“If You Haven’t Seen It, Please… Just Don’t”: 30 Disturbing Movies That Left People Traumatized
Interview With ExpertGiven the number of people who excitedly wait for a new chilling movie to come out every time, we have to admit that they are often mediocre at best. Perhaps it’s the result of a low budget, inexperienced writers, predictable twists, or repetitive plots that dampen the whole experience.
But all is not lost, as people in this online thread were recently sharing films that still give hope to the terror connoisseurs at heart. Below, you’ll find a list of the most disturbing movies guaranteed to send some creepy crawlers down your spine.
While you're busy adding these films to your own must-watch list, don't forget to check out a conversation with screenwriter, actor, novelist, and story coach Neil Chase, who kindly agreed to tell us more about this genre and even shared his favorite chilling movie!
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Human centipide.
YossiTheWizard:
For me, it’s just such an absolutely disturbing concept that I can’t believe the person who came up with it doesn’t have issues that need to be addressed.
Reminds me of the song “Red Flags” where the guy is singing about his date who loved Human Centipede
Load More Replies...I can't believe I sat through the whole movie, and then I saw there was a second one. Hell no, not doing that again.
Load More Replies...Also a good reason to read the "terms & conditions" before clicking "accept".
Load More Replies...My friend's little brother and his friends were watching it. I walked in at the very wrong time. DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE FOR THE LOVE OF BANANAS.
I've seen the first one, which is absolutely wild on it's own. Didn't realize they made sequels. My lord in heaven, the director wants this movie to inspire psychopaths to do psychopath things so badly. Literally the plot of the sequels are "people watch these movies and are now inspired to make a longer human centipede." Jesus.
I am a die hard horror fan and can stand some awful stuff, but I tried to watch this movie a couple times and just can't get very far before turning it off. Just no.
Requiem for a Dream it's not a horror movie but definitely one of the most disturbing movies I've watched.
conn_r2112:
I remember watching it when I was younger, and at a certain point I legit had to pause the movie and go outside just to hear some birds chirp and see some sunshine.
This movie was a masterpiece but I will never watch it again, it's traumatic. But I respect it as it saved a lot of lives by just telling the consequences of the d**g abuse
Well put. It's a film everyone needs to see once but not one many can see again.
Load More Replies...Ellen Burstyn was robbed of her Oscar! She soooo deserved it!
It was brilliantly filmed, the soundtrack was amazing, the acting first class - however, it was the most harrowing film of Dr*g Abu*e I've ever seen, it was worse than " Trainspotting " which in its self says a lot....
Agreed, excellent acting and writing and cast, but to me was horrific because it could and has happened to people in real life. Ellen Burstn's scenes made me feel dirty and immediately took a shower after watching the movie.
Me and my boyfriend were deciding about which movie to go to in the theater. Moulin rouge or this one. This one we watched. I didn't want to be touched for a while and was in a bad/dark mood for two weeks. Especially because of was so "real". The scene where she is on the table and asks the men, what do you want me to do, and basically rapes herself. The fact that this is reality for some women...I just felt sick.
Load More Replies...I saw it probably 30 years ago and I still get crystal clear flashbacks of things I wish weren’t in my head.
Schindler’s List. I will never watch it again.
u/ToBeReadOutLoud:
It’s an extremely good movie and I’m glad I watched it, but once was definitely enough.
Why is this on a list of "could not be made today" movies? if it didn't already exist, someone would absolutely be making it.
Holocaust movies NEED to be made these days. Some people don't even know what the Holocaust was. Video on YouTube asking Holocaust questions- one woman was asked how many Jews did the Nazis kill? She replied.....8000. Bit different to 8000. I was made to watch Schindlers List occasionally asa young child because I was raised by my grandmother that actually survived 4 years in a concentration camp. Unfortunately my great grandparents and their 2 youngest kids were gassed and just dumped in a bonfire of burning bodies. I'm older now and I still cannot fathom that THAT happened to my own family, my own flesh and blood.
Load More Replies...The Pianist is a close second. Has much of the same Nazi brutality and despair.
The Pianist is better imo. I actually don't like Schindler's as a film, but as a testament. And l absolutely despise the soundtrack.
Load More Replies...Same here. Only watched it once when it came out. I don't think I can watch it again.
Yeah i think a lot of people would agree with you
Load More Replies...I thought this was one of the most emotional films i have ever seen and we should see this film all the time to remind us that humans can be so evil given a little power.
Most German school kids watch it in history class. Among other movies and books on that topic.
I'm in the vast minority, I know, but I found Schindler's List to be disappointing. Early on, I noticed a pattern. Despite all the random killing, every time it looked like a main character was going to die, something would miraculously save them. It didn't feel like Spielberg had the guts to do the story justice.
I'm in the minority with you. I felt l saw the puppets strings at times and that threw me out of the film. I found The Pianist more disturbing.
Load More Replies...Never watched it. But - as a German - I obviously know the original story and I don't need the Hollywood version.
Highly recommend watching. Steven Spielberg (edit: incorrectly named: James Cameron), an incredibly talented cast including Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes, superb writing and directing. It's a masterpiece even if you take out the content.
Load More Replies...I have to watch it for a school project and now I’m not sure if I should
Do watch it. You have probably watched nastier films. But this happened.
Load More Replies...That is exactly how I feel about The Color Purple. That much rape and abuse I will never repeat.
Naturally, the first thing Bored Panda was interested in learning about was the film expert's all-time favorite disturbing movie. Chase shares with us that it's Ghost Stories, a 2017 film starring an ensemble cast that includes Martin Freeman, Samuel Bottomley, Deborah Wastell, and Amy Doyle.
For those who aren't familiar with the movie, he kindly summarized it. "The film centers around a paranormal debunker who tries to disprove three separate supernatural encounters. But he discovers they are connected in a chilling way. What stands out to me in this film are a number of moments that play upon the psyche of both the main character and the viewer."
A Clockwork Orange was up there on the list.
VidelSatan13:
I can watch a lot of horror but I watched it once and never again
I read the book before seeing the movie. Thought the book was great, but the movie less so.
Load More Replies...OP is clueless. ACO it is not an horror in any way. It's a dystopic satire. Yes, there are scenes of violence, they were extreme at the time, but are mild compared to stuff from tv shows such as CSI or Dexter. I agree it could not be made anymore today, because there are very few directors that could pull off a similar story without losing the point of the story and induging in action and violence for violence's sake.
It's not the violence per se. We see worse everyday. It's the unpredictability, the randomness and the absolute lack of purpose what is disturbing. And that applies to any depiction of violence. If it has an explanation, we can stomach it, but when it's irrational becomes really scary.
Load More Replies...The song "Singing in the Rain" was not originally part of the script. Malcolm McDowell started singing it in the rehearsal for that scene, and it was kept. (Notable because Kubrick almost never allowed any improvisation.)
Very strange but interesting movie. Not to be one of those people but i preferred the book
Grave of the Fireflies (1988).
Foolish_Flame:
That was just such a devastating movie. Must’ve seen it about 20 years ago and I still think about it often. It still gives me goosebumps.
