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To ask for films that have unsettled you

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marmite92 · 30/05/2020 12:43

I am in need of films that will actually keep me engaged and take my mind off my life at the moment, nice rom coms don't cut it right now! So please send your list of weird/disturbing/unsettling films my way

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CaraDune · 30/05/2020 16:39

The Last King of Scotland.

Forrest Whittaker's performance as Idi Amin is immense. It is utterly engrossing. A brilliant film. It is also devastatingly horrible at the end, and not a film I could ever bring myself to watch twice. You will need a strong stomach.

Destroyedpeople · 30/05/2020 16:40

Oh oh I have thought of another...
'The Heathers' starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. ....

Namechangex10000 · 30/05/2020 16:42

Ooh someone said the visit, I love scary stuff but am actually a massive wimp so find it difficult to watch, been watching some in the day time lately, I put this on but the first scary moment and absolutely shit myself and couldn’t bare to watch further or even look at it but morbid curiosity is telling telling me to watch it lol

handbagsatdawn33 · 30/05/2020 16:44

Another vote for "Boy in the striped pyjamas".

I'd read the book, so knew the ending, but it still brought me close to tears.

vikingwife · 30/05/2020 16:58

@ChesterBelloc I must be mad but that movie is legitimately funny to me. It did not have its intended effect. It has Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore & a Wayans brother in it !

Ooh last King Of Scotland - must watch this.

Loving this thread for good movie recommendations !

sunflowersandtulips50 · 30/05/2020 17:00

Wolf Creek - really quite disturbing.
Blair Witch Project
Poltergeist -- as a lot of the cast and crew members died

HotMess21 · 30/05/2020 17:01

I recommend Buried, which is an "English-language psychological thriller ... [that] stars Ryan Reynolds". I recently watched it for the second time and it left me feeling very disturbed, just as the first viewing had done.

NB I haven't RTFT, so I'm unaware if this film has been suggested by a PP.

marmite92 · 30/05/2020 17:02

Ooh I remember watching buried @HotMess21 and I couldn't stop thinking about it for ages, that was when it first came out so will definitely watch it again!

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marmite92 · 30/05/2020 17:03

I think I saw a bit of wolf creek years ago but I can't remember anything about it and it's come up on amazon so will start with that one tonight!

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HotMess21 · 30/05/2020 17:04

Oh, and 10,000 Maniacs really gave me the creeps!

EThreepwood · 30/05/2020 17:07

Has anyone seen Meet the Feebles?
I never want to see it ever again!

AppleDumplings · 30/05/2020 17:08

I recently watched Mother of Monsters and enjoyed it. Not a horror but a good psychological one.

slug · 30/05/2020 17:08

Audition (Japanese with subtitles)
Eraser head

slug · 30/05/2020 17:09

Pans Labyrinth and The Orphanage. Both Spanish

alwaysstressed · 30/05/2020 17:09

Blackfish or The Cove are the saddest things ive ever watched!

TiddlestheCat · 30/05/2020 17:10

Ooh, this is easy. Fortunately for you I used to stay with my grandmother as a young child, who subjected me to many inappropriate and unsettling films before sending me off to bed down a very long corridor. Also, fortunately for you I have a very good memory and was left scarred by these films.

Don't go to Sleep - a film about a girl Jennifer who was burnt alive in a car crash after one of her siblings tied her shoelaces together and she was unable to escape. She then returned as a ghost in order to punish/kill off other family members. I distinctly remember a pizza cutter and a bannister was involved.

Crowhaven Farm - a film about suspected witches. The plot culminated in a woman being crushed to death as a wooden door was placed on her and villagers slowly added rock after rock.

The Christmas Tree - a cheery little festive film about a boy who had leukemia as a result of radiation stemming from nuclear fall out. Having been given months to live, his family went about indulging his final wishes, which included buying him a couple of wolves. He died under the Xmas tree on Christmas Eve. The next day his parents woke to find him, his presents remained unopened, his wolves howled loudly and mournfully as more bombers flew overhead, no doubt carrying more radioactive bombs in which to deliver misery to another child. And, Yes, this film was on on Christmas Eve!

Threads - another cheery little nuclear war film, whereby a nuclear bomb is dropped upon Sheffield. People wet themselves, blood pours down the hospital steps, people suffer radiation poisoning, and amongst this, a young pregnant lady named Ruth is abandoned by her boyfriend and has to survive in an apocalyptic post nuclear world. She sells her body for rats to eat and, as I recall, gives birth alone to a deformed/unwell or stillborn baby.

AreYouLocal2 · 30/05/2020 17:11

The Lives of Others

HotMess21 · 30/05/2020 17:11

That's Two Thousand Maniacs. (10,000 Maniacs is the rock band.)

hopeforlucky3 · 30/05/2020 17:20

Another for American History X also Monster

motherheroic · 30/05/2020 17:24

Hereditary and Midsommar

JaneJeffer · 30/05/2020 17:26

Se7en

Snoopysimaginaryfriend · 30/05/2020 17:27

Bone tomahawk.

Came across it whilst channel surfing on my own one night and although it’s not the scariest, goriest, bloodiest film I’ve seen something about the brutality really unsettled and stayed with me.

Zoey92 · 30/05/2020 17:28

Boy in striped pyjamas.
I actually only seen this for the first time last year.

TiddlestheCat · 30/05/2020 17:29

Now, there was one more film that I watched as a teenager that I found horribly disturbing. Unfortunately, I have erased the title from my mind. It was a film about a teenage boy whose parents moved house without telling him. He came home to an empty house. He ended up homeless with a load of misfits in a parking lot/wasteland. I distinctly recall one of them sat on top of a lifeguards chair, winding up an old air raid siren. There was also a lot of mournful saxophone music. I think that it was set 'up north'. It was on TV late evening in the early 1990s.

Can anyone help??

BarkandCheese · 30/05/2020 17:29

@Destroyedpeople

Oh oh I have thought of another... 'The Heathers' starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. ....
I love Heathers! I saw the musical version in the west end a couple of years ago.

There’s a great film of around that vintage called Society, like Heathers it takes a jet black comedy look at the American upper middle class. It’s almost impossible to find now but if you can find it that’s pretty disturbing, and proud considering it’s subject matter (the rich literally consuming the poor) ripe for a remake.

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