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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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teeavee · 26/09/2005 16:21

seven was on french telly last night (yet again) and my dp said to me afterwards that my head is so big that the bloke couldn't have fitted it into the box, then pissed himself laughing! I was a bit irked...

my head is NOT big, I replied, just a funny shape. that is why no women's hat has ever fitted me......

gingerbear · 26/09/2005 16:22

The Bone Collector was freaky too.

spursmum · 26/09/2005 16:23

Gingerbear I think the boys prison film you are thinking of is Sleepers. That's a guaranteed stomach churner!

dropinthe · 26/09/2005 16:24

LOL Teavee-for a laugh, you should put an oversized cardboard box on your head and greet him at the door tonight! That would show him!

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Socci · 26/09/2005 16:25

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MistressMary · 26/09/2005 16:25

Don't Look Back
The Wicker Man
Clockwork Orange
The Shining
The Accused

Aero · 26/09/2005 16:26

Don't tend to watch these films for exactly that reason, but the one that sticks in my mind is The Vanishing.

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Socci · 26/09/2005 16:27

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teeavee · 26/09/2005 16:27

omigon, yes, clockwork orange is awful, v disturbing indeed.

gingerbear · 26/09/2005 16:27

Thanks spursmum, Sleepers it was.

spursmum · 26/09/2005 16:29

Sleepers gets me because it's based on a true story.

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Socci · 26/09/2005 16:29

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dropinthe · 26/09/2005 16:30

OMG-I am thinking of the right film?
The family of the murdering chainsaw man includes his mum,his dad,grandad that you aren't sure whether is dead or not and a stange woman who has a baby that is crying all the time with the undercurrent that he/she is being abused and is obviously living in squalour and witnessing horrible sights!

Have I got it wrong?

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Socci · 26/09/2005 16:32

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dropinthe · 26/09/2005 16:33

Yes!

spursmum · 26/09/2005 16:56

I'm still trying to find the time to watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre.I have it on dvd and still haven't got round to it!!

flamebat · 26/09/2005 16:59

Blue Velvet

The Wicker Man

Project X (all about radiation experiments on chimps... I'm a big softie and it really upset me )

Nightmare on Elm Street (huge issues about anything to do with nightmares, so more the subject than the actual film)

Sophie's Choice - saw one clip, sobbed hysterically and vowed never to attempt the entire film!

dropinthe · 26/09/2005 17:02

I wouldn't watch it on your own! I don't know what the newer version is like though-I think the sheer cheapness and graininess of the original is what makes it so edgy!

flamebat · 26/09/2005 17:03

I keep planning to do TCM, but it never seems to happen...

spursmum · 26/09/2005 17:04

I plan to see so many films and never do. I went into Blockbusters to rent Sin city and came out with the Heffalump movie for ds!!!

flamebat · 26/09/2005 17:06

Seen Sin City... want to see the heffalump movie still though

dropinthe · 26/09/2005 17:06

Sounds scary though!

TinyGang · 26/09/2005 17:09

I love the Wicker Man - it reminds me of Balamory.

flamebat · 26/09/2005 17:10

Sin City or the Heffalump? I admit those little fluffy elephants can freak you out late at night

merglemergle · 26/09/2005 17:10

Eve's Bayou-very unsettling
blue velvet
I actually found a couple of the last series of dr who really disturbing. Especially the one with the child saying "mummy" all the time, and the one where they went back in time to Victorian Cardiff (aka Swansea)

but I'm known as a wuss