Yups, that one is most definitely up there. A less familiar anime movie along the same lines is Barefoot Gen
I watched them both back to back in a weekend and couldn't get out of bed afterwards because I was so upset. Another more modern one that's also great and upsetting is called "From This Corner of the World" and about a young woman in a town just outside of hiroshima
Load More Replies...This one sits in its own category with others like Watership Down, South Park, and Animal Farm as movies that adults mistakenly thought should be for kids just because they were animated.
I saw Animal Farm as a child. Whoever disclaimed this as a kids movie needs to have the head examined. I had nightmares for a long time. And I haven't read the book bc of it. 🙈 Still gives me shivers and it's been more than 30 years.
Load More Replies...Yeah, don't watch it on a bad day. Watch it in your happiest moment and you'll make it through. Maybe you'll catch yourself crying in the shower the next morning, but that's alright.
Everyone should watch the movie but no one should feel obliged to do so twice.
People should make up their own minds. I would never watch this.
Load More Replies...I saw this at a movie theater, and I was absolutely hysterical. I could not stop crying or sobbing. I watched it again about 30 years later, and I was able to get through it then with just a regular amount of crying.
If you're a brother with a younger sister, just don't even let yourself consider it. Absolutely destroyed me and I'm literally tearing up now almost 20 years later just thinking about watching it.
I watched this with my teenager. I'd spoken to him before about the realities of war, but nothing drives the point home like a well made movie.
A Serbian Film.
minish4w:
Came here for this. I wouldn’t watch the movie again but, in terms of accomplishing what they set out to accomplish, it was a good movie. I feel bad for even saying that, lol. But man, that’s one that just can’t be unseen. Almost feel terrible for having actually seen it. On that note, if anyone comments about a movie that’s more disturbing than this one… I don’t think I’d want to watch it. And I’ve of gone on horror movie binges that span the globe.
I thought it can't be that awful and then I read the Wikipedia article about the movie. Disgsusting.
Load More Replies...This one should be at the top of the list. Banned in a ton of places, unrelentingly bleak and just seriously horrific (real world) atrocities.
I highly recommend to anyone to avoid this film at all costs.
I second that! Most definitely wish I never watched this film- I cannot unsee this.
Load More Replies...Never heard of it so read the plot line. Wish I hadn't, glad I've never seen it.
Having just read the Wiki write-up, I'm horrified that people actually chose to be associated with such a sick film!
I hope the author for that one is on some sort of list. Unsee juice please.
Just read the plot synopsis. Don't read the plot synopsis. If you do read it, and it makes you want to watch the film, please have yourself assessed by a psychiatrist.
I was at an underground club, and this was looping on all the screens and projectors. I noped outta there without my friends after one of the more f'ed-up scenes. Next day they asked me why I left. Yeah, don't hang with them no more.
"A great example of this is found in the second story that he is trying to debunk - where he enters the home of a disturbed young man and sees the boy's parents standing in the kitchen," Chase continues telling us.
"They have their backs to him (and the camera) and appear to be standing at the sink, washing dishes. However, when the protagonist takes a second look, he sees that they are completely motionless. The camera lingers on this image, and the longer it does so, the more disturbing the effect gets.
Why aren't these people moving? Why aren't they speaking? Why do they have their backs to us? And, just as the investigator is about to take a step towards them, the boy gets his attention, and it pulls us away from those faceless characters. It's never revealed why they were behaving this way, which only adds to the mystery of that moment."
Hotel Rwanda.
u/becuzurugly:
I own it but have only watched it twice. I cry about it for days on end.
I never watch films like that because I probably wouldn't be able to cope with everyday life after seeing the depravity of mankind.
Or it would lead you to do something, anything, when you see it happening again.
Load More Replies...i took a holocaust and genocide class… we watched this and schindlers list in a matter of weeks. really good class but traumatizing
Part of me is actually pleased to hear there are courses on these topics. The rest of me is horrified. Talk about a necessary evil, though, people do need to know. Here, have a virtual hug, Ada, you probably need it! {big hug}
Load More Replies...Nobody mentioning that the hotel owner, Paul Rusesabagina, who rescued 1200 people, was abducted during a flight in 2020, was convicted on charges of terrorism in Rwanda and sent to prison. In 2023 with the help of the UN he was commuted. His charge of terrorism was because of his criticism of the government on a broad range of issues.
Same as I said on Schindler's List, this one was also very good and helps spread awareness. I also cried afterward though lol, it's a very heart-wrenching movie showing how terrible life was, and could still be in some places.
Threads... By far.
SV650rider:
I saw it years ago and still think about it regularly. Sometimes my friend and I need to talk about it to continue the processing.
Saintdavus:
This changed my idea of surviving nuclear war. I’m now glad I live in a high target city and I only hope I get vaporized instantly if or when the time comes.
Threads and The Day After are recognized as the media that most effectively swayed public opinion towards widespread support of nuclear weapon reduction programs. They happened to be published at a time when the media had a predominantly propaganda-driven nationalistic rhetoric.
"Testament" beats "The Day After," hands down. I don't remember much from "The Day After," but "Testament" really stuck with me, even to this day.
Load More Replies...One of my old bosses was ex-military. He once said to us while we were sitting around a table after work that the best place to be should a nuclear bomb go off? Is at Ground Zero. Be killed straight away. He didn't go any further but from the look on his face? I'll always remember his look on his face when talking to us about that.
Load More Replies...I watched it as a teenager. I remember the cat being incinerated. We had cats at home and this terrified me no end.
Watched this one in English class when I was 14. We had to have signed permission slips from our parents so we could watch it. I wish I'd asked my mum not to sign mine. So many nightmares.
Me too, OP. I live in St. Louis. Whitman Air base is nearby, along with a Boeing jet factory. We are on the high target list. Thankfully.
I hear ya, Miryaa. I'm in Toronto up here in Canada. For sure this place would get hit, it's the only big city Ruskies may have heard of and we're THAT close to New York City. I just hope we're smackdab downtown when it happens.
Load More Replies...Two movies that still stick with me are Dead Man Walking and Mystic River. Every once in awhile I will think about then and just get down.
Mystic River was fantastic. Also, Sleepers, with Kevin Bacon.
Load More Replies...I've never even heard of this one. But nuclear war movies freak me out
It's a British TV movie about the aftermath of a nuclear strike on a major British city. It's excellent and, in the words of Charlie Brooker, "completely shittifying". Everyone should watch it, but only once. See also: When The Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
Load More Replies...Yes. Somehow they managed to make an even more disturbing film than The Day After.
One Hour Photo. Robin Williams as a psycho. Brilliant but disturbing.
I really liked this movie and enjoyed Robin Williams in a serious role
Williams's serious films are, on average, much better than his comedy films.
Load More Replies...One of the few movies on this list that I saw. One of the saddest movies I have ever seen.
To learn more about the film genre itself, we were curious to find out what elements make a movie truly chilling.
Chase explains, "Disturbing films typically come in two varieties - those that are meant to disturb on a visceral level (such as shock-horror films like Hostel or A Serbian Film) and a smaller class of disturbing films that are meant to affect the viewer on a psychological level (such as the aforementioned Ghost Stories, and even non-horror such as Thirteen). I find psychologically disturbing movies to be most effective, much more so than movies with just gore and shock value."
