You've all picked and named some great ( ? ) distrubing movies. I'd like to add my comments...
"Boys Don't Cry" - The entire movie audience just sat there and then walked out in silence.
"Kids" - Already named and I think with good cause. That last scene turned my stomach.
"Bent" - A side of the Nazi regime not often shown.
"Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" - Creepy, to say the least.
"Sophie's Choice" - to me, more depressing than disturbing. This is probably the one movie I cannot imagine anyone seeing twice.
what about scenes in films rather than the films themselves?
For some reason the bit in Apocalypse Now when the villagers kill the sacrificial cow always disturbed me, not sure why exactly, but there ya go.
Also the bit in Texas Chainsaw Massacre when Leatherface hangs that girl on the meat hook. I think it's the slow inevitability of it that makes me feel sick, you know what he's gonna do, but it's almost like he can't be bothered and she can't do anything to stop him anyway. Mind you that whole film is a triumph of cinematography, not quite on a par with The Shining, but close.
The scene from Transformers: The Movie where Megatron/Galvatron throws Starscream out of the spaceship in cold blood was very disturbing for me when I was 7. Especially hearing Starscreams blood-curdling screeches as he floated his way to death (i suppose? do transformers require oxygen to live?)
Originally posted by darvlayActually I recall that Starscream's fall through space was dealt with elsewhere in the Transformer's story and that he did end up somewhere doing something, can't remember what though. Anyone back this up?
The scene from Transformers: The Movie where Megatron/Galvatron throws Starscream out of the spaceship in cold blood was very disturbing for me when I was 7. Especially hearing Starscreams blood-curdling screeches as he floated his way to death (i suppose? do transformers require oxygen to live?)
Originally posted by StarrmanReally? These potholes have really killed my brain.
Actually I recall that Starscream's fall through space was dealt with elsewhere in the Transformer's story and that he did end up somewhere doing something, can't remember what though. Anyone back this up?
Originally posted by StarrmanI'm surprised no one has listed The Texas Chainsaw Massacre yet. As far as just violence goes, this movie was certainly one of the most disturbing. The meat-hook thing wasn't nearly as bad as the scene where the old man sucks the girls blood through via her finger. The way he twitches in ectasy and everything is just so sickening. This movie will always have the greatest foot-chase sequence ever though! Too bad all foot-chases in horror movies today still can't quite get it right! 🙁
what about scenes in films rather than the films themselves?
For some reason the bit in Apocalypse Now when the villagers kill the sacrificial cow always disturbed me, not sure why exactly, but there ya go.
Also the bit in Texas Chainsaw Massacre when Leatherface hangs that girl on the meat hook. I think it's the slow inevitability of it that makes ...[text shortened]... that whole film is a triumph of cinematography, not quite on a par with The Shining, but close.
Originally posted by Freddie20044I think that is from an episode of something like The Twilihgt Zone? I know I have seen it, but I can't remember the sort of show it was on?
does anyone know of a film in which a man tries to escape form prison by hiding under a body in a coffin. he bribes a prison officer to come and dig him up 6 hours after the burial so that he can escape. once he has been buried he turns on a torch and discovers that the dead man next to him is the officer he bribed...he dies. i have never seen the film ...[text shortened]... my teacher and really want to see it...does anyone know what the movie is called? thanks freddie
Originally posted by elvendreamgirlWe seem to have an even split between Hitchcock and Twilight Zone.
I think that is from an episode of something like The Twilihgt Zone? I know I have seen it, but I can't remember the sort of show it was on?
Anybody know for sure, or can anybody find out. I've spent a while on google trying to find it, but couldn't.
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Originally posted by geniusAny of you see John Waters "Pink Flamingos'? I think that has to be in the top ten of most disturbing films of all time. With a close second and third Star Wars Episodes I and II.
just wondering what the most disturbing film you've see would be? i'd have to say 8mm, a rather sick look at the underground porn industrie, or "the animal", which is a pretty gross-out, although hilarious, film which somehow gets away with beastality etc while only being a 12...😕
