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What is the most disturbing horror movie you have ever seen?

post #1 of 77
7/15/04 at 3:39pm
Thread Starter 
There is a list going in this forum of the worst horror movies, and I'm sure there has been a list of the best. I'd like to know what people think is the most disturbing, violent, sick, and deranged damn horror movie ever made.
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post #2 of 77
7/15/04 at 4:09pm
well its not a horror movie but Visitor Q is one fucked up flick. I was constantly asking myself what the fuck i was watching every 10min or so
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post #3 of 77
7/15/04 at 4:15pm
Is that Q: "the winged serpent"?
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post #4 of 77
7/15/04 at 4:18pm
May not be considered horror, but Seven is still the only movie that had me weak in the knees after I left the theater.
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post #5 of 77
7/15/04 at 4:19pm
they vary



when I first saw Man Bites Dog I was blown away

but then I saw Requiem for a Dream

Visitor Q is waaaaay out there....but I also look at it as a art piece.....I loved the scene where the kids were shooting fireworks into their apartment. Nothing gross in that scene, just....I dunno


I guess what I am saying is that there are movies out there that will always replace what you thought was the most disturbing

Hell, for lingering childhood phobias that still disturb me for some reason that I don't know, I'd have to say The Brothers Quay Collection


That DVD would scare the living peanutty shit out of me if I was still 5
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post #6 of 77
7/15/04 at 4:20pm
Audition is pretty disturbing, so is May.
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post #7 of 77
7/15/04 at 4:27pm
I see... well no thanks for Visitor Q... Audition already had me squirming in my seat so I'll pass on this next atrocity.

http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/visitorq.shtml
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post #8 of 77
7/15/04 at 5:32pm
Most disturbing... well it had to be the original Dawn of the dead I watched that when I was young and the zombies eating the guys intestines...

But now that I've matured a little it had to be the paper cut scene in Jackass the movie that had me leave the theater

Seriously folks definitely Se7en thanks to the fact that I am guilty of probably 6 of those sins
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post #9 of 77
7/15/04 at 5:51pm
Like I’ve said before, Dark Water really fucked me up the first I saw it. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that at the time that I first watched it we were convinced that my mom would die at any minute. It just really, seriously disturbed me as a result.

Audition struck me as potentially the movie that I should have most been disturbed by but was not. It was a great movie and I’ve seen it many times now but it just didn’t have the impact on me that I thought it maybe should.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre left me feeling really fucked up on the first viewing [subsequent viewings have just left me smiling and happy as my cat in a sunbeam.] As clichéd as it is to say this now, The Exorcist is another flick that really fucked with me the first time.

Kairo left me feeling very perturbed and empty [in a good, effective horror kind of way,] as did Ringu the first time I saw it.

There have actually been a slew of movies that have left me feeling really disturbed, despite not scaring me. Prince of Darkness, Tetsuo : The Iron Man and even [I’m going to get shit for this one,] Event Horizon.
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post #10 of 77
7/15/04 at 5:59pm
After Requiem for a Dream I had to goto a bar and....think.....about stuff



OH! and...EVENT HORIZON?!???!!WTF
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post #11 of 77
7/15/04 at 6:16pm
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Originally Posted by bunnymud wants tacos
OH! and...EVENT HORIZON?!???!!WTF

Yeah, yeah. I know... Can't explain why, it just did.
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post #12 of 77
7/15/04 at 6:32pm
August Underground's Mordum is probably the only movie I've ever had to hit the stop button and talk myself into turning it back on. The first one didn't make me flinch but Mordum was a level of wrong that I wasn't prepared for. I think I'll pass on the third one. I feel like Token in the LOTR South Park episode.
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post #13 of 77
7/15/04 at 6:44pm
I don't think Requiem counts as a horror movie, as the subject of this thread suggests, but it is quite disturbing.

