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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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bran · 26/09/2005 14:08

Was anyone else really scared by Shaun of the Dead, or just me? (I did find it funny too BTW)

Also I suddenly got the heebie-jeebies in the underground carpark in my building when there was a flurescent light flickering only a couple of days after seeing the trailer for 28 Days Later. (I'm such a cowardy Custer)

marthamoo · 26/09/2005 14:08

Trainspotting (saw it when pregnant - not a good idea)
Sophie's Choice
Schindler's List (also disturbing because I still fancied Ralph Fiennes even as an evil Nazi...)
The Accused
The Sixth Sense (gave me the heebie jeebies for weeks)

marthamoo · 26/09/2005 14:09

Oh yes, 28 Days Later was grim.

Enid · 26/09/2005 14:09

fastasleep are you just desensitised or do no films disturb you?

BigBumpBonnie · 26/09/2005 14:10

The Passion of the Christ
American Psycho
Ted Bundy
Trainspotting (because of the baby)

can't think of another one...

spacedonkey · 26/09/2005 14:11

I was wondering the same enid, I'm sure she's just being facetious rather than congenitally hard-hearted!

Enid · 26/09/2005 14:11

Last House on the left from Imdb:

"Much as I admire it, I can only watch Wes Craven's brilliant debut feature once every few years; as sheer stomach-churning brutality goes, it makes SALO look like Sondheim. Craven has said he made the movie as extreme as it is as his comment on the obscenity of Vietnam. I've heard that number many a time (Ruggero Deodato blames CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST on the Red Brigade!), but in Craven's case, it's so palpable it's believable. LAST HOUSE may be the first (and is certainly the most far-out) case of a horror movie that eschews suspense, tingles, shock, in the wake of sheer, harrowing barbarism.

Based on Bergman's THE VIRGIN SPRING, it tells the tale of a couple of young girls on their way to a concert who fall prey to a Manson-like family. Their rape-murders are avenged by a suddenly wised-up couple of parents who, in their restitution, find themselves as blood-bespattered and guilty as their prey.

LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT is a grindhouse GUERNICA, an outcry over desensitization to violence that leaves you feeling shaken and desolated. It genuinely reupholsters the word "horror." For most, the clarity of Craven's intentions won't be enough to redeem the dire viciousness of what the director puts you through. For me, the ferocity of the movie has a cleansing, Artaudian pureness.

One question: Craven made this film and his masterpiece, THE HILLS HAVE EYES, the ultimate statement on the nuclear family in post-Woodstock, post-Altamont America. He then went on to make a load of occasionally mildly amusing but mostly godawful movies. What's the story?"

fairyfly · 26/09/2005 14:12

Naked Lunch

marthamoo · 26/09/2005 14:13

I think I'll give that one a miss, Enid.

fastasleep · 26/09/2005 14:14

I actually think I have had my scare button permenantly switched to off when it comes to movies... there was this awful brother of a friend of mine when we were little who used to show us movies, it got the point where she was so scared in the night she wet her bed, poor love... ever since I've not really been that scared, although sometimes images pop up later to get me!

28 Days Later made me giggle hysterically in the cinema! Just the way that black ex-army guy zombie who's being kept in the compound place chases people (towards the end) so slapstic, I really enjoyed it! Now thinking about super fast zombies with an infection that spreads so easily, actually thinking about the idea behind it, that's scary!

Chloe55 · 26/09/2005 14:14

Oooh thanks Enid, will have to get that one out - problem is DH is such a wimp he spends all his time hidden behind the cushion!

marthamoo · 26/09/2005 14:14

Naked Lunch - I was off my head when I watched that, does it make any sense when you're compos mentis?

spacedonkey · 26/09/2005 14:15

horror films aren't necessarily the most disturbing type of film though, are they?

Nevada · 26/09/2005 14:15

The Wicker Man. Deeply unsettling.

MarsLady · 26/09/2005 14:16

Se7en (seven) with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Thought the film was brilliant. Will never have it in my house!

foxinsocks · 26/09/2005 14:17

I nearly walked out on Reservoir Dogs as well (can't stand that much blood on a big screen!)

In fact, most of the films people have mentioned I find much more disturbing on the big screen (cinema).

fastasleep · 26/09/2005 14:20

Gwyneth Paltrow's head in a box - best scene ever! What a great end for such an annoying woman..

I am hard hearted! Oh dear...

bran · 26/09/2005 14:22

fastasleep are you scared of things in real life? I worked with a woman who loved horror films, the scarier the better, whereas I'm a real wimp about them. But some of the real life things that I've done brought her out in a cold sweat, whereas I just don't get that frightened by real life things.

Chloe55 · 26/09/2005 14:22

LOL I have to agree with the Gwyneth comment!

fastasleep · 26/09/2005 14:25

I'm scared of spiders wasps moths and needles to the point of getting cold sweats and going all shivery I'm a wimp!

cupcakes · 26/09/2005 14:35

I really hate horror films. Not thrillers or similar but full on horrors where the object is just to scare, shock and disgust you. What's the point? Surely there's enough horror in the real world without dreaming up more? It just shows what nice, safe lives we lead if we watch horror films for entertainment.

Chloe55 · 26/09/2005 14:41

My DH has a similar outlook to the films as you Cupcakes but I think it is the scare factor/adrenaline rush (but still knowing you are safely tucked up at home) that makes it all the more interesting

Tortington · 26/09/2005 14:47

hotel rwanda
saw

cant think of anymore at the moment. but watched hotel rwanda with my daughter social responsability and all that.

the song nnnnnnnnnnnnnnineteen by pual hardcastle came on the telly last week. my kids got a brief history of vietnam custardo stylee.

marthamoo · 26/09/2005 14:47

Most disturbing film I saw as a child was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - that childcatcher! Had nightmares for weeks. I won't let my children see it because of that bit.

cupcakes · 26/09/2005 14:48

you know, I really don't object to scary films. It's the full on horror that I don't get.