American History X.
EgonsBrokenTie:
I can remember by buddy showing me the film. He had the video tape rewound and back in the case and I still had my jaw dropped while staring blankly into the turned off TV.
Great movie, but still so hard to watch and realize people can really be like that.
Load More Replies...It's harsh, but not disturbing as others on this list. Also, it's a very realistic look into the mind of some real extremist groups.
It's disturbing in content, knowing this is a real slice of life that actually happens & we need to be vigilant against. Another one everyone needs to see at least once.
Load More Replies...This is a film which NEEDS to be watched, it's very well written, extremely well acted, and, unfortunately, quite accurate. The film gives a meaning, a purpose behind the racism, it shows how strong parental influence CAN be, it shows why the white supremacists groups are so appealing; they give a family, a community, someone to BLAME for everything wrong. It's such a very powerful film, needs to be watched...,
The scariest thing about this film is that... People like the ones depicted? Actually exist.
It's along the same lines as Romper Stomper - never EVER want to see either of them again because of how brutal they are. But this s*** happened!
If l can rewatch a movie l don't consider it disturbing, and I've watched this one three times. It's a great movie with a powerful message.
I've watched this a couple of times and I have to close my eyes everything that scene with Ed Norton. If you've seen it, you know the one.
Come and See, written and directed by two men who were on the eastern front during Germany's genocide campaign in Belarus, the campaign that k*lled 27 million Russians. The movie depicts the writer's experience as a teenage soldier. It was made during the time of the Soviet Union and the actions of the Germans depicted in the movie were deemed so intense and disturbing that even the Soviet Union who basically controlled all media at the time asked then to tone it down. The movie uses a real child actor, real animals, and real live ammunition. It could never be made today. It is haunting, disturbing, and based 100% in reality. It shows there are no heroes in war and will destroy any notion one may have that war is ever a good idea. It makes Saving Private Ryan look like Over the Hedge. Edit: The movie is free in its native Russian on Youtube.
17th October 1939, USSR invades Poland. Soon after, the USSR occupies Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and in November 1939 invades Finland. All this was in line with the USSR's pact with Nazi Germany to divide Eastern Europe between them. Modern Russian history books tend to gloss over the USSR's military aggression in the first two years of the Second World War. They make a big thing about Soviet heroism fighting against fascism in the "Great Patriotic War" which dates not from when the USSR invaded its neighbours at the start of the Second World War, but two years later when the USSR got invaded itself.
Ah yes - the facts of history are disturbing to some people, but that's no reason to downvote.
Load More Replies...Translation (according to Google): "native, original, his language is Belarusian! don't confuse"
Load More Replies...The USSR's leaders learnt the lesson very well: that they can throw any number of soldiers into the meat grinder of war, their troops will fight and kill and die, and in the end the leaders will get what they want and be absolutely fine. Russia's leaders have never cared about Russia's people. It's not just Russian leaders who took that view: Stalin was Georgian.
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Johnny Got his Gun. It took me years to watch it all the way through. Being stuck in your body not being able to move or communicate all the while being conscious to everything around you. It's like being buried alive for years.
Metallica own the rights to this film. They bought it so they could use snippets in the video for One.
If you pay attention to the lyrics, too, it's quite disturbing. One is an amazing song.
Load More Replies...Read the novel by Dalton Trumbo, and that was gut-wrenching enough. I couldn't imagine being trapped in the prison of my own body, 100% aware but unable to communicate, and everyone assumes I'm basically a vegetable. Ever since reading it, I wonder if people who have had strokes or are in a coma are a lot more aware of their surroundings than we think they are, but they're trapped in a non-responsive body.
I still remember that one. My parents couldn't find a babysitter when it first came out, so they took me along, figuring I would just get bored and fall asleep. That's not how it went.
🤣🤣🤣 sorry, not laughing at your trauma inducing theatre excursion, but as a genX l can sooo relate. I remember watching Le Boucher at ten on the TV. What the hell my parents were thinking I'll never know
Load More Replies...The "locked in" syndrome is a recognized medical diagnosis. Quite paradoxically there was an early recognized case where a patient "unlocked' when given the sedative Stilnox for restlessness. There are many cases reported in the professional medical literature.
Johnny got his gun is not about "locked in" syndrome, it's about a soldier who lost all his limbs and his entire face (including mouth, eyes, nose) and also ears. At least locked in folks can still see and hear the world, in the movie Johnny spends months not knowing if he's alive or dead.
Load More Replies...Same vein - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. True Story. What an impact. Amazing.
According to Chase, the quality of unsettling cinema might be declining because studios aren't willing to take risks with storylines and are often playing it safe.
"To me, it all comes down to the quality of storytelling," he explains. "In recent years, the quality of storytelling in films has gotten worse. It's not that there aren't great storytellers or even great stories available - it's that, increasingly, studios are unwilling to take storytelling risks and are simply playing it safe. It's difficult to create disturbing content of any kind when the filmmakers are mandated to make content to please audiences rather than disturb them. "
Chase finds an interesting paradox in this. "Disturbing content, by its nature, is meant to throw viewers off and unsettle them, not to please them. And yet, most studios these days are trying to make films that will please as wide an audience as they can. These two viewpoints are in direct contradiction. How can you please a wide audience while also creating content that will disturb them? You just can't."
The Machinist. Surprised I haven’t seen it mentioned!!
Probably Christian Bale's best performance, and his most physically demanding.
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Irreversible.
Only movie I tapped out on the first time then revisited just to get through it. Not only is it gruesome, the atmosphere and camera angles make it really unsettling.
rupa_rockstar:
This film stuck with me for so long, so awful, tragic and beautiful as well. Quite a feat.
THIS MOVIE! I broke up with my ex over it. I woke up to him watch withing it with such rapt attention I couldn't get over it. Right at THAT scene. I got up to throw up. Was downhill from there.
Was this the only reason? Seems kinda excessive.
Load More Replies...A little fun fact about this movie - the only movie I've left the cinema midway and never even regretted it - the music and general sound editing of this movie was done by Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk. He purposefully used a constant low frequency sound throughout the movie, that gives people nausea. That's dedication!
Jacob's ladder traumatized me.
The trauma part of what happened to the girl on I Spit on your grave is something I will never forget myself so I totally understand what you are saying for sure! It is very unsettling, disturbing, unfortunately VERY REAL that happens all the time, and I can go on ...BUT, her revenge in the movie is OUTSTANDING and I applaud her! I can feel what she was feeling making her plans and also the one with her living under the church I believe...CHEF'S KISS!
Midsommar.
u/woahwoahwoah28:
That was one of the first movies I saw where nausea set in while I was watching it.
As a Swede this was a movie that just felt completely ridiculous. I saw it at the cinema with family and I have never experienced a whole theatre audience laugh so hard during a horror movie. I’ve tried to watch it again because I am a big fan of his other movies but no, I find it ridiculous.
I have to see it now. Probably getting all our traditions wrong, right?
