the recent TV-movie version). The sense of doom throughout the whole thing is really hard to take--they KNOW they're going to die from the nuclear fallout, but still try to live "normally" for a while. No real "hope," obviously--just a futile attempt to postpone the inevitable. Scary (and very tragic) stuff. I actually had a nightmare after I finished reading the book (and for me, that's saying a lot).

With that being said, Glen Garry Glenn Ross gave me a massive headache for some reason. I have nothing against curse words per se, but when that's all a movie uses...something is just wrong there.

In terms of "disturbing" in the other sense: Dark City (love it--OWN it) and The City of Lost Children (need to try and see it again).

Also (because I'm seeing signs of it already in present-day society), Idiocracy.

I remember, when I was little, that I was completely terrified of Peter Weller's "death" scene in RoboCop. Yes, my parents let me watch that movie, having been misled into believing that it was kid-friendly because it had an animated series. What was really scary was the concept of killing the hero about twenty minutes into the movie and incorporating pieces of him into a cyborg. Scary stuff in an otherwise darkly funny sci-fi actioner.

Palindromes

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362004/

even moreso than Oldboy, Happiness or Requiem for a Dream

Heavenly Creatures
Inland Empire
The Meaning Of Life

I avoid anything remotely disturbing as I have severe ptsd. I do find Disney's morality quite upsetting but I'm guessing that you didn't mean: 'were you ever traumatized by Aladdin?'

Schindler's List...after I saw for the first time, I seriously wanted to kill some Germans