To ask for films that have unsettled you

[marmite92]

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

Brief Encounter
Mayerling
Ghost

Oh and Caligula. From the 70s. Very disturbing and gory.
The name escapes me but a strange psychological thriller with Halley Berry set in a mental institution.

@Mummiepig a Serbian film is the most disturbing thing I have ever watched and I'm fairly unshakable movie wise

Not a film but a series - The Handsmaid Tale

“The Persian film”. I recommend you don’t watch it. I’m still horrified 5 years later and wish I hadn’t watched it.

Sorry- it’s been a long old day- I meant to stay “The Serbian film” 😂 I don’t know where Persian came from.

Precious is pretty heart wrenching 😟

Kitchen Sink by Alison Maclean.

The Weather Man

The Magdalene sisters
One flew over the cuckoos nest

Revolution Road
Requiem for a Dream

Both have stuck in my mind and both were equally shocking for different reasons.

Spoorlos. I found it so chilling and I dreamt about it for nights afterwards. I never fail to think about it when I drive through a road tunnel! The American remake doesn't even come close.

However, I think Snowtown is the most disturbing I have ever seen. It is based on a true story and there is a scene where a group torment and murder a man. It isn't gratuitous like I imagine Saw is (I can't watch torture films) but you get a real sense of a psychopath enjoying himself and it is very disturbing. I couldn't watch it again but it is very well made and acted.

I gave up after the third page so it may have been mentioned....

The Number 23. I saw signs everywhere and was paranoid for weeks!

Another vote for Riot Club which is available on Netflix. All the more grim for the fact it's based on real life events.

Also Mothman Prophecies and the Butterfly Effect...I've tried to watch the latter on 2 or 2l3 occasions and never for past 20 minutes.

Donkey Punch is one you'll need a strong stomach for

Another vote for Riot Club which is available on Netflix. All the more grim for the fact it's based on real life events.

Good film - well written & acted - made me really angry

Time Trap - Sci fi film on Netflix.

I’m not a big fan of sci fi and usually find them just a bit silly - but this one really did grab my interest and left me feeling really unsettled.

Get Out
Fractured
What Happened to Monday

All Netflix too...Fractured I thought was really harrowing, not one you forget in a hurry but a brilliant watch

Monsters.
Part Sci fi, part drama, part mesmerising cinematography, fluid and just beautiful and makes you click at the end and just get it, like the first time you watched 12 Monkeys.

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‘an incredibly heavy handed sermon against American's not wanting illegal immigration. The take away is supposed to be, "see, the aliens aren't that bad". Also note the words used in the trailer "They are no longer aliens" "They're residents". Hell, it even has a big border wall 7 years before Trump’

Wolf Creek
Ils (Them)
Carrie (1976)
Candyman
Halloween (1978)

Idi i Smotri (Come and See)

New film on Amazon- I See You, starring Helen Hunt

Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream

Last Exit to Brooklyn

The scene in the car - so harrowing 😣

I watched a film about 20 years ago that really bothered me but I can't remember the name of it for the life of me- I've been searching for it on-off for years. Keep thinking I've dreamt it tbh.

Basically man and wife with 2 children 'perfect family' set up, wife younger sister moves in with them she's really young (teens). He's a dr and he falls in love with the sister and they start having an affair. The wife ends up dying (I think the husband killed her) but I'm sure something happens to the children too. He gets wit the sister, then something happens with a friend (it all goes a bit blank in the middle). He realises he's been a complete dick and kills the her too. It was completely awful!

I'm sure the film was named after the sister- if anyone has absolutely any idea what I'm talking about it would solve a massive mystery!

oh Last Exit, yes, for sure, awful...