I haven't been disturbed as an adult, however after watching Children of the Corn I was seriously fucked up. I look back now and its a giant cheesefest, but damn it freaked me out as a kid. Also, anything with clowns or kids as the bad guys disturb me. That evil baby from Pet Semetary haunted my dreams as a kid as well.

More recently, Jian gui aka The Eye kinda freaked me out, specifically the scene with the ghost dude in the elevator.
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post #14 of 77
7/15/04 at 6:45pm
I Spit on Your Grave. The rape scenes were just a little too disturbing for me. It really felt like I was watching a woman being raped. Ugh.
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post #15 of 77
7/15/04 at 6:48pm
AUDITION had a serious effect on me because of the casual nonchalance at the end. I ignored the hype and went into the movie blind. After it was over, I had to take a long walk with a pack of cigarettes.

My girlfriend was very disturbed by MAY, proclaiming it as "sick" and vowing never to watch it again...and this is the very same girl who happily accompanied me to a double-feature screening of EVIL DEAD II and DEAD ALIVE at the New Beverly. She still shudders when I mention the movie.
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post #16 of 77
7/15/04 at 7:02pm
Not really movies..But the two things that will neverleave my minds eye are

The Bud Dwyer suicide clip (just so much blood)
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the clip of the Russian soldier being decapitated with a large knife to the throat...

If you have been lucky enough to see it. Do NOT seek it out...seriously.

Later
Tony D
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post #17 of 77
7/15/04 at 7:03pm
Yeah Requiem for a Dream was pretty fucked up.

As was Dead Alive...that lawnmower sequence, while entertaining, was very over the top on the grue.

But probably the most disturbing would have to be The Last House on the Left. When they kill Phyllis and Sadie starts to rip her innards out...that was kinda freaky. When Krug was telling Mari to piss her pants, I felt bad just watching it...and after Krug rapes Mari and she walks into the pond just sorta catatonic...that's some heavy shit. But that's just my 2 cents.
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post #18 of 77
7/15/04 at 7:07pm
'Disturbing' is kind of a loaded word. One can be scared witless and not be 'disturbed'.

Jacob's Ladder disturbed the fuck out of me. Nightmares afterwards. The 'hell' in that movie is the stuff of my nightmares.

When I was a kid, 'Squirm' got me pretty good. Worms are gross enough without jumping up and tunnelling into your face.

The movie that scared me the most was Blair Witch Project. Yes, yes, I know. I saw it opening night. Yes, by then, word had gotten out that it was fake. But the real media blitz hadn't happened, so there was that tiny little doubt in my head going 'what if this is real, what does it mean to all of us if it's real'. I almost had to walk out of the theater towards the end, too fucking intense. My chest was hurting from how hard my heart was beating.

Of course, watching it now, it's pretty tame. Of course, I'm not watching in a dark theater surrounded by people who don't know it's fake.
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post #19 of 77
7/15/04 at 7:10pm
I love May and Audition. Love them to death. May didn't scare me ('til the very last scene), and Audition was brilliant in every conceivable way. But they didn't fuck me up in that special way. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer came close (Henry and Otis watching their handiwork on video is especially upsetting), but still didn't really mess with me.

The only films that have done that (so far) have been Fulci's The Beyond (but only (I think) because I was tripping on lots of LSD at the time (no joy in that film, just punctured eyes... blech)) and Funny Games. I was pretty eager to see FG, but as I watched it I felt increasingly unclean. I almost didn't finish it. I have the feeling I'd have the same reaction to the August Underground films (if I ever see them).

Watching Funny Games made me feel the same as when I read Killer Fiction. It's a collection of stories and essays by (deceased) serial killer Gerard Schaefer. He died proclaiming his innocence, though his writings are some of the most fucked up things I've read, moreso because there is a very high probability that what he was writing about were things he actually did. Of course, sick fuck that I am, I still have the book somewhere. I'm a packrat; I can't throw anything away, no matter how much it repels me.
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post #20 of 77
7/15/04 at 7:12pm
Definitely Ichi The Killer.



