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

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The Vanishing. I really don't like any kind of horror film but do love suspense - Third Man is one of my faves. I got seduced into watching The Vanishing because it is so well reviewed everywhere, deservedly so, it's amazing. However, I really, really wish I had never seen it. I wouldn't be surprised if on my deathbed I am found clutching at people's arms going 'make sure I'm dead!'

yes, the Vanishing is disturbing!

Spursmum - I have Tales from the Darkside on DVD

Ninah - that was Saw

lucy5 you are talking about Imitation of Life with Lana Turna
Classic melodrama and very moving

Hahahahaha about Peter Greenaway

I love the 'frisson' thing of having the collywobbles as you walk out of the darkened cinema. But I hate gratuitous violence in a badly scripted plot

Do you mean disturbing as in scary or disturbing as in they make you think?

If the latter - Schindler's List and the one I watched the other night - Hotel Rwanda.

Anyone seen The Wickerman? With Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward? Not your average horror but sent shivers up my spine and I've never been able to forget it!

I too now avoid films I know will make me feel wretched eg Hotel Rwanda. Have only seen one clip of Sophie's Choice (you know which one) and sobbed so hard I could hardly speak. Salem's Lot has never left my mind (that creepy vampire boy tapping at the window) and anyone remember a TV drama called "The house that bled to death"? Never forgot that either. Anything that involves the death or hurting of children is unbearable now. Is it something that we grow out of as our children get older I wonder?

Rhubarb, I'm a natural city girl, but I think The Wickerman definitely contributed to my unease with small, rural communities. I saw it on tv without knowing anything about it and the ending was a real shock.

Think those hippy clothes and hairstyles are a big

mmm, that's what I found most disturbing about the film! It's really dated nowadays, so I find it hard to take seriously tbh!

joulou lol I remember that - from the Hammer House of Horror series, diana dors as a werewolf and the horrible doppelganger one with the bad teeth

oooh ooh I have just remembered something I saw as a child/teenager that was brilliant/disturbing/terrifying - that Spanish short film about the guy who gets trapped in a phone booth, no one seems to be able to see him, then he wordlessly gets carted off to a horrific underground place full of loads of people trapped in phone boxes! Mad and funny and horrible at the same time. good old spanish.

Anyone else seen The Butterfly Effect? - was is only me or did this movie mess with anyone else's head for a couple of days afterwards?

I saw that phone booth one Enid, I thought it was quite funny (in a schadenfreude way) almost all the way though but the ending was horrific with all those people in various stages of decomposition. He was a very good actor wasn't he, great facial expression.

Agree with The Wicker Man, Schindler's List, Silence of the Lambs (when first saw it). Sophie's Choice etc. All the 'real, could have/have actually happened' ones. Most disturbing one, though, was Threads - the tv one about after-effects of nuclear war in UK.

Don't get remotely disturbed by Evil Dead, Exorcist kind of things usually.

I was much more disturbed by BUtterfly Effect than I expected to be.

Blue Velvet
Breaking the Waves
The Shining

breaking the waves! forgotten about that! harrowing!

The Wicker Man - a real shocker. That weird rocking dance the villagers do at the end...uuugh. Sent this film to my brother who lives in Deepest Cornwall. He was not very amused.
Reservoir Dogs - when I first saw this on its first release I was so shocked I was almost sick. But it looks quite tame now - sign of the times, or what?
The Vanishing - but the Franco-Dutch version. Not that I'm culture nonce, but it's far darker and the final scene (guy wakes up buried alive in a coffin) will stick around for days
Eraserhead - oh dear. What the hell was that about? Like a tour round a madman's nightmares.
Casino (or Goodfellas) - but only because Joe Pesci is so bloody scary. Also Scorsese is a master of the sudden cut to sickening ultra-violence and then a cut back to a Christening scene or a wedding. Stop messing with my head!

I don't find any of Tarantino's films shocking because they're so over the top that I think of it as cartoon violence.

Eraserhead - agree, hated those claustrophobic narrow corridors where you had to stand back in your flat to let anyone else go past. David Lynch is very scary.

the ear scene in RD is horrible precisely because you can imagine that happening though.eeeeeuurrrrghhhhhhhhh

And you can hear it. Yuk.

Trouble was I found Michael Madsen dancing around to Stuck in the Middle with You funny.

ok, I know I'm sick.

It's shocking because the whole scene is cut with comedy - Michael Madsen is a cuddly looking fella, there's Steelers Wheel in the background, he does a little dance and he talks to the ear after cutting it off. Now that's just not normal...

madsen is sex on legs, though1 love that look he gives, raising his eyebrow in an elvis-type way