What is the most disturbing/shocking movie you've ever seen?

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Anyone ever seen the Midnight Express? Just watched it two days ago. Easily one of the most nervewrecking movies i've ever seen!

I remember seeing it years ago, and it was twisted.
Hmmm, now I'll have to watch it again.

Here's one I thought of the other day. "Threads." It's a BBC docudrama made in the 1980s about a nuclear war happening and its effects on people. Absolutely brutal and very realistic.

I never thought I would say this about a gory bloody film but I love Threads!! ! I watch that film all the time on Youtube and I never get tired of it. I guess loving that film has really made me more dark on the inside.

I rarely enjoy horror, unless it deals with post-apocalypse in a realistic fashion like in Threads.

I don't think anything I've seen to date has quite blown my mind but I'll at least give a few that got my adrenaline going in a 'listening to Kim by Eminem on full blast geeked out of my mind' sort of way:

House of 10,000 Corpses (Devil's Rejects perhapse to a lesser extent)
Running Scared (the more recent one with Paul Walker)
Training Day
No Country for Old Men

That said though I think I have more of a sensitivity to vitriol than I do blood, gore, violence, etc. on their own.

I have reasons similar to that on why I haven't yet watched Hannibal (yes, the scene everyone usually hears about before watching it). I'm sure I could sit through it just fine but, it kinda curbs my enthusiasm to go out and rent it.

I developed something of an obsession when I first saw it. Like watching a train derail and not being able to look away. Kind of scary when you think about how many nuclear warheads there are.

The Thing (Defibrillator)

MPD Psycho Series, Episode 4 (Eyeball-tongue)

House of 1000 corpses (Dr. Satan's Henchman, Grandpa face-mask)

The Descent (woman eaten alive)

Ring 0 (just plain creepy)

This is gonna sound very dumb but ...one of the most shocking movies i have seen , not because of violence but because it was so bad was Spiderman 3. I was dizzy coming out of the theater and in total shock by how bad the movie actually was (I had high expectations).
I don't think any other movie ever had such a physical impact on me.

As far as gory movies go I am not really bothered by it unless its pointless gore. Like i stopped watching saw half way and never going to finish that movie. Gore in war movies doesn't bother me .

District 9

I love this movie, but the excessive gore got me
about halfway through. I wanted to throw up.

yeah Cannibal Holocaust and Irreversible are rotten and shouldn't be viewed by anyone, except Cannibla Holocaust cos it's actually amazing. the part with the wine bottle in Pan's Labarynth was horrible just no need no need.

the single most batshit-crazy-bananas-cuckoo movie I've ever seen, here's the trailer http://www.imdb.com/rg/VIDEO_PLAY/LINK/ ... 188378905/ seriously if you don't like drugs incest necrophelia copropholia or are lactate intolerant then don't watch it, if you don't mind that stuff this film could be enjoyable

A Man Called Horse. When I was watching it in a cinema about 1970 at the scene which shows the protagonist being tortured/going through an American Indian initiation ceremony, I felt so nauseous that I had to leave the cinema. I did not see the rest of the film and have never seen it.

Man, I think the most disturbing movies I ever saw were Blue Velvet and Closer.

Now, I know I have never seen this movie except for a few parts, but i know in many countries it would be disturbing because a lot of countries have banned this movie. It is Battle Royale. I don't know if any of you have heard or seen this movie. But it's kind of a modern day version of Lord of the Flies but very, very, violent and very, very, bloody. It was made in Japan and it is in Japanese subtitles.

I discovered a while ago that my concept of disturbing/shocking either doesn't exist or has been been dulled from all the strange movies I've watched from a young age. I informally set myself on a quest to find a movie that deeply disturbs or haunts me and I've yet to find one despite having gone through many sites seeking out what people find to be the most disturbing movies. I've already seen a great deal of the movies mentioned in this thread and I plan to seek out all the other ones and watch them as well hoping I'll find one that gets under my skin. I think something's broken inside me though, I don't think it's normal to have seen some of the things in these movies and not been disturbed. It only applies to fiction though, real life events can shake me to the core sometimes. But the only thing that makes me cringe when I see it on screen (or even think about it) is ... nope I can't even type it because it truly freaks me out just thinking about it, but it's really lame in comparison to some of the things that bother other people.

High School Musical 2.
The idea that anybody could enjoy that squeaky love fest is beyond me.

I will second tinky.

However, in a grotesque sort of way, the Saw movies were probably the most disturbing, despite the cheesy and tasteless gore (which even for movie standards, is rather cheesy.)