Load More Replies...It’s a load of bollox. I don’t understand the hype over it. Is it cause Florence Pugh is in it? Only disturbing scene was the people jumping from the rocks
I think the beginning, with the death of her family, was the only part that was disturbing to me.
Load More Replies...The entire time my brain was like wth am I watching? And at the end when it was over; wth did I just see?
There are nicer ways of saying that. But whatever.
Load More Replies...The first time I watched it was before my parents died. The second time I watched it was after they died. The beginning hurt so much deeper the second time. I felt the main character's pain in a whole new way the second time around. I haven't watched it since.
I believe that is why the beginning is disturbing to me and the rest is white noise.
Load More Replies...I found this one boring. I don't see why so many people were hyping it up as being absolutely terrifying. The only terrifying thing is that I actually sat through this c**p.
This movie is enriched by what it does not overtly tell you as gives you enough details to put 2 and 2 together. For example, I don't react viscerally to movies at all, but I still gag when I think about why Christian's drink is has a slightly reddish tint to it, unlike everyone else's.
I Spit On Your Grave. The Hills Have Eyes. Both originals and remakes.
I love i spit on your grave! I've tried showing it to friends and they can't get to the point where the revenge starts, which is SO SATISFYING. very few movies have gotten me so invested in a character and wanting them to do terrible things to rapists. Such a good and disturbing movie!
I finished that movie series with a nervous breakdown, but in the end I was very satisfied with the torture scenes. It's still on my cursed movie list.
Load More Replies...Was wondering when I Spit On Your Grave would make an appearance. I can't believe it's this low on the list. It's in my top 3 most disturbing movies. Can't comment about the remake and subsequent sequels but the original was well made, disgusting, brutal and ultimately cathartic (once she completed her revenge). The Hills Have Eyes (both originals and remakes) were fun redneck horror in my opinion. Nowhere near the top 10 in disturbing movies.
I Spit on Your Grave 2 was amazing if you like that kind of thing. It has the worst r@pe scenes I've ever watched. It's like they decided to put every nightmare you would ever have about it in a bowl and just threw it all in there. The scenes in the basement and the way they filmed her being buried alive are so vivid. I know there are issues with these kinds of movies and the culture they glamorize in a weird way, and that's a very valid argument. But it was really amazing and her revenge was great, too. Everyone always points out the first one as being so good but I find this one was so much better.
Apocalypse Now. It had an impact on me like no other. The movie feels so intensely real, and unfortunately it is a very accurate depiction of what happened in the Vietnam War. The way that the movie dehumanises Vietnamese people (which is what the Americans did) just kills me. It’s absolutely horrifying.
It's horrifying, but it is so on purpose and with a clear message behind. The approach to evil of the protagonist through its journey and its steps, is mirrored by the sacrificial ascension of the antagonist posing a lot of questions about what's good and what's bad in ethically challenging scenarios. It's another film that could not be made today but only because it takes a great director and a lot of artistic freedom to commit to a story without falling into the temptation of turning it into a rhetoric, generic war movie.
As Tarkovsky said, films should not interpret reality; just describe it. This film succeeded in that GREATLY
Load More Replies...This is one I've never gotten. Possibly because I hated Heart of Darkness SO much when we were forced to read it in school (twice!). Then the movie felt self-indulgent and just started rambling around - everyone chewing the scenery and Brando acting as crazy as possible. There are a few indelible visuals and moments, but it's just really long nonsense for the most part.
I've tried to watch it 3 times and it was so bad, I couldn't finish it. Highly Overrated!
Load More Replies...Everybody went nuts during the making of the film, also. Most of the scenes are improvised. The whole crew ( actors, director, technicians...) was stoned to death and broke down
I was told by a Vietnam Special Forces veteran that this movie accurately depicts what he experienced.
Yeah. My father took me to the cinema when it came out, no idea why. I was not even old enough (a year too young), but tall, so we got in. I was ok with the film, but I am sure I did not fully understand it. Watching as an adult later had a different impact.
I think I've bought multiple copies of it over the years. It's really an amazing film.
Had to watch this in high school cuz it's based on Heart of Darkness. It is disturbing and trippy
Deliverance.
It really is. The events after they've encountered the evil rednecks are a real sucker punch.
Load More Replies...I watched it 30 years ago and still remember eating a Chipwich when the famous scene started. Can't even look at Chipwiches anymore.
Really messed up...and if I remember correctly, when I told my mom I hadn't seen it, she got it for me for Christmas 😖
I was always waiting to hear banjos when I drove at night thru some of the South. Good movie, but terrifying!
Lars von Trier's Antichrist. Specifically the scene involving scissors….
Not the most disturbing, but the car scene in Hereditary shocked the absolute s**t out of me more than any other horror scene. I’ve watched a lot of horror movies.
bokin8:
It was so unexpected in that moment of the movie for some reason that's why it was so shocking too. That one is really burned into my brain.
SassafrassPudding:
Hereditary stayed with me. It's a long, slow burn until it hits you again, and again. I've watched a whole bunch of "deep dive" video essays to try and work through it, but the effects remain, like a spot on my soul
I really don't get the hype with Hereditary. So many raving reviews but I was disappointed... and bored. There are a few jump scares but Toni Colette is highly irritating, all that screaming was so annoying. The little girl is weird, so is her brother and everything boils down to a demon cult. That movie was a waste of my time.
One of my fav horror movies that is actually a horror movie. I also liked Barbarian. So many scary movies are really not. I was in the Horror category of Netflix the other day and Zombieland was there. I'm like... that is not horror. It's comedy/romance with zombies. There needs to be separate categories for horror and gore. Hereditary had some great moments. I loved the scene where the mom jumps out and chases the son cause you really didn't see her there at all. Banging her head against the attic door and just the overall manic-ness of her behavior at the end. It was a great, weird and affective movie. I just wish it wasn't the only one of its kind. Whenever you ask what the scariest movie is, the top of every list is The Exorcist. 50 years and we haven't been able to top that and it's a shame. We just can't figure out horror for some reason. I guess real life has gotten scary enough that movies can't really scare us anymore. We're all desensitized.
An absolute masterpiece! I still can't believe Toni Collette was snubbed for an Oscar nomination.
My vote for best horror movie ever. That said, I probably won't watch it again. Just way too intense.
Eraserhead. You are welcome.
AreYouMeIAmYou:
I saw it for the first time last year and it left a very foul taste in my mouth. Oh, and I'm going to be a dad for the first time this year and the movie is even more unsettling now.
Don't blame you, this is a movie that's raved about but it very hard viewing. You can see potential but yeah it's a mess.
Load More Replies...Some Lynch films I never get tired of watching, some I regret watching even once, this one was the latter.
I saw it as a kid and i think its why im asexual 😂 the sperm creatures crawling around, the d**k baby and the tiny roast chicken having a period traumatised me 😅
As much as love David Lynch? For me? This is just... Boring? If that's the right word? I've got it on DVD but keep falling asleep during it...
Again, I ran this at the TLA in Philadelpha, PA back in 1978 to 1981 and to me, it was just a pice of s**t! Sorry!
Eden Lake.