I loved how the cleaning crew would walk into a room after Ichi killed somebody and the entire room would be covered in blood with body parts scattered about. You never see him kill, but you know that Ichi is one crazy mother fucker.
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post #21 of 77
7/15/04 at 9:10pm
Session 9 really stuck with me. It had scary moments, and some violence at the end, but what really got me was the tapes of the therapy sessions being played throughout the movie.
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post #22 of 77
7/15/04 at 9:49pm
CANIBAL HOLOCAUST.

Some movies you are lucky if you have one good , disturbing scene. This film is full of sick, anguishing, degrating, sexy, and cruel scenes.

God ! I love that film.
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post #23 of 77
7/16/04 at 3:26am
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Originally Posted by rogueboy
the clip of the Russian soldier being decapitated with a large knife to the throat...

If you have been lucky enough to see it. Do NOT seek it out...seriously.

Later
Tony D
I wish I never would have seen that video...
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post #24 of 77
7/16/04 at 3:39am
Two films, neither of which are horror would be

IRREVERSIBLE

THE DEER HUNTER


... and while it's been some time since I've had the pleasure, I recall being bothered by BEYOND THE DARKNESS .....
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post #25 of 77
7/16/04 at 3:50am
I gotta disaree with Diva about "Requiem," I think it's a very horrific movie, made even more horrifying by the fact that it's not about zombies, or vampires, or even crazed murderers. It's regular people with a very real problem: addiction in it's varying forms. I'm not a drug user, and watching that movie pretty much swore me off of them. I don't think a lot of people who saw the last 15 minutes of that movie walked out laughing it off.

I also was shaken up by Re-Animator when I first saw it as a kid (understandably so). Same with the original TCM. They got to me pretty good. And, I'll probably catch flack for this, but I walked out of the Dawn of the Dead remake pretty shaken up. I remember walking out and just seeing almost all of the people as if they were potential zombies. It was really weird.
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post #26 of 77
7/16/04 at 4:02am
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Originally Posted by ChainsawXxX
I gotta disaree with Diva about "Requiem," I think it's a very horrific movie
I agree that the film is horrific to watch, but by genre-description only it is not a "horror" film. It is a drama. Therefore, it doesn't really count in this thread.
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post #27 of 77
7/16/04 at 4:11am
Takes foot, seasons to taste, and places in mouth.

Ay, ya got me on that one.
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post #28 of 77
7/16/04 at 4:15am
The Silence of the Lambs still fucks with me.

"It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again!"
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post #29 of 77
7/16/04 at 4:53am
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Originally Posted by soultaker
I Spit on Your Grave. The rape scenes were just a little too disturbing for me. It really felt like I was watching a woman being raped. Ugh.
I'm with you on that. When I watched it as a young teen ager I felt really slimy about watching it. Also, when younger Bloodsucking Freaks really repulsed me.

Lately...I don't know if been really "disturbed." I will say, that even knowing it was fake, watching Ghostwatch last year for the first time at 2am with all the lights out scared the bejeezus out of me and I couldn't go to sleep and had to turn all the lights on. I was a big baby.
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post #30 of 77
7/16/04 at 6:59am
I'd love to see a poll comparing the people that heeded Tony's advice about that Russian soldier clip and those who ran straight to the net to find it. I've seen it. Not fun at all.

A few Trent Reznor clips from his pre-Pretty Head Machine days (not the Bob Flannagan one, but the one from the same era with the video footage of the abduction and torture by blow torch) made me feel very odd.

Beyond The Darkness is pretty dificult in a similar vein to the Russian soldiers clip...I think it's the acid.

