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What are the top 5 most disturbing films you've ever seen?

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Socci · 26/09/2005 13:26

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Chloe55 · 26/09/2005 13:58

Saw and seven too, not scary but quite harrowing so in that sense disturbing

Marina · 26/09/2005 13:58

The Shining is also excellent and nasty...Every time I see a child on a squeaky trike I need to put some distance between me and it...

CarolinaMoon · 26/09/2005 13:58

[bet she watches her horror films from behind the sofa thru her fingers...]

fastasleep · 26/09/2005 13:58

Well not so much films but the things that really distub me on TV are the tellytubbies, tweenies, balamory (with their maniacal grins, and murderous intentions!!!!)..... I could go on

Enid · 26/09/2005 13:58

yes i agree Marina but so brilliant too

Enid · 26/09/2005 13:59

ah you have wimped out fastasleep

Chloe55 · 26/09/2005 13:59

Ooh yeah the shining, in fact anything with scary looking children!!

Enid · 26/09/2005 13:59

The Omen

Enid · 26/09/2005 14:00

fastasleep if you didnt find Last House on the Left disturbing you are a 15 year old boy

fastasleep · 26/09/2005 14:00

I must admit to watching The Shining and Candyman through my fingers and being scared utterly utterly crapless... but I was about 6!! Stupid babysitter letting me watch them (They haunted me for years though so I suppose that counts..)

expatinscotland · 26/09/2005 14:00

Ooo, yes, The Omen. It was on the other night. Eeerriee.

fastasleep · 26/09/2005 14:01

I haven't actually seen last house on the left - this must be rectified!

THE OOOMEN are you having a larf?

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was an eensy weensy bit scary.. maybe lol

tweetyfish · 26/09/2005 14:02

Event Horizon definatly - the film itself is not very scary but that bit with the latin just terrified me.... so so chilling...

Green mile
Monster
can't think of anymore...

spacedonkey · 26/09/2005 14:02

The Accused

Mojomummy · 26/09/2005 14:02

Malcolm X - the pavement clip amongst others & Braveheart when someone is being burnt to death - or is that last of the Mohicans ? Also someone is scalped - urgh, all those still make me feel ill....

Enid · 26/09/2005 14:02

yes the accused, I remember being really really upset by that

bran · 26/09/2005 14:03

Jaws (seen when I was young)
Resevoir Dogs, I really enjoyed it when I saw it, but I had a flashback a few weeks later which was very disturbing (one minute I was walking through Chapel Market, the next I was in the warehouse listening to their conversation).

Cam · 26/09/2005 14:03

The Evil Dead (and anything else by Sam Raimi)

spacedonkey · 26/09/2005 14:04

City of God. Especially the scene when the gangster makes a child shoot another child to prove himself.

bran · 26/09/2005 14:04

I've never seen MalcolmX all the way through, I had to stop watching after the pavement clip and only caught about 10 mins near the end when I felt brave enough to go back into the sitting room.

fastasleep · 26/09/2005 14:05

Aww you're all so sweet and innocent... awww.. DH is going to get me last house on the left, I might report back to you about if I remember about this thread!.. I wonder if it'll reduce me to a quivering heap of wet my pantedness..

Looks it up on google

Marina · 26/09/2005 14:05

Mississippi Burning and The Killing Fields too...

CarolinaMoon · 26/09/2005 14:05

the bit that got me about event horizon was the montage of people throwing up their own tongues etc on the video from Hell. And the way Sam Neil just wouldn't die, damn him!

Seven is really horrible too - should have put it on my list.

Chloe55 · 26/09/2005 14:06

Is last house on the left a scary or a shocker? What's the general gist of the movie?

Cam · 26/09/2005 14:06

The Fly (Jeff Goldblum's pretty disturbing anyway) and anything else by David Cronenburg