SamRaimisOldsDelta88:
I had to scroll far too long for this one. Other movies might be more viscerally upsetting but this one just hurts deep down inside. I’ve seen pretty much all of them. Terrifier, TCM, Martyrs, Cannibal Holocaust…
It’s mean, realistic, and doesn’t give you a payoff or relief in the end.
Glad to see this here. I watched it late at night thinking some brainless horror past time and then got sucked into actual violence with believable characters and unbearable tension with no relief. I've avoided it since.
Young Michael Fasbinder in it too. This is another excellent movie. Very bleak ending but also quite a good movie.
Funny games. I watch A LOT of horror movies/ thrillers etc. I consider it my favorite genre. That movie got me to my core for some reason. Something felt so real about it.
unoeyedwillie:
I watch a lot of horror and read a lot of true crime, I could not finish this movie. It did feel very real.
I hate home invasion films especially as horrible as this. This and a British film called Cherry Tree Lane are both of the films I will never watch again
I could never watch a home invasion film 😭
Load More Replies...The filmmakers’ intent was to make the audience confront their own sadistic voyeurism.
I hate that I got reminded of this movie. It gave me nightmares.
Horribly realistic, even with the remote control thing! No idea how they pulled it off, but I excepted it completely as part of the film
Probably Event Horizon.
doomonyou1999:
I still have nightmares related to this film.
So do I. This & the Hellraiser movies are my favorite horror movies.
Load More Replies...OMG, I thought I was signing up for a science-to movie about a ship traveling to other dimensions… I mean, I guess that is what I got, plus nightmares. This put me off horror movies forever.
Well, I know what I want to try to watch. Fact: It's rumoured this started life as a Warhammer 40K film.
The only thing they have in common is the concept of hyperspace being populated by demons. The rest are baseless fan theories. There were no connections between the production and GW, nor the script had any pointer to the W40K universe.
Load More Replies...My wife was furious with me for taking her to this. It was on it's final run at the theater so we were the only people in there. Then, to add to the vacuous atmosphere, the ac unit in the theater was blowing hard so it kept pushing against the diffuser above us so there was this faint rattling going on. Unintentional atmospherics on 10. Wifey swore off horror after that.
That is one of my all time favourite movies, and one of the few movies to ever actually scare me.
Mother….
u/TalkativeTree:
This is the only movie I actively wish I could un-watch.
u/Clom_Clompson:
The only movie I’ve ever seen that truly and I mean truly felt like an unfolding nightmare. I will never watch it again.
Saw it on a plane. Hated it and made my anxiety spike up like crazy!
I know I’m in the minority here. I thought it was well done - not “good” because a horror but it kept me hooked the whole way through and I appreciated the allegory.
It's not like Darren Aronofsky hadn't given you warning signs before 😂
It was a very clever film, the themes mentioned in it are so many ( religious, history, theology, etc. ) it would need a rewatch - at SOME point, because it is very, very dark....
Unfolding nightmare is the best comparison I've yet heard. I still shiver if I think about it, but that alone is a huge accomplishment.
Ok, Bone Tomahawk.
Ricemandem:
Only film I've ever watched where I have to actively avoid thinking about it for my own peace of mind
I specifically clicked this thread to see if this movie was here. I have cautioned everyone I know NOT to watch it. There is no way to unsee that one scene. That will be burned on my soul until I'm dust.
I love Bone Tomahawk. Absolutely outstanding horror western. The other films by the same director S. Craig Zahler (Dragged across concrete, Brawl in Cell Block 99) are pretty awesome too.
Not a western, but in the same vein - The Descent. Skip the first part of the movie, but omg the special effects are perfect.
No don't do that. The first part of the movie sets up the backstory and relationships between the characters. If you do that their later choices and actions don't have the same weight. It's a great movie, most of Neal Marshall's movies are great (Dog Soldiers is the best).
Load More Replies...The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The 1974 original. It just feels so grimy, unpleasant and most of all, REAL. It feels realistic and truly disturbing in a way a lot of horror movies don't, to the point where you almost feel like you shouldn't be watching, but you can't look away. The title makes you think you're in for a gorefest, but there's actually very little blood and gore to speak of (Tobe Hooper was shooting for A PG RATING, but the MPAA decided that the subject matter was just too macabre to be anything less than an R). It's all about the atmosphere, the tension, the extremely f****d up imagery in that house, and the erm... eccentric Sawyer family. And it's all made even scarier by Marilyn Burns' uncomfortably realistic terror at everything around her... and much of her fear was genuine. Yeah, about that... the making of the film was no picnic. Just look up what a nightmare the dinner scene was for everyone involved. Edwin Neal (who played the hitchhiker) said it was the worst experience of his life.... and he'd served in Vietnam.
The hammer scene is incredibly brutal and realistic. It's one of the simplest, but most effective horror movie kills ever.
I first watched this when I was about 6 years old...in the middle of the country...late at night. Later that night, as I was trying to sleep, every little noise I heard freaked me out LOL.
I made sure I was good and drunk the first time I watched it.
Load More Replies...whats fun about this movie is there actually isnt much blood shown on screen
It's brilliant that they were able to make this super disturbing without turning into gore porn. The horror was psychological.
I found Tusk very disturbing. I love horrors and don’t mind body horror usually, but that one left me with a really uncomfortable feeling.
Brief-Leader-4015:
I'm glad I'm not the only one, everyone laughed at it but I found it very unsettling.
Don't watch it. It is not worth the trauma. It has no purpose and proper storyline except to disgust the viewer. Just a mess of a movie.
Well put Dr,Caffeine, that was exactly how I felt too, too bizarre.
Load More Replies...My husband just doesn't understand why that movie horrifies me. Glad it's not just me.
This movie was absolutely vile. I actually felt sick at the end of it. Will never watch it again.
I realize it’s terrible, and the story is very sad, but I can’t help laughing whenever I think of it. On top of that it changed my opinion on Justin Long’s acting skills for the better! Would definitely watch this movie again on a movie night.
It was weird and funny - but then it became horribly sad and disturbing. Won't watch it again, not even for the cameo of my all time favourite movie crush, Johnny Depp
This,i watched it 3 times, i kept seeing new insides to the insanity of it, watched it myself, then with my bro, then my sister and aunt
Pink Flamingos for sure.
John Waters social commentary: twisted version of keeping up with the Joneses. I have watched it several times. The scenes are so extreme that I'm sure it's rated beyond XX. All his films are critiques of American culture, Cowboys, Sex, Segregation, etc. He employs Shock and Vulgarity to get his point across.
How about the artificial insemination of the basement hostages or the final ingestion of dog poop?
Load More Replies...this was one of those.... one of a kind movies~ watched it when i was lil and... got to tell ya.... it taught me a some stuff but like "live large, be yourself, don't be scared to be weird!"
I saw that movie when I was 11. My mother let me rent it because she never bothered to look at the box. I have probably not been the same since.
Probably 100% have not been the same since seeing this...saw it in my early 20s, I'm 40 now and still wonder about it...
Load More Replies...Oh Hell yeah! Again a TLA staple on every Tuesday night! I laughed my a*s off! "Hold these goddmaned chickens!" You seriously could not help but lose it on this thing!