Most other stuff I just find pleasingly gruesome, Miike, Deodata, Fulci, Chan Wook Park, whoever...
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post #31 of 77
7/16/04 at 7:05am
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Originally Posted by Straxboy - An Anthony Hickox Film
A few Trent Reznor clips from his pre-Pretty Head Machine days (not the Bob Flannagan one, but the one from the same era with the video footage of the abduction and torture by blow torch) made me feel very odd.
Video for "Happiness Is Slavery."

Thanks for bringing that back to my memory, Straxboy. I won't be sleeping again this year!
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post #32 of 77
7/16/04 at 8:55am
Thread Starter 
Everyone, these are some great replies.

I want to make sure that I clarify my initial question a little bit.

I think as an "adult" if you walk away from a horror movie, or even a part of a horror movie, thinking "WTF was that?" it probably counts as disturbing. As adults, we all know the items in these films are fake. We could go out and watch those Faces of Death type productions for the shock value, and for the most part those features are truly "disturbing". But I think that sick, horrific, disturbing, or deranged doesn't always relate to gore. I know when I was a kid my father made the God-awful mistake of letting me watch Halloween. I was about 8, and that movie completely fucked me up. It still fucks me up to this day, Tommy looking out the window and seeing Michael standing on the lawn across the street. To me, the scenes in that movie are disturbing. I think that the individuals that mentioned movies like Blair Witch or Event Horizon IMO are on track. Say what you will about Blair Witch, but I was in the same boat as Mr. Dark. I was in a theater with a bunch of people completely pissing themselves because no one knew if it was real. I left that movie disturbed. As well, I sure as hell wasn't going to say "Candyman" 5 times into a mirror after walking out of the theater the day I saw that movie. They may seem stupid now, but I always love that initial fear. It sticks with you a little bit, and I think that's what's it's all about.

Thanks again for the replies.
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post #33 of 77
7/16/04 at 9:05am
Anything by Lugio Fulci.

I have a problem with injuries or wounds to the eyes. I can't stand to watch someone get their eyes impaled or stomped on.
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post #34 of 77
7/16/04 at 9:29am
I'd say RINGU did a fair job, although like Strax, the antics of folks like Miike just amuse me.

Going on a non-horror for a tangent for a second, the one film that really disturbed me was AMERICAN HISTORY X. And anyone who's seen the film will know which part really kicked it off...
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post #35 of 77
7/16/04 at 9:30am
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Originally Posted by Evil Milo
Everyone, these are some great replies.
As well, I sure as hell wasn't going to say "Candyman" 5 times into a mirror after walking out of the theater the day I saw that movie.
That's right, I forgot about how much Candyman impacted me the first time. I was about 10 or so when it was released and while first watching it, I made my father turn it off. It's probably the only movie that I have ever seen that I couldn't finish in the first sitting. The scene when Helen wakes up in the womans house, with the blood everywhere, the dead dog and the woman screaming about her baby was just too much. It stayed with me for a long time.

Mind you, it's now one of my favorites and I've seen it dozens of times, but the first time it really fucked me up.
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post #36 of 77
7/16/04 at 9:54am
I second the person who mentioned Bloodsucking Freaks. I think the most disturbing thing about the film is how obviously the filmmakers got off on making it. Shudder . . .
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post #37 of 77
7/16/04 at 10:03am
When I was young I used to be really scared of aliens. Not the ones from the aliens movies, the "real" aliens from communion and the like that love to abduct us. There was a made for TV movie, I believe it was called 'The Visitors" or something like that. In one scene a lady is recovering a memory through hypnosis and she remembers a time when she's about 10. She sees a little boy in the woods and follows him to a lake. There she sees him standing on the shore with a UFO hovering over him. When he turns around, you see that he has the huge alien eyes. It's the only thing that ever made me scream. It was just the theme of the whole flashback scene. Of course, I saw it a few years ago and it wasn't too scary anymore. Now that aliens have been reduced to cute little cultural icons used to sell everything from cars to pepsi.
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post #38 of 77
7/16/04 at 10:24am



PENIS HOT DOGS!!
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post #39 of 77
7/16/04 at 10:55am
Subconscious Cruelity......