The "bonus scene" with Divine after the end credits has left me traumatized for 25 years. I still almost puke if I think of it.
The boy in the striped pajamas, it is truly a movie you watch once and never return back to it.
This movie is very well made and horrible at the same time, I have only watched it twice. It makes me cry so much.
I looked the movie up on Netflix back when they sent DVDs out. I decided I wasn't going to be able to either read the book or see the movie. I have yet to change my mind.
I remember having to watch this in school after we read the book still scarred all these years later...
Before he died in 2016, my dad gave me his DVD of this film, and I still haven't been able to watch it.
I watched this. My husband came home, saw it, and just looked at me and said, "Did you just need to cry so you turned this on?" I said "No, I haven't seen it and think it may be an important watch." Yes, it was, but only a once-watch.
It's so devastating especially since it's things that actually happened
HAPPINESS (1998) with Dylan Baker, and Philip Seymour Hoffman (one of the greatest actors ever, imo). It's.......well, uncomfortable to say the least.
HypoxiaJones:
I vomited after this one. I’ve seen some of the more upvoted films on this list. This one did it.
Dylan Baker is really such a great, underrated actor. And the scene where his son is asking why he isn't good enough to abuse was so messed up.
A girl I worked with (and had gone for a few drinks with before) invited me over to her house to stay the night, because her parents were away for the weekend. This was the movie she rented because she loved it. I didn't stay the night.
Dear Zachary.
/MacduffFifesNo1Thane:
I only remember the movie when these threads come up. And good thing, because I need to be reminded every so often that the world is cruel.
DomingoLee:
If you haven’t seen it, please... Just don’t.
When I watched this, I had no idea what was coming. I felt like I got kicked in the face. I can watch fiction, because it's just acting. This made me cry myself to sleep.
In 2009, after watching the film Canadian MP Scott Andrews introduced Bill C-464 (also known as "Zachary's Bill") to the Parliament of Canada. The bill, which helps protect children in relation to bail hearings and custody disputes, was signed into law the following year.
This one made me angry as well as sad. It should never, EVER have been allowed to happen. What the sweet HELL were the authorities thinking??
The Road. I had to just sit and think for a little while after watching it.
I still think about this years after watching it. One of the most depressing films ever made.
Though they still added a final uplifting beat at the very end. I don't want to spoil the movie for anyone else, but it changed it from unrelenting horror and despair to a situation where there was a small glimmer of hope.
Load More Replies...All I know is that it was referenced in Quantum Leap when Sam takes a girl to meet Jack Kerouac.
That was probably “On the road”, by Jack Kerouac, not “The Road”, by Cormac McCarthy, no?
Load More Replies...I couldn't get through either the film or the book. Fell asleep 15 minutes into the film, got bored to death of the book like 25 pages in.
Kids.
funkyhomo:
So good and so heartbreaking.
Scrolling through to find this! My dad told me about it and I wanted to watch it until I read the plot-
What do you mean? If you more trying to correct grammar… Kids is the first word in the sentence and therefore should be capitalized
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Martyrs.
Brief-Leader-4015:
I lay awake all night after this film. Nothing has ever bothered me except this.
punky67:
Just watched this a couple of weeks ago. Brutal film. It starts off a really good revenge movie as well, but Jesus, it gets much darker. The relentless torture just becomes downright depressing
It prolly has the most profound ending of any horror movie. Yet it is too disturbing. It was depressing
It's a staggeringly brillant film, so beautifully made ( obviously the original French film....) the concept is unique, we wait the entire film to hear one sentence at the end, which we don't hear, that's pretty much the most perfect ending to a film....
My friend said it took a few nights sleep of her and i wouldn't watch it after that
This has the distinction of being a disturbing movie on top of it also being well done. I loved it. It's not scary but it's definitely hard to watch at times, especially toward the end.
Are we talking the original French version or the remake? I watched the original and it was disturbing, but mostly because of the excessive gore. The central idea itself was interesting but I feel like they could have toned down the gore and still managed to tell the same story.
Load More Replies...There is Something Wrong with Aunt Diane. It had a very shocking still at the end but it's overall a horribly sad event followed by a family deep in detail.
Cannibal Holocaust.
This was banned in so many places and with good reason. Didn't the film crew and director get taken to court to prove no humans were actually killed? I think I read that some of the bodies on sticks were so realistic it got complaints.
Yes he did go to court - actors had to appear to prove they weren't dead
Load More Replies...Good movie, but I always have to fast forward through the animal cruelty scenes.
*Hard Candy* Good f*****g hell is this an uncomfortable movie.
I've seen this several times. It's one of the most surreal things I've ever seen. Page was 17 at the time, and his portrayal of Hayley was masterful, and raised the movie's bar. We see the situation from Hayley's eyes, but Page's performance gave a LOT of wiggle room. I think that's the thing that makes it so freaky. The situation isn't cut-and-dried. Was Hayley's view the truth? Was Jeff's? Some combination thereof? That movie haunts me, in part because I don't know if the right person won. I don't know how Page feels about the movies he portrayed in his teens, but I think his personal ambiguity certainly enhanced the movie. (For those who don't know, Elliott Page was born female, and had exclusively female roles as a child and teenager).
Give Salò a try.
apb2718:
I only watched this film once but I felt it was just weird until the end where it finally goes over the top.
I was hoping someone would mention this. And then I could just put it all out of my mind again.........
This is another one I'm surprised is so low on the list.
Load More Replies...When a loved one committed s*****e, my friend rented this movie for me to distract me from my sadness for an hour and a half. It worked.
At my masters degree, a teacher in a class of Totalitarian Regimes put it in class. Two students vomited...
This is a close rival for " A Serbian Film " in terms of just pure disgusting and horrible to watch....
Jaws. Hear me out: I'm a horror fan and find demons and ghosts as scary as the next guy, but at worst I can't sleep for three nights after a particularly disturbing movie. But it's been decades since I watched Jaws and I am still scared to tread water. So it might not have hit the hardest, but for me it's reverberated the longest.
Saw it when I was nine. Unfortunately, my Dad had just gotten us waterbeds, and mine had a HUGE bubble in it. Had nightmares until we "burped" the mattress, that Jaws was coming after me.
This movie is not disturbing. Scary, unforgettable, classic, but not disturbing.
The leg floating down made me jump. Shark attacks aren't actually that common but this movie made a lot of people scared to go near the ocean again.
It's a total classic, I've watched it so many times. I was more scared by Titanic 😂
I can't understand exactly why but "saltburn" ignoring all the obviously uncomfortable parts. When that end song starts playing I feel horrible haha.
I found that dreck on (whatever streaming service) and it was listed as a comedy. Somebody needs to be effing FIRED.
"It Could Never Be Made Today ..." Saltburn was released at the end of last year :/
It was both really boring and very disturbing on some parts. And I will never hear THAT song without seeing him dancing around naked in my mind.... Wish i could unsee it.
I switched off after half an hour. All that run-of-the-mill bollocks about the posh twat taking the grammar school d*ckhead under his wing could have been done during the opening credits, like a modern Spiderman intro. I was just bored, bored, bored.