It pretty much had no redeeming qualities to it.....I think it was made just for "shock" value with some of its images and narratives, but it basically just sucked!
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post #40 of 77
7/16/04 at 11:01am
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and MY LITTLE EYE are the only movies I recall ever giving me nightmares... LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET and MEN BEHIND THE SUN are pretty upsetting too.
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post #41 of 77
7/16/04 at 11:54am
Strax...I was wondering the same thing after I wrote that- I prob just sent people to seek it out...

And yeah- I have a copy of the NIN "Video X" tape from when it first came out.. That was totally hardcore back then... Very well done tape...

I guess I misunderstood the questions... As har as "Movies" that I watched that stayed with me after I shut it off would have to be...

Blair Witch,
the opening scene in Goodfellas- Just the brutality of it totally caught me off guard...
and the ultimate head fuck film...

Jaws.

NOBODY can go swimming in the open ocean without it even QUICKLY shooting through their mind...

Later
Tony D
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post #42 of 77
7/16/04 at 12:12pm
Das Experiment kinda got to me



great little movie
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post #43 of 77
7/16/04 at 12:26pm
Great Thread!

Buttgereit's NEKROMANTIK films are extremely disturbing in that they vilefy death where nothing is sacred, but in the same sense they're so beautifully directed.

Pasolini's SALO is a film I have trouble getting through again even though the real life voilence is dead on.

Also, portions of SWEET MOVIE are so surreal and strange that I'm always deeply disturbed to the very bowels, so much so I'm saddened.

MY SWEET SATAN even though it's a short, is a scary examination of the brutal lengths a desperate individual will go to.
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post #44 of 77
7/16/04 at 12:33pm
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Originally Posted by Dr. Vitus Werdegast
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Lately...I don't know if been really "disturbed." I will say, that even knowing it was fake, watching Ghostwatch last year for the first time at 2am with all the lights out scared the bejeezus out of me and I couldn't go to sleep and had to turn all the lights on. I was a big baby.
OOOOOH yeah...I watched Ghostwatch the other day.....wow!

I was bugged out all night!

Just hearing the family talk about the experiences, especially the little girl saying how she saw "Pipes" looking at her through the crack in the door...

I was freaked out before any of the actual ghost action even happened.

Plus, seeing the shapes in the room....ugh, that really messed with me.
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post #45 of 77
7/16/04 at 12:38pm
In addition to Ghostwatch ...

The Entity - when the first ghostly rape happens, it comes out of nowhere!
Just the idea that this "thing" could strike out of nowhere whenever it wanted....ugh...

Plus, that music when it attacks! Those harsh blasts of noise!!! It really adds to the mood of terror.

The Changeling - the scene where ...
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The little kid is talking about how she had the dream of the little boy trying to break out and crawl up out of the floor!

Whoo mama!

That really freaked me out as a kid, and it still creeps me out today.
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post #46 of 77
7/16/04 at 1:26pm
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Originally Posted by bunnymud wants tacos
Das Experiment kinda got to me



great little movie
Cool! I almost picked it up yesterday but wasn't sure what it was. Now I'm renting it this week-end!
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post #47 of 77
7/16/04 at 2:27pm
I totally forgot ..

Larry Clarks Kids and Bully...Just how unemotional the kids in those were. So detached, and prone to pretatory behavior...just scared me...

Later
Tony D
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post #48 of 77
7/16/04 at 3:34pm
I have to say Feardotcom is one hell of a messed up movie.
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post #49 of 77
7/16/04 at 3:53pm
By messed up you mean because of the lack of a plot?
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post #50 of 77
7/16/04 at 4:56pm
I spit on your grave, last house on the left... those two really really fucked me up. The Hills Have Eyes is pretty intense too.

"baby fat, you fat... fat n' juicy!"
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