Oh gosh don't get me started- My older sister had this on her 'to watch' list and put it on one night when she visited for me and my mom (herself included of course)...I left halfway through, it was extremely uncomfortable and just plain weird, and I've heard about the rest of the movie and am so glad I didn't witness it-
Boys don't cry. I was a teenager trying to find some lgbt representation and someone recommended this.
That's how I found and watched Mysterious Skin. It was a tiny trauma and I can still sometimes have nightmares about it.
Gregg Araki is f*cked in the head and I am 100% here for it.
Load More Replies...Hilary Swank actually created a list of "not again" movies for me in this intense film but also in the Million dollar baby. This one I TRIED to watch again but was knocked out by "lady" Blue bear, I guess forever
I dont think its traditionally disturbing , but “The killing of a sacred deer” really left me feeling weird.
The Audition. The look of pre glee on her face as she took the Molly wire to his ankle.
TheHammer987:
I still freak out about this like, 20 years later.
Another top 10 movie for for the same reason as the OP. It's so grotesque but so real at the same time. Far more disturbing to think a crazy person could do that to you than any demonic possession/alien creatures/horrific monsters type gore fest.
Takashi Miike has made some very good and very disturbing films. Visitor Q, released in 2001, should be on this list.
Ichi the killer; yeah, fine, watchable… Audition; once is ok, with half closed eyes… Izo; N-NOOOOooooo. :p
Load More Replies...The Perfection - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7772580/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_the%2520perfection
Meghan is Missing.
becuzurugly:
It took me three tries to get through the second half of that movie, and then I spent at least a week looking up how to escape being buried alive.
I honestly thought this movie was silly but the scene where he opens the barrel was top notch, lol. From there onward to the last 20 or so minutes of the movie it was really disturbing. Probably the worst possible way to die was being put in a barrel with a dead, decomposing body and then being buried alive. It was memorable.
This movie was absolutely dreadful. The cornball acting, the notion that actual 13 year olds would ever act like that, and so on. The ending was genuinely horrific but by that point I was pretty much done.
The movie Splice. One of the last scenes where the “father” has s*x with his “daughter”. It wasn’t a scary movie, just disturbing af!
KatieLily_Simmer:
I’ve had nightmares from this movie for years. I’ve watched much more disturbing content but something about this film just messed me up. I can’t watch anything else with the main actor in it because I only think of this movie.
The "daughter " was a bird-like alien, so, not a real daughter. But, yes, the movie sucked.
Genetically engineered organism not an alien, but close enough. I was really looking forward to this one based on the early hype and trailers. Was ok, but a bit of a let down.
Load More Replies...I was enjoying the creature design and it reminded me of the movie Hatching and then the ending happened 😬
If the characters of this movie put their story as an AITA on reddit, it would be a very clear cut ESH! That said, this movie was not very disturbing, just disturbingly stupid.
Yay a second movie I've seen lol. It was alright until the end when it was W...T...F...
The end was even more messed up than the rest of it, and really took me by surprise 😳
OH MY GOD that movie was disturbing. I saw it in theaters and when it was over, my friend and I noticed a few rows away there was a couple and their son who looked 12 years old at most. The look of abject horror on that kid's face as the credits rolled...... I'm shocked his parents didn't cart him out of the cinema as soon as Brody started getting freaky with Dren.
Phantasm.
Not really disturbing other than the drill spheres. I remember seeing the drill sphere attack in a trailer or something as a kid and it freaked me out. But after watching the movie it's kind of an action horror film. The whole series is pretty cool.
Load More Replies...There's this French indie film, shot on a shoestring budget, called Man Bites Dog. It's a story of a documentary crew following a serial killer around as he, well, kills people. It has some pretty visceral scenes in it. It's actually a black comedy but I always found it interesting how it sort of predates our modern documentaries and reality tv series that are rather exploitative.
I love that movie - Benoit Poelvoorde is brilliant- but I wil never ever watch it again. The same with Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer - with Michael Rooker - that came out at about the same time. Both are too disturbing.
Load More Replies...It was pretty much a parody of an exploitative 1985 reality tv-show called Strip-Tease, I thought it was pretty funny as a teen.
Aniara. It’s about a spaceship that’s ferrying humans from Earth to Mars because Earth has become uninhabitable due to climate change, and right after they start towards Mars they have to swerve to avoid space junk and it ends up disabling the ship. They’re now stuck hurdling away from Mars with no way to maneuver back. I can’t really explain it but it’s so incredibly unnerving and disturbing seeing what these humans devolve into while being lost in space, and it gives a sense of isolation and desperation unlike anything I’ve ever seen. It also gives me a sense of claustrophobia despite the ship being absolutely massive.
I'm cultivating quite a list of "to watch" movies from this list. Thanks!
Faces of Death.
Maybe this says something disturbing about me, but the slaughterhouse scenes were far more disturbing than the people dying. Maybe it has to do with the innocence of animals.
I remember watching like 3 or 4 of those videos with a group of friends in high school. I felt like a zombie by the time we were done (pretty sure we all did). The clip that stuck with me the most was the puppy getting butchered (to be cooked for a meal) while it was still alive. That one really made me sick, even after being numbed from all the clips of horrific things happening to humans 😢
Cube 2 that films makes me vomit every time I see a single frame from it.
I don’t watch a lot of unsettling movies but The Devil All The Time got me bad. I had to watch it in two sittings.
Very Bad Things - it isn't necessarily a scary movie or one trying to send some weird/dark message. It's just a movie that starts bad and keeps getting worse. As though it wants your hopes to get dashed no matter who you're trying to root for throughout it.
I've seen horror flucks and heard of other disturbing movies In not willing to watch. But for me, this is the one movie I will never return to given the way it keeps getting so... just hopeless.
This movie is funny, as it is meant to be. Dark humor isn't for everyone, I guess.
Bad Boy Bubby, an Australian movie, can't really explain it, But flo...
u/Cattle-dog:
Absolutely unique movie with a horrific beginning and a surprising ending.
I had this one recommended to me by a friend who doesn't watch horror movies about 30 years ago. For some reason he loved it. Didn't do much for me at the time. Maybe I should give it a rewatch.
Load More Replies...The poor cat 😢 (I mean, the whole thing was dark, but the cat stuck with me.)
House of a thousand corpses.
Not disturbing just very, very stupid. I had to watch it as part of an audience participation thing for my niece's dissertation and I'm furious that I wasted part of my life to this self-indulgent wank. Terrible.
Really? Two hours of Rob Zombie shouting "I'm being shocking! Are you shocked yet!?" is barely a film, never mind a disturbing one. It just reeks of trying too hard
What! This movie is amazing. I have watched it so many times I can recite it.
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons.
SirPotatoToes:
I watched it with my dad not knowing what it was about bc we both liked ari aristers’s films… yeah it was awkward
The strange thing about the Johnsons is that they're at the pinnacle of British society despite being universally terrible at everything
The House That Jack Built.
This is an incredible movie. Twisted AF, but the actions of the protagonist are portrayed brutal and real, while still having a fair amount of absolutely pitch black comedy. The pay off at the end was absolutely brilliant. Whenever someone asks me to recommend a movie, this is my go to, and i never tell them anything about it, just that they need to watch it.
I think that is a little twisted, recommending this movie to people without warning them, lol.
Load More Replies...Terrified (Aterrados) Argentinian scary movie. I love scary movies but this one had me sleeping with my lights on, and I’m 40 😭.
I remember it was great but I can't recall the full plot. Definitely need to re-watch it
Snowtown.
This is about some very terrible things done by truly frightening people in Australia. I've not seen the film but I know the real life story and it is a particularly disturbing tale of greed and murderous madness.
Maybe not the worst, but one that comes to mind is Mean Creek. Kids going through an emotionally grueling experience figuring out what to do with another kids body. Those kid actors did an amazing job on that film.
Soft and Quiet. I’m pretty desensitized to a lot, but this movie really had me anxious and cringing for most of it. Not disturbing in a traditional grotesque way but it’s crazy bc it felt rather believable.
Dogtooth. Saw it on a list of WTF films back in the early 2010s, so I gave it a watch. It was really uncomfortable and unsettling to sit through. Without going into too much detail, it's about a controlling father who isolates his wife and three kids from the rest of society on a private estate. It's a Greek foreign film. I recommend it solely based on how bizarre it was; but be warned, you'll feel icky after watching it.
I saw it on a disturbing movie iceberg video on yt. Probably from wendigoon. Just the summary of it is disturbing
An American Crime (2007) This one hurt my soul truly, its based on a true crime of a single mom who was being paid to watch & care for two sisters (15&16) in 1965. It has Catherine Keener & Elliott Page (formally Ellen Page). Not gonna go into detail but I only finished it because I felt the victim deserved to have her story told/heard.
The Girl Next Door (2008) is about the same horrific crime. Cannot watch either of these ever again
I found Maniac with Elijah Wood very disturbing.
I'm surprised how good a job he did on the remake. The original felt more disturbing though. Grimier and more "real", less like a movie.
I watched MEN the other night and that was pretty F*****G DISTURBING, holy f**k.
Saw the last hour of this the other day. Good Lord, what was the writer/director thinking? Must have had a bunch of spare latex birthing scene vagina appliances laying around.
Right? I had to stop watching THAT scene and remember thinking wtf was I watching?
Load More Replies...Dunno, pretty accurate portrayal of men being men. :p Stellar performance by Buckley and Kinnear, and little Kinnear, and also smaller Kinnear by the way. :D
Coincidentally, this is on my TV screen right now... Naked man near a building across a field?!? Must be really deep... so deep that I can't be bothered to dig for meaning or watch the rest of it.
Menu - i still don't understand the purpose.
The Poughkeepsie Tapes. It was quite unpleasant. Nothing happy or positive what so ever.
edwpad:
I had a fascination with horror movies out of curiosity when I was younger and this one creeped me out a lot.
Civil War (2024). I don't know if it was because of the amplified effect in the theater or I'm just a wuss, but I genuinely left the place traumatized and about to throw up. Was 100% worse than all quiet on the western front. I have never seen a modern film pull something off like it. Other than that it was a good movie though, I suggest you watch it.
It has a lot of over the top senseless violence, but I can't take this movie seriously. Like reporters, jumping in the middle shoot-outs like idiots, running next to tanks, and almost never get harmed. It was just ridiculous.
They make a huge point of showing the building in DC as 702. So on 7th Street. They walk one block behind a tank and are at the white house. Not the biggest deal but... really irritating. Not realistic or accurate.
Load More Replies...I'm sure everyone feels differently than I do. But the movie they advertised was not the movie I saw. When it was over I said kinda loudly, " well that just sucked!", which I've never done. I was so disappointed. Leaving the movie people in the lobby were talking about different parts and how they got chills. We're we in the same movie? Because it really wasn't that good.
Girl, interrupted. Still haunts me to this day.
What? That’s not even a horror movie! I love that movie. It’s based off of a book. It is really a true story
This article is about movies people find disturbing. Not necessarily horror movies.
Load More Replies...The score for this movie remains one of my favorites and I listen to it often. I didn't find this movie to be particularly 'haunting'... I thought it was definitely a good story about how women's mental illness was handled back then. And it spoke to how men often treated and saw women who didn't conform to the standards they wanted. It reminded me of that meme where they say we view dogs as being smarter or better the more they obey you. The better you behaved the better they thought the girls were, until the one girl got out and killed herself.
Fire in The Sky. Based on a TRUE story. Terrifying!
Yeah, sure, a "true story" of an UFO abduction. It's loosely based on the book written by a UFO maniac and known prankster, who had the incentive of creating the hoax to collect tabloid money. Is that a "true story"? Also, the movie is quite terrible and badly written.
How that ever was deemed a Childs movie i dont know!
Load More Replies...Two for me: The Fly (the 80's version) REALLY freaked me out as a teenager. The other is Pan's Labyrinth. Was Ofelia really Princess Moanna? Was she merely escaping the horror in fantasy? The character of Captain Vidal was both very well done and horrible. That one will stick with me forever.
Oh gods, Pan's Labyrinth was so beautifully done, absolutely gut-wrenching. To your question, though, my guess: doesn't matter. No matter how terrifying the monsters in the "fantasy" world were, nothing is as evil as what people do to each other.
Load More Replies...The Wizard of Oz. Had me in tears and running through to the kitchen. Way too scary for an 6 year-old to watch on their own.
Are you sure you aren't thinking of Return to Oz?
Load More Replies...That is the most misleading title I have seen on a bored panda article for quite some time. Good lord.
I watched the movie "Kids" recently. That movie stuck with me and I find myself wondering about it quite often especially the burning question "Did Telly know he was HIV positive?"
I don’t think he did, but knowing wouldn’t have changed any of that little fúckers actions.
Load More Replies...Lovely Bones. Never saw the movie but if it's anything like the book, I'm out
How that ever was deemed a Childs movie i dont know!
Load More Replies...Two for me: The Fly (the 80's version) REALLY freaked me out as a teenager. The other is Pan's Labyrinth. Was Ofelia really Princess Moanna? Was she merely escaping the horror in fantasy? The character of Captain Vidal was both very well done and horrible. That one will stick with me forever.
Oh gods, Pan's Labyrinth was so beautifully done, absolutely gut-wrenching. To your question, though, my guess: doesn't matter. No matter how terrifying the monsters in the "fantasy" world were, nothing is as evil as what people do to each other.
Load More Replies...The Wizard of Oz. Had me in tears and running through to the kitchen. Way too scary for an 6 year-old to watch on their own.
Are you sure you aren't thinking of Return to Oz?
Load More Replies...That is the most misleading title I have seen on a bored panda article for quite some time. Good lord.
I watched the movie "Kids" recently. That movie stuck with me and I find myself wondering about it quite often especially the burning question "Did Telly know he was HIV positive?"
I don’t think he did, but knowing wouldn’t have changed any of that little fúckers actions.
Load More Replies...Lovely Bones. Never saw the movie but if it's anything like the book